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This is a link post yeah yeah i know its three in a row but news is just in
the charts are broken and no where near as good as they were in the days before 1995 when they had cool songs

this is actually a fact and when you see what I link to you'll be all like "yeah, you're right col, I must agree with you"
 (I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Well the fact that it broke Firefox without even opening might just prove you right babymetalnapper.

(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Who's Ed Sheeran?

(I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Your gay fantasy
as if everyone didn't know already.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:38, Reply)
This is a normal post You mispelled "my" as "your"
I asked someone and they said he's a red headed dwarf like Gimli, but without the beard. Ridiculous.
 (I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:40, Reply)
This is a normal post I dunno.
Probably some popular beat combo thing that the youth are fixated on at present.
 (I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:24, Reply)
This is a normal post You know that ginger bloke (not made of Lego) on the front page?
Him. This is basically the sum total of my knowledge of Ed Sheeran. I assume he's one of those crooning singer-songwriters of the Jamie Cullum ilk.
 (I helped save b3ta! jonbob loves you, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:34, Reply)
This is a normal post b3ta has a front page?

(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Fri 10 Mar 2017, 22:24, Reply)
This is a normal post It`s not just the links?

(I helped save b3ta! My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 11 Mar 2017, 0:55, Reply)
This is a normal post There's also /talk
but it is full of bell-ends.
 (I helped save b3ta! sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Sat 11 Mar 2017, 21:55, Reply)
This is a normal post I don`t know people I regard as twats seem to go on about him a lot though

(I helped save b3ta! My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 11 Mar 2017, 1:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Yup. It is the end times.
Human sacrifices, dogs & cats living together. Mass hysteria. Ed Sheeren. Coldplay on every street.
Do Coldplay's fans even know what it means? What does it tell us about Gwyneth's former husband?
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:36, Reply)
This is a normal post 'How can this be?' I hear you all ask.
It's because 150 streams from any official streaming service such as Spotify or VEVO on YouTube is counted as a sale along with actual purchases.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:37, Reply)
This is a normal post you are the equivalent of a tin of grey paint

(I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Not regarded as having any use except for the military?

(I helped save b3ta! My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 11 Mar 2017, 1:08, Reply)
This is a normal post You've been watching television
/ac
 (I helped save b3ta! TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:52, Reply)
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Doesn't Ed Shearer hold the record for most goals scored as well? Selfish toerag.
 (LeRvolt Last partook of gross negligence on, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 18:49, Reply)
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The charts are literally nothing more than 'charts' now, if that doesn't seem too reductive. Whereas the era you refer to, the 90's and possibly a bit in the 00's, the charts were widely held to be a barometer of culture and national sentiment, this is clearly no longer the case.

Where before you could point to outliers storming the charts (like 'Common People' by Pulp as representing some popular sentiment, or even Chumbafuckingwamba) radio and television then were much more crystallized in the culture than they are now. That goes along with the zeitgeist of the time, Christ, even 'Paranoid Android' got to number 3 in '97. (That double-edged sword though does give us Cast, Space and Catatonia having national headspace at that time too. [Everyone seems to go to Menswear in this example, I thought they were alright, like a poppier Ride. Fuck Gay Dad though, they were shit.])

Now it's just whatever you want to listen to, go right ahead, given the granular nature of entertainment now. If these charts represent anything, they represent how many people like their music beige and unchallenging. Your average purchaser* of music these days doesn't WANT to listen to 'music'. They don't want their attention engaged in any meaningful way. They want one of two things: to dance (in which case there's plenty of algorhithmically-generated 4/4 'doomf' shit out there) or to serve as wallpaper. Enter: Ed of the Sheared-Balls. Enter: the stage school brats whom the mercantile record (for-want-of-a-better-term) 'labels' spit out as a loss-leader hoping that one or two of those bland schmucks will earn enough of that dreary coin to justify their tawdry and pathetic existence.

Enter: fucking ADELE, the musical equivalent of ceramic flying ducks on a Brexiter's wallpaper, and she's hailed as some sort of saviour of music as we know it! Our decade's answer to Alison fucking Moyet. With this sort of attitude, it's no wonder the music business is in decline, especially the British music business. And it's going, if not already effectively gone, not with a bang but with the most pathetic of whimpers.

* active term. Those who are unlikely or unable to use streaming sites or obtain music free from warez or torrentz or whatever bullshit, ie: old or inexperienced, ie: not exactly finger-on-the-bleeding-edge trend-setters.
 (Enron Hubbard had a big meaty piss on, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:20, Reply)
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(I helped save b3ta! BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:36, Reply)
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Yeah yeah, TL;DR: music is wallpaper now, no surprises about Ed Shearedsheep up there.
 (Enron Hubbard had a big meaty piss on, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Music was always wallpaper to some
There still plenty of good stuff about if one cares to look, and therein lies the rub.
 (CADmonkey rollllllllled another one, just like the other one, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 22:07, Reply)
This is a normal post I seem to remember that in the 90s singles
were released on about 10 formats in order to game the system.

They've always been a pretty dodgy reflection of taste.

The Ed Sheeran thing just looks the equivalent of a Yellow Pages where all the companies are called things like Aaaaaaaaaa Plumbers.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Was Cast the band
with the comedy accents that sang about 'put your hands on my hole'?
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 20:38, Reply)
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I believe that was Reef.
 (Enron Hubbard had a big meaty piss on, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 21:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Dimstar was a great song
So was Black Ghost.
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 22:47, Reply)
This is a normal post ENRON HUBBARD FOR PREZ

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Sat 11 Mar 2017, 10:11, Reply)
This is a normal post The vinyl chart is ace, though.
(if you are over 35)

www.officialcharts.com/charts/vinyl-singles-chart/
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 19:38, Reply)
This is a normal post You really would have to be a dick to buy 7" singles
I didn't buy em when they were actually a thing as we had the Ezy Rider record n tape exchange where for a week's paperround money you could get two albums. Which you would tape. And then exchange for another LP. There was an awkward conversation with my mother about what happened to her rR3 recordings of the ring cycle.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 20:54, Reply)
This is a normal post I see
WHERE ARE U NOW
SKRILLEX & DIPLO/JUSTIN BIEBER
 (I helped save b3ta! omnitruncatedkraken from Empire Algol, Sat 11 Mar 2017, 13:39, Reply)
This is a normal post He was cut by princess eugenie when she pretended to knight James blunt
I think that might be the least rocknroll thing that has ever happened to anyone ever
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Fri 10 Mar 2017, 23:27, Reply)
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Ed Sheeran
 (I helped save b3ta! Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Sun 12 Mar 2017, 11:38, Reply)