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THE CURRENT TOP 75 (w/e 28/29 April 07)
1 (2) Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
2 (1) Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
3 (5) Deacon Blue - Raintown (1987)
4 (3) Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (1983)
5 (4) Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes (1984)
6 (11) Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
7 (6) Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
8 (8) The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops (1984)
9 (9) Travis - The Man Who (1999)
10 (15) The Blue Nile - Hats (1989)
11 (14) The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (1985)
12 (13) Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982)
13 (7) Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
14 (10) Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81 82 83 84) (1982)
15 (12) Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (1995)
16 (20) John Martyn - Solid Air (1973)
17 (17) Trashcan Sinatras - Cake (1990)
18 (32) Del Amitri - Waking Hours (1989)
19 (23) The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith (1988)
20 (18) The Associates - Sulk (1982)
21 (16) Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984)
22 (22) Idlewild - The Remote Part (2002)
23 (31) The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos (1978)
24 (19) Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (1984)
25 (21) The Skids - Scared To Dance (1979)
26 (41) The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988)
27 (34) The Silencers - A Letter From St Paul (1987)
28 (53) The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next... (1973)
29 (28) The Proclaimers - This Is The Story (1987)
30 (36) Big Dish - Swimmer (1986)
31 (25) Wet Wet Wet - Popped In Souled Out (1987)
32 (40) The Delgados - The Great Eastern (2000)
33 (47) Horse - The Same Sky (1990)
34 (45) Love and Money - Dogs In The Traffic (1991)
35 (24) Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team (1997)
36 (39) Hipsway - Hipsway (1986)
37 (30) Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Good Deeds and Dirty Rags (1989)
38 (-) Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George (1994)
39 (33) The Skids - The Absolute Game (1980)
40 (35) The Skids - Days in Europa (1979)
41 (27) Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk (1996)
42 (49) The Beta Band - Three EPs (1998)
43 (50) Gun - Taking On The World (1989)
44 (26) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country (2006)
45 (29) Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (1990)
46 (42) Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998)
47 (57) Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (1991)
48 (58) Texas - White on Blonde (1997)
49 (60) James Grant - Holy Love (2004)
50 (46) Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting (2004)
51 (-) Big Country - Steeltown (1984)
52 (-) The Bluebells - Sisters (1984)
53 (54) Kevin McDermott Orchestra - Mother Nature's Kitchen (1989)
54 (55) Danny Wilson - Meet Danny Wilson (1987)
55 (48) Friends Again - Trapped and Unwrapped (1984)
56 (-) Paolo Nutini - These Streets (2006)
57 (37) Roddy Frame - Surf (2002)
58 (38) Arab Strap - The Last Romance (2005)
59 (-) Annie Lennox - Diva (1992)
60 (-) Paul Quinn and the Independent Group - Will I Ever Be Inside of You? (1994)
61 (-) Coceau Twins - Garlands (1982)
62 (59) Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land (1987)
63 (-) Stealers Wheel - Ferguslie Park (1973)
64 (-) Billy Mackenzie - Beyond The Sun (1997)
65 (-) Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination (1981)
66 (51) The Waterboys - A Pagan Place (1984)
67 (52) Josef K - The Only Fun In Town (1981)
68 (-) Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998)
69 (56) Aztec Camera - Love (1987)
70 (43) Edwyn Collins - Hope and Despair (1989)
71 (-) Runrig - Heartland (1986)
72 (44) Dick Gaughan - Handful of Earth (1981)
73 (RE) Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
74 (-) The Fratellis - Costello Music (2006)
75 (-) Texas - Southside (1989)

Post-Chart Analysis from The Cat in the Stats Bunker:

Dave's having a lie down in a darkened room as he's having "one of his heads". So this week's inane chart-based ramblings are by The Cat.

As the votes continue to pour in like rain in Manchester, we've built a conservatory on to the chart and we're now at a Top 75. I won't get any bigger (boy, do I know that feeling).

As a result there are no casualties from last week's chart with 14 newcomers and one re-entry joining last week's Top 60. Highest new entry is Edwyn Collins, president-elect of an independent Scotland (if we had our way), and he's joined by a veritable cornucopia of caledonian crooners in the shape of Billy Mackenzie, Paul Quinn, Annie Lennox and Paolo Nutini.

Big climbers are The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's "Next", which would have been even higher had some of their fans read the rules (tsk!), Del Amitri's "Waking Hours" and The Waterboy's "Fishermans' Blues".

Big Country have taken over the top spot from the Jesus and Mary Chain, although this chart is anything but a two-horse race. The Blue Nile now have two albums in the Top 10, which isn't really a shock.

I'm off for a spot of lunch and a lick of my furballs.

Some fruit, a few nuts...double apple pie and custard.

The Cat , 28 April 2007 (NEW CHART: Next Weekend)
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NearlySane · 20 Seconds To Comply Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 20

Quick analysis of the charts this week - apologies for the gap but was in the wilds of Kintyre last week.

Most common decade is once more the 80s with 38 out of the 75, next are the 90s with 18, followed by the 00s with 13 and 70s with 5 and a 60s 1.
Noteably the enlargement of the chart means an improvement for more recent albums in that the 00s raised their percentage rep the most

We now have a tie for the most prominent individual year with 1984, 1987 and 1989 with 7
Three years now have 4 examples 1982, 2004 and 2006.

There's now a run of years between 1978 and 2000 where there is at least one album from each of them - except for 1993.

BTW like the featured voters choice