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 90s Top 10 Sales- Week By Week- 1996, In Conjunction with TOTP |
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 17th May 2024, 11:52 PM
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 The light will cast me aside
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'Street Spirit (Fade Out)' is definitely my highlight of the past fortnight, what a mesmerising single
 I agree that it's like an OK Computer warm up.I'm familiar with the Bluetones song but never made the connection between that song title and the Jimi Hendrix chart-topper despite adoring the latter, today I learned! LOL at the 'I Wanna Be A Hippy' censoring on TOTP...! I remember discovering that on a Now album and I don't recall it being so butchered on there, unless memory fails me 
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18th May 2024, 12:35 AM
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QUOTE(Smint @ 18th May 2024, 12:43 AM)  Slight Return  A surprise that this made no.2 as The Bluetones were fairly unknown but OMG this is just perfect, heartfelt indie pop. One of the best - though I also rated 'If' just as highly from them. If is another fantastic one from the Bluetones, think it's my favourite from them. Bluetonic is a good one too. This post has been edited by My... WAP??: 18th May 2024, 12:35 AM |
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18th May 2024, 06:34 AM
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Street Spirit is of course amazing but for me... Fake Plastic Trees deserved to do that, easily in my top 10 songs of the 90s, and much better than Street Spirit... even High and Dry deserved that... amazing anyway for them to go top 5 with the 5th single from The Bends
Slight Return is also amazing and made me buy the album.... which was kinda meh, very disappointing album and not that great, only 3-4 great tracks, rest filler. One of Us is also great and also made me buy the album, which was also kinda meh, even worse than the Bluetones one... but One of Us is still a classic and love the topic of God being a stranger on the bus... but no surprises she was a 1-hit wonder, don't think she ever did anything remotely close to this |
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18th May 2024, 08:37 AM
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Loved Julian Cope as a presenter, really refreshing!
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18th May 2024, 02:50 PM
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 Right in front of my salad?!
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QUOTE(Bjork @ 18th May 2024, 07:34 AM) Slight Return is also amazing and made me buy the album.... which was kinda meh, very disappointing album and not that great, only 3-4 great tracks, rest filler. Snap! |
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18th May 2024, 03:36 PM
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Northern Uproar were the real nadir of Britpop though. You can definitely to start to see the beginning of the end with their performance.
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18th May 2024, 11:06 PM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ 18th May 2024, 07:34 AM) One of Us is also great and also made me buy the album, which was also kinda meh, even worse than the Bluetones one... but One of Us is still a classic and love the topic of God being a stranger on the bus... but no surprises she was a 1-hit wonder, don't think she ever did anything remotely close to this Depends on definition of one hit wonder. Joan had a no. 33 hit in.the UK a few months after with 'St Teresa' which had similar religious lyrics..didn't chart in her native US and no.further chart hits. |
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19th May 2024, 06:38 AM
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Oh I rally thought she had never ever troubled the charts again and was a truly proper one hit wonder
Funny how I do own the album but cannot recall that Santa Theresa song 
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19th May 2024, 06:57 AM
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QUOTE(dandy* @ 17th May 2024, 07:05 PM) Street Spirit I was absolutely obsessed with that song. I’d liked Just before it but this one convinced me to buy the Bends and I never looked back from there. In particular I remember being stunned by the video when it was played the week before on the chart show, it was so unique at the time Slight Return was another good one, liked their debut album even though I know some found it disappointing. Not sure if I mentioned last week but I liked the Goldbug cover too, thought it was a good version not with Creep? or later with High and Dry/Fake plastic trees? Creep was a bit of a one-off cos the parent album, their debut Pablo Honey, was pretty bad but the double punch of High and Dry and Fake Plastic Trees should have everybody on board at this point It's all kinds of crazy how the singles of The Bends did and how they only went top 5 with single #5: My Iron Lung/24 High and Dry/17 Fake plastic trees/20 Just/19 Street Spirit/5 |
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19th May 2024, 08:48 AM
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Fake Plastic Trees was one of my favourite songs ever (although Pyramid Song came very close to topping it). That and Street Spirit were best tracks on The Bends but pretty much s great album start ro finish.
I actually agree with Thom Yorke though that High and Dry is weak by their standards. Fine but a bit too ordinary. |
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19th May 2024, 09:15 AM
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@Bjork… I didn’t really pay attention to anything before Just. It was seeing the video on the chart show that made me buy the song. I did (and still do) retrospectively love the other songs you mention but I can’t pretend that I was a big Radiohead fan before the 1-2 of Just and Street Spirit. Wasn’t a big fan of Creep, and whilst it’s okay it’s still not a big favourite now.
@Smint - Pyramid Song however, now there’s a contender for their best
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19th May 2024, 12:19 PM
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 It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
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Next week's episodes look good with some of Britpop's more successful acts but I'm not sure if it's Oasis with their double songs and the 1st big Dance Hit of the year
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19th May 2024, 08:32 PM
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QUOTE(chartjack2 @ 18th May 2024, 09:37 AM) Loved Julian Cope as a presenter, really refreshing! I’m well behind on the TOTP catch ups - are we past the point of the R1 presenters presenting every week now? |
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19th May 2024, 11:23 PM
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Yeah, well into the “golden microphone” era now - think that continues until Chris Cowey takes over as exec producer in mid 1997.
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20th May 2024, 09:53 PM
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Yeh think Mark Goodier/Campbell/Mayo were last on in early 96!
