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I see the top five contains 2 TV and 1 film related releases, plus a compilation - Talib Kweli is the only artist album not relying on other media to get there. It could never happen here!

Robbie Williams is the only one likely to lose out from that lot - although Dido will do better in the album chart than the singles chart. I think we're going to have a lot of brief number ones as they all jockey for position. Missing from this list are Westlife, Celine Dion, Black Eyed Peas, David Gray, Doves, Paolo Nutini, Usher, Russell Watson, Led Zeppelin and Radiohead - all of whom will have an impact on the albums or singles chart.

The Beatles - Let It Be Black Sabbath - Volume 4 Blondie - Parallel Lines Blondie - Plastic Letters Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune The Boomtown Rats - Boomtown Rats David Bowie - Aladdin Sane David Bowie - Heroes David Bowie - Hunky Dory David Bowie - Diamond Dogs David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Clash - London Calling Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies Man The Congos - Heart Of The Congos Culture - Two Sevens Clash Deep Purple - Machine Head Dion - Born To Be With You Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots and Panties Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks The Eagles - Hotel California ELO - ELO Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Focus - Moving Waves Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1) Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness And Charm The Heartbreakers - L. A. M. F. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power The Jam - In The City Carole King - Tapestry Kraftwerk - Autobahn Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Led Zeppelin - 4 Symbols John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Paul and Linda McCartney- Ram Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell Joni Mitchell - Blue New York Dolls - New York Dolls Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here The Police - Outlandos D'Amour Iggy Pop - The Idiot Queen - A Night at the Opera Queen - Sheer Heart Attack The Ramones - The Ramones Lou Reed - Transformer The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream Sparks - Kimono my House The Specials - The Specials The Stooges - Fun House Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food Telex - Looking For St. Tropez T. Rex - Electric Warrior The Undertones - The Undertones Television - Marquee Moon 10CC - Sheet Music Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts Various Artists - No New York Wings - Band on the Run Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life XTC - White Music Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra Neil Young - After The Goldrush And that makes 75.

Black Sabbath - Volume 4 Blondie - Parallel Lines Blondie - Plastic Letters Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune Boomtown Rats - Boomtown Rats David Bowie - Heroes David Bowie - Hunky Dory David Bowie - Diamond Dogs David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Clash - London Calling Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo The Congos - Heart Of The Congos Culture - Two Sevens Clash Deep Purple - Machine Head Ian Dury and the Blockheads - New Boots and Panties Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks ELO - ELO Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Focus - Moving Waves Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness And Charm Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power The Jam - In The City Carole King - Tapestry Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Led Zeppelin - 4 Symbols John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Paul and Linda McCartney- Ram Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell Joni Mitchell - Blue New York Dolls - New York Dolls Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon The Police - Outlandos D'Amour Iggy Pop - The Idiot The Ramones - The Ramones Lou Reed - Transformer The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream The Specials - The Specials The Stooges - Fun House Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food T. Rex - Electric Warrior The Undertones - The Undertones Television - Marquee Moon Various Artists - No New York Wings - Band on the Run XTC - White Music Neil Young - After The Goldrush

Gosh that was careless of them. I hope they can fix it!

Black Sabbath - Volume 4 Blondie - Parallel Lines Blondie - Plastic Letters Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune David Bowie - Hunky Dory David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Clash - London Calling Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo The Congos - Heart Of The Congos Culture - Two Sevens Clash ELO - ELO Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Focus - Moving Waves Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power The Jam - In The City Carole King - Tapestry Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Led Zeppelin - 4 Symbols Paul and Linda McCartney- Ram Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell New York Dolls - New York Dolls Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon The Police - Outlandos D'Amour The Ramones - The Ramones Lou Reed - Transformer The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream The Specials - The Specials The Stooges - Fun House T. Rex - Electric Warrior The Undertones - The Undertones Television - Marquee Moon Wings - Band on the Run XTC - White Music Neil Young - After The Goldrush

Black Sabbath - Volume 4 Blondie - Parallel Lines Blondie - Plastic Letters Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune David Bowie - Hunky Dory David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Clash - London Calling Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo The Congos - Heart Of The Congos Culture - Two Sevens Clash ELO - ELO Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Focus - Moving Waves Marvin Gaye - What's Going On? Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power The Jam - In The City Carole King - Tapestry Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Led Zeppelin - 4 Symbols Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon The Police - Outlandos D'Amour Lou Reed - Transformer The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols T. Rex - Electric Warrior Wings - Band on the Run XTC - White Music Neil Young - After The Goldrush

Actually, you can. If you are oppressed you don't sit around counting the dead and then say "Right lads, that's a million, we can start blowing stuff up now". As usual, Vic, your arguments are straight-jacketed into absurdity. I don't usually join in on threads you're involved in because they seem to descend into extremist banality, so don't expect an answer to your answer to this post!

