chip
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I watched Saturday's match with a Spanish stream and the commentators did an interesting version of London Calling for spurs first goal. It won't be a hit.
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[Music] Top Bands who never had a hit song
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- Jun 13, 2020
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I'm not sure I would count LED Z, stairway is a classic and considered one of, if not, the greatest rock track of all time. Whether it was released as a single is not the barometer of hit song imo
- Jun 20, 2021
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I was being ironic
Many bands in the 1970s and 1980s stopped worrying about singles, the money was in touring and albums. For many bands, e.g Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin etc, the album was all important, not the individual tracks. And of course, the prog rock bands rarely released singles, as their album tracks were too long.
I think we are now seeing the same thing today with streaming. It doesn't matter for most artists whether their singles are hits anymore.
It still wasn't Led Zep though!I was being ironic
TBH, it would probably been better if the OP had specified top twenty - which is probably the criterion most of us were thinking of. It might have saved the odd argument!
Agree your point about prog rock bands only doing LPs though.
That's already been covered, they had 17 Top 40 singles, and not forgetting that Bankrobber made the top 30 on import sales only
I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) peaked at 21and spent 4 weeks in the top 30.
Given they never issued singles in the UK it's not surprising.
See my post #46 - top twenty or nothing!
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Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits?
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Machine Gun Fellatio.
Their greatest song, I'm a mutha fucka on a motorcycle, only reached number 67 on the Aussie charts.
Their greatest song, I'm a mutha fucka on a motorcycle, only reached number 67 on the Aussie charts.
Wishbone Ash10 top 40 albums, but all 41 singles never reached the top 100.
As far as the theme music was concerned, I'm pretty sure that must have been down to not paying royalties to the record company.
I know that in the 60s there was a rule about not playing more than x hours of recorded music on the radio, which is why they did "live" sessions that were actually prerecorded, but I don't know if that rule covered TOTP or television more generally.
There are of course, exceptions to all these generalisations. King Crimson did get on TOTP:
Yep, strange times - 'Needle time' agreement prevented the Beeb playing many records on the radio - that's why they employed people like Elvis Costello's dad to sing cover versions. I'm pretty sure it covered TV too - some of the 'Pop' programmes featured Pinky and Perky singing the latest chart hits.........
For those who couldn't afford hit singles, Woollies used to sell cheaper singles on their own label which were cover versions of whatever was in the charts at the time!
maltaseagull
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I would! Turned to mush pretty fast after Gabriel left.
IMHO, like ....................................
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
The levellers were pretty popular in the 1990's but never had a top 10 single
I haven’t. Do they feature ?