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There's always been dreadful, utterly turgid music flying high in the pop charts at the expense of some utterly fantastic music. In defence of Ms Lloyd at least she's got to number one doing something a bit different - albiet different in a truly hideous "oh my darling clementine on LSD" sort of way. I've got more time for something like that being number one than the cliched X-Factor ballad/cover. It's kind of cool it's the worst song ever made.

At least the Music had a moment in the sun and had some big hits about a decade or so ago. Look back on the careers of mind-blowingly great bands like The Chameleons, The Sound and The Comsat Angels. They were all knocking around in the 80s, a decade where alternative music often did incredibly well in the charts (not like today) but none of them got so much as a sniff of real success yet they're far better bands than many of the acclaimed acts of the time.

This is my exact Facebook status from last night:

"Knowing this is number 1 is grim."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v?=sdbyG2MrBHk&ob=av3e

It pisses me off so much as well, I mean honestly, 1.What music producer in the right mind would create something as bad as that, and 2.If this is what people (mainly younger teenagers) want then there are some very dark times ahead.

:(

I dont want to be a party pooper, but i remember comments like these when the Beatles got to No1 with Please Please me.

Yer right Terry. I havent got a clue about the singles chart. I didnt know any of the top 10 artists. The only name that was familiar to me in the album chart was Foo Fighters. If you are going to be clueless I suppose knowing the Foos isnt that bad.

I dont listen to any of the so called chart dross and as for the X factor there is an off switch situated on my remote.

I'm beginning to sound like me Grandad when he first saw the Stones. I was mesmerised by Jagger and Co but he shouted at the TV "Bloody row, they look a right scruffy bunch of yobs. Can't play, and theyr'e miming. Glenn Miller now there's a band for yer"

I think it's called progress, but it's very demoralising and inevitable......CJ

Ha ha ha ha! I think we've hit the nail on the head here. The further we deviate from our teenage years, the less it makes sense and the worse music of the day seems. Go to a rock club or an indie club and you'll have a similar feeling too. Last time I went to a club playing contemporary "proper" music I spent most of the night cursing the DJ and saying "what's this s**t?!" to my mate. Everyone else was having a whale of a time (and was considerably younger than me). Boo hoo hoo!

yes i think the point is we're not supposed to like it [i havent even heard it to be honest]

its a bit like wearing trousers that don't cover your a*se, the younger generation have an identity of their own that adults won't like

and they're very welcome to it :-)

When listening to all forms of music I wonder how old you get before the tilt switch in yer head defaults to "Bloody row! What is this s**te"?

I like to give everything a fair crack and I am open minded but some stuff now airing as music is execrable mush.

Yeh. I'm definitly me Grandad now!

I can count the exact moment for me. It occured in January 2009. I was in an indie club in London and they were playing loads of top tunes like New Order, The Buzzcocks, Pulp, Blur, The Killers and Mansun, etc. Me and my mates were the only ones having it large in the place - we just assumed it was because Northerners are more fun. Then the DJ started playing a load of "new stuff" and suddenly the rest of the punters (including a young girl who was the spit of Olive from On The Buses) liven up and really have it large whereas me and my mates were left bemoaning "why's the music gone so s**t?!!! This is rubbish!"

Lets be honest.When have the charts ever been any different?.They've always been full of redundant turgid shite with the odd glimmer of hope in there every now and then.You would think that there'd be a generation out there to counter-act the appalling X-Factor/reality TV bullshit that's smothering our music and culture at the moment but they've got no soul....lost their voice.Still with bands like The Sugar Bullets,Strangeways,Out of Town,Complete Control etc out there,doing what they do there's a glimmer of hope.

deano...on the station i was unfortunate to have to listen to last night(capital FM...got a 17yr old niece lol)...it was STILL JLS!! cher was number 4 WTF??!!

The song I've heard her sing isn't my cup of tea at all. In fact IMHO I think it's very poor but fair play to her and good luck to her. She isn't a brilliant singer but she does have a little something.

Some of you think it's because we're all getting older and the music of today isn't to our liking. whilst i respect your opinions on this matter, I don't exactly concur with this; there are some great young bands and artistes flying the flag. It's all about the songs for me, not the genre

I wouldn’t know who's number one, I stopped listening to the charts in the eighties when pop music disappeared up it's own arse.
The recent re-runs of TOTP 1976 prove what I've always said about the charts, at any one time there might be two or three merit worthy records in the top forty along with one or two novelty records and the rest is wadding.

@ Extras
When listening to all forms of music I wonder how old you get before the tilt switch in yer head defaults to "Bloody row! What is this s**te"?

True, I find myself saying the same thing about N-Dubz (for example) as my folks used to say about Jimmi Hendrix (for example) but I won't dismiss someone's work as shit because it's not my cup of tea, I'll dismiss it as shit because I think it's shit.
MN

Radio has a lot to answer for with regards to the state of the charts.Back in the day the radio station played everything...Nolans,then a Motorhead record,then an Altered Images track then Jona Lewie then a Michael Jackson song.That way was fairer and the kids could make their own minds up.Now the radio stations are controlled by the all powerful record companies so the same old garbage gets played over and over,hence the god awful state of the charts.

Dont care who the current number one is and to be honest never have.... Popularity contests were never quite my style

Is "Groovy Kind Of Love" Phil Collins best song?

Is it Fugg....(actually to be fair he hates it as well)

Best wishes

John

@Sid, it's unfair to compare radio now to the era of the Nolans. With commercial radio branching out more you have stations that cater for specific genres now which you didn't have 30 years ago, e.g. Galaxy for dance/R&B, Rock Radio and XFM for indie and a whole host of stations for older music. If anything it's better now that it was before. There radio is far less important to younger people than it was when we grew up as there's a multitude of music TV stations, which on Sky cater for the smallest of small niches. Then there's the Internet too which has totally changed things once and for all with Youtube, itunes, Spotify - never mind file sharing.

Back onto radio. I'd say Radio 1 meets it's remit just as well/as badly as it used to do back in the day with it's "playlist". You could hear an Arctic Monkeys song, an ndubz song followed by a Coldplay tune and a MCR tune. The genres have changed but it'll still play the same stuff over and over and over again throughout the day until the evening shows take over and cater for new/niche music. What has changed is obviously Peel is no longer with us but nobody could replace him.

@Dean, Adele does piss all over Cher! Remind me how many weeks "Someone Like You", "19" and "21" topped the charts for? Cher won't have a huge career but at least, like you say she's not trodden the paths of all the other X-Factor acts. To release a song that is so frankly dreadful is fairly brave - she could've just covered a Carpenters tune and stuck a rap in the middle 8, or something equally grim!

Groovy kind of love = great tune !

It could be just us lot getting older....!

But then again, I never liked any of the chart music when I was a kid either.