Rotatey Diskers

I was gonna add The Millennium but you beat me to it! Aphrodite's Child - It's Five O'Clock The Band - The Band The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds The Beatles - Revolver The Beatles - Abbey Road The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles - The White Album Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Gorilla The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash Live At Folsom Prison Cream - Disraeli Gears The Creation - We Are Paintermen Ivor Cutler - Ludo The Doors - The Doors Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde Georgie Fame - Sweet things The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I Love - Forever Changes John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers The MC5 - Kick Out the Jams The Millennium - Begin The Monks - Black Monk Time Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends The Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis The Stooges - The Stooges The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators Van Morrison - Astral Weeks The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat The Who - Tommy The Who - My Generation The Yardbirds - 5 Live Yardbirds Neil Young - Everyone Knows This is Nowhere We could do with more soul, jazz and reggae.

Drew this one without the computer, then scanned and added to it. http://www.mediamax.com/neilbaylis/Hosted/AmyTears.jpg

The Band - The Band The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today! The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds The Beatles - Revolver The Beatles - Abbey Road The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The Beatles - The White Album The Byrds - Fifth Dimension The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers The Creation - We Are Paintermen Ivor Cutler - Ludo The Doors - The Doors Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde The Bobby Fuller Four - I fought the law Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I Love - Forever Changes MC5 - Kick Out the Jams Monks - Black Monk Time Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis The Stooges - The Stooges Van Morrison - Astral Weeks The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground - White Light White Heat The Who - Tommy The Who - My Generation Neil Young - Everyone Knows This is Nowhere

01. (**) Richard Hawley - Tonight the streets are ours [1 wk] (1) 02. (02) Stephanie McIntosh - Mistake [8 wks] (32-11-4-4-2-2-2-2) 03. (01) Shiny Toy Guns - Don’t cry out [9 wks] (6-6-3-3-1-1-1-1-3) 04. (05) Kelly Rowland - Like this [10 weeks] (29-20-14-7-8-5-5-4-5-4) 05. (03) The Ting Tings - That’s not my name [12 weeks] (3-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-3-5) 06. (06) Amy MacDonald - Mr Rock & Roll [3 wks] (10-6-6) 07. (04) Marsheaux - Dream of a disco [11 wks] (3-2-2-2-2-2-3-4-5-4-7) 08. (**) Caribou - Melody day [1 wk] (8) 09. (07) Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong [3 wks] (11-7-9) 10. (08) Hard-Fi - Suburban knights [3 wks] (17-8-10) 11. (12) Stephanie McIntosh - So do I say sorry first? [3 wks] (22-12-11) 12. (11) Robyn - With every heartbeat [9 wks] (34-25-18-14-15-15-15-11-12) 13. (09) Garbage - Tell me where it hurts [9 wks] (26-24-15-15-11-12-6-9-13) 14. (15) Arcade Fire - No cars go [3 wks] (16-15-14) 15. (20) The Coral - Who’s gonna find me? [4 wks] (38-30-20-15) 16. (22) Lumidee featuring Pitbull - Crazy [2 wks] (22-16) 17. (10) Timbaland/Keri Hilson/DOE - The way I are [7 wks] (19-11-6-6-7-10-17) 18. (17) My Chemical Romance - Teenagers [3 wks] (14-17-18) 19. (21) The Killers - For reasons unknown [5 wks] (31-30-21-21-19) 20. (**) Remi Nicole - Go Mr Sunshine [1 wk] (20) 21. (**) Tiny Dancers - Ashes and diamonds [1 wk] (21) 22. (13) Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! [6 wks] (21-12-9-8-13-22) 23. (14) The Enemy - Had enough [7 wks] (32-27-18-17-12-14-23) 24. (18) Amerie - Gotta work [8 wks] (33-20-16-14-13-13-18-24) 25. (19) The Hoosiers - Worried about Ray [6 wks] (39-29-26-19-19-25) 26. (26) Girls Aloud - Sexy! No no no [2 wk] (26-26) 27. (25) The Twang - Either way [6 wks] (34-27-27-27-25-27) 28. (**) Deborah Harry - Two times blue [1 wk] (28) 29. (16) Manic Street Preachers - Your love alone is not enough [13 wks] (12-5-5-5-5-4-4-5-7-7-9-16-29) 30. (23) Rihanna - Umbrella [13 wks] (14-7-4-4-4-5-5-6-9-10-18-23-30) 31. (**) The Priscillas - Superhero [1 wk] (31) 32. (31) The Concretes - Oh boy [8 wks] (36-39-32-25-28-28-31-32) 33. (27) The Ghosts - The world is outside [6 wks] (40-x-x-39-36-29-27-33) 34. (24) Arcade Fire - Intervention [8 wks] (40-x-x-38-31-17-16-20-24-34) 35. (29) The White Stripes - Icky thump [11 wks] (28-23-22-22-12-13-10-11-24-29-35) 36. (33) Groove Armada - Out of control (Song 4 Mutya) [6 wks] (38-x-x-34-33-31-33-36) 37. (32) Ava Leigh - La la la [4 wks] (37-34-32-37) 38. (36) BC Camplight - Lord I’ve been on fire [2 wks] (36-38) 39. (**) Funeral For A Friend - Walk away [1 wk] (39) 40. (**) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Berlin [1 wk] (40)

