Several, including numerous Robbie ones and one of his No1's - were pointless.
Why? Because that's when chart hype was at its peak. Huge chart hits were bought and heard by virtually nobody. Which caused the death of Top of the Pops and started the decline of our industry.

JK2006 wrote:
Several, including numerous Robbie ones and one of his No1's - were pointless.
Why? Because that's when chart hype was at its peak. Huge chart hits were bought and heard by virtually nobody. Which caused the death of Top of the Pops and started the decline of our industry.

And all the time I thought it was you being off the scene at Her Majesty's that was the reason!

No Dixie that just continued the decline.

That's a nice illustration of a point I often make, that (chart) music is no longer "integrated" into our daily lives, but "incidental", easy to avoid in a way it never used to be, and it's been like this since the turn of the century (can we call it that now?), the decline & end of TOTP being the most obvious symptom.

Whereas music from the 70s & 80s (and to a lesser extent the 60s & 90s) is still part of most of our collective residual memories, newer music (except for the odd Adele) just isn't becoming part of The Language, a tendency which will become even more pronounced when downloads take over completely, and there won't even be a 2nd-hand route to discovering music from this period and after, at which point... well, who knows?

Metal Mickey wrote:
That's a nice illustration of a point I often make, that (chart) music is no longer "integrated" into our daily lives, but "incidental", easy to avoid in a way it never used to be, and it's been like this since the turn of the century (can we call it that now?), the decline & end of TOTP being the most obvious symptom.

Good point, Mickey - but this was always going to happen.

Back then people had little alternative forms of entertainment and music was the main outlet .... today its simply one of many outlets (computers / games / DVDs / bowling alleys / shopping centres-malls / etc etc) all vie for the consumers' money whereas years ago (until you could get into the pub !) there was very little as an alternative.