The Shock Of The Life: The DEATH Of England Music Charts

[CU_AMiGA]

Hey Yo!

I woke up, on what seemed to me, a perfectly normal Bank Holiday Morning. I looked out the window and it was a damn good sunny day. I then went downstairs, to have my breakfast and read newspaper (the breakfast at hand was a bowl of rice crispies). But when i turned to the music charts section, the sky clouded over... AND THE SKY TURNED BLACK! :-(

When i looked at the top 10 chart, i noticed that this tragic tune was at the top. CrAzY FrOg!

To say i was upset, was an undersatement. I was expecting my beloved Coldplay to be uplomp at the top. But oh no! Not these stupid English idiots! They had to pick a bloody scatchy bloody awful song. Words cannot describe my anger! :pissed:

Regards,

[PMC]

What's amused me in all this is the fact that the music industry suits are somewhat miffed that a track as awful as Crazy Frog can get to number one.

The irony in this is staggering - those same people who have pedalled the airwaves with The Spice Girls, Boyzone, The Cheeky Girls etc are complaining about crap songs making the charts...

... But even this is nothing new.  Back in 1981, Ultravox's Vienna was held off the top spot thanks to Joe Dolce with "Shaddup You Face", a crime for which he remains unpunished to this day.

[Bezzen]

Well. The Swedish chart has had Schnappi - Das Kleine Krokodil in the number one spot this month.  :-o

But that's the way it is. The majority of the world's population is stupid. And unfortunately stupid people are allowed to buy records.

[Vincent]

The Shock Of The Life: The DEATH Of England Music Charts

Hmmm, they've been dead for a long long time now.

The last time I listened to the charts was waaay back in 1995 when Nine Inch Nails released Closer.  Simon Mayo screwed up and played the full uncut version on the radio :-D

The only time you got quality tunes on the radio was when John Peel or Mark & Lard or Tommy Vance were on.

Sadly two of those have gone and the others have split.

Are we all forgetting Timmy Mallet and his Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini tripe, or his Tetris Song?

Or Aqua, or Westlife?

I have to say, much as I hate that crazy frog song, it's far better than any of the crap the SpiceGirls or Westlife* or Gareth Gates ever released.

*Basically any Cowell/Fuller produced crap

[Wilse]

The thing is, were the charts ever alive?

Even in the 'Golden era' of the sixties the top ten was usually filled with garbage.

Wilse wrote:
The thing is, were the charts ever alive?

Even in the 'Golden era' of the sixties the top ten was usually filled with garbage.

The chart doesn't reflect all records that are bought, only what records by certain record labels are bought.

[Bezzen]

The chart doesn't reflect all records that are bought, only what records by certain record labels are bought.

It's not often that those labels who are not in those chart outsell anything from the major labels though. Especially not when it comes to singles.

[odin]

The original flash of that 'frog' (you know....the F1 car) was quite funny before it got turned into a ringtone and was advertised every 5 minutes on the 'music' channels on TV...

[Vincent]

odin wrote:
5 minutes on the 'music' channels on TV...

We regularly get the ad *twice* per ad break on quite a few channels - all music ones and Sky Sports included.

[odin]

At a volume level 100% higher than the TV channel's own sound...

odin wrote:
At a volume level 100% higher than the TV channel's own sound...

As a former employee of Sky TV I am privvy to the real reason that the volume is higher during the advert breaks.

Can anyone guess?  It's really obvious too.

[Vincent]

mdma wrote:
As a former employee of Sky TV I am privvy to the real reason that the volume is higher during the advert breaks.

Can anyone guess?  It's really obvious too.

Trying to make them think they're going deaf when the prog starts again? :-P

Or to scare them off to the kitchen to make a cuppa?

[Wilse]

I've always thought it was so that you'd pay more attention to it than you'd actually like.

Wilse wrote:
I've always thought it was so that you'd pay more attention to it than you'd actually like.

Because 95% of viewers go to the kitchen/bog when the adverts come on, so the volume gets increased so you can still hear what they are trying to flog you.