This fascinating compilation charts their brave, doomed attempts, from Velvet Underground-ish noise barrage to orchestrated crooning.
The compilation charted modestly in Europe, peaking in the lower positions of album charts in Finland, Greece, and Sweden and in the top twenty in Denmark and the Netherlands.
It topped the albums charts in the Netherlands, Belgium and Ireland, as well as the compilation album chart in France.
Bastille and Rudimental have soared back into the top 10, and Nile Rodgers' new greatest hits comp, The Chic Organization – Up All Night, is expected to crown the compilation albums chart.
To reflect the difference, 100 streams will count as equivalent to one download or physical single in the chart compilation process.
Certain genres have always fallen foul of chart compilation etiquette, and as we move forward, there will continue to be anomalies.
While the compilation didn't chart very high initially, it gained popularity later and has gone on to become the band's bestselling album in the United States, with sales of 11 million copies.
Take the UK singles chart – a compilation predominantly controlled by the consumer habits of teens – where the present number one, Blurred Lines, includes the lyrics "Lemme be the one you back your ass up to /... Had a bitch, but she ain't as bad as you / So, hit me up when you pass through / I'll give you something big enough to tear your ass in two".
Critical reception of the compilation, which failed to chart in any nation, was mixed.
The compilation of detailed bathymetric charts, together with high-resolution seismic profiles and long cores, reveals the detailed architecture of several sediment lobes, related to periods of decreased sea-level rise and/or increased sediment flux.