The VU and Beatles ones would have been in my three! But here's 3 more… The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society The Doors - The Doors The Byrds - The notorious Byrd Brothers

I just hope that if another musical revolution does come along I can appreciate it. I want my attitude to be like John Peel's, who was always open to new things. I don't want to end up like most older people who don't seem to understand anything new that comes along. "it was our generations who did it first!" This is the problem the young have of course - there's nothing to kick against. Us oldsters will jump on the bandwagon and make it totally unhip very quickly!

I find it deeply ironic that we have now burnt so much fossil fuel thst the ice caps are melting - so now we we can get access to even more fossil fuel!

The danger with even discussing this topic in print on a forum is that we all make mistakes on here. The words pot, kettle and black spring to mind! (Rereads post four times before posting!)

If the points were reset every month you could do a monthly hall of fame. Or 3 months… or 4 months…

Perhaps the leaderboard should be started afresh at the beginning of each year? Not that it'll help me much (thanks davidobowie for the 3 points)!! Oh, worthy joint winners by the way. DJ Charly and Russt68 are the benchmark to beat.

Like both but Robyn wins it

This has been going on for more than fifteen years surely! That's where Gwen Stefani started out (in No Doubt). The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are another lot that spring to mind.

Well, the obscenely rich have always behaved like they're from another planet!

I would have thought that UK garage was more a sub-genre of the ever-evolving dance genre. Surely the arrival of house and techno in the mid eighties was the last truly great musical revolution. It was as groundbreaking as the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the mid fifties. There have been more dance sub-genres since UK garage, like grime and dub-step, but these all seem to happen off the radar (and the radio) and generally don't trouble the charts (Dizzee excepted). Where to next? Most music advances seem to coincide with advances in, or increased access to, technology. The arrival of the electric microphone lead to crooners like Crosby and Sinatra in the 1930s/40s, where previously singers would have to have virtually shouted through a megaphone at concerts to be heard over the band. Advances in recording methods meant less reliance on the brass instruments of the jazz age, which were easy to record because of their volume. This coincided with advances in the development of the electric guitar and electric bass, which paved the way for rock 'n' roll. In the sixties further advances in multitrack recording lead to psychedelia, prog and, slightly later as the technology became cheaper, dub reggae. The arrival of primitive synthesisers lead to everything from cheesy Moog albums to Kraftwerk! In the eighties the arrival of digital recording methods lead to the aforementioned house and techno revolution. The eventual drop in prices of digital synths lead to the dance boom of the 90's. So unless someone comes up with some brilliant new way of making music it's difficult to see where the next revolution is going to come from. Jark is right that this does lead to an increase in available styles, but without the occasional revolution to re-engage everyone's attention music is in danger of stagnating and losing it's relevance to people (especially the young, who need to feel that it is "their" music). Sorry to go on at length but this kind of thing has always intrigued me!

