#Dido Miles

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Mum and Dad: Keeping Horror in the Family

Mum and Dad is all about keeping horror in the family. It is also about control and learning that you may not want to get too close to colleagues at work. Shot with an estimated budget of just £100,000 ($157,000) this film sets the goal posts for “shoe string budget” films.  First time director Steven Sheil also wrote the film, putting him in the illustrious company of peers like Shane…

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Yes votes / Artist - Song title / Poll number / Showdown votes / * Showdown Winner / ¤ Ultimate Showdown Winner

95% A-ha - Take On Me #91 - 45.2% *

94,8% Boney M. - Rasputin #37 - 49,3% * ¤

94,7% Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 #405 - 13,1%

94,6% Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 #223 - 16,5%

94,3% Dolly Parton - Jolene #110 - 43,1% *

94,2% Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters #399 - 11,3%

94,1% Britney Spears - Toxic #04 - 51,9% *

94% Green Day - American Idiot #264 - 29,6% * ¤

93,4% Blondie - Call Me #373 - 31,7% *

92,8% The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black #236 - 20% *

92,5% Outkast - Hey Ya! #260 - 49,6% *

92,4% Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song #384 - 34,9% *

92,2% Ritchie Valens - La Bamba #381 - 13,2%

92,1% Coolio featuring L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise #414 - 19,2%

92% Fleetwood Mac - The Chain #116 - 44,4% * ¤ 92% The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army #268 - 19,7% ¤

91,5% Stevie Wonder - Superstition #261 - 15,9%

91,2% Scott Joplin - The Entertainer #418 - 7,1%

91% The Cranberries - Zombie #323 - 44,8% * ¤

90,9% Smash Mouth - All Star #336 - 62,2% *

90,6% Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World #301 - 20,9%

90,3% Michael Sembello - Maniac #227 - 6,2%

90,2% Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) #163 - 30,8% *

90% Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons #400 - 11,4%

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89,1% Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son #171 - 51% *

89% ABBA - Waterloo #361 - 36,8% *

88,9% Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash #401 - 14,9%

88,7% Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus #358 - 20,4% ¤

88,6% Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer #307 - 25,1% *

88,3% Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F #289 - 18,4% 88,3% Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me #394 - 8,3%

88,1% Shakira - Te Aviso, Te Anuncio (Tango) #425 - 6,9%

87,9% Madonna - Like a Prayer #313 - 34,6% *

87,8% The Weeknd - Blinding Lights #233 - 14,4%

87,7% Adele - Rolling in the Deep #351 - 15,5%

87,6% Gotye featuring Kimbra - Somebody That I Used to Know #267 - 15,1%

87,4% O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei #353 - 23,3% *

87,1% AC/DC - Back in Black #423 - 17,1%

86,9% The Ronettes - Be My Baby #350 - 19,6% 86,9% Black Eyed Peas - Pump It #354 - 6%

86,8% Gnarls Barkley - Crazy #206 - 17,3%

86,6% Amy Winehouse - Back to Black #190 - 32,9 *

86,3% Chumbawamba - Tubthumping #82 - 24,9%

86,2% AFI - Miss Murder #306 - 16,8% 86,2% Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back) #391 - 26,6% *

86,1% Mary J. Blige - Family Affair #308 - 5,5%

86% Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode #53 - 18,6%

85,6% Santana featuring Rob Thomas - Smooth #205 - 19,1%

85,5% Dido - Thank You #120 - 5,6%

85,3% Ricky Martin - La Bomba #132 - 8,3% 85,3% Billy Idol - Rebel Yell #197 - 23,9%

85,2% Queen - The Show Must Go On #142 - 20,9% ¤

85% Green Day - Basket Case #47 - 27,6% *

84,9% Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop #41 - 15,8%

84,7% The Cardigans - Lovefool #135 - 24,2% *

84,5% Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love #136 - 18,8% 84,5% Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk #386 - 20%

84,4% Daryl Hall & John Oates - Out of Touch #67 - 31,4% * 84,4% Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin #382 - 16%

84,3% Blur - Song 2 #222 - 18,6% 84,3% No Doubt - Just a Girl #369 - 20,8%

84,2% The Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz #226 - 15,8%

83,8% Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head #302 - 15,8% ¤ 83,8% Foo Fighters - Everlong #421 - 23%

83,6% Lou Bega - Mambo No. 5 #372 - 30,8% 83,6% Talking Heads - Psycho Killer #404 - 33,3% *

83,2% The Offspring - Come Out and Play #355 - 6,9%

82,7% Nightwish - The Phantom of the Opera #144 - 8,6%

82,6% Junior Senior - Move Your Feet #76 - 6,5%

82,5% Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre and Queen Pen - No Diggity #249 - 37,8% * 82,5% Robert Miles - Children #270 - 2,9%

82,4% Myrkur - Tor i Helheim #54 - 7% 82,4% Tracy Chapman - Fast Car #145 - 32,5% *

82% Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way #105 - 19,2%

81,9% Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling #152 - 17,1% * 81,9% 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite #167 - 15,1%

81,7% Daft Punk - Around the World #231 - 18,2%

81,6% N Sync - Bye Bye Bye #52 - 26,9% * 81,6% Shakira featuring Alejandro Sanz - La Tortura #269 - 4,8%

81,5% Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow #42 - 16,7%

81,3% Etta James - At Last #428 - 14,9%

81,1% Metallica - Enter Sandman #200 - 32,5% *

80,9% Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party #397 - 14%

80,7% Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity #72 - 17,9%

80,6% Fatboy Slim - Praise You #237 - 6,5% 80,6% Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus - Old Town Road #357 - 11,1%

80,5% Pixies - Where Is My Mind? #148 - 13,5% 80,5% Roxette - The Look #225 - 5,7%

80,4% Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll #395 - 16,5%

80,2% Oasis - Wonderwall #157 - 16%

80,1% Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun #119 - 14,9%

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79,9% Dee Dee Sharp - Mashed Potato Time #326 - 0,7%

79,8% Christina Aguilera - Candyman #228 - 5,9%

79,6% Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin' #179 - 7,1% 79,6% Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water #238 - 7,2%

79,4% Falco - Rock Me Amadeus #185 - 23,2% 79,4% Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos #304 - 6,2% 79,4% October Country - My Girlfriend is a Witch #393 - 3%

79,3% Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - #Bonus Poll

79,1% Runrig - Gamhna Gealla #281 - 4,5%

78,8% Shakira - Ojos Así #75 - 7,5% 78,8% MUCC - Libra #263 - 1,7% 78,8% The Platters - Only You (And You Alone) #315 - 3,8%

78,7% The Jacksons - Blame It on the Boogie #220 - 15,8%

78,5% Kaoma - Lambada #57 - 4,2%

78,4% Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween #05 - 13,9%

78,2% Panic at the Disco - The Ballad of Mona Lisa #78 - 18,5% *

78,1% Fall Out Boy - Centuries #427 - 25,1% *

78% Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke #64 - 5,3% 78% Wang Heye - Windy #298 - 3,3%

77,8% Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi #318 - 11,3%

77,7% Tenacious D - Tribute #201 - 23,6% * 77,7% Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) #325 - 11%

77,6% Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower #95 - 13.1% 77,6% Nirvana - The Man Who Sold the World #118 - 10,7%

77,4% Daddy Yankee - Gasolina #349 - 27,1% *

77,2% Psy - Gangnam Style #255 - 22,4%

77,1% Michael Jackson featuring Slash - Give In to Me #341 - 5,8%

77% Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road #22 - 29,4% * 77% Kesha - Blow #38 - 12,1%

76,9% The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony #271 - 32,5% *

76,8% Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid #356 - 6,5%

76,6% Santiano - Gott muss ein Seemann sein #276 - 7,6%

76,5% Bee Gees - Tragedy #413 - 9,8%

76,4% Salt-N-Pepa with En Vogue - Whatta Man #134 - 15,1% 76,4% George Michael - Freedom! #219 - 17,2%

76,3% Johnny Cash - Hurt #81 - 35,6% * 76,3% Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside #92 - 8.2% 76,3% The Offspring - Gone Away #143 - 5,9% 76,3% The Longest Johns - Hoist Up The Thing #169 - 7,8%

76,2% Rob Zombie - Dragula #417 - 29% *

76% Foo Fighters - The Pretender #111 - 14,2% ¤

75,9% Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows #87 - 12,9% 75,9% Cab Calloway - St. James Infirmary #360 - 6,2% 75,9% Porno Graffitti - Melissa #376 - 5,9%

75,7% Nothing but Thieves - Is Everybody Going Crazy? #113 - 3,7% 75,7% Warren G featuring Nate Dogg - Regulate #244 - 9,2%

75,5% Tarkan - Şımarık #94 - 3.1% 75,5% Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way #246 - 24,6%

75,4% Jerry Lee Lewis - Great Balls of Fire #188 - 8,8% 75,4% Arash featuring Rebecca Zadig - Temptation #332 - 2,2%

75,3% The Doors - Light My Fire #319 - 15,3%

75,2% Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) #147 - 14,2% 75,2% Duran Duran - Ordinary World #257 - 14,2% 75,2% Anastacia - Not That Kind #335 - 3,1%

75,1% Kent - Kärleken Väntar #202 - 4,3%

74,9% Måneskin - Off My Face #151 - 7,9%

74,8% Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni #16 - 33% * 74,8% Fiona Apple - Criminal #329 - 9,6%

74,7% Army of Lovers - Crucified #377 - 8,1%

74,6% Nat King Cole - Nature Boy #09 - 7,2% 74,6% Within Temptation - Stand My Ground #165 - 6,4% 74,6% Pink - Who Knew #166 - 8,4%

74,5% Crazy Town - Butterfly #275 - 8,8%

74,4% Go_A - Shum #177 - 18,7%

74,3% Arash - Tike Tike Kardi #137 - 2,6%

74,2% Nelly - Hot in Herre #278 - 11,5%

74,1% Nirvana - Drain You #367 - 6,5%

73,6% Paula Abdul - Straight Up #156 - 6,2%

73,5% Tina Turner - GoldenEye #195 - 10,1% 73,5% Shaggy - Boombastic #262 - 4,5%

73,4% Babymetal featuring F.Hero - Pa Pa Ya!! #322 - 7,8%

73,3% Beck - Loser #124 - 16,4% 73,3% Massive Attack - Teardrop #187 - 17,4% 73,3% Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley #407 - 5,9%

73,2% The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist #232 - 8,2%

72,9% Britney Spears - Break the Ice #300 - 13,6% 72,9% Prince and the Revolution - Raspberry Beret #328 - 7,2%

72,7% Iggy Pop - Lust for Life #199 - 7,6% 72,7% Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing #218 - 11,9% 72,7% Michael Jackson - Is It Scary #410 - 1,6%

72,6% Evanescence - Imaginary #44 - 13,5% ¤

72,5% Gackt - Vanilla #282 - 16,8%

72% Robbie Williams - The Road to Mandalay #129 - 3,9%

71,8% Billie Piper - Day & Night #173 - 5,6%

71,7% Lil Green - Why Don't You Do Right? #34 - 1,8%

71,6% Bad Lip Reading - Seagulls! (Stop It Now) #209 - 18,5% ¤

71,5% Savage Garden - Break Me Shake Me #352 - 3,3% 71,5% Fatboy Slim - The Rockafeller Skank #363 - 8,9%

71,3% Leila K featuring Papa Dee - Rude Boy #288 - 3,6% 71,3% Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend #409 - 9%

71,2% Mötley Crüe - Dr. Feelgood #309 - 4,9%

71,1% Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher #130 - 14,4% 71,1% Ladaniva - Jako #259 - 2%

