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17th February 2015, 09:33 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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January 1st 1995
A new year a new number one for a new band - Oasis take Whatever to the top in all of it’s All You Need Is Love-ish strings-tastic fab-gear-ish-ness Britpop delight. It’s a great record and deserved to top the UK charts as well, though it did get near. The Human League, meanwhile go top 5, Tell Me When? Now! The Lightning Seeds add Change to their list of top tenners, and Riverdance hits 8. I don’t remember it doing that well, but there ya are, stomp-a-clomp-a-stomp-a, it did. Sting shoots his cowboy way into the 20 16 years after first doing it, Siouxsie ditto only 17 years on, while the highest new entry is 1963 in 1994 from a B side in 1987 remixed by Arthur Baker for New Order charting in 1995. Date-Confusion! Also a New Order track... Some re-entries from Ace Of Base who enjoy Living In Danger at 29, Youssou N’Dour at 37, and again at 64 as chart-topper 7 Seconds comes back in (though not called a re-entry as it’s a new year and been out the chart a while), both helped by Neneh Cherry. At 35 it’s a record from the year I was born, back as a huge UK hit thanks to an advert on TV - Guaglione, Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and horn-hooked old big swing band fun. Both terrific and highly unexpected. New UK girl duo Scarlet enter at 50, with an Independent Love Song, and it’s good, while Bristol’s Portishead enter at 69 with the fab Glory Box, an influential trip-hoppy track. Which leaves veteran Barry White back at 55 after a few years gap, helped by his Lisa Stansfield and Edie Brickell associations, giving him a span of 22 years of chart entries since I’m Gonna Love You A Little More Baby went top 5 in 1973. Oh, and Jimmy Somerville has 11 years of entries, with Bronski Beat and Communards, and solo hits. 1 ( 17 ) WHATEVER Oasis 2 ( 1 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 3 ( 2 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 4 ( 7 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 5 ( 6 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 6 ( 3 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 7 ( 14 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 8 ( 11 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 9 ( 8 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 10 ( 10 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 11 ( 5 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 12 ( 4 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea 13 ( 9 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3 14 ( 13 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong 15 ( 29 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting 16 ( 12 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi 17 ( 45 ) OH BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees 18 ( 15 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters 19 ( 16 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan 20 ( NEW ) 1963 ’94 New Order 21 ( 24 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail 22 ( 19 ) YOU BLOW ME AWAY Robert Palmer 23 ( 21 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 24 ( 23 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D 25 ( 22 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly 26 ( 25 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure 27 ( 27 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze 28 ( 18 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17 29 ( RE ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base 30 ( 20 ) GO GO POWER RANGERS Power Rangers 31 ( 33 ) LET THE HEALING BEGIN Joe Cocker 32 ( 32 ) GALLOWS POLE Jimmy Page and Robert Plant 33 ( 26 ) STARS China Black 34 ( 31 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 35 ( NEW ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 36 ( 28 ) LOVE SPREADS The Stone Roses 37 ( RE ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest 38 ( 38 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee 39 ( 42 ) CRAZY Eternal 40 ( 30 ) CHRISTMAS WRAPPING Peaches 41 ( 37 ) WHEN I’M CLEANING WINDOWS 2 In A Tent featuring George Formby 42 ( 34 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 43 ( 35 ) IF I ONLY KNEW Tom Jones 44 ( 36 ) ANOTHER NIGHT MC Saar and The Real McCoy 45 ( 48 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses 46 ( 39 ) ONE MORE CHANCE EYC 47 ( 40 ) DON’T DON’T TELL ME NO Sophie B. Hawkins 48 ( 43 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow 49 ( 41 ) DOLLARS C.J. Lewis 50 ( NEW ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 51 ( 51 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Music Relief 94 52 ( 46 ) END OF A CENTURY Blur 53 ( 53 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona 54 ( 47 ) THE STRANGEST PARTY INXS 55 ( NEW ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White 56 ( 56 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 57 ( 50 ) ETERNAL LOVE PJ and Duncan 58 ( 54 ) SENSE Terry Hall 59 ( 59 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 60 ( 61 ) I’LL FIND YOU Michelle Gayle 61 ( 58 ) YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS MAD Pet Shop Boys 62 ( 65 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 63 ( 63 ) SIGHT FOR SORE EYES M People 64 ( NEW ) 7 SECONDS Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry 65 ( 74 ) SEARCHING China Black 66 ( 69 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 67 ( 67 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 68 ( 68 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma 69 ( NEW ) GLORY BOX Portishead 70 ( 73 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal 71 ( 71 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys 72 ( 72 ) GOOD TIMES Edie Brickell 73 ( 52 ) HOW DO YOU STOP Joni Mitchell and Seal 74 ( 60 ) ONE LAST LOVE SONG The Beautiful South 75 ( NEW ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville |
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17th February 2015, 10:26 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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8th January 1995 Oasis make it 2 weeks on top for my 37th birthday, hey whatever. Riverdance inexplicably goes top 5. Whatever. Glory Box is a glorious 61 place leap to 8 though, hooray for quality! However the highest new entry at 10 is really dodgy. No, honest, So Let Me Go Far and one I’ve utterly forgotten, but it’s Dodgy and that’s good enough for me if it’s good enough for you. Must have loved it though. Youtube awaits! At 31, new for Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter, One Cool Remove from being country and folk, but nice anyway. Runrig are in at 30, with This Time Of Year, Scarlet go top 20, and in at 33 it’s the great pop dance delight of Strike...U Sure Do! Jimmy Somerville has a Heartbeat at 39 from 75, The Sounds Of Blackness return with a new track, declaring I’m Going All The Way from 49. Best of all Simple Minds at 55 return with the terrific She’s A River for a cool 14 years of chart entries. This was the tour I finally got to see them in concert, so yay for me! Finally Let Loose are back, twice, once with Seventeen reissued, at 75, and also with the better One Night Stand a bit higher at 65. 1 ( 1 ) WHATEVER Oasis 2 ( 4 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 3 ( 3 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 4 ( 2 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 5 ( 8 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 6 ( 5 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 7 ( 7 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 8 ( 69 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 9 ( 9 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 10 ( NEW ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy 11 ( 6 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 12 ( 18 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters 13 ( 10 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 14 ( 20 ) 1963 ’94 New Order 15 ( 15 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting 16 ( 11 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 17 ( 17 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees 18 ( 50 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 19 ( 14 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong 20 ( 13 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3 21 ( 19 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan 22 ( 12 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea 23 ( 27 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze 24 ( 42 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 25 ( 21 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail 26 ( 29 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base 27 ( 23 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 28 ( 31 ) LET THE HEALING BEGIN Joe Cocker 29 ( 38 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee 30 ( NEW ) THIS TIME OF YEAR Runrig 31 ( NEW ) ONE COOL REMOVE Shawn Colvin featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter 32 ( 16 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi 33 ( NEW ) U SURE DO Strike 34 ( 39 ) CRAZY Eternal 35 ( 37 ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest 