{"id":963,"date":"2011-07-08T13:12:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2011-07-08T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T12:29:56","slug":"tobys-hit-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/tobys-hit-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby&#8217;s Hit Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe musical landscape at the time of one&#8217;s birth is fun to muse upon, and the quality of the song that&#8217;s at number one in the hit parade seems disproportinately significant. I got <em>Mull of Kintyre<\/em> by Wings, which isn&#8217;t terrible, but it&#8217;s hardly Sir McCartney&#8217;s finest work; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theofficialcharts.com\/archive-chart\/_\/1\/1977-12-10\">the top 40 that week<\/a> is rather a mixed bag, with the odd rock classic among some pedestrian disco (plus the rather odd but quite splendid <em>Egyptian Reggae<\/em>, by Jonathan Richman &#038; The Modern Lovers).\n<\/p>\n<p style='padding-bottom: 30px;'>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5RaazuhxyOY\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMrs. Monkeyshines fares somewhat better than me, with KC and the Sunshine Band&#8217;s <em>Give It Up<\/em> at number one, and a swathe of fine songs in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theofficialcharts.com\/archive-chart\/_\/1\/1983-08-27\">the top ten<\/a>, including Depeche Mode&#8217;s <em>Everything Counts<\/em>, which sounds like the whole of the Eighties compressed into 3 minutes and 58 seconds.\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#000000;width:440px;height:272px;\"><embed flashVars=\"playerVars=showStats=no|autoPlay=no|videoTitle=\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/fplayer\/584402\/depeche_mode_everything_counts.swf\" width=\"440\" height=\"272\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" name=\"Metacafe_584402\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed>\n<\/div>\n<p style='padding-top: 30px;'>\n At first I was disappointed that Toby had got lumbered with Jason Derulo&#8217;s <em>Don&#8217;t Wanna Go Home<\/em>, with its weird <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Day-O_(The_Banana_Boat_Song)\">Banana Boat<\/a> refrain. But then I realised that I was looking at the wrong week, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theofficialcharts.com\/archive-chart\/_\/1\/2011-06-25\">his chart<\/a> is actually pretty decent, considering the noise that passes for music these days (I don&#8217;t really believe this, but I need to start forming dad opinions such as these). Number one in the singles chart was <em>Changed The Way You Kiss Me<\/em> by Example.\n<\/p>\n<p style='padding-bottom: 30px;'>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLXt3yh2g0s\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nToby&#8217;s album chart topper is <em>Progress<\/em> by Take That, presumably bumped back up the charts by their current tour. As with the singles, it&#8217;s a decent top ten &#8211; you can&#8217;t cavil at any chart than includes ELO and Seasick Steve. Across the pond, Adele is heading up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100#\/charts\/hot-100?chartDate=2011-06-29\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, with <em>Rolling In The Deep<\/em>; a fine song, and nice that a Brit is topping the US chart.\n<\/p>\n<p style='padding-bottom: 30px;'>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pNoPNC3ebYQ\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The musical landscape at the time of one&#8217;s birth is fun to muse upon, and the quality of the song that&#8217;s at number one in the hit parade seems disproportinately significant. I got Mull of Kintyre by Wings, which isn&#8217;t terrible, but it&#8217;s hardly Sir McCartney&#8217;s finest work; and the top 40 that week is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}