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Another absolutely fucking insane list of madmadmadness.

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BBC Radio Devon (god save me from this godforesaken little patch of land that sticks into the sea and that I love so much APART FROM THE BLOODY PEOPLE) recently polled thier listeners via the internet (I know, crazy huh, that all these people who are waiting to die have net connections?!) to find out "Devon's Top 50 Albums" which is a bit like asking for "Alaska's Favourite Pig Farms" or "Zimbabwe's Favourite Dry Ski Slopes" only MORE INSANE.

Anyway, I can't actually bring myself to say anything about the contents, but here's the list anyway...

1 Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water
2 Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
3 Meatloaf Bat Out Of Hell
4 Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
5 Beatles Sergeant Pepper
6 Abba Gold
7 Fleetwood Mac Rumours
8 Queen Greatest Hits
9 Eva Cassidy Songbird
10 Eagles Hotel California

11 Carole King Tapestry
12 Queen A Night At The Opera
13 Norah Jones Come Away With Me
14 Paul Simon Graceland
15 Jeff Wayne War Of The Worlds
16 Beatles Abbey Road
17 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
18 Elvis Presley Golden Records Vol 3
19 Michael Jackson Thriller
20 Simply Red Stars

21 Beatles Hard Day's Night
22 Show Of Hands Country Life
23 Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
24 Beach Boys Pet Sounds
25 Coldplay Parachutes
26 Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland
27 Beatles Revolver
28 Pink Floyd The Wall
29 Elvis Presley Blue Hawaii
30 U2 Joshua Tree

31 Frank Sinatra Songs For Swinging Lovers
32 Eagles The Very Best Of
33 Blondie Parallel Lines
34 Dido No Angel
35 Peter Gabriel So
36 Neil Diamond Hot August Night
37 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV
38 Fleetwood Mac Tango In The Night
39 Supertramp Breakfast In America
40 Robbie Williams Escapology

41 Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells A Story
42 Carpenters The Singles 1969-73
43 Dire Straits Love Over Gold
44 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
45 Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
46 Robbie Williams Swing When You're Winning
47 Enya Paint The Sky With Stars
48 Bob Dylan Bringing It All Back Home
49 REM Automatic For The People
50 John Denver Rocky Mountain High

Who the fuck are Show Of Hands??!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/england/radiodevon/top_50_albums.shtml

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 April 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDCASS70311061856381709&sql=Btqb8b5p4tsqf

That's Show Of Hands, I guess.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 April 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

it's nice to see "tango in the night" getting some love

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I own 12 of them. BREAKFAST IN AMERICA??!! WHATTHEFUCK??!!

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

haha that's awesome. Who is Eva Cassidy? I don't actually want to know, I'm just saying, I have never heard of her.

― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Interesting that something like Show of Hands should do so well

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Where's Muse, eh? And Coldplay? And Jackdaw music? They're all local!

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

yes that eva cassidy entry is puzzling...is she some new local lass, eh, nick? set to take on the world?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahaha! Eva cassidy is only known to people of a certain age. Terry Wogan 'broke' her on his Radio 2 breakfast show. That record is a load of covers, including an awful take on "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and a good version of "People Get Ready". Good voice, to be fair. And, oh yeah, she was dead before she got any radio play.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

actually for some reason i have recieved more promos and eva cassidy fucking press over the last year than any other single artists. she seems to have released more records than tupac!!!!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 18 April 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Eva Cassidy is the only person to have had two #1 UK albums this decade (except Will Young might have as well. I'm not sure).

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 April 2004 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

A couple of odd entries aside, this just looks like a typical enough semi-canon list, really.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Coldplay is present and correct at #25.

It's nice to see 'Parallel Lines' as high as #33. I like Devon.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Good spot, Nick. I think I must unconsciously block them out to the extent that I can no longer read their name.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 18 April 2004 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"Brothers In Arms" is too low.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 April 2004 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

BOTW is #1 but nobody reps for Bookends ?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 18 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone on here should try and start a club in Devon. That will be worth the laughs.

― ___ (___), Sunday, 18 April 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Lot of good albums on the list, actually, but what's up
with "15 Jeff Wayne War Of The Worlds," that's a shock.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Sunday, 18 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

John Denver! I am vindicated!

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 18 April 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmm, I have twelve also, but that's the Beatles, mostly.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 April 2004 08:33 (twenty-two years ago)


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