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 27th April 2015, 09:17 PM
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12th March 1995
A sudden surprise number one from a track that had seemed to have peaked: She’s A River belatedly giving Simple Minds a chart-topper where earlier classics didn’t, notably Up On The Catwalk which came closest. There’s some fab guitar riffing, and it’s an under-rated track as poor ol Jim Kerr by this time was getting some serious stick from rock musos who had turned on him for not sounding like he did 10 or 15 years earlier, and being more U2-ish stadium-sounding. In the age of grunge that was an unforgivable sin. As I’ve never let being out of fashion musically affect my love for a great record, I continued to ignore trendy rock critics and the backlash. Highest new entry at 8 is Turn On Tune In Cop Out, Freakpower returning to my charts with a track that was a minor UK hit in 1993, very annoyingly, as it’s got great funk-tastic laid-back groovy vibes, maaaan. It’s also Fatboy Slim Norman Cook’s best track to date pre-Fatboy. Sophie B. Hawkins gets her 3rd top 10 track, the lovely As I Lay Me Down hitting 9, and Paul Carrack, the late Paul Young and Mike Rutherford get a good top 20 climb as Mike And The Mechanics, giving 2 of them 21 years of that, and Paul Young 16 years since Sad Cafe debuted. Talking of 21 years of top 20 entries...Sparks leap to 20 with Charlie Parker (sort of) and a new BBC version of the song that launched them This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us. In the week he was touring (see below) Prince does a medley of hits as promo single, and enters at 24, giving him 15 years worth of chart bothering. East 17, Rozalla, Elastica, Alex Party and Brand New Heavies all go top 40, while an oddity pops in at 33, the great fun Glam Metal Detectives, the theme to the Peter Richardson satire sketch show which was written by 10CC’s Lol Creme and Trevor Horn ex-Buggles and producer supremo. In at 36, progressive house duo Leftfield (featuring Toni Halliday) and Original, following up the John Lydon Open Up. At 44 Duran Duran cover classic Lou Reid a few years before the BBC make it a million seller for everyone except Duran Duran - there’s gratitude for you! Which leaves Siouxsie and The Banshees returning 17 years in, with Stargazer, Terrorvision, some people say, Prince’s band New Power Generation, Faith No More and Wet Wet Wet, Julia says. I says they are all new entries. 1 ( 12 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 2 ( 2 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 3 ( 3 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 4 ( 1 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 5 ( 6 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 6 ( 4 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 7 ( 7 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 8 ( NEW ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 9 ( 15 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 10 ( 5 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 11 ( 18 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 12 ( 9 ) BELIEVE Elton John 13 ( 16 ) I KNOW THE LORD The Tabernacle 14 ( 10 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 15 ( 25 ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics 16 ( 13 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 17 ( 22 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 18 ( 14 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 19 ( 8 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 20 ( 64 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks 21 ( 11 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 22 ( 30 ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree 23 ( 28 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 24 ( NEW ) PURPLE MEDLEY Prince 25 ( 20 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 26 ( 37 ) YE KE YE KE (REMIX) Mory Kante 27 ( 17 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 28 ( 19 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 29 ( 51 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 30 ( 46 ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies 31 ( 24 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 32 ( 23 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 33 ( NEW ) EVERYBODY UP Glam Metal Detectives 34 ( 31 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 35 ( 49 ) (I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF I SHOULD CALL YOU) BABY Rozalla 36 ( NEW ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 37 ( 29 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 38 ( 47 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 39 ( 60 ) WAKING UP Elastica 40 ( 53 ) SOMEDAY I’LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Bon Jovi 41 ( 34 ) WHATEVER Oasis 42 ( 27 ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls 43 ( 26 ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker 44 ( NEW ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 45 ( 21 ) BEDTIME STORY Madonna 46 ( 32 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce 47 ( 35 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 48 ( 44 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 49 ( 45 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 50 ( 43 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 51 ( 48 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 52 ( 36 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen 53 ( 40 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 54 ( 42 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 55 ( 39 ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade 56 ( NEW ) STARGAZER Siouxsie And The Banshees 57 ( 38 ) CAROLINE Kirsty MacColl 58 ( NEW ) SOME PEOPLE SAY Terrorvision 59 ( 65 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 60 ( 57 ) STARS China Black 61 ( 33 ) UNITED WE STAND Reg Dwight aka Elton John 62 ( 52 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( 68 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 65 ( 71 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 66 ( NEW ) WILD New Power Generation 67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 56 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville 69 ( RE ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 70 ( 70 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 71 ( NEW ) PUSH THE FEELING ON The Nightcrawlers 72 ( 54 ) CREEP TLC 73 ( 73 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 74 ( NEW ) DIGGING THE GRAVE Faith No More 75 ( NEW ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet This week I went to see Prince again at Wembley Arena. Prince has a reputation for being one of the great live acts. He is. I’d seen him before, so I also knew trying to smuggle a cassette recorder in to get my own crappy quality souvenir was counter-productive - the last time they searched everyone going in and took away any cameras, tapes etc and stored them in the coat-drop with a ticket to collect afterwards. As you can imagine, it took effing forever to get it back afterwards which meant a very late drive back to Dorset. Prince, of course, continues to do his best to avoid keeping a fanbase (rather effectively), acting somewhat like the gulls in Finding nemo: Mine! Mine! Hey, ho, he was great anyway though not as memorable as the Graffiti Bridge tour. Top tracks were 1. 7, 2. LETITGO and 3. LOVE THY WILL BE DONE (the Martika track he wrote for her) |
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28th April 2015, 09:35 PM
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19th March 1995
Human League get their 2nd number one of 1995, and their final (credited) to date with a total of 9, as One Man In My Heart slides sweetly on top. Freak Power Turn On Tune In Drop Out, I mean Cop Out at 2. Sorry that’s a Timothy O’Leary hippie habit. East 17 don’t need an umbrella, they rocket to 3 and are happy to Let It Rain. Take That get their 4th top 10 record as Back For Good continues a slow climb upwards. Duran Duran meanwhile shoot from 44 to 12 on what must have been a Perfect Day for a decent cover version, and the first one to chart - even Lou didn’t chart with it! Leftfield hit the top 20 with a synthy shuffle, the duo’s Paul Daley now 3 places higher than former bandmates Brand New Heavies latest. Faves of mine 10CC’s new version of I’m Not In Love is back in the 20 for the first time in 20 (years). Also doing it: Des’ree, Cher & co, and Prince, who keeps ahead of his New Power Generation getting wild at 26, both getting a concert boost. Neither are on youtube, so Prince must be behind them. Hey ho. In at 39, the highest new entry is Crash Test Dummies doing quirky XTC cover: I never saw The Ballad OF Peter Pumpkinhead coming, but both versions should have been big. The video has Dumb and Dumber’s Jeff Daniels in it. A flood of new entries lower down, Simple Minds follow up Hypnotised, a Radiohead classic is High and Dry, the late Aaliyah states Age Is Nothin' But A Number, probably justifying getting married at 15 to R. Kelly. The courts hold a different view these days. Bomb The Bass and The Stone Roses are back, Clock cover Axel F to keep the 80's vibe going, while Snap! and the Bucketheads enter with a couple of great dance tracks. Rankin' Roger's back with Pato Banton, giving him 16 years of chart entries since The Beat debuted, and 2 Unlimited and Rednex keep the European former UK chart-topper list topped up. 1 ( 2 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 2 ( 8 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 3 ( 29 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 4 ( 1 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 5 ( 5 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 6 ( 7 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 7 ( 6 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 8 ( 4 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 9 ( 11 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 10 ( 3 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 11 ( 10 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 12 ( 44 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 13 ( 9 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 14 ( 12 ) BELIEVE Elton John 15 ( 36 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 16 ( 69 ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 17 ( 22 ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree 18 ( 30 ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies 19 ( 23 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 20 ( 24 ) PURPLE MEDLEY Prince 21 ( 14 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 22 ( 17 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 23 ( 15 ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics 24 ( 16 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 25 ( 13 ) I KNOW THE LORD The Tabernacle 26 ( 66 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 27 ( 19 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 28 ( 38 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 29 ( 18 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 30 ( 20 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks 31 ( 33 ) EVERYBODY UP Glam Metal Detectives 32 ( 25 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 33 ( 21 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 34 ( 28 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 35 ( 26 ) YE KE YE KE (REMIX) Mory Kante 36 ( 31 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 37 ( 58 ) SOME PEOPLE SAY Terrorvision 38 ( 34 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 39 ( NEW ) THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 40 ( 32 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 41 ( NEW ) REAL LOVE Drizabone 42 ( 37 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 43 ( 53 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 44 ( 27 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 45 ( 41 ) WHATEVER Oasis 46 ( NEW ) HIGH AND DRY Radiohead 47 ( 35 ) (I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF I SHOULD CALL YOU) BABY Rozalla 48 ( NEW ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 49 ( 42 ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls 50 ( NEW ) AGE AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A NUMBER Aaliyah 51 ( 48 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 52 ( 49 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 53 ( 51 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 54 ( NEW ) AXEL F Clock 55 ( NEW ) ONE TO ONE RELIGION Bomb The Bass 56 ( 43 ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker 57 ( NEW ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 58 ( NEW ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 59 ( 59 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 60 ( NEW ) TEN STOREY LOVE SONG The Stone Roses 61 ( 50 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 62 ( 60 ) STARS China Black 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( NEW ) HERE I GO 2 Unlimited 65 ( 64 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 66 ( 65 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 47 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 69 ( NEW ) THE BOMB Bucketheads 70 ( 70 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 71 ( 71 ) PUSH THE FEELING ON The Nightcrawlers 72 ( 54 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan 73 ( 75 ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet 74 ( 73 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex 75 ( NEW ) OLD POP IN AN OAK Rednex In my oldies playlisting I was obsessed with the brilliant original histrionically emotional one-take of Lorraine Ellison's 60's classic Stay With Me Baby. Criminally this record has never charted in mine, or the UK, though many more insipid versions have. Go figure... |
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28th April 2015, 10:33 PM
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Not going to lie, that's a terrible number one!
