Love-Hounds-request.UUCP@mit-eddie.UUCP (11/27/86)
Really-From: Jeff Dalton <jeff%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK> This week's Gallup Music Week/BBC/BPI LP chart has: 1 (1) Hits 5 -- Various 2 (3) The Whole Story -- Kate Bush 3 (2) Every Breath You Take - The Singles -- The Police 4 (8) O.S.T. Top Gun -- Various 5 (7) True Blue -- Madonna ... 11 (4) Live 1987-1985 -- Bruce Springsteen et al ... 14 (new) Infected -- The The So much for Bruce. The The is getting pushed mightily in the press. The last Time Out had an insert, twice-folded glossy re Infected, which says it is "Available in video, compact disc, tape, record, and book form". The front is the cover painting from one version of the LP, the back the picture used for the "torture sleeve" (the alternate LP cover). Inside you find pictures (presumably frames from the video), bits of lyrics, and "5 years since 'Burning Blue Soul'... 3 years since 'Soul Mining'... 2 years in the making... 'Infected' Utilizing the most powerful visual and lyrical metaphors to cut through the *flab* and into the *raw bones* of Addiction, Affliction, Attrition ... the Western Condition." And "to hear excerpts from 'Infected' phone (*) 0895 600505" (*) "23p off peak; 46p peak rate" I think I'll go back to my Fuzzbox singles...
Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (12/05/86)
Really-From: Jeff Dalton <jeff%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK> This tuesday's Gallup Music Week/BBC/BPI LP chart has: 1 (-) Now That's What I Call Music 8 -- Various 2 (1) Hits 5 -- Various 3 (2) The Whole Story -- Kate Bush 4 (3) Every Breath You Take - the Singles -- The Police 5 (4) Original Soundtrack "Top Gun" -- Various 6 (5) True Blue -- Madonna ... ! 15 (56) Different Light -- Bangles 16 (-) Notorious -- Duran Duran 17 (16) Brothers in Arms -- Dire Straits 18 (12) Revenge -- Eurithmics 19 (11) Live/1975-1985 -- Bruce Springsteen et al 20 (15) Disco -- Pet Shop Boys As you can see, the Christmas Variation has begun, filling the chart with Hits collections (there are three more in the "...") even though the Christmas Single race doesn't seem to have started. Kate is still the highest non-various in the chart, but Madonna still has the highest LP that isn't a singles package (and the the two people in front of me at Edinburgh Virgin both bought it). Bruce is still falling, but Dire Straits refuses to go away. And, for some reason, the Bangles have come back. Good news, say I.