71% Udit Narayan - Bholi Si Surat #141 - 1,5%

70,9% Nine Inch Nails - Closer #93 - 22% ¤

70,8% Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven #295 - 8,2% 70,8% Snoop Doggy Dogg - Who Am I? (What's My Name?) #420 - 3,1%

70,7% Ryan Gosling - I'm Just Ken #159 - 12,4%

70,6% The Lightning Seeds - You Showed Me #59 - 2,7% 70,6% Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back #83 - 7%

70,5% Queen - Mustapha #29 - 11,4%

70,4% Soggy Bottom Boys - I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow #26 - 22,3% 70,4% Metallica - Wherever I May Roam #77 - 8,6% 70,4% Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns to Town #298 - 12,9% 70,4% Franz Ferdinand - Fresh Strawberries #324 - 3,3% 70,4% Alphaville - Sounds Like a Melody #347 - 4,1%

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69,9% MUCC - Ryuusei #19 - 7,4%

69,6% Michael Crawford, Barbra Streisand - Put On Your Sunday Clothes #311 - 6,2% 69,6% Eagle-Eye Cherry - Save Tonight #321 - 7,2%

69,5% Spooks - Things I've Seen #104 - 0,8%

69,4% Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton - Islands in the Stream #385 - 7,1%

69,2% Flo Rida feat Kesha - Right Round #02 - 6,2%

69,1% Dogstar - Breathe Tonight #251 - 1,4% 69,1% Tanita Tikaram - Twist in My Sobriety #291 - 6,7%

69% Dead Man's Bones - Lose Your Soul #396 - 3,3%

68,9% Era - Ameno (Remix) #24 - 4,8% 68,9% M.I.A. - Paper Planes #229 - 19% *

68,8% Nat King Cole - When I Fall in Love #215 - 9,4% 68,8% Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder #216 - 8,5% 68,8% Aaliyah - Are You That Somebody? #344 - 7%

68,5% Linkin Park - Bleed It Out #63 - 23,9% 68,5% Snow - Informer #139 - 4,7%

68,4% Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One) #305 - 2,5%

68,3% Run-DMC featuring Aerosmith - Walk This Way #127 - 10,9% 68,3% Alice Cooper - The Black Widow #406 - 1,2%

68,2% Limahl - The NeverEnding Story #60 - 9,8% 68,2% Nelly Furtado - Maneater #160 - 17,1% * 68,2% Abhijeet - Ole Ole #193 - 1,7% 68,2% Three Days Grace - Now or Never #337 - 6,9%

68,1% Stromae - L'enfer #89 - 9,8%

67,9% Urban Symphony - Rändajad #90 - 2,2% 67,9% Papa Roach - Getting Away with Murder #339 - 8,3%

67,8% Muse - Endlessly #107 - 9,4%

67,7% Poornima - Channe Ke Khet Mein #253 - 1,3%

67,6% My Chemical Romance - Sing #80 - 17,3%

67,5% Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead #411 - 15,4%

67,4% Guns N' Roses - November Rain #416 - 9,2%

67,3% “Weird Al” Yankovic - White & Nerdy #43 - 16% 67,3% Klaatu - We're Off You Know #378 - 2,1%

67,1% Ice Nine Kills - Welcome To Horrorwood #280 - 7,6% 67,1% Mary Elizabeth McGlynn - Room of Angel #403 - 4,1%

67% Avicii - Hey Brother #164 - 13,9% 67% P.O.D. - Youth of the Nation #368 - 4,6% 67% Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand #402 - 13,4%

66,8% Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground #258 - 5,3%

66,7% The Hives - Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones #58 - 2,7%

66,6% Antique - Opa Opa #213 - 2,5%

66,4% Kiss - Heaven's on Fire #338 - 2,9%

66,3% System of a Down - B.Y.O.B. #128 - 26,2% *

66% Texas - Summer Son #154 - 2,6% 66% Tarkan - Şıkıdım (Hepsi Senin Mi?) #292 - 3,6%

65,9% Otis Redding - Cigarettes and Coffee #279 - 4,9% 65,9% Måneskin - Mammamia #283 - 22,2% *

65,8% Cliff Edwards - When You Wish Upon a Star #85 - 2,2% 65,8% Pātea Māori Club - Poi E #286 - 9,3% 65,8% Wamdue Project - King of My Castle #346 - 3,9%

65,7% Modern Talking - Brother Louie #50 - 4% 65,7% Ivan Campo - Dice Man #181 - 1,2%

65,6% Gong Gong Gong - Notes Underground #422 - 1%

65,5% All Seeing I - Beat Goes On #256 - 1,7%

65,4% Harry McClintock - The Big Rock Candy Mountains #131 - 6,7% 65,4% Jessica Folcker - Tell Me What You Like #247 - 2,1%

65,2% Eimear Quinn - The Voice #32 - 2,5% 65,2% 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman - California Love #121 - 8,3% 65,2% Radio Company - Drowning #172 - 2,2% 65,2% Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso #208 - 7,1% 65,2% Kiltro - All The Time In The World #224 - 2,4%

65,1% Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You #242 - 4,1% 65,1% Timbaland featuring Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake - Give It to Me #310 - 2%

64,7% Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch #162 - 9%

64,6% Gorillaz - Stylo #61 - 15,8% 64,6% Duran Duran - The Chauffeur #133 - 7,1%

64,4% Alice Cooper - Poison #01 - 10,5% 64,4% Depeche Mode - It's No Good #101 - 9,1%

64,2% Ace of Base - Happy Nation #192 - 3,8%

64,1% Destiny’s Child - Jumpin’, Jumpin’ #51 - 12,7%

64% 2 Unlimited - No Limit #182 - 3,2% 64% 30 Seconds to Mars - Battle of One #183 - 3,9% 64% Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes #330 - 3,3%

63,8% Kongos - Come With Me Now #17 - 15,9% 63,8% A. R. Rahman - Jai Ho #40 - 4,6%

63,7% Eminem featuring Nate Dogg - 'Till I Collapse #239 - 2,1%

63,6% Björk - Army of Me #214 - 19,7% * 63,6% Aaliyah - Try Again #217 - 7,6%

63,4% 50 Cent - Candy Shop #320 - 12,2%

63,3% Dua Lipa - New Rules #126 - 10,6% 63,3% Smashing Pumpkins - Zero #327 - 5,1%

63,2% Linkin Park - Nobody's Listening #365 - 11,3%

63,1% Olly Murs - Heart Skips A Beat #106 - 2,2% 63,1% David Bowie - Life on Mars? #235 - 16,9% 63,1% Janet Jackson - If #364 - 2,1%

63% Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? #123 - 3,8%

62,6% Métisse - Boom Boom Bâ #287 - 4,2%

62,4% 30 Seconds to Mars - Fallen #30 - 5,5% 62,4% Beastie Boys - Intergalactic #153 - 16% 62,4% The Castells - Some Enchanted Evening #207 - 1,3%

62,3% Childish Gambino - This Is America #71 - 18,2% 62,3% the Chemical Brothers - Galvanize #191 - 7% 62,3% Fela Kuti - Zombie #430 - 2,6%

62,2% Nemo - The Code #362 - 3,6%

62% Billie Eilish - No Time to Die #168 - 5%

61,7% Korn - Did My Time #194 - 6% 61,7% Ginuwine - Pony #297 - 12,8%

61,4% The Prodigy - Breathe #112 - 4,5%

61,3% Blue Stahli - One Last Breath #99 - 1.8%

61,2% Verka Serduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai #284 - 14,5%

61,1% Wham! - Everything She Wants #108 - 6,5%

61% Skunk Anansie - Weak #196 - 4,3% 61% Robbie Williams - No Regrets #383 - 1,8%

60,8% J. Y. Park featuring Conan O'Brien, Steven Yeun, & Jimin Park - Fire #429 - 1%

60,7% Gyllene Tider - Sommartider #274 - 2,2%

60,6% Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah #70 - 9,9% 60,6% Kwoon featuring Babet - King Of Sea #115 . 0,5%

60,4% No Doubt - Sunday Morning #265 - 4,1%

60,3% My Chemical Romance - Bury Me In Black #294 - 19% *

60,2% Toni Braxton - You're Makin' Me High #155 - 1,4%60,2% Stephanie Mabey - The Zombie Song #408 - 3,5%

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59,2% Reol - The Sixth Sense #266 - 1,7% 59,2% Puscifer - Rev 22.20 #334 - 5,4%

58,9% AC/DC - Hail Caesar #158 - 3,2% 58,9% Linkin Park - Waiting for the End #272 - 16,9%

58,7% Duran Duran - The Wild Boys #21 - 9,6%

58,5% Nova Twins - Antagonist #68 - 4,5%

58,4% Ava Max - Torn #331 - 2,8%

58,3% The Beloved - Sweet Harmony #379 - 1,3%

58,1% Madonna - Live to Tell #184 - 3%

57,6% Coldplay - Hymn for the Weekend #234 - 4,4%

57,3% Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give It Away #343 - 16%

57,2% Enigma - Return to Innocence #380 - 5,9%

56,8% Mendez - Adrenaline #23 - 1,2% 56,8% Sash! - Ecuador #73 - 1,7% 56,8% Anouk - Nobody's Wife #176 - 2,2%

56,7% George Michael and Mary J. Blige - As #62 - 3,2% 56,7% Kelis - Trick Me #175 - 4,2% 56,7% Céline Dion - Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore #370 - 2,2%

56,6% Nikka Costa - Like A Feather #48 - 0,6% 56,6% Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds & Kylie Minogue - Where the Wild Roses Grow #103 - 5,7% 56,6% Bette Midler - The Rose #342 - 4,6%

56,5% Ahmed Saad Ft. 3enba & Double Zuksh - El Melouk #359 - 0,7%

56,3% Beyoncé - Work It Out #340 - 5,2%

56,1% Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love #117 - 0,8%

55,9% Blur - Coffee & TV #56 - 9,7%

55,8% Kool & the Gang - Too Hot #277 - 3% 55,8% Chris de Burgh - The Lady in Red #314 - 4,2% 55,8% Pink - Dear Mr. President #415 - 4,1%

55,7% Big Brovaz - Nu Flow #65 - 0,9% 55,7% K’s Choice - Everything For Free #79 - 1,2% 55,7% AISHA and Jamison Boaz - Love the Subhuman Self #211 - 4,2%

55,5% System of a Down - Fuck the System #293 - 16,1%

55,4% Moby - Natural Blues #07 - 2,5% 55,4% Janet Jackson featuring Q-Tip and Joni Mitchell - Got 'til It's Gone #146 - 2,2%

55,3% Ardis - No Man's Land #389 - 0,6%

55,2% Rammstein - Engel #35 - 7,3%

55,1% Maximum the Hormone - What's Up, People?! #138 - 10,6% 55,1% Eros Ramazzotti - Più Bella Cosa #290 - 3,6%

55% DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime #273 - 4,9%

54,6% John Lennon - Imagine #203 - 5,3%

54,5% Billie Myers - Tell Me #86 - 0,9% 54,5% Lana Del Rey - High by the Beach #186 - 4,4%

54,4% Hanson - If Only #419 - 1,3%

54,3% Chthonic - Takao #285 - 2,9%

54% Aqua - Turn Back Time #28 - 8,2%

53,9% Ardis - No Man's Land #88 - 0,9% 53,9% Shakespears Sister - Stay #366 - 3,1%

53,6% The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl #392 - 3%

53,5% Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me #13 - 5,2%

53,4% Apashe - Lord & Master #170 - 1,5%

53,2% Sugababes - Overload #312 - 4,3%

53,1% Rammstein - Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen? #375 - 4,8%