36 ( 34 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 37 ( 33 ) STARS China Black 38 ( 24 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D 39 ( 75 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 40 ( 45 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses 41 ( 22 ) YOU BLOW ME AWAY Robert Palmer 42 ( 46 ) ONE MORE CHANCE EYC 43 ( 25 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly 44 ( 35 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 45 ( 26 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure 46 ( 55 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White 47 ( 28 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17 48 ( 30 ) GO GO POWER RANGERS Might Morph'n Power Rangers 49 ( NEW ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness 50 ( 32 ) GALLOWS POLE Jimmy Page and Robert Plant 51 ( 40 ) CHRISTMAS WRAPPING Peaches 52 ( 36 ) LOVE SPREADS The Stone Roses 53 ( 60 ) I’LL FIND YOU Michelle Gayle 54 ( 43 ) IF I ONLY KNEW Tom Jones 55 ( NEW ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 56 ( 53 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona 57 ( 56 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 58 ( 41 ) WHEN I’M CLEANING WINDOWS 2 In A Tent featuring George Formby 59 ( 48 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow 60 ( 59 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 61 ( 44 ) ANOTHER NIGHT MC Saar and The Real McCoy 62 ( 51 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Music Relief 94 63 ( 62 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 64 ( 61 ) YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS MAD Pet Shop Boys 65 ( NEW ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 66 ( 66 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 67 ( 67 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 68 ( 68 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma 69 ( 64 ) 7 SECONDS Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry 70 ( 70 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal 71 ( 71 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys 72 ( 54 ) THE STRANGEST PARTY INXS 73 ( 52 ) END OF A CENTURY Blur 74 ( 72 ) GOOD TIMES Edie Brickell 75 ( NEW ) SEVENTEEN Let Loose |
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18th February 2015, 10:22 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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15th January 1995 3 weeks at 1 for Oasis, as Riverdance hits 3. I’m shocked! Actual chart peak 3. I mean it’s nice, but let’s be honest, it’s the dancing - watch the video! The Lightning Seeds get a 3rd Top 5 hit, with Change at 4, while an Independent Scarlet hit 8. New Order add to their growing tally of Top 10’s with a track that never should have just been a B Side, 1963. Highest new entry at 15 is Annie Lennox, now onto a covers album and she covers old friends A Lover Speaks 1986 minor UK hit (and big hit in my charts) No More I Love You’s, improves on it, and hopefully the royalties have helped them out ever since cos it’s fab. An unusual melody, but gorgeous, and it forever now reminds of later in 1995 when I was in an Orange Juice bar on Orchard Road in Singapore gasping for a drink in the heat and humidity, and this came out of the speakers. Pretty sure no-one else has those associations with the song! In at 19, Massive Attack are back with a bang, with help from Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl, over a decade into her run of big hits in my charts, and what a mellow lovely atmospheric track it is too. Jimmy Somerville goes top 20, Simple Minds 30, Barry White 40, and in at 32 it’s Crush - With Eyeliner: aka REM’s glamrock Velvet Underground-ish rifftastic move away from the mainstream appeal of their more recent stuff, and it’s great. We’ve also got the original version of the hideous 2014 dance remix of R. Kelly’s Bump ‘n’ Grind at 43 which wasn’t that bad before I went off him a bit. Tanita Tikaram’s back, I Might Be Crying but it’s been 7 years since she arrived with a bang, and then quickly faded out without ever deserving that. At 50, what the Deuce!? Call It Love, or call it pop. M People want to Open Your Heart at 53, but I’m opening my heart to the disco classic from 1977 that the Communards more or less were inspired by, and it’s back at 65 18 years on - Thelma Houston’s version of Don’t Leave Me This Way. The song was originally lined up to be Diana Ross’ follow-up to the still-epic Love Hangover in 1976, but Thelma got the big disco smash out of it instead. Best of all, the original 1975 Philly version of the Gamble & Huff song became a bigger hit in the UK for Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes, still my fave version. 1 ( 1 ) WHATEVER Oasis 2 ( 2 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 3 ( 5 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 4 ( 7 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 5 ( 3 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 6 ( 8 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 7 ( 18 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 8 ( 6 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 9 ( 9 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 10 ( 14 ) 1963 ’94 New Order 11 ( 4 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 12 ( 17 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees 13 ( 11 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 14 ( 10 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy 15 ( NEW ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 16 ( 13 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 17 ( 12 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters 18 ( 23 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze 19 ( NEW ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 20 ( 39 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 21 ( 16 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 22 ( 19 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong 23 ( 26 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base 24 ( 15 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting 25 ( 29 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee 26 ( 21 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan 27 ( 55 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 28 ( 34 ) CRAZY Eternal 29 ( 35 ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest 30 ( 31 ) ONE COOL REMOVE Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter 31 ( 20 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3 32 ( NEW ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 33 ( 22 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea 34 ( 46 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White 35 ( 24 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 36 ( 27 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 37 ( 40 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses 38 ( 25 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail 39 ( NEW ) WHERE’S YOUR LOVE BEEN Heliocentric World 40 ( 49 ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness 41 ( 37 ) STARS China Black 42 ( 36 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 43 ( NEW ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly 44 ( 38 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D 45 ( 65 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 46 ( 30 ) THIS TIME OF YEAR Runrig 47 ( NEW ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 48 ( 28 ) LET THE HEALING BEGIN Joe Cocker 49 ( 32 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi 50 ( NEW ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 51 ( 33 ) U SURE DO Strike 52 ( 43 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly 53 ( NEW ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 54 ( 44 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 55 ( 45 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure 56 ( 41 ) YOU BLOW ME AWAY Robert Palmer 57 ( 57 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 58 ( 56 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona 59 ( 47 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17 60 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 61 ( 51 ) CHRISTMAS WRAPPING Peaches 62 ( 54 ) IF I ONLY KNEW Tom Jones 63 ( 48 ) GO GO POWER RANGERS Might Morph'n Power Rangers 64 ( 63 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 65 ( NEW ) DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY Thelma Houston 66 ( 59 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow 67 ( 66 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 68 ( 67 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 69 ( 50 ) GALLOWS POLE Jimmy Page and Robert Plant 70 ( 68 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma 71 ( 70 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal 72 ( 64 ) YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS MAD Pet Shop Boys 73 ( 71 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys 74 ( 74 ) GOOD TIMES Edie Brickell 75 ( 62 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Music Relief 94 |
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19th February 2015, 12:07 AM
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BuzzJack Platinum Member
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Hoorah! '95 here a last!
