The Chart Time Tunnel

The Chart Time Tunnel: Built To Spill's Chart Retrospective

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 28, 2011 2:30 pm
The Chart Time Tunnel looks at the campus chart from 10 years ago, examining the chart for the week ending July 31, 2001 this edition. Radiohead asserted its dominance on the top 50 by recapturing the #1 position. This would give Amnesiac a total of five weeks at #1. After grabbing the highest debut of the week honours on the previous chart, Built...
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The Chart Time Tunnel: Duotang's Last Blast At #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 22, 2011 11:12 am
The Chart Time Tunnel looks at the campus radio top 50 from a decade ago. This edition we set our attention on the campus chart for the week ending July 24, 2001.Aptly titled Winnipeg twosome Duotang interrupted the five-week stay of Radiohead's Amnesiac at the top of the Canadian campus radio charts in this one. It was a short stay for The Bright...
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Duotang

The Chart Time Tunnel: Bran Van 3000's Charting Highs, Lows

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 15, 2011 11:38 am
The Chart Time Tunnel is a a weekly column analyzing the campus radio chart from a decade ago. The summer of 2001 was a carefree season. The world had got past their Y2K fears and the economy was booming. The internet was still relatively fresh to most people, though the dot com bubble had burst and Napster was under investigation. 911 was only...
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Bran Van 3000's Discosis

The Chart Time Tunnel: Weezer's Inconsistent Chart History

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) July 8, 2011 11:49 am
The Chart Time Tunnel looks back at the campus radio Top 50 chart for the week exactly a decade ago. Ten years ago this week, Radiohead's Amnesiac continued to dominate the charts, and held the #1 position for its third week. Rufus Wainwright's Poses, a former #1 album, experienced a resurgence in popularity, rising five places to #2. It pushed...
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Weezer

The Chart Time Tunnel: Belle And Sebastian Prove Twee Is Popular

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 30, 2011 11:27 am
Ten years ago on the campus radio chart for the week ending July 3, 2001, the continuation of the extensive run at #1 by Radiohead's Amnesiac began.The real competition appeared below that top spot, as Air's 10,000Hz Legend jumped two positions to #2. This move forced Mogwai's Rock Action down a spot to #3, followed by SIANspheric's The Sound Of...
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Belle And Sebastian circa 2001

The Chart Time Tunnel: Radiohead's Spectacular Chart Career

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 24, 2011 12:14 pm
The Chart Time Tunnel looks back at the campus radio charts from 10 years ago, and with hindsight being 20/20, its easy to see patterns often emerging across the weekly Top 50 chart. Often highly anticipated albums hyped by the big record labels tend to hit fast and furious with radio programmers quickly buying into the hype of a release, then...
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Radiohead

The Chart Time Tunnel: Tricky Woo's Last Stand At #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 10, 2011 11:31 am
In two weeks, it's the first anniversary of the last time I wrote a Chart Time Tunnel. It was about that time CHARTattack shifted to a new platform and access to all of the charts on CHARTattack ended. Since then, we've been re-inputting the weekly charts again with some success. The weekly charts from September 1995 through to October 2001 have...
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Tricky Woo (Photo by Roger Aziz)

The Chart Time Tunnel: Sonic Youth

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 25, 2010 11:43 am
A couple of weeks ago in The Chart Time Tunnel, I dropped a hint about the future success of three albums that had debuted together in the top 10. During the week of June 18-24 2000, the first to reach the #1 position of the trio of bands were Sonic Youth, whose album, NYC Ghosts & Flowers hit #1 for a second week. Huevos Rancheros' Muerte...
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Sonic Youth's NYC Ghosts & Flowers

The Chart Time Tunnel: Mojave 3

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 11, 2010 11:40 am
Last week, The Chart Time Tunnel discussed the end of the #1 run of Tristan Psionic's Mind The Gap ten years ago and the chart dominance by the three top 10 debuts from that week. Well, we were off by a week because... well the order of the charts were messed up by an erroneous date. So let's have a look at the top 50 chart for the week June 4 to...
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Mojave 3's Excuses For Travellers

The Chart Time Tunnel: Asian Dub Foundation

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) June 4, 2010 11:03 am
Tristan Psionic's Mind The Gap run at #1 in 2000 ended up lasting through part of June. Tristan Psionic's swan song held the #1 spot for a sixth consecutive week by the time the  May 27 to June 3 chart hit. The bands that would quickly topple this Hamilton, Ont. quartet's chart dominance had albums making their debut, as Belle And Sebastian,...
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Asian Dub Foundation's Community Music

