When did you last pay attention to the UK Music Top 40?

[Scott_M]

23 minutes ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

Was that released to stop one of the x factor winners from getting Christmas number 1? 

Yes.

 

I think “Smells Like Teen Spirit” got to #2 the year before via similar publicity.

 

The irony of “don’t vote for X-Factor, vote who we say instead” is not lost on me.

[VladimirIlyich]

Last record I bought was Pride in the name of Love by U2 and I probably havent paid any attention to the charts since. I knew bands since but not really their chart positions.

[Lee909]

Honesty never

I remember TOTP being on when I was a small kid very very early 90s but didn't really care. 

 

My Dad used to record on vhs tapes songs off MTV when he went home(we didn't have sky) so I grew up more with my parents putting on them tapes so everything from The Doors, Dire Straits, Hendrix etc or there recordings of live Floyd concerts

 

I didn't listen to that much music seriously till just before my 20s and only really found my music in my early 20s. Everything changed when I listened to Gary Moore on night at work

[Bjornebye]

37 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Was “Take A Look Around” by Limp Bizkit number 1 or 2?

 

Anyway, then. 
 

2000?

I think it was Smells like teen spirit they re-released that too 

 

Anyway Some Might Say is the last great number 1 

[Bjornebye]

25 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Yes.

 

I think “Smells Like Teen Spirit” got to #2 the year before via similar publicity.

 

The irony of “don’t vote for X-Factor, vote who we say instead” is not lost on me.

No that was years later 

 

Rage against the machine was the anti Cowell tune. Rightly so as well the belly button belt buckled falafel 

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I think it was Smells like teen spirit they re-released that too 

 

Anyway Some Might Say is the last great number 1 

Have you hidden the title of the song from this sentence?

[cochyn]

Early '90's for me. Stopped listening once I'd hit my late teens and discovered sex, drugs and rock n' roll (by which I mean porn mags,  shite cannabis resin and Jimi Hendrix's music - of which only the latter, thankfully, has stayed with me). 

 

I actually subjected myself to listening to the Top 40 on Spotify at work  the other week. Everything sounded too well-drilled, over-produced and slick. The Kids are no fucking fun these days.

[cloggypop]

Last time I worked in a record shop. 

[Bjornebye]

42 minutes ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

Have you hidden the title of the song from this sentence?

Superb. 

[John102]

Honestly no idea.

 

I remember when i was younger and i would hear people say they didnt know what was number 1, or didnt listen to the charts. It seemed so bizarre to me. I couldnt comprehend how you could not know what was the number 1 song in the land.

 

I dont remember making any effort to know it as a kid, it was just something that you knew. Perhaps it is the streaming stuff or the loss of top of the pops like people have mentioned, but it seemed to be a much bigger thing years ago. The take that vs blur stuff, who would be Christmas number one. It was genuinely news worthy stuff, certainly to those putting the news on at least.

 

I do wonder if kids are the same now, wondering how old people like me cant know that Cardi B is number 1.

 

 

[Evelyn Tentions]

About 1978. It's all been shit since disco.

[VladimirIlyich]

When chart music became the kind of thing made solely on computers and playing musical instruments was deemed redundant. This shite is not music.

[Mook]

May 1963, went right off it when those mop top cunts took over.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Mook said:

May 1963, went right off it when those mop top cunts took over.

Don't you mean February 1963 if you are describing who I think you're describing?

[Mook]

18 minutes ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

Don't you mean February 1963 if you are describing who I think you're describing?

No, I mean May 1963. That's why I wrote May.

 

February 1963 I was still very much in thrall with the hit parade.

[Gnasher]

22 minutes ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

Don't you mean February 1963 if you are describing who I think you're describing?

Freddy and the dreamers?

[Guest]

7 minutes ago, Mook said:

No, I mean May 1963. That's why I wrote May.

 

February 1963 I was still very much in thrall with the hit parade.

What happened in may 1963?

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

Freddy and the dreamers?

The Beatles has their first number 1 in February 1963. Not sure what happened in May 1963.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

What happened in may 1963?

Oasis took over. 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Oasis took over. 

Liam Gallagher was so good he was rocking and rolling at the age of -9 years old.

[Harry's Lad]

13 minutes ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

What happened in may 1963?

I made my first appearance.

[Mook]

56 minutes ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

The Beatles has their first number 1 in February 1963. Not sure what happened in May 1963.

I'm happy to be corrected but I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Mook said:

I'm happy to be corrected but I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

There seems to be some debate whether Please Please Me got to number 2 or number 1 in February. 

[Mook]

29 minutes ago, Fluter in Dakota said:

There seems to be some debate whether Please Please Me got to number 2 or number 1 in February. 

Aye, I was reading about that myself.  We can shake hands & call it a draw.

[Mudface]

Just now, Mook said:

Aye, I was reading about that myself.  We can shake hands & call it a draw.

That's ridiculous. You need to carry on defending your position, citing ever more dubious and esoteric sites and sniping at each other in unrelated threads.