Lightning Bolt: The Official Album Thread

[Sarah.]

I don't know if Engkand invented trashy bad tabloid 'journalism' but they definitely brought a sharp point to its spear. And here's our boy at the tip of it.
We don't know what the piece is about yet. I'll come back with that. He'd be sick if he knew he was in this paper. (The Sun)

Jesus! I hope he took a shower after being interviewed by The Scum

[stupidmop]

Of all the newspapers

[harmless]

Russell Brand's leftist credentials > Eddie Vedder's leftist credentials

[dimejinky99]

I don't know if Engkand invented trashy bad tabloid 'journalism' but they definitely brought a sharp point to its spear. And here's our boy at the tip of it.
We don't know what the piece is about yet. I'll come back with that. He'd be sick if he knew he was in this paper. (The Sun)

Jesus! I hope he took a shower after being interviewed by The Scum

Somebody In their organisation dropped a ball here big time.

[Tuolumne]

Music industry is a pile of ashes.

Case in point: Backspacer was around the 90th best-selling album of 2009 with around 600,000 copies (technically, the chart year runs 1 December to end of November). Here's the biggest selling records of THIS year, up until this week:

Spoiler: show

01 - 2,324,000 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - Justin Timberlake
02 - 1,265,000 - UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX - Bruno Mars
03 - 1,070,000 - NIGHT VISIONS - Imagine Dragons
04 - 1,069,000 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan
05 - 1,034,000 - MAGNA CARTA...HOLY GRAIL - Jay-Z
06 - 1,019,000 - BABEL - Mumford & Sons
07 - 984,000 - HERE'S TO THE GOOD TIMES - Florida Georgia Line
08 - 947,000 - NOTHING WAS THE SAME - Drake
09 - 939,000 - BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Blake Shelton
10 - 898,000 - THE HEIST - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
11 - 841,000 - THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE - Pink
12 - 807,000 - RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES - Daft Punk
13 - 775,000 - THE LUMINEERS - Lumineers
14 - 736,000 - RED - Taylor Swift
15 - 714,000 - PITCH PERFECT - Soundtrack
16 - 645,000 - TO BE LOVED - Michael Buble
17 - 621,000 - BORN SINNER - J Cole
18 - 581,000 - SOME NIGHTS - Fun.
19 - 569,000 - I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING II - Lil Wayne
20 - 556,000 - YEEZUS - Kanye West
21 - 552,000 - UNAPOLOGETIC - Rihanna
22 - 543,000 - BLURRED LINES - Robin Thicke
23 - 535,000 - 21 - Adele
24 - 518,000 - SPRING BREAK: HERE TO PARTY - Luke Bryan
25 - 506,000 - OVEREXPOSED - Maroon 5
26 - 503,000 - THE GREAT GATSBY - Soundtrack
27 - 491,000 - LES MISERABLES: HIGHLIGHTS… - Soundtrack
28 - 486,000 - THE WORLD FROM THE SIDE OF THE MOON - Phillip Phillips
29 - 482,000 - HUNTER HAYES - Hunter Hayes
30 - 481,000 - GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY - Kendrick Lamar
31 - 476,000 - NOW 45 - Various
32 - 471,000 - TAKE ME HOME - One Direction
33 - 461,000 - ALL THAT ECHOES - Josh Groban
34 - 455,000 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE (2 OF 2) - Justin Timberlake
35 - 448,000 - PIONEER - Band Perry
36 - 437,000 - GOLDEN - Lady Antebellum
37 - 433,000 - TWO LANES OF FREEDOM - Tim McGraw
38 - 430,000 - NIGHT TRAIN - Jason Aldean
39 - 423,000 - LONG.LIVE.A$AP - A$AP Rocky