Like you, Riverdance performed much better in my chart than I remember. Then again, the same could be said for many. On the flipside, some faves like Perfection and 1963 completely underperformed for me at the time. Unlike you, I actually prefer the 'hideous' 2014 dance remix of Bump N Grind to the original Great to see Human League, Scarlet and Portishead in the top ten - all undeservedly underrated gems. |
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19th February 2015, 08:28 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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Hoorah! '95 here a last! Like you, Riverdance performed much better in my chart than I remember. Then again, the same could be said for many. On the flipside, some faves like Perfection and 1963 completely underperformed for me at the time. Unlike you, I actually prefer the 'hideous' 2014 dance remix of Bump N Grind to the original Great to see Human League, Scarlet and Portishead in the top ten - all undeservedly underrated gems. Thanks AH, I think we all went down with Riverdance fever! "Hideous" is praps a bit strong - annoying is more accurate for the 2014 remix of Bump n Grind but I have a tendancy to exaggerate |
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19th February 2015, 06:56 PM
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Mansonette
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I think Riverdance is a perfectly passable track, no need to be ashamed of it! All those pure moods sounding things like Enigma/Deep Forest etc were very on trend and Riverdance kinda fitted that mood.
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19th February 2015, 09:21 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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I think Riverdance is a perfectly passable track, no need to be ashamed of it! All those pure moods sounding things like Enigma/Deep Forest etc were very on trend and Riverdance kinda fitted that mood. thanks Dandy, you're probably right and I just need to reacquaint myself with Riverdance properly - I did buy it at the time but I havent played it in 20 years. Oops! |
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20th February 2015, 09:52 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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22nd January 1995
It’s the Human League at 1, at last, some 7 years since the last one, and their 9th in total in 15 years of chart entries. Hoorah, I still love them! Meanwhile my top 10 gets some street cred as Portishead hit 3 and New Order 6, not to mention Massive Attack at 9, their 3rd top 10. Meanwhile Deuce rocket up to 17 with another one of those tracks I haven’t heard in 20 years and have forgotten, and forgotten I liked! Dear oh dear! Let Loose go top 40 with One Night Stand, I suppose we’ve all done that at one time or another. Let Loose, I mean. One Night Stand maybe, maybe not. Highest new entry is the great soul girl band TLC, jazzy, snazzy, sultry, it’s Creep at 28, a record that still sounds fresh and fabulous. Morrissey is in at 31 with Boxers. I have my tickets for next month for Mozza, hopefully he will be tip top. Donna Allen has another chart entry some years on from her first, this time it’s Real at 33, while in at 38, it’s Sleeper with Inbetweener. R Kelly and The Sounds Of Blackness join in the 40 action, as does Thelma Houston doing it second time around 18 years on. Cyndi Lauper is back at 53, tackling a classic - I’m Gonna Be Strong is Gene Pitney’s torch song, his finest moment, and a dramatic anthem with a vocal performance that no-one could possibly top, but that doesn’t stop ol Cyn giving it a good go. Another cover brings Aswad back, and a good reggae version of the 1963 Betty Everett song You’re No Good, better known in the UK as a big hit for The Swinging Blue Jeans in 1964 (they were big enough for me to know them as a poptastic fave group age 6) before Linda Ronstadt covered it in 1975 and had a big US hit. I’d stick with the original soulful version though, with Aswad as the second-best choice. Stevie Wonder’s back again, some 26 years on from For Once In My Life, at 58 it’s For Your Love. At 62, it’s another cover, of instrumental Soul Limbo, a 1969 instrumental hit for Booker T & The MG’s, better known as a TV cricket theme tune. It’s not as good, even with lyrics. Yet another cover version at 65 (of Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye’s hit cover of the Pearls minor hit version of the US 1972 original version from The Stylistics. This time it’s Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts, but I think there’s still room for a definitive version of the great song. At 66 it’s Nicki French and her version of Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 chart-topper, Total Eclipse Of The Heart. It’s not as good. That concludes the covers, leaving only Jim Carrey and Cuban Pete at 71 for one week only. He did The Truman Show, though, so I forgive him. 1 ( 2 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 2 ( 1 ) WHATEVER Oasis 3 ( 6 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 4 ( 7 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 5 ( 3 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 6 ( 10 ) 1963 ’94 New Order 7 ( 4 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 8 ( 5 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 9 ( 19 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 10 ( 8 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 11 ( 12 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees 12 ( 20 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 13 ( 15 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 14 ( 13 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 15 ( 9 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 16 ( 27 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 17 ( 50 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 18 ( 18 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze 19 ( 23 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base 20 ( 11 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 21 ( 25 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee 22 ( 45 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 23 ( 21 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 24 ( 24 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting 25 ( 37 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses 26 ( 17 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters 27 ( 14 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy 28 ( NEW ) CREEP TLC 29 ( 34 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White 30 ( 16 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 31 ( NEW ) BOXERS Morrissey 32 ( 32 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 33 ( NEW ) REAL Donna Allen 34 ( 22 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong 35 ( 35 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 36 ( 40 ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness 37 ( 43 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly 38 ( NEW ) INBETWEENER Sleeper 39 ( 65 ) DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY Thelma Houston 40 ( 26 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan 41 ( 41 ) STARS China Black 42 ( 36 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 43 ( 53 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 44 ( 44 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D 45 ( 42 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 46 ( 38 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail 47 ( 47 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 48 ( 33 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea 49 ( 31 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3 50 ( 30 ) ONE COOL REMOVE Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter 51 ( 28 ) CRAZY Eternal 52 ( 29 ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest 53 ( NEW ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper 54 ( NEW ) LET IT LAST Carleen Anderson 55 ( 52 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly 56 ( 39 ) WHERE’S YOUR LOVE BEEN Heliocentric World 57 ( 57 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 58 ( NEW ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 59 ( NEW ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad 60 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 61 ( 58 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona 62 ( NEW ) SAVED Mr. Roy 63 ( 64 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 64 ( 55 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure 65 ( NEW ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts 66 ( NEW ) TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART Nicki French 67 ( 67 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 68 ( 68 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 69 ( 70 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma 70 ( 66 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow 71 ( NEW ) CUBAN PETE Jim Carrey 72 ( 71 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal 73 ( 73 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys 74 ( 59 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17 75 ( 49 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi |
