The Great Jock n Roll Single

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THE CURRENT TOP 60 (w/e 21/22 April 07)

1 (1) Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
2 (2) Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
3 (6) Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (1983)
4 (3) Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes (1984)
5 (8) Deacon Blue - Raintown (1987)
6 (5) Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
7 (4) Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
8 (9) The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops (1984)
9 (14) Travis - The Man Who (1999)
10 (7) Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81 82 83 84) (1982)
11 (15) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
12 (10) Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (1995)
13 (12) Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982)
14 (21) The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (1985)
15 (20) The Blue Nile - Hats (1989)
16 (13) Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984)
17 (11) Trashcan Sinatras - Cake (1990)
18 (28) The Associates - Sulk (1982)
19 (16) Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (1984)
20 (38) John Martyn - Solid Air (1973)
21 (29) The Skids - Scared To Dance (1979)
22 (44) Idlewild - The Remote Part (2002)
23 (17) The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith (1988)
24 (50) Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team (1997)
25 (-) Wet Wet Wet - Popped In Souled Out (1987)
26 (-) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country (2006)
27 (41) Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk (1996)
28 (19) The Proclaimers - This Is The Story (1987)
29 (-) Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (1990)
30 (18) Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Good Deeds and Dirty Rags (1989)
31 (34) The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos (1978)
32 (37) Del Amitri - Waking Hours (1989)
33 (24) The Skids - The Absolute Game (1980)
34 (25) The Silencers - A Letter From St Paul (1987)
35 (-) The Skids - Days in Europa (1979)
36 (26) Big Dish - Swimmer (1986)
37 (27) Roddy Frame - Surf (2002)
38 (31) Arab Strap - The Last Romance (2005)
39 (32) Hipsway - Hipsway (1986)
40 (33) The Delgados - The Great Eastern (2000)
41 (48) The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988)
42 (35) Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998)
43 (46) Edwyn Collins - Hope and Despair (1989)
44 (47) Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth (1981)
45 (23) Love and Money - Dogs In Traffic (1991)
46 (-) Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting (2004)
47 (-) Horse - The Same Sky (1990)
48 (-) Friends Again - Trapped and Unwrapped (1984)
49 (-) The Beta Band - Three EPs (1998)
50 (42) Gun - Taking On The World (1989)
51 (-) The Waterboys - A Pagan Place (1984)
52 (30) Josef K - The Only Fun In Town (1981)
53 (-) The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next... (1973)
54 (22) Kevin McDermott Orchestra - Mother Nature's Kitchen (1989)
55 (-) Danny Wilson - Meet Danny Wilson (1987)
56 (-) Aztec Camera - Love (1987)
57 (36) Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (1991)
58 (-) Texas - White on Blonde (1997)
59 (-) Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land (1987)
60 (-) James Grant - Holy Love (2004)
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NearlySane · 20 Seconds To Comply Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 20

Thought I'd look at the albums in a similar way to I used on the singles.

Most common decade is once more the 80s with 33 out of the 60, next are the 90s with 14, followed by the 00s with 8 and 70s with 5. This is fairly closely in line with the split on the singles chart - so no benefit from the Life on Mars effect for the 70s

The most prominent individual year is 1987 with 7 and this is followed by 1984 and 1989 with 6 a piece. No other year has more than 3. As against the singles this is about 2-3 years later than the peak which would tie in with people initially buying singles and then albums.

There's a run of years between 1978 and 1991 where there is at least one album from each of them. Then there are no appearances for 1992 - 1994 - I leave the interpretation of that up to others

Statsbunker · Site Admin 2 Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Posts: 68