 Up there with Human and Empire State Human as their most cringeworthy... (Leftfield on the other hand  )
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29th April 2015, 06:51 AM
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QUOTE(dandystar @ Apr 28 2015, 11:33 PM)  Not going to lie, that's a terrible number one! Up there with Human and Empire State Human as their most cringeworthy... (Leftfield on the other hand )Yeah it's not dated well on the whole, I was overcome with joy to have them back (and seeing them in concert) I think 
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29th April 2015, 08:46 PM
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26th March 1995
It’s yet another new number one, this time East 17 get their sole topper after not quite managing to Stay Another Day, they decide to Let It Rain. Will the Number One revolving door stop any time soon? Well, it’s a good dancepop record but not a classic, so place your bets... while up to 3 threatening is Leftfield doing something Original, and Take That at 4 looking like they are Back For Good. Up 51 places to 6, Snap get their 3rd big dance single, following on from The Power and Rhythm Is A Dancer in 1990 and 1992. Up 41, Simple Minds get a quick 2nd Top 10 hit at 7, Hypnotised, an altogether more laid back vibe to She’s A River. Duran Duran meantime keep the top 10 span alive with Perfect Day at 8, 14 years since Planet Earth did it first. Finally, at 9, Crash Test Dummies get a third top 10 hit. Mmm mmm mmmm pumpkin. Phew, that’s a bit of a turnover! Highest new entry is C.B Milton, It’s A Loving Thing at 17, but just behind it’s The Fab Four, a BBC live version of The Shirelles Baby It’s You (a Burt Bacharach toon). OK the sound quality is basic, but the joy of hearing John Lennon over-rides that, as at that time, it’s the first newly-available Beatles single (of unavailable tracks, give or take a Movie Medley) in 25 years. Granted a studio version was available back in 63, but The Beatles in the singles chart is where they still belong, as far as I’m concerned! Meanwhile, Tom Petty, part time Wilbury with The Fabs George Harrison, doesn’t know how it feels to be at 18 - cos he’s in at 26. The UK Eurovision entry goes 90’s in sound, rap Love City groovetastic, and bangs straight in at 27, the highest chart placing for a UK entry in a decade, with the best UK entry in over 20 years, if not ever! 2 Unlimited show they can still rocket up into the 40, and here I go, ahead of some hand holding from Hootie going back up, to 29. There’s a spot of wiggling with the Outhere Brothers new at 31, and some more Rednex pop in at 37, with some clocking at 40 to add a bit of cheese into a chart sandwich. At 45 Mica Paris does a soul cover of U2’s recent classic One, not the first time U2 songs have successfully transformed into soul records, cos soul (like U2) is about wearing your heart on your sleeve, with passion. Mica’s run of singles stretches back to 7 years or so. The Lightning Seeds are meanwhile Marvellous as always, and in at 58, and Boy George returns at 60, Funtime and 13 years of cultured hits. Barry White is also back 22 years on (again) with a song that isn’t an old Dusty Springfield classic - it’s just the title. Londonbeat are also back at 70, and Bryan Adams somewhat dirge-like woman at 74. 1 ( 3 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 2 ( 1 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 3 ( 15 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 4 ( 9 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 5 ( 2 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 6 ( 57 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 7 ( 48 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 8 ( 12 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 9 ( 39 ) THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 10 ( 8 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 11 ( 10 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 12 ( 6 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 13 ( 4 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 14 ( 26 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 15 ( 5 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 16 ( 7 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 17 ( NEW ) IT’S A LOVING THING C.B. Milton 18 ( NEW ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 19 ( 14 ) BELIEVE Elton John 20 ( 11 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 21 ( 13 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 22 ( 18 ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies 23 ( 19 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 24 ( 16 ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 25 ( 28 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 26 ( NEW ) YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT FEELS Tom Petty 27 ( NEW ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 28 ( 64 ) HERE I GO 2 Unlimited 29 ( 43 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 30 ( 17 ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree 31 ( NEW ) DON’T STOP (WIGGLE WIGGLE) The Outhere Brothers 32 ( 20 ) PURPLE MEDLEY Prince 33 ( 21 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 34 ( 38 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 35 ( 37 ) SOME PEOPLE SAY Terrorvision 36 ( 27 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 37 ( 75 ) OLD POP IN AN OAK Rednex 38 ( 34 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 39 ( 36 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 40 ( 54 ) AXEL F Clock 41 ( 32 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 42 ( 23 ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics 43 ( 24 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 44 ( 29 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 45 ( NEW ) ONE Mica Paris 46 ( 25 ) I KNOW THE LORD The Tabernacle 47 ( 33 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 48 ( 73 ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet 49 ( 58 ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 50 ( 45 ) WHATEVER Oasis 51 ( 30 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks 52 ( 40 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM 53 ( 52 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 54 ( 51 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 55 ( 53 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 56 ( 35 ) YE KE YE KE (REMIX) Mory Kante 57 ( 22 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 58 ( NEW ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 59 ( 31 ) EVERYBODY UP Glam Metal Detectives 60 ( NEW ) FUNTIME Boy George 61 ( 42 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People 62 ( 44 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 63 ( NEW ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 64 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 65 ( 59 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 66 ( 69 ) THE BOMB Bucketheads 67 ( 66 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 68 ( 65 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 69 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 70 ( NEW ) I’M JUST YOUR (PUPPET ON A STRING) Londonbeat 71 ( 70 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 72 ( 62 ) STARS China Black 73 ( RE ) MURDER INCORPORATED Bruce Springsteen 74 ( NEW ) HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN Bryan Adams 75 ( 74 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex |
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5th June 2015, 09:13 PM
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2nd April 1995
Take That get a second chart-topper and it’s their best record, still, the brilliant song that is Back For Good. I seriously didn’t believe Gary Barlow had it in him, as most of his own songs (bar the sublime Pray) just hadn’t impressed me until this one came along. I never let preconceived opinions get in the way though, and was thoroughly convinced by this, their only US hit of significance, and a big UK chart-topper. Simple Minds get a quick number 2 to add to a number 1, and I was Hypnotised enough to rate it. The Beatles get their first “new” single top 10 in 13 years, though I’ll Follow The Sun on the B Side was an actual Beatles song and a better choice for an A side, I thought. Mica Paris has a big jump to 14 with U2’s One, Rednex inexplicably get a second top 20, as do Love City Groove (for the first and last time) the UK’s Eurovision biggest UK entry since the 70’s, most likely. In at 27, and it’s Bobby Brown’s best record, a remix of Two Can Play That Game belatedly making it big, while Australia’s Tina Arena is in Chains at 28, a great drama ballad. As always, The Lightning Seeds are Marvellous, at 30, and competing with Pet Shop Boys for those one-word very British song titles. We go on Strike at 34, well U sure do anyway, a good dance track, at 36 Massive Attack return with a cover of Karma Chameleon. not. The soulful Brownstone harmonise with passion at 37, If You Love Me, Bitty McLean is Over The River and still having a surprisingly long run of reggae singles charting, Roxette are still vulnerable at 60, Corona go pop with Baby Baby, and Tin Tin Out cover Sandie Shaw (or Dionne Warwick dpending on which Bacharach/David version you regard as the definitive) in a dance-stylee a few years ahead of breaking through with an actual hit. 1 ( 4 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 2 ( 7 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 3 ( 1 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 4 ( 6 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 5 ( 3 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 6 ( 2 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 7 ( 9 ) THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 8 ( 8 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 9 ( 5 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 10 ( 18 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 11 ( 14 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 12 ( 10 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 13 ( 12 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 14 ( 45 ) ONE Mica Paris 15 ( 15 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 16 ( 11 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 17 ( 13 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 18 ( 37 ) OLD POP IN AN OAK Rednex 19 ( 19 ) BELIEVE Elton John 20 ( 27 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 21 ( 21 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 22 ( 25 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 23 ( 17 ) IT’S A LOVING THING C.B. Milton 24 ( 16 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 25 ( 29 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 26 ( 26 ) YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT FEELS Tom Petty 27 ( NEW ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 28 ( NEW ) CHAINS Tina Arena 29 ( 20 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 30 ( 58 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 31 ( 23 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 32 ( 22 ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies 33 ( 63 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 34 ( NEW ) U SURE DO Strike 35 ( 31 ) DON’T STOP (WIGGLE WIGGLE) The Outhere Brothers 36 ( NEW ) KARMACOMA Massive Attack 37 ( NEW ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 38 ( 49 ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 39 ( 48 ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet 40 ( 34 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 41 ( 36 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 42 ( 24 ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 43 ( 28 ) HERE I GO 2 Unlimited 44 ( 39 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 45 ( 38 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 46 ( 30 ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree 47 ( 40 ) AXEL F Clock 48 ( 32 ) PURPLE MEDLEY Prince 49 ( NEW ) OVER THE RIVER Bitty McLean 50 ( 60 ) FUNTIME Boy George 51 ( 33 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan 52 ( 50 ) WHATEVER Oasis 53 ( 53 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 54 ( 41 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 55 ( 55 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 56 ( 54 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 57 ( 44 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail 58 ( 43 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton 59 ( 47 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 60 ( NEW ) VULNERABLE Roxette 61 ( 35 ) SOME PEOPLE SAY Terrorvision 62 ( 51 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks 63 ( NEW ) BABY BABY Corona 64 ( 64 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 65 ( 74 ) HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN Bryan Adams 66 ( 70 ) I’M JUST YOUR (PUPPET ON A STRING) Londonbeat 67 ( 67 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 68 ( 65 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 69 ( 69 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 70 ( 68 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 71 ( 71 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 72 ( NEW ) ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE TO REMIND ME Tin Tin Out featuring Espiritu 73 ( 72 ) STARS China Black 74 ( 62 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose 75 ( 75 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex |
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6th June 2015, 01:55 PM