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21st February 2015, 03:36 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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29th January 1995
Another new number one, and it’s Portishead and the fab Glory Box. No video as I’ve already featured it in previous weeks, just to not make it obvious what’s always going to top my chart by praising a record and then not featuring the youtube link! Hah! Scarlet meanwhile get the runners-up spot, as Bob Seger returns to my chart 17 years later, and way out-does the first-time-round as it bangs in at 6, rather surprisingly, as I wasn’t too fussed about it in 1978, and these days, but for a time I really did like it - apparently! Annie Lennox gets another solo top 10, as Let Loose get a second or third (I forget), and Sting goes to a new peak with his Cowboy Song as Pato Banton turns up and lends some reggae vibes. REM crush some eyeliner at 20, and quite right too. M People go top 40 as Open Your Heart hits 23, and Tanita Tikaram 24, while The Wildhearts return with two delightfully-titled songs: If Life Is Like A Love Bank I Want An Overdraft and B side Georgie In Wonderland as played on Top Of The Pops. Just behind is another cowboy song, Cowboy Dreams, Jimmy Nail’s great version of Paddy McAloon’s donated song, before he released an even better version himself as Prefab Sprout in 2001. 10 years on in 1995, the Sprouts seemed to have been spat out by the music industry quite unfairly. In at 33 it’s a Perfecto remix and redesign of Pigbag’s 1982 instrumental hit Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag, retitled Reach Up with added vocals and dance, and rather good it is too. I was rather surprised to hear this one in a superstore on Orchard Road in Singapore later in the year, I didn’t think Singapore was that into dance music! Talking of dance N Trance join that annoying obsession with the capital N (Entrance having druggy refs but avoiding everyone calling them an entrance). Oh did I used to laugh at everyone applying this principle in the UK to ‘NSync, radio, TV, DJ’s, everyone got it wrong. En-sink made no sense at all, In synch did. Hey ho. Set You Free was one of those pop dance hits that just kept on coming back when once was more than adequate for a decent dance track. Madonna has a bedtime story at 57 - how sweet, Dear Jessie kiddie-candy I’m sure. Oh hang on, didn’t she do some big photo books at that time, with a naughty album, ah of course, grown-up bedtime stories. Dear Jessie was much better. Another under-rated 80’s fave returns at 61, The The having seen the 1948 Hank Williams country light and turned it into a rocking light! Hooray! Also back, Del Amitri, Here And Now, and with a few years wait for an actual number one chart-topper in my charts. Gloria Estefan covers another classic at 66, disco-style, a song that once upon a time was in the charts every few years with yet another cover - Everlasting Love, starting with the original US hit version from Robert Knight, followed by the UK number one hit version by The Love Affair, both of them immaculate. Since then: 1969, 1974, 1981, 1988, 1993, 1995, with 1998 and 2004 still to come, so if anyone wants a chart hit it’s been overdue for about 4 years! Lastly, China Black are back to try for that hat-trick of number ones, I can almost see them (Somewhere) at 71, boy band Ultimate Kaos are at 73, not one of Simon Cowell’s biggest acts that one, and Singapore’s classical Vanessa Mae brings Toccata and Fugue class into the charts. I liked her. 1 ( 3 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 2 ( 4 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 3 ( 1 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 4 ( 2 ) WHATEVER Oasis 5 ( 5 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 6 ( NEW ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 7 ( 13 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 8 ( 6 ) 1963 ’94 New Order 9 ( 9 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 10 ( 22 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 11 ( 7 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 12 ( 12 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 13 ( 10 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 14 ( 24 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 15 ( 16 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 16 ( 8 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 17 ( 17 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 18 ( 14 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 19 ( 28 ) CREEP TLC 20 ( 32 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 21 ( 15 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 22 ( 18 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze 23 ( 43 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 24 ( 47 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 25 ( NEW ) IF LIFE IS LIKE A LOVE BANK I WANT AN OVERDRAFT/ GEORDIE IN WONDERLAND The Wildhearts 26 ( NEW ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 27 ( 11 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees 28 ( 29 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White 29 ( 23 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 30 ( 38 ) INBETWEENER Sleeper 31 ( 20 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 32 ( 19 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base 33 ( NEW ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 34 ( 27 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy 35 ( 37 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly 36 ( 31 ) BOXERS Morrissey 37 ( 35 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 38 ( 21 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee 39 ( 26 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters 40 ( 65 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts 41 ( 41 ) STARS China Black 42 ( 25 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses 43 ( 34 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong 44 ( 30 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 45 ( 39 ) DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY Thelma Houston 46 ( 42 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 47 ( 58 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 48 ( 45 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 49 ( NEW ) SET YOU FREE N Trance 50 ( 59 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad 51 ( 33 ) REAL Donna Allen 52 ( 40 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan 53 ( 53 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper 54 ( 44 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D 55 ( 48 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea 56 ( 49 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3 57 ( NEW ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna 58 ( 57 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 59 ( 36 ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness 60 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 61 ( NEW ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The 62 ( 46 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail 63 ( NEW ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri 64 ( 63 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 65 ( 55 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly 66 ( NEW ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan 67 ( 67 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 68 ( 68 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 69 ( 69 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma 70 ( 61 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona 71 ( NEW ) ALMOST SEE YOU (SOMEWHERE) China Black 72 ( 72 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal 73 ( NEW ) HOOCHIE BOOTY Ultimate Kaos 74 ( 73 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys 75 ( NEW ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae |
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22nd February 2015, 11:03 PM
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18th March 2015, 08:49 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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5th February 1995
Back up on top for a second week, Tell Me When? Feb. Who? Human League. Annie Lennox’ sublime cover of No More ‘I Love You’s is up to 2, her biggest post-Eurythmics hit, and beating all of their back catalogue bar 2. Not bad. REM meanwhile crush some eyeliner and streak up to 6 to get their biggest hit to date in almost a decade. There’s a couple of cowboys at 10 and 11, Sting and Pato Banton just out-shooting Jimmy Nail as they both go up with a bullet. Arf! (Old US chart chat references for old US chart fans...) Simple Minds are at 9, as the river flows upstream returning them to the higher reaches for the first time in 6 years. M People and Perfecto go top 20, and The The hit 16 at the speed of light, good thing they saw it coming. Madonna tells herself a bedtime story at 21 and 22, take a bow! Morrissey goes up 10 with Boxers, one of the many many many singles he’s released that he didn’t do in concert this week in Bournemouth. Highest new entry is Lavinia Jones and one of many new entries this week I have utterly forgotten. Any that still sound good will be featured as youtubes. One I DO recall is Adam Ant, wonderfully entering at 36 for a cool 15 years of chart entries. Climbers into the 40: Vanessa Mae, Cyndi Lauper, China Black, Del Amitri, and two more new hits for Sheryl Crow, who is Strong Enough at 39, and Carter, who are still Unstoppable with a young offender’s mum. Oops! Number 40. Suede just miss out at 41, and a new generation goes doh! as Homer rules in the hottest animated TV show in the world ever makes that a catchphrase with legs. Doh! Best new entry is at 49, the very funktastic Brit boyband pop of MN8, I’ve Got A Little Something For You, a sort of JLS of their day. Second-best new entry are old-faithfuls Sparks, at 57 with a tribute to Charlie Parker giving them 21 years of fab hits. 1 ( 3 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 2 ( 7 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 3 ( 4 ) WHATEVER Oasis 4 ( 1 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 5 ( 6 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 6 ( 20 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 7 ( 2 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 8 ( 10 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 9 ( 15 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 10 ( 14 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 11 ( 26 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 12 ( 23 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 13 ( 33 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 14 ( 5 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 15 ( 12 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 16 ( 61 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The 17 ( 13 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 18 ( 9 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 19 ( 8 ) 1963 ’94 New Order 20 ( 11 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 21 ( 57 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna 22 ( 16 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 23 ( 18 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 24 ( 24 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 25 ( 17 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 26 ( 36 ) BOXERS Morrissey 27 ( 19 ) CREEP TLC 28 ( 63 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri 29 ( 25 ) IF LIFE IS LIKE A LOVE BANK I WANT AN OVERDRAFT/ GEORDIE IN WONDERLAND The Wildhearts 30 ( 21 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 31 ( 53 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper 32 ( NEW ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones 33 ( 71 ) ALMOST SEE YOU (SOMEWHERE) China Black 34 ( 29 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 35 ( 40 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts 36 ( NEW ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 37 ( 75 ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae 38 ( 22 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze 39 ( NEW ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 40 ( NEW ) YOUNG OFFENDER’S MUM Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 41 ( NEW ) NEW GENERATION Suede 42 ( 37 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 43 ( 49 ) SET YOU FREE N Trance 44 ( 41 ) STARS China Black 45 ( 44 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 46 ( 31 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 47 ( 47 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 48 ( 50 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad 49 ( NEW ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 50 ( 39 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters 51 ( 35 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly 52 ( 28 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White 53 ( 46 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 54 ( 48 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 55 ( 30 ) INBETWEENER Sleeper 56 ( NEW ) U WILL KNOW BMU 57 ( NEW ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING) Sparks 58 ( 34 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy 59 ( 43 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong 60 ( 58 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 61 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 62 ( NEW ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 63 ( 27 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees 64 ( 64 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 65 ( NEW ) MENTAL PICTURE Jon Secada 66 ( 66 ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan 67 ( NEW ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid 68 ( 67 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 69 ( 68 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 70 ( NEW ) AGOLO Angelique Kidgjo 71 ( 69 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma 72 ( NEW ) CAN’T GET BY Slamm 73 ( NEW ) NOW THEY’LL SLEEP Belly 74 ( 32 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base 75 ( 72 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal In the world, Space Shuttle Discovery launched with Briton Michael Foale on board and spacewalk bound. On a sad note, Richie from the Manic Street Preachers went missing, presumed dead. On TV Star Trek Voyager was running in the USA, and soon in the UK as Sky TV hogged the best US shows before terrestrial TV got them - and there were loads of great ones, the mid-90’s was a golden age for sci-fi/fantasy TV and sitcoms, at least a golden age in the States. The UK lagged far far behind, but there were still gems starting shortly (the brilliant father Ted) and ending (The High Life with future star Alan Cumming, set on board an airline; Bottom with the late great Rik Mayall, and the great Ade Edmondson), not to mention the successful (Mr. Bean). |
