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[Popchartfreak]

15th November 1992

It's unexpectedly up to the top spot after 10 weeks dithering for BoyzIIMen's End Of The Road. I wasn't convinced, then it grew on me, then it convinced me it was really good, and then I found myself falling out of love with it over the years. They had better records, but they also had much worse records (to come). The one that should have topped this week was Charles & Eddy, now there's a track that sounds better with time. Cher becomes the 2nd act to make Oh No Not My Baby a top 10 song, after Rod Stewart's 1973 version, but I'd still go for a Carole King version of her own song, myself.

Heaven 17 just fall short of the top 10, that's Temptation, and Sade re-enters at a new peak of 26 after under-performing with No Ordinary Love, and even that's far short of where it deserves to be, but it'll be back in 1993 for another go. The highest new track is The B52's Is That You Mo-Dean, quirky as ever at 34, as Dr. Alban's It's My Life drops out the chart, but also enters with follow-up One Love at 45. Definition Of Sound return again with Can I Get Over in at 60, and there's re-entries from Vivienne McKOne and Galliano.

MC Mario and mates drop in with SuperMarioLand, a massive computer game that otherwise passed me by, as it culturally has ever since, in movies, music and anything else, but there's no way I could have foreseen that Universal Studios Florida (which I had already been to a few times) would be building a 3rd huge new Theme Park down the road from Universal number one in 2024, part of which is a themed around Mario. It'll be huge, along with the Harry Potter part 2, Universal Monsters and other areas.

Gerry Rafferty is still charting for me, but tragically he'll be passing away in just over a year, and Madness make a comeback ahead of their UK chart comeback in 5 years time, The Harder They Come. That leaves Vaya Con Dios returning after a City break in Amsterdam or Paris (I forget which one, Paris I think) let me buy the vinyl single they had out circa 1990/1991. I was in a Spanish restaurant about 15 years later, and an elderly chap with a guitar who was singing Spanish music asked if I had any requests, so I picked the only one I thought he would know that I would know - Vaya Con Dios. He was very good and seemed pleased with the request.


1 ( 6 ) END OF THE ROAD BoyzIIMen # 1
2 ( 1 ) KEEP THE FAITH Bon Jovi # 1
3 ( 3 ) DANCING QUEEN/ EAGLE ABBA # 1
4 ( 2 ) GOLD East 17 # 2
5 ( 7 ) WOULD I LIE TO YOU Charles & Eddy # 5
6 ( 10 ) I’D DIE WITHOUT YOU PM Dawn # 6
7 ( 4 ) VOULEZ VOUS ABBA # 1
8 ( 22 ) OH NO NOT MY BABY Cher # 8
9 ( 9 ) BE MY BABY Vanessa Paradis # 5
10 ( 5 ) QUEEN OF RAIN Roxette # 5

11 ( 55 ) TEMPTATION (REMIX) Heaven 17 # 11
12 ( 8 ) RUN TO YOU Rage # 4
13 ( 11 ) SLEEPING SATELLITE Tasmin Archer # 1
14 ( 14 ) HELLO (TURN YOUR RADIO ON) Shakespear’s Sister # 6
15 ( 12 ) SENTINEL Mike Oldfield # 2
16 ( 19 ) SWEAT (A LA LA LA LA LONG) Inner Circle # 16
17 ( 15 ) CONNECTED Stereo MC’s # 4
18 ( 13 ) PEOPLE EVERYDAY Arrested Development # 13
19 ( 34 ) YOUR TOWN Deacon Blue # 19
20 ( 27 ) 99.9F Suzanne Vega # 20

21 ( 23 ) PIECE OF MY HEART Erma Franklin # 5
22 ( 31 ) FREE YOUR MIND En Vogue # 22
23 ( 20 ) THE LAST SONG Elton John # 20
24 ( 37 ) TASTE IT INXS # 24
25 ( 21 ) YOU WEAR IT WELL Rod Stewart # 6
26 ( RE ) NO ORDINARY LOVE Sade # 26
27 ( 33 ) EROTICA Madonna # 10
28 ( 28 ) BITCHES BREW The Inspiral Carpets # 28
29 ( 73 ) YESTERDAYS Guns ‘n’ Roses # 29
30 ( 16 ) COLD Annie Lennox # 16

31 ( 18 ) IT WILL MAKE ME CRAZY Felix # 18
32 ( 32 ) HEARTBREAK RADIO Roy Orbison # 32
33 ( 24 ) NOTHING TO FEAR Chris Rea # 16
34 ( NEW ) IS THAT YOU MO-DEAN The B52’s # 34
35 ( 17 ) MY DESTINY Lionel Richie # 17
36 ( 50 ) IRRESISTiBLE Cathy Dennis # 36
37 ( 39 ) BOSS DRUM The Shamen # 37
38 ( 35 ) THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE Janet Jackson & Luther Vandross # 9
39 ( 36 ) JAM Michael Jackson # 2
40 ( 25 ) BOOM BOOM John Lee Hooker # 20

41 ( 26 ) FAITHFUL Go West # 12
42 ( 42 ) LOVE ME DO The Beatles # 7
43 ( 51 ) METAL GURU T.Rex # 1
44 ( 44 ) 20th CENTURY BOY T.Rex # 1
45 ( NEW ) ONE LOVE Dr. Alban # 45
46 ( 45 ) WHO IS IT? Michael Jackson # 2
47 ( 38 ) EBENEEZER GOODE The Shamen # 2
48 ( 60 ) THE RACE Yello # 48
49 ( 48 ) DELILAH Tom Jones # 1
50 ( 29 ) ERASURE-ISH EP (A LITTLE RESPECT/STOP) Bjorn Again # 10

51 ( 49 ) MISS CHATELAINE k.d. Lang # 10
52 ( 30 ) DO YOU BELIEVE IN US Jon Secada # 30
53 ( 53 ) WHO NEEDS LOVE LIKE THAT Erasure # 53
54 ( 54 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers # 1
55 ( 41 ) IRON LION ZION Bob Marley & The Wailers # 4
56 ( 56 ) FATHER The Christians # 56
57 ( 52 ) EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING/REMIX U2 # 1
58 ( 43 ) MY NAME IS PRINCE Prince # 6
59 ( 59 ) MY HAND OVER MY HEART Marc Almond # 1
60 ( NEW ) CAN I GET OVER Definition Of Sound # 60

61 ( 63 ) I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU Whitney Houston # 61
62 ( 61 ) THE DAYS OF PEARLY SPENCER Marc Almond # 1
63 ( RE ) BEWARE Vivienne McKone # 63
64 ( 64 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles # 1
65 ( 47 ) SOMETIMES LOVE JUST AIN’T ENOUGH Patti Smyth & Don Henley # 7
66 ( 66 ) WHEN THE NIGHT COMES Joe Cocker # 66
67 ( RE ) JUS’ REACH Galliano # 40
68 ( NEW ) SUPERMARIOLAND Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario # 68
69 ( 69 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas # 1
70 ( 70 ) IT’S YOU EMF # 70

71 ( 72 ) THOSE WERE THE DAYS Mary Hopkin # 1
72 ( NEW ) I COULD BE WRONG Gerry Rafferty # 72
73 ( NEW ) THE HARDER THEY COME Madness # 73
74 ( 58 ) WHAT’S IN A WORD The Christians # 7
75 ( NEW ) HEADING FOR A FALL Vaya Con Dios # 75


playlist
1 “Erotica” album Madonna
2 “What’s Going On?” album Marvin Gaye
3 “16 Greatest Hits” Ray Charles