Elvis walks to the title of 1000th Uk Number 1 - Page 2 - aberdeen-music

Ross · 12-01-2005, 13:54

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Originally Posted by mmd040

Nobody should pay any attention to the charts after the age of about 14 or so.

Err.. I do.... religiously..... although it is kinda part my job.

nullmouse · 12-01-2005, 14:43

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Originally Posted by jester1470

Actually Blobby wasn't a charity single, the money went to Noel Edmonds and the BBC.

Not owning it I went on memory alone

Still, the point holds - He was a character that had relevence at the time the CD was released, albeit symbolic of dysmal Saturday night entertainment.

Michael MacLennan · 12-01-2005, 14:54

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Originally Posted by Ross

Elvis is 5,000 ahead in the Midweeks

Manics @ Number 2
Killers @ Number 3

Couldn't have gone to a nice chap.

What, a long-deceased drug-addicted sex attacker?

Jammer · 13-01-2005, 19:53

Elvis was a great singer but this number One's thing means nothing for a few reasons:

- The singles chart is now more meaningless than ever
- There have been over a hundred of Elvis singles released over the years so proportionally he's bound to have a high number of noumber 1s
- The record company is the only winner, as ever, with their deceased artists catalogue.
- New talent takes a back seat again for a reissue.

qzdiablo · 13-01-2005, 20:15

would elvis care?

Jammer · 13-01-2005, 20:34

Probably not, I mean he was never the man for quality control when he was alive. He'd just zonked out of his face and muching a huge burger

NARC · 13-01-2005, 23:27

Lets hope Empty Souls gets it, as a geniune song of the moment and not something that doesnt deserve to be there in 2005 ie elvis

qzdiablo · 13-01-2005, 23:41

that looked like a very genuine post there from demon cleaner

Swingin' Ryan · 14-01-2005, 01:33

Thaty's probably the best thing to happen to the charts for a long time. Elvis at number one and the Manics at number two. Two of my all time favourites.

All the Elvis doubters can only but look at the facts, he's long dead and still topping the charts. When private-schooled whining filth like Keane and Coldplay and the baggy-trousered Topman rock of the Lost Prophets are kept off the top by Elvis Presley, when he's lying dead and buried in his velvet-lined coffin, content in the knowledge that he not only created Rock and Roll music but the whole image of Rock and Roll aswell...life is good.
Next to Frank Sinatra, Elvis was the best thing to happen to music ever. He came to save us all from Glenn Miller. You wouldn't have your synchronised guitar-jumps and on-stage "rocking-out" if Elvis hadn't had the balls to shake things up. No-one seems to realise how controversial Rock and Roll was in it's time, far more earth-shattering than the Pistols on Bill Grundy or Marilyn Manson's mini-Nuremberg shows. That's why he's still relevant.

And so what if he got fat towards the end of his life, he did more for the development of music than anyone I can think of, so he can eat a Bengali Tiger every day if he wants too, it doesn't make a difference.

John Lennon said something along the lines of "Before Elvis there was nothing", which was wrong there was Sinatra, but in respect to modern guitar music there wasn't.

Cloud · 14-01-2005, 01:35

Not forgetting the amount of gimmicks that the Manics have put into ensuring a good chart position for Empty Souls - what with handing out thousands of slipcases to hold all three single formats AND selling all three formats for £5..