THIS WEEKEND'S SONGS

Matt, Welcome To The Jungle (Guns N Roses) and With Or Without You (U2)

OD, You Found Me (The Fray) and Somebody Told Me (The Killers)

HTH

Hope all is well aj.  Don't get overexcited!

lol resting as we speak SQ and all's well ta
I'll bet that a certain poster's dad wishes he had a hamshank though

Lou, I don't know why you addressed that reply to me, it has no relation to the point I made in my previous post.  Time to bow out before my exasperation turns into rudeness too.

New track for Wagner down as confirmed on XF Updates

= Addicted to Love

wonder if they'll recreate the vid

that's Robert Palmer for Dizzy

XF Updates have these as confirmed??

Katie - Sex On Fire, KoL
Mary - All I Want Is You, U2 and Brass in Pocket, Pretenders
Wagner - Creep, Radiohead and Addicted to Love, Robert Palmer
Cher - Walk This Way, Aerosmith
Matt - Welcome To The Jungle, GnR

apparently Louis confirmed his acts' songs on the radio (so assume those above are correct), and said OD have a song from Bryan Adams' album "Reckless"

assume most likely to be Run To You or Heaven
(other possibles Summer of 69, Somebody, It's Only Love)

OD - Summer of 69, Bryan Adams

if they had done heaven it would have been more interesting

does anyone think the guns n roses track is a really really odd choice for matt?

It's certainly dreadful

He's about as rock as Nana Mouskouri

I think it's an odd choice for the show.

How was it at Chorley FM GB?

live at wembley stadium,early ninetys was better

Fab and nice

Good bunch

anywhere we can listen?

it strikes me as a terrible choice, cant see much upside. perhaps the idea is he really struggles on this, his first, but comes through with the u2 song second...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio/bbc_radio_york

Russell Walker - but not up there yet.

It wasn't really about XF like [;)]  I hoped to crowbar it in somehow but we were done and dusted in 20 minutes

'Celebrity guests'

Apparently he had the Chuckle Bros last week, and they left lots of crumbs from pork pies and sausage rolls on the desk...

Oooo, the celeb stories I can relate

I didn't know this Thank You song I have looked it up and still can't say that I have heard it before. bit of a nothing song for me - no melody or hook? Led Zepperlin go right over my head. pretentious grandad rock imo. Bizzare choice for the chosen one.

how far into the show?

First half hour, but it's not up there yet mate

My true love was the landscape

[smiley:crazy]

£32.99

the Daily Mail

nice jumper

Nice pics though George

Can I just hide now?

better pic of Holkham beach than the one on my phone

I always pictured you as some fat old guy in pygamas and a flat cap

Let's face it. I'm a knitwear sex god

Just born 20 years too late for the catalogues

no horse pics?

Psychic Mutley on chit chat posted some great pics from Taunton races yesterday

you realise Lou knows how to find you now

For me its a very high risk strategy doing songs nobody has ever heard before. For the XF audience is to pick the right "standard" song and make it "your own".

Not happy at all with Rebecca's choices. Listening to Led Zeps thank you for first time (cover on spotify) and its a half decent ditty but unfamiliar.  You are so beautiful is virtually designed to send the audience to sleep and/or expose her vocal frailties. .

I think Mary will struggle with the nuances of brass in pocket. U2 she could nail.

Wagner doesn't matter what he sings any more.

Katie will do some indie version of SoF which the panel will praise but the audience wont get.

Cher might be ok with walk this way; bit of a swagger with a rap element middle england might not mind.

And PLEASE can we have a separate thread for arguing etc etc with Lou. It's BORING and time consuming wading through it. Lou for some reason you wind people up on here without trying like some kind of online Mr Bean or Frank Spencer. That's not an insult just an observation by the way.

Welcome to the jungle will be a high pitched car crash (I hope). Another one that will leave public scratching their heads.

