(08-28-2006) U2 on All-Time Album Chart -- Evening Echo*

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U2 on All-Time Album Chart

The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was today voted the nation’s favourite Number One album.

The smash hit only just pushed Michael Jackson’s Thriller album into second place by 201 votes in the BBC’s Radio 2 Music Club Top 100 Albums chart.

The nationwide survey saw more than 220,000 people select their favourite artists and was designed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the official UK album charts.

A full run-down of the top 100 was broadcast on Radio 2 by DJ Simon Mayo today.

U2’s Joshua Tree came in third, with Rumours by Fleetwood Mac taking fourth place.

The Fab Four scooped five spots in the album top 11, with Revolver taking sixth place, Abbey Road in eighth, the White Album at 10 and Rubber Soul taking 11th place.

Colossal Mike Oldfield hit Tubular Bells, which stayed in the charts for five years, also featured, taking the number 18 slot.

Of the classic albums that failed to reach the number one position, Britons voted Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon as their favourite with The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, by David Bowie, as number two.

The Official Album Chart started in 1956 and since then there have been 787 number one albums.

Presenter Simon Mayo said: “It is a very impressive list and no surprise at all that Sgt Pepper is at the top.

“It revolutionised music and what we expect from an album. A fine choice indeed.”

Misspellings by voters keen to take part in the poll also saw votes go to “The Dark Side of the Room” by “Pink Flid” and “Achtung Bono” by U2.

Other blunders included fans voting for “Codplay” and “Oink Floyd”.

The BBC Radio 2 Music Club Top 100 Albums list in full:

1 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Beatles
2 Thriller – Michael Jackson
3 The Joshua Tree – U2
4 Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
5 Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
6 Revolver – Beatles
7 Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
8 Abbey Road – Beatles
9 A Night At The Opera – Queen
10 The Beatles (The White Album) – Beatles
11 Rubber Soul – Beatles
12 Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits
13 (What’s The Story) Morning Glory? – Oasis
14 Automatic For The People – REM
15 Led Zeppelin IV (Four Symbols) – Led Zeppelin
16 Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morissette
17 Parallel Lines – Blondie
18 Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield
19 Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin
20 Band On The Run – Paul McCartney & Wings
21 Hounds Of Love – Kate Bush
22 Definitely Maybe – Oasis
23 Graceland – Paul Simon
24 Ray Of Light – Madonna
25 Who’s Next – Who
26 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
27 OK Computer – Radiohead
28 Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols – Sex Pistols
29 Aladdin Sane – David Bowie
30 Out Of Time – REM
31 A Rush Of Blood To The Head – Coldplay
32 Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters
33 X & Y – Coldplay
34 Born In The USA – Bruce Springsteen
35 Like A Prayer – Madonna
36 A Hard Day’s Night – Beatles
37 Confessions On A Dancefloor – Madonna
38 Parachutes – Coldplay
39 Harvest – Neil Young
40 Bad – Michael Jackson
41 American Idiot – Green Day
42 A Kind Of Magic – Queen
43 Faith – George Michael
44 Fever – Kylie Minogue
45 Back In Black – AC/DC
46 Let It Be – Beatles
47 Like A Virgin – Madonna
48 The Unforgettable Fire – U2
49 Imagine – John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band With The Flux Fiddlers
50 Help! – Beatles
51 Arrival – Abba
52 Led Zeppelin 3 – Led Zeppelin
53 Urban Hymns – Verve
54 Spice – Spice Girls
55 Sing When You’re Winning – Robbie Williams
56 Let’s Dance – David Bowie
57 Hopes And Fears – Keane
58 Diamond Dogs – David Bowie
59 Escapology – Robbie Williams
60 Parklife – Blur
61 Rattle And Hum – U2
62 Hot Fuss – The Killers
63 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb – U2
64 True Blue – Madonna
65 Sticky Fingers – Rolling Stones
66 Music – Madonna
67 A Day At The Races – Queen
=68 War – U2
=68 Life Thru A Lens – Robbie Williams
70 No Angel – Dido
71 Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin
72 Swing When You’re Winning – Robbie Williams
=73 Super Trouper – Abba
=73 Let It Bleed – Rolling Stones
75 All Things Must Pass – George Harrison
76 Spiceworld – Spice Girls
77 Dare! – Human League
78 Different Class – Pulp
79 Please Please Me – Beatles
80 Back To Bedlam – James Blunt
81 So – Peter Gabriel
82 All That You Can’t Leave Behind – U2
83 Diva – Annie Lennox
84 Paranoid – Black Sabbath
85 The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
86 Songs About Jane – Maroon 5
87 By The Way – Red Hot Chili Peppers
=88 The Division Bell – Pink Floyd
=88 Scary Monsters And Super Creeps – David Bowie
90 Play – Moby
91 Listen Without Prejudice Volume 1 – George Michael
92 Dangerous – Michael Jackson
93 Voulez-Vous – Abba
94 Innuendo – Queen
95 Demon Days – Gorillaz
96 Love Over Gold – Dire Straits
=97 The Album – Abba
=97 Come On Over – Shania Twain
99 I’ve Been Expecting You – Robbie Williams
100 Welcome To The Pleasuredome – Frankie Goes To Hollywood

--Evening Echo
 
the joshua tree, the unforgettable fire, rattle and hum, atomic bomb, war, atyclb, but no achtung baby!??!?!?!?!?!

what in sam hill is going on here? :scratch:
 
Wait, I know, Axver and lamcool where behind this list :madspit: :mad:

:lol:

just joking everyone - please chill out before going nuts......
 
The poll only includes # 1 albums & Achtung peaked at # 2 so it can't be included.

Great they got 6 entries out of a possible 9 (only the Beatles have more) :up:
 
Lol another throw-away list....

No Achtung Baby is unacceptable. And the fact that coldplays X & Y is above, UF, HTDAAB, ATYCLB is even more strange.

And why is there no POP?
 
Where the hell is THE CLASH "LONDON CALLING"??????????????
and what's with R.E.M. ' s " Out Of Time"???????
A mediocre album at best with one great song (Country Feedback).
 
Earnie Shavers said:
Here's a question for people with more time on their hands than me: What kept Achtung Baby out of #1 in the UK charts?

Well, it took me about 10 seconds to find this:

Erasure ~ Chorus. Number One from 26 October 1991 to 08 December 1991.



:huh:
 
Achtung Baby couldnt get there as Edge said cause it never got to #1 in the UK which is pretty brutal.
 
biff said:


Well, it took me about 10 seconds to find this:

Erasure ~ Chorus. Number One from 26 October 1991 to 08 December 1991.



:huh:


hmmm, not sure that is right ! I thought it was michael jackson that kept Achtung from top spot.

Mike
 
mikeuk said:



hmmm, not sure that is right ! I thought it was michael jackson that kept Achtung from top spot.

Mike

Achtung Baby was released on November 19, 1991. The Erasure album was then in the middle of its several week long run at number one. Michael Jackson's album Dangerous did go to number one on December 30th of that year, six weeks after AB was released.
 
It's really nice to see UF at 48. I didn't know it was that famous. Of course if I had my way it would have been number one!

Ok Computer at 27? that's surprising!
 
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biff said:


Achtung Baby was released on November 19, 1991. The Erasure album was then in the middle of its several week long run at number one. Michael Jackson's album Dangerous did go to number one on December 30th of that year, six weeks after AB was released.

Still not convinced ! I thought Dangerous was released at same time as AB and went straight to number 1 ?

Mike
 
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