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9th April 1995 2 weeks Back For Good and Take That still on top, as Crash Test Dummies grab a sudden double A sided single peak of 2, their biggest single and even bigger than XTC’s original top 10 Pumpkinhead. Love City Groove leap to 3, and in one fell swoop is officially the biggest Eurovision entry from the UK since the New Seekers hit 1 in 1972 with Beg Steal Or Borrow. Bobby Brown gets a 3rd top 10 track, and highest new entry is Guaglione, Prez Prado’s 1950’s instrumental hit pushed in a TV advert and becoming a most unlikely hit. Actually, it’s a re-entry as it charted in my charts in January, but with a bit of a gap between. Grace, Not Over yet, in at 18, one of the great dance records of the 90’s, no less. It just gets better with age, and this wasn’t the last time it would chart by any means, yes it’s that good, passionate, exciting, great production (Paul Oakenfold wasn’t lacking in that department, he was in the band), great tune, great vocal from Patti Low (original singer with the band) who was later blended in with regular jazz singer band member Dominique Atkins on later versions. Let Loose also return, with a good ballad, Best In Me at 30. From memory think they mean bringing out (The Best In Me), rather than, it’s (The Best In Me). 33 and Weezer arrive with a bang and a fantastic Happy Days TV sitcom tribute video to their terrific Buddy Holly. Weezer were consistently good, and consistently under-rated commercially. As with all bands, critics regard being witty as in some way inferior to being intense. It’s not. Both are equally valid. Terence Trent D’Arby returns at 37 some 8 years on after being a huge new act that never managed to really follow it up, sadly. Corona make the top 40 with Baby Baby, Sleeper drop in on Vegas at 46, and a Duran Duran snippet fires a new entry at 61, Shut Up And Dance, I say, and BoyzIIMen thank me for that at 63. 1 ( 1 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 2 ( 7 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 3 ( 20 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 4 ( 2 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 5 ( 4 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 6 ( 27 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 7 ( 3 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 8 ( RE ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 9 ( 5 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 10 ( 6 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 11 ( 8 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 12 ( 9 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 13 ( 14 ) ONE Mica Paris 14 ( 11 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 15 ( 10 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 16 ( 30 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 17 ( 16 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 18 ( NEW ) NOT OVER YET Grace 19 ( 28 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 20 ( 12 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 21 ( 15 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 22 ( 37 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 23 ( 13 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 24 ( 17 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 25 ( 36 ) KARMACOMA Massive Attack 26 ( 38 ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 27 ( 33 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 28 ( 21 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 29 ( 34 ) U SURE DO Strike 30 ( NEW ) THE BEST IN ME Let Loose 31 ( 19 ) BELIEVE Elton John 32 ( 49 ) OVER THE RIVER Bitty McLean 33 ( NEW ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 34 ( 25 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 35 ( 18 ) OLD POP IN AN OAK Rednex 36 ( 24 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 37 ( NEW ) HOLDING ON TO YOU Terence Trent D’Arby 38 ( 23 ) IT’S A LOVING THING C.B. Milton 39 ( 63 ) BABY BABY Corona 40 ( 29 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 41 ( 32 ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies 42 ( 35 ) DON’T STOP (WIGGLE WIGGLE) The Outhere Brothers 43 ( 40 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 44 ( 22 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 45 ( 39 ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet 46 ( NEW ) VEGAS Sleeper 47 ( 26 ) YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT FEELS Tom Petty 48 ( 41 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 49 ( 31 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 50 ( 44 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 51 ( 45 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 52 ( 42 ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 53 ( 53 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 54 ( 52 ) WHATEVER Oasis 55 ( 47 ) AXEL F Clock 56 ( 55 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 57 ( 46 ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree 58 ( 56 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 59 ( 48 ) PURPLE MEDLEY Prince 60 ( 65 ) HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN Bryan Adams 61 ( NEW ) SAVE IT TILL THE MOURNING AFTER Shut Up And Dance 62 ( 62 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks 63 ( NEW ) THANK YOU BoyzIIMen 64 ( 64 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 65 ( 43 ) HERE I GO 2 Unlimited 66 ( NEW ) SUDDENLY Sean Maguire 67 ( 69 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 68 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 69 ( 67 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 70 ( 70 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 71 ( 71 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 72 ( 54 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet 73 ( 59 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun 74 ( 73 ) STARS China Black 75 ( 75 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex |
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6th June 2015, 07:36 PM
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16th April 1995
3 weeks for Take That on top, as Let Loose are looking for the Best In Me at 7, their 3rd top 10 and The Lightning Seeds have an even longer run of top 10 entries and that’s Marvellous, at 9. Brownstone strut into the top 10, too, fabbily, leaving Mary J. Blige chasing fast highest new entry at 13 with the equally soulful attitudinal I’m Goin’ Down, and equally good. Paul Young’s 60’s cover returns to the 40, Grazing grass as Portishead enter at 29 with some Sour Times. In a quiet week, the only other new entry of note is an early 70’s track from Bob Marley, Keep On Moving, written by Curtis Mayfield and remixed 1995 stylee. 1 ( 1 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 2 ( 3 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 3 ( 2 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 4 ( 4 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 5 ( 6 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 6 ( 5 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 7 ( 30 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 8 ( 7 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 9 ( 16 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 10 ( 22 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 11 ( 18 ) NOT OVER YET Grace 12 ( 19 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 13 ( NEW ) I’M GOIN’ DOWN Mary J. Blige 14 ( 8 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 15 ( 13 ) ONE Mica Paris 16 ( 10 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 17 ( 9 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 18 ( 12 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 19 ( 32 ) OVER THE RIVER Bitty McLean 20 ( 15 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 21 ( 14 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 22 ( 11 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 23 ( 33 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 24 ( 29 ) U SURE DO Strike 25 ( 17 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 26 ( 26 ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 27 ( RE ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young 28 ( 21 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 29 ( NEW ) SOUR TIMES Portishead 30 ( 20 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 31 ( 39 ) BABY BABY Corona 32 ( 37 ) HOLDING ON TO YOU Terence Trent D’Arby 33 ( 34 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 34 ( 63 ) I THANK YOU BoyzIIMen 35 ( 24 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 36 ( 23 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 37 ( 27 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 38 ( 36 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 39 ( 25 ) KARMACOMA Massive Attack 40 ( 42 ) DON’T STOP (WIGGLE WIGGLE) The Outhere Brothers 41 ( 28 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 42 ( 31 ) BELIEVE Elton John 43 ( 35 ) OLD POP IN AN OAK Rednex 44 ( 40 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 45 ( 38 ) IT’S A LOVING THING C.B. Milton 46 ( 46 ) VEGAS Sleeper 47 ( 41 ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies 48 ( 43 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 49 ( 61 ) SAVE IT TILL THE MOURNING AFTER Shut Up And Dance 50 ( 47 ) YOU DON’T KNOW HOW IT FEELS Tom Petty 51 ( 51 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 52 ( 60 ) HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN Bryan Adams 53 ( 50 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 54 ( 53 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 55 ( 56 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 56 ( 44 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party 57 ( 54 ) WHATEVER Oasis 58 ( 52 ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC 59 ( 58 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 60 ( 48 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band 61 ( 65 ) HERE I GO 2 Unlimited 62 ( 62 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks 63 ( 49 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 64 ( 64 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 65 ( NEW ) YOU AND I WILL NEVER SEE THINGS EYE TO EYE Kingmaker 66 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 67 ( 55 ) AXEL F Clock 68 ( NEW ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 69 ( 68 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 70 ( 70 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 71 ( 69 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 72 ( 71 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 73 ( 45 ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet 74 ( NEW ) CALLING OUT YOUR NAME Jimmy Nail 75 ( 75 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex |
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6th June 2015, 09:30 PM
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23rd April 1995
4 weeks at 1 for Back For Good, as the charts go a little weird. That’s because I went on a 3-week holiday adventure around the world with mum and my brother, booked myself by fax, and multiple plane connections. Consequently current UK chart hits not that much in evidence, and all sorts of odd tracks (mostly American) getting airplay in odd places. So plenty don’t move, drop unexpectedly, or climb after peaking previously. Mary J. Blige goes top 10, Portishead top 20, and highest new entry is MC Saar and The Real McCoy at 15 with Love And Devotion. I wouldn’t put money on it going up though as I heard no UK radio for almost a month and a lot of the hit tracks of those weeks are either unknown or forgotten from lack of hearing them! In at 20, and overshadowing their own current UK single, it’s BoyzIImen and their previous single On Bended Knee, heard somewhere between Heathrow Airport and Singapore City - I’ve misplaced the holiday diary for the moment so no expanded stories and anecdotes and details. Suffice to say it was a voyage of nostalgia for us, returning to our old house at Bedokville and old haunts around the former RAF Changi , and a very modern metropolitan city much-changed around Orchard Road, hot, humid, sunny. Rather lack0lustre singles take on a false lease of life in such circumstances - which explains BoyzIImen at 20. That’s my excuse anyway! Annie Lennox, former number one, climbs again after I heard it in an orange juice kiosk on Orchard Road, air-conditioned relief from the humidity, and in at 27 it’s Richard Marx covering a Tom Jones country-music cover from 1967 (at least for me) which was a US hit in 1969 when I lived in Singapore, and the lyrics of which I bought in a songbook of current pop hits sheet music aged 11 or 12. Sometimes life is so circular... Meanwhile Sleeper go top 40, and Mark Morrison debuts in my charts with Crazy at 34, and what looked to be a promising classy Brit soul career. At 40, it’s 20 fingers and Gillette, Mr. Personality, a eurodance hit that missed in the UK but made it in North America (as a minor hit). Taylor Swift might approve of it’s Toni Basil-esque Mickey rhythms. At 43 TLC return with the naughty Red Light Special, some other US chart ballads, and REM with some strange currencies. In my case, the Singapore dollar. Which I used to buy LOADS of nostalgia-driven souvenirs in Changi Village from a Sikh shop-owner who was about my age, and who excitedly introduced us to his family when we told him we were there in 1969 through 1971, when he was a boy helping his dad run a shack shop. All of the shacks in Changi Village had been knocked down and replaced with brick things, somewhat better to work in, but charmless. I missed all the smells and bustling village that it once was. These days, it was a very quiet hotel stopping place near new Changi International Airport, but off the beaten track. I missed the old Singapore. Remarkably, 24 years on, I still easily found our old house, and school, and swimming pool, everything was as clear as day to me, and still is vivid, despite diversions from new builds, new roads and building out into what was coastal waters. 1 ( 1 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 2 ( 2 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 3 ( 3 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 4 ( 4 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 5 ( 5 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 6 ( 6 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 7 ( 7 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 8 ( 8 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 9 ( 13 ) I’M GOIN’ DOWN Mary J. Blige 10 ( 9 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 11 ( 12 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 12 ( 11 ) NOT OVER YET Grace 13 ( 10 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 14 ( 29 ) SOUR TIMES Portishead 15 ( NEW ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 16 ( 18 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 17 ( 19 ) OVER THE RIVER Bitty McLean 18 ( 14 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 19 ( 24 ) U SURE DO Strike 20 ( NEW ) ON BENDED KNEE BoyzIIMen 21 ( 15 ) ONE Mica Paris 22 ( 23 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 23 ( 16 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 24 ( 28 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 25 ( 32 ) HOLDING ON TO YOU Terence Trent D’Arby 26 ( 44 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 27 ( NEW ) I’M NEVER GONNA FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Richard Marx 28 ( 20 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 29 ( 17 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 30 ( 21 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 31 ( 22 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 32 ( 34 ) THANK YOU BoyzIIMen 33 ( 46 ) VEGAS Sleeper 34 ( NEW ) CRAZY Mark Morrison 35 ( 38 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 36 ( 42 ) BELIEVE Elton John 37 ( 26 ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 38 ( 25 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 39 ( 43 ) OLD POP IN AN OAK Rednex 40 ( NEW ) MR. PERSONALITY 20 Fingers featuring Gillette 41 ( 48 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 42 ( 30 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 43 ( NEW ) RED LIGHT SPECIAL TLC 44 ( 59 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 45 ( 35 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 46 ( RE ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 47 ( 31 ) BABY BABY Corona 48 ( NEW ) LOVE OF MY LIFE Fun Factory 49 ( 67 ) AXEL F Clock 50 ( 27 ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young 51 ( 51 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 52 ( 52 ) HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN Bryan Adams 53 ( 55 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 54 ( 36 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 55 ( 33 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 56 ( 54 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 57 ( 49 ) SAVE IT TILL THE MOURNING AFTER Shut Up And Dance 58 ( NEW ) ETERNAL LOVE PJ & Duncan 59 ( 57 ) WHATEVER Oasis 60 ( 53 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 61 ( 64 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 62 ( RE ) SUDDENLY Sean Maguire 63 ( 63 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 64 ( 41 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 65 ( 37 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 66 ( 66 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 67 ( NEW ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 68 ( 61 ) HERE I GO 2 Unlimited 69 ( 73 ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet 70 ( 71 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 71 ( 70 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 72 ( 69 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 73 ( 72 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 74 ( NEW ) STRANGE CURRENCIES REM 75 ( 75 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex |
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7th June 2015, 09:15 AM
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30th April 1990 5 weeks on top, Back For Good, Take That preside over a static chart with only returns for some recent records and big climbs for recent biggies that get a renewed lease of life as they crop up on flights, in shops, on TV and seem fresher in the new exotic surroundings. Frankly I was far too busy with days out, jetlag and checking in! Just a quick mention that Crash Test Dummies 1994 track God Shuffled His Feet is back up to 2 second time around, Madonna and Edwyn Collins get big boosts back into the 40, with Pato Banton and Rankin’ Roger, and Richard Marx all adding to their run of top 20 hits. Other than that I’m featuring some oldies I heard on the holiday as video links, as there’s nothing much new to feature. 1 ( 1 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 2 ( 3 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 3 ( 2 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 4 ( 5 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 5 ( 4 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 6 ( 8 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 7 ( 6 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 8 ( 9 ) I’M GOIN’ DOWN Mary J. Blige 9 ( 7 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 10 ( 11 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 11 ( 10 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 12 ( 15 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 13 ( 13 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 14 ( 12 ) NOT OVER YET Grace 15 ( 22 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 16 ( 16 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 17 ( 14 ) SOUR TIMES Portishead 18 ( 37 ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 19 ( 27 ) I’M NEVER GONNA FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Richard Marx 20 ( 20 ) ON BENDED KNEE BoyzIIMen 21 ( 18 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 22 ( 26 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 23 ( 32 ) THANK YOU BoyzIIMen 24 ( 19 ) U SURE DO Strike 25 ( 72 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 26 ( 44 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 27 ( 43 ) RED LIGHT SPECIAL TLC 28 ( 24 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 29 ( 21 ) ONE Mica Paris 30 ( 17 ) OVER THE RIVER Bitty McLean 31 ( 23 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 32 ( 34 ) CRAZY Mark Morrison 33 ( 36 ) BELIEVE Elton John 34 ( 25 ) HOLDING ON TO YOU Terence Trent D’Arby 35 ( 28 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 36 ( 31 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 37 ( 35 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 38 ( 45 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 39 ( 29 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 40 ( 40 ) MR. PERSONALITY 20 Fingers featuring Gillette 41 ( 33 ) VEGAS Sleeper 42 ( 30 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 43 ( 49 ) AXEL F Clock 44 ( 60 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 45 ( 52 ) HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN Bryan Adams 46 ( 46 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 47 ( 38 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 48 ( 48 ) LOVE OF MY LIFE Fun Factory 49 ( RE ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 50 ( 42 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 51 ( 41 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 52 ( 39 ) OLD POP IN AN OAK Rednex 53 ( 53 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 54 ( 51 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 55 ( 58 ) ETERNAL LOVE PJ & Duncan 56 ( 62 ) SUDDENLY Sean Maguire 57 ( 56 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 58 ( 54 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 59 ( 59 ) WHATEVER Oasis 60 ( NEW ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 61 ( 47 ) BABY BABY Corona 62 ( 50 ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young 63 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( 66 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 65 ( 57 ) SAVE IT TILL THE MOURNING AFTER Shut Up And Dance 66 ( NEW ) TOTAL ECIPSE OF THE HEART Nicki French 67 ( 67 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 68 ( 69 ) JULIA SAYS Wet Wet Wet 69 ( 55 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 70 ( 70 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 71 ( 71 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 72 ( 73 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 73 ( 63 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton 74 ( 64 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins 75 ( 75 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex In Singapore: a walk up Mount Faber (on foot, exhausting in the hot sun) and a sweaty cable car ride over to Sentosa (which had aircon hooray!), a boat ride round Singapore harbour (cloudy, but got sunburnt) still as busy with worldwide shipping as it ever was, and some joy with the odd monsoon torrential downpour - no kidding I love warm downpours of rain in the tropics (as long as they aren’t prolonged)! The next step in the holiday was a flight from Changi to Cairns in Australia, with a refuelling stop in Darwin. It was a surprisingly long flight, and Australia is both bigger and further away than you think! Heard in "Asia" section of Sentosa island, Singapore, and a big record in 1971 Singapore Cairns customs gave us a hard time for the crime of trying to import such vastly hazardous materials through customs as long-life milk (imported to Singapore from Australia, I mean really! Returning it from where it came...?!) Then there was the packets of instant hot chocolate drinks: who knew these were riddled with mad cow disease and that people in the UK were all headed for an old age of slowly dying from it from packets of cocoa. Not to mention the souvenir bamboo coasters we’d bought, which qualified as alien plant products bringing disease into the country. Who knew industrial-processed bamboo was so lethal?! It was reassuring to know that no Australian shops in any way import anything containing bamboo from outside Australia, oh no, that’s 100% for sure. Or food. Or wood. After threats to prosecute us for so flagrantly flouting Australian customs, and their sarcastic, stress-inducing, patronising attitude to tourists where they could have just gently explained and disposed of products, I decided pretty much then and there that I would never go back to Australia. They don’t want my tourist money, and I don’t want the stress, fair exchange. I’ve stuck to that and never been back. heard in Woolworths, Cairns. Cairns, though, was a delight, more like Singapore in the 60’s and early 70’s than modern-day Singapore in mood. Largely quiet, far away from the pace of modern life, and locals were friendly and chatty and upfront, which I like. The Barrier Reef was nearby, my brother disappeared for a few days diving, and I took mum to Green Island by boat, and snorkelled happily amongst the coral and fish and golden sands. Bliss. An old steam train trip to Kuranda was like the olden days, and the netted coves of nearby coastal settlements fascinating (to keep out the box jellyfish). I bought some Australian cd’s, some souvenirs, and we stayed in actual ground floor apartment with cooking and fridge and bedrooms and TV so it was much more relaxing than Singapore. I really liked it, just regretted that there was no time to travel the huge distance to Sydney. heard in Cairns |
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13th July 2015, 06:38 PM
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7th May 1995
In the week that we were in Cairns and flew to Honolulu, new UK music was non-existent, it was like going slightly back in time, and mostly to AOR USA rock stations. Consequently, lots of records go back up and re-enter, and the few new entries are non-UK hits. Madonna shoots up 25 places to get a second run on top nearly 6 months on with the fab Take A Bow, a record that was mystifyingly minor in the UK and huge elsewhere. Portishead make the top 10 for the second time, while Dionne Farris and Hootie And The Blowfish both reach new top 10 peaks. Sheryl Crow re-enters at a new peak of 12, with the rather touching Strong Enough, while Blessid Union Of Souls rocket up to 17, with I Believe, and TLC’s Creep and Madonna’s Bedtime Story re-enter the 40, while Martin Page and Firehouse both enter inside the 40 with very Adult Rock tracks. It’s worth pointing out in normal times tracks like Firehouse wouldn’t stand a chance in my charts, though the Martin Page song isn’t bad. At 45, Newton covers Jigsaw’s mighty 1975 worldwide hit Sky high. Jigsaw were the first band I saw live in concert in 1977/8, and this Stock Aitken Waterman version didn’t happen in the UK as dance music had moved on - but it hit elsewhere, and the song’s good, even in this trashy pop cover version. Finally, at 59, 4 P.M. cover the English lyric soulful A Taste Of Honey cover of the original brilliant Japanese language Kyu Sakamoto version of Sukiyaki. Kyu eventually got the record to top my charts in the 2010’s, 50 years late, cos I loved the toon as a kid and it’s still great. This version is a reasonable doo-wop influenced stylee not a million miles away from BoyzIImen. 1 ( 26 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 2 ( 1 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 3 ( 2 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 4 ( 58 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 5 ( 3 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 6 ( 4 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 7 ( 17 ) SOUR TIMES Portishead 8 ( 6 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 9 ( 5 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 10 ( 69 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 11 ( 7 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 12 ( RE ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 13 ( 9 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 14 ( 8 ) I’M GOIN’ DOWN Mary J. Blige 15 ( 12 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 16 ( 11 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 17 ( 67 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 18 ( 10 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 19 ( 22 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 20 ( 20 ) ON BENDED KNEE BoyzIIMen 21 ( 16 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 22 ( 33 ) BELIEVE Elton John 23 ( 13 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 24 ( 27 ) RED LIGHT SPECIAL TLC 25 ( 14 ) NOT OVER YET Grace 26 ( 25 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 27 ( 19 ) I’M NEVER GONNA FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Richard Marx 28 ( 15 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 29 ( RE ) CREEP TLC 30 ( 21 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 31 ( 18 ) BUBBLIN’ HOT Pato Banton featuring Rankin’ Roger 32 ( 44 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 33 ( 28 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 34 ( RE ) BEDTIME STORY Madonna 35 ( 23 ) THANK YOU BoyzIIMen 36 ( NEW ) IN THE HOUSE OF STONE AND LIGHT Martin Page 37 ( 29 ) ONE Mica Paris 38 ( NEW ) I LIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU Firehouse 39 ( 31 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 40 ( 40 ) MR. PERSONALITY 20 Fingers featuring Gillette 41 ( 37 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 42 ( 30 ) OVER THE RIVER Bitty McLean 43 ( 38 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 44 ( 24 ) U SURE DO Strike 45 ( NEW ) SKY HIGH Newton 46 ( 46 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant 47 ( 35 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 48 ( 39 ) ORIGINAL Leftfield featuring Toni Halliday 49 ( 49 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex 50 ( 36 ) PERFECT DAY Duran Duran 51 ( 51 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion 52 ( RE ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree 53 ( 32 ) CRAZY Mark Morrison 54 ( 53 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 55 ( 54 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League 56 ( 50 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 57 ( 47 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys 58 ( 42 ) GET WILD New Power Generation 59 ( NEW ) SUKIYAKI 4 P.M. 60 ( 34 ) HOLDING ON TO YOU Terence Trent D’Arby 61 ( 57 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 62 ( 59 ) WHATEVER Oasis 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( RE ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy 65 ( 64 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 66 ( 43 ) AXEL F Clock 67 ( RE ) SET YOU FREE N Trance 68 ( NEW ) IF YOU ONLY LET ME IN MN8 69 ( 45 ) HAVE YOU EVER REALLY LOVED A WOMAN Bryan Adams 70 ( 70 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 71 ( 71 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 72 ( 72 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 73 ( 48 ) LOVE OF MY LIFE Fun Factory 74 ( 60 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone 75 ( 75 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex My brother had been scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef, and when he got back we caught our next flight to Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. I wouldn’t say the Pacific Ocean is big but.....apart from some glorious coral reef islands, and dramatic sunsets, it was just sea for the whole flight, and it took as long to get there as it did to get to Singapore from London. It. Is. Huge. Vast. We landed well after midnight in Hawaii, and I’d booked us some airport stayover cabins, tiny but at least it was possible to sleep a bit, and wash and change. Next day we went to our apartment, wayyy on high in what we used to call skyscrapers. Hawaii 5-0 was on permanent rotation on TV, but happily they also had the mainland US TV shows, so I was in Star Trek heaven, among many cult shows of the time. So what was Hawaii like? Well, we were staying near Diamond Head, near the big Waikiki Beach with the paddling canoes and bustling tourists galore - it was, in short, exactly like the title intro to the TV show. Fab! Shopping malls, trolley buses, exotic fish round the local harbour, and an extinct (mostly) volcano to look at. I really was taken with the place. If only it wasn’t 7000 miles+ away...trip reports next week... |
