11 years ago tomorrow I started my new job after a horrible near-decade. Still there. 11 years ago today I first heard this. Still two bonuses :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyonc%...

Right, it's Radio 1 Noughties, so I'm going to quote post the songs with #TheN0ughtie5 and an assessment of how likely it is to make my list. P Podium B Bonus 🔟 Top 10 M2 Month 2 50 Top 50 HM er, HM LL Longlist ✖️not longest but good ❌ not longlist and not good

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#THETENX5 DAY 40 🔴 no 🟠 nope 🟢 yay! #11 LORDE 'GREEN LIGHT' New Zealand 2017 2017: 2/5 🥈 After an 11-pointer in Part I, a number 11 here means Lorde just misses out on the double bonuses. Which are: 2018: 3 2013: 2 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019: 1 each www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMK_...

#ExitMusic I suspect at least one person will finish with this, so I'll drop it now. #15 NEW ORDER 'THE PERFECT KISS' (12", obviously) UK 1985 I'm timing it from after "kiss of death", so 3:59 - 8:46. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_12...

I keep seeing people writing that he doesn’t know what he thinks DEI is but that’s not quite right. He has a definition in his head but he knows exactly how racist his explanation is and he doesn’t want that captured on video.

More often cited for its ending, but my honest answer is Let’s Go Crazy by Prince and the Revolution.

#ExitMusic Just the 00s left in this round of seven, so... shall we? Go feral? #14 GIRLS ALOUD 'NO GOOD ADVICE' UK 2003 A lesson in pop craft, from Master Higgins and Mistress Cooper. Frankly, they cared too much. (3:18 - 3:48) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNeO...

#THETENX5 DAY 39 12. ARIANA GRANDE (2/2) 'INTO YOU' USA 2016 2016: 1/4 🥇 The hardest decision in this 50 was which Ariana song to bonus. This one needs it slightly less. The 'Into The Groove' of the 10s, and praise comes no higher from me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ekZ...

I still think his best contribution to popular culture is being the subject of track 3 of 1989, sorry.

BREAKING Emily Pilbeam has discovered a post-punk band from (hope you're sitting down) Leeds, they sound remarkably like Yard Act, and they're being played on 6 Music. More at 10.

this is a radical position but I believe that if you are a person of integrity you should not be using far right wing propaganda websites owned by sociopaths

Wait till you see what it beat into second...

#TheN0ughtie5 is where I might start surprising you all by shamelessly picking stuff by 'WMWG'! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJA...

This isn't a coordinated distraction; they think only in irrelevant cultural signs while this island slowly sinks into the ocean. Put a platypus on the fiver, a chair, a donkey. Who cares. Why are politicians talking about this. Why is the BBC talking about this. Why is anybody talking about this

"There you have it, in black and white. The PM, Keir Starmer, warned in the clearest possible terms that Peter Mandelson maintained his relationship [with Epstein] after the conviction.. there is no escape from this"

There isn’t a rake on Earth that this man won’t step on.

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#THETENX5 DAY 38 13. JANELLE MONÁE (2/3) ft BIG BOI 'TIGHTROPE' USA 2010 2010: 1/9 🥇 Twelve years later, the woman behind this played two roles in Glass Onion. I'm just saying, Janelle Monáe is better than you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwne...

#ExitMusic #13 BEYONCÉ 'SORRY' USA 2016 In which everything slows to music box tempo, B quarters her husband having already hung and drawn him, then breaks the internet. "He better call Becky with the good hair" (2:48 - 3:52) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxsm...

Just added this to my #TheN0ughtie5 contenders list, because I like THE AGONY OF TOO MUCH CHOICE. (2000 by itself is a complete nightmare)

The BBC means ‘sulphur’ which is vital for loads of stuff beyond ‘global tech’ - not least fertiliser without which millions and millions of us would starve to death. But they think we’re stupid so ‘niche yellow powder’ it is…

Fuck Keir Starmer - A man who couldn't get us cancelled from Glasto - A man who couldn't beat us in court - A man who has destroyed the Labour Party - A man whose government supports war criminals in Israel with weapons and intelligence www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I see a future where Sam Altman is on trial for his part in turning the planet into a flaming garbage heap.

Reading the Welsh ones after that massive USA banlist is a great punchline. Could only be improved with the addition of Catatonia.

what an absolute loser lmao

A listener request that came in with the comment "outside Britpop, the best song of the 90s". Those first two words made me shudder.

"why are more young voters shifting to the right?" asks two people who lost seats to candidates firmly to their left

Have a fucking nanna nap, you daft racist old bitch.

Well, our problems tend to boil down to: We sold off most of our state capacity to private companies that don’t give a fuck about anything except driving down costs and jacking up prices to the maximum they can get away with, so that means we have no wriggle room at all. It is Pay, Or Fuck You.

NEW | A rare positive edition of the newsletter… IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Compared to the stuff journalists knew Mandelson was up to that wasn't considered noteworthy at all, this looks like the usual double standards, and people are both onto it and incredibly tired of it. Incredible that you all think you can do this a second time, tbh.

Speaking of our diabolical media class, the bbc are running a story about how many sick notes are issued by GPs to be signed off work with mental health being the main reason, another stick to beat ordinary people with, also has Wes’ grubby hands all over it

Haha, for fuck's sake. This is the gig terfs were posting photos of the half empty venue before the show started as evidence that "trans is over".

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"You’re 22 years old and you’re spending your Saturday afternoon in bed with a girl, you’re wasting your life. It's a beautiful day, take her out to a fort, or a Victorian folly."

Even for them this is beyond embarrassing. I'm sorry you've never heard of Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor or Wolf Alice, you fucking weirdos

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#THETENX5 DAY 37 14. LADY GAGA (1/2) ft BEYONCÉ (3/4 incl 1 ft - this) 'TELEPHONE' USA 2010 2010: 2/9 🥈 My key moments of what Chart Music might call the noughtenies: Rihanna stealing 'Run This Town' And this, a pop culture flex to end all flexes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95...

#ExitMusic #12 THE FOUR TOPS 'BERNADETTE' USA 1967 The first false ending I can remember (2:33 - 2:40), and still the best. Then Levi Stubbs goes over the edge in the last 20 seconds. Astonishing record. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ4e...

“Say It Right” by Nelly Furtado has reached 1 BILLION streams on Spotify. It’s her third song to achieve this.

#TheN0ughtie5 There are moments in this thing that still sound like sorcery.

#TheN0ughtie5 You can't bloody wait, can you?

keir starmer knew about peter mandelson and jeffrey epstein and appointed peter mandelson as ambassador to the united states bcos he thought having a pedo capable of cosying up to donald trump was a smart idea. the guardian: can i tell you about zack polanski and some hypno boobs? im a journalism.

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS EVEN MEAN?

FIFA's first ever Peace Prize winner has become the first person to bomb a country out of participating in the FIFA World Cup.

I still think about this a lot.