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Rock music - when did you stop caring what was in the charts?
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 1 June 2009 - 9:36pm.
For me it was early 2000s.
I don't care anymore but am I missing out?
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When they moved ToTP
from a Thursday.
Yeah,
a) when they starting buggering about with where ToTP was and how long it was
b) when the 'live' acts started to consist of an endless parade of identikit dancers doing some desultory frugging to a generic dance track knocked out in someone's bedroom like a half-arsed wank. So, about somewhere in the mid 90's I suppose.
Spot On Fraser
Never thought about this before, but yeah that'd be about the time for me too.
Kept being interested in the album charts though till three or four years ago.
In about...
1985.
When I stopped
Working in a record store and thus didn´t need to keep track of all those mor-nostalgia-god-awful-collections in the let´s-make-money-on-people-who-haven´t-figured-out-how-to-download-yet-category.
The charts?
I never started caring. What have I missed?
That depends how old you are…
… but there was once a time when pop music was fun.
I think it was about 2001
TOTP's demise and the dip in singles-buying generally was what did it for me. I miss the charts.
I still think a Rockin' Actuary could work out a chart for the 21st Century. Taking into account (say) download traffic, blog mentions, facebook members, radio airplay, CD sales, live show attendances, tweets, farts, ejaculations.
I stopped caring
after the charts were rigged to prevent the Sex Pistols from being number 1 on The Queen's Silver Anniversary. I'm a monarchist, I love the Pistols and I hate cheating.
1991
When Bryan f***ing Adams stopped James from getting to Number 1.....
Is that "Everything I do" song
still at no. 1?
Stopped watching TOTP Late 80's
Morrissey with his hearing aid was probably the last decent thing I remember. It had a golden age for me in the late 70's early 80's when you could see Buzzcocks, Generation X, Adam Ant, Jam, Specials, The Beat etc.
Couldn't tell you what the number 1 single is now, haven't bothered with the charts since about 1978.
The turn of the century
I used to be charts-obsessed as a teenager, and I'm still interested to an extent now. But then when things entered the charts high up then plummetted, meaning it was impossible to track a song's progress up the charts, all the fun went out of it.
I still look at the new Top 40 every week, but I've heard of very few of the acts, have heard even fewer of the songs, and couldn't tell you what was number one off the top of my head, but I still like to be in touch.
At least things actually go up the charts now. It's mildly more interesting, but it's not like I'm sitting by radio taping the new entries during the chart rundown anymore.
My mother always told me…
… avoid any record where the artist's name includes 'feat'. And the modern charts are full of them.
Honourable exception
Cop.
It's a fair one.
You beat me to it!
You beat me to it!
Perhaps
you could change the rule to "avoid any "hit" record where the artist's name includes 'feat'".
Or…
… I should have put 'ft' rather than 'feat'.
Never!
I just stopped knowing every single No.1 by date, no. of weeks at the top, chart climb/fall...
Would like to think this was because I got all mature around the late 90s/early 00s, but more likely I just lost track - what with the ludicrous turnover of chart-toppers and me being pretty drunk throughout my 20s.
About 8 years ago...
I moved to NYC about 8 years ago. Since then, I've only paid attention to what I like. There's different sets of charts out there, mine are the charts of the street. In a city like this, you get exposed to all of it, and then you can make up your own mind from there :)
Nick
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