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"How was that their highest charting single?"

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  • #202
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    fryup wrote: »
    * and on a side note - they lived in Dublin for a spell during the 80's for tax reasons

    Never knew that!


  • #203
    NewbridgeIR
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    fryup wrote: »
    * and on a side note - they lived in Dublin for a spell during the 80's for tax reasons

    and in Borris. Got their autographs then - just waited outside.

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  • #204
    Ash.J.Williams
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    and in Borris. Got their autographs then - just waited outside.

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    And blessington


  • #205
    fryup
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    fryup wrote: »
    * and on a side note - they lived in Dublin for a spell during the 80's for tax reasons
    its_steve116 wrote: »
    Never knew that!

    and iirc.... so did The Police, Spandau Ballet, Howard Jones and UB40


  • #206
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    fryup wrote: »
    and iirc.... so did The Police, Spandau Ballet, Howard Jones and UB40

    Sting lived in Galway.


  • #207
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    fryup wrote: »
    and iirc.... so did The Police, Spandau Ballet, Howard Jones and UB40

    Plus
    Frankie Goes To Hollywood- also in Borris


  • #208
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    Plus
    Frankie Goes To Hollywood- also in Borris

    What is it with Borris? Thompson Twins AND Frankie Goes to Hollywood.


  • #209
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,164 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Ozzy Osbourne and Thompson twins had the same place in blessington don’t recall Ozzy actually being there though


  • #210
    NewbridgeIR
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    its_steve116 wrote: »
    What is it with Borris? Thompson Twins AND Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

    Borris House is a big stately mansion - ideal place to get away to and record.

    FGTH had an incident with a chimney fire..... they were there when recording second LP Liverpool.


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  • #211
    BOSTIK
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    I think the T Twins and FGTH should've gone to Slane Castle instead.


  • #212
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Canadian band Simple Plan were quite popular with pop punk fans in the early 00s with songs like I'd Do Anything, Shut Up and I'm Just a Kid, but it wasn't until 2008 and 2012 that they would reach the UK top 40 with "When I'm Gone" (#26) and the Sean Paul collaboration "Summer Paradise" (#12) respectively.


  • #213
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    The Trammps are easily best known for their 1977 disco hit "Disco Inferno", but believe it or not it never made the UK top 10! It only peaked at #16.









    The band outcharted it with the less well-known "Hold Back the Night", which reached #5 in 1975.


  • #214
    Welsh Megaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,222 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Alvin Stardust will forever be remembered for the classic ‘My Coo Ca Choo’... :cool:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ZqNBd_orI



    Yet it only reached number two in the UK singles chart. His follow-up single that NOBODY remembers, ‘Jealous Mind’, hit the top spot!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4q3Cy8X6Mo


  • #215
    Declan A Walsh
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    Welsh Megaman wrote: »
    Alvin Stardust will forever be remembered for the classic ‘My Coo Ca Choo’... :cool:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ZqNBd_orI



    Yet it only reached number two in the UK singles chart. His follow-up single that NOBODY remembers, ‘Jealous Mind’, hit the top spot!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4q3Cy8X6Mo

    I mentioned that in Post 9 back in 2018!
    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106420922
    https://forumofgames.com/




  • #216
    BOSTIK
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    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it


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  • #217
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    BOSTIK wrote: »
    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it

    I've heard it on Non Stop 90s.


  • #218
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,104 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    BOSTIK wrote: »
    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it

    in fairness "Fairytale" is a Pogues record that features Kirsty MacColl rather than a full collaboration.

    MacColl's own biggest hit was "A New England" which is pretty well known, but for some reason I though her cover of "Days" had done better.


  • #219
    NewbridgeIR
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    BOSTIK wrote: »
    The only non-collaborative single from the Pogues to reach the UK Top 20 was "Tuesday Morning", which peaked at no. 18 in 1993. It featured Spider Stacey on vocals, as Shane McG was outside the wire at that time.

    A fine song, which I really like, but nobody appears to have much recall for it
    its_steve116 wrote: »
    I've heard it on Non Stop 90s.

    I included it on Part 1 of my More Forgotten '90s series


  • #220
    gabria
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    Betty Boo's Doin' the Do reached no 7 in summer 1990. That was outcharted by the less remembered follow up single Where are you baby which reached no 3. she never made the top ten after that


  • #221
    NewbridgeIR
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    All I Really Want to know is what's the highest charting UK hit from Jagged Little Pill?

    You Oughta Know it's not Ironic

    Or Hand In My Pocket

    You'll Learn it's this one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuO49jbovg


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  • #222
    gabria
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    All I Really Want to know is what's the highest charting UK hit from Jagged Little Pill?

    You Oughta Know it's not Ironic

    Or Hand In My Pocket

    You'll Learn it's this one

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iuO49jbovg


    Yeah that's a pretty unremarkable song. Her highest charting song in UK overall is Thank You from the next album in 1998. If it weren't for the video of nekkid Alanis I'd say people would be asking why it got to no 5


  • #223
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    You knew it was 2011 when Royseven's "We Should Be Lovers" was everywhere. The recently reformed Dublin six-piece had the most played song by an Irish artist on the radio that year. But this wasn't reflected in its chart position - it only reached #16.


