The Hit Parade

Hey, I streamed the Teenage Fanclub album today* so it wil have .001 of a stream. *I have got it on vinyl but it was while I was at work** **the dining table but I was still working there.

Yep, the Spiritualized and Selecter albums are both over 25 years old too. And the Motörhead live album can’t have been recorded that recently either. Chris

I was going to go with Duck Rock by Malcolm McLaren until I realised it was Top 10 and not Top 20.

My rejected answers for Question 7 were 'The Ballad Of John & Yoko' and 'Feel Good Inc' so it looks like those would have been pointless too.

Sent mine in. Changed my mind about a few of the answers, hope the ones I rejected don't end up being better answers than the ones I changed to.

Also 'Every Breath You Take' by the Police (the notes for the first album actually list the 5 missing!) Paul Hardcastle didn't believe this when I told him! Should be 'Dancing In The Street', surely?

The Fleet Foxes album is out on vinyl this week too, I presume they wanted to synchronise them rather than have three different release dates. Although oddly Discogs says it was released on cassette in November

Manic Street Preachers only show up once and not with either of their Number One singles. Also football songs are never on there except 'Three Lions '98' and identifiable Christmas songs are understandably absent so that rules out all four versions of 'Do They Know it's Christmas?' plus Merry Christmas Everyone etc. 'West End Girls' and 'Heart' by the Pet Shop Boys didn't make it either.

Pretty sure California is already independent from England though.

Are you saying there's something fishy about it?

Tom Jones' actual new single is a bit unexpected - it's a six-minute spoken piece about the negative effects of television and reality TV... You can see why he wasn't performing that one on The Voice.

And a triple album in a fancy box too. I heard on a podcast recently that the retail price then would have been the equivalent of about £75 in today's money.

Same thing with Run-DMC, at least while Jam Master Jay was still alive. The Jam would be one of the most successful rock trios in the UK, if not internationally. Cream were also a big 3-piece rock act, as well as another thing you can put on scones. Crowded House fluctuated between 3 and 4 members (the current line-up that would have been touring in 2020 has 5) and confusingly, their biggest UK hit was recorded as a four-piece but by the time it came out as a single there were only three members again. On the other hand, who remembers The Noise Next Door?

Blimey, I did a lot better than I thought!

Is it true that the version available now is the 1981 re-recording? If so that would make the kids 8 years younger, obviously.