Did you ever email Phil Swern with your comments about the show?

Never get a reply. Must email him about his ilike website being rubbish. Mono sounding songs playing in the wrong order is no substitute either.

No i won't.

Great they are doing 1990 soon but the 1990/1991 were not as strong as 1992/1993 in my opinion. Let's pick 2 random charts from 1993 onwards that they could use from this week:

1998: (Play those in bold)

1 - NEW - 01 - Usher - YOU MAKE ME WANNA
11 - 02 - 02 - All Saints - NEVER EVER
1 - NEW - 03 - Catatonia - MULDER AND SCULLY
04 - 07 - 04 - Lighthouse Family - HIGH
02 - 01 - 05 - Oasis - ALL AROUND THE WORLD
03 - 03 - 06 - Bamboo - BAMBOOGIE
08 - 09 - 07 - Robbie Williams - ANGELS
08 - 08 - 08 - Janet Jackson - TOGETHER AGAIN
03 - 06 - 09 - Wildchild - RENEGADE MASTER '98
1 - NEW - 10 - Chumbawamba - AMNESIA
1 - NEW - 11 - Green Day - TIME OF YOUR LIFE (GOOD RIDDANCE)
1 - NEW - 12 - Pearl Jam - GIVEN TO FLY
1 - NEW - 13 - Byron Stingily - YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL)
10 - 10 - 14 - Various Artists - PERFECT DAY
1 - NEW - 15 - Juliet Roberts - SO GOOD / FREE LOVE 98
02 - 05 - 16 - Ian Brown - MY STAR
11 - 15 - 17 - Steps - 5, 6, 7, 8
1 - NEW - 18 - Solid Harmonie - I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU
13 - 12 - 19 - Natalie Imbruglia - TORN
02 - 11 - 20 - OTT - THE STORY OF LOVE

2006

1 ( NE) When The Sun Goes Down (By Arctic Monkeys) 1 Wk
2 ( NE) Nasty Girl (By Notorious BIG Featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge And Avery Storm) 1 Wk
3 ( NE) All Time Love (By Will Young) 1 Wk
4 ( NE) Check On It (By Beyonce Featuring Slim Thug) 1 Wk
5 ( 1 ) That's My Goal (By Shayne Ward) 5 Wks
6 ( 2 ) JCB Song (By Nizlopi) 6 Wks
7 ( 4 ) I'll Be Ready (By Sunblock) 2 Wks
8 ( NE) Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U) (By Hi-Tack) 1 Wk
9 ( 3 ) Break The Night With Colour (By Richard Ashcroft) 2 Wks
10 ( NE) Eddie's Song (By Son Of Dork) 1 Wk
11 ( 5 ) George Best - A Tribute (By Brian Kennedy / Peter Cory) 5 Wks
12 ( 8 ) My Humps (By Black Eyed Peas) 10 Wks
13 ( NE) Funny Little Frog (By Belle And Sebastian) 1 Wk
14 ( 7 ) Hung Up (By Madonna) 11 Wks
15 ( 6 ) Sleep (By Texas) 2 Wks
16 ( 9 ) Heartbeats (By Jose Gonzalez) 2 Wks
17 ( 14) Stickwitu (By Pussycat Dolls) 8 Wks
18 ( 13) Goodbye My Lover (By James Blunt) 5 Wks
19 ( 10) When I'm Gone (By Eminem) 5 Wks
20 ( 11) Ugly (By Sugababes) 7 Wks

Like the look of those.

Apart from a couple of songs, those are awful charts. Sorry.

1998 looks like a Heart Time Tunnel, but that 2006 chart is just awful. Song after song that has already been forgotten. Apart from the Madonna song, I couldn't name any of them.

The JCB Song? Just no. Sorry.

I am sure that wasn't the reason. Phil Swern runs a business that supplies radio stations with digital downloads of every UK and USA hit. This is only available to radio stations who pay a subscription. Tony or Phil could have downloaded it and played it in seconds.

Well I have yet to hear Heart play Green Day and Ian Brown. The JCB Song was actually playlisted by Radio 2.

There are some great songs it that 2006 chart, one of my favourite years to be fair. Loads of artists there that Radio 2 could play, some songs may have been 'forgotten', for me that's even more reason to play them as you don't hear them often and that's what Tony always says POTP is about?

