The Travelling Wilburys are number one on the album chart!! (This is not a very old thread)

That is wild.

Is this the Amazon.com chart?

I ask not so much because of the Wilburys, but because of the Who.

I should note that Mark is referring to the UK charts.

They are #1 because they are clearly funnier and more moving than anything on the charts.

First album unavailable for about ten years. It's the Disney DVD formula.

I ask not so much because of the Wilburys, but because of the Who.

their 2004 best-of then and now was reissued with one of the new 2004 tracks ("real good looking boy") replaced with something from endless wire. "old red wine" is still on there.

This doesn't surprise me at all. When I worked at a record store, people would ask for Traveling Wilburys all the time, only to be (surprisingly) disappointed to find out that it was all out of print.

I get the sense, too, that ebay prices were wildly inflated. Thus, when it finally comes back in print, all those people who've been trying to get it for years and years rushed out and bought it.

HAve so many 'dads' been waiting for a cd reissue for so long?

Yup.

No, I'm glad to see it, for the Wilburys anyway. (And this is someone who bought a replacement copy of The Who Sell Out just a few days ago.)

God, so the Who are now reissuing their reissues.

DAD ROCK

First album unavailable for about ten years. It's the Disney DVD formula.

I wonder if before "Handle With Care" comes on, you have to sit through a bunch of Coming Attractions for Warner Bros releases after you put the CD in.

Yeah, it's the Disney DVD effect plus it's been pretty well hyped, doc's on Radio 2, Barbra Orbison and Olivia Harrison doing press etc but most importantly Father's Day. Quite savvy timing from Rhino releasing it last week, the ideal gift for the Dadrocker in your life, though mine got a bottle of whisky. Apart from Rihanna the album chart looks like something from 1972 at the moment.

i blame wogan. he plays the wilburys all the time. when i was working in a record shop circa 2002 i would get at least one request a week for this album.

It's because it's Father's Day weekend. The Wilbury's album has been advertised on TV as "the perfect Father's Day gift", along with The Police (#3), Genesis (#5), Hank Fuckin' Marvin (#7), The Who (#9), The Clash (#13), and Van Morrison (#23).

Or XXP.

UK albums top 10 for Mother's Day this year, FYI:

01. Ray Quinn - Doing It My Way
02. Take That - Beautiful World
03. Ben Mills - Picture Of You
04. Simply Red - Stay
05. Russell Watson - That's Life
06. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly Angry Mob
07. Donny Osmond - Love Songs Of The 70s
08. Dolly Parton - The Very Best Of
09. Cascada - Everytime We Touch - The Album
10. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

Wait, is the Clash thing the reissue of the Singles album with a different cover that just came out in the States? I mean, I sort of understand putting out new packages every few years, but again . . . reissuing the reissues, bleagh. That'll be the next ad campaign, of course.

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Hahaha! "Mother's Day: It's your kind of fuckery, innit?!"

Dom's right; it's insanely good timing for this release. Nice job, marketing people.

My girlfriend used to work in a Virgin megastore and has maintained for the last 6 years that this is the single most enquired-about record from her time there. Apparently every week she'd get someone coming in asking about it, and it got to the point where the conversation would go "Um, have you got this record, by this band that's got Bob-" "It's deleted, sorry, can't get it."

When we found out she contemplated getting a job back at Virgin just for the week of release so she could finally sell it to people.

As a record store employee, I concur--someone would come in about once a month looking for this album. The thing I don't concur about is the "Dadrock" assumption. The people looking for the Wilburys have been, in my experience, usually women, and my 30-year-old wife was one of the people most excited by the prospect of a reissue. Apparently she listened to this shit all the time back in junior high.

The first album IS pretty good. The second one (which I was confused about for a week) has more Dylan but isn't as good. I really like the dramatic Orbison song on the first one.

I really like the dramatic Orbison song on the first one.

"Not Alone Anymore," and, yeah, it's astonishing.

Dads already own those albums. This is because younger people have are finally able to buy the "Volume 1" masterpiece (and then the ever so less masterful "Volume 3" in the same breath)

I bought it for myself on thursday and for my dad on friday.

He and I used to listen to the cassette of the first album all the time when I was younger. Really fond memories of it.

And the DVD, despite the documentary not talking about the second album at all, is pretty sweet. Got the set for 23 bucks at HMV, not bad for a decent DVD and two cd's with bonus tracks.

I forgot how much I dug the first album and "Inside Out" from the second one.

I really like "Maxine," one of the bonus tracks on the first disc. Funny that they ended up with more than they needed for an album, given that the whole thing started as a B-side session.

how's the Dylan song ("Like a Ship," right?)?

Oh, that's good, too. "Maxine" just came to mind first.

