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Newbury Comics top 50 of 2007

XHonusWagnerX - 1-15-2008 at 12:19 PM

Incase anyone doesnt know, Newbury Comics is a 30 store New England music/novelty chain store. They started off as a comic store and gradually started selling late 70's early 80's punk and hardcore records.


Newbury Comics BEST SELLERS of 2007

1. WINEHOUSE,AMY-Back To Black
2. WEST, KANYE-Graduation
3. DROPKICK MURPHYS-Warrior's Code
4. DROPKICK MURPHYS-Meanest Of Times
5. WHITE STRIPES-Icky Thump
6. LINKIN PARK-Minutes To Midnight
7. SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE-Magic
8. SHINS-Wincing The Night Away
9. PLANT/KRAUSS-Raising Sand
10. FEIST-Reminder
11. KEYS, ALICIA-As I Am
12. 50 CENT-Curtis
13. NINE INCH NAILS-Year Zero
14. JAY-Z-American Gangster
15. MODEST MOUSE-We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
16. FOO FIGHTERS-Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
17. ARCADE FIRE-Neon Bible
18. PARAMORE-Riot
19. MAROON 5-It Won't Be Soon Before Long
20. TIMBALAND-Shock Value
21. JONES, NORAH-Not Too Late
22. ALLEN, LILY-Alright, Still
23. WILCO-Sky Blue Sky
24. GROBAN, JOSH-Noel
25. DAUGHTRY-Daughtry
26. FALL OUT BOY-Infinity On High
27. COMMON-Finding Forever
28. SPOON-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
29. VEDDER, EDDIE (PEARL JAM)-Into The Wild
30. TIMBERLAKE, JUSTIN-Future Sex/Lovesounds
31. SILVERSUN PICKUPS-Carnavas
32. VARIOUS ARTISTS-INSTANT KARMA-Campaign To Save Darfur
33. SMASHING PUMPKINS-Zeitgeist
34. KWELI, TALIB-Eardrum
35. T.I.-T.I. Vs. T.I.P.
36. KINGS OF LEON-Because Of The Times
37. WILLIAMS, LUCINDA-West
38. COOK, DANE-Rough Around Edges (Deluxe Edition)
39. BRIGHT EYES-Cassadaga
40. RUSH-Snakes & Arrows
41. ADAMS, RYAN-Easy Tiger
42. SPEARS, BRITNEY-Blackout
43. MIGHTY BOSSTONES-Medium Rare
44. BJORK-Volta
45. SMITH, ELLIOTT-New Moon (2 CD)
46. INTERPOL-Our Love To Admire
47. FERGIE-Dutchess
48. SPEKTOR, REGINA-Begin To Hope
49. QUEENS OF STONE AGE-Era Vulgaris
50. M.I.A.-Kala

upyerbum - 1-15-2008 at 12:37 PM

i can see maybe 3/4 things on that list that I would be even remotely interested in.

tireironsaint - 1-15-2008 at 04:49 PM

I have one thing on that list and only see one or maybe two other things that I would buy. I do like Newbury and have ordered from them a few times, but bestseller lists at record stores are always painful to read since so many people buy such horrible crap.

CR83 - 1-15-2008 at 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by tireironsaint
...bestseller lists at record stores are always painful to read since so many people buy such horrible crap.


Damn straight

Furly - 1-15-2008 at 05:49 PM

I have never heard of about 20 of them.

Mark Lind - 1-15-2008 at 06:24 PM

That description of Newbs almost makes it sound small. They are one of the top 10 music retailers in the country. So seeing Dropkick Murphys up the top of the list is huge. They must have sold thousands upon thousands of records through the chain to rank that high. Maybe 10K of each? I would guess at least that.

XHonusWagnerX - 1-15-2008 at 06:46 PM

yah Mark is right, they are bigger than my description makes them sound. I just dont think of them as being huge becuase they are still regional for the most part.

