Man, your gonna make my button-pushin' finger hurt...
And in honor of the new #1, I put together a feature for us!
Oboy, give the man a prize...
Wow, you're a bit mopey...
Well, it's like this, man... you celebrated your 60th birthday last week! 6-0! I only ever got to 42 of 'em before... you know...
Yeah, but you're done getting old... done hurting... you get to hang out once a week and play music! Not to mention all the people whose lives you made better, and the impersonators you made rich...
Ah know, I know... I just wonder what I'da done if I was 60...
It would stagger the mind, bud...
Ya think?
You had six songs Chart in the United States AFTER you died... 9 on the country chart... and 16 in the UK, including hitting #1 in five countries with A Little More Action! Think if you'd have been putting out new stuff all that time!
Hmmm.... How many hits did the Beatles have after they split up?
It's always about the Beatles, isn't it?
Oh, c'mon... please?
Sigh... 7 here, 8 in the UK... and a #1 in Canada.
WHEE-WHOOO! I feel better now!
You might even say, "I Feel Fine..."
Ya hadda do that did ya?
Sure, to settle you down for our first new debut!
All right, then...at #10 here's some more Melody's Echo Chamber...
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Was that... tree sex?
Let's go with, "no", and move on. So I was looking up, because our new #1 becomes the 22nd #1- out of a total of 182- in M10 history to be at least 5 years old when it first hit here. A variety of reasons for this- some were Released after the fact, some I went digging for, or stumbled onto in looking for other things. So I got wondering if and how these songs did on the charts besides mine. A lot of them never did get released, at least here- Sweet's cover of Peppermint Twist was only released in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, for instance. Some were released, but never charted- like Flo and Eddie's Keep It Warm, like two of Melody's Echo Chamber's 3 #1s- I Follow You and Crystallized- or ELO's Buildings Have Eyes. One, at least, was released in a different version- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Walls #3.
However, at least 3 hit the UK charts, one was a big hit in Denmark (Agnes Obel's Riverside, big surprise there) 3 hit the lesser US chart categories, and 2- and only 2- actually hit the Billboard pop charts. And I'll tell you all about them- after the next debut...
Yessir, an' we're at #8 with an act that has a buncha M10 hits- just none in a while, though. With vocal helps from a band called Cannons, here's electronic production duo The Knocks-
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So anyway, the very first M10 #1 was Status Quo's In The Army Now, which was a #2 UK hit in 1986. Tom Jones's version of Till from 1971 hit #2 as well there. And the other UK charter was the Jayhawks and Bad Time from 1995, which peaked- or peeked- at #70.
Weezer had a #11 hit on the Alt chart with Island In The Sun from 2001; Phoenix took Lisztomania to #5 on the Rock Chart in 2009; and Puddle Of Mudd's cover of Gimme Shelter made #26 on Mainstream Rock.
That reminds me- I ain't heard ya say if any of our songs're on the latest chart in a while...
Nope, just Elton and Dua's Cold Heart, still drifting along at #30 in week #36... So why don't we play the last of the 3 debuts, and then I'll let you in on which of the already-mentioned tunes actually made the Billboard Pop charts...
Okay dokay- at #6, here's more Sunflower Bean...
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See, now that's what I like inna video!
Yep, cool stuff! So those two songs ar... what?
Don' ya wanna drum up the drama by havin' me do the M10 first?
I'm not sure it's all that much drama... but why not?
Okay! So...
9- Tears For Fears and The Tipping Point slides from 6...
7- Joy Downer an' Beck up one with Chain Reaction...
5- Again with Melody's Echo Chamber, down 2 with Alma...
4- up 6 for the Four Tops, from 1974 with One Chain Don't Make No Prison...
3- This song onna chart's making me seasick! Back up again from 4 is April March with Rolla Rolla...
2- Last week's top doggie was Brooke Annibale's What If You, now down to #2...
And the reason that this week's feature came up, with another #1 from 1995's Tomorrow The Green Grass...
...the Jayhawks and I'd Run Away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the two that charted on the Billboard Pops? Island In The Sun got to #111, and TJ and Till made #41! Lord willing, next week!
