Pop Charts

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Pop Idols - The Rivals

 

27 (-5) SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND

GIRLS ALOUD

 

77 (-) SACRED TRUST/AFTER YOU'RE GONE

ONE TRUE VOICE

 

Hmm 50 places difference - I think we know who won!

 

Re-Issues from Early 90's

 

19 (-) CAN YOU DIG IT

MOCK TURTLES

 

44 (-) WHERE LOVE LIVES

ALISON LIMERICK

 

Welcome back to the Mock Turtles, wonder if your career will last longer this time time!

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I didn't fare so well

 

183 (-) EIGHT LEGS OF RHYME

LYRICAL TARANTULA

EFM RECORDINGS

 

Still did a bit better than this:

 

187 (-) BETTER LIFE / THAT DAY IN THE FOREST

COLIN ZEAL

EFM RECORDINGS

 

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[FleetFanatic]

What worries me is the grestest hits album due out shortly from The Mock Turtles.....

 

.....don't you actually have to have some greatest hits to enable such a title?

[Colin Zeal EFM]

The "Two Sides" album by the Mock Turtles is absolutely brilliant. A great collection of early-90's indie/pop. I would imagine the "Greatest Hits" (or as Thornsy mentioned on a separate thread, "The Best Of.." would be a better title) will be a very strong collection of songs.

 

"And Then She Smiles" and to a lesser extent "Strings & Flowers" were also quality singles by the band that boasts Steve Coogan's brother as their singer/guitarist.

 

 

[FleetFanatic]

Yes but greatest hits implies that they were indeed hits.

 

To my knowledge, the only hit was indeed 'Can U Dig It' which reached the giddy heights of number 19!

(No doubt the re-issue 'thanks' to vodafone will chart higher.)

 

Thornsy is indeed correct with his 'best of' choice of words.

[Colin Zeal EFM]

I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, but I have a feeling the re-issue went in at 19 yesterday too. "And Then She Smiles" was number 40-something back in Summer 1991, off the top of my head. "Strings And Flowers" failed to chart, although I still own it on 7" single!!

 

Off to see them at the Mean Fiddler on March 26th!!

 

 

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Can You Dig It - Number 18

And then She smiles - Number 44

That was all .....

 

I got out some of my Mock Turtles singles last week, the track that I was trying to remember last week was "Lay me down" which is ace!

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

I was trawling the net for chart archives for the above infomation, I couldn't find any Top 75 sites, but a good Top 40 one here (It does albums as well)

 

Here are some favorites:

8 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine 30 Something Album Mar 1991

23 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Sheriff Fatman Single Jun 1991

29 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine 101 Damnations Album Sep 1991

11 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine After The Watershed Single Oct 1991

14 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Rubbish Single Jan 1992

21 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine 30 Something (re-issue) Album Feb 1992

7 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine The Only Living Boy In New Cross Single Apr 1992

1 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine 1992 - The Love Album Album May 1992

22 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Do Re Me So Far So Good Single Jul 1992

16 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Lean On Me I Won't Fall Over Single Sep 1993

5 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine Post Historic Monsters Album Sep 1993

40 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Lenny And Terence Single Oct 1993

24 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Glam Rock Cops Single Mar 1994

22 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine Starry Eyed And Bollock Naked Album Mar 1994

30 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Let's Get Tattoos Single Nov 1994

34 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine The Young Offender's Mum Single Feb 1995

9 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine Worry Bomb Album Feb 1995

35 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine Born On The 5th Of November Single Sep 1995

37 Carter - The Unstoppable Sex Machine Straw Donkey…The Singles Album Oct 1995

 

The Poor Mock Turtles:

18 Mock Turtles Can You Dig It Single Mar 1991

33 Mock Turtles Two Sides Album Jul 1991

19 Mock Turtles Can You Dig It (re-issue) Single Mar 2003

 

And for the Spitting Image Link:

1 Spitting Image The Chicken Song Single May 1986

22 Spitting Image Santa Claus Is On The Dole / First Atheist Tabernacle Choir Single Dec 1986