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21st March 2015, 03:59 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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12th February 1995
Annie Lennox gets her first solo number one, and third in total, doing what The Lover Speaks couldn’t quite do in 1986, taking it all the way to the top. They supported Eurythmics on tour but still couldn’t break through, sadly, as I loved the original version. Annie didn’t forget how good the song was though, thank goodness. Meanwhile rock gets a look-in as REM hit 3, and Simple Minds 4, both under-rated singles. The Pigbag Perfecto reworking hits 7, and also beats the original 1982 version, as Jimmy Nail grabs a 3rd top 10 with the great Paddy McAloon smooth country song (check out the definitive Prefab Sprout version attached), and M People hit 10. MN8 rocket to 15, leap-frogging all and sundry, proving they do in fact have a little something for me. Jade return, Every Day Of The Week apparently, or at least one day at 16, with a bit of smooth 90’s r’n’b, as Adam Ant goes top 20 ahead of Sheryl Crow. Wonderful! Or at least, pretty good balladry, nothing like his 80’s hits, and not bad at all. At 26, Blackstreet enter, U Blow My Mind very much that SoulIIsoul shuffle beat mucho popular in the 90’s, as Aswad’s cover version belies the title, You’re No Good is in fact pretty good at 27. BoyzIImen and R Kelly enter the top 40 under a pseudonym (BMU Black Men United) along with a host of lesser stars, on a Band Aid-type superstar line-up r’n’b stylee, as Suede scrape in to the 40. From 41 to 75, Elton John is at 41, can you Believe it? Dramatic balladry, and one of his better latter-day singles, as his voice was getting deeper with the years I wasn’t quite as enthusiastic as I used to be, but it suits this one. At 52, a doo-wop version, BoyzIImen styled, of childhood fave Sukiyaki, now with English lyrics and the second cover version to chart, after A Taste Of Honey. None of them is a patch on the original Japanese US Number one from 1963, which finally topped my chart in 2014 50 years late, for Kyu Sakamoto. PJ & Duncan, not yet Ant & Dec, get another hit with Our Radio Rocks, a half decent pop ditty, The Gogo’s reunite, and are welcomed by me at 74, has the whole world lost it’s head? Just me, it seemed. Finally Green day start a long run of hits at 75, a pure Basket Case... 1 ( 2 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 2 ( 1 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 3 ( 6 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 4 ( 9 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 5 ( 8 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 6 ( 5 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 7 ( 13 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 8 ( 10 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 9 ( 11 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 10 ( 12 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 11 ( 4 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 12 ( 3 ) WHATEVER Oasis 13 ( 16 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The 14 ( 7 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 15 ( 49 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 16 ( NEW ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade 17 ( 17 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 18 ( 30 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 19 ( 36 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 20 ( 39 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 21 ( 21 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna 22 ( 32 ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones 23 ( 15 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 24 ( 14 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 25 ( 28 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri 26 ( NEW ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet 27 ( 48 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad 28 ( 18 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 29 ( 22 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 30 ( 23 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 31 ( 31 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper 32 ( 20 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 33 ( 35 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts 34 ( 19 ) 1963 ’94 New Order 35 ( 25 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 36 ( 56 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen 37 ( 27 ) CREEP TLC 38 ( 62 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 39 ( 43 ) SET YOU FREE N Trance 40 ( 41 ) NEW GENERATION Suede 41 ( NEW ) BELIEVE Elton John 42 ( 34 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 43 ( 38 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze 44 ( 37 ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae 45 ( 33 ) ALMOST SEE YOU (SOMEWHERE) China Black 46 ( 44 ) STARS China Black 47 ( 47 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 48 ( NEW ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova 49 ( 42 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 50 ( 24 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 51 ( 26 ) BOXERS Morrissey 52 ( NEW ) SUKIYAKI 4PM 53 ( 29 ) IF LIFE IS LIKE A LOVE BANK I WANT AN OVERDRAFT/ GEORDIE IN WONDERLAND The Wildhearts 54 ( 66 ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan 55 ( 40 ) YOUNG OFFENDER’S MUM Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine 56 ( 53 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 57 ( 46 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey 58 ( 54 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 59 ( 51 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly 60 ( 45 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 61 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 62 ( 60 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 63 ( 67 ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid 64 ( NEW ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 65 ( 64 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 66 ( 50 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters 67 ( 57 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING) Sparks 68 ( 68 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 69 ( 69 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 70 ( 59 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong 71 ( 58 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy 72 ( 71 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma 73 ( NEW ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 74 ( NEW ) WHOLE WORLD LOST IT’S HEAD The Gogo’s 75 ( NEW ) BASKET CASE Green Day American TV 1995: was brilliant, to be honest. Going on holiday to the States was wonderful, as I got to see the latest episodes of fab shows ahead of their UK showings. Just look at this list of shows: Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Star Trek: Voyager, X-Files and its writers forgotten (but fab) sci-fi show Space: Above And Beyond, Strange Luck (also forgotten, but a great unusual show based around co-incidences), Seinfeld, Married..With Children (brilliantly low-brow white-collar), Frasier (brilliantly high-brow intellectual), Third Rock From The Sun (brilliantly slapstick and OTT sci-fi comedy), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman, The Simpsons at it’s peak, The Drew Carey Show, Friends at it’s peak, the quirky charming Due South, Roseanne, Sliders (cross-dimensions sci-fi), Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, and the fantastically-written, classy Batman: The Animated Series. Quite possibly the best year for US TV ever. |
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22nd March 2015, 03:29 PM
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BuzzJack Platinum Member
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As always, great reading. I always thought No More I Love You's topped my chart, just one of many surprises when I unearthed my '95 charts, it stalled at No.2. Great to see Tell Me When was a chart topper.
