Fascinating to compare that non-RIAA chart and the UK Amazon top 100. I've bought more CDs from the non-RIAA chart (all three Zevons, the Waifs, Ryan Adams,Richard Thompson, Daniel Lanois, Aimee Mann), as opposed to only three (Sting, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chilli Peppers)from the Amazon main chart. There is also more CDs I want to buy on the non-RIAA listing, too. Just goes to show that part of the reason for the decline in CD sales is that the majors simply aren't putting out enough good material to satisfy the whole market, as opposed to just the youth market.
Even with a year's warning, Warren Zevon's passing still hurts like hell. We don't have enough guys like him in the rock world to be able to afford to lose one so prematurely. I guess we'll just have to be grateful for 'The Wind', and that, for a man who burned both ends of the candle with a blowtorch at times, Zevon lasted as long as he did. 'Bye Warren, and thanks for a heck of a lot of great music that I'll be listening to until I join you.
Re Kevin Marks remarks
>More balanced views from a Grauniad reader I >see. Here's the article entitled 'Welsh >Pensioner turns freedom fighter:
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,905395,00.html
>The Pensioner is quoted as follows:
>"I really, really understand the martyrs >[suicide bombers]. I am very good friends with >the family of the two who went on the mission to >Tel Aviv. One saw the other explode, and then he >walked away and blew himself up. They are such >lovely families and very proud of their sons."
So, the supposition is that a quote from someone interviewed about suicide bombers constitutes an article supporting terrorism, does it Kevin? We might as well add Cherie Blair to Mr Ashcroft's list of subversive elements, since she's on record as 'understanding why Palestinian suicide bombers are driven to do what they do'. Oops, they probably reported that in the Telegraph, so that's down as pro-terrorist too, I guess.
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