40 - 417,000 - SAVE ROCK AND ROLL - Fall Out Boy
41 - 410,000 - TAILGATES AND TANLINES - Luke Bryan
42 - 393,000 - BELIEVE ACOUSTIC - Justin Bieber
43 - 388,000 - TORNADO - Little Big Town
44 - 386,000 - NOW 46 - Various
45 - 381,000 - PASSIONE - Andrea Bocelli
46 - 378,000 - TRUE BELIEVERS - Darius Rucker
47 - 377,000 - LIFE ON A ROCK - Kenny Chesney
48 - 372,000 - + - Ed Sheeran
49 - 364,000 - KIDZ BOP 23 - Kidz Bop Kids
50 - 352,000 - BORN TO DIE - Lana Del Rey
51 - 349,000 - BLOWN AWAY - Carrie Underwood
52 - 348,000 - MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL - Of Monsters & Men
53 - 348,000 - MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY - Vampire Weekend
54 - 343,000 - BANGERZ - Miley Cyrus
55 - 342,000 - CHIEF - Eric Church
56 - 336,000 - 2013 GRAMMY NOMINEES - Various
57 - 328,000 - SET YOU FREE - Gary Allan
58 - 328,000 - LOVE IS EVERYTHING - George Strait
59 - 328,000 - SIGH NO MORE - Mumford & Sons
60 - 327,000 - THE GIFTED - Wale
61 - 326,000 - TEEN BEACH - Soundtrack
62 - 322,000 - 13 - Black Sabbath
63 - 317,000 - GIRL ON FIRE - Alicia Keys
64 - 316,000 - GREATEST HITS: CHAPTER 1 - Kelly Clarkson
65 - 292,000 - HAIL TO THE KING - Avenged Sevenfold
66 - 291,000 - BOYS AND GIRLS - Alabama Shakes
67 - 282,000 - NOW 47 - Various
68 - 276,000 - DEMI - Demi Lovato
69 - 272,000 - NATIVE - OneRepublic
70 - 272,000 - WHEELHOUSE - Brad Paisley
71 - 270,000 - EL CAMINO - Black Keys
72 - 266,000 - WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN…VOLUME 1 - Five Finger Death Punch
73 - 265,000 - SIDE EFFECTS OF YOU - Fantasia
74 - 262,000 - DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS - Bruno Mars
75 - 257,000 - PARAMORE - Paramore
76 - 253,000 - TROUBLE MAN: HEAVY IS THE HEAD - T.I.
77 - 253,000 - PARADISE VALLEY - John Mayer
78 - 252,000 - BURNING LIGHTS - Chris Tomlin
79 - 252,000 - INDICUD - Kid Cudi
80 - 247,000 - UP ALL NIGHT - One Direction
81 - 243,000 - THE CIVIL WARS - Civil Wars
82 - 242,000 - NOW 44 - Various
83 - 240,000 - PURE HEROINE - Lorde
84 - 239,000 - STARS DANCE - Selena Gomez
85 - 234,000 - ANNIE UP - Pistol Annies
86 - 229,000 - KIDZ BOP 24 - Kidz Bop Kids
87 - 227,000 - SAME TRAILER DIFFERENT PARK - Kacey Musgraves
88 - 226,000 - YOURS TRULY - Ariana Grande
89 - 226,000 - UNCAGED - Zac Brown Band
90 - 222,000 - PRECIOUS MEMORIES: VOLUME II - Alan Jackson
91 - 222,000 - KALEIDOSCOPE DREAM - Miguel
92 - 219,000 - BELIEVE - Justin Bieber
93 - 214,000 - FOUR THE RECORD - Miranda Lambert
94 - 214,000 - REBEL SOUL - Kid Rock
95 - 212,000 - LOVE AND WAR - Tamar Braxton
96 - 210,000 - WHAT ABOUT NOW - Bon Jovi
97 - 204,000 - CAUGHT IN THE ACT: LIVE - Eric Church
98 - 201,000 - LEGEND - Bob Marley & the Wailers
99 - 198,000 - TRILOGY - The Weeknd
100 - 197,000 - FROM HERE TO NOW TO YOU - Jack Johnson

Other noteworthy releases:
105 - 189,000 - ...LIKE CLOCKWORK - Queens Of The Stone Age
108 - 178,000 - THE NEXT DAY - David Bowie
112 - 173,000 - TROUBLE WILL FIND ME - National
120 - 162,000 - HESITATION MARKS - Nine Inch Nails
133 - 150,000 - MECHANICAL BULL - Kings Of Leon
141 - 143,000 - THE DEVIL PUT DINOSAURS HERE - Alice In Chains
145 - 141,000 - DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - Pink Floyd
164 - 127,000 - THE VERY BEST OF - Eagles

Not appearing due mostly to timing: King Animal, total sales 179,000.