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22nd March 2015, 09:38 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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As always, great reading. I always thought No More I Love You's topped my chart, just one of many surprises when I unearthed my '95 charts, it stalled at No.2. Great to see Tell Me When was a chart topper. Fantastic stuff Thanks AH, I've also seen some chart surprises in my 1995 charts - and a bunch I dont remember too |
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25th March 2015, 05:04 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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19th February 1995
2 weeks for Annie on top, as Bob Seger’s oldie peaks at 2 much to my surprise. We’ve Got Tonight obviously resonated with me, even more than boyband MN8 at 3! Look at GUN though, up 60 places to 4, far and away their biggest record in my charts, and one I’d forgotten, but it’s pretty fine. Another band called Gun made my top 10 in 1969 with the awesome Race With The Devil. Sting hits 6, and grabs his 2nd-biggest solo hit (after Russians in 1985), while highest new entry is at 15, a cover of Brotherhood Of Man’s 1970 hit United We Stand. Actually it was one of those cheap knock-off identi-kit cover versions by a jobbing musician called Reg Dwight, and it was a pretty good version all in all considering. 25 years on a whole album of Reg’s covers was released, and whaddya know it outperforms his current single Believe. Yes, Elton John! Paul Young, like everyone else, was also covering classic oldies at the time, this time the Hugh Masekela 60’s song Grazing In The Grass. More to the point he covers the definitive version as done by The Friends Of Distinction, and enters at 24 for 12 years of solo hits. Let’s just not mention Streetband. At 37, the fabulous Sophie B. Hawkins returns with her gorgeous As I Lay Me Down. She’s great. 10CC do an “unplugged” version of their 1975 number one classic, and hit 43 - it’s just not the same without the intricate harmony layering, though! At 48, fantastic, well-remembered, and upbeat - yes it’s The Boo Radleys. Wake up Boo! Mike + The Mechanics return with Over My Shoulder, at 53, and 9 years since they went top 10 with their best single Silent Running, and 21 years since Mike, and Paul Carrack, both charted in Genesis and Ace respectively. At 55, John Lee Hooker shows age is no barrier, as the terrific Chill Out bluesy track enters at 55. He was 78 at the time, and still had it. Which leaves The Smiths re-issue, a good Kirsty macColl newie, Caroline, Garth Brooks, Bon Jovi and Luther vandross. Phew! Busy chart! 1 ( 1 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 2 ( 6 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 3 ( 15 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 4 ( 64 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 5 ( 2 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 6 ( 8 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 7 ( 7 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 8 ( 5 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 9 ( 9 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 10 ( 3 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 11 ( 4 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 12 ( 16 ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade 13 ( 11 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 14 ( 14 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 15 ( NEW ) UNITED WE STAND Reg Dwight aka Elton John 16 ( 10 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 17 ( 36 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen 18 ( 21 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna 19 ( 12 ) WHATEVER Oasis 20 ( 27 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad 21 ( 13 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The 22 ( 17 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 23 ( 26 ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet 24 ( NEW ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young 25 ( 19 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 26 ( 41 ) BELIEVE Elton John 27 ( 20 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 28 ( 18 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 29 ( 35 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 30 ( 40 ) NEW GENERATION Suede 31 ( 22 ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones 32 ( 33 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts 33 ( 24 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 34 ( 23 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 35 ( 25 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri 36 ( 47 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 37 ( NEW ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 38 ( 38 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 39 ( 73 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 40 ( 63 ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid 41 ( 29 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 42 ( 30 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 43 ( NEW ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 44 ( 48 ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova 45 ( 54 ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan 46 ( 42 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 47 ( 37 ) CREEP TLC 48 ( NEW ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 49 ( 28 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 50 ( 50 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 51 ( 46 ) STARS China Black 52 ( 52 ) SUKIYAKI 4PM 53 ( NEW ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics 54 ( 31 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper 55 ( NEW ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker 56 ( NEW ) DELICIOUS Shampoo 57 ( NEW ) CAROLINE Kirsty MacColl 58 ( 44 ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae 59 ( 74 ) WHOLE WORLD LOST IT’S HEAD The Gogo’s 60 ( 49 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 61 ( 39 ) SET YOU FREE N Trance 62 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 63 ( 32 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds 64 ( 34 ) 1963 ’94 New Order 65 ( NEW ) ASK The Smiths 66 ( 62 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 67 ( 65 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 56 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 69 ( 58 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba 70 ( 69 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 71 ( NEW ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls 72 ( NEW ) THE DANCE Garth Brooks 73 ( 68 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 74 ( NEW ) SOMEDAY I’LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Bon Jovi 75 ( NEW ) ALWAYS AND FOREVER Luther Vandross What was hot at the cinema this week? The Brady Bunch Movie was! A great piece of fluff, taking the michael out of the 1970 fashions and attitudes of the sitcom of the period, but with Shelley Long from Cheers, and rather surprisingly directed by Betty Thomas, the tough but soft inside Lucy Bates from the great Hill Street Blues. It really IS very funny! In sports Linford Christie grabbed a new 200m World Record. |
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27th March 2015, 07:35 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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26th February 1995
A new number one, and it’s pure boyband pop as MN8 take their rather catchy I’ve Got A Little Something For You (such modesty, not like the current braggers!) all the way. Perfecto also try to Reach Up, but stall at 3, still not bad for a grand dance track cover reworking. Highest new entry is Janet Jackson at 7, for a sweet and pleasant 9 years of top 10 hits. Whoops Now! Leaving The Boo Radleys delicious Wake Up Boo up 39 to 9, and yes wake up it’s a beautiful morning feelgood vibes! At 19, up 20, it’s another surprise top 20 hit for PJ & Duncan, future TV superstars Ant n Dec of course - Our radio Rocks was fun enough, as was another track by a future TV presenter Denise Van Outen, Those 2 Girls shooting up to 28, that’s all I want! In at 20, following up a chart-topper, Human League return with One Man In My Heart, though it’s not Phil singing that line, it’s over to the girls this time for a slight change of sound. At 31, it’s a blockbuster classic announcing it’s arrival, Take That’s Gary Barlow proving for the second time that he really can write a bloody brilliant ballad as well a s a bloody brilliant pop song (Pray), and he’s Back For Good. At 34, The Tabernacle give us a rousing I Know The Lord, a fab dance toon. The great John Lee Hooker, and Mike and The Mechanics, both make the 40, as another great record I Know enters at 44 for Dionne Farris. At 53, Ye Ke Ye Ke is remixed 7 years on to lesser effect, the original Mory Kante version remains the best version, while at 56 it’s a superstar diva charity collaboration (plus Eric Clapton) as Love Can Build A Bridge for Cher, Chrissie Hynde and Neneh Cherry. Others: Springsteen, EMF, Elastica, Alex Party. 1 ( 3 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 2 ( 1 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 3 ( 7 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 4 ( 4 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 5 ( 2 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 6 ( 6 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 7 ( NEW ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 8 ( 8 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 9 ( 48 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 10 ( 9 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 11 ( 5 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 12 ( 11 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 13 ( 13 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 14 ( 10 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 15 ( 15 ) UNITED WE STAND Reg Dwight aka Elton John 16 ( 18 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna 17 ( 16 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 18 ( 14 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 19 ( 39 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 20 ( NEW ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 21 ( 12 ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade 22 ( 26 ) BELIEVE Elton John 23 ( 29 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 24 ( 37 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 25 ( 19 ) WHATEVER Oasis 26 ( 22 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 27 ( 25 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 28 ( 71 ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls 29 ( 17 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen 30 ( 20 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad 31 ( NEW ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 32 ( 55 ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker 33 ( 28 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 34 ( NEW ) I KNOW THE LORD The Tabernacle 35 ( 33 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 36 ( 53 ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics 37 ( 38 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 38 ( 24 ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young 39 ( 44 ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova 40 ( 21 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The 41 ( 36 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 42 ( 41 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 43 ( 42 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 44 ( NEW ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 45 ( 57 ) CAROLINE Kirsty MacColl 46 ( 23 ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet 47 ( 46 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 48 ( 27 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 49 ( 56 ) DELICIOUS Shampoo 50 ( 34 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 51 ( 40 ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid 52 ( 32 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts 53 ( NEW ) YE KE YE KE (REMIX) Mory Kante 54 ( 47 ) CREEP TLC 55 ( 51 ) STARS China Black 56 ( NEW ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 57 ( 35 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri 58 ( 50 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 59 ( 74 ) SOMEDAY I’LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Bon Jovi 60 ( NEW ) WAKING UP Elastica 61 ( 43 ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 62 ( 31 ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones 63 ( 62 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( NEW ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 65 ( 60 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 66 ( 30 ) NEW GENERATION Suede 67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 66 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 69 ( 49 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 70 ( 70 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 71 ( 68 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 72 ( NEW ) ALL NIGHT LONG Mary Jane Girls 73 ( 73 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 74 ( NEW ) PERFECT DAY EMF 75 ( NEW ) MURDER INCORPORATED Bruce Springsteen |
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4th April 2015, 08:41 PM
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Ah, Those 2 Girls shooting up to No.28, it'll be interesting to see how high it gets.
