Hello! Got this ready ages ago and then kind of forgot until now so now it is!
Vote for two to go through from each group to the knockout stages when it’s head to head all the way to the winner.
I know I’ve left out loads and missed some good ones but the important thing to remember is that I don’t care.
GROUP A
Turning Japanese - The Vapours
Yes - McAlmont & Butler
How Bizarre - OMC
Fuck It (I Don’t Want You Back) - Eamon
GROUP B
Your Woman - White Town
My Sharona - The Knack
Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
I Try - Macy Gray
GROUP C
Mambo No. 5 - Lou Bega
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins
Monster Mash - Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett & The Crypt Kickers
GROUP D
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Wipe Out - The Surfaris
Steal My Sunshine - Len
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
GROUP E
Drinking In LA - Bran Van 3000
Breakfast At Tiffany’s - Deep Blue Something
Everywhere - Michelle Branch
Bad Day - Daniel Powter
GROUP F
It’s Raining Men - The Weather Girls
F.U.R.B. (Fuck You Right Back) - Frankee
You Are The Generation That Bought More Shoes And You Get What You Deserve - Johnny Boy
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
GROUP G
A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Down Under - Men At Work
Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
Rapper’s Delight - Sugarhill Gang
GROUP H
What’s Up? - 4 Non Blondes
What Is Love? - Haddaway
Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
You Get What You Give - The New Radicals
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As always, chats ‘n’ beeves (light-hearted) are actively encouraged.
Incredible that the eventual winners and runners-up started in the same group.
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Yeah I didn’t enjoy not voting for Monster Mash but sacrifices have to be made.
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FUN FACT ALERT: It’s Raining Men was originally written for Donna Summer but she thought the word ‘Hallelujah’ was blasphemous so turned it down.
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Dunno, put it in cause it’s really good and it’ll keep the chin stroking grandads happy.
Jamos
20 January 2022 14:08
#9
assume spaceman has been given a bye to the final
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I forgot Spaceman and Inside and it’s already haunting me.
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I remember loving that Deep Blue Something album back in the day and I was sure they were going to be huge. Not listened in about 20 years so going to give it a revisit.
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richie
20 January 2022 14:13
#12
Group E must be the group of life then, didn’t want to vote for any of them
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richie
20 January 2022 14:14
#13
Surprised this all-time classic one hit wonder was overlooked
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Sorry Eagle Eye Cherry, but you were in the same group as Haddaway and New Radicals.
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Steved
20 January 2022 14:14
#15
Reckon there’ll be a lot of soul-searching in the Gotye camp after not even making the group stage.
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Spen78
20 January 2022 14:15
#16
G & H both Groups of Death
Was on the longlist but rejected on the grounds that even the thought of it makes me feel sick.
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I’m here for the frankee v Eamon final
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Group G is wild, would have voted for all of them
Yeah, that’s fair - I voted for the one I either don’t know or can’t recall (Michelle Branch) because the it was a vote against the other three.
