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March 8

Electric Blue Series Song

First of all , I wanna say sorry for my bad English. I hope it is enough to understand my questions.

Many years ago during my youth, it must have been the beginning of the 2000s, I saw a series on the German TV Channel RTL2 called Electric Blue. Electric Blue is an erotic series that was produced by the Playboychannel in the early 1980s.

Personally, I never was a fan of erotic videos and discovered the series while zapping. But I stayed a little longer that evening because a kind of music video was playing. In this music video, a band played a song called "Electric Blue" at a swimming pool. The whole thing was a pop song in which "Electric Blue" was sung for a long time in the chorus. The genre of the song was rock/pop and sounds not uncommon for the early eightys. The song was play in a middle up to fast speed.

Anyway, I really liked the song and I've been looking for it for quite some time.

Does anyone have any information about which episode of the series that was or even a link where the song is played. Thanks for any help. --2A02:810A:18C0:10AC:C2F7:CA7C:32EC:F68D (talk) 14:48, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

A production company named "Electric Blue" produced many soft-porn videos through the 80s and 90s. The theme song for the series was "The Warning" by Broadsword. However, it is possible that you are looking for a specific song in a specific video they produced. 75.136.148.8 (talk) 16:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Indeed , I search for a special song aired in one of the episode. There was a band singing on a swimming pool , during naked girls swimming and take a shower. The only part of the song there I remember was " electric blue" but it wasnt one of the electric blue main theme songs.Didnt like that show very much and even in my youth it was primitive in my view. But this band with this song was great. So far as I remember it was on the start of these episode but not the main theme. --2A02:810A:18C0:10AC:C2F7:CA7C:32EC:F68D (talk) 19:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Help identifying an album from one of the Billboard 200 § Year-end charts

For context, I'm currently working my way through these charts and making link lists to the albums' Wikipedia articles. I started with the 2002 chart, the earliest one currently available at billboard.com, and am now about two thirds of the way to the most recent one. For the first time, there's an entry I'm having trouble getting to grips with.

There have been a handful of previous occasions when it wasn't immediately clear which of several similarly-titled non-studio albums an entry referred to, courtesy of Billboard's failure to include release years in their charts. But all that was needful was to check the data in each candidate album article's "Charts" section against the year and position in question.

There have also been occasions when an album didn't have an article, but there's such a strong correlation between Billboard-charting albums and Wikipedia-notable albums that those too were only a handful - I haven't kept count, but I'd say very certainly less than 3%, and quite possibly less than 1%. More importantly, for my purposes, there has been zero overlap between the former and the latter handful.

But enough with the generalities, the point is that I don't seem to be getting anywhere with 2016's #155. The billboard.com version (see billboard.com/charts/year-end/2016/top-billboard-200-albums, but may be paywalled) says this:

• Cover: [1]
• Album: The Very Best Of The Eagles
• Artist: Eagles

The print version (see e.g. page "133"/136 in scan worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/00s/2016/Billboard-2016-12-17-(Double-Issue).pdf) says this:

• Album: THE VERY BEST OF THE EAGLES
• Artist: Eagles
• Label: Warner Strategic Marketing/Rhino

Eagles discography § Compilation albums says there are two albums with that precise title, but neither charted at all in the US. One of them has an article, which says it wasn't even released in the US. So probably not one of them. The next-closest title match is The Very Best Of (Eagles album), but there are a couple of reasons that make me doubt that that is the one either.

Firstly, the covers don't match. However, chances are the Billboard one is wrong. It reads "The Best of Eagles", which title does appear in the Wikipedia discography as well, and a discogs search confirms that the cover art matches the album with that title. Like the first two, this one didn't chart in the US. So probably not that one.

Secondly, going by the article, it doesn't seem particularly plausible for that album to chart in 2016. It was released in late 2003 and made it onto the year-end list once, in 2004. The most recent RIAA certification (see the US ref in § Certifications) reads "5x Platinum | February 22, 2008". For comparison, for another "Eagles" compiation, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975), which is 2016's #146, less than 10 positions apart, the most recent certification reads "38x Platinum | August 20, 2018". For Creedence's Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits, 2016's #156, directly below, there are new certifications in 2016 and 2023.

Thirdly, as just mentioned, that album does appear on the 2004 chart. From what I've seen, whenever an album appears more than once, the name never deviates, down to the capitalization and punctuation. Using the same comparison case as before, which appears a bunch of times, it's always "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975", never "Their Greatest Hits: 1971-1975" or "Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)" or whatever. But the (print) entry for 2004 is this:

• Album: THE VERY BEST OF
• Artist: Eagles
• Label: Warner Strategic Marketing

(Clearly, capitalization does differ between the online and print versions, but let's call that a stylistic matter.) So probably different albums... at least as far as Billboard's database is concerned.

Neither the Wikipedia discography nor another discogs search supply more candidates, though.

That's as far as I've gotten. Apologies for the long read, any help appreciated!

- 89.183.221.75 (talk) 21:02, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Quick follow-up: The same chart confuses BLACKsummers'night and blackSUMMERS'night - easy to do, of course, but another first. Maybe they were just being overall sloppier that time 'round, for whatever reason. - 89.183.221.75 (talk) 23:53, 8 March 2024 (UTC)