With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

Music reviews, gig reviews, fun trivia and extra added random stuff!

1,500,000 hits in six years! Thank you dear readers! April 10, 2015


1-500-000-visites

I am pleased and a bit excited to announce that my blog reached a fantastic landmark last weekend. It has been around for just over six years and on April 4th it received its one and a half millionth hit! Yep that’s 1,500,000. If I include the hits for my other three blogs the total is in excess of 1,600,000. Now don’t get me wrong, I realise why many people have arrived at my blog; so many have searched for various celebrities in a state of undress notably Lily Allen and there was even a search for Meatloaf naked which arrived here. Recently thanks to glamorama.cl a Chilean gossip site there have been loads of hits in search of pictures of J-Lo‘s bottom. If you are interested my other blogs are;

With Just A Hint of Amelia

With Just A Hint Of Learning

and

Stars In My Glasses

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Anyway by means of a celebration I thought I would give you some random statistics which show how far around the world this blog has gone and the countries that still haven’t succumbed. In addition I have made a very special top twenty where if you add up the numbers in the song titles they add up to 1,500,000. There was only a bit of artistic licence involved in this. I hope you enjoy the tunes. Incidentally the geographical stats have only been available for three years.

Top 10 countries since
February 25, 2012
Country Views
USA 123,451
UK 85,976
Chile 24,416
Germany 19,156
France 17,556
Canada 16,301
Mexico 13,552
Spain 12,422
Australia 9,249
Brazil 7,289
Countries that have not accessed this blog so far
Svalbard (Norway)
Western Sahara
Guinea
Chad
Central African Republic
South Sudan
Turkmenistan
Countries that have only recorded a single view
Indonesia
Singapore
Bangladesh
Guernsey
Jordan
Bulgaria
Bolivia
Honduras
Estonia
Malaysia
Réunion
Hong Kong SAR China
Poland
Bahamas
China
Austria
Egypt
Finland
Slovenia

If you are from any of these countries or indeed any other country then feel free to come and say hello. Actually even if you’re from another planet I’d be happy to see you here! And now here is the top twenty that really does add up to 1,500,000.

Top 20 1.5 m songs
1 1,000,000 A Million Random Digits – …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
2 192,000 19-2000 – Gorillaz
3 100,000 100,000 Years – Kiss
4 100,000 One Hundred Thousand Smiles Out – Barclay James Harvest
5 45,789 Beechwood 4-5789 – The Marvelettes
6 30,000 At 30,000 Ft – Queensrÿche
7 10,538 10538 Overture – Electric Light Orchestra
8 10,000 10,000 Nights of Thunder – Alphabeat
9 5,678 5,6,7,8 – Steps
10 2,468 2-4-6-8 Motorway – Tom Robinson
11 2,000 2,000 Light Years From Home – The Rolling Stones
12 1,234 1234 – Plain White T’s
13 213 213 – Slayer
14 40 40 – U2
15 15 Fifteen – Taylor Swift
16 9 Cloud Nine – The Temptations
17 8 Eight Days a Week – The Beatles
18 4 4 Minutes – Madonna
19 3 3 A.M. Eternal – KLF
20 1 1 Thing – Amerie

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“The threats you made were meant to cut me down” November 27, 2012


It would be fair to say that many rock stars who seemed to really have balls in their early years become progressively eunuch-like as they get older. especially those that step away from the dark side to accept the odd award from the UK Royal Family. No names mentioned for now, but they and you know who they are.

However in my opinion one rock ‘n’ roll Knight of the Realm clearly showed this week that he still has balls and I salute him for that. Sir Elton John played a show in Beijing in China this weekend. as usual the set list was vetted, as it is for any major performance in China. However what he did outside of the songs was brilliant. he expressed his support for Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. There were apparently gasps from the audience when he said it and it doesn’t seem to have been reported in any of the Chinese media. Well there’s a surprise! Click here to read the story on the BBC website.

It  follows a lot of support for pussy Riot from artists playing in Russia in recent months and Bjork‘s chant of Tibet, Tibet when she played the Chinese capital in 2008. Are these protests a sign that rock ‘n’ roll is ready to show its huge cojones once again? I hope so!

I have a feeling that the Chinese government may have censored the next video as the sound disappears after a few seconds, what do you think?

Judging from this picture Elton is also supporting China right? (geddit??)