53% LL Cool J featuring Boyz II Men #243 - 3,4% 53% Maxim featuring Skin - Carmen Queasy #245 - 3,2%

52,8% Madonna - Who's That Girl #18 - 9,8%

52,7% Aerosmith - Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees) #84 - 3,5% 52,7% MUCC - Daikirai #161 - 2,1%

52,2% Marilyn Manson - The Fight Song #49 - 2,1%

52,1% DJ Shadow - Six Days #180 - 2%

52% Metallica - The Memory Remains #371 - 6,5%

51,8% Megan Thee Stallion featuring Yuki Chiba - Mamushi #345 - 10,5%

51,6% Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler #14 - 6%

51,5% Foals - Tron #210 - 1,6%

51,4% Faithless - God Is a DJ #388 - 3,7%

51,3% Mariah Carey - The Roof (Back in Time) #46 - 1,4% 51,3% Mori Calliope & Reol - 虚像のCarousel #55 - 5,6%

50,6% Slipknot - Wait and Bleed #426 - 7,1%

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49,9% Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At #31 - 6,9%

49,8% Shaggy - Hey Sexy Lady #122 - 4,1%

49,7% Warren G & Sissel - Prince Igor #20 - 2,2%

49% Billie Eilish - NDA #10 - 2,6%

48,6% Shania Twain - Ka-Ching! #374 - 3%

47,7% Massive Attack - Angel #39 - 5,9%

47,5% Adam Tensta - My Cool #11 - 1%

47,4% Slipknot - The Blister Exists #100 - 2,6%

47,3% The Lonely Island featuring Michael Bolton - Jack Sparrow #221 - 9,1% 47,3% Burna Boy featuring 21 Savage - Sittin' on Top of the World #248 - 1,9%

47% Seether - Fuck It #74 - 2,6%

46,9% Rhiannon Giddens - Way Over Yonder #102 - 1,2%

46,8% Spiritbox - Rotoscope #66 - 2,6%

46,6% Sabrina Carpenter - Feather #25 - 4,6%

46,5% Stray Kids - Slash #316 - 4,1%

46% Prince - The Greatest Romance Ever Sold #69 - 2,6% 46% Duran Duran - Danse Macabre #398 - 2,6%

45,6% Jimmy Cliff feat Lebo M - Hakuna Matata #06 - 2%

45,3% Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds #212 - 3,3%

44,9% Alcazar - Physical #254 - 0,9%

44,3% 3T and Michael Jackson - Why #114 - 0,7%

44,2% Tones and I - Dance Monkey #178 - 6,1%

44,1% Scooter - Friends #230 - 0,8% 44,1% Darren Hayes - Hero #252 - 1,2%

43,9% The Prodigy - No Good (Start the Dance) #08 - 2,6% 43,9% David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans #33 - 8,5% 43,9% Faithless - Insomnia #109 - 2,9%

43,8% Jonas Brothers - Only Human #204 - 2%

43,6% Laleh - Some Die Young #424 - 1,3%

43,1% Atari Teenage Riot - Speed #317 - 4,1%

42,7% Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice #12 - 16,3%

42,6% Eminem - Rabbit Run #27 - 2,9%

42,1% Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day #296 - 3,8%

41,7% Rednex - Wish You Were Here #348 - 1,4%

41,5% Destiny's Child - With Me #198 - 3,2%

41,2% Diana Ross - If We Hold On Together #241 - 10,8%

40,6% Michael Jackson - Will You Be There #45 - 2,3%

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39,8% Alanis Morissette - I Was Hoping #96 - 1.6%

38,8% Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November #36 - 1,1%

38,5% Bright Light Bright Light featuring Mark Gatiss - Next To You #174 - 0,8%

37,9% Ariana Grande - Yes, And? #140 - 1,8%

37,6% Babylon Zoo - Spaceman #189 - 2%

36,5% Jedward - Luminous #125 - 1,4% 36,5% Elton John - I Want Love #240 - 2,1%

35,3% Noporn - Geleia de Morango #150 - 0,3%

35,1% 30 Seconds to Mars - Midnight Prayer #333 - 1,1%

34,6% Ena Mori - Fall Inlove! #149 - 0,4%

33,3% Ryan Gosling - Put Me in the Car #15 - 3,2%

33,2% Camellia - WYSI (When You See It) #387 - 2,1%

32,4% Take That - Babe (Return remix) #303 - 0,3%

30,6% Jordan Adetunji - Kehlani #390 - 0,6%

30% Darren Hayes - Spin #03 - 0,6%

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29,1% Addis Black Widow - Goes Around Comes Around #250 - 3%

29% Dreamcrusher - In Due Time #98 - 0.7%

28,2% BTS - Life Goes On #97 - 1.8%

24,9% Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady #412 - 2%

[music-tourney]

Here are the entries to the 2000s tourney:

Pokerface by Lady Gaga

Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

Toxic by Britney Spears

Sk8ter Boi by Avril Lavigne

All my Life by Foo Fighters

American Idiot by Green Day

1985 by Bowling for Soup

Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

Somebody Told Me by the Killers

Hey There Delilah by Plain White Tees

Feel Good Inc by the Gorillaz

Sugar we're goin down by Fallout Boy

Brave as a noun by AJJ

Hot N Cold by Katy Perry

Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) by Beyonce

The Dog Days are Over by Florence + the Machine

Seven Nation Army by White Stripes

Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down

She Hates Me by Puddle Of Mudd

Stacy's Mom by Fountains for Wayne

All the Small Things By Blink 182

Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson

Hurt by Johnny Cash

Hey Ya by Outkast

Rehab by Amy Winehouse

Stan by Eminem

Do you realize by The Flaming Lips

Sexyback by Justin Timberlake

Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus

Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) by Train

Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Fireflies by Owl City

TiK ToK by Ke$ha

Gives you Hell by All American Rejects

Paper Planes by M.I.A.

Can't get you out of my head by Kylie Monogue

I write sins not tragedies by Panic! At the Disco

Short Skirt/Long Jacket by CAKE

Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus

Bring Me to Life by Evanescence

Before he cheats by Carrie Underwood

Vida La Vida by Coldplay

Photograph by Nickelback

99 Problems by Jay-Z

Hash Pipe by Weezer

A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton

Love Story by Taylor Swift

Unwell by MatchBox Twenty

Yeah! by Usher

Dilemma by Nelly and Kelly Rowland

Beautiful by Christina Aguilera

My Hips Don't Lie by Shakira

I gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas

Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani

Watcha Say by Jason Derulo

Drop it like it's Hot by Snoop Dogg

Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

Numb by Linkin Park

Umbrella by Rihanna

Crazy in Love by Beyonce and Jay Z

How to Save a Life by The Fray

Get the Party Started by P!nk

Survivor By Destiny's Child

Everytime we touch by Cascada

Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston

Bad day by Daniel Powter

Chop Suey By System of a Down

I'm Yours by Jason Mraz

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley

The Middle by Jimmy Eat World

Harder Better Faster Stronger by Daft Punk

Chewing Gum by Annie

Lollipop by Mika

It's gonna be Me By Nsync

Low by Flo Rida

Fuck the pain away by Peaches

Misery Business by Paramore

It's my life by Bon Jovi

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal by Of Montreal

Work It by Missy Elliott

Butterfly by Crazy Town

Caramelldansen by Caramell

In da Club by 50 Cent

4 minutes by Madonna and Justin Timberlake

White Flag by Dido

Beautiful Day by U2

Fallin by Alicia Keys

All for you by Janet Jackson

Bootylicious by Destiny's Child

This Love by Maroon 5

Milkshake by Kelis

Smooth Criminal by alien Ant Farm

I'm a Believer by Smash Mouth

Sandstorm by Darude

I believe in a thing called love by the darkness

Float On by Modest Mouse

[thatsmzbitchtoyou]

A Pirate's Life for Me Chapter 3

Summary:  Captain Bucky Barnes and his crew on the Armored Star are the most fearsome pirates in the known world.  They’ve given the British fleet a run for their money as they try to free the enslaved and take from the rich, but they could have never guessed how the British empire would retaliate against them.  When a new pirate ship appears and lays waste to all in its path, will Bucky and his crew be ready for the wrath of a woman scorned?

Warnings:  piracy, pillaging, sexual assault, death/murder, blood/gore, violence, smut

*manbo:  voodoo priestess

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The Armored Star sailed along another shipwreck.  It was the third British ship they’d come across in the last week.  The charred remains of the ship were sticking up from out of the sea, some parts of it still on fire and smoking.  It looked like the ship had been torn in half, and British sailors’ bodies were scattered along the ship and out into the water, staining it red as sharks circled.

“How the hell?” Steve, Bucky’s first mate, breathed as they stared at the two halves of the ship.

“Multiple guns?  A double attack on either side?” his second mate, Sam, ventured a guess.

Bucky narrowed his eyes at the splintered wood that had what looked like claw marks etched into the planks before they ripped.  “Whatever it was, let’s steer clear,” he said, moving back to the wheel and steering them away.

The crew watched on in curiosity and worry as they headed further away from the watery grave.  As they made it into deep sea territory their barrelman, Peter, called down to Bucky.  “Captain!  A ship following us sir!”

Bucky looked up at him in confusion then looked behind, back from there they’d come.  The ship was still a long way off, but the fact that they were following them wasn’t a good sign.  “How long?” he yelled back up at Peter.

“At least the last mile,” Peter said.  “I had to make sure they were actually following us.”

Bucky took out his spyglass and walked to the furthest point of the helm, bringing the glass up to his eye and looking at the ship.  Steve walked up next to him as Bucky stared for a long while.  “Emerald hull with a mermaid figurehead,” he said under his breath to Steve.  “I believe we’ve finally run across Dido’s Lament.”

Steve hummed.  “Well, they’ll have a hard time catching up to the Star, sir.”

“Either way, keep an eye on them,” Bucky said, giving Steve the spyglass.  “From what I’ve heard they only attack the British, but let’s be wary if we’re the ones they choose to change their minds about.”  He turned to the crew who was waiting down below for instructions.  “Ready the cannons!  Stock the guns!  Arm yourselves!  We don’t know what we could be facing if they catch up!”  The crew immediately sprang into action getting everything ready.  He felt an anxious pull in his gut, but tried to ignore it.  Surely Dido’s Lament wouldn’t catch up to them quickly.  They still had the wind on their side, and the sun was setting, so they could change course in darkness if need be.  

Hours later Peter had lost sight of the ship as night fell, and Bucky felt they were in a good place to change course, heading further north than they normally would.  They usually tried to steer clear of Barataria Bay, but he wanted to make sure they lost the ship.  Not everyone knew where Barataria Bay even was with how small it had been, and now it was a mere ink blot on the map.  In the early morning hours as the sun arose over the horizon Peter couldn’t find any trace of the ship, and Bucky thought they were safe, until he heard an eerie creaking sound.

“Is that us?” Steve asked, looking down at the ship.  

“No,” Sam said, looking around.  The entire crew was baffled, looking around themselves.  A few of them looked over the railing, down at the water.

“It’s…coming from beneath us,” Steve said, looking at Bucky in shock.

Before Bucky could say anything there was a rumble that made the entire ship vibrate and shake, then a huge swell of water surged high in the air next to them, dousing the Armored Star and everyone on it.  It knocked the ship sideways, Bucky gripping the wheel as the ship righted itself before toppling over.  He looked to where the swell came from and his eyes widened, his mouth falling agape.  It was Dido’s Lament emerging from the depths of the sea, the ship twice as large as the Armored Star.  At the front the mermaid figurehead he saw wasn’t a mermaid but a siren, her upper body looking like it was going to spring from the ship, her long taloned hands outstretched and her mouth open wide, with sharp teeth and angry, menacing features.  As water poured from the emerald green hull a lone figure appeared at the helm, staring across the short distance of water at them.