H - 10 pts M - 9 N - 8 A - 7 G - 6 C - 5 B - 4 D - 3 Q - 2 P - 1 pt

There's hardly anything in this chart that is unlistenable - here are my faves 01 01 04 Help! The Beatles 02 03 07 You've got your troubles The Fortunes 03 02 06 We gotta get out of this place The Animals 04 30 02 I got you babe Sonny and Cher 08 04 10 Mr. Tambourine Man The Byrds 11 10 05 Summer nights Marianne Faithfull 12 08 07 There but for fortune Joan Baez 13 06 09 Tossing and turning The Ivy League 14 26 02 All I really want to do The Byrds 16 24 03 See My Friend The Kinks 18 15 09 Woolly Bully Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs 19 17 07 He's got no love The Searchers 20 11 10 Heart full of soul The Yardbirds 21 47 02 What's new pussycat? Tom Jones 23 16 08 In The Middle Of Nowhere Dusty Springfield 24 34 03 That's The Way The Honeycombs 29 38 02 Unchained Melody The Righteous Brothers 30 18 13 I'm Alive The Hollies 31 NE W Make it easy on yourself The Walker Brothers 36 36 08 I Can't Help Myself The Four Tops 37 32 06 Cry To Me The Pretty Things 42 NE W Like a rolling stone Bob Dylan 43 45 12 Colours Donovan 46 40 10 She's about a mover Sir Douglas Quintet 49 39 14 The Price Of Love The Everly Brothers

The parents of this child have made the naming of their baby all about their own egos, with no consideration for the life the child will live with a stupid name. These parents are being selfish and irresponsible towards a dependent child they should love and cherish, so I care - and so should you!

I always liked 'The smoker you drink the player you get' by Joe Walsh - but I've never heard it!

My first attempt at a cover design. A psychedelic cover for a sun-drenched, psychedelic single! http://www.mediamax.com/neilbaylis/Hosted/MelodyDay.jpg

I'll have to look out for that!

Its sales were split over two years ('81/'82).

I'm not familiar with that one - what's it like?

Ones I liked: 04. (-) David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 09. (3) Odyssey - Use It Up And Wear It Out 14. (8) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved 19. (11) Dexy's Midnight Runners - There There My Dear 23. (12) The Undertones - Wednesday Week 24. (25) Grace Jones - Private Life 28. (27) Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Game (Theme From 'the Invaders') 29. (33) Ultravox - Sleepwalk 31. (60) The Clash - Bankrobber 34. (47) Bow Wow Wow - C30 C60 C90 Go 43. (35) John Foxx - Burning Car 44. (-) Skids - Circus Games 49. (22) Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart 53. (54) Girlschool - Race With The Devil 54. (49) Stiff Little Fingers - Back To Front 60. (-) The Beat - Best Friend/Stand Down Margaret 61. (70) The B-52s - Give Me Back My Man 67. (72) Frank Sinatra - Theme From New York New York 68. (-) Barracudas - Summer Fun 69. (-) Split Enz - I Got You 74. (66) Plasmatics - Butcher Baby 75. (73) AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie Needless to say there were other great singles released this month that didn't chart. I liked the following: The Associates - The affectionate punch Roky Erikson and the Aliens - Creature with the atom brain The Revillos - Hungry for love The Soft Boys - I wanna destroy you U2 - A day without me The Yellow Magic Orchestra - Behind the mask