Blondie - Parallel Lines Blondie - Plastic Letters Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune David Bowie - Hunky Dory David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen The Clash - London Calling Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo The Congos - Heart Of The Congos ELO - ELO Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Focus - Moving Waves Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power The Jam - In The City Carole King - Tapestry Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Led Zeppelin - 4 Symbols Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon The Police - Outlandos D'Amour The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols Neil Young - After the Goldrush

David Bowie - Hunky Dory David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Kate Bush - The Kick Inside Buzzcocks - Another music in a different kitchen The Congos - Heart Of The Congos Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express Led Zeppelin - 4 Symbols Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks

Okay here's three more - which takes the total to 97. Can someone come up with three more so we can finish it? I bet we don't have this problem with the ensuing decades - I could probably come up with 100 great 70s LPs on my own! Animals - Animal Tracks Amen Corner - Round Amen Corner Aphrodite's Child - It's Five O'Clock The Band - The Band The Beach Boys - Summer days (and summer nights!) The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile The Beatles - Rubber Soul The Beatles - Revolver The Beatles - Abbey Road The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles - The White Album The Bee Gees - Odessa Big Brother & the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills Blind Faith - Blind Faith Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Gorilla James Brown - Live At The Apollo Buffalo Springfield - Again Eric Burdon and the Animals - Winds of change The Byrds - Fifth Dimension The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers Can - Monster Movie Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash Live At Folsom Prison Ray Charles - Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music Cream - Disraeli Gears The Creation - We Are Paintermen Ivor Cutler - Ludo The Doors - The Doors The Doors - Strange Days Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity - Open Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief Georgie Fame - Sweet Things Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace of Sin Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law Serge Gainsbourg - Initials BB Marvin Gaye - In The Groove Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Love - Forever Changes John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers The MC5 - Kick Out the Jams The Millennium - Begin Joni Mitchell - Clouds Moby Grape - Moby Grape The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd The Monks - Black Monk Time Mothers Of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money Original Soundtrack - Easy Rider Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul The Rolling Stones - Aftermath The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed Sagittarius - Present Tense The Seeds - The Seeds Nina Simone - Pastel Blues Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends Sly & The Family Stone - Stand The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake The Soft Machine - The Soft Machine The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics Dusty Springfield - Everything's coming up Dusty Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis Status Quo - Picturesque Matchstickable Messages Steppenwolf - Steppenwolf The Stooges - The Stooges The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators Traffic - Mr Fantasy Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Various Artists - A Christmas Gift for You From Phil Spector Various Trojan Records artists - Tighten Up Volume 2 The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat Scott Walker - Scott 4 The Who - Tommy The Who - My Generation The Yardbirds - 5 Live Yardbirds Neil Young - Everyone Knows This is Nowhere The Zombies - Begin here The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

The Stables Market is one of four in Camden, plus all the small shops in the main street. The Council could probably get away with closing one market without it affecting trade - tourists won't know for years that it's not as good as it once was and will keep coming. Whatever the level of trade the Council still get their business rates.

New-Labour Camden Council know exactly why they're doing it - for the money. All those lovely chainstores mean increased rents, and business rates are based on the value of the rent. So you push out all the small businesses who can't afford the higher rents and ta-da - more money for Camden Council's coffers. Sorted!

Daft post of the week? You cannot possibly be that paranoid! Come off it Vic - sign! It won't be the bravest thing you've ever done in your life. You won't be "disappeared" - promise! Stand up and be counted - then we're all Spartacus.

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I think you'll find that the Government already know your address!

Read the book "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner to see why Giuliani's "zero tolerance" policy was complete bullsh!t and had nothing to do with crime reduction. A right wing paper like the Sunday Telegraph is always gonna try to sell you the line that a more restrictive society is "good" for you. Don't fall for it.

Done!

Stand by me was a hit in 1961, not 1967. I've just changed the date in Wikipedia. Just goes to show you can't trust it!

Splendid efforts so far. Here's mine. http://www.mediamax.com/neilbaylis/Hosted/Natalie.jpg

Thanks for the votes everybody! My fave was Ashley's Remi Nicole cover. Simple, evocative and brilliant!

In America he did, but inevitably on a UK forum we're talking about the UK charts where, sadly, Curtis Mayfield didn't get all the hits he deserved (and neither did the Impressions, his previous group, in the 60s - they scored no UK hits).

Great variety of designs this week. 1. E (10 pts) 2. F 3. O 4. A 5. M 6. L 7. J 8. I 9. H 10. N

Better to ask what makes self-destructive people so talented. Surely it's pretty well established that troublesome backgrounds can sometimes lead to finding a way out via creativity. If you delve into the backgrounds of quite a lot of creative people over the centuries, whether painters, musicians, novelists, dancers or whatever, you will find a troubled past. I think Freud said something about art being a way of changing the world by people who are disatisfied with it, or with their own experience of it. Sadly, alcohol and drugs are another way of dealing with unhappiness, so it should come as no surprise that often creative people resort to them. Of course some of them are going to crash and burn in front of our eyes (or rather the prying eyes of the media). I find it more remarkable that so many stay so sane!

The original poster has defined the terms of this thread - not Guiness or the OCC! So we're being unofficial - but that's the kind of rebels we are! :naughty: :arrr: :teresa: Here are some more artists with one major hit to their name - all classics. Thunderclap Newman - Something in the air (#1 in 1969 - Produced by Pete Townshend. Bob Lind - Elusive butterfy (#5 in 1966) - Follow-up spent 1 week at #46. John Fred and his Playboy Band - Judy in disguise (with glasses) (#3 in 1968) - terrific American pop. Tommy James and the Shondells - Mony mony (#1 in 1968) - 1 minor hit in 1966, but much more successful in the USA. The Merseys - Sorrow (#4 in 1966) - two ex-members of the Merseybeats cover a McCoys B-side, and Bowie does it again later. Love Sculpture - Sabre dance (#5 in 68) - manic cover of a classical piece courtesy of Dave Edmunds.