Bucky’s eyes narrowed at the figure that climbed up onto the railing, holding onto a rope as they peered back at him.  The figure started singing:

“The king and his men stole the queen from her bed…”

Bucky ran to the side of the ship when he heard the voice.  It couldn’t be.  The figure had their head down, their hat and hair covering them.

“And bound her in her bones…the seas be ours and by the powers, where we will, we’ll roam.”

The figure looked up and showed their face, making Bucky gasp.  It was Y/N.  Multiple other people started to show up along Dido’s Lament’s side railing, and Bucky recognized them as the crew member’s wives and lovers they all thought long dead.  Steve let out a pained cry when he saw his wife, Peggy, the other crew member’s starting to call out to them.

“This can’t be real,” Steve said, running his hands through his hair.

All the women started singing:

“Yo ho, all hands, hoist the colors high.  Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die!”

As they finished the phrase their voices got louder until they were screaming, and another swell of water arose from the depths.  Bucky covered his head as it doused the Star again, then he felt a hard smack to the side of his body.  He went flying back into the helm, looking up to find an actual siren crawling its way toward him.  She looked just like the figurehead on Dido’s Lament and he scrambled back, grasping his sword and standing as she reached him.  He tried to swipe the blade at her, but she merely dodged it then grabbed his hand and twisted it, making him cry out and drop the sword.  There were shouts and sounds of swords falling to the ground, a few guns going off with accompanying screams that were unearthly.  The siren he was facing forced Bucky to his knees, her long tail wrapping around his lower half so he couldn’t move, wrenching his arms behind his back with an iron hold.  Bucky looked around as best he could to see his other crew members either fighting or being forced into the same position with a swarm of sirens flopping around the deck, their otherworldly hisses and noises filling the air as they overtook them easily.

The siren holding him used one of her webbed hands to grasp at his jaw and make him look up as Y/N and her crew members boarded the Armored Star.  Y/N slowly walked over to Bucky as the other women went and found their husbands  and lovers amongst the crew members.  She looked down at him, a look of pure disgust on her face that he’d never seen before.  Her gaze left him to look at the siren.  “Thank you, Mira,” she said, reaching a hand out and caressing the siren’s face.  “Whoever doesn’t have a woman next to him, you may take.”  She leaned over Bucky to the siren and nuzzled her nose on hers, the siren making a chittering noise in her throat before releasing her hold on Bucky.  He fell forward on his hands as the siren moved away and spoke in a language he couldn’t understand to the other sirens aboard.  They all spoke back to her then released the men they were holding except for seven of them, who they started dragging off the deck.  The men screamed, begging for help before the sirens holding them launched themselves overboard, diving back down into the sea, the remaining sirens following them with strange laugh-like sounds.

Y/N suddenly kicked Bucky backwards, taking his gun and the knife he had hidden in his boot and throwing them as hard as she could overboard.  The women on the deck followed her lead, then they all took their own guns and pointed them at their husbands.  Y/N took out her gun and pointed it at Bucky’s face.  “Hey Captain,” she sneered at him.

“Y/N,” he whispered, trying to reach for her.  “My treasure–”

Y/N backhanded him with the gun, making him cry out and fall back.  “Don’t call me that!” she yelled.  “You lost your treasure the day you left!”  She stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar and dragged him from the helm down the stairs to the deck, throwing him near the captain’s quarters.  She was surprisingly strong and he felt like he was in some kind of weird fever dream.  “Do you wanna know what happened after you left us?” she called out to all the men.  They each had shocked faces as they stared at their wives holding them at gunpoint, glancing at each other and at Y/N and Bucky.  “The British came two days after you left,” she said loudly, pacing back and forth as Bucky wiped at the blood falling from his brow where she struck him.  “Just as I thought they would.  Just as I TOLD YOU THEY WOULD!” she screamed in Bucky’s face, making him wince and cower before her.  

“Y/N please,” he begged, trying to reach for her again.  “We didn’t know.  I didn’t know!  The scouts checked–”

“SHUT UP!” she screamed.  “Do you wanna know what they did to us when they came?”  Bucky shook his head, afraid of what she was going to say.  Y/N pointed at Peggy, who was already crying as she stared at Steve in pain.  

“They raped us,” Peggy said loudly.  Steve looked at her like she’d stabbed him, his face crumpling in sorrow.  “They raped us…over and over again, for weeks.  Said it was our punishment as lovers of pirates.”

“They killed the children!” another woman called out, pushing her gun against her husband’s forehead harshly.  “All of them!  Left their little mutilated bodies all over the village.  I found our son in pieces!  All your babies are DEAD!”

Bucky cried heavily as woman after woman recounted what happened those days after they left them behind.  The British had tracked them without them knowing or realizing, the scouts somehow not seeing what Y/N had seen, and attacked their families as retribution for their piracy, then set the Bay ablaze, abandoning the remaining women.  After they all said their piece, Y/N leaned down to Bucky, gripping his jaw tightly and shoving the gun against his temple as she got closer to his face.  “You said you would never let anything happen to me,” she whispered, blinking back the tears building in her eyes.  

“Y/N–”

“You said we were safe,” she grunted, shaking his face in her hand.

“Please–”

“You said we would be fine!” she yelled, slapping him hard across the face.  Bucky’s head whipped to the side and he cried harder.

“I know I did, I thought you were safe,” he said, peering up at her pleadingly.  “We came home and the Bay was in ruins.  We thought you all died.  We’ve been mourning you all for the last year!”  He grasped the lower hem of her jacket.  “Please, lovey, I’m so sorry!  If I had known I would have never left–”

“I TOLD YOU!” Y/N shouted at him incredulously.  “I begged you to believe me, and you just laughed.”  She looked at the women around her.  “He laughed!”

The women all started screaming, their sorrow, pain, anger, and grief manifesting as they each stared at the men in front of them.  The men all winced, some of them covering their ears.  The screams rivaled the noises from the sirens.  It was the worst thing Bucky had ever heard.  

“The sea heard our cries and answered the call for vengeance,” Y/N said.  “The sirens came to us.  And we have used our newfound power to sacrifice all those who hurt and killed us to them and the sea.  You hurt us.  You hurt me.  Why should I give you, any of you, mercy?”  

“You’re right, I didn’t believe you.  I didn’t trust your judgment.  And I’m sorry!” he cried.  “Please, my love, have mercy on me, on all of us.  I have suffered pain like I never could have imagined since we saw the Bay was destroyed.  My guilt has been my punishment, and will forever be until I die.  I told you I love you until worlds end,” he said.  “And I meant every word.  If today is my world's end, so be it.  But please, don’t let this be it.”

The other men all echoed similar sentiments to their wives, pleading and crying with them for mercy.  “Peg please,” Steve begged next to them, bending down and kissing her feet.  “My sweet Peggy.  Knowing you're alive is enough, and if you decide to punish me to death at sea, I will accept my fate.  Just know I love you, and if you can forgive me, I will never leave your side again.”  He started to slowly stand up, cupping her face in his hands.  

Peggy paused as she looked up at him, her gun still pointed at him, but then her hand shook, and she sighed heavily before pointing it downward.  “Steve,” she cried, and he quickly hugged her.  

Y/N watched in disbelief and frustration as the other women around her all forgave.  She looked down at Bucky, and he could see the war in her eyes.  There was a deep anger and abandonment, but a hesitation in her full wrath and fury that he most rightfully deserved.  Bucky held his hands up in surrender as he slowly stood.  “My treasure,” he whispered, taking a step closer to her.  She flinched, one foot stepping back and she raised her gun again, nudging it into his forehead.  “I’m sorry,” he continued, and let his hands fall to his sides.  “Whatever you choose, please know I love you…until worlds end, and beyond.”

Y/N started to cry, her hand holding the gun shaking.  She shook her head, her teeth gritting as she glared at him.  Peggy then came and stood behind her, then another woman, then another woman, then another, until a small group of her crew were surrounding her.  Peggy slowly lifted her hand and gripped Y/N’s shoulder.  “We’ve done what we set out to do.  The sea helped us avenge ourselves.  Now it’s time we heal,” Peggy whispered to her, leaning in and kissing the side of her head.  “Come away dearest,” she said, glancing at the gun, “come away…”

Y/N started breathing heavily, shaking harder, until she screamed then dropped the gun at Bucky’s feet.  She folded in on herself and Peggy and the other women caught her before she fell, helping her to sit on the deck as loud wails and choked cries fell from her mouth.  As she clung to Peggy, Bucky kneeled before her, reaching a hand out and touching her knee.  “Y/N,” he called to her.  She peered up at him from where she’d buried her face in Peggy’s collar.  He let go of her knee and held his hand out to her in offering.  Y/N looked back and forth from his hand to his face, then looked up at Peggy, who nodded in encouragement at her.  She looked back at him and slowly sat up, extending her hand out to him.  He didn’t move, letting her take her time.  She hesitated, still afraid and unsure, but took his hand.  Bucky let out the breath he didn’t realize he was holding and smiled at her.  “My treasure,” he said, his lips trembling as he kept crying.  He leaned down and kissed her knuckles, and she stifled another loud cry.  Bucky slowly started to stand and helped her stand up, the women around her getting up with them.  He stepped closer, and this time she didn’t step away or flinch.  She stared at him with a look of hurt and yearning.  

He lifted his hands and cupped her face, watching her carefully.  Y/N’s hands held his wrists tightly as he slowly leaned in so his forehead was pressed against her forehead.  “I thought you were dead,” Bucky whispered.

“I did die that day,” Y/N whispered back.  “I don’t know who was born in my place.”

Bucky smiled at her.  “A pirate,” he answered her.  

Y/N’s eyes flicked back and forth between his eyes, and a small smile started to grow on her face.  “A pirate,” she repeated.  

Another rumble came from the sea beneath them, and they all braced themselves.  An ear-splitting horde of screams reverberated through the air as sirens surged from the depths to Dido’s Lament.  They ripped at the ship, the splintering wood flying as they shredded it.  Y/N walked to the side railing as the siren from earlier, Mira, looked back at her as Dido’s Lament cracked in half and started to sink, the torches on board breaking and setting fire to the parts still above water.  Mira chittered at her, and Y/N chuckled a watery laugh and blew her a kiss.  Mira tapped her chest then spoke to the sirens, and they all dove back into the sea, the ship humming under the pressure as the ocean bubbled and swallowed it whole.  The pact was broken, the call of vengeance appeased.  

Bucky joined Y/N at the railing, watching Dido’s Lament sink with her until he reached a hand out and caressed the side of her face.  Y/N looked up at him, and they stared at each other for a moment as the sounds of sweet rendezvous behind them drowned out the unsettling sinking ship in front of them.  Bucky’s other hand joined the first and he traced the features of her face, memorizing her.  Her eyes fluttered at his soft touch, and after a moment she leaned her head into his palm, closing her eyes as she let him feel her.  “Can I kiss you, treasure?” Bucky asked quietly.  “I still can’t quite believe you’re real…that you’re here.”

Y/N inhaled deeply at his request, still looking hesitant.  Bucky knew it was going to take a long time for her to fully trust him again, and he was willing to wait, to be patient, but he hoped she would say yes to just this one thing.  She nodded.  “Yes,” she whispered.

Bucky smiled softly, then slowly dipped his head, nuzzling her nose with his nose first, then kissing her gently.  The kiss was healing for him, melding together the fractures in his heart and his mind.  Y/N barely moved, her lips kissing him back but not with the same fervor or passion she used to.  It hurt Bucky, but he knew it would take time.  He pulled away and smiled at her, kissing the tip of her nose.  “Thank you, lovey.”

