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 90s Top 10 Sales- Week By Week- 1996, In Conjunction with TOTP |
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 Saturday, 11:52 PM
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'Street Spirit (Fade Out)' is definitely my highlight of the past fortnight, what a mesmerising single
 I agree that it's like an OK Computer warm up.I'm familiar with the Bluetones song but never made the connection between that song title and the Jimi Hendrix chart-topper despite adoring the latter, today I learned! LOL at the 'I Wanna Be A Hippy' censoring on TOTP...! I remember discovering that on a Now album and I don't recall it being so butchered on there, unless memory fails me 
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Saturday, 12:35 AM
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QUOTE(Smint @ 18th May 2024, 12:43 AM)  Slight Return  A surprise that this made no.2 as The Bluetones were fairly unknown but OMG this is just perfect, heartfelt indie pop. One of the best - though I also rated 'If' just as highly from them. If is another fantastic one from the Bluetones, think it's my favourite from them. Bluetonic is a good one too. This post has been edited by My... WAP??: Saturday, 12:35 AM |
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Saturday, 06:34 AM
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Street Spirit is of course amazing but for me... Fake Plastic Trees deserved to do that, easily in my top 10 songs of the 90s, and much better than Street Spirit... even High and Dry deserved that... amazing anyway for them to go top 5 with the 5th single from The Bends
Slight Return is also amazing and made me buy the album.... which was kinda meh, very disappointing album and not that great, only 3-4 great tracks, rest filler. One of Us is also great and also made me buy the album, which was also kinda meh, even worse than the Bluetones one... but One of Us is still a classic and love the topic of God being a stranger on the bus... but no surprises she was a 1-hit wonder, don't think she ever did anything remotely close to this |
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Saturday, 08:37 AM
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Loved Julian Cope as a presenter, really refreshing!
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Saturday, 02:50 PM
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 Right in front of my salad?!
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QUOTE(Bjork @ 18th May 2024, 07:34 AM) Slight Return is also amazing and made me buy the album.... which was kinda meh, very disappointing album and not that great, only 3-4 great tracks, rest filler. Snap! |
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Saturday, 03:36 PM
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Northern Uproar were the real nadir of Britpop though. You can definitely to start to see the beginning of the end with their performance.
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Sunday, 11:06 PM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ 18th May 2024, 07:34 AM) One of Us is also great and also made me buy the album, which was also kinda meh, even worse than the Bluetones one... but One of Us is still a classic and love the topic of God being a stranger on the bus... but no surprises she was a 1-hit wonder, don't think she ever did anything remotely close to this Depends on definition of one hit wonder. Joan had a no. 33 hit in.the UK a few months after with 'St Teresa' which had similar religious lyrics..didn't chart in her native US and no.further chart hits. |
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Sunday, 06:38 AM
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Oh I rally thought she had never ever troubled the charts again and was a truly proper one hit wonder
Funny how I do own the album but cannot recall that Santa Theresa song 
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Sunday, 06:57 AM
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QUOTE(dandy* @ 17th May 2024, 07:05 PM) Street Spirit I was absolutely obsessed with that song. I’d liked Just before it but this one convinced me to buy the Bends and I never looked back from there. In particular I remember being stunned by the video when it was played the week before on the chart show, it was so unique at the time Slight Return was another good one, liked their debut album even though I know some found it disappointing. Not sure if I mentioned last week but I liked the Goldbug cover too, thought it was a good version not with Creep? or later with High and Dry/Fake plastic trees? Creep was a bit of a one-off cos the parent album, their debut Pablo Honey, was pretty bad but the double punch of High and Dry and Fake Plastic Trees should have everybody on board at this point It's all kinds of crazy how the singles of The Bends did and how they only went top 5 with single #5: My Iron Lung/24 High and Dry/17 Fake plastic trees/20 Just/19 Street Spirit/5 |
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Sunday, 08:48 AM
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Fake Plastic Trees was one of my favourite songs ever (although Pyramid Song came very close to topping it). That and Street Spirit were best tracks on The Bends but pretty much s great album start ro finish.
I actually agree with Thom Yorke though that High and Dry is weak by their standards. Fine but a bit too ordinary. |
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Sunday, 09:15 AM
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@Bjork… I didn’t really pay attention to anything before Just. It was seeing the video on the chart show that made me buy the song. I did (and still do) retrospectively love the other songs you mention but I can’t pretend that I was a big Radiohead fan before the 1-2 of Just and Street Spirit. Wasn’t a big fan of Creep, and whilst it’s okay it’s still not a big favourite now.
@Smint - Pyramid Song however, now there’s a contender for their best
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Sunday, 12:19 PM
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 It's still will be the return of the Mack 4eva
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Next week's episodes look good with some of Britpop's more successful acts but I'm not sure if it's Oasis with their double songs and the 1st big Dance Hit of the year
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Sunday, 08:32 PM
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QUOTE(chartjack2 @ 18th May 2024, 09:37 AM) Loved Julian Cope as a presenter, really refreshing! I’m well behind on the TOTP catch ups - are we past the point of the R1 presenters presenting every week now? |
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Monday, 11:23 PM
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Yeah, well into the “golden microphone” era now - think that continues until Chris Cowey takes over as exec producer in mid 1997.
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Monday, 09:53 PM
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Yeh think Mark Goodier/Campbell/Mayo were last on in early 96!
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