Roll of Honour by The Irish Brigade because it commemorates the IRA hunger strikers and Proper Moist by Dapper Laughs because it is rather rude.

 

 

Thanks.

A couple of other tracks that were not played in full on the chart show:

 

Depeche Mode - A Pain That I Am Used To (they played Lillian by mistake)

Iron Maiden - Different World (charted in the post-Christmas chart when they did the year-end chart plus a quick rundown of the weekly chart)

David Gilmour - Arnold Layne (ditto)

Elvis Presley - My Baby Left Me (for some reason they played Heartbreak Hotel instead, which does have those lyrics at the start)

Celine Dion - Taking Chances (not sure why)

A couple of other tracks that were not played in full on the chart show:

 

Depeche Mode - A Pain That I Am Used To (they played Lillian by mistake)

 

Elvis Presley - My Baby Left Me (for some reason they played Heartbreak Hotel instead, which does have those lyrics at the start)

I was going to say Depeche Mode was a double A-side, but 'Lillian' was on a different single. Can't say I noticed at the time, admittedly.

 

I did notice the Elvis one though. I presume that was a pure mistake, as 'My Baby Left me' was an unofficial release and probably wasn't sent to them.

Also, when 'Liquid Lives' by Hadouken! became their only T40 hit, they played 'That Boy That Girl' by mistake.

 

Another obvious one: 'Smack My [female dog] Up' by the Prodigy - they played an instrumental B-side instead. And 'The Big Man Meets The Scream Team And The Barmy Army Uptown' by Primal Scream et al was only played in an instrumental version.

There was one week that they accidentally started playing Embrace's 'Gravity' rather than Pixie Lott's song of the same name, then when they realised their mistake they moved on rather than actually playing the Pixie song. They did play it in all the other weeks it charted though.

There was one week that they accidentally started playing Embrace's 'Gravity' rather than Pixie Lott's song of the same name, then when they realised their mistake they moved on rather than actually playing the Pixie song. They did play it in all the other weeks it charted though.

 

Aww, I went to see Embrace last Thursday. Second gig of their comeback tour. They've been away for 8 years. New 'Refugees' EP came out on Monday. Not sure that it's likely to chart come Sunday though. :(

I can fully understand songs being skipped due to their explicit nature or on the grounds of taste/decency.

 

However, I would argue that so called 'fake' versions of songs should still be played on the Top 40 show if their sales have merited a place in the chart that week.

 

 

However, I would argue that so called 'fake' versions of songs should still be played on the Top 40 show if their sales have merited a place in the chart that week.

Yeah that's what I think too, however there was no clean version of Precision Tunes' Payphone or Kings of Pop's T.H.E. to my knowledge so I understand R1's reasons for not playing those.

I can fully understand songs being skipped due to their explicit nature or on the grounds of taste/decency.

 

However, I would argue that so called 'fake' versions of songs should still be played on the Top 40 show if their sales have merited a place in the chart that week.

 

 

Agreed. People must like them so they should be played imo!

Agreed. People must like them so they should be played imo!

Or people just don't know the original artist and buy the fake version by mistake :P

Or people just don't know the original artist and buy the fake version by mistake :P

 

 

Yes, probably more than likely that!

I don't know if it counts... but a few years ago when Hilary Duff's song "With Love" was released, Radio 1 chose to play "Fly" instead, or another Hilary Duff song. I was really confused at the time because I thought she had multiple chartings.

Surely Babyshambles with F*** Forever would have been skipped? Or was there a clean edit?

There was a clean edit of the Babyshambles song - I'm pretty sure they playlisted it anyway, as well as its couple of plays on chart rundowns.

In March 1976, the M & O band were never played, as the "Do The Latin Hustle" single had stolen the same backing track from Eddie Drennon & The BBS Unlimited. In the same week Eddie was #20 & the M & O band rip off at #16.

Actually for a brief period the chart - not the BBC's broadcast of it, but the chart itself - was sponsored by Coca Cola so for a couple of weeks Wes did have to namecheck them at the start of show, in the same way that a sports reporter talking about the Coca-Cola Cup would have to. The BBC had a rethink just in time for right-wing newspapers to blame the nanny state.

 

'Come Together' by the Beatles was also officially banned because of the Coca Cola reference, though possibly for other content as well. But it was one side of a double A-side so the other side could be played (I presume that was what happened on chart rundowns but it's before my time). By 1995 the Smokin' Mojo Filters version wasn't banned though.

 

The chart was also sponsored by worldpop.com for a while - whatever happened to that site?

A stupid ban imo was Donna Summer's Love To Love You Baby in Feb.1976. Quite tame really and not the lyrics, just some heavy orgasmic noises that she made.

I seem to remember D-Mob's "We Call It Acieed" being on the naughtly list at some time. Was there an instrumental that was played during the Top 40?