Some posters simply don't like any 00s music whatsoever. Just baffles me as I like music from all decades.

I would sooner hear a 1946 chart than anything from the 00s. 1946 was TEN years before I was born.

Here's another good one from 2002:

Week Ending 26 January 2002

1 - NEW - 01 - George Harrison - MY SWEET LORD
1 - NEW - 02 - Pink - GET THE PARTY STARTED
1 - NEW - 03 - Christina Milian - AM TO PM
03 - 02 - 04 - Puretone - ADDICTED TO BASS
02 - 01 - 05 - Aaliyah - MORE THAN A WOMAN
08 - 03 - 06 - Daniel Bedingfield - GOTTA GET THRU THIS
02 - 05 - 07 - DJ Aligator Project - THE WHISTLE SONG (BLOW MY WHISTLE BITCH)
1 - NEW - 08 - Chemical Brothers - STAR GUITAR
1 - NEW - 09 - Allstars - THE LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE
02 - 04 - 10 - Dr. Dre featuring Knoc-Turn'al - BAD INTENTIONS
07 - 07 - 11 - Sophie Ellis Bextor - MURDER ON THE DANCEFLOOR
02 - 06 - 12 - Goldtrix presents Andrea Brown - IT'S LOVE (TRIPPIN')
07 - 10 - 13 - Stereophonics - HANDBAGS AND GLADRAGS
02 - 09 - 14 - Lange featuring Skye - DRIFTING AWAY
02 - 08 - 15 - So Solid Crew Pts Mr. Shabz - HATERS
1 - NEW - 16 - Mercury Rev - THE DARK IS RISING
08 - 16 - 17 - Kate Winslet - WHAT IF
06 - 15 - 18 - Samantha Mumba - LATELY
1 - NEW - 19 - P Diddy featuring the Neptunes - DIDDY
06 - 14 - 20 - Ian Van Dahl - WILL I?

I suppose it's a question of taste but good, it ain't

Wow! Awful! So was 26 January 2002 particularly bad, or was music in the early noughties generally dire?

If anybody wanted a good argument against having the noughties on POTP, there it is.

There's only about five decent records there. Are you trying to cut Tony's show down to 20 minutes?

There are some decent songs on there, I think age comes into it more than anything else. The low end of Radio 2s audience would enjoy the 00s charts and it will happen one day guys.

The people who have dismissed the 00's more like haven't heard of half the songs so just dismiss them as awful. I don't think age is all relevant. I'm in my early 40's and would probably say that the 60's charts were probably the strongest despite being before I was born but I don't want to hear the same narrow years week after week. The 2002 chart does feature some reasonably decent tracks with The Mercury Rev track being outstanding.

Sorry for the delay - landline down, had to finally ride my mobile tethering...

Hour 2 - http://www.officialcharts.com/archiv.../1/1979-01-27/
TOTP -
25-1-79: Presenter: Dave Lee Travis

(6) BLONDIE – Heart Of Glass (and charts)
(27) DR. FEELGOOD – Milk And Alcohol
(26) BARRY MANILOW – Could It Be Magic (video)
(21) THIRD WORLD – Cool Meditation (danced to by Legs & Co)
(12) BARRY WHITE – Just The Way You Are (video)
(28) THE DOLL – Desire Me
(25) LEIF GARRETT – I Was Made For Dancin’ (video)
(44) JUDAS PRIEST – Take On The World
(37) PHOEBE SNOW – Every Night
(9) THE SHADOWS – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina ®
(NEW) DONNY & MARIE OSMOND – On The Shelf
(1) IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ®
(3) EARTH, WIND & FIRE – September (and credits)

Great chart from 1979 this week, enjoying The Shadows version of 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina'.

Not so keen on this Paul Evans track.

If this was from a 00s chart you'd all be complaining about it no doubt lol.

Blondie and The Three Degrees I'm liking.

I will continue POTP this afternoon on my laptop playing 1989. 1999 and 2009 !

I really like that song! It's actually quite creepy when you think what he's actually doing

I loved the Olivia Newton John song as well that seems quite forgotten. I just wish Racey and that Funkadellic's One Nation Under A Groove had been played too.

The number one was good though.

1967 was wonderful. It really does not get better than this.

The thing is all though 1989 was generally a poor year this weeks chart was actually quite good.