    The band outcharted it by TEN positions, for two weeks no less, in September of 2006, with the almost completely forgotten track, "Older".


  • #224
    El Tarangu
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    On the phone, so can't double-check to see if it's been posted already, but I learned today that Neil Diamond had ten #1 singles in the US - none of which were 'Sweet Caroline', which only made it to #4


  • #225
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Ha watched Alan partridge last night “you can keep your Jesus here’s the real king of the Jews Neil diamond”


  • #226
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    El Tarangu wrote: »
    On the phone, so can't double-check to see if it's been posted already, but I learned today that Neil Diamond had ten #1 singles in the US - none of which were 'Sweet Caroline', which only made it to #4

    Just looked it up, he only had 3.


  • #227
    El Tarangu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,620 ✭✭✭El Tarangu


    its_steve116 wrote: »
    Just looked it up, he only had 3.

    Cheers - i came across it on a podcast, so perhaps they were just using a figurative 'ten'.


  • #228
    NewbridgeIR
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    The UK chart peaks of George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice singles is surprising, and gives an inaccurate picture of the overall success, popularity and lasting impact of that era - given how much the album sold

    Praying For Time #6
    Waiting For That Day #23
    Freedom! 90 #28
    Heal The Pain #31
    Cowboys And Angels #45

    Then look at the Older era from 1996/1997

    Jesus To A Child #1
    Fastlove #1
    Spinning The Wheel #2
    Older #3
    Star People '97 #2
    You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing #2

    The power of promotional vidoes, extra B-sides, mixes, multiple formats and tempting prices (the cheap era of two part CD singles for no more than £1.99) - whereas Listen Without Prejudice had one music video between all the singles and mostly instrumentals as B-sides.


  • #229
    its_steve116
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    The UK chart peaks of George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice singles is surprising, and gives an inaccurate picture of the overall success, popularity and lasting impact of that era - given how much the album sold

    Praying For Time #6
    Waiting For That Day #23
    Freedom! 90 #28
    Heal The Pain #31
    Cowboys And Angels #45

    Then look at the Older era from 1996/1997

    Jesus To A Child #1
    Fastlove #1
    Spinning The Wheel #2
    Older #3
    Star People '97 #2
    You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing #2

    The power of promotional vidoes, extra B-sides, mixes, multiple formats and tempting prices (the cheap era of two part CD singles for no more than £1.99) - whereas Listen Without Prejudice had one music video between all the singles and mostly instrumentals as B-sides.

    That's interesting.


  • #230
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    British industrial band Nitzer Ebb had a few songs in the lower reaches of the UK charts, but their signature "Join In the Chant" never charted there at all.
    Their three top 75 hits are "Ascend", "Godhead" and "Kick It", peaking at #52, #56 and #75 respectively.


  • #231
    Declan A Walsh
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    U2, from a relatively early stage in their career, had plenty of hits in Ireland - the big fish in a small pond syndrome! Their first Number 1 single in Ireland was The Unforgettable Fire in 1985. The Joshua Tree album was of course a major breakthrough for them worldwide, spawning two Number 1 singles in the US.

    Like Ireland, in the UK, U2 had a number of hits before that breakthrough album. What is a surprise is that Desire in 1988 was their first Number One single in the UK.
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  • #232
    its_steve116
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    Portishead's "Sour Times" is the only US top 100 single by the band, outperforming their most famous song "Glory Box". In the UK, "All Mine" was their only top 10, reaching #8.


  • #233
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Ultravox had just one entry on the Billboard Hot 100, and it was not "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes", which only bubbled under at #108, or "Vienna", which didn't chart at all in the US. Instead, it was the forgotten "Reap The Wild Wind"(#71). Averted by the former two songs in their native UK, where they were both Top 10 hits.


  • #234
    Declan A Walsh
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    The original most-played version of I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers stalled in the UK Charts at Number 11 in 1988. Their first hit single was Letter from America which reached Number 3. Another of their singles, King of The Road, reached Number 9. It wasn't until they re-recorded I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) for Comic Relief in 2007 that it actually reached Number 1, but it's still the original version that gets the most play.
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  • #235
    its_steve116
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    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    The original most-played version of I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers stalled in the UK Charts at Number 11 in 1988. Their first hit single was Letter from America which reached Number 3. Another of their singles, King of The Road, reached Number 9. It wasn't until they re-recorded I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) for Comic Relief in 2007 that it actually reached Number 1, but it's still the original version that gets the most play.

    Never knew that!


  • #236
    NewbridgeIR
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    Eo03VhZW4A88JHG?format=jpg&name=large

    In this winter 1988 face-off, you had (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles on Now 13 and Sunshine On Leith on Hits 9.


