HW: Top Ten

[Douglas Pearson]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 17:20:49 -0500, Michael Crook <m.j.crook at TALK21.COM>
wrote:
>The positions of these' top ten' programmes are partly based on sales. How
>on earth could the total sales of the HW catalogue be calculated. Which
>albums are taken into account ? Has any other band featured had as many
>unauthorised albums released?

I think it's safe to say that even if they DID manage to count every re-
packaging of the 'Yuri Gagarin' album (and all the other
Flicknife/Anderson/Anthology-AcidDaze re-hashes), there's NO WAY that
Hawkwind could be any higher than #9 on the list (assuming that the list is
based on total sales).  They probably sold more albums total than Camel,
but Rush / Genesis / ELP / Moodies / Tull / Floyd / Yes / Crimso ... not a
chance ... not even close ...

And if it IS based on sales, Floyd would have to be #1 (and Genesis #2) ...

(Does this mean, then, that HW & Camel sold more albums than VDGG, Gentle
Giant, Gong, or any of the other "mainstays" of prog not on this list?)

    -Doug
     ceres at sirius.com