So I'm still expecting 300,000 or less for this record.

Also, for a bit of fun, here's the biggest debut weeks of the year:

Spoiler: show

968,018 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - Justin Timberlake (01)
657,922 - NOTHING WAS THE SAME - Drake (02)
528,471 - MAGNA CARTA…HOLY GRAIL - Jay-Z (03)
527,783 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan (04)
349,755 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE: 2 OF 2 - Justin Timberlake (05)
338,677 - RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES - Daft Punk (06)
326,841 - YEEZUS - Kanye West (07)
317,587 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - Justin Timberlake
296,642 - BORN SINNER - J Cole (08)
270,417 - BANGERZ - Miley Cyrus (09)
217,010 - I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING II - Lil Wayne (10)
211,051 - BELIEVE ACOUSTIC - Justin Bieber (11)
199,086 - BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Blake Shelton (12)
195,415 - TO BE LOVED - Michael Buble (13)
184,957 - BABEL - Mumford & Sons
176,559 - BLURRED LINES - Robin Thicke (14)
167,314 - GOLDEN - Lady Antebellum (15)
165,879 - LIGHTNING BOLT - Pearl Jam (16)
159,380 - HAIL TO THE KING - Avenged Sevenfold (17)
158,991 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan

Thanks. I fucking love this stuff. I could talk about interpretations of stats analysis all day.

That said, I compare PJ to their peers in rock (I don't count fun. in this category). PJ tend to do however well rock in general does (ie. they did best when Nirvana blew the doors open for Ten). I compare them to NIN, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, QOTSA, Alice in Chains, Green Day, Vampire Weekend, The National, Black Sabbath, Arcade Fire, etc. I see them doing above average in that respect. Better than most in the above group, but not as good as your Arcade Fire or Black Keys. That's pretty decent. I see them doing better than Black Sabbath on that list, more closer or better than Vampire Weekend. Depends if Sirens sticks for a few months. Then they can squeeze out a bunch of 2-3K per week for a couple months, which adds up to a nice little load of sales at the end. Grind-it-out, thus is the career of a rock band right now. Where do you get this stuff? So there's only 4 platinum albums this year? Wow, that's even worse than I thought. Gold would be a pretty huge success. What's amazing is that THE thing in music these days is EDM, but they're hardly represented on that list. Other metrics should be developed to properly account for an artist' popularity.

[WaitingForBluey]

Music industry is a pile of ashes.

Case in point: Backspacer was around the 90th best-selling album of 2009 with around 600,000 copies (technically, the chart year runs 1 December to end of November). Here's the biggest selling records of THIS year, up until this week:

