Bank Holiday Monday Rundowns

This was an email to a friend (Dan Lawrence) in work, but he suggested I blog it - I didn't think that was such a bad idea. The required blog-rant/theories can be found nearer the end. Here it is:

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There are so many 'Top X of All Time' charts around at the moment. Anyone would have thought we'd just had a bank holiday Monday!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5294652.stm

Pink Floyd get a couple mentions in this one. Suprisingly, Wish You Were Here gets in the Top 10, and Dark Side of the Moon is number 1 for the albums that didn't make it to number one.

On the topic of these charts appearing on Bank Holidays, I remember for a while when I was younger that it was all the craze at one stage for stations to run big countdowns.. then people got tired of them. I seem to remember different artists/albums make it into the chart depending on what has happened recently.

I think that if this chart were ran in 98, Floyd would have been much lower, but I think Live 8 re-ignited interest in them, and so they do well.

Which leads me to stray further again and mention how it's interesting to see how demand plays a big part on someone's career.

Dave Gilmour releases an album in 78, probably having more to say with a more cutting edge sound (not to mention that Pink Floyd are at the peak of their career, or not far from it), but it goes pratically un-noticed.

The now David Gilmour, releases an album 20 years later, with an out-dated sound and very little to say (for the record I like the album btw) and it sales well.. if there had been a Floyd album a year before and one around the corner in a couple years, I don't think anyone would have cared as they would have had their Floyd fix and would know another was on the way.