As if I mind   I meet my alter egos on a regular basis

Funnily enough there is a horse pic - Camber Sands

I'm guessing those won't necessarily be Robecca's songs, George B.

|Only confirmed ones are those on XF Updates.

Fingers crossed they are not squares tho I have had a traitorious few quid on her going at 60s in case they are.

nothing from HQ GB - tut tut

Cricket is the quintessential English game [;)]

Good grief hope the Thank You choice is not Rebecca's.  Would be one of the most bizarre decisions ever.

No rumours have been worth heeding except XF updates

XF Updates have these as confirmed??

Katie - Sex On Fire, KoL
Mary - All I Want Is You, U2 and Brass in Pocket, Pretenders
Wagner - Creep, Radiohead and Addicted to Love, Robert Palmer
Cher - Walk This Way, Aerosmith
Matt - Welcome To The Jungle, GnR
OD - Summer of 69, Bryan Adams

Yeah and given that Biffa had never heard of half the Beatles or Elton songs no way has she or Rebecca picked this one. 1.01 Biffa has never knowingly listened to a Led Zep track.

I think Simon will have taken over after last week George ;-)

Simon and Led Zep? Mmmmm maybe; right age. Actually I struggle to imagine him actually listening to music at all.

Can't stand Led Zep myself. Made a living ripping off old black bluesmen and paying not a cent in royalties. Sooo boring when they are in concert with their self indulgent posturing. Like The Who live all emperor's new clothes.

Apologies if this should be on chit chat!

so gb you post on the forum in your 3 min break whilst songs are on

n1 GB.

I'm backing you for the Jungle next year

Just thought, I'll do nothing for two weeks, become 1.4 for first eviction and then walk two hours before it

I'm the 'celeb guest' man nick, not the bloody dj

yeah sorry, hadn't read the thread properly old boy

Ah... sgame she's not doing Numbafter all. Was quite excited at the prospect of that

GB ... was that cover of Thank You you listened to on Spotify the one that Duran Duran did in 1995?

Nah some craapy tribute band...better than the originals though

Just listened to duran version. Hope even more she doesn't do it. Song seems reliant on the music not the vocal melody so with bland backing track a real risky choice if true.

couldn't be further from the truth GB, try listening to the original studio version on youtube

the song is heavily reliant on vocals, could be another bad week for R Bex

Only confirmed songs are

Mary - All I Want Is You, U2 and Brass in Pocket, Pretenders
Wagner - Creep, Radiohead and Addicted to Love, Robert Palmer

These were sound checked Weds and Thurs but are not confirmed/could since have changed.

OD - Summer of 69, Bryan Adams
Katie - Sex on Fire, KoL
Cher - Walk This Way,  Aerosmith/Run DMC
Matt - Welcome to the Jungle, GnR

anything on the other lists is highly likely to be incorrect

'Thank you' has to be one of the oddest song choices ever on the XF.  I doubt that 5% of the audience will be familiar with it, and having listened to it several times I find it hard to remember.

Agree, it's a strange choice if true.  I can't see Cheryl picking this one out.  Could Rebecca be stitched up this week?

Was thinking more of the melody grendel it just sounds a bit blah to me or maybe "exquisite" either way can't see it resonating with the GBP.

I doubt even 1% of the audience would be familiar with Thank You.  Anyway, as Squares keeps saying, highly unlikely that will be the choice.

Visionary

That's what i always tend to say 'Thank You' ............ never heard of it.  Why do a song that's so unknown when you can do one the whole country knows?  Same with Matt's proposed song ................. never heard of it, poor choice.

Difficult to change the gender references if you ask me ....

If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
when mountains crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.

Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more.

Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
Our love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
Inspiration's what you are to me, inspiration, look... see.

And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad, happiness....I'm glad.
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
If the mountains should crumble to the sea, there would still be you and me.

grendel

What songs that sorry?