I worked at the warehouse for 8 years and Mark is also right that to be up near the top of the list they had to have sold A TON of DKM records!!!

godabandonedme - 1-15-2008 at 11:24 PM

Good to see DKM beating out all the other shit. Makes you wonder who's buying it though. Stupid Departed movie, now every white teenager with a drop of green in his family going back 300yrs has an Irish Pride/green white orange clover tattoo singing shipping off to boston.....with a crooked hat an jeans around his knees.....ahhh well good for dkm. And hey if it opens up some poor soul doomed to listen to the radio to other good music then cool......

Lucabrasi - 1-16-2008 at 12:08 AM

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Originally posted by godabandonedme
Good to see DKM beating out all the other shit. Makes you wonder who's buying it though. Stupid Departed movie, now every white teenager with a drop of green in his family going back 300yrs has an Irish Pride/green white orange clover tattoo singing shipping off to boston.....with a crooked hat an jeans around his knees.....ahhh well good for dkm. And hey if it opens up some poor soul doomed to listen to the radio to other good music then cool......


You cant blame the Departed movie for that completly. The whole Irish Pride/DKM thing has been going on since at least 2000. I cant even keep track of all the people in the punk scene who refer to themselves with "Irish" before there nickname (I.E IrishMike, IrishKelly, IrishPotato) Why is being Irish such a cool thig?

Voodoobillyman - 1-16-2008 at 01:14 AM

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Originally posted by Lucabrasi
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Originally posted by godabandonedme
Good to see DKM beating out all the other shit. Makes you wonder who's buying it though. Stupid Departed movie, now every white teenager with a drop of green in his family going back 300yrs has an Irish Pride/green white orange clover tattoo singing shipping off to boston.....with a crooked hat an jeans around his knees.....ahhh well good for dkm. And hey if it opens up some poor soul doomed to listen to the radio to other good music then cool......


You cant blame the Departed movie for that completly. The whole Irish Pride/DKM thing has been going on since at least 2000. I cant even keep track of all the people in the punk scene who refer to themselves with "Irish" before there nickname (I.E IrishMike, IrishKelly, IrishPotato) Why is being Irish such a cool thig?



It's the other version of being black. It's cool to represent yourself as being blood tied to a certain background that has faced enormous adversity throughout history. the Irish definitely fall into this category and so these dumb shits somehow rationalize a sense of pride from this. It is retarded and has no credit with me whatsoever. Because your great great cousins brothers friend suffered through the potatoe famine and then got his sorry ass to America to work the railroads next to Chinese immigrants, you feel like you have suffered alongside him and now the world owes you and you don't give a fuck about anything blah blah blah.....it makes you a real badass. Ok, my soapbox just fell aprt right from underneath me. Congrats to the DKM for their success, a band that truly deserves to be big, they really do. This Amy Winehouse, I have heard the name many times, but never heard her music, any good?

XHonusWagnerX - 1-16-2008 at 09:11 AM

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Originally posted by Lucabrasi
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Originally posted by godabandonedme
Good to see DKM beating out all the other shit. Makes you wonder who's buying it though. Stupid Departed movie, now every white teenager with a drop of green in his family going back 300yrs has an Irish Pride/green white orange clover tattoo singing shipping off to boston.....with a crooked hat an jeans around his knees.....ahhh well good for dkm. And hey if it opens up some poor soul doomed to listen to the radio to other good music then cool......


You cant blame the Departed movie for that completly. The whole Irish Pride/DKM thing has been going on since at least 2000. I cant even keep track of all the people in the punk scene who refer to themselves with "Irish" before there nickname (I.E IrishMike, IrishKelly, IrishPotato) Why is being Irish such a cool thig?



Its an excuse to be a drunk

godabandonedme - 1-16-2008 at 10:45 AM

Breathing is a valid excuse to be drunk.

BDx13 - 1-16-2008 at 04:53 PM

taking pride in german heritage still makes most germans uncomfortable.
anyone wanna start calling me GermanBD?

oh, and i wish i had a friend called IrishPotato.

Lucabrasi - 1-16-2008 at 05:45 PM

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Originally posted by BD
taking pride in german heritage still makes most germans uncomfortable.
anyone wanna start calling me GermanBD?

oh, and i wish i had a friend called IrishPotato.


I think we all wish we could have a friend called "IrishPotato" its just a matter of finding one we can all call our own.