Yep, you have to give mad props to the marketing people on this one.

Dads already own those albums. This is because younger people have are finally able to buy the "Volume 1" masterpiece (and then the ever so less masterful "Volume 3" in the same breath)

Geir, do you really know anyone under the age of 30?

Geir, do you really know anyone under the age of 30?

Kinda annoys me that I have to buy vol. 3 to get those nice extras - it's like being forced to watch Ocean's Twelve.

Ah, this one will do:

So, what's the possibility that "Exile on Main Street" will be number one in 2 weeks?

Zero. "Exile On Main Street" hasn't been deleted for 10 years.

We'll see.

.. I'm fairly certain...

nah, Anne Robinson's dis on Watchdog last week will've killed it

This will chart. Didn't a lot the Beatles remasters chart? The people who still buy music (i.e. the people who were listening to this when it came out) will be buying it in droves, I suspect.

5 Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (re-issue) Sep 2009 Notes
9 Beatles Revolver Sep 2009
6 Beatles Abbey Road (re-issue)

This will chart.

Yes, it will. But number one is unlikely.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10127148.stm

Oh yes it is.

Yup, told yer...

Pretty amazing this whichever way you slice it. As a Beatles fan it always bothers me when the Fabs lose out to the Stones. Their reissues didn't chart as high, so.. HOW has this happened? I don't get it.

well the beatles released like 13 reissues at once, whereas the stones are eeking them out more slowly. and the stones are adding bonus material. i don't think it's quote correct to overlay both groups of consumers

HOW has this happened? I don't get it.

It hasn't happened, can't you read?

Zero. "Exile On Main Street" hasn't been deleted for 10 years.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 07:59 (1 week ago)

5 Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (re-issue) Sep 2009 Notes
9 Beatles Revolver Sep 2009
6 Beatles Abbey Road (re-issue)

― Mark G, Monday, May 17, 2010 7:19 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

well sure but we're talking about the Stones now, so a higher chart placement seems likely doesn't it

Yeah, this one album 'reissue' is number one, guys and geirs.

But, if anyone's feathers are ruffled:

1 Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones Apr 1964
1 Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Number 2 Jan 1965
1 Rolling Stones Aftermath Apr 1966
1 Rolling Stones Let It Bleed Dec 1969
1 Rolling Stones Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones In Concert Sep 1970
1 Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers May 1971
1 Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street Jun 1972
1 Rolling Stones Goat's Head Soup Sep 1973
1 Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue Jul 1980
1 Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Jul 1994
1 Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street May 2010

1 Beatles Please Please Me Apr 1963
1 Beatles With The Beatles Nov 1963
1 Beatles A Hard Day's Night Jul 1964
1 Beatles Beatles For Sale Dec 1964
1 Beatles Help! Aug 1965
1 Beatles Rubber Soul Dec 1965
1 Beatles Revolver Aug 1966
1 Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Jun 1967 Notes
1 Beatles The Beatles (The White Album) Dec 1968
1 Beatles Abbey Road Oct 1969
1 Beatles Let It Be May 1970
1 Beatles The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl May 1977
1 Beatles Live At The BBC Dec 1994
1 Beatles Anthology 2 Mar 1996
1 Beatles 1 Nov 2000

Ah, this one will do:

So, what's the possibility that "Never Mind The Bollocks" will be number one in just over 1 week?

.. at least, not yet.

sayin

Not a hope in hell.

probably not, no

Every time this thread's revived I think, "Damn, the Wilburys hit #1 AGAIN?!"

iAh, this one will do:

So, what's the possibility that "Never Mind The Bollocks" will be number one in just over 1 week?

― Mark G, Friday, September 21, 2012 11:49 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in America?

It seems the 'studio/demo' of "Belsen was a gas" is only available to purchasers of the massive price box.

(or...)

So, basically, it's not part of the two CD 'deluxe' edition.

Number 41 for the SPs..

Right, next up: Velvet Underground and Nico big box..

Will not chart.

Reckon it will, higher than 41 anyway

Depends on what tracks are on it - if it's just all the bonus material from 'Peel Slowly & See' and some live stuff that's been available on bootlegs for decades, then no-one's going to buy it.

Disc 2 has a compilation of stuff from the alternate/early sessions acetate, some of it from the original session tapes.

Which means you *might* not need the big box..

Right, there are two different "the very best of ELO" albums in the TOP TEN!

Along with Jeff Lynne's solo album, which will presumably plummet next week!

I have to admit I am a bit disappointed about Jeff Lynne returning after a 21 years hiatus (OK, 11 years as the "Zoom" album was basically Lynne solo) with just a collection of covers. At least, unlike the disappointing Peter Gabriel covers album a few years back, the covers do indeed sound very much typically Jeff Lynne.