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 dandy ranks his 266 #1s of the 90s, yay self indulgent chart geekery! |
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 29th December 2022, 03:27 PM
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 Mansonette
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 Hello everyone. So I finally stopped creating a personal chart this year, it just kinda drifted away around about February and I never found the time to catch it up. To celebrate/commiserate the end of my chart, I thought I would revisit the first decade of my #1s (my chart began right at the beginning of 1990 which is a pleasingly neat starting point). I've thought about the different ways I could do this and considered just counting them all down in order, or counting them all down in terms of chart points etc but in the end I've opted for a method that should hopefully combine how much I loved them at the time and how much I love them now. I've been busy ranking all 266 songs in two ways: • How many chart points the song accumulated at the time in the 90s • How many plays the track currently has within my iTunes library When combined, I think this should give a reasonable ranking in terms of songs I loved most during the 90s but also those songs that have stayed with me the most over time. I know this is technically a personal chart but I feel most of the people who are likely to be vaguely interested frequent this part of the forum so I'm going to count it down in here instead  I pretty much still like everything that made #1 for me, even the more questionable ones have really good memories attached to them, so this should act as a pretty comprehensive idea of what I was digging during the decade. |
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29th December 2022, 03:33 PM
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 Roba
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I shall be following to see what appears!
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29th December 2022, 03:58 PM
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This will be 100% solid gold.
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29th December 2022, 05:00 PM
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Ready for the 'Earth Song' and Phil Collins domination
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29th December 2022, 05:12 PM
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 Right in front of my salad?!
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Ooh here for this!
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29th December 2022, 07:10 PM
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Yes, it's me.
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I think there should be a personal chart part of 20th Century Retro. I have a new personal chart in the works.
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29th December 2022, 07:19 PM
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BuzzJack Gold Member
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Oh this could be very interesting - I've had a look at the no.1s and quality aside, some of them are harderned fanbase blink and you miss them moments ('Block Rockin' Beats', 'Beetlebum') vs major mainstream cultural moments (Cher's 'Believe', 'Everything I Do'. That wasn't the case in the 80s where a no.1 had to have universal appeal but far more pronounced in the 00s where for the first half it was all about held back releases and marketing.
To pick an overall winner is difficult (although I have one in mind myself as such a perfect pop song) so intrigued by this! |
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29th December 2022, 07:31 PM
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BuzzJack Platinum Member
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I think it's number 1s on Dandy's chart, not the UK chart.
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29th December 2022, 07:32 PM
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BuzzJack Gold Member
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Oooops! Sorry.
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29th December 2022, 07:41 PM
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BuzzJack Legend
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London Boys to win even if they are 1989 😅
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29th December 2022, 07:58 PM
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Looking forwards to this, suspect there will be some I'm unfamiliar with which I will definitely give a listen to.
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29th December 2022, 08:54 PM
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Mansonette
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It's actually a very mainstream list on the whole, my knowledge of music didn't extend too far past the weekly top 40. I'll be trying to note the songs that were kept from #1 as I go along though as there are many classics that I love now that I just didn't appreciate at the time.
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29th December 2022, 10:08 PM
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no one asked for a crusader
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QUOTE(Colm @ Dec 29 2022, 07:10 PM)  I think there should be a personal chart part of 20th Century Retro. I have a new personal chart in the works. I'd also been thinking of doing a personal chart of each year, starting from 1980. I'd thought of putting it in the Countdowns and EOY Charts forum, but it could go here instead I suppose (not that I'm expecting many comments either way though). |
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29th December 2022, 10:17 PM
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Mansonette
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I'd be interested in seeing it... I've been tempted to go back through the 80s and choose my #1s each week. I suspect it would be a rather tasteful look back as it would be impossible to know what I would have liked at the time - no doubt I'd have fallen for some of the tackier songs that I don't care for now.
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29th December 2022, 11:07 PM
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my vision's narrow, but I know the sun will rise
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Aw that's a bit of a shame that your chart fizzled out after running for that long - interested to see what stuff pops up here anyhoo.
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29th December 2022, 11:33 PM
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Ego reputo vos es totus pilosus rectum
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Here for this
I am predicting an ALL STAR TOP FIVE Des'ree! Tin Tin Out! Shampoo! Boyzone! Robson & Jerome! |
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30th December 2022, 02:34 PM
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Yes, it's me.
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I just realized that I also have my 90s number 1s in another thread. Could be a good time to dust them off.
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30th December 2022, 06:13 PM
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Mansonette
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 266 | Heaven 17 - Temptation (Brothers In Rhythm Mix) So we begin with a song that was originally a hit in the 80s but found a new lease of life in the 90s thanks to the ever reliable Brothers in Rhythm. This was my introduction to Heaven 17 and I remember loving the high drama of it all, it prompted me to buy the remix singles of Fascist Groove Thang and Penthouse and Pavement that followed in the 90s but neither were anywhere near as good as this. It bows out first thanks to me never listening to this version these days, even the original doesn't have that many plays either. Looking back it blocked Out Of Space from making #1, even though the Prodigy's song spent far longer on my chart. The stats: Date: 22 November 1992 Weeks: Two 1990s chart rank: 256 2020s plays rank: 262 Biggest song it kept from #1: The Prodigy - Out Of Space (#2 w/c 29 November 1992) Biggest fave now that I didn't love at the time: Prince and the New Power Generation - 7 |
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30th December 2022, 06:15 PM
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#38BBE0 otherwise known as 'sky blue'
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Oh nice! I'll be def be checking this out, I know our tastes match really well so I don't doubt there'll be a lot of my faves appearing here.
Coincidentally, I'm broadcasting my Top 100 singles of the 1990s on Sunday - New Year's Day. I compiled the list for Pitchfork in the autumn and wanted to play it out, sadly the majority of my picks failed to make their list. 😔 |
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30th December 2022, 06:16 PM
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Mansonette
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Also... I've only just added in my iTunes plays for each of the songs and the top few on this countdown are going to be genuine WTF moments to most people
 Ah well, I guess that's the perils of just ranking two lists, you lose the sense of scale. |
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