Spoiler: show

01 - 2,324,000 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - Justin Timberlake
02 - 1,265,000 - UNORTHODOX JUKEBOX - Bruno Mars
03 - 1,070,000 - NIGHT VISIONS - Imagine Dragons
04 - 1,069,000 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan
05 - 1,034,000 - MAGNA CARTA...HOLY GRAIL - Jay-Z
06 - 1,019,000 - BABEL - Mumford & Sons
07 - 984,000 - HERE'S TO THE GOOD TIMES - Florida Georgia Line
08 - 947,000 - NOTHING WAS THE SAME - Drake
09 - 939,000 - BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Blake Shelton
10 - 898,000 - THE HEIST - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
11 - 841,000 - THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE - Pink
12 - 807,000 - RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES - Daft Punk
13 - 775,000 - THE LUMINEERS - Lumineers
14 - 736,000 - RED - Taylor Swift
15 - 714,000 - PITCH PERFECT - Soundtrack
16 - 645,000 - TO BE LOVED - Michael Buble
17 - 621,000 - BORN SINNER - J Cole
18 - 581,000 - SOME NIGHTS - Fun.
19 - 569,000 - I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING II - Lil Wayne
20 - 556,000 - YEEZUS - Kanye West
21 - 552,000 - UNAPOLOGETIC - Rihanna
22 - 543,000 - BLURRED LINES - Robin Thicke
23 - 535,000 - 21 - Adele
24 - 518,000 - SPRING BREAK: HERE TO PARTY - Luke Bryan
25 - 506,000 - OVEREXPOSED - Maroon 5
26 - 503,000 - THE GREAT GATSBY - Soundtrack
27 - 491,000 - LES MISERABLES: HIGHLIGHTS… - Soundtrack
28 - 486,000 - THE WORLD FROM THE SIDE OF THE MOON - Phillip Phillips
29 - 482,000 - HUNTER HAYES - Hunter Hayes
30 - 481,000 - GOOD KID M.A.A.D CITY - Kendrick Lamar
31 - 476,000 - NOW 45 - Various
32 - 471,000 - TAKE ME HOME - One Direction
33 - 461,000 - ALL THAT ECHOES - Josh Groban
34 - 455,000 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE (2 OF 2) - Justin Timberlake
35 - 448,000 - PIONEER - Band Perry
36 - 437,000 - GOLDEN - Lady Antebellum
37 - 433,000 - TWO LANES OF FREEDOM - Tim McGraw
38 - 430,000 - NIGHT TRAIN - Jason Aldean
39 - 423,000 - LONG.LIVE.A$AP - A$AP Rocky
40 - 417,000 - SAVE ROCK AND ROLL - Fall Out Boy
41 - 410,000 - TAILGATES AND TANLINES - Luke Bryan
42 - 393,000 - BELIEVE ACOUSTIC - Justin Bieber
43 - 388,000 - TORNADO - Little Big Town
44 - 386,000 - NOW 46 - Various
45 - 381,000 - PASSIONE - Andrea Bocelli
46 - 378,000 - TRUE BELIEVERS - Darius Rucker
47 - 377,000 - LIFE ON A ROCK - Kenny Chesney
48 - 372,000 - + - Ed Sheeran
49 - 364,000 - KIDZ BOP 23 - Kidz Bop Kids
50 - 352,000 - BORN TO DIE - Lana Del Rey
51 - 349,000 - BLOWN AWAY - Carrie Underwood
52 - 348,000 - MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL - Of Monsters & Men
53 - 348,000 - MODERN VAMPIRES OF THE CITY - Vampire Weekend
54 - 343,000 - BANGERZ - Miley Cyrus
55 - 342,000 - CHIEF - Eric Church
56 - 336,000 - 2013 GRAMMY NOMINEES - Various
57 - 328,000 - SET YOU FREE - Gary Allan
58 - 328,000 - LOVE IS EVERYTHING - George Strait
59 - 328,000 - SIGH NO MORE - Mumford & Sons
60 - 327,000 - THE GIFTED - Wale
61 - 326,000 - TEEN BEACH - Soundtrack
62 - 322,000 - 13 - Black Sabbath
63 - 317,000 - GIRL ON FIRE - Alicia Keys
64 - 316,000 - GREATEST HITS: CHAPTER 1 - Kelly Clarkson
65 - 292,000 - HAIL TO THE KING - Avenged Sevenfold
66 - 291,000 - BOYS AND GIRLS - Alabama Shakes
67 - 282,000 - NOW 47 - Various
68 - 276,000 - DEMI - Demi Lovato
69 - 272,000 - NATIVE - OneRepublic
70 - 272,000 - WHEELHOUSE - Brad Paisley
71 - 270,000 - EL CAMINO - Black Keys
72 - 266,000 - WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN…VOLUME 1 - Five Finger Death Punch
73 - 265,000 - SIDE EFFECTS OF YOU - Fantasia
74 - 262,000 - DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS - Bruno Mars
75 - 257,000 - PARAMORE - Paramore
76 - 253,000 - TROUBLE MAN: HEAVY IS THE HEAD - T.I.
77 - 253,000 - PARADISE VALLEY - John Mayer
78 - 252,000 - BURNING LIGHTS - Chris Tomlin
79 - 252,000 - INDICUD - Kid Cudi
80 - 247,000 - UP ALL NIGHT - One Direction
81 - 243,000 - THE CIVIL WARS - Civil Wars
82 - 242,000 - NOW 44 - Various
83 - 240,000 - PURE HEROINE - Lorde
84 - 239,000 - STARS DANCE - Selena Gomez
85 - 234,000 - ANNIE UP - Pistol Annies
86 - 229,000 - KIDZ BOP 24 - Kidz Bop Kids
87 - 227,000 - SAME TRAILER DIFFERENT PARK - Kacey Musgraves
88 - 226,000 - YOURS TRULY - Ariana Grande
89 - 226,000 - UNCAGED - Zac Brown Band
90 - 222,000 - PRECIOUS MEMORIES: VOLUME II - Alan Jackson
91 - 222,000 - KALEIDOSCOPE DREAM - Miguel
92 - 219,000 - BELIEVE - Justin Bieber
93 - 214,000 - FOUR THE RECORD - Miranda Lambert
94 - 214,000 - REBEL SOUL - Kid Rock
95 - 212,000 - LOVE AND WAR - Tamar Braxton
96 - 210,000 - WHAT ABOUT NOW - Bon Jovi
97 - 204,000 - CAUGHT IN THE ACT: LIVE - Eric Church
98 - 201,000 - LEGEND - Bob Marley & the Wailers
99 - 198,000 - TRILOGY - The Weeknd
100 - 197,000 - FROM HERE TO NOW TO YOU - Jack Johnson