[ghosts-bandwagon]

Songs from my playlists that represent how the 141 loves you (+bonus König)

Simon ‘Ghost’ Riley:

“Wasteland” by Woodkid

Most of what I used to be had vanished in the waves/The memories of the boy I’ve been were drowning and you saved them/Now I remember the joy and the meaning of the fate/The color of the truth and the sound of sunny days

You have reminded him what it’s like be human again. When you look at him, he is Simon. He’s your Simon. He’s the man whose cheeks you’ve held countless times, kissing the corners of his eyes, tasting the paint on your lips but you couldn’t care less. Your small hands reach out time and time again and pull him back from the edge. And he’ll always take your hand, he might fight you at first, insistent that he’s too dangerous and that you’ll get hurt if you stay. But you always fight back. You’ll always fight your way back to him. You make him feel wanted, safe, human.

John ‘Soap’ MacTavish:

“Everlong” by The Foo Fighters

Breathe out/So I can breathe you in/Hold you in/And now/I know you've always been/Out of your head/Out of my head, I sang

He’s such a hopeless romantic. You became his entire world, the light in his eyes, and when you two first met it was like coming up for air after being submerged for so long. And he never wants to let you go, he feels like it’s always been you. You’re the mile marker along the highway of his life, there is a ‘before’ and then there is only a ‘with you’. Nothing is as good when he’s on his own, but with you? The sun’s out, the birds are singing their stupid songs, the flowers are in full bloom, and he can breathe again.

John Price:

“Thank You” by Dido

Push the door I’m home at last/I’m soaking through and through/Then you handed me a towel/And all I see is you/And even if my house falls down now/I wouldn’t have a clue/Because you’re near me

You’re his motivation. You’re what gets him through his long days. Knowing that there’s a home with you waiting for him is what pushes him. He has a picture of you in his wallet that he always looks at, and he’s so fucking tired but he keeps going for you. To see you, to hold you, to kiss you, to cherish you. And when he finally comes home, his bones each weighing a million pounds, and he sees you, it all just melts away. Nothing matters. He tunnel visions and it’s just you. There’s nothing happening outside these walls, it’s just you, and that’s all he needs.

Kyle ‘Gaz’ Garrick:

“Lose It” by Oh Wonder

Downtown we let it go/Sunset high and our bodies low/Blood rush in the hazy glow/My hands, your bones/Looser we break the scene/One step deep as you fall to me/Heart clap, we skip a beat/Count one, two, three

He’s the warmth that flows through your veins, he’s the sun that shines on your cheeks, he’s the rhythmic sound of cars driving on wet asphalt after a storm. And you? Sweetheart, you’re the twinkle of city lights on the skyline, you’re the sound of laughter from a couple caught in the rain, you’re the steady soothing rhythm of a love song. You’re his favorite song. He’ll always move to your beat, hands on your hips, forehead against yours.

König:

“Just the Two of Us” by Grover Washington Jr, Bill Whithers

I see the crystal raindrops fall/And the beauty of it all/Is when the sun comes shining through/To make those rainbows in my mind/When I think of you sometime/And I wanna spend some time with you

He’s so at home with you. When you’re together all his worries melt away. Every thought that gets overplayed in his head start to quiet down the closer he is to you. There’s no one he’d rather be with than you. There is literally no one else in the world. And when you’re sat between his legs, reclined against his chest watching a movie, his heart is drumming in his chest. Only it’s not an anxious beat, it’s a beat that plays for you. It’s a beat that knows you’re the most wonderful thing in his life. You’re the sip of cold water in the middle of the night when his nightmares rip him from his sleep, you’re kissing his sweaty forehead and reminding him that you’re here. That it’s just the two of you. And he’s at peace again.

[soracities]

hi! i adore your blog and i hope you feel better asap <3 and that many more bright spring days light your life soon!

are there any songs that Speak to you personally that you'd be willing to share?

you're lovely, thank you thank you 💌💝

and yes, a good few:

"Two Children in a Motel", Ethen Cain

"Cassandra" Florence + the Machine

"Decades", Joy Division

"Mistaken for Strangers", The National

"Nightshift", Commodores

"Bless the Telepone" Labi Siffre

"Sky Full of Song" Florence + the Machine

"A Pair of Brown Eyes", The Pogues

"Spirit Slips Away", Thin Lizzie

"Talk", Hozier

"River", Leon Bridges

"Et Bam", Mentissa

"Last Words of a Shooting Star" Mitski

"Ave Cesaria", Stromae

"500 Miles" Nick Cave

"Red is the Rose", The High Kings

"K." Cigarettes After Sex

"Two Slow Dancers", Mitski

"Spanish Sahara", Foals

"The Parting Glass"

"My Boy Builds Coffins," Florence + the Machine

"Bad Friend" Rina Sawayama

"Something About Us", Daft Punk

"House of the Rising Sun", The Animals

"Pictures of You", The Cure

"The Only Heartbreaker", Mitski

"Video Girl", FKA twigs

"The Night We Met", Lord Huron

"Shim el Yasmine", Mashrou' Leila

"Here with Me", Dido

"Chelsea Hotel, No. 2", Leonard Cohen

"Undisclosed Desires", Muse

"7 Days" Craig David

[littlestsnicket]

title: room by laughingpineapple

word count: 1.4k

diane&senorita dido; the way the lodge and otherworldliness is handled here is so good, and diane and the way she comes to exist in this place is perfect

excerpt:

The gramophone’s needle stands still in the room by the sea. Time dissipated along with the fading of the last note and Dido is left with nothing but stillness. Maybe it still flows elsewhere in the house, nested within a maze of eternal corridors, maybe there is a place where the music continues, and a party roars on, affording a beating heart to this place, a mark of the passing of the ages. If it exists, its rhythm is muffled by rows of concrete until all that’s left this far away is unchanging eternity. Even the waves that crash for miles on the rocks below cannot reach the room’s window, which only ever shows the unfathomable sky.

Dido gives a forlorn look at the broken gramophone on the table and yearns.

She waits on the couch. The sky outside remains distant and purple. Not night, not anything. An idea of a sky, real by way of accumulation, the purple dreams of civilizations pressed upon each other. Time passes, elsewhere, years and centuries. She thinks that she remembers another place, from before eternity. A place that can only be perceived in glimpses, the rustling of curtains, and there was always music in the air. A haunting saxophone. Singing. It made you forget you were anywhere at all, between the curtains.

[whencyclopedia]

TYRE (in modern-day Lebanon) is one of the oldest cities in the world, dating back over 4,000 years, during which it has been inhabited almost continuously. It was one of the most important, and at times the dominant, city of Phoenicia, whose citizens claimed it had been founded by the great god Melqart.

The city was an ancient Phoenician port and industrial center which, in myth, is known as the birthplace of Europa (who gave Europe its name) and Dido of Carthage (who gave aid to and fell in love with Aeneas of Troy). The name means 'rock' and the city consisted of two parts, the main trade center on an island, and 'old Tyre', about a half-mile opposite on the mainland. The old city, known as Ushu (an earlier name for Melqart), was founded c. 2750 BCE, and the trade center grew up shortly after. In time, the island complex became more prosperous and populated than Ushu and was heavily fortified.

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[highly-opinionated-art]

I wanna share with you guys some traditional art I've been making recently- since November I've been doing this album-of-the-week thing, and a few weeks into the year I started picking out my favorite line from the album of the week and doing a little illustration for it. If you can call it that- they're just quick, rough little pictures, more experimental than polished. Some are better than others. But I have some watercolors and acrylic paints that I never used before this project, and a hell of a lot of markers and gel pens and colored pencils that need to be used, too. I've been learning a lot and getting some use out of what I have at the same time, so that's good enough for me! Here's the first quarter of 2024 done:

Albums/artists/lyrics under the cut, plus some additional commentary because why not.

(2024 part 2) (2024 part 3)

Week 1: "I wanna be what my body wants me to be" is from the song Townie, from the album bury me at makeout creek by mitski. I actually kinda hated this whole album, but Townie is a tolerable song.

Week 2: "it never hurts to give thanks to the local gods, you never know who might be hungry" is from the song Younger, from the album In League With Dragons, by the Mountain Goats. Mixed feelings about the album. Mostly just mad that I can't just put a mostly transparent blue layer over everything when I want it to look like night with watercolor the way I can with digital art.

Week 3: "that we won't run, and we won't run, and we won't run" is from the song King And Lionheart, from the album My Head Is An Animal by Of Monsters And Men, which is a meh album but I love this song.

Week 4: "Make it a dirt dance floor again" is from the song Bleed It Out, from the album Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park. GREAT album. The art looks just like poop but I swear the paint came out of the tube like that, I didn't mix it with anything or anything!

Week 5: "gotta be more to life than just try, try, try" from the song Half A Mile Away, from the album 52nd Street by Billy Joel. This was actually the first one I made, I went back and did the first 4 a little later.

Week 6: "I'm gonna keep on dancing" is from the song Pink Pony Club, from the album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan. The album is ok, I guess? Not my favorite but this track is a really good one.

Week 7: "maybe they'll love me when I finally get out of this town" is from the song Made For This, from the album Built To Last, by Arrows in Action, which is a FANTASTIC album, like DAMN.

Week 8: "together, Wendy, we can live with the sadness, I love you with all the madness in my soul" is from the song Born To Run, by the album of the same name by Bruce Springsteen. It was really hard to get a picture of this one for some reason. Metallic gel pen might have something to do with it.

Week 9: "inside, everybody's hiding something" is from the song Slide, from the album No Angel by Dido. I LOVE Dido. I meant to add more masks in the picture, ok. I got lazy. I should have just made the other ones bigger...

Week 10: "tomorrow's just another day" is from the song Don't Cry 2020 (which was released in 2017), from the album How Will You Know If You Never Try by the band COIN. Forgettable album, but the art is of my room, but I didn't get up and walk 10 steps to get a reference, just did it from memory. The window is too small and not in the right place, and I just changed up the patterns on the blanket because I didn't feel like checking.

Week 11: "if it's ever gonna happen, it's gotta happen here I am" (which seems like it should be missing a comma, but it's like that on purpose) is from the song Shine On Me, from the album Pure Fiction by Eric Hutchinson (not his best work I fear).

Week 12: "make new symbols, make new signs" is from the title track from the album New Beginning, by Tracy Chapman. AMAZING album, I loved it. I'm completely pissed that I messed up the art, though. I thought I had it going for me. Boo.

Week 13: "I don't look important, so they're telling me to wait" is from the song WaldorfWorldwide, from Good Charlotte's self titled debut album. Self portrait of me, a teacher, being mistaken for a student at an event, which is a frequent and frustrating occurrence. This album is ok, but I think they were pretty clearly still developing at this point in their career.

[deadcactuswalking]

REVIEWING THE CHARTS: 10/02/2024

Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season” is still #1, it’s a short episode, you really probably should skip it - there's nothing of value discussed here... welcome back to REVIEWING THE CHARTS.

Rundown

This is not a good week. You could call it a stale week, it’s probably accurate, because there’s not much of interest and what is here is mostly utter garbage. Potentially, up there with the worst weeks ever in terms of new arrivals to the UK Top 75, which is what I cover, and speaking of what I cover, notable dropouts are songs exiting said top 75 after five weeks in the region or a peak in the top 40, and this week, we bid adieu to: “Skin and Bones” by David Kushner, “neé-nah” by 21 Savage, Travis Scott and Metro Boomin, “Practice” by Drake, “Pink Friday Girls” and “Everybody” featuring Lil Uzi Vert by Nicki Minaj and finally, “Paint the Town Red” by Doja Cat. One highlight of this dire week is that I’m not really complaining about any of that.

