Artist · chart history
The Mock Turtles
Band Middleton United Kingdom Active 1987–1993
The Mock Turtles formed in 1987 in Middleton, United Kingdom and was active until 1993. The Mock Turtles has 9 chart appearances on 9 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 1991–2005. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Can You Dig It?”, which appears on 9 lists with a best position of #75. The station that charted The Mock Turtles most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 7 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1991.
The Mock Turtles came out of Middleton, on the Greater Manchester fringe, and left behind one gloriously loose-limbed single that long outlived the band. "Can You Dig It?", from the album Turtle Soup, has the jangle and strut of indie rock that has found its way onto the dancefloor without giving up its guitars, with Martin Coogan singing lead and playing guitar out front like a man who knows he's got the hook of his life.
In Britain it climbed to number 18 on the singles chart, and it simply refused to lie down: a lightly remixed version put it back in the UK top 20 in 2003, a decade after the band had split in 1993. Imaginary Records was their label, and that one song is the reason anyone still says their name.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by The Mock Turtles on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Can You Dig It? | 9 | #75 | – | 1991 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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