Other noteworthy releases:
105 - 189,000 - ...LIKE CLOCKWORK - Queens Of The Stone Age
108 - 178,000 - THE NEXT DAY - David Bowie
112 - 173,000 - TROUBLE WILL FIND ME - National
120 - 162,000 - HESITATION MARKS - Nine Inch Nails
133 - 150,000 - MECHANICAL BULL - Kings Of Leon
141 - 143,000 - THE DEVIL PUT DINOSAURS HERE - Alice In Chains
145 - 141,000 - DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - Pink Floyd
164 - 127,000 - THE VERY BEST OF - Eagles

Not appearing due mostly to timing: King Animal, total sales 179,000.

So I'm still expecting 300,000 or less for this record.

Also, for a bit of fun, here's the biggest debut weeks of the year:

Spoiler: show

968,018 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - Justin Timberlake (01)
657,922 - NOTHING WAS THE SAME - Drake (02)
528,471 - MAGNA CARTA…HOLY GRAIL - Jay-Z (03)
527,783 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan (04)
349,755 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE: 2 OF 2 - Justin Timberlake (05)
338,677 - RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES - Daft Punk (06)
326,841 - YEEZUS - Kanye West (07)
317,587 - THE 20/20 EXPERIENCE - Justin Timberlake
296,642 - BORN SINNER - J Cole (08)
270,417 - BANGERZ - Miley Cyrus (09)
217,010 - I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING II - Lil Wayne (10)
211,051 - BELIEVE ACOUSTIC - Justin Bieber (11)
199,086 - BASED ON A TRUE STORY - Blake Shelton (12)
195,415 - TO BE LOVED - Michael Buble (13)
184,957 - BABEL - Mumford & Sons
176,559 - BLURRED LINES - Robin Thicke (14)
167,314 - GOLDEN - Lady Antebellum (15)
165,879 - LIGHTNING BOLT - Pearl Jam (16)
159,380 - HAIL TO THE KING - Avenged Sevenfold (17)
158,991 - CRASH MY PARTY - Luke Bryan

Thanks. I fucking love this stuff. I could talk about interpretations of stats analysis all day.

[McParadigm]

World's an interesting place, and it's packed full of information.

Now, numbers don't draw me in to a greater degree than any other type, but there's very little out there that you can say "Hey, I wonder if..." and I won't immediately get curious about it.

[Yellow Ledbetter]

The biggest problem is that if you take away all bullshit artists that doesn't know how to sing, how to write, how to play, that are directly sponsored by mainstream modern media that only wants to sell one week hits, we may have PJ on the top. That's pretty sad.

