[Stu]

THE 5/0 EXPERIENCE

Disclaimer : THE 5/0 EXPERIENCE is for entertainment purposes only. And to provoke discussion of course. Which I hope I will get but whatever. I'll follow it through regardless. I never normally do things like this. Also I will try and not have too many bands/artists getting repeat entries but it will inevitably occur okay so deal with it. Expect a lot of misery towards the top end.

fifty. OASIS//Champagne Supernova
forty nine. DIE ANTWOORD//I Fink U Freeky
forty eight. THE COMMUNARDS//Don't Leave Me This Way
forty seven. BLINK 182//I Miss You
forty six. MANIC STREET PREACHERS//A Design For Life
forty five. EEK-A-MOUSE//Ganja Smuggling
forty four. GIRLS ALOUD//Untouchable
forty three. INFECTED MUSHROOM//Becoming Insane
forty two. PET SHOP BOYS//Suburbia
forty one. CSS//City Grrrl
forty. SANTANA//Soul Sacrifice

NORTHERN LINE//Run For Your Life

thirty nine. FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON//We Have Explosive
thirty eight. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN//The Killing Moon
thirty seven. AZTEC CAMERA//Somewhere In My Heart
thirty six. NICKI MINAJ//Pound The Alarm
thirty five. THE JAM//Going Underground
thirty four. AGNELLI & NELSON//Holding On To Nothing
thirty three. RADIOHEAD//Nice Dream
thirty two. TOOL//Sober
thirty one. GRIMES//Oblivion
thirty. EMINEM//Stan

THE RASUMUS//Guilty

[Ramsay]

i'm hoping for an aqua appearance

[LemonJam]

[Stu]

fifty.
OASIS//champagne supernova

Youtube video

sounds like.
The twelfth can of Tenants.

it's here because.
One of TiBB's favorite bands narrowly sneaks in the backdoor of the chart like some unfamous Liam at a soup tent. Here give us a lash of that, mate, yeah. I used to be in Beady Eye what were it. God I hate Oasis. And I like Oasis. They're Oasis like aren't they. You gotta roll with it.

Champagne Supernova is their finest hour. A genuinely sprawling piece of work that seems to conjure nostalgia for times that you never quite got to live through because you were a little nipper I guess. I like it. There. I like Oasis a bit.

Liam's still a prat though. He's not a legend he's a coked up goofball who makes his brother appear like some mild mannered historian.

[Lee.]

Agree.. Definitely one of their best. Takes me back to many many house parties, everybody singing it

[Stu]

forty nine.
DIE ANTWOORD//I Fink U Freeky

Youtube video

sounds like.
The apocalypse.

it's here because.
Shuffling in like Clubland for psych wards comes South African act Die Antwoord with the surreal, stomping, absolutely delightful 'I Fink U Freeky'. The expertly cut video provides great fodder to a tune that delivers with hooks, snarls and Yo-Landi Vi$$er's often quite ... cute ... vocal delivery.

Oblivious is the best word I can use to describe it really. It's oblivious to everything, including itself. It'd be absolute nonsense if it wasn't for the fact that it kicks all manner of multicultural arses. Go on give it a whirl right now. I can PM you half a tab and we'll all surge on through the evening.

[Drew.]

Josy and Nathan will be happy about this one

[Stu]

forty eight.
The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

Youtube video

sounds like.
A tin of celebrations. Haha fuck you there are no sweets in that, just lots of Amyl Nitrate!

it's here because.
Scotland's favorite daughter Jimmy Somerville takes his gay socialist brigade to an abandoned warehouse next to have a good ol' time in the name of freedom and having a good time. The vocal harmonies at the start may be the best bit of the entire thing but it's just full of lovelyness, really.

There's going to be a lot of this. I'll post a video, try and be funny, and justify my reasoning by saying how nice the song is.

[Stu]

forty seven.
BLINK 182//I Miss You

Youtube video

sounds like.
Your emo soul is going straight to hell.

it's here because.
Because it's a poignant, melancholy masterstroke from a band I don't usually listen to that often but I imagine sing a lot about poo and what happens when your skateboard hits a stone and you fall off it.

I'm being facetious of course. Blink are a perfectly fine, altogether fun band but J-E-S-U-S does this stand away from anything else they've ever done. It's beautiful. The video is beautiful. If you believe in love and being a bit mushy sometimes then take your hand off your dick and hand me a tissue .

