The fourth part of the platters that shatter started off with a definite low, All Saints and "Never Ever". That song would definitely be in my top 5 hated records as it's just overall dirge and I don't want to hear four girls singing about being depressed.
Having said that however, there's a stunning remix of the song by Booker T (not the Staxx artist) who turns it into a deep house anthem in a different key and a completely different melody which helps me appreciate the lyrics a lot more.
Also featured was Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U" as written by Prince which I almost end up singing if I see it appear on television. I never liked the image of Sinead's face in the video as I found it off-putting even from an early age when the song came out and barely noticed the tear trickling down.
One of the novelty records included was Whigfield's "Saturday Night" which will always remind me of fellow radio student and Eastbournian Sarah Smith giving a drunken rendition of the song on the nightbus last year.
There was also Katie Melua's ever nonsensical "9 Million Bicycles" which like many of her songs was co-written by Mike Batt who is probably the only other person apart from James Blunt who is his own rhyming slang judging by the rubbish he's written over the years.
James was also featured in the rundown as well which reminds me of Mitch Benn's song on last weeks "The Now Show" which included a line saying that he was hoping he would "split up".
The talking heads in this episode included Australian comedian Jim Jeffries, and XFM Scotland's Heather Suttie who co-presented the latter half of the final series of Live And Kicking in 2001 after they moved to Scotland for the summer and Katy Hill was sacked. Heather was also another crush although it looks like she's put on a bit of weight in the last 7 years after the show finished.
Another interesting appearance came from Reading favourites Daphne and Celeste who were bottled during a performance at the festival in 2000 whilst performing their ever dreadful hits "Ooh Stick You" and "Ugly". The duo talked about how they had to listen to Billy Joel's 1989 top 10 hit "We Didn't Start The Fire" in a history lesson and had to write down all the lyrics.
There was also the usual appearances from Ed Byrne who used "Ironic" by Alanis Morrisette as one of the sources of his stand up act, and Stephen K Amos who showed his appreciation for MC Hammer.
Well we now approach the top 20 and I dread to think who will make it to the top spot.
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