Should we wait for Ed to wipe his ass with The Sun? Jeez, I think it won't happen, he may get his ass dirty

[Lament]

The biggest problem is that if you take away all bullshit artists that doesn't know how to sing, how to write, how to play, that are directly sponsored by mainstream modern media that only wants to sell one week hits

[Thejambi]

The biggest problem is that if you take away all bullshit artists that doesn't know how to sing, how to write, how to play, that are directly sponsored by mainstream modern media that only wants to sell one week hits

[Tuolumne]

The biggest problem is that if you take away all bullshit artists that doesn't know how to sing, how to write, how to play, that are directly sponsored by mainstream modern media that only wants to sell one week hits, we may have PJ on the top. That's pretty sad.

Should we wait for Ed to wipe his ass with The Sun? Jeez, I think it won't happen, he may get his ass dirty

Yep. It's a broken system and a broken industry. The ones who are selling aren't even musicians, they're more "entertainers", or they have an extremely no-holds-barred sell at any costs approach like some of the rappers. It's broken man, maybe for good reason. I think success as measured for PJ is doing just decent within this paradigm (which is being competitive w/ bands like Arcade Fire or Vampire Weekend) and doing what they do, killing it live and being able to play their new songs and continue to win people over one by one. It's as if the music business never happened. It's back to street-level and grassroots, which I think is good.

[dimejinky99]

I don't know if Engkand invented trashy bad tabloid 'journalism' but they definitely brought a sharp point to its spear. And here's our boy at the tip of it.
We don't know what the piece is about yet. I'll come back with that. He'd be sick if he knew he was in this paper. (The Sun)

Jesus! I hope he took a shower after being interviewed by The Scum

Is this from somewhere else? I hope so

[McParadigm]

The biggest problem is that if you take away all bullshit artists that doesn't know how to sing, how to write, how to play, that are directly sponsored by mainstream modern media that only wants to sell one week hits, we may have PJ on the top. That's pretty sad.

Should we wait for Ed to wipe his ass with The Sun? Jeez, I think it won't happen, he may get his ass dirty

Yep. It's a broken system and a broken industry. The ones who are selling aren't even musicians, they're more "entertainers", or they have an extremely no-holds-barred sell at any costs approach like some of the rappers. It's broken man, maybe for good reason. I think success as measured for PJ is doing just decent within this paradigm (which is being competitive w/ bands like Arcade Fire or Vampire Weekend) and doing what they do, killing it live and being able to play their new songs and continue to win people over one by one. It's as if the music business never happened. It's back to street-level and grassroots, which I think is good.

It's fine, actually. It's back to the kinds of numbers they saw in the 1960's. The difference is that in the time between now and then, the raw level of disposable income (especially on the part of teens) created this monster of an industry, and it became acceptable and even reasonable to invest millions into a recording project because goddamn if you weren't going to get your money back, baby. Even in 2000, after downloading culture had started to get a real foothold, the top ten albums of the year sold 60 million records together....just those ten records. That's fucking stupid.

The industry would be rocking along just fine if it stopped trying to maintain practices that worked in 1995, and started to accept that the last 30 years were a result of the times and not of an inner-industry magic that they can somehow recreate.

[Lament]

The shit some people can convince themselves...

[stupidmop]

I don't know if Engkand invented trashy bad tabloid 'journalism' but they definitely brought a sharp point to its spear. And here's our boy at the tip of it.
We don't know what the piece is about yet. I'll come back with that. He'd be sick if he knew he was in this paper. (The Sun)

Jesus! I hope he took a shower after being interviewed by The Scum

Is this from somewhere else? I hope so

Why? Sounds just like him.

[BurtReynolds]

I take it this newspaper is some sort of Nazi propaganda rag that endorces baby eating and drowning dolphins in oil?

[Rangi Guy]

I take it this newspaper is some sort of Nazi propaganda rag that endorces baby eating and drowning dolphins in oil?

Dolphin drizzled or drowned in olive oil -

[Sarah.]

I take it this newspaper is some sort of Nazi propaganda rag that endorces baby eating and drowning dolphins in oil?

It's most famous for printing character assassinating trash stories about the football fans who died at the Hillsborough football ground, as well as helping to cover up for the police. There are cities in Britain where every newsagent refuses to stock it.

It also has boobs. On page 3. Everyday.

[McParadigm]

It also has boobs. On page 3. Everyday.

somebody is going to have to prove this now

[McParadigm]

Or is page three the picture of Ed?