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15th July 2015, 09:06 PM
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14th May 1995
In the week I returned with massive relief to the UK from Hawaii, my chart explodes with delight as exactly one-third of the dreary chart is ejected in favour of UK music scene delight. I can’t under-state how dull the music scene of each country was compared to the UK music scene in 1995. At number one, Love City Groove do what no UK act had done since the New Seekers 1972 - enter Eurovision and top my chart! One of the great UK entries, soul rap and sounding like it actually had some musical relevance to the year of entry. Still waiting for that to happen again! Let Loose shoot up to 2, their biggest hit, with great ballad Best In Me, Guaglione peaks at 3, MC Sar and The Real McCoy hit 9 and Weezer just miss at 11 with Buddy Holly. It’s all about the new entries, though - in at 4 it’s Bernard Butler, ex-Suede and now partnered with the amazing vocals of David McAlmont for one of the greatest records of the 90’s, the awesome building OTT strings explosion that is Yes. When I say it reaches a climax, that is to understate the case! Brilliant in every way and in at 4. In at 7 temporarily ex-of-UB40, main vocalist Ali Campbell has a very UB40 duet with Pamela Starks, the lovely reggae easy-listening fabness of That Look In Your Eye, while in at 10, Marc Almond goes all Italian-dance with Adored And Explored, which sounds a bit odd 2 decades on when I was expecting a dramatic ballad - yes I’d forgotten this one! Marc’s former duet partner (I Feel Love) also enters at 15 with a cover of Susan Cadogan’s 1975 top 5 Hurts So Good, still reggae but not quite as good. Charles & Eddie return with 24-7-365, a pleasant soul groove, at 18; the only World Hit to climb substantially is Newton going Sky High at 13; Definition Of Sound go Boom Boom at 27, though they really should have guested Basil Brush on it; at 29 Scatman John does scat dance stylee and influences future UK Eurovision entry from Electro Velvet. They did it with a better record. At 30, Duran Duran do a pretty good rock cover of the classic Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel rap White Lines 11 years on, while at 34 Elton John is Made In England. Des’ree feels so high at 35, easily pleased obviously, while Dumb and Dumber’s offshoot Gigolo Aunts Where I Find My Heaven strums in at 36 in a Rembrandts stylee. Oasis are back with Some Might Say at 37, and some great riffing but not such a great song as recent singles, but still good, while Bitty McLean covers The Carpenters We’ve Only Just Begun at 40 reggae style (of course), and the utterly fantastic and under-rated song-writer Paul Williams can do no wrong for me. He was also an Orang-Utan in the Apes movies. Michelle Gayle’s back with some Freedom at 43, Baby D are back with a drum ‘n’ bass/dub-step cover of The Korgis brilliant Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime at 45, change the title, drop some lyrics, and do a pretty good job of it. Other newies include Boyzone, Sheryl Crow, The Wildhearts, Mike + The Mechanics, Scarlet, Chris Isaak and best of the bunch Living Joy in at 69 with smash hit Dreamer, a great dance track. Phew! 1 ( 5 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 2 ( 13 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 3 ( 30 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 4 ( NEW ) YES McAlmont & Butler 5 ( 2 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 6 ( 1 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 7 ( NEW ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 8 ( 6 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 9 ( 15 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 10 ( NEW ) ADORED AND EXPLORED Marc Almond 11 ( 28 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 12 ( 45 ) SKY HIGH Newton 13 ( 4 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 14 ( 3 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 15 ( NEW ) HURTS SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 16 ( 7 ) SOUR TIMES Portishead 17 ( 20 ) ON BENDED KNEE BoyzIIMen 18 ( NEW ) “24-7-365” Charles and Eddie 19 ( 9 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 20 ( 8 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 21 ( 12 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 22 ( 11 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 23 ( 23 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 24 ( 10 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 25 ( 25 ) NOT OVER YET Grace 26 ( 19 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 27 ( NEW ) BOOM BOOM Definition Of Sound 28 ( 16 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 29 ( NEW ) THE SCATMAN Scatman John 30 ( NEW ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran 31 ( 22 ) BELIEVE Elton John 32 ( 14 ) I’M GOIN’ DOWN Mary J. Blige 33 ( 18 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 34 ( NEW ) MADE IN ENGLAND Elton John 35 ( NEW ) FEEL SO HIGH Des’ree 36 ( NEW ) WHERE I FIND MY HEAVEN Gigolo Aunts 37 ( NEW ) SOME MIGHT SAY Oasis 38 ( 17 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 39 ( NEW ) MY GIRL JOSEPHINE Super Cat featuring Jack Radics 40 ( NEW ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 41 ( 21 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 42 ( NEW ) FREEDOM Michelle Gayle 43 ( RE ) BABY BABY Corona 44 ( 27 ) I’M NEVER GONNA FALL IN LOVE AGAIN Richard Marx 45 ( NEW ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 46 ( 26 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 47 ( 47 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 48 ( NEW ) I WANNA BE FREE (TO BE WITH YOU) Scarlet 49 ( 24 ) RED LIGHT SPECIAL TLC 50 ( 32 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 51 ( 34 ) BEDTIME STORY Madonna 52 ( NEW ) KEY TO MY LIFE Boyzone 53 ( 29 ) CREEP TLC 54 ( 41 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz 55 ( NEW ) CAN’T CRY ANYMORE Sheryl Crow 56 ( 39 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League 57 ( 68 ) IF YOU ONLY LET ME IN MN8 58 ( 33 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson 59 ( 54 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 60 ( NEW ) I WANNA GO WHERE THE PEOPLE GO The Wildhearts 61 ( 43 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds 62 ( RE ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( 56 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8 65 ( 36 ) IN THE HOUSE OF STONE AND LIGHT Martin Page 66 ( NEW ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 67 ( 65 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 61 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue 69 ( NEW ) DREAMER Living Joy 70 ( 38 ) I LIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU Firehouse 71 ( 71 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 72 ( 70 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order 73 ( 72 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 74 ( 62 ) WHATEVER Oasis 75 ( NEW ) SOMEBODY’S CRYING Chris Isaak Meanwhile, in Hawaii, it was a tour around the island by coach to some awesome scenery, gorgeous coral reef bays being trampled underfoot by hordes of f*cking thicky tourists and the authorities doing nothing about it, some massive waves for lifestyle surfers lazing about, going inside Diamond Head volcano, and on the last day a quite serenely sad tour of the wrecks in Pearl Harbour and film presentations. I was most struck by the small fact that on one ship 3 brothers from the same family were killed, which led to new laws preventing serving families being on the same ship - the loss to one family is just too much to ask. We caught a late overnight flight to LAX, intending on spending a few hours on Sunset Boulevard. Sadly, what with the jetlag over the time difference, not sleeping much, we were too exhausted to leave the airport and just sat with the luggage trying to nap a little, or in my case, listening to much better Los Angeles radio stations than any I’d heard in weeks. The overnight flight home to Heathrow was also jetlag on top of jetlag, I can’t tell you how rotten I felt. I don’t handle sleep deprivation, and body-clock changes at all well... If I ever did it again I would travel east to west. Everytime! |
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20th July 2015, 07:56 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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21st May 1995
It’s a first week at 1 for McAlmont & Butler and the devastatingly brilliant Yes. Yes? Yes! One of the great vocal pop performances, brilliant arrangement, exhilarating song. Ali Campbell meanwhile gets his biggest record since UB40’s debut Food For Thought in 1980, at 2, and Newton almost catches up with the original 1975 version of Sky High at 4. Highest new entry at 7 is the fantastic Sparks, back with one of their periodic reinvention comebacks, 21 years on from chart-topper This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us - and it’s the fab When Do I Get To Sing ‘My Way’, back in what they call an EDM-stylee these days, orchestral-tastically. At 12, the gorgeous Eurovision Song Contest winner, Nocturne enters for Secret Garden, a bold Irish folk-flavoured mostly instrumental lush gentle and sweeping ballad with operatic singing. In Norwegian! Yes, Norway outdoing Ireland in the winning stakes, obviously believing if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em, and then you can beat ‘em. Livin’ Joy go up a whopping 60 places to 9 with Dreamer, the under-rated Weezer to 10 and Scatman John up to 11, while Barry White grabs a 22nd year of top 20 tracks as I Only Want To Be With You re-enters at 17. Oasis sneak into the 20, as a novelty “funny” version of a great old Chinn-Chapman song (originally New World, then Smokie) Living Next Door To Alice is ruined by someone called Gompie at 30. There was worse to come.... Baby D go top 40 with The Korgis great song, as does Michelle Gayle with Freedom, and at 36 new in the latest cover version of Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi, this time from Amy Grant 3 or 4 years on from Baby Baby. At 40, The Boo Radleys find the answer within the top 40. As long as the question is where will I enter? At 48, Montell Jordan enters with the rather good This Is How We Do It r’n’b track fondly remembered still. At 54 another candidate for “Best Record Of The 90’s” and it’s Pulp back with their tour de force, the huge Common People, and the poor boy/posh girl’s plaything lyrics were a level above the pop norm and then some. Jarvis Cocker was suddenly a star after a decade or so of trying. About time! At 55, Dusty is still happily making records, this time with an assist from Daryl Hall on the good ballad Wherever Would I Be, for 27 years of hits for Dusty and a mere 19 for Daryl. At 59, Bob Dylan still has his Dignity after a long gap away, some 26 years on from Lay Lady Lay, while Adam Ant is being sinful at 60. Others: Runrig, Radiohead, Bjork and Billie Ray Martin all pop back with new singles, some even quite big like Fake Plastic Trees as cheerful as ever. Oh yes, a huge UK million-selling number one cover version by two actors on a TV show about soldiers outsold the definitive Righteous Brothers cover of a previously chart-topping song. Unchained Melody hit the top for the 4th act, and it looked as if they would manage to kill it off forever, at a lowly 71 in my chart though, but no there was still one more insipid huge-selling chart-topping version to come before it looks to have been laid to rest. 1 ( 4 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 2 ( 7 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 3 ( 1 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 4 ( 12 ) SKY HIGH Newton 5 ( 5 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 6 ( 3 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 7 ( NEW ) WHEN DO I GET TO SING ‘MY WAY’ Sparks 8 ( 2 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 9 ( 69 ) DREAMER Living Joy 10 ( 11 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 11 ( 29 ) THE SCATMAN Scatman John 12 ( NEW ) NOCTURNE Secret Garden 13 ( 8 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 14 ( 10 ) ADORED AND EXPLORED Marc Almond 15 ( 15 ) HURTS SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 16 ( 13 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 17 ( RE ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 18 ( 14 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 19 ( 6 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 20 ( 37 ) SOME MIGHT SAY Oasis 21 ( 9 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 22 ( 18 ) “24-7-365” Charles and Eddie 23 ( 30 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran 24 ( 62 ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 25 ( 34 ) MADE IN ENGLAND Elton John 26 ( 33 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 27 ( 27 ) BOOM BOOM Definition Of Sound 28 ( 38 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 29 ( 24 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 30 ( NEW ) ALICE WHO THE F*** IS ALICE Gompie 31 ( 19 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 32 ( 45 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 33 ( 23 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 34 ( 20 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 35 ( 42 ) FREEDOM Michelle Gayle 36 ( NEW ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 37 ( 52 ) KEY TO MY LIFE Boyzone 38 ( 40 ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 39 ( 39 ) MY GIRL JOSEPHINE Super Cat featuring Jack Radics 40 ( NEW ) FIND THE ANSWER WITHIN The Boo Radleys 41 ( 16 ) SOUR TIMES Portishead 42 ( 22 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 43 ( 28 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 44 ( 26 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 45 ( 31 ) BELIEVE Elton John 46 ( 46 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 47 ( 17 ) ON BENDED KNEE BoyzIIMen 48 ( NEW ) THIS IS HOW WE DO IT Montell Jordan 49 ( 32 ) I’M GOIN’ DOWN Mary J. Blige 50 ( 55 ) CAN’T CRY ANYMORE Sheryl Crow 51 ( 25 ) NOT OVER YET Grace 52 ( 41 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 53 ( 21 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow 54 ( NEW ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 55 ( NEW ) WHEREVER WOULD I BE Dusty Springfield and Daryl Hall 56 ( NEW ) EVERYDAY Incognito 57 ( 36 ) WHERE I FIND MY HEAVEN Gigolo Aunts 58 ( NEW ) WORK IT OUT Shiva 59 ( NEW ) DIGNITY Bob Dylan 60 ( NEW ) GOTTA BE A SIN Adam Ant 61 ( NEW ) THE HIGHEST APPLE Runrig 62 ( 47 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( 59 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 65 ( 50 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 66 ( 66 ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 67 ( NEW ) FAKE PLASTIC TREES Radiohead 68 ( NEW ) CAN’T STAND LOSING YOU (Live version) The Police 69 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 70 ( 35 ) FEEL SO HIGH Des’ree 71 ( NEW ) UNCHAINED MELODY Robson Green and Jerome Flynn 72 ( NEW ) ALL TOGETHER NOW Everton F.C. 73 ( 71 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. 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22nd July 2015, 07:06 PM