  • #237
    dark crystal
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    The UK chart peaks of George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice singles is surprising, and gives an inaccurate picture of the overall success, popularity and lasting impact of that era - given how much the album sold

    Praying For Time #6
    Waiting For That Day #23
    Freedom! 90 #28
    Heal The Pain #31
    Cowboys And Angels #45

    Then look at the Older era from 1996/1997

    Jesus To A Child #1
    Fastlove #1
    Spinning The Wheel #2
    Older #3
    Star People '97 #2
    You Have Been Loved / The Strangest Thing #2

    The power of promotional vidoes, extra B-sides, mixes, multiple formats and tempting prices (the cheap era of two part CD singles for no more than £1.99) - whereas Listen Without Prejudice had one music video between all the singles and mostly instrumentals as B-sides.

    I never knew 'Older' did so much better than 'Listen Without Prejudice' - an album I must have played every day for a year :o LWP is far superior, imo.

    I guess it had to do with being quite far removed from his previous album 'Faith' which had a much more commercial pop edge to it.


  • #238
    its_steve116
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    Stiff Little Fingers had 3 UK top 40 singles - but none of these were "Alternative Ulster" or "Suspect Device". Their only top 20 hit was the #15 "At the Edge".

    "Just Fade Away", which never reached the top 40, was in the charts for longer than "Nobody's Hero", which did reach the top 40.



  • #239
    breezy1985
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626169#Comment_117626169

    No surprise really. Most people in the UK dont realize Ulster is in the UK and would not understand the language of the troubles so wouldn't get the double entendres of Suspect Device



  • #240
    Rikand
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    Manic Street Preachers have, according to wikipedia, the record for most top 40 songs in the UK with 34. However, they have only had 2 number 1s

    Some of their big radio play songs didnt get there like Motorcyle Emptiness(#17), A Design of Life(#2), Kevin Carter(#9), Australia(#7), Everything must go(#5), You Stole the sun from my heart(#5), Tsunami(#11) or Your love alone is not enough(#2).


    The number ones were "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" (fair enough) and "Masses against the classes" (instantly forgotten)



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  • #241
    breezy1985
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626253#Comment_117626253

    2 great songs and really surprised they were number ones as they would be pretty political and not the most pop friendly. If I had to guess I would have said Your Love Alone and Everything Must go or maybe Design for Life


    No way in hell Masses is instantly forgotten either



  • #242
    Rikand
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    https://boards.ie/discussion/comment/117626293#Comment_117626293

    I more meant in terms of radio play. Once Masses was no longer in the charts it was never heard from again. That was definitely the point being made about other bands earlier in the threads. Maybe I dont listen to the same radio stations you do ?



  • #243
    NewbridgeIR
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    Masses Against The Classes was also a standalone (non-album) single which meant it has slipped through the cracks somewhat.



  • #244
    its_steve116
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    What was Megadeth's highest charting track in the UK? Was it "Peace Sells", "Symphony of Destruction", "Á Tout le Monde", etc?


    Nope! It was a cover of Alice Cooper's "No More Mr. Nice Guy", which reached #13 in 1990.



  • #245
    gabria
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    Just found this out last night while checking Snow Patrol's discography.

    Chasing Cars reached #6 in the UK charts. it was the highest selling single from any act not to get into the UK top five, back in 2006.

    Was it at least their highest charting single ? Nope.

    Was it "Run" or "You're all I have" ? Nope, they were both top ten but neither got as high as.....

    "Signal Fire" from the Spider Man 3 film in 2007. #4

    Like wtf I watched the film (forgettable) but never even can remember this song



  • #246
    irs
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    A lot of the time the performance of a single didn't reflect the songs popularity as there were other things affecting sales. Typically a single would sell better if it wasn't available on an album or it by the kind of act that were never going to sell albums. Also the competition can be much stronger at certain times of the year. One song hit by both of these was Wonderwall which was out a month after the album was released. Even then it was one of the biggest singles of the year but it was out the same day as a Robson & Jerome release which was guaranteed to be a huge seller and so missed out on being No.1.



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  • #247
    NewbridgeIR
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118288211#Comment_118288211

    Good points. Timing is crucial. Five Star's System Addict was the seventh and final single from Luxury Of Life but was released in that quiet period just after the Christmas 1985 rush. It resulted in chart peak of #3 which was a big surprise.



  • #248
    Declan A Walsh
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118308770#Comment_118308770

    Actually, that's an example of a song that does not surprise me as it is one of the first songs I think of when I hear Five Star mentioned.

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  • #249
    NewbridgeIR
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118311648#Comment_118311648

    The surprise was that a seventh single from an album would be its biggest hit. Normally the later singles from an album don’t do as well. Agree it’s a well known tune albeit it isn’t their chart peak (Rain Or Shine made #2)



  • #250
    its_steve116
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    Wu Tang Clan's only UK top 5 hit was a remix of Texas's "Say What You Want", subtitled "All Day Every Day". "Gravel Pit" only reached #6.



  • #251
    its_steve116
    Registered Users Posts: 2,631 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    So you may know that The Cure's only UK top 5 hit was "Lullaby". But did you know that they got to #2 in the US with "Lovesong", three places higher than they ever charted in their homeland? Even more interestingly, the only place they've had a #1 single was in Spain - and that was with ‘The Only One’, ‘Freakshow’ and ‘Sleep When I’m Dead’, all in 2008.



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