Thank You ... it's pre '77 so you may have heard it

Only 2 references of 'woman' but difficult to replace with 'man' without sounding silly ... can't off top of my head think of suitable 2 syllable replacement

grendel

honestly never heard it.  If it's Led Zep' then far too heavy for me I'm afraid.

This one isn't heavy Lou its just a bit boring.

on reflection i think thankyou is most unlikely...

Welcome To The Jungle seems a strange choice too for Matt's voice, but in terms of comparison with Thank You and people knowing it, it's chalk and cheese.  Loads will know the GNR song, hardly anybody watching would know the Led Zep one.

i actually think 'thank you' could work really well for rebecca. She'll make it her own and i think could be one of the best of night.

i love the song maestro and she will prob sing it beautifully, but i wonder how it might resonate with the audience

Maestro

How many of the viewing public will know it though?  It can't help to do a song that a big percentage would never have heard of can it?

With the proviso Zoom that polls open early so a killer performance early won't do any harm.

zoom

But wouldn't two 'real crowd pleasers' be better still than one?

a mention of God Gave Rock and Roll To You - kiss for Rebecca in the comments on XFupdate. Love the song but not sure how it would work for a female voice.

The preview is up on the homepage.
http://xfactor.itv.com/2010/videos/video/watch_tonights-show---sneak-peek_item_201559.htm

Waggy singing at least one of songs 'straight', with no dancers.
1D on the boxes again.
Rebecca backing singers and a some brass with one of her songs.
Cher one upbeat with lots of jumping about.

which rebecca song needs brass? interesting, not thankyou, for sure

and variety for one d? hmm. think there might be a few surprises tonight

Zoom, I'm going by what has been said on here re when vote lines open.  I thought it was the end of the world when they introduced it for BGT this year but AI (?) experience was that it didn't make a difference to outcome which is counter intuitive I guess.

I have always thought that majority will vote within an hour of show closing.

from the moves Rebecca and the backing singers are doing, together with the brass section and their movement - looks like it would fit something like Valerie.

Yeah good shout squares. All looks a bit Duffy like and she has a similar kind of nasally voice so could put her right back in the hunt. I'll vote for her just for the brass section.

zoom

I see your point about the narrative but I'd still rather get two good lots of feedback from the judges for two good performances rather than one bad and then come back with one good if it were me.

re votes, i think perhaps better to do one questionable (wrong song not bad vocal) followed by one knockout

on another note, x fsctor have really closed ranks haven't they, interesting there are no definitive leaks on song choices, bar the odd one of course...

Rebecca
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For  -  U2



I Can't Get No Satisfaction  -  Aretha Franklin

ROCK WEEK



BOYS

Matt
I Love Rock'n'Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts



Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues




  GIRLS

Rebecca
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For  -  U2



I Can't Get No Satisfaction  -  Aretha Franklin




Katie
Everybody Hurts - REM



Sex On Fire -  Kings Of Leon




Cher
Walk This Way  - Run DMC/Aerosmith



Girlfriend  - Avril Lavigne






OVERS


Wagner
Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer



Creep -  Radiohead





Mary
All I Want Is You  - U2


Brass In My Pocket  - The Pretenders





GROUPS


One Direction
Summer Of 69 - Bryan Adams



You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker

thanks denman, unlucky today btw

those songs could be great...

didnt think thankyou was realistic

Matt
I Love Rock'n'Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Cheers nick....tried my best.

Loving Rebecca's songs if she nails them she will be back in the game.

Can't wait for Walk this Way.
Girlfriend a bit dubious though

Not sure about U2, but the Aretha one could be great.

Excellent for waggy

Was thinking the opposite about Rebecca's choices fll. Hopefully they'll both be great then

dont like joan jett for matt - that kind of singalong crap, he had better nail with or without you, if indeed it is his 2nd

sorry squares, missed your post, love nights in white satin, could be amazing

Just listened to aretha franklyn I cant get no satisfaction... ****in aweful, but Rebecca will do it better.

Trying desperately to work out Katies two songs....one good one bad IMO.