The Chart Time Tunnel: Elliott Smith

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 28, 2010 12:33 pm
While Tristan Psionic's Mind The Gap continued its month-long plus run at the top of the campus charts 10 years ago this week, there was a change in the #2 position. Elliott Smith's Figure 8 rose a spot, displacing Kid Koala's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, the previous week's runner-up. The Salteens' Short Term Memories also rose a place to #3,...
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Elliott Smith's Figure 8

The Chart Time Tunnel: Calexico

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 21, 2010 12:22 pm
Over the history of the weekly charts, there are few bands that have as many entries as Tuscon, Ariz. duo Calexico. Joey Burns and John Convertino began as a mariachi-inspired side project for Giant Sand's rhythm section, and their success quickly surpassed that of Giant Sand. That led to the eventual split between the pair and Giant Sand...
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Calexico's Hot Rail

The Chart Time Tunnel: The Apples In Stereo

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 14, 2010 12:14 pm
While one could not accuse The Apples In Stereo being anywhere near commercial sell-outs, Robert Schneider and his band of merry (popster) men have had nine different releases enter the campus charts since the beginning of the week charts over 14 years ago. Travellers In Space And Time, their latest album, sits at #4 this week. Ten years ago...
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The Apples In Stereo's The Discovery Of a World Inside the Moone

The Chart Time Tunnel: Tristan Psionic

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By CHARTattack Staff May 7, 2010 12:06 pm
The current re-emergance of bands creating a distinct music scene in Hamilton, Ont. shouldn't go without bookmarking the suburban quartet that came before them, Tristan Psionic. Not only did the band start creating and releasing a highly energized thrashing blast of pop noise in the early '90s, but they also joined in a musical union with...
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Tristan Psionic's Mind The Gap

The Chart Time Tunnel: Ween

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) April 30, 2010 2:57 pm
Ten years ago this week, the campus charts witnessed a bit of a battle between a couple veteran American college radio bands, Giant Sand and Ween. Giant Sand, led by Howe Gelb, have been releasing albums since 1985's Valley Of Rain and continue to date with 2008's proVISIONS. Dean and Gene Ween have been surprising folks with their twisted...
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Ween's White Pepper

The Chart Time Tunnel: Cat Power

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) April 23, 2010 11:03 am
Last week on the Chart Time Tunnel, Carolyn Mark was the artist in the retro gunsight celebrating her debut on the campus chart with Party Girl. Cat Power's The Covers Record entered that chart right behind Mark's Party Girl. Ten years ago this week, The Covers Record rose 16 places to #5 on the campus chart for April 13 to 20, 2000, and spurs...
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Cat Power's The Covers Record

The Chart Time Tunnel: Carolyn Mark

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) April 16, 2010 11:27 am
Ten years ago this week, Carolyn Mark — who's since become a staple of the campus charts over the past decade — made her first appearance on the chart.   The Sciamous, B.C. artist has released six solo and/or collaborative albums and appeared on a handfull of Mint compilations since her debut, Party Girl, entered the chart for the week of April...
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Carolyn Mark's Party Girl

The Chart Time Tunnel: Kid Koala

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) April 9, 2010 12:51 pm
The campus chart for the week of March 30 to April 6, 2000 was historically notable for a couple of reasons — one connected to the #1 album, the other related to the week's highest debut. Firstly, Kid Koala's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome rose one place, capturing the #1 position. The album would remain at #1 for four consecutive weeks, eventually...
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Kid Koala's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

The Chart Time Tunnel: Yo La Tengo

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) April 1, 2010 11:27 am
If Sonic Youth and Stereolab are two pillars of the '90s college rock royalty, Yo La Tengo are probably the third member of this indie-rock trinity. The Hoboken, N.J. trio featuring couple Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley began performing over 25 years ago, and the line-up hasn't changed since James McNew's arrival in 1992. The band have...
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Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out

The Chart Time Tunnel: Plumtree

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) March 26, 2010 10:47 am
Plumtree were an all-female quartet from Halifax in the '90s, much like Jale. Where Jale's beginnings were strongly linked to their relationship with the members of Sloan, Plumtree caught the rock 'n roll bug when all four members were still in their teens. Plumtree featured two sisters — Carla and Lynette Gillis — with friends Amanda Braden...
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Plumtree's This Day Won't Last At All
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