Posted May 19, 201114 yr 01.Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral 03.Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee) 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas 05.Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) 06.Beverley Craven - Promise Me 9 Beverley Craven - Promise Me 07.Zucchero Featuring Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman) 08.Blur - There's No Other Way 09.Electronic - Get The Message 10.Soft Cell Featuring Marc Almond - Tainted Love 11.Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only 12.Roxette - Fading Like A Flower 13.Seal - Future Love (EP) 14.T-99 - Anasthasia 15.Vic Reeves And The Roman Numerals - Born Free 16.De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) 17.Nomad - Just A Groove 18.Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me 19.James - Sit Down {1991} 20.New Kids On The Block - Call It What You Want 21.Dannii Minogue - Success N 22.Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia 23.Michael Bolton - Love Is A Wonderful Thing 24.The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991} 25.Jason Donovan - RSVP 26.Amy Grant - Baby Baby 27.Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up 28.Roachford - Get Ready 29.Wilson Phillips - You're In Love 30.Samantha Janus - A Message To Your Heart 31.T'Pau - Whenever You Need Me 32.Madonna - Rescue Me 33.Lonnie Gordon - Gonna Catch You 34.Flowered Up - Take It 35.REM - Shiny Happy People 36.Paul Weller Movement - Into Tomorrow 37.The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow 38.Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature 39.The Wedding Present - Dalliance -10 The Wedding Present - Dalliance 40.EMF - Children
May 19, 201114 yr Author 01.Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)- I quite like this, and "Mermaids" is a great film :) Haven't seen it years though.... 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral - This is one of the most epic songs of the 1990s. 1991 was the year of the KLF. 03.Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee) - Oh God, this song got on my nerves, though I probably annoyed family members with the "la da dee" bits back in the day (I was 6 ;)) The thing is, this would be a good song with better lyrics. 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas - Catchy and a good song 05.Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) - Another classic from this year. Very catchy and a good one to dance too 06.Beverley Craven - Promise Me - This song is beautiful. A gorgeous ballad by a beautiful voice and woman. 07.Zucchero Featuring Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman) - This one is OK 08.Blur - There's No Other Way - Very early 90s Madchester stuff.....very OXO Family inspired video. 09.Electronic - Get The Message - Indie number. 10.Soft Cell Featuring Marc Almond - Tainted Love - Needs no introduction. I do like it, even if it is overplayed. 11.Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only - No thanks. The film was good though.....haven't seen that in a loooooooooooong while 12.Roxette - Fading Like A Flower - This is decent - like a lot of their output. 13.Seal - Future Love (EP) - Don't know it 14.T-99 - Anasthasia - Some weird club type track. 18.Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me - A very decent motown influenced mid-tempo track :) 19.James - Sit Down {1991} - An early 90s classic 21.Dannii Minogue - Success - Horribly outdated now, but this is a great song. 24.The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991} - It's allright. 26.Amy Grant - Baby Baby - I quite like this. Very simple pop song an catchy 27.Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up - :puke2: Thing is, none of them were shaggable! 30.Samantha Janus - A Message To Your Heart - The studio is way better....................live - ewwwwwwwwwwwww 31.T'Pau - Whenever You Need Me - I like this one :) 32.Madonna - Rescue Me - Not one of Madge's best 35.REM - Shiny Happy People - :puke2:
May 20, 201114 yr I still like... 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas 05.Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) 08.Blur - There's No Other Way 09.Electronic - Get The Message 10.Soft Cell Featuring Marc Almond - Tainted Love 13.Seal - Future Love (EP) 14.T-99 - Anasthasia 15.Vic Reeves And The Roman Numerals - Born Free 16.De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) 17.Nomad - Just A Groove 19.James - Sit Down {1991} 22.Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia 24.The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991} 34.Flowered Up - Take It 35.REM - Shiny Happy People 36.Paul Weller Movement - Into Tomorrow 37.The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow 38.Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature 39.The Wedding Present - Dalliance 40.EMF - Children This was one of my favourite ever times for the UK charts. There were so many great guitar bands with records out at the time and 'indie' music was starting to hit the top 10 again. You also had the beginnings of rave music from Europe hitting the top 20 in T99 and Quadrophonia and one of the best bands ever, The KLF, were riding high. Wow, I just counted. I like over 50% of the top 40 - I don't even like 0.5% of the current top 40. Edited May 20, 201114 yr by richie