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24th May 2024, 04:20 PM
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 Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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17TH FEBRUARY
 Babylon Zoo grab a fourth week at the top, the longest time that any Levi ad assisted track has ever topped the charts moving past previous record holder Ben E King’s 3 week tenure. Sales continue to tumble though and just 80,000 were convinced last week, it owes it continued reign at the top as much to lack of competition as to its own prowess, 3T remain the closest challenger and indeed increase sales again to 74,000 and must take over next week as they reduce the gap from 59,000 to just 6,000 in a week! In part that was thanks to the Babylon Zoo album “The Boy With The X Ray Eyes” being available and indeed debuts at No 6 this week.  Already a US top 10 hit last year “I Got 5 On It” is the first hit from Luniz, a US duo who have sampled Kool & The Gang, Audio Two, and Club Nouveau on the track. It’s new at No 3 (56,000) and comes with major radio support perhaps unaware of the meaning of the song (it means going halfers on a bag of Marijuana).  Mariah Carey’s string of top ten singles dates back four years now and amounts to ten straight top tenners. Her new single “Open Arms” debuts at No 4 (53,000) and is a cover of a Journey track from 1982 which spent 6 weeks at No 2 there but failed to chart in the UK at all, parent album “Daydream” surges 32-20 in response. The rest of the top 10 is all in freefall, Lighthouse Family ebb 4-5 (45,000) with a small sales increase in fact, The Bluetones hurtle 3-6 (41,000), Joan Osborne ponders 6-7 (37,000), Etta James has a cola break 5-8 (34,000), East 17 drift 7-9 (28,000) and Technohead retreat 8-10 (26,000). N-Trance, Blur, and Bjork release singles this week- can they all arrive in the top 10 next week? 1- SPACEMAN- Babylon Zoo (80,000) 2- ANYTHING- 3T (74,000) 3- I GOT 5 ON IT- Luniz (56,000) 4- OPEN ARMS- Mariah Carey (53,000) 5- LIFTED- Lighthouse Family (45,000) 6- SLIGHT RETURN- The Bluetones (41,000) 7- ONE OF US- Joan Osborne (37,000) 8- I JUST WANT TO MAKE LOVE TO YOU- Etta James (34,000) 9- DO U STILL- East 17 (28,000) 10- I WANNA BE A HIPPY- Technohead (26,000)          
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24th May 2024, 04:49 PM
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Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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24TH FEBRUARY
 This was surely the week that 3T took over from Babylon Zoo according to all predictions and indeed they led for part of the week (actually two different tracks were leading through the week) but in the end “Anything” couldn’t hold on and remains No 2 (61,000). Just 2,000 ahead were those Babylon Zoo guys, their album slides 6-14 whilst 3T’s album is new at No 11, without their album being released this week then chances are they would be No 1 this week especially given the more romantic nature of “Anything” and Valentine’s Day having just gone. As it is Babylon Zoo continue to live a charmed life, sales after 5 weeks now total 893,000 making it odds on to become a million seller in the next month.  Onto the highest new entry which sat at No 1 as the week began, an instrumental dance track from Italian DJ Robert Miles called “Children”. The song was first released in early 1995 as part of an EP which resurfaced in Miami where it was picked up by regular DJ’s at Cream and championed its UK release here when the licence became available. Miles has given two possible explanations for the meaning behind the track, one that it was written in response to seeing pictures of war victims in Yugoslavia, the other that it was written as a response to the large number of deaths of clubbers on their way home after raves. Either way it debuts at No 3 (54,000).  Pencilled in as the first single from “The Great Escape” but only now making the cut, Blur’s new single “Stereotypes” arrives at No 7 (34,000). With the BRITS happening this week we’ll see if they can triumph over Oasis but in the meantime it becomes their 6th top 10 single.  Bjork’s last single “It’s Oh So Quiet” is still knocking around (No 71 this week) but the follow up “Hyperballad” is out already and smashes in at No 8 (27,000) to be her 3rd top 10 hit. Based on a dream that she had where she woke early and walked to a cliff edge then started to throw items over the edge imagining herself as those items, sounds like an average day in Bjork’s life. Luniz reverse 3-4 (42,000) and Lighthouse Family also make room for Robert Miles 4-5 (41,000). Joan Osborne yoyo’s 7-6 (36,000) Etta James continues to fade 8-9 (24,000) and Technohead cling to No 10 (22,000). Next week we’ll see if Oasis can win at the BRITS and in the charts. 1- SPACEMAN- Babylon Zoo (63,000) 2- ANYTHING- 3T (61,000) 3- CHILDREN- Robert Miles (54,000) 4- I GOT 5 ON IT- Luniz (42,000) 5- LIFTED- Lighthouse Family (41,000) 6- ONE OF US- Joan Osborne (36,000) 7- STEREOTYPES- Blur (34,000) 8- HYPERBALLAD- Bjork (27,000) 9- I JUST WANNA MAKE LOVE TO YOU- Etta James (24,000) 10- I WANT TO BE A HIPPY- Technohead (22,000)   
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24th May 2024, 06:33 PM
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Children
a timeless classic.
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24th May 2024, 06:53 PM
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Children and Hyberballad are easily my favourites from the new ones this week - both 10/10
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24th May 2024, 06:57 PM
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 Break the tension
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Children
Stereotypes Hyperballad
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