Lewis Capaldi’s “Someone You Loved” returns to #67, what a joy, as well as “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift at #62 and “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus at #51. Can’t help but think the GRAMMYs had some influence on these. As for notable gains, we see boosts for Taylor’s “Is it Over Now?” at #68, “MY EYES” by Travis Scott at #65, “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish at #58, “Would You (go to bed with me?)” by Campbell and Alcemist at #52, “Perfect (Exceeder)” by Mason vs. Princess Superstar at #39, “Runaway” by Ye featuring Pusha T at #35, seemingly because well, there may or may not be an album coming because that’s what we needed: more discourse. Then we have “Scared to Start” by Michael Marcagi at #31, “Selfish” by Justin Timberlake at #29 (why are we doing this?), “exes” by Tate McRae at #23, “Alibi” by Ella Henderson featuring Rudimental at #16 (Christ), and we end with two positives at least, as YG Marley and Benson Boone both get their first top 10s with pretty damn good songs, in my opinion: “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” at #9 and “Beautiful Things” at #5, which brings us to that top five, which is otherwise completely the same as last week. Jack Harlow’s at #4, Teddy Swims at #3, Sophie Ellis-Bextor at #2 and for a sixth week, Noah Kahan at #1. You know the song names off by heart by now, and I need some time to let off a deep sigh before rattling off the new songs. Oh, boy, the new songs.

New Entries

#75 - “Out for Love” - Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft and Daphne Rubin-Vega

Produced by Andrew Underberg and Sam Haft

So, Hazbin Hotel was a web pilot by Vivienne Medrano or “ViziePop” that was later picked up by Amazon as a television series this year. It is a musical animated series hence has several soundtrack singles, and given the weak charts and viral nature of the show, some of them have ended up here. I watched the pilot and first four episodes of the series, and found it genuinely quite difficult to stomach - I love adult animation, I love musicals, I actually even like the art style - it was the narrative elements of the show that killed it for me, and this is not a TV review blog, it’s a music review blog. I knew at least one song would debut as the midweek update showed one song at #73, I figured that would be the only song and it could potentially not even appear, so I wrote a very tersely-worded review for that song in particular. It’s a bit… not all that useful anymore, for lack of a better phrase. So I’m largely not going to be covering these. This is from the seventh episode, which I haven’t seen. Song doesn’t make any Goddamn sense to me. Journalism.

#74 - “Thank You (Not So Bad)” - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiesto, Dido and W&W

Produced by Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiesto, W&W, Bassjackers and Renze Michels

Okay, if you’re going to credit a grand total of five EDM producers, why not go the full mile and have all eight pick out a lead? Also, I would ask how eight people were involved in producing this if I had any doubts that it wasn’t just an uncredited guy who got paid to sell this lazy sample flip off to people with actual star power. A sample flip of what, you may ask? Sigh… well, if there’s anything vaguely positive I can say about “Alibi” is that it’s influential. This is somehow even lazier, however, so I guess let’s start with some kind of history.

First of all, Dido’s “Thank You” is a perfectly fine, honest song that peaked at #3 in 2001 - “Do You Really Like It?” by DJ Pied Piper & the Masters of Ceremonies rightfully took #1 that week - and whilst I’ve never been a big fan, I can definitely see why the melancholy downtempo ballad resonates with people, and on a bad day, I can definitely throw this on and feel a little hope. This is a bad chart day, and if “Thank You” were to chart in its original form, it could perhaps be a reminder that things are, despite everything, it’s not so bad. So I imagine rap fans will know one of if not both of the uses of this song in popular hip hop, the first being Eminem’s classic “Stan”, probably my second favourite of his. It actually did #1 for one week in 2000, before the original had charted. It’s a stark and incredibly clever recontextualisation of the song that I’m pretty sure has already been discussed as much as possible, there’s a reason why many consider it Em’s crowning moment. Rae Sremmurd, “Lean’s Gone Cold”… maybe not so much. That one didn’t chart, but it’s funny.

Now there is precedent for house remixes of “Thank You”, and whilst I’m willing to consider interpretations and reimaginings of practically any song as any different style, I feel like making “Thank You” more danceable than just a vague nodding of the head skews some of the narrative’s tone? It definitely makes for a weirder, more dissonant listen, and whilst the Deep Dish remix, actually a GRAMMY Award-winning remix, does its best to maintain the atmosphere in its nine minutes, turning “not so bad” into a faint, looping mantra under a constantly developing house groove, to the point where it is a genuinely pretty great house song production wise… it still doesn’t feel like a great adaptation of “Thank You”, just a different product entirely, which makes sense and honestly makes for a better song. It doesn’t try and be “Thank You”, despite not even registering itself as an original song, just a remix of the original still credited solely to Dido. In 2016, European electro house duos Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and W&W made a song called “Arcade”, it’s a loud, compressed smorgasboard of cheap synth sounds made for a live festival setting and being practically unlistenable outside of that context. In 2020, German producers Felix Jaehn and VIZE made a much more conventional and, at least in terms of how much it cribs from the original, a more faithful rendition of “Thank You”, subtitled “Not So Bad”. It’s a flavourless tropical house riff that I think the world would be better off not hearing, it’s like “Thank You” by Dido if she was commissioned to make it by an advertising company looking for a soundtrack to gym commercials.

Somewhere across the line, I guess it must have been Tiesto who said, “What if we made a version of that Felix Jaehn song but basically in the soundfont of “Arcade”?” - the latter even being directly listed as a sample on Genius. I mean, otherwise, I don’t know what the Hell Tiesto is doing here but, generally, you have to be shitting me, right? This is two minutes and 20 seconds constructed out of bits and pieces of songs I may not like but had a lot more purposeful artistic intent to them, if that’s a correct way of phrasing it. This is a vaguely functional crap-shoot molded from genuine song ideas, starting with a gentle singer-songwriter track that actually means a Hell of a lot to millions of people. I’d believe that to many fans, that Rae Sremmurd rendition means a lot to them. What does this mean to anybody?

#63 - “Bandit” - Don Toliver

Produced by ReidMD

I don’t like Don Toliver, really, or Tame Impala for that record, but there’s a level of inherent quality here, right? Don can sing, Tame Impala can construct a vibe and the sample here is “One More Hour” from their 2020 album The Slow Rush, it’s completely serviceable, could make for a good song. So why the sample is rendered in such low quality screeching is beyond me, but hey, maybe a powerful beat could work? Oh, the trap skitter is not only completely rote and overdone, it’s really high in the mix and distracts from the bass, which could really help make this song work? Okay, well, what’s Don doing? Being basically a cartoon character with his flows and incessant ad-libs? Well, that could be fun - oh, he’s comparing himself to Marilyn Manson? Barely rhyming? Catching a good, intense flow only to mumble repeated lines mostly about having sex that make up much of the song, with a tiny verse in the middle? Well, maybe the outro can make up for it - oh, he’s doing a Cookie Monster impression. Welp, all hope is lost.

#55 - “Poison” - Blake Roman, Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg

Produced by Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg

This is an upbeat synthpop jam that soundtracks a sex slavery montage. It sounds like a song by The Weeknd covered by a SpongeBob AI voice model. Next.

#53 - “Loser, Baby” - Andrew Underberg, Sam Haft, Keith David and Blake Roman

Produced by Sam Haft and Andrew Underberg

This was the song that made me turn the fourth episode off in disgust. I had a massive review prepared, covering its treatment of sexual abuse, which probably gave it a higher degree of nuance and generosity than many others are willing to give it, but I’m not compelled to rant about cartoons in this series. I want to write about animation more often but preferably animation I like or actually find compelling. With all respect to those who enjoy it and power to them, Hazbin Hotel was not something I would like to grant any more attention than the brief necessity of my format. Thanks for understanding.

#40 - “Home” - Good Neighbours

Produced by Good Scott and Oli Fox

I was very much willing to give this one a good shake because, I mean, what else do we have? Scott and Fox teased this on TikTok months prior before releasijng this as their official debut single together, after malformed, quickly aborted solo runs a few years ago. Sounds like a recipe for chart success and oh, the song’s terrible. It has a whistle about as charming as the American Authors’ milennial whoops, really insufferably screeching vocal tones that remind me of Passion Pit more than anything - that isn’t really a good thing - and sentimental lyrics about what home means to him, which would be completely serviceable without the stiff, grooveless splodge of grey matter that calls itself a chorus. Oh, and you know those sentimental lyrics? They’re gone by this point, it’s an incredibly manipulative breakup song with some really gross attempts at poetry - “wrap my name across your mouth when I let my feelings down”? Ew, man, Charlie Puth is less contrived than this. Naturally, the song goes nowhere and sadly, that probably won’t be its chart trajectory. Yet, once again, this song is practically unlistenable.

Conclusion

…Don Toliver gets Best of the Week. Somehow. Thanks for reading, I guess? See you next whenever.

[my-chaos-radio-2010s-list]

E.T. - Katy Perry

Eastside - benny blanco, Halsey & Khalid

Easy Love - Sigala

Échame La Culpa - Luis Fonsi, Demi Lovato

End Of Night - Dido

Everything At Once - Lenka

Everything Now - Arcade Fire

Ex’s & Oh’s - Elle King

Expect - Girl's Day

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Fade Out Lines - The Avener, Phoebe Killdeer

Faded - Alan Walker

Faded Memory - Jessie Frye feat. Timecop1983

Fall Down - will.i.am, Miley Cyrus

Falling Down - Lil Pep, XXXTENTACION

Falling For You - Teenage Mutants, Laura Welsh

Falling In Love - Ironik feat. Jessica Lowndes

Familiar - Liam Payne, J Balvin

Fast Car - Jonas Blue, Dakota

Favela - Alok & Ina Wroldsen

Feel It In My Bones - Tiesto feat. Tegan And Sara

Feel It Still - Portugal. The Man

Fetish - Selena Gomez feat. Gucci Mane

Final Song - MØ

Firestarter - Samantha Jade

Flames - David Guetta, Sia

Follow You - twocolors feat. Muringa

For You - Liam Payne, Rita Ora

Forever - Medina

Forget You / Fuck You - CeeLo Green

Freaky Like Me - Madcon

Free - Natalia Kills

Friends - Aura Dione

FRIENDS - Marshmello, Anne-Marie

Froot - MARINA

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Galway Girl - Ed Sheeran

Geronimo - Sheppard

Get Lucky - Daft Punk, Pharell Williams

Gettin’ Over You - David Guetta & Chris Willis, Fergie, LMFAO

Gimme Your Love - Morcheeba

Girls Beautiful - Bullmeister

Girls Like Girls - Hayley Kiyoko

Girls Like You - Maroon 5 feat. Cardi B

Give Me Everything - Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack, Nayer

Glow - Gavin James

Gold - Victoria Justice

Gonna Get Over You - Sara Bareilles

Good For You - Selena Gomez

Good Girl - Alexis Jordan

Good Intent - Kimbra

Good Life - OneRepublic

Good Times - Roll Deep

Gypsy - Shakira

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Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo

Hall Of Fame - The Script feat. will.i.am

Hands - The Ting Tings

Happening - Medina

Happiest Man On Earth - Broken Back

Hate How Much I Love You - Conor Maynard

Havana - Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug

Head On (Hold On To Your Heart) - Man Man

Headlights - Robin Schulz feat. Ilsey

Hear Me Now - Alok, Bruno Martini feat. Zeeba

Heart Attack - Demi Lovato

Heart Skips A Beat - Olly Murs feat. Rizzle Kicks

Hearts Without A Home - Stanfour feat. Decco

Heartbeat Song - Kelly Clarkson

Hello - Martin Solveig & Dragonette

Hey (Nah Nah Nah) - Milk & Sugar vs Vaya Con Dios

Hide Away - Synapson, Holly

High & Low - Oliver Moldan feat. Jasmine Ash

High Hopes - Panic! At The Disco

Higher - Taio Cruz

Higher - The Saturdays

Higher Love - Kygo, Whitney Houston

Highway Don’t Care - Tim McGraw feat. Taylor Swift, Keith Urban

Hollywood - Marina And The Diamonds

Hollywood Tonight - Michael Jackson

How Deep Is Your Love - Calvin Harris, Disciples

Howling At The Moon - Milow

Humility - Gorillaz

Hundred Miles - Yall

[my-chaos-radio-00s-list]

Santa’s Coming For Us - Sia (Xmas)

Satellites - September

Scandalous - Mis-Teeq

Scream For More - Kate Ryan

Shalala lala - Vengaboys

Shape Of My Heart - Backstreet Boys

She Bangs - Ricky Martin

Shine On - R.I.O.

Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings

Side - Travis

Sky - Sonique

Sneakernight - Vanessa Hudgens

Somebody To You - The Vamps feat. Demi Lovato

Someday - Rob Thomas

Somethin’ Stupid - Robbie Williams, Nicole Kidman

Something Special - Will Downing

Sorry - Madonna

Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne

Star To Fall - Cabin Crew

Starlight - The Supermen Lovers

Stillness Of Heart - Lenny Kravitz

Strong Again - N-Dubz

Stuck On You - 3T

Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall

Sugar Rush - A*Teens

Summer Sunshine - The Corrs

Sunrise - Simply Red

Superstar - Jamelia

Sweet About Me - Gabriella Cilmi

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Take Me Home - Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Telephone - Lady Gaga feat. Beyoncé

Tell Me Why - Prezioso feat. Marvin

Ten Miles - Infernal

The Call - Backstreet Boys

The Day You Went Away - M2M

The First Cut Is The Deepest - Sheryl Crow

The Funeral Of Hearts - HIM

The Game Of Love - Santana feat. Michelle Branch

The Ketchup Song (Asereje) - Las Ketchup

The Last Goodbye - Atomic Kitten

The Magic Key - One-T

The Middle - Jimmy Eat World

The Moment You Believe - Melanie C

The Music's No Good Without You - Cher

The Next Episode - Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg

The Only Exception - Paramore

The Reason - Hoobastank

The Spirit Of The Hawk - Rednex

The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani

The Sweetest Thing - Camera Obscura

The Weekend - Michael Grey

These Words - Natasha Bedingfield

Thinking Of You - A Touch Of Class

This Is The Life - Amy Macdonald

This Is The World We Live In - Alcazar

This Love - Maroon 5

TiK ToK - Kesha

Trick Me - Kelis

Tripping - Robbie Williams

Tu Es Foutu - In-Grid

Turn It Up - Pixie Lott

Turn The Tide - Sylver

Twist Of Fade - Siobhan Donaghy

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Undisclosed Desires - Muse

Unspeakable - Ace Of Base

Untouchable - All Saints

Unwell - Matchbox Twenty

Uprising - Muse

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Valerie - Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse

Vamos A Bailar (Esta Vida Nueva) - Paola & Chiara

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Walking Away - Craig David

Warwick Avenue - Duffy

We Are The Prople - Empire Of The Sun

We Walk - The Ting Tings

What If - Kate Winslet

What Took You So Long - Emma Bunton

When Did Your Heart Go Missing? - Rooney

When Loves Takes Over - David Guetta feat. Kelly Rowland

When You Look At Me - Christina Milian

Whenever, Wherever - Shakira

Whenever You Need Me - Infernal

Where You Are - Jessica Simpson, Nick Lachley

White Flag - Dido

White Houses - Vanessa Carlton

Who Do You Love Now? - Danii Minogue

Why Can't I? - Liz Phair

With You - Chris Brown

Won’t Go Home Without You - Maroon 5

Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming) - Melanie Thornton (Xmas)

Wonderland - Passion Fruit

World, Hold On (Children Of The Sky) - Bob Sinclar

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Year 3000 - Busted

You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse

You Sang To Me - Marc Anthony

Young Folks - Peter Bjorn And John

Your Body Is A Wonderland - John Mayer

Your Love Is a Lie - Simple Plan

You’ve Got The Love - Florence + The Machine

[music-tourney]

Here are the polls as well

Beautiful by Christina Aguilera - Bootylicious by Destiny's Child

Sugar we're goin down by Fallout Boy - Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

Low by Flo Rida - Love Story by Taylor Swift

Get the Party Started by P!nk - I gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas

Chewing Gum by Annie - I write sins not tragedies by Panic! At the Disco

Do you realize by The Flaming Lips - Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

I'm Yours by Jason Mraz - Sexyback by Justin Timberlake

TiK ToK by Ke$ha - It's my life by Bon Jovi

A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton - Misery Business by Paramore

She Hates Me by Puddle Of Mudd - Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It) by Beyonce

Butterfly by Crazy Town - All my Life by Foo Fighters

The Dog Days are Over by Florence + the Machine - Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani

Lollipop by Mika - Seven Nation Army by White Stripes

Harder Better Faster Stronger by Daft Punk - Gives you Hell by All American Rejects

Milkshake by Kelis - My Hips Don't Lie by Shakira

Sk8ter Boi by Avril Lavigne - Bring Me to Life by Evanescence

This Love by Maroon 5 - Stan by Eminem

Fireflies by Owl City - Fuck the pain away by Peaches

1985 by Bowling for Soup - Float On by Modest Mouse

Pokerface by Lady Gaga - 4 minutes by Madonna and Justin Timberlake

Fallin by Alicia Keys - Beautiful Girls by Sean Kingston

It's gonna be Me By Nsync - Umbrella by Rihanna

Drop it like it's Hot by Snoop Dogg - Dilemma by Nelly and Kelly Rowland

Paper Planes by M.I.A. - Rehab by Amy Winehouse

In da Club by 50 Cent - Work It by Missy Elliott

Numb by Linkin Park - Before he cheats by Carrie Underwood

Survivor By Destiny's Child - Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson

Chop Suey By System of a Down - Hot N Cold by Katy Perry

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley - Sandstorm by Darude

White Flag by Dido - Short Skirt/Long Jacket by CAKE

Feel Good Inc by the Gorillaz - Toxic by Britney Spears

Caramelldansen by Caramell - Hurt by Johnny Cash

Californication by the Red Hot Chili Peppers - Everytime we touch by Cascada

Watcha Say by Jason Derulo - Hey There Delilah by Plain White Tees

Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus - Smooth Criminal by alien Ant Farm

I believe in a thing called love by the darkness - All the Small Things By Blink 182

Photograph by Nickelback - Hash Pipe by Weezer

The Middle by Jimmy Eat World - Stacy's Mom by Fountains for Wayne

All for you by Janet Jackson - I'm a Believer by Smash Mouth

Yeah! by Usher - Beautiful Day by U2

Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) by Train - Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield

Unwell by MatchBox Twenty - Bad day by Daniel Powter

American Idiot by Green Day - Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus

Brave as a noun by AJJ - The Past Is a Grotesque Animal by Of Montreal

Somebody Told Me by the Killers - Crazy in Love by Beyonce and Jay Z

99 Problems by Jay-Z - How to Save a Life by The Fray

Can't get you out of my head by Kylie Monogue - Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down

Hey Ya by Outkast - Vida La Vida by Coldplay

[libidomechanica]

Untitled (“This is my face, in plenty”)

A curtal sonnet sequence

               1

—This is my face, in plenty. As he thoughts true forme of Love is on high, or roll the Priest have from the fortresses, but help she seems twain, each several arts or parts ascendance o’er the Box, and howling after many scorns like the one who took fire, like the fields below him, that I passed bye, hey ho hollidaye, when holly father turn in the night. The faint with her heels. He should find him; I called poetic pages. The Victor Spade!

               2

To wash the feast? From the forest brake, rich with Hoops, and blossoms on the cool depth. Of fame: he must his laurels at the quiet maid held her in paynefull loue I pyne, hey ho gray is greete, and soon I shall not be at peace in having no defeat can drive me from good to medle sadde. But the briar? Therefore what the boar to-morrow say, shall we? And sighing and always must be sleep, but my lips with gems—the monk made his blood.

               3

Much longer ready ears and of songs, which make epic poesy so rare and rough weather and look we like a flail, or a good smell. Nothing, that heard no more than strong, by which tremble at the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off your love was far from his lips obey, dost sometimes he made the speculation as to meaning of the mornings showed, thy nights are bright bulletin. A paper kite which can lock vp a treasur’d there.

               4

Like lawn being a boat and peeping a hold on a dream; the Nightingale, to name a thing on earth usurp’d his Box. Arrows that faithful dear concern, and crowing in your wanton mermaid’s voice was ouerawed. But I know wants me here alone: theirs whose hands I could witnessed with the fire? That he reach’d forth unto me as a clusters of Jerusalem, terrible enough away the Falls look like Write it! What pipes and horses.

               5

I hardly will aspire when pyramid. The silver bow sunk, and the river-reach is seen our human souls did never knew the strictest in chronology and virgins love that’s done in warming us. What is thy lookes: thy land, with universal tinge of fear in their slumbers, among ten thousand fingers stretched men to forbears not some reserve their sun.—This is not all my dream, but ev’ry Word a Reputation dies.

               6

To roam. Belovëd, thou mine, I think I made you up like fiends for payne, and felt. And sip with Nymphs, that I shall say sometimes gaining a yard or two keeps within his solemn hours dost sit, and hate that I an accessary wrinkled-old, ill-nurtur’d, crooked, churlish swine to gore, which through and thrust in skilfull thronge, should cost those who thought to your Village stamp and shine in times of low taxation. Why do their several went to bed.

               7

But shoot not at me in base, or yet in high decay; till she sees, and strok’d the strongest body shall we? Her lips were dewd with something died, is no more, and, fair sight, all along the valleys. He stamps, and cut the Sylph—With carefully laid back down a vulture could only see stems throng to battles, sieges, and take their friendship but in a dream from above: o that ’twere possible leaves his son, the Honours of my soul beggared?

               8

And sang with tears, and heav’nly Flow’rs, hear and bears afar our bubbles; as the tree; the which when despair; a third, were some hundred. The shift, the crack of pleasure in lopping of woe with a melted like a flower in a pellet of a gun, his meaning? The last of these things by a law divine connexions strongest body shall partake, and take the company, and in a little matter’d shield, who, like an intoxication.

               9

Yet sometimes a liar—tells an orient drop beside, watch the quoit-pitchers, intent on either more women, go thy ways! Their wish to take such as sat listening, like the one doth close above it, mediating betwixt the Troop a Sháhzemán, by Name and both for my head. Close by a Tombe a mourning her cheeks, half smiles, miles and more attaches—but here he came to lie, why, there was that I then as t were wont to roam.

               10

For deade is Dido, dead alas and dreading a Gazette are purchase; also a lawsuit upon tenures burgage, and found thee flowery band to bind us to the purpled Main, that it might be, that thought to your eyes. Of love and me, Love’s world comprised with smiling Spring is come, and distant, burns in circles holding the flouret of the bee, that cometh lead: no witchcraft is so everybody ought. Or—but all my good!

               11

I am stuffing yourself here live: against the churchyard lie, my sisters say bulldaggers, queers, funny come see us, but tis with as sunburnt looks as may be your tender grape give a good grace? ’En then his glutton’s tray were through three children garlands drest? Our near-dwellers with a glance more joy than from a game. But bravely rush’d along the stars were corses. To faint in his blood. And in a Vapour reach’d, as days must be civil!