[Ramsay]

I Miss You

[Me. I Am Salman]

never heard of it

[Stu]

forty six.
MANIC STREET PREACHERS//Design For Life

Youtube video

sounds like.
A call to arms. Or Welsh people with big ideas.

it's here because.
It's not very cool to like the Manics, is it? Ever since Richie The Missing Guy fucked off they've been a mixed bag of ambitious ideas having to find their home in decidedly average albums. And nobody likes Nicky Wire. Maybe because he tries too hard to be contentious. Or maybe because he's shit at putting on his make up.

As a singles band they're just fine though. This, their anthem, is a chiming cornerstone of nineties alternative - at least on this side of the Atlantic. Your mano whatshisface has a nice voice and the drums THUMP like a sheep thrown down a coal mine that Thatcher ruined.

Pot Noodle.

[Stu]

forty five.
EEK A MOUSE//Ganja Smuggling

Youtube video

sounds like.
Waking and baking. The finest way to live.

it's here because.
Because it's a nice, bouncy fun reggae track about everyone's favorite plant. I was going to put Peter Tosh here because I love his Bush Doctor album but then I gots conflicted because I don't know how much space I'll have in this mother for reggae and in all honesty Peter Tosh is a bit scary [he's the military rasta that offset Marley's softer approach in the Wailers. I think he thought everyone including LSD and wooly jumpers were the devil].

Plus it's in Saints Row 2. I loved blaring Four Twenty Radio whilst running over people without personalities. Yeaaaaaah mon.

[Shaun]

communards design for life (hate them past 1997)

[Black Dagger]

COMMUNARDS

[Stu]

We have Communard fans on here? Why didn't you write to me?

Moving on ...

[Shaun]

well they did go on to produce the world's coolest reverend, richard coles...

[Stu]

forty four.
GIRLS ALOUD//Untouchable

Youtube video

sounds like.
Five girls crashing to earth in bubbles. One of them can sing.

it's here because.
Look I'm going to throw you worms some scraps that you'll recognise every now and then, okay? But alas that's the beauty of Girls Aloud. It's one of the few bands that the two thirds of you I despise will have heard of thus far and the other third of you will totally get it too because despite they're American Pop Factor thingy origins they're still an excellent pop act who dominated the noughties.

This ones got the Ibiza synths going on, Sarah's voice being fed through a Commodore 64's soundchip as usual and Nadine providing a terrific crescendo with one of the most absurd pop lyrics ever let out into the open air.

Beautiful robots dancing alone. Right.

[Black Dagger]

But it isn't their best song at all.

[Stu]

No ... it's not .

[Shaun]

[Shaun]

it's a song that makes me want to become a hooker

[Stu]

forty three.
INFECTED MUSHROOM//Becoming Insane

Youtube video

sounds like.
The score to TiBB : The Scott Story

it's here because.
The type of electronic stuff I'll pepper in sparingly because I don't want to risk any sort of alienation. Well ... extreme alienation.

I don't listen to as much psytrance as I used to. Mostly because the comedowns were a bit of a fuck off. But this is about as mainstream as the genre is likely to get with a THIS IS A ROCK GUITAR guy and some simply, catchy vocals that cause all these Israeli people to run into a wall in the video.

ohwegoinginsaneinsaneinsane

[Stu]

forty two.
PET SHOP BOYS//Suburbia

Youtube video

sounds like.
Dah do do doo, danna do do do, in sub urb ee ah.

it's here because.
You might be surprised to learn that I don't love the Boys as much as you'd think I would. Maybe it's because they got the massive British press acceptance Depeche Mode deserved instead. But where Depeche innovated and done the whole Einstruzende Neubauten thing in between churning out pop stalwarts, Pet Shop Boys just do the pop stalwarts really. And that's fine but they're basically good at that one thing.

Wait why are my complaining? Okay so we've parked our S.U.V's in Suburbia for this entry. It's probably the only time you'll see Pet Shop Boys on this countdown. No way are they getting in twice. This is what they are most reliable at - belting out a super cheery, ultra catchy, fat sounding pop monster.

It's just that that's all they do really. And that's alright as well. It's not like I'm a bitter person or anything.

[Roy Mars III]