01. (01) Shiny Toy Guns - Don’t cry out [8 wks] (6-6-3-3-1-1-1-1) 02. (02) Stephanie McIntosh - Mistake [7 wks] (32-11-4-4-2-2-2) 03. (03) The Ting Tings - That’s not my name [11 weeks] (3-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-3) 04. (05) Marsheaux - Dream of a disco [10 wks] (3-2-2-2-2-2-3-4-5-4) 05. (04) Kelly Rowland - Like this [9 weeks] (29-20-14-7-8-5-5-4-5) 06. (10) Amy MacDonald - Mr Rock & Roll [2 wks] (10-6) 07. (11) Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong [2 wks] (11-7) 08. (17) Hard-Fi - Suburban knights [2 wks] (17-8) 09. (06) Garbage - Tell me where it hurts [8 wks] (26-24-15-15-11-12-6-9) 10. (07) Timbaland/Keri Hilson/DOE - The way I are [6 wks] (19-11-6-6-7-10) 11. (15) Robyn - With every heartbeat [8 wks] (34-25-18-14-15-15-15-11) 12. (22) Stephanie McIntosh - So do I say sorry first? [2 wks] (22-12) 13. (08) Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! [5 wks] (21-12-9-8-13) 14. (12) The Enemy - Had enough [6 wks] (32-27-18-17-12-14) 15. (16) Arcade Fire - No cars go [2 wks] (16-15) 16. (09) Manic Street Preachers - Your love alone is not enough [12 wks] (12-5-5-5-5-4-4-5-7-7-9-16) 17. (14) My Chemical Romance - Teenagers [2 wks] (14-17) 18. (13) Amerie - Gotta work [7 wks] (33-20-16-14-13-13-18) 19. (19) The Hoosiers - Worried about Ray [5 wks] (39-29-26-19-19) 20. (30) The Coral - Who’s gonna find me? [3 wks] (38-30-20) 21. (21) The Killers - For reasons unknown [4 wks] (31-30-21-21) 22. (**) Lumidee featuring Pitbull - Crazy [1 wk] (22) 23. (18) Rihanna - Umbrella [12 wks] (14-7-4-4-4-5-5-6-9-10-18-23) 24. (20) Arcade Fire - Intervention [7 wks] (40-x-x-38-31-17-16-20-24) 25. (27) The Twang - Either way [5 wks] (34-27-27-27-25) 26. (**) Girls Aloud - Sexy! No no no [1 wk] (26) 27. (29) The Ghosts - The world is outside [5 wks] (40-x-x-39-36-29-27) 28. (23) Hellogoodbye - Here (in your arms) [12 wks] (13-1-2-3-3-3-6-7-8-8-23-28) 29. (24) The White Stripes - Icky thump [10 wks] (28-23-22-22-12-13-10-11-24-29) 30. (25) Editors - Smokers outside the hospital doors [8 wks] (35-31-22-20-16-18-25-30) 31. (28) The Concretes - Oh boy [7 wks] (36-39-32-25-28-28-31) 32. (34) Ava Leigh - La la la [3 wks] (37-34-32) 33. (31) Groove Armada - Out of control (Song 4 Mutya) [5 wks] (38-x-x-34-33-31-33) 34. (**) Dragonette - Take it like a man [4 wks] (32-37-x-x-x-40-x-34) 35. (32) Roisin Murphy - Overpowered [10 wks] (21-18-10-10-8-9-13-14-32-35) 36. (**) BC Camplight - Lord I’ve been on fire [1 wk] (36) 37. (33) Funeral For A Friend - Into oblivion (reunion) [10 wks] (32-28-23-23-30-26-26-25-33-37) 38. (36) U.N.K.L.E. featuring Ian Astbury - Burn my shadow [4 wks] (30-31-36-38) 39. (**) Kanye West - Stronger (1 wk) (39) 40. (**) Super Furry Animals - Show your hand (1 wk) (40)

Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks - 'Convoy GB'. Radio one DJ's Dave Lee Travis and Paul Burnett in 'hilarious' 'Convoy' spoof. Mike Reid had actually been in bands before becoming a DJ (Just Plain Smith, Esprit De Corps), and carried on making them while he was a DJ. I think he even wrote a flop West End musical. Lauren Lavern was in indie group Kenickie (biggets hit 'In your car' No. 24) who had an album that reached No. 9. John Peel had a record label called Dandelion in the early 70s but, thankfully, had the good taste to release other people's efforts rather than his own!