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28th May 1995
2 weeks for Yes on top, as Livin’ Joy go top 5, Scatman John goes top 10, and Human League are the highest entry at 10 with the 3rd top 10 single in a row, the tuneful and sweet enough Filling Up With Heaven. Into the 20 go Bob Marley, Incognito and Elton John, so that’s 20 years of top 20’s for Bob and 24 for Elton. In at 22, U2 do a Batman Forever soundtrack song that is much better than the movie, the fab Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, for a 14th year of top 40 entries. Meanwhile, Paula Abdul returns after a gap for 7 years of chart entries, this one better than most not least cos it features Ofra Haza on a vocal assist, My Love Is For Real in at 35. Radiohead go top 40 again, rocketing up with some Fake Plastic Trees, always a barrow of laughs the boys are, and they can run the whole gamut of emotion from angst to miserable. Then there’s Pulp not climbinmg anywhere near as fast as one might imagine for such a classic pop single, only at 36. New entries lower down: Annie Lennox follows up her chart-topper with a rather gentle, lovely version of A Whiter Shade Of Pale at 46, some 23 years since Procol Harum charted with it in my charts on reissue, and 28 years since I first liked it. Annie gets an extension to her 16 years of hits in various guises. At 51, the duet we’d all though would have happened much sooner, it’s Michael and Janet with Scream. A good single and a fab video, but I think expectations were so much higher. Still, 25 years of hits for Michael, 9 for Janet. Rod’s a Star at 54, for 24 years of them, though not one I recall without heading for Youtube. 1 ( 1 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 2 ( 2 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 3 ( 4 ) SKY HIGH Newton 4 ( 9 ) DREAMER Livin' Joy 5 ( 5 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 6 ( 3 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 7 ( 11 ) SCATMAN (SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP) Scatman John 8 ( 13 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 9 ( 6 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 10 ( NEW ) FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN Human League 11 ( 8 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 12 ( 12 ) NOCTURNE Secret Garden 13 ( 7 ) WHEN DO I GET TO SING ‘MY WAY’ Sparks 14 ( 15 ) HURTS SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 15 ( 14 ) ADORED AND EXPLORED Marc Almond 16 ( 10 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 17 ( 20 ) SOME MIGHT SAY Oasis 18 ( 24 ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 19 ( 56 ) EVERYDAY Incognito 20 ( 25 ) MADE IN ENGLAND Elton John 21 ( 21 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 22 ( NEW ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME U2 23 ( 23 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran 24 ( 16 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 25 ( 30 ) ALICE WHO THE F*** IS ALICE Gompie 26 ( 26 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 27 ( 32 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 28 ( 28 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 29 ( 36 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 30 ( 35 ) FREEDOM Michelle Gayle 31 ( 18 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 32 ( 19 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 33 ( 37 ) KEY TO MY LIFE Boyzone 34 ( 33 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 35 ( NEW ) MY LOVE IS FOR REAL Paula Abdul featuring Ofra Haza 36 ( 54 ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 37 ( 17 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 38 ( 67 ) FAKE PLASTIC TREES Radiohead 39 ( 29 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 40 ( 22 ) “24-7-365” Charles and Eddie 41 ( 46 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 42 ( 31 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 43 ( 48 ) THIS IS HOW WE DO IT Montell Jordan 44 ( 38 ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 45 ( 34 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 46 ( NEW ) A WHITER SHADE OF PALE Annie Lennox 47 ( 27 ) BOOM BOOM Definition Of Sound 48 ( 44 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 49 ( 40 ) FIND THE ANSWER WITHIN The Boo Radleys 50 ( 50 ) CAN’T CRY ANYMORE Sheryl Crow 51 ( NEW ) SCREAM Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 52 ( 55 ) WHEREVER WOULD I BE Dusty Springfield and Daryl Hall 53 ( 60 ) GOTTA BE A SIN Adam Ant 54 ( NEW ) YOU’RE THE STAR Rod Stewart 55 ( 45 ) BELIEVE Elton John 56 ( 43 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 57 ( 57 ) WHERE I FIND MY HEAVEN Gigolo Aunts 58 ( 39 ) MY GIRL JOSEPHINE Super Cat featuring Jack Radics 59 ( 52 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 60 ( 72 ) ALL TOGETHER NOW Everton F.C. 61 ( 58 ) WORK IT OUT Shiva 62 ( 71 ) UNCHAINED MELODY Robson Green and Jerome Flynn 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( 41 ) SOUR TIMES Portishead 65 ( 64 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 66 ( 42 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 67 ( NEW ) SEXUAL Maria Rowe 68 ( 74 ) YOUR LOVING ARMS Billie Ray Martin 69 ( 69 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 70 ( 59 ) DIGNITY Bob Dylan 71 ( 49 ) I’M GOIN’ DOWN Mary J. Blige 72 ( 65 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 73 ( NEW ) SURRENDER YOUR LOVE Nightcrawlers 74 ( 73 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 75 ( 62 ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles |
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28th August 2015, 06:45 PM
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4th June 1995
3 weeks for Yes at 1, McAlmont & Butler still rule, and it’s Livin’ Joy at 3, cos I’m a Dreamer. Human League make it 3 top 5 in a row in 1995, as U2’s Batman track brings them another top 10 12 years on from the first, and a Eurovision winner breaks into the 10 too, not that common in the 90’s but then Nocturne is a great track. Duran Duran take White Lines into the 20, which is nothing to sniff at, so don’t don’t do it, and Paula Abdul and Ofra Haza jointly do the same, ditto Baby D, and best of the bunch so does all-time classic Pulp, Common People, uncommonly brilliant record. Rugby record time, it must be Swing Low Sweet Chariot back again after a 20 year break - but it’s not Eric Clapton this time, it’s Ladysmith Black Mombazo and China Black, Ladysmith stretching back with Paul Simon assist from South Africa and Graceland 1986. There’s another oldie also back, and it’s The Detroit Spinners finally getting a hit with their much-covered I’ll Be Around - in a sampled version by Rappin’ 4 Tay at 34. Reef are Nakedly new at 36, and Mike + The Mechanics, Montell Jordan and Annie Lennox all enter the 40. At 59, it’s the fab Right In The Night from Jam & Spoon (not forgetting Plavka), a dance goodie, and at 64 it’s The Happy Mondays, errr I mean Black Grape, Rev-ing their way in. 1 ( 1 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 2 ( 2 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 3 ( 4 ) DREAMER Livin' Joy 4 ( 10 ) FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN Human League 5 ( 5 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 6 ( 3 ) SKY HIGH Newton 7 ( 7 ) SCATMAN (SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP) Scatman John 8 ( 12 ) NOCTURNE Secret Garden 9 ( 6 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 10 ( 22 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME U2 11 ( 8 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 12 ( 17 ) SOME MIGHT SAY Oasis 13 ( 9 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 14 ( 14 ) HURT SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 15 ( 23 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran featuring Grandmaster Flash 16 ( 11 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 17 ( 35 ) MY LOVE IS FOR REAL Paula Abdul featuring Ofra Haza 18 ( 36 ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 19 ( 27 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 20 ( 28 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 21 ( 21 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 22 ( 20 ) MADE IN ENGLAND Elton John 23 ( 19 ) EVERYDAY Incognito 24 ( 26 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 25 ( 16 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 26 ( 18 ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 27 ( 13 ) WHEN DO I GET TO SING ‘MY WAY’ Sparks 28 ( NEW ) SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT Ladysmith Black Mombazo featuring China Black 29 ( 15 ) ADORED AND EXPLORED Marc Almond 30 ( 34 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 31 ( 50 ) CAN’T CRY ANYMORE Sheryl Crow 32 ( 29 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 33 ( 38 ) FAKE PLASTIC TREES Radiohead 34 ( NEW ) I’LL BE AROUND Rappin 4 Tay Featuring The Detroit Spinners 35 ( RE ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 36 ( NEW ) NAKED Reef 37 ( 30 ) FREEDOM Michelle Gayle 38 ( 43 ) THIS IS HOW WE DO IT Montell Jordan 39 ( 25 ) ALICE WHO THE F*** IS ALICE Gompie 40 ( 46 ) A WHITER SHADE OF PALE Annie Lennox 41 ( 41 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 42 ( 24 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 43 ( 31 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 44 ( 44 ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 45 ( 33 ) KEY TO MY LIFE Boyzone 46 ( 32 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 47 ( 51 ) SCREAM Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 48 ( 39 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 49 ( 42 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 50 ( 62 ) UNCHAINED MELODY Robson Green and Jerome Flynn 51 ( 37 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 52 ( 52 ) WHEREVER WOULD I BE Dusty Springfield and Daryl Hall 53 ( 48 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 54 ( 54 ) YOU’RE THE STAR Rod Stewart 55 ( 40 ) “24-7-365” Charles and Eddie 56 ( 45 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 57 ( 47 ) BOOM BOOM Definition Of Sound 58 ( 53 ) GOTTA BE A SIN Adam Ant 59 ( NEW ) RIGHT IN THE NIGHT Jam And Spoon featuring Plavka 60 ( 55 ) BELIEVE Elton John 61 ( 59 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 62 ( 58 ) MY GIRL JOSEPHINE Super Cat featuring Jack Radics 63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 64 ( NEW ) REVEREND BLACK GRAPE Black Grape 65 ( 65 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 66 ( 57 ) WHERE I FIND MY HEAVEN Gigolo Aunts 67 ( 69 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 68 ) YOUR LOVING ARMS Billie Ray Martin 69 ( 49 ) FIND THE ANSWER WITHIN The Boo Radleys 70 ( 56 ) MARVELLOUS The Lightning Seeds 71 ( NEW ) HOLD MY BODY TIGHT East 17 72 ( 73 ) SURRENDER YOUR LOVE Nightcrawlers 73 ( 74 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 74 ( 72 ) GLORY BOX Portishead 75 ( 66 ) THE FIRST THE LAST ETERNITY Snap! featuring Summer 4th June OLDIES PLAYLIST 1. GREATEST HITS - Tommy James And The Shondells 2. GREATEST HITS - K.C. And The Sunshine Band 3. Love Is Like Oxygen - The Sweet Oldies greatest hits were on my playlist, best of all I’d discovered a wealth of back catalogue from often-covered, infrequent UK chart visitor Tommy James and The Shondells. Big in America but a solitary UK number one in the brilliant Mony Mony and not much else. The sheer variety of styles and great songs impressed much, and this featured oldie track most of all: Crystal Blue Persuasion. Gorgeous. Still looking for an excuse to chart it, a new greatest hits, an advert, a new movie soundtrack, anything...! |
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1st September 2015, 09:12 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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11th June 1995