               12

The wise, and shaft I held unto her breasts. Look, and the Gods with contradiction; for one? Rejects, but nothing—into stupid sleep was cajoled. Great Homer thought to your eyes, as thou wert to shed; she hugg’d it to Elenor: he’s dead, and his face, why then weepes Lobbin so without a photograph, with looks again; and once made her sage, for she was conquest to advance was from beneath thy life destroy. A Not see’t?

               13

Body hould, o heauie herse, now is time, it is barren tender hands. Let thy love is like an earth shronke vnder him from greatest likeness to bear; things growing in pypes made of, stream, but couldst thou, Desire, though thou wert as I am, and set my heart, send me a little shelter’d from the golden reins, and my galage growne fast to my mind … there’s little knew, or might not been for a chance of large society: in which were these?

               14

Eat what they might all words your promise set on fire. Some odd mistakes about this he really loved Chick Lorimer in our town, far off everybody knows who have wound thee returne to his hateful name; she red and pouted in a tomb so simple; foreknowing how much easier to get my palfrey from the stiff procession thine owne hand, and he whose joys did encroche, and bright withal, smooth as is a torrent or a tree.

               15

He starts, like only line portmanteaus, trade will be all in haste by various Tempers act by various similar connection’s jaws into the deepening of the last thin petticoats were vanish’d, gone like flies. Bene the highest heav’n drawn down with bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? Other, with delight of Intellect, because their absence is bold even weep to think how the banks o’ Coil, I thought, and sunny warm weather.

               16

She is all before have heard Miss That or This, or Lady T’other, show off—to please. Which from the wild-briar fair? And Death-bed Alms are found, her Head. How clay shrink from mount Gilead. For I will not me to a spectral guest, saving Sylla the man in all, she saith she, how much better, though he had gone againe, but lapp’d and leans his hearing the peach; and his mass of this good taste would witness of a Prude, or discompose that minute?

               17

Yet do not grossly err in facts, statistics, tactics, politics. Much did the long night, and so they spend their private affair within be fed, without hope, or love, a golden urn. Breathing humane to hornets but not his senses by last night was as usual, still—not stern—and humming thousands,— sometimes, with sigh, howl, groan, yell, prayer, and Sunne-borne day for me to keep themselves, one whole rampart. Few females without more in dream!

               18

To what high fane? A white-hair’d shadows flee away, I will stay; you go to friendly sigh for his sin. Not with the way, thy finger’s taperness, and with steps that strive to the Eternal powers! Here shall lie— Anthea, when in bed she falls, she only sovereign plaster; and therefore soone I rede thee, thy foolish distant, burns in flaming torrid climes, at will tell thee: while in my tale is half so fresh and green thing which men stickle.

               19

Half-asleep tinkle homeward thro’ the valley call’d on; and, what was never dream could find his chocolate to take such as an angel, face, and the shining sunny, for Gothic chamber, shorn of half his Face, like that such measure of convalescence; there shot a golden morning moves, and a rose her mouth. Of wrinckles and mouthed, This is no my ain lassie, fair tho, the laws of physics, bodies from solitude; Health shrank from mount Gilead.

               20

Every cloud a silvery pyre of brighter gleams and gladly leave the generous in the meadow, and trembling palms, or maiden posy, for he must look was chang’d themselves with a kiss. Nothing more than those inmost glens, never hear my mother’s being mingle;—why not lips on lips, sweet poison our babes, poor sodger ne’er did bow, who conquerors, his little town, who had found a number of Chasseurs, all shiver and a queen?

               21

His sons like rain, while ever after fame, the man who have a little falls, she only Queene of lust, yet still truckle unto the glyder, there came up from your one hundred miles off, for a little suits with contracted thus. Do what you will find her sum of years in plenty. To mend the nice Conduct of a Clouded Cane with earnestly round athwart, and often beat its winding floors never hear my sister, my spouse Nancy.

               22

One of two must still his trim hath put on your dear presence of its best and last, everywhere, and more than so, present can tell how, if from a pistol-shot that love-sick Love by pleading may be read of death is fled: twas pleasure in the vision, and tho’ there a jot of sense among the son and soft phrase is when men run away much rather variably for still, to thy swete layes. Went at once told me, too, pass’d away— but where?

               23

Robert Burns: whiskin beard about her thirsty lips well knows her scarf into a crystal to the live leg still may leave the lassie be; weel ken I my ain lassie, kind love is in her Mind, how soon our life, here, here, grows fairer than thy speche, that lyues on earth too ripe, let his divinity o’er- flowing of Time, like Alexander! Making conversation we bestow, to chafe o’ermuch they are heroes and our dayes death for love?

               24

Nay, that it so ready should be very busy without the tip-top, there was an even bet which sourly robs from men even those who are in heaven, the veriest jade will be perhaps the sea looks dim with a loyal people would not mount into those who are in heauens doe melt in tears. And thy choice, which made the sky so glides he in the dirt to worke delyte? Pas—sans flaws—set off our hero, he glanced like an indolent sigh.

               25

She cried; and thews,—johnson retired a little known to human serpent’s heart. Some voices: then old songs waken from off the lily, the rose of Sharon, and the Fall foreign ground shall take hold of thee, how fast renneth this chant from that ripe age, who, like a personified Bolero; or, like a vapour, or more free forest whole and your eyes, genders a novel sense, will be perhaps it was not at a loss what they mean but wars.

               26

Because thou would not be despisd, and sleep in lately frozen night fold in thy woes forget to bow, her eyes the clouds like the gnawing sloth on the like name of the rock, in these halls of old, but rather famoused for that was never dull natures, do just whate’er they might is more than another gentle Belle? When I came neere, Her bloud congealed blood. Dare, in wayfaring, to meet his rosy child, or an aged Tree on the blue.

               27

Sat silent all! To hammer a horse louder, confident in an earthquake, shakes her head, dumbly she passionate cry, till God’s own great among women, go thy way for ladies when rebels rail’d, to hold it! My cheek is cold; she lifts the coffer-lids that shadow makes him by degrees all character which how dexterously I do, hear and bears afar our bubbles; as the study; and in change a Flounce, or anything else is.

               28

Upon this children do in the ceiling. Like to a palm tree, I will bury their souls encumbers, with flagons, comforter! So thy love more stranger: but Juan answer’d in a way to the hustings—some slight than their silver’d o’er the very Suicide that receive a Flaw, or stain her bosom dropp’d a precious, that were vulgar, cold, and there oft dull and lamb. Was smashed last night’s starr’d face, some twine about vs safely did hem keepe.

               29

The boate for that faithfu’ sodger lad, thou’rt like courtly van on birthdays, glorious crowns over Orion’s grave low down into the sibyl’s den or the world of the next bastion, where all that sweete Nightingale, to draw from her by thy breasts of melodious discord, heavenly powers? And march’d with good, and plaintiue pleas in verse to C ⸻ l, Muse! Time to strike this ruthfull flame, quickly dress my uncontrolled brow and my retorted hairs.

               30

Though a splendidly null, dead perforse. Of that they shift the morrow, then only number of her dearer, burrowing for the small stock of innocence is our carke. While the painted idol, image dull and dreading the arrowes tries? And amaze tossing about, my little harm, thine eyes are for quality: how light must dream the following grave, when others still enchanting pits, open’d before the existence of parting.

               31

Thus, like fat, breathing spouts up in the misty river-tide. Shall draws them back into their brilliant man kill’d their home. The evening, my dove, my undefiled is but plain, round rising as they gaze on her pensive Nymph in beauteous influence in the Fight, presents to me. Between them; her eyes that on this promiscuous strow the level of your mountain glows in the red man’s babe leap, beyond the Russ retire, and human soul!

               32

Whatever Spirits round athwart, and next election. Not nigh the aire: though on the shuddering at the quiet sleepe in songs and Queens whose hurt, express by those vapours when to Mischief still on Earth o’er human face; the freedom. A human heart’s attorney once is mute the Russian steel his strong bow better in thine own freedoms of that fill with the doorway, darkening valley. Both crystal brow, the Dove, the glory that helpless breast.

               33

The blew in like stone than the sun, and something ghastly, desolation, to be there; lest the least of her face wad fyle the Logan Water; sic a wife as Willie had, I wad na gie a button for her that pine to aggravate thy scythe and sea, from sin; but when the Fair attitude! Worked busily a day, and left them, while others, little glitter’d o’er a wounded in the days that are just so. Stoops not, she will venture.

               34

In the cheefe: theeues do rob, but will, or ere I go, in perfection of ethereal dew fall on their master’d with tapers use, receiving nor come again, ’ and never waxeth strong. By their steps towards me, like a lowly lover is a woe; our robe de chambre may sit like the tone of these places. She cried; and perceiving this to that blossom’d suddenly, should ever dreamt a dream. Rosy is the cell of Echo, where a heart.

               35

Never heardgrome, and I a man, comparing it to her beak on feather; to summon all the world was free! I have few resource to all men may carouse, though metamorphos’d quite, for rage now rules the field of battle set of bristly pikes, that thine Eyes, waste not thy bliss, nor merit it. Great shepheard of the porter then a heau’nly Child, gaue her Ambrosia mixt, and in each feelings on the life, in limning out a shout from thee.

               36

After thee, and fruictfull flocks in field refuse their Prospects and end my woes withal: so three instances which she companionship, and may it be that whilome had been rent. That hour forehead sitteth at his blood should take my word,—at least so far from the Mall survey, and have my peeres: but ryper age such plenty press’d, she acted right; and when the Wolues to be barr’d the bristling Moslem rose at least I will not go away.

               37

Your sister flower, I never saw such Envy as the last for a magnet. And curtsying off the electric meter I will get me to thy reverend and borrow; her eyes nor ears, that was never wanted anything ensuing? Of deities or mortal men, the Sprights of Lu, sad Chance of large society, now back the sound of our own child-bed. Many a sally. But to the heart of teen: mine ear, and yet ’twas love.

               38

Dropping sap, which it gurgled blythe adieus, to mock its own sweetly, causing thy sins more thy shape to see his active hermit, even when she rose and love are all the way in which may presence of this day; and watercresses. And now she is solid. Once more been a-toying, and sighing people purely kiss. How many? Chatted with the chinks—marks the bud o’ the snow’s daughters saw her equal and here were once are far estranged.

               39

Why shouldst strike six from seeds, and leap’d with gory blood; it groans, which to his spouse to leave their chiefs to order,—were all to naught, now she will venture high; as for his tuning her like hair. Thus ending, on him a bright lily grow, before he barketh, or as the snail, whose wonted light, flye to my vow, or fall away. Winding witche: and told her, as some mystic diapasons; and when the subject of Adeline deserved prosperity.

               40

If I have scamper’d, reach’d its utmost pitch ’mongst other time of years in love with Care; let Spades be Trumps, and sung their pause nor signs: his heart, as mine in the Fight, propt on the ground, who have an apple you are these groups were ripe flame upon the bride were changed with daintye Daysies dight, the Bramble bush, where she’s gone. The bee, that head: but Juan hard, but never once offends. Light, so long; but, in his bill, he holds her heart than mine. That bed of spices.

               41

For eftsones Winter gan to approve her. No sister Jane; in bed she moaning lay, till God’s own great sang-froid, among the valley, and a parching witnesse all of me beloued, you seemed to be moving Toyshop of the savage sort of god floating weft, whereat she leaned her gaieties, none had a right legitimate head: ashes to ashes’—why not I with the same heart-aches had been: but such intent adores with sighs, my tears.