Jock 'n' Roll - Charts and Stats

The 2007 Album Polls

The Cat: "Do you like numbers, Dave?"
Dave: "Numbers make the world go round"

THE FINAL TOP 75 ALBUMS

1 Big Country - The Crossing (1983)
2 Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
3 Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (1983)
4 Deacon Blue - Raintown (1987)
5 Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes (1984)
6 Primal Scream - Screamadelica (1991)
7 The Blue Nile - Hats (1989)
8 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (2004)
9 The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops (1984)
10 Travis - The Man Who (1999)
11 Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982)
12 Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81 82 83 84) (1982)
13 The Waterboys - This Is The Sea (1985)
14 Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix (1995)
15 The Associates - Sulk (1982)
16 Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (1996)
17 John Martyn - Solid Air (1973)
18 The Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos (1978)
19 The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next... (1973)
20 Love and Money - Dogs In The Traffic (1991)
21 Idlewild - The Remote Part (2002)
22 Horse - The Same Sky (1990)
23 Cocteau Twins - Treasure (1984)
24 Trashcan Sinatras - Cake (1990)
25 The Skids - Scared To Dance (1979)
26 Simple Minds - Sparkle In The Rain (1984)
27 Del Amitri - Waking Hours (1989)
28 The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (1988)
29 Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (1991)
30 Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap (1998)
31 Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team (1997)
32 The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith (1988)
33 Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Good Deeds and Dirty Rags (1989)
34 Big Dish - Swimmer (1986)
35 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country (2006)
36 Hipsway - Hipsway (1986)
37 Kevin McDermott Orchestra - Mother Nature's Kitchen (1989)
38 The Silencers - A Letter From St Paul (1987)
39 Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George (1994)
40 Aztec Camera - Love (1987)
41 Wet Wet Wet - Popped In Souled Out (1987)
42 Annie Lennox - Diva (1992)
43 The Delgados - The Great Eastern (2000)
44 Gun - Taking On The World (1989)
45 The Proclaimers - This Is The Story (1987)
46 Danny Wilson - Meet Danny Wilson (1987)
47 Roddy Frame - Surf (2002)
48 The Beta Band - Three EPs (1998)
49 Friends Again - Trapped and Unwrapped (1984)
50 KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope (2004)
51 Texas - White on Blonde (1997)
52 James Grant - Holy Love (2004)
53 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (2006)
54 Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children (1998)
55 Josef K - The Only Fun In Town (1981)
56 The Fratellis - Costello Music (2006)
57 Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas (1990)
58 The Bluebells - Sisters (1984)
59 Texas - Southside (1989)
60 Trashcan Sinatras - Weightlifting (2004)
61 Love and Money - Strange Kind of Love (1988)
62 The Skids - The Absolute Game (1980)
63 Paolo Nutini - These Streets (2006)
64 The Skids - Days in Europa (1979)
65 Scars - Author! Author! (1981)
66 Del Amitri - Change Everything (1992)
67 The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down (1982)
68 Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain (1997)
69 Simple Minds - Once Upon A Time (1985)
70 Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land (1987)
71 Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination (1981)
72 The View - Hats Off To The Buskers (2006)
73 The Bathers - Kelvingrove Baby (1997)
74 Cocteau Twins - Garlands (1982)
75 Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows (2000)

Post-Chart Analysis from Dave in the Stats Bunker:

The last few stragglers have been rounded up and their votes have been added. The result was tighter than two coats of paint but congratulations to Big Country.

The Cat , 3 October 2007

Top 10 Worst Jock 'n' Roll Albums

1 Texas - White on Blonde (1997)
2 Wet Wet Wet - Popped In, Souled Out (1987)
3 Sheena Easton - Fabulous (2000)
4 The Fratellis - Costello Music (2006)
5 Sandi Thom - Smile...It Confuses People (2006)
6 Deacon Blue - Raintown (1987)
7 Michelle (McManus) - The Meaning of Love (2004)*
8 Wet Wet Wet - Picture This (1995)
9 The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith (1988)
10 Primal Scream - Riot City Blues (2006)

*The only one with no votes in the Best Album category. No shit Sherlock.

Ah, art imitates life in the "shitfest". Just as in the Scottish elections we've had a lot of spoilt papers. Sorry folks but "Anything by Wet Wet Wet" (for example) or "that first album by Wet Wet Wet" (for example) is an invalid vote. Incidentally, I worked at the election count in 2003 and someone had spoiled their paper by writing Elvis at the bottom and putting a cross next to it. There was another spoiled paper which was a better story but it's rude and this is a family website. The family in question is probably the Manson family but you get the picture.

Anyway, where was I? Oh aye, Texas sneak it by a baw hair and a technicality. You're very nice to The Cat (this week of his midlife crisis) and have voted Sheena Easton's affront to the Trade Descriptions Act for Music even higher. Whatever did Prince see in her? He'd been better off with The Cat. They could have had a pint of Best and talked about The Popguns. Prince could've even joined our quiz team. We could have played footy with him. Anything to stop him sullying his artistic cannon (no laughing at the back) with Sheena Bloody Easton.

Oh, and respect to Liz Nurse whose comment about Sandi Thom ("I wish I were a punk rocker; I'd smash her face in") sums up Sandi nicely. Nice touch Liz: angry but true.

Dave, Statsmeister

Come on Prince - get the beers in, it's Science and Nature next!

The Cat, Jock 'n' Roll Quiz Night