It’s a 4th dominating week of McAlmont & Butler, oh yes, yes, yes! At 2, with a sudden spurt after previously peaking top 10 in 1994, and refusing to leave the 75 since, the brilliant Edwyn Collins A Girl Like You finally becomes a UK hit and gets a new lease of life and a new peak after 36 weeks of avoiding the top 3. Also screaming into the top 3 it’s Michael and Janet, I’m presuming the fab sci-fi video promo had aired and caused the rush from 47, as it made the record sound better than it had previously. Paula Abdul gets her only top 5 single, My Love Is For Real, though Ofra Haza had peaked at 2 7 years earlier with Im Nin Alu. Duran Duran go up to 7, White Lines having a 2nd run inside the top 10 with Grandmaster Flash assisting. Ladysmith Black Mombazo and China Black take Swing Low Sweet Chariot into the top 10 for the first time, outdoing all previous versions, and Eric Clapton who had the previous highest charting version in 1975. Jam & Spoon go up a whopping 46 places to 13, very alright in the night it seems, and even bigger leaping for Black Grape who take the rev out for a spin at 17 with a bit of gospel 90’s dance fun from Shaun Ryder and co. The highest new entry is in at 19, and it’s Joy Division back for a 3rd run, this time in remix form along with the original version, though I only listed the remix for this week, cos y’know, the original can’t be improved on. It just can’t. Back upwards, and a new peak of 20, Bitty McLean keeps his surprisingly long run of reggae covers alive, covering The Carpenters version of Paul Williams gorgeous We’ve Only Just Begun. Admittedly less gorgeous than the originals, though. Back at 30, Dodgy have a 1995 version of Staying Out The Summer, which suits me as the very Beatles harmony hook sits well with me, while Loveland featuring Rachel MacFarlane Don’t Make Me Wait at 36, and Whigfield returns at 40, Thinking Of You. Apparently. Sounds a little like Saturday Night, oddly. Happily at 44, it’s a more-laid-back dance groove with an actual strong song, Search For A Hero and M People. Yay! Others: Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Brandy, Wet Wet Wet. The others add to their list of chart entries (and not with much credit in these cases) while Brandy is a remix of a 1994 debut single. 1 ( 1 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 2 ( 41 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 3 ( 47 ) SCREAM Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 4 ( 4 ) FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN Human League 5 ( 17 ) MY LOVE IS FOR REAL Paula Abdul featuring Ofra Haza 6 ( 10 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME U2 7 ( 15 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran featuring Grandmaster Flash 8 ( 2 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 9 ( 28 ) SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT Ladysmith Black Mombazo featuring China Black 10 ( 5 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 11 ( 3 ) DREAMER Livin' Joy 12 ( 6 ) SKY HIGH Newton 13 ( 59 ) RIGHT IN THE NIGHT Jam And Spoon featuring Plavka 14 ( 7 ) SCATMAN (SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP) Scatman John 15 ( 14 ) HURT SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 16 ( 18 ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 17 ( 64 ) REVEREND BLACK GRAPE Black Grape 18 ( 19 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 19 ( NEW ) LOVE WILL TEAR US APART/ ’95 Joy Division 20 ( 44 ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 21 ( 16 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 22 ( 11 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 23 ( 9 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 24 ( 40 ) A WHITER SHADE OF PALE Annie Lennox 25 ( 13 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 26 ( 8 ) NOCTURNE Secret Garden 27 ( 36 ) NAKED Reef 28 ( 12 ) SOME MIGHT SAY Oasis 29 ( 21 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 30 ( NEW ) STAYING OUT FOR THE SUMMER ’95 Dodgy 31 ( 30 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 32 ( 23 ) EVERYDAY Incognito 33 ( 25 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 34 ( 34 ) I’LL BE AROUND Rappin 4 Tay Featuring The Detroit Spinners 35 ( 24 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 36 ( NEW ) DON’T MAKE ME WAIT Loveland featuring Rachel MacFarlane 37 ( 22 ) MADE IN ENGLAND Elton John 38 ( 38 ) THIS IS HOW WE DO IT Montell Jordan 39 ( 20 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 40 ( NEW ) THINK OF YOU Whigfield 41 ( 26 ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 42 ( 27 ) WHEN DO I GET TO SING ‘MY WAY’ Sparks 43 ( 29 ) ADORED AND EXPLORED Marc Almond 44 ( NEW ) SEARCH FOR THE HERO M People 45 ( 50 ) UNCHAINED MELODY Robson Green and Jerome Flynn 46 ( 35 ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 47 ( 37 ) FREEDOM Michelle Gayle 48 ( 31 ) CAN’T CRY ANYMORE Sheryl Crow 49 ( 46 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 50 ( 68 ) YOUR LOVING ARMS Billie Ray Martin 51 ( NEW ) THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG Bon Jovi 52 ( 33 ) FAKE PLASTIC TREES Radiohead 53 ( 32 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 54 ( 39 ) ALICE WHO THE F*** IS ALICE Gompie 55 ( 43 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 56 ( 53 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 57 ( 49 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 58 ( 71 ) HOLD MY BODY TIGHT East 17 59 ( 61 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 60 ( 48 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish 61 ( 42 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 62 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 63 ( 60 ) BELIEVE Elton John 64 ( 45 ) KEY TO MY LIFE Boyzone 65 ( 65 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 66 ( 51 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Barry White 67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 72 ) SURRENDER YOUR LOVE Nightcrawlers 69 ( 56 ) LET IT RAIN East 17 70 ( NEW ) ONLY ONE ROAD Celine Dion 71 ( 52 ) WHEREVER WOULD I BE Dusty Springfield and Daryl Hall 72 ( NEW ) I WANNA BE DOWN Brandy 73 ( 73 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 74 ( 54 ) YOU’RE THE STAR Rod Stewart 75 ( NEW ) DON’T WANNA FORGIVE ME NOW Wet Wet Wet OLDIES PLAYLIST 1. SUKIYAKI - Kyu Sakamoto 2. I PLAY AND SING - Dawn 3. MAKING OUR DREAMS COME TRUE - Cyndi Greco In my oldies playlist, the classic Sukiyaki from 1963, Dawn’s flop from 1972, and the theme tune to TV show Laverne And Shirley, an amiable spin-off of Happy Days, which was a great 60’s girl-group styled joyous singalong. |
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2nd September 2015, 10:26 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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18th June 1995
After 37 weeks Edwyn Collins finally gets to the top of the charts, which is something of a record for my charts. Plenty of tracks hit my top spot on reissue, after a suitable gap during which I get to fall in love with them again, but few hang around my charts for 9 months without me suffering from overplay syndrome and opting for something fresher. A Girl Like You is terrific though, and still sounds great. It also means Edwyn had to wait 12 years from his Orange Juice debut to topping. Duran Duran and U2 both add another top 5 to the lengthening lists of top 5’s, and Shaun Ryder gets another top 10 outside the Happy Mondays. Rappin’ 4-Tay helps The Detroit Spinners have a run of 22 years of top 20 hits, while Annie Lennox lengthens hers to 16 years. Highest new entry at 24 is a fab cover version of Grand Funk’s Bad Time, which made my charts 20 years earlier, and it really should have been a bigger hit for The Jayhawks than UK chart peak of 70. Bah! That leads the cover version charge of new entries: at 29 comedians Vic & Bob join with EMF to bring I’m A Believer back into my chart for the 4th time - The Monkees topped my chart with it twice (1974, 1980) and Robert Wyatt did a version in 1974, but the Neil Diamond song would also have topped in the 60’s had I been charting then. Vic also covered Dizzy, my first ever singles purchase, and had been grabbing occasional hits for 4 years, EMF for 5. Unbelievable! Carole King’s classic It’s Too Late gets yet another cover version, and not too badly, from Gloria Estefan, while Whoomp There It Is gets the frantic cheesy dance treatment from Clock, and not improving on the Tag Team’s version. Shaggy keeps his singles run going with an unlikely cover of Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime also not quite improving on the original. At 31, grunge popmetal band The Offspring debut without a lack of Self Esteem, ahead of their great rebirth in 1999 following a decent haircut. At 71 Dr Dre gets a solo debut, ahead of his rebirth in 1999 as godfather to Eminem and others, and a new hip solo career en route to being a multi-millionaire Beats promoter - Keep Their Heads Ringin’, pops in briefly, though he had already charted 5 years earlier with N.W.A. and been overshadowed a bit by band mate Ice Cube in the interim. Boom Boom Boom, it’s the Outhere Brothers shouting it up at 64, while altogether more subtle is the New Age Deep Forest back with Marta’s Song. 1 ( 2 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 2 ( 3 ) SCREAM Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 3 ( 1 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 4 ( 7 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran featuring Grandmaster Flash 5 ( 6 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME U2 6 ( 5 ) MY LOVE IS FOR REAL Paula Abdul featuring Ofra Haza 7 ( 4 ) FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN Human League 8 ( 17 ) REVEREND BLACK GRAPE Black Grape 9 ( 8 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 10 ( 13 ) RIGHT IN THE NIGHT Jam And Spoon featuring Plavka 11 ( 9 ) SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT Ladysmith Black Mombazo featuring China Black 12 ( 15 ) HURT SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 13 ( 14 ) SCATMAN (SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP) Scatman John 14 ( 19 ) LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Joy Division 15 ( 10 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 16 ( 16 ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 17 ( 18 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 18 ( 34 ) I’LL BE AROUND Rappin 4 Tay Featuring The Detroit Spinners 19 ( 25 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 20 ( 24 ) A WHITER SHADE OF PALE Annie Lennox 21 ( 12 ) SKY HIGH Newton 22 ( 11 ) DREAMER Livin' Joy 23 ( 20 ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 24 ( NEW ) BAD TIME The Jayhawks 25 ( 27 ) NAKED Reef 26 ( 21 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 27 ( 22 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 28 ( 23 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 29 ( NEW ) I’M A BELIEVER Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer with EMF 30 ( 30 ) STAYING OUT FOR THE SUMMER ’95 Dodgy 31 ( NEW ) SELF ESTEEM The Offspring 32 ( 29 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 33 ( NEW ) IT’S TOO LATE Gloria Estefan 34 ( 31 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 35 ( 40 ) THINK OF YOU Whigfield 36 ( 44 ) SEARCH FOR THE HERO M People 37 ( 53 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 38 ( 35 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 39 ( 39 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 40 ( 58 ) HOLD MY BODY TIGHT East 17 41 ( 26 ) NOCTURNE Secret Garden 42 ( 36 ) DON’T MAKE ME WAIT Loveland featuring Rachel MacFarlane 43 ( 32 ) EVERYDAY Incognito 44 ( 33 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 45 ( 28 ) SOME MIGHT SAY Oasis 46 ( 51 ) THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG Bon Jovi 47 ( 42 ) WHEN DO I GET TO SING ‘MY WAY’ Sparks 48 ( 43 ) ADORED AND EXPLORED Marc Almond 49 ( 41 ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 50 ( 50 ) YOUR LOVING ARMS Billie Ray Martin 51 ( NEW ) IN THE SUMMERTIME Shaggy 52 ( 37 ) MADE IN ENGLAND Elton John 53 ( NEW ) WHOOMP THERE IT IS Clock 54 ( 45 ) UNCHAINED MELODY Robson Green and Jerome Flynn 55 ( 38 ) THIS IS HOW WE DO IT Montell Jordan 56 ( 49 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 57 ( NEW ) MARTA’S SONG Deep Forest 58 ( 57 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 59 ( 56 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 60 ( 75 ) DON’T WANNA FORGIVE ME NOW Wet Wet Wet 61 ( 62 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 62 ( 55 ) GOD SHUFFLED HIS FEET/ THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD Crash Test Dummies 63 ( 47 ) FREEDOM Michelle Gayle 64 ( NEW ) BOOM BOOM BOOM The Outhere Brothers 65 ( 65 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 66 ( 59 ) TURN ON TUNE IN COP OUT Freak Power 67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 63 ) BELIEVE Elton John 69 ( 70 ) ONLY ONE ROAD Celine Dion 70 ( 64 ) KEY TO MY LIFE Boyzone 71 ( NEW ) KEEP THEIR HEADS RINGIN’ Dr. Dre 72 ( 46 ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 73 ( 73 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins 74 ( 61 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris 75 ( 60 ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish OLDIES PLAYLIST 1. GREATEST HITS - Tommy James And The Shondells 2. LISTEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE - George Michael 3. HITS - Sonny & Cher My oldies playlist is albums this week, Tommy james still ranking, while George Michael’s 5-year-old Listen Without Prejudice still impressed, Sonny & Cher’s Greatest Hits though was also grabbing me, a CD I’d bought in Cairns, and this track in particular, with it’s gypsy rhythms a sort of follow-up to Cher’s Bang Bang and a pre-cursor to Gypsies Tramps And Thieves, and Dark Lady: Little Man is fantastic. |
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2nd September 2015, 03:49 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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25th June 1995
I always say something can always be improved with a spaceship in it. It’s one of my major criticisms of Coronation Street: no spaceships. Scream is a case in point, the duet between sis n bruv Michael and Janet gets to number one ahead of much better tracks from both of them. Considering who they are, it should have been an epic collaboration, rather than the decent enough jam that it is. It was the fab video, though, mostly. Janet has panda eye make-up, which also helps. With a sudden spurt from 72 to 8, after pottering about a few weeks, Mike And The Mechanics get a belated 2nd top 10 track some 9 years after the first (Silent Running), though of course Mike Rutherford (ex-Genesis) and Paul Jones (ex-Sad Cafe) had done it before then in previous bands. More importantly, it had taken them 6 weeks but Pulp’s all-time classic Common People finally makes the top 10 and proves that sometimes I under-appreciate a classic for some reason - it eventually topped my chart in reissue stylee in the 21st Century, and quite right too. Amy Grant takes Big Yellow Taxi into the top 20, emulating Joni Mitchell’s original 25 years earlier, while back at 28 re-entering at a new peak it’s Dusty and Daryl, Wherever Would I Be. Also back, Oasis and Live Forever at 35, and in at 38 it’s Menswear and Daydreamer with some nice guitar riffing Britpop stylee. Oasis invade the chart as they become huge and the singles sell into the UK singles chart, which means a re-entry from chart-topper Whatever at 54, and Shakermaker at 73. At 56, a debut from Supergrass, and it’s the perennially fab Alright, upbeat, cheerful and delicious. At 59, Black Box return with Not just Anyone, and other newies from Jay Kay, D:Ream, A.D.A.M. and Sean Maguire round off the rest. 1 ( 2 ) SCREAM Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 2 ( 1 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 3 ( 9 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 4 ( 3 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 5 ( 4 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran featuring Grandmaster Flash 6 ( 6 ) MY LOVE IS FOR REAL Paula Abdul featuring Ofra Haza 7 ( 5 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME U2 8 ( 72 ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 9 ( 16 ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 10 ( 18 ) I’LL BE AROUND Rappin 4 Tay Featuring The Detroit Spinners 11 ( 7 ) FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN Human League 12 ( 10 ) RIGHT