29 March 2026

Singles World Cup Finals: Round 14

Leader  Board
A Certain Ratio             30
Dreadzone                     21
The Shamen                  19
 Utah Saints                   16 

 

 

Utah Saints - Love Song 1, Echo ECSCD83, 1999.
all decryption codes in comments 

Love Song (edit)
Love Song (One Rascal New Vision mix)
Love Song (Maverick Olsen mix)
 
 
 
 
 
A Certain Ratio - Do the Du (Casse), Factory Facus4, 1981.

Flipside -    
Do the Du (Casse)
The Fox

Hipside -     
Shack Up
Son & Heir 
Dreadzone - Captain Dread, Virgin VSCDG1541, 1995.

Captain Dread (single edit)    
Captain Dread (Zexos Free Troupe mix)
Captain Dread (X-Press 2 mix)
Captain Dread (Citizen Z mix)
Captain Dread (Walk the Plank mix)
Captain Dread (epilogue)
 
 
 
 
 
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode, Coma Records COMACD7039, 1992.

Ebeneezer Goode (Beat edit)
Ebeneezer Goode (Shamen Dub)
Ebeneezer Goode (MBM instrumental)
Ebeneezer Goode (South of Detroit vocal)
Ebeneezer Goode (MBM vocal)
Ebeneezer Goode (Jolly Roger vocal)
 
 
 

Tomorrow, the Finals final push,
NØ
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14 comments:

  1. NØ3/29/26, 12:06 AM

    Love Song 1
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    Do the Du
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    Captain Dread
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    Ebeneezer Goode
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  2. Richard3/29/26, 3:04 AM

    How can I compare. Last few days saw some ofmy all-time favorites by ACR. Knife and Du, it could only be topped by Criplled Child, which is not on single, not in competition. Again the version is the decider for me. Shamen's Jolly Roger instrumental is an exsessively used acid track. And only on 12'' . Shame, man, you only have the cd. Points to ACR.

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    1. NØ3/29/26, 12:22 PM

      It was up to the individual teams how they played the game. Looks like ACR just came on strong & kept getting stronger. Thanks, Richard. I'll adjust the Board.

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  3. Pat Trip Dispenser3/29/26, 5:26 AM

    +1 for ACR - thank you kindly for all these shares

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    1. NØ3/29/26, 12:28 PM

      Was hoping some folks wanted some of these singles. Glad I could oblige. I'll update the Board. Thanks, PTD.

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  4. Mooz3/29/26, 8:45 AM

    Come on, I mean is this even a competition here? ACR nails this one right out of the gate. The only thing that would've come close is if The Shamen released the instrumental MBM remix as a standalone track.

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    1. NØ3/29/26, 12:30 PM

      All teams submitted as they chose. ACR either just played the game better or just have over-all better material. The Singles are what they are. I'll update the Board.

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  5. That Bloke3/29/26, 2:10 PM

    It's an absolute no-brainer tonight; ACR takes the win.

    The others aren't even trying. Utah Saints giving us easy listening recycled dancefloor noise, Dreadzone with some sort of sea shanty - giving us 6 mixes doesn't make it any better! The Shamen as least give us an instrumental mix (as listenable one at that) to give us a break from the dreadful toasting from whoever is the voiceover featured in the other tracks.

    ACR on the other hand give us four proper tracks from early in their career. The first 3 tracks are versions that I'm unfamiliar with. Production and transcription from vinyl do the tracks no favours, but each track is bursting full of ACR magic; funky, unique and quite often quite clumsy; the reason why I've collected their albums since the 1980's.

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    1. NØ3/29/26, 2:40 PM

      Withonly one final Round, looks like ACR are a shoe-in. Thanks for playing along.

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  6. Anonymous3/29/26, 2:13 PM

    Thanks for this labour of love, and for all the great work you do. I'm going for ACR, all the way. They have an extra something that the others can never quite match - Donald Johnson's drumming.

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    1. NØ3/29/26, 2:41 PM

      It has been a labour of love. Thank you for saying so. Really appreciate you. I'll up the tally.

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  7. Mister kien3/29/26, 5:45 PM

    Funny how everyone is going for ACR today. Same for me, they're the only pleasurable listen here. There's no competition today really...not in the same league... My 3 cents!
    But... Thanks, you made me appreciate ACR, whom I didn't knew and who stray from m'y usual tastes... Because they came out so strong against the other bands in this whole contest. (But.. collecting Utah saints ?¿? That's beyond me...)
    Thanks again, Nathan !

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  8. Jewels Berne3/29/26, 11:04 PM

    Haven't chimed in in a few says but Ebeneezer Goode is one of my favorites from The Shamen so wanted to add my vote.

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