Saturday, September 04, 2010

Radio Dupree Top 15 - September 2010

1. Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Birthright
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

2. Marillion - Incubus
Fugazi

3. Steely Dan - King Of The World
Countdown To Ecstasy

4. Steely Dan - Midnight Cruiser
Can't Buy A Thrill

5. Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
Does Humor Belong In Music?

6. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (2000)
CD single

7. Roxy Music - Bitter End
Roxy Music

8. Steely Dan - Green Book
Everything Must Go

9. Steely Dan - My Old School
Countdown To Ecstasy

10. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
CD single

11. Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Aybe Sea - Burnt Weeny Sandwich
12. The Doors - Spanish Caravan - The Best Of Listener
13. Steely Dan - Almost Gothic - Two Against Nature
14. The Byrds - Ballad Of Easy Rider - Ballad Of Easy Rider
15. Yes - Starship Trooper - The Yes Album
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Chart compiled by listeners voting
on the songs they hear on Radio Dupree

This chart is ... weird. It begins and ends with Yes, but still doesn't. And inbetween we find five Steely Dan songs and the same song two times by the same artist!

To address that last oddity first we've sent our statistics and archive experts to explore the fact that George Harrison's My Sweet Lord is at 6 and again at 10. We'll see what they come back with and add to this post whatever info they find.

Four different albums and five different songs make Steely Dan hitting a record when it comes to simultaneous songs on the Radio Dupree chart. One third.

And what about Yes? Anderson, Bruford , Wakeman and Howe had all played in Yes and Jon Anderson saw this 1989 album as a reunion of sorts. But legal aspects kept them from recording and touring as Yes. Suggestions of calling the band The Affirmative or No wasn't adopted and the decided to stick with their own last names.

And that's it for this month.

/N.S.

1 comment:

angel said...

King of the World...always number one in my son's book. He has loved that song since he 7 or 8. As he says, what's not to like. A repeating killer keyboard line(performed by Donald Fagen on an arp soloist) and nuclear annihilation. I am so proud. :-)