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Votes for group B in by tonight please - using the poll or sending them to freakytrigger@gmail.com. (And I should have made it clear - managers can vote, and since two have and two haven't it would seem both fair and advisable for the haven'ts to get their votes in!)

For Group C, I need the tracks from carsmilesteve, umlauts and poptasticuk by tomorrow night please, email as above, MP3 format only, a link to a download is fine if your email cant send the full track. The fourth person in that group is ME, so in order not to give myself an advantage in terms of knowing what other people have gone for, I'm going to make my final pick tonight and will gmail it to somebody else so they can check I've not changed it before the deadline. NO BUNGS HERE MR SO CALLED FAKE SHEIKH.

Video mash-up spam

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Got this in my inbox today. Not checked it out yet:

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Around the world around the wur-uld

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There's something miserably predictable about the Go Team winning this week's singles jukebox with their lamest track - dammit GTs just go the Prefab Sprout route and keep re-releasing "Bottle Rocket". Maybe I'm just bitter because I'm apparently the only person on the entire jukebox who enjoyed "Schrei" by Hotel Tokio. I wish I'd given it a 10 now.

The History of Pop part 19 aka Sometimes I feel like throwing my hands up in the air

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Ladies and gentlemen a historic moment - a Now album without either Phil Collins OR UB40 on it. And also proof that in early 1991 - for it is then - dance music had 'won' to the extent that the Now disc would front-load it on CD1. Which left what for CD2? Erm...not an inspiring line up, frankly.

Betty Boo joins the victory list with a strong showing on Now 18, with Sinead O Connor second and then a pack of others trailing several votes behind. Phil C is joined by Sting and Timmy Mallet in the chorus of disapproval, with poptimist opinion latching onto Prince pastiche "Sussudio" as the great man's least unfine hour. But that was then - and this is NOW ALSO THEN!

( Put a red nose on your conk )

(Note by the way the historically accurate crediting of "Unfinished Sympathy")

EDIT:OH BOLL0CKS I FVCKED UP THE THIRD BIT OF THE POLL and did it as radio buttons. You can't go back and edit polls so I'll redo that question as a separate post. Sorry!

Now 19 Bonus Beats

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Sorry about that.

( Here we go again )

Together we learn to read and write

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Sparked by a familiar controversy rearing its head on The Lex's LJ, I thought maybe a poll would help us get further into this question. (Let's not go all ILM here, please.)

[Poll #663010]

The underlying question maybe:"Is it important for your consumption of music to reflect your social and political beliefs?" (another old ILM favourite). When the choice to be made is a negative one, a lot of people say "yes" - someone who hates homophobia may well boycott records by an act they see as homophobic. But my guess is people who believe in racial equality don't make 'positive' choices to support that in their music consumption (for instance). And why should they, if they don't like the music? But I think it's an interesting area.