Naturally, love the Human League entry. Also like Kirsty and the Tabernacle, yet neither made my chart at all in '95 (although I think the latter did in '96, I'll have to check). Didn't hear Caroline until many years later. Fascinating reading as ever |
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6th April 2015, 07:03 AM
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Ah, Those 2 Girls shooting up to No.28, it'll be interesting to see how high it gets. Naturally, love the Human League entry. Also like Kirsty and the Tabernacle, yet neither made my chart at all in '95 (although I think the latter did in '96, I'll have to check). Didn't hear Caroline until many years later. Fascinating reading as ever Thanks AH, Those2girls did quite well for a track I'd totally forgotten! The Tabernacle was remixed in 96 so I guess it will make my charts again then, too |
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16th April 2015, 06:48 PM
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Shampoo is very underrated here and in the real life too. True number one girl group of decade, not those Spices or Saints. Predictably didn't find two number ones from my charts.
Those 2 Girls were # 2 in my chart, Denise's # 1 will come a little later. Don't remember this Kirsty's song. The one from my all-time least favourite songs wasn't successful in this chart. THANKS, John. This post has been edited by Sword of Justice: 16th April 2015, 06:50 PM |
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27th April 2015, 07:34 PM
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5th March 1995
2 weeks on top for MN8 as Human League leap to 2 with a man in their heart, and The Boo Radleys wake up to the news that they have hit 3. Hooray! Dionne Farris, ex-Arrested Development singer returns solo to the top 10 in one fell swoop where Arrested Development needed a few weeks longer with Tennessee in 1992. Elton John Believes he can still grab a top 10 hit 24 years into his career, and so indeed he can, at 9, and comfortably more than 20+ to date. Which of course leaves PJ & Duncan making number 10 with Our Radio Rocks. No, I’m not quite sure why either! Sophie B. and The Tabernacle both get deserved top 20 climbs, as does a little obscure ditty by a band called Take That. Back For Good? You can bet on it! The charity collaboration wiv da girls builds a quick chart bridge to 28, and Des’ree enters at 30 with her best record You Gotta Be - it was all diminishing returns from hereon. Mory Kante takes an inferior remix of his 1988 top 3 Ye Ke Ye Ke back into the 40, and the much-missed Kirsty MacColl brings Caroline in just behind at 38. At 40, it’s a debut entry for a massive act. They were huge in the USA, the album sold and sold and sold, and they even had an episode of Friends based around tickets for one of their concerts. Hootie And The Blowfish. Yes, who? They never made it in the UK but had a couple of good singles, Hold My Hand being one, and then pretty much that was that. Hey ho. Lower down, it’s new entries from Brand New Heavies and Rozalla, both still on a streak of hits, and East 17’s goodie Let It Rain is in at 51. 1 ( 1 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 2 ( 20 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 3 ( 9 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 4 ( 3 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 5 ( 2 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 6 ( 7 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 7 ( 44 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 8 ( 5 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 9 ( 22 ) BELIEVE Elton John 10 ( 19 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 11 ( 4 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 12 ( 12 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 13 ( 6 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 14 ( 10 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 15 ( 24 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 16 ( 34 ) I KNOW THE LORD The Tabernacle 17 ( 8 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 18 ( 31 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 19 ( 11 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 20 ( 18 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 21 ( 16 ) BEDTIME STORY Madonna 22 ( 37 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 23 ( 14 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 24 ( 13 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 25 ( 36 ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics 26 ( 32 ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker 27 ( 28 ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls 28 ( 56 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 29 ( 17 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 30 ( NEW ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree 31 ( 33 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 32 ( 23 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 33 ( 15 ) UNITED WE STAND Reg Dwight aka Elton John 34 ( 25 ) WHATEVER Oasis 35 ( 26 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 36 ( 29 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen 37 ( 53 ) YE KE YE KE (REMIX) Mory Kante 38 ( 45 ) CAROLINE Kirsty MacColl 39 ( 21 ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade 40 ( NEW ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 41 ( 39 ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova 42 ( 35 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 43 ( 27 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 44 ( 42 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 45 ( 43 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 46 ( NEW ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies 47 ( 64 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 48 ( 47 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 49 ( NEW ) (I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF I SHOULD CALL YOU) BABY Rozalla 50 ( 30 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad 51 ( NEW ) LET IT RAIN East 17 52 ( 41 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 53 ( 59 ) SOMEDAY I’LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Bon Jovi 54 ( 54 ) CREEP TLC 55 ( 40 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The 56 ( 50 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 57 ( 55 ) STARS China Black 58 ( RE ) ASK The Smiths 59 ( 38 ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young 60 ( 60 ) WAKING UP Elastica 61 ( 58 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram 62 ( 46 ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( RE ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks 65 ( 65 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 66 ( 74 ) PERFECT DAY EMF 67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 68 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 69 ( 49 ) DELICIOUS Shampoo 70 ( 70 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 71 ( 71 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 72 ( 69 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn 73 ( 73 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 74 ( 48 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 75 ( 75 ) MURDER INCORPORATED Bruce Springsteen |
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