The UK Top 40, 13/3/05

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Missing these threads already.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

You can't put your arms around a memory.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:54 (twenty years ago)

I won't try...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

For the record, McFly went in at number one with their charity Bay City Rollers revival. This week's Elvis hit is "Good Luck Charm" at 2. The other "Waiting For A Star To Fall" thing came in at 3. New Order in at 8, Phantom Planet at 9, bloke from the Halifax at 13.

Albums: 50 Cent in at 1, Kaiser Chiefs at 3, Idlewild 9, repackaged Futureheads 11, Rufus Wainwright only in at 21, Annie nowhere to be seen.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 14 March 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh and a radio interview ith Matther LeBlanc, who is very shy and hardly ever does interviews, but has for Radio 1.

Next week, Thomas Pynchon.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

It would be if I were doing it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

What's on the repackaged Futureheads? I think 21 is a good showing for Rufus, considering how much more eccentric and radio-baffling Want Two is compared to its predecessor.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

Bonus DVD with live tracks, videos, interviews etc. and they've added "Hounds Of Love" to the main album.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Ah well... we will always, ALWAYS have James Masterton.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 14 March 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Well, he's good and always worthwile. But that McFly cover of "You've got a friend" is not "a cover version of rare quality"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

Nice to see that Elvis' "recent decline" (27 1/2 years and counting) has recently been "reversed." That's on a par with Blackburn saying it was a good week for John Lennon because he'd gone back up 20 places, the week after he'd been shot.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:06 (twenty years ago)

Well, to be fair, if it was the week after he'd been shot, any week would be better.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Or indeed Jimmy Savile on the late lamented Double Top Ten Show wittering on about how dear lovely geezer guy geezer the one and own-ly John Len-Non God rest my soul you see decided to go to heaven but he can come back any time he likes now howzabout that then Dignified Don?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 14 March 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)

Hounds of Love was already on the album.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 14 March 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

That's on a par with Blackburn saying it was a good week for John Lennon because he'd gone back up 20 places, the week after he'd been shot.

Blimey, he said that? Tony Blackburn take a bow, that really is funny.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 March 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

The other one was Bruno Brookes in 1993, exclaiming "What a great week it's been for Freddie Mercury" when the remix of "Living On My Own" went to number one, 18 months after the latter's demise.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I understand that they changed the format of the show... for those of us who aren't listeners and can't quite decode the conversation in last week's thread (maybe owing to my own patience rather than any content contained in the comments in the thread) what was it that they did to the show?

― gspm (gspm), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

gspm -
i've only been following the chart show on a regular basis since last fall, but here's what i can tell is different.

they've changed the first half-hour of the show to celebrity gossip and pretty much worthless, supposedly "funny" banter between the hosts. the second half-hour is dedicated to the album charts, and then they do this 10 minute megamix thing about a particular year. this leaves less than 2 hours for the Top 40, so to make up for the lost time they have quit playing most of the lower 20. not even all of the new releases get played in whole, just select tunes that happen to be on Radio 1's playlist. the entire Top 20 is still played though.

― jonviachicago, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

what are the megamixes like? are they more like medleys?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Monday, 14 March 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

its not really a medley, more of a thing where they play three different songs from said year mixing in significant news items and events from the time period.

― jonviachicago, Monday, 14 March 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

sheesh. what was the motivation for making any change? i realize there are competing chart shows and whatnot but what is so wrong with having a show. about the songs in the chart.

― gspm (gspm), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

so i'll admit to this being a very, very poor substitute for the wonderful William Swygart - but i've been running my own Top 40 recap on my blog since the beginning of the year. its not as involved (or as good as) William's, but if you are missing his column as much as i am it could be something to tide you over.

http://viachicago.blogspot.com/

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

Has he stopped writing these? I enjoyed them.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

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