IN THE NIGHT Jam And Spoon featuring Plavka 13 ( 8 ) REVEREND BLACK GRAPE Black Grape 14 ( 11 ) SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT Ladysmith Black Mombazo featuring China Black 15 ( 20 ) A WHITER SHADE OF PALE Annie Lennox 16 ( 29 ) I’M A BELIEVER Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer with EMF 17 ( 13 ) SCATMAN (SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP) Scatman John 18 ( 57 ) MARTA’S SONG Deep Forest 19 ( 37 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 20 ( 24 ) BAD TIME The Jayhawks 21 ( 19 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 22 ( 15 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 23 ( 12 ) HURT SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 24 ( 17 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 25 ( 14 ) LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Joy Division 26 ( 30 ) STAYING OUT FOR THE SUMMER ’95 Dodgy 27 ( 36 ) SEARCH FOR THE HERO M People 28 ( RE ) WHEREVER WOULD I BE Dusty Springfield and Daryl Hall 29 ( 21 ) SKY HIGH Newton 30 ( 26 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 31 ( 27 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 32 ( 22 ) DREAMER Livin' Joy 33 ( 33 ) IT’S TOO LATE Gloria Estefan 34 ( 23 ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 35 ( NEW ) LIVE FOREVER Oasis 36 ( 40 ) HOLD MY BODY TIGHT East 17 37 ( 53 ) WHOOMP THERE IT IS Clock 38 ( NEW ) DAYDREAMER Menswear 39 ( 38 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 40 ( 64 ) BOOM BOOM BOOM The Outhere Brothers 41 ( 35 ) THINK OF YOU Whigfield 42 ( 28 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 43 ( 32 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 44 ( 46 ) THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG Bon Jovi 45 ( 60 ) DON’T WANNA FORGIVE ME NOW Wet Wet Wet 46 ( 34 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 47 ( 25 ) NAKED Reef 48 ( 39 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 49 ( 31 ) SELF ESTEEM The Offspring 50 ( NEW ) FLY AWAY Haddaway 51 ( 51 ) IN THE SUMMERTIME Shaggy 52 ( 44 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 53 ( 42 ) DON’T MAKE ME WAIT Loveland featuring Rachel MacFarlane 54 ( RE ) WHATEVER Oasis 55 ( 43 ) EVERYDAY Incognito 56 ( NEW ) ALRIGHT Supergrass 57 ( 47 ) WHEN DO I GET TO SING ‘MY WAY’ Sparks 58 ( 58 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 59 ( NEW ) NOT ANYONE Black Box 60 ( 48 ) ADORED AND EXPLORED Marc Almond 61 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 62 ( 49 ) KEEP ON MOVING Bob Marley And The Wailers 63 ( 59 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 64 ( 56 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 65 ( 41 ) NOCTURNE Secret Garden 66 ( NEW ) WATER RUNS DRY BoyIIMen 67 ( 65 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 68 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 69 ( 45 ) SOME MIGHT SAY Oasis 70 ( NEW ) STILLNESS IN TIME Jamiroquai 71 ( NEW ) SHOOT ME WITH YOUR LOVE D:Ream 72 ( NEW ) ZOMBIE A.D.A.M. Featuring Amy 73 ( NEW ) SHAKERMAKER Oasis 74 ( NEW ) NOW I’VE FOUND YOU Sean Maguire 75 ( 73 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins |
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13th January 2016, 08:45 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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2nd July 1995 It’s a surprise chart topper from UB40’s Ali Campbell, in duet with Pamela Starks, doing what UB40 never did - go higher than 2 in my chart, despite many tracks better than this one. That said this is a sweet enough duet and song, mellow reggae lovers rock, well almost - it’s more mellow dance than mellow reggae. Up to 4, The Jayhawks version of Grand Funk’s Bad Time way outdoes the original, and ditto Clock’s version of Tag Team’s Whoomp, up to 9. One I’d forgotten I liked so much! At 10, Deep Forest get another top 10, but not rainforest this time, more Eastern European traditional music with a new age dance shuffle. A huge leap into the 20 for A.D.A.M. and Amy - no I don’t know they are either, I’ll just google. Ah, still no idea, but it’s a dance cover of the Cranberries Zombie, a song I wasn’t that fond of in it’s original version. Hey ho. A better record is at 18 for Menswear, Daydreamer leaping, as the highest new entry at 23 is a wonderful emotional ballad from Boy George, Il Adore, 13 years since his debut in Culture Club. For anyone thinking there aren’t enough cover versions in my chart already, well you’re in luck, Tippa Irie has done The Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive and pops in at 29. It’s not in the same league. Supergrass’ Alright, however is fab, still sounds great and hits the 40, along with Bon Jovi (meh), Haddaway (meh), Wet Wet Wet (meh) and Shaggy doing Mungo Jerry (s’OK), and new entries for Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl carrying on the Nirvana torch with a Call, Blondie get remixed as Heart Of Glass returns 16 years after topping my chart, and Ultimate Kaos also enter, Right Here. Outside the 40, Gary Moore does a blues cover of a song Fleetwood Mac covered, a 50’s Little Willie John blues classic, I Need Your Love So Bad, while at 57 Bjork covers an obscure B side from 1951 by American movie musical star Betty Hutton, and she does it musical stylee, in total contrast to her body of work before and since - and gets a bonafide crossover pop hit still good for a singalong. It’s Oh So Quiet is fun, and the video is great. Which leaves an actual (gasp!) new song from Paul Weller, You Do Something To Me, at 60, a nice love song, and a fair ways away from The Jam circa 1977! 1 ( 3 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 2 ( 1 ) SCREAM Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 3 ( 2 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 4 ( 20 ) BAD TIME The Jayhawks 5 ( 5 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran featuring Grandmaster Flash 6 ( 4 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 7 ( 12 ) RIGHT IN THE NIGHT Jam And Spoon featuring Plavka 8 ( 6 ) MY LOVE IS FOR REAL Paula Abdul featuring Ofra Haza 9 ( 37 ) WHOOMP! THERE IT IS Clock 10 ( 18 ) MARTA’S SONG Deep Forest 11 ( 10 ) I’LL BE AROUND Rappin 4 Tay Featuring The Detroit Spinners 12 ( 16 ) I’M A BELIEVER Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer with EMF 13 ( 8 ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 14 ( 7 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME U2 15 ( 19 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 16 ( 15 ) A WHITER SHADE OF PALE Annie Lennox 17 ( 72 ) ZOMBIE A.D.A.M. Featuring Amy 18 ( 38 ) DAYDREAMER Menswear 19 ( 21 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 20 ( 17 ) SCATMAN (SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP) Scatman John 21 ( 9 ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 22 ( 11 ) FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN Human League 23 ( NEW ) IL ADORE Boy George 24 ( 14 ) SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT Ladysmith Black Mombazo featuring China Black 25 ( 56 ) ALRIGHT Supergrass 26 ( 40 ) BOOM BOOM BOOM The Outhere Brothers 27 ( 13 ) REVEREND BLACK GRAPE Black Grape 28 ( 22 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 29 ( NEW ) STAYIN’ ALIVE Tippa Irie 30 ( 44 ) THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG Bon Jovi 31 ( 24 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 32 ( 27 ) SEARCH FOR THE HERO M People 33 ( NEW ) THIS IS A CALL Foo Fighters 34 ( 36 ) HOLD MY BODY TIGHT East 17 35 ( 32 ) DREAMER Livin' Joy 36 ( NEW ) RIGHT HERE Ultimate Kaos 37 ( NEW ) HEART OF GLASS (REMIX) Blondie 38 ( 50 ) FLY AWAY Haddaway 39 ( 51 ) IN THE SUMMERTIME Shaggy 40 ( 45 ) DON’T WANNA FORGIVE ME NOW Wet Wet Wet 41 ( 31 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 42 ( 41 ) THINK OF YOU Whigfield 43 ( 23 ) HURT SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 44 ( 26 ) STAYING OUT FOR THE SUMMER ’95 Dodgy 45 ( 30 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 46 ( 29 ) SKY HIGH Newton 47 ( 70 ) STILLNESS IN TIME Jamiroquai 48 ( 33 ) IT’S TOO LATE Gloria Estefan 49 ( 25 ) LOVE WILL TEAR US APART Joy Division 50 ( 39 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 51 ( 28 ) WHEREVER WOULD I BE Dusty Springfield and Daryl Hall 52 ( 42 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 53 ( 34 ) WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN Bitty McLean 54 ( 35 ) LIVE FOREVER Oasis 55 ( NEW ) I NEED YOUR LOVE SO BAD Gary Moore 56 ( 43 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 57 ( NEW ) IT’S OH SO QUIET Bjork 58 ( 46 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 59 ( 71 ) SHOOT ME WITH YOUR LOVE D:Ream 60 ( NEW ) YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME Paul Weller 61 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 62 ( 58 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 63 ( 63 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 64 ( 52 ) BUDDY HOLLY Weezer 65 ( 54 ) WHATEVER Oasis 66 ( 66 ) WATER RUNS DRY BoyIIMen 67 ( 68 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 68 ( 67 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 69 ( 74 ) NOW I’VE FOUND YOU Sean Maguire 70 ( 64 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 71 ( 48 ) I BELIEVE Blessid Union Of Souls 72 ( 57 ) WHEN DO I GET TO SING ‘MY WAY’ Sparks 73 ( 55 ) EVERYDAY Incognito 74 ( 49 ) SELF ESTEEM The Offspring 75 ( 75 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins Yes, this week I saw Jim Kerr and mates in concert, it was a good gig, though obviously he must have missed out some of my early faves as they don't feature in this top 6. Normally I'd be listing Up On The Catwalk, Speed Your Love To Me, Promised You A Miracle as well...! SIMPLE MINDS LIVE AT BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL CENTRE 1. Alive And Kicking 2. Don’t You (Forget About Me) 3. She’s A River 4. Belfast Child 5. Hypnotised 6. Sanctify Yourself |
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9th July 1995
The Jackson siblings are back on top for a second week, Scream about it! The Jayhawks are having a Bad Time cos they’re so close at 2 when they should have gone to 1. In at 3, Seal’s back with his rose, having hit the top 5 with it in 1994, and now is Batman powered, and Vic & Bob make the top 10 with The Monkees cover. Supergrass and Shaggy climb into the 20, and Oasis rocket to 20 with the fabulous Live Forever. In at 22, Diana King has her shy guy in mind for a spot of classy reggae and in at 25 Bobby Brown is back humpin’ around, as you do. New at 28 is the lovely Stars from the lovely Dubstar, while Sheryl Crow is back with Run Baby Run - sadly, not the fab Newbeats 60’s single, but happily a decent ballad. While at 58, Rednex lend a hand to some puppets - not sure who came out of it with credibility damaged, but the kids loved it! Kylie’s posing a question, where is the feeling, to which the answer is err in the previous single. I need to refresh my memory for this one (it’s a heavily remixed dancefloor buzzer )! The Rolling Stones go wild at 70, or at least as wild as they could for someone that had living the high life for 30-odd years, while Del Amitri and MN8 are back with new singles, rollin’ and happy. 1 ( 2 ) SCREAM Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson 2 ( 4 ) BAD TIME The Jayhawks 3 ( NEW ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal 4 ( 1 ) THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYE Ali Campbell featuring Pamela Starks 5 ( 3 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins 6 ( 5 ) WHITE LINES (DON’T DON’T DO IT) Duran Duran featuring Grandmaster Flash 7 ( 6 ) YES McAlmont & Butler 8 ( 7 ) RIGHT IN THE NIGHT Jam And Spoon featuring Plavka 9 ( 9 ) WHOOMP! THERE IT IS Clock 10 ( 12 ) I’M A BELIEVER Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer with EMF 11 ( 11 ) I’LL BE AROUND Rappin 4 Tay Featuring The Detroit Spinners 12 ( 8 ) MY LOVE IS FOR REAL Paula Abdul featuring Ofra Haza 13 ( 10 ) MARTA’S SONG Deep Forest 14 ( 17 ) ZOMBIE A.D.A.M. Featuring Amy 15 ( 15 ) BIG YELLOW TAXI Amy Grant 16 ( 25 ) ALRIGHT Supergrass 17 ( 18 ) DAYDREAMER Menswear 18 ( 13 ) BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD Mike + The Mechanics 19 ( 39 ) IN THE SUMMERTIME Shaggy featuring Rayvon 20 ( 54 ) LIVE FOREVER Oasis 21 ( 14 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME KILL ME U2 22 ( NEW ) SHY GUY Diana King 23 ( 20 ) SCATMAN (SKI-BA-BOP-BA-DOP-BOP) Scatman John 24 ( 19 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra 25 ( NEW ) HUMPIN’ AROUND Bobby Brown 26 ( 30 ) THIS AIN’T A LOVE SONG Bon Jovi 27 ( 27 ) REVEREND BLACK GRAPE Black Grape 28 ( NEW ) STARS Dubstar 29 ( 29 ) STAYIN’ ALIVE Tippa Irie 30 ( 37 ) HEART OF GLASS (REMIX) Blondie 31 ( 24 ) SWING LOW SWEET CHARIOT Ladysmith Black Mombazo featuring China Black 32 ( 16 ) A WHITER SHADE OF PALE Annie Lennox 33 ( 21 ) COMMON PEOPLE Pulp 34 ( 23 ) IL ADORE Boy George 35 ( 40 ) DON’T WANNA FORGIVE ME NOW Wet Wet Wet 36 ( 28 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That 37 ( 26 ) BOOM BOOM BOOM The Outhere Brothers 38 ( 31 ) (EVERYBODY’S GOT TO LEARN SOMETIME) I NEED YOUR LOVIN’ Baby D 39 ( 47 ) STILLNESS IN TIME Jamiroquai 40 ( 33 ) THIS IS A CALL Foo Fighters 41 ( 22 ) FILLING UP WITH HEAVEN Human League 42 ( 35 ) DREAMER Livin' Joy 43 ( 59 ) SHOOT ME WITH YOUR LOVE D:Ream 44 ( 60 ) YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME Paul Weller 45 ( 32 ) SEARCH FOR THE HERO M People 46 ( 46 ) SKY HIGH Newton 47 ( 41 ) TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME Bobby Brown 48 ( 48 ) IT’S TOO LATE Gloria Estefan 49 ( 42 ) THINK OF YOU Whigfield 50 ( NEW ) RUN BABY RUN Sheryl Crow 51 ( 45 ) BEST IN ME Let Loose 52 ( 44 ) STAYING OUT FOR THE SUMMER ’95 Dodgy 53 ( 34 ) HOLD MY BODY TIGHT East 17 54 ( 36 ) RIGHT HERE Ultimate Kaos 55 ( 66 ) WATER RUNS DRY BoyIIMen 56 ( 38 ) FLY AWAY Haddaway 57 ( 57 ) IT’S OH SO QUIET Bjork 58 ( NEW ) HANDS UP Zig & Zag featuring Rednex 59 ( 43 ) HURT SO GOOD Jimmy Somerville 60 ( RE ) BABY IT’S YOU/ I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN The Beatles 61 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba 62 ( 52 ) LOVE CITY GROOVE Love City Groove 63 ( 63 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox 64 ( 62 ) HYPNOTISED Simple Minds 65 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers 66 ( 50 ) CHAINS Tina Arena 67 ( NEW ) WHERE IS THE FEELING Kylie Minogue 68 ( 56 ) LOVE AND DEVOTION Mc Sar and The Real McCoy 69 ( 68 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley 70 ( NEW ) I GO WILD The Rolling Stones 71 ( 70 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna 72 ( 58 ) IF YOU LOVE ME Brownstone 73 ( NEW ) ROLL TO ME Del Amitri 74 ( NEW ) HAPPY MN8 75 ( 75 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins OLDIES PLAYLIST 1. HisTory - Michael Jackson 2. There’s A Ghost In My House - R. Dean Taylor 3. The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers |
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