The 20th of February 1975
Official U.K. Albums Chart results from Sunday the 16th to Saturday the 22nd of February 1975
Cut-off for sales figures was up to the end of Saturday the 15th of February
Results counted from Sunday the 16th,
and published on Wednesday the 19th of February 1975.
Mud
Mud Rock
At No.49, on “The Top 50 UK Albums Chart”, the week of my 3rd Birthday, is Mud with Mud Rock.
The mirthful Mud,..
…who are still hot this week in the singles chart with one of their new releases, are giving everyone a jolly good time with this hits-filled party LP, which is still alive and well in the album charts, and which also sounds like they’ve attempted to bring with them the essence of the pub gigs which they would have frequented and gifted their cheery tunes to over the last few years. Honestly, you can almost smell the spilled pints on the oak bar tops as the boys perform a bucket-load of their own hits along with some of their own favourites from the old days.
The whole package is infused with boisterous cheering as the whole place jumps while the guys go through their highly successful and immensely popular repertoire, with three of their biggest examples being combined into a rip-roaring medley to cram even more mirth into it all. I almost believe I can hear, while they run through the old Skeeter Davis hit The End of The World, people going to get the next round in.
It’s all bookended by your host for the duration. A guy called Geoffrey, who introduces the first side, and also closes the end of the second, who as the band themselves note on the back cover “..without whose help this album may have been possible”. Still, it seems that the lads took good care of him at the end.
The album…
…had entered the chart back on the 22nd of September last year when it landed at No.12, and by the following week had broken the Top 10. Eventually, it would reach a peak of No.8 in mid-January this year.
Most of the time, it has stayed mainly undisturbed inside the Top 20, but for some reason it has taken a massive hit back this week, sending it almost out of the chart altogether, from last week’s position of No.20.
From here…
…it almost makes a full recovery back to its comfort zone, when it bounces back to No.27 next week, but it seems the hit was quite effective, as it eventually barely makes it to the end of March before it does indeed disappear after the 29th of that month.
It revisits down at the lower numbers for three weeks during April, and then does so again for another four weeks in May, but that’s basically about it, apart from one last week-long look-in as August flips over to September, leaving after the 6th, with jovial total of 35 weeks all added up to take with them.
Side 1
Side 2
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