The Greatest Pop Injustice Of All Time Is...

(obviously inferior albums released that year: fear of a black planet, amerikkka's most wanted, mama said knock you out, step into the arena, people's instinctive travels)

Magazine - Shot by both sides - Number 41

Cocteau Twins - Aikea Guinea - Number 41

My Bloody Valentine - Soon - Number 41

Killing Joke - adorations - number 42

That Petrol Emotion - Big Decision - Number 43

Time Zone - World Destruction - Number 44

Cactus World News - World's Apart - Number 58

there are many more examples.

Re: Manics: Don't worry, they'll eat themselves to the point of spontaneous combustion soon enough. I think if the US govt. wants to overthrow Castro, they need to pay Britain to send the Manics down there more often to confuse him. He'll resign just to escape Nicky Wire.

No, joking aside, while I've some sympathy for DJ M's position it is true that a lot of indie records didn't get big because of distribution issues more than airplay. Metal records used to get in the charts all through the 80s and they usually had as little radio exposure.

One unjust thing was the fate of Outdoor Miner - climbing the lower end of the charts and set to be Wire's "crossover hit" and EMI got busted in some kind of payola thing to get the single higher. Actually this was mostly unjust for EMI (and even then not actually UNjust) since if "Go Ahead" is to be believed Wire weren't that interested in having a hit. So it doesn't count. Sorry.

That Truesteppers record was bloody brilliant!!! Far better than that weak nostalgia drenched nth-generation "disco" effort by Spiller that actually got to flipping number one!! Just what the UK charts need- yet another house record pretending to be "cheesy disco". You just want to lock these people in a room for 24 hours with just a record player and The Chic Corporation's back catalogue from 1976-1979, and see if their brains explode when they realise that not everyone in the 70s wore ridiculous day-glo flares and patronising Afro wigs...

Perhaps the real injustice was getting Posh Spice on board, thus guaranteeing that every "hip" person would flock to Spiller and pretend to like a barely memorable tune sung blandly by an almost forgotten singer from a bunch of indie losers, just to get one up on Posh 'n' Becks. Even if Spiller had recorded General Pinochet duetting with Saddam Hussein on a cover of "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" backed by a Casio VL-Tone and a Kazoo, it would probably still fly out of the the record shops...

Harumph!!!

Old Fart!!!!

Oh, and "Last Train To Trancentral" being kept off Number 1 by Cher's "Shoop Shoop Song". Didn't piss me off so much back then, oddly; 10 years have clearly made me slowly more bitter.

Or did you steal them from me :) ?

mc hammer pretty much swept the grammys in 1990. 'please hammer don't hurt em' - rap album of the year, word up.
(obviously inferior albums released that year: fear of a black planet, amerikkka's most wanted, mama said knock you out, step into the arena, people's instinctive travels)

-- ethan padgett, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ HoF Inductee

Surprised nobody mentioned the bleedin' obvious Release Me/Penny Lane-Strawberry Fields Forever robbery.

The Pistols were falsely kept by THE MAN at number two behind Rod, but not by Sailing; it was the Abigail's Party burnout I Don't Want To Talk About It/First Cut Is The Deepest double A side.

Sailing, however, kept both The Last Farewell by Roger Whittaker and Moonlighting by Leo Sayer off number one, and that surely is the greater crime.

The only injustice at the 1990 Grammy was the fact that there was a Grammy for best rap album at all. None of them deserved any.

oh, Geir! You're so controversial!

Fefe Dobson's album being nixed by the suits. RIP girl.

Nothing against Truesteppers cause thats pretty good too but Groovejet is a great great great record and had a massive buildup to its chart position in the clubs. For the next ten years its spoiled by overplaying and thats why every critic hated it be the time it charted, see also the critical reaction to Gehts Noch, Rocker, Call On Me, etc. Every "last seasons anthem turns chart hit" gets this reaction. People who think Groovejet is just another banal disco record have no ears.

Yeah. Greatest Pop Injustice: that anyone thinks Out Of Your Mind is the better record.

The greatest pop injustice ever was then Coldplay's "Speed Of Sound" was robbed of the #1 by that insufferable Crazy Frog!

both pretty awful, tho

The Grammy's encouraging Metallica to keep sucking.

Fefe Dobson's album being nixed by the suits. RIP girl.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 20 December 2007 12:18 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^lolled at this

Speed of Sound is a good tune.

If you've had your ear drums surgically removed.