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Joy Division for me. Never could see the appeal of Stairway To Heaven.

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Thought is was about time to dig this out again! Abba - The Visitors ABC - The Lexicon Of Love Marc Almond and the Willing Sinners - Mother Fist and her Five Daughters The Associates - Sulk Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite Big Black - Songs about f***ing Black - Wonderful Life The Blue Nile - Hats David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) Kate Bush - The Dreaming Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love Kate Bush - The Sensual World Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven The Church - Heyday Cocteau Twins - Treasure Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll The Creatures - Boomerang The Cult - Love The Cult - Electric The Cure - Seventeen Seconds The Cure - The Head On The Door Depeche Mode - Black Celebration Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Duran Duran - Rio Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles Echo and the Bunnymen - Echo and the Bunnymen (5th LP) Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are made of this) Eurythmics - Savage Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Frida - Something's Going On Furniture -The Wrong People Peter Gabriel - So Gaye Bykers on Acid - Drill Your Own Hole Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi Heaven 17 - How Men Are Human League - Dare Human League – Crash Husker Du - Zen Arcade It's Immaterial - Life's Hard and Then You Die Janet Jackson - Control Michael Jackson - Thriller Michael Jackson - Bad Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking Japan - Tin Drum Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy Joy Division - Closer Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - 1987 (What the f***'s Going On?) Kraftwerk - Computer world Landscape - From the tearooms of mars to the hell hole of uranus Level 42 - World Machine The Long Ryders - State of Our Union Lover Speaks - The Lover Speaks Madonna - Like a Prayer Madonna - True Blue Metallica - Master of Puppets Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything New Order - Low-Life New Order – Technique Hazel O'Connor - Breaking Glass Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and The Cobra OMD - Architecture and Morality Pet Shop Boys - Please Pet Shop Boys - Actually Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason Pixies - Surfer Rosa Pixies - Doolittle The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God Pop Will Eat Itself - Box Frenzy Prefab Sprout - Swoon Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen Pretenders - Pretenders The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl Primal Scream - Sonic Flower Groove Prince - Parade Prince - Sign O' The Times Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Powertrip Ramones - End Of The Century Red Box - The Circle and the Square Redd Kross - Neurotica Lou Reed - New York R.E.M. - Murmur R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant R.E.M. - Green Roxy Music - Avalon Scritti Politti - Cupid and Psyche 85 The Shamen - In Gorbachev We Trust Paul Simon - Graceland Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always The Smiths - Meat is Murder The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A Squeeze - East Side Story Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair The The - Soul Mining The The - Infected This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears Simple Minds - New Gold Dream The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees David Sylvian - Gone to Earth U2 - The Joshua Tree U2 - The Unforgettable Fire U2 - Rattle & Hum Various - Lonely is an eyesore Various - NME C86 Visage - The Anvil The Waterboys - This is the Sea The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues The Wonder Stuff - The Eight Legged Groove Machine XTC - Skylarking Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's Yello - You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess ZZTop - Eliminator And that makes 129. Only another 71 to go!

1. Prove it. 2. Nearly as much is stolen by the staff and, presumably, they aren't chavs by your bigoted standards (smiley notwithstanding) because they've got jobs!

Thank you kindly. :dance:

In fact I've just checked the page for Oasis' "(What's the story) morning glory" on wikipedia where it is claimed that it sold 347,000 in it's first week. So there you go. ;)

What puzzles me about this list as that everything is so recent. Are you really saying that something like "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" didn't sell very many the week it was released? Or are you saying that you don't know the figures. In which case wikipedia's list is somewhat inaccurate - so no change there then!

One of the first singles I bought! Still love it. http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa240/45cat/BlackfootSue.jpg Record companies didn't do many picture sleeves in those days, but some of them sure made up for it with the label and company sleeve designs!

Here's mine for this week. I seem to be stuck on a psychedelic trip lately. I blame Photoshop's layers palette! ^_^ http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa240/45cat/Bloodlines.jpg

Oops! Duly noted and corrected. :doh:

Here's mine for this week. http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa240/45cat/AliciaKeysAsIAm.jpg

Congratulations to worthy winners. Not sure what I'm going to do this week.

Well done to the winners. I think they were my three favourites too! Hope I have time to do something this week.

The Killers single isn't download-only.

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Frankly, no! In most cases the second single was weaker than the first. :P

Love both of these tracks, but it's still Joy Division for me. It's going to be difficult to depose an all time classic like LWTUA. The Smiths won't do it for me - I was never that enthused to be honest.

These were the great years for me. But the charts only partially reflected this. It was a great time for punk and post punk, 2-Tone and mod, early electronica, etc, but not much of it made the chart. 2 The Jam........................ Eton Rifles 3 Queen ...........................Crazy Little Thing Called Love 9 Specials ft Rico.............. A Message To You Rudy / Nite Klub 10 Selecter ......................On My Radio 13 Madness ......................One Step Beyond 19 The Isley Brothers ........It's A Disco Night (Rock Don't Stop) 22 Dynasty....................... I Don't Want To Be A Freak 26 XTC............................. Making Plans For Nigel 28 The Moody Blues ...........Nights In White Satin 29 Thin Lizzy..................... Sarah 31 Secret Affair .................Let Your Heart Dance 33 The Tourists................. I Only Want To Be With You 34 The Buggles .................Video Killed The Radio Star 35 Gary Numan ................Complex 39 Michael Jackson ...........Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough 40 Chic ............................My Forbidden Lover A few non-charting records I like from Oct/Nov 79 that immediately spring to mind: The Cure - Jumping someone elses's train Fad Gadget - Back to nature Killing Joke - Nervous system The Plastics - Copy Psychedelic Furs - We love you The Vapors - Prisoners Wire - Map ref 41N 93W Doll By Doll - Teenage lightning 4 Be 2 - One of the lads The Lurkers - New guitar in town The Passions - Hunted Suicide - Dream baby dream The Tours - Tourist information And so on…

Absolutely. I bet we've all had stuff in our collections that make us now think "What on Earth did I buy that for?" :o

You have a point. Looking at the original poster's list, most of the second singles were pretty poor.

I think the main reason is the continued availability of the previous single. Remember when singles were gone from the charts quickly and, if they weren't, the record company deleted them? Downloads have changed all that. Now the big debut hit hangs around for 20+ weeks, people buy either the whole album or cherry-pick the best songs, and there is no momentum for the follow-up singles, except in exceptional cases. I don't think this is going to change until the record companies wise up. Releasing more than one single before the release of the album might help. So might releasing singles that aren't on the album (like it was decades ago), after all it costs less to produce a non-physical single, so why not? Record companies are so locked into selling albums that they've forgotten how to make money from singles, but downloads could change all that.

None. But then I never do. I only buy 7" singles, the rest come from the web. I've bought loads of 7"s this year - must be over a hundred. It's always great when a pop act like Robyn or Sugababes release a 7", otherwise I'd have to buy mostly indie (which I like, but I like variety more).

I rather lost touch with the charts in the nineties and, looking at this chart, I can see why! There's nothing there that I would really want to listen to. Of all the pop decades I personally think the nineties were the worst. Obviously, if you were a teenager at the time, you will find plenty to fondly remember, but I think much of the chart pop that was around isn't going to stand the test of time. Perhaps the recent Take That and Spice Girls reunions will prove me wrong, although it's interesting to see that Take That have updated their sound to great success, whereas the Spice Girls may stumble with their dated sound. Maybe another 10 to 15 years will give the 90s a nice nostalgic glow, but I'm not holding my breath.