May 20, 201114 yr 01.Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Yet another crappy cover hits #1. Yawn! 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral Absolute genius. So cool that The KLF were massive around this time. 03.Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee) Very annoyong 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas This was ok but didn't it rip off Depeche Mode or something 05.Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) So-so pop 06.Beverley Craven - Promise Me Utterly boring piano based thing IIRC 07.Zucchero Featuring Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman) Worst song in the top 10 08.Blur - There's No Other Way This still sounds brilliant 09.Electronic - Get The Message As does this 10.Soft Cell Featuring Marc Almond - Tainted Love Bit of a mis-step this re-recording What is nice about this chart is that indie was getting a look-in on the chart and made for a bit of variation. Unlike today where there just seems to be a herd mentality in buying stuff from the same genres. 14.T-99 - Anasthasia 15.Vic Reeves And The Roman Numerals - Born Free 19.James - Sit Down {1991} 22.Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia 24.The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991} 34.Flowered Up - Take It 35.REM - Shiny Happy People 36.Paul Weller Movement - Into Tomorrow 37.The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow 38.Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature 39.The Wedding Present - Dalliance 40.EMF - Children
May 20, 201114 yr 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas 08.Blur - There's No Other Way 09.Electronic - Get The Message 12.Roxette - Fading Like A Flower 22.Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia 24.The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991} 38.Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature I thought I'd like more than that. Maybe 1991 wasn't that great afterall.
May 20, 201114 yr Author It makes me sad when I go through all of these charts from the 1990s and realise how even unknown acts and different styles do well. Now it is who has the biggest fan base, too much of the same genre and hype machines frontloading sales. I reckon someone like Bruno Mars would fail miserably in a 1991 chart......
May 20, 201114 yr 1991 is when pop music died, now that SAW had vamoosed and their factory line approach to pop gave pop a bad name (and for some years to come), so it was all hail dance music (for which I think 1991 is the greatest year ever for dance music) and indie was thriving also. 01.Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Hmmm let me think about this.... NO! 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral It's amazing to think a band as magnificent as KLF were so successful commercially, this is a blindin track! 03.Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee) Great house/US garage track, annoyed the hell out of most, but not me.. love it! 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas Nah! 05.Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) Love this, can't beat a bit of early 90s pop-dance from Cathy Den-Dens! 06.Beverley Craven - Promise Me Whatever... 07.Zucchero Featuring Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman) ("Sex with Madonna"... rancid song!) 08.Blur - There's No Other Way Didn't mind this, not that I'm a fan, but this is pretty groovy for a guitar/indie track 09.Electronic - Get The Message So-so 10.Soft Cell Featuring Marc Almond - Tainted Love Re-released?? Prefer the original Gloria Jones version anyway... And of the rest, I like: 14.T-99 - Anasthasia (ACE rave/warehouse-type track, still sounds great 20 years on - got this on my i-pod!) 16.De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) 18.Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me 21.Dannii Minogue - Success (I'm sure Dannii will never get a look-in, but this is a top track is anyone can be bothered to give it the time of day) 22.Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia 32.Madonna - Rescue Me (Very under-rated Madge track, rounded off The Immaculate Collection perfectly!) 33.Lonnie Gordon - Gonna Catch You Edited May 20, 201114 yr by ScottyEm
May 21, 201114 yr We need a KLF best of...:( The entire back catalogue remains deleted and, crucially, there's no rights owned by a major label to undelete them...so this will never happen. You can basically make your own though, the entire KLF back catalogue is reasonably freely available across the web if you can find it. The question is what you would put on a best of. If you basically just like The KLF period then there is really only the one album, unless you count the aborted original White Room OST or The Black Room with Extreme Noise Terror. But if you also want to include the JAMMs and the one-offs from The Timelords, 2K, K Foundation and the record they did for Help! then, yep, there's plenty variety. There's also Jimmy Cauty's Space LP but who knows how you'd slice that up.
May 22, 201114 yr These were big faves at the time: 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral 03.Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee) 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas 05.Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) 06.Beverley Craven - Promise Me 08.Blur - There's No Other Way 09.Electronic - Get The Message 12.Roxette - Fading Like A Flower 16.De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) 19.James - Sit Down {1991} 24.The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991} 26.Amy Grant - Baby Baby 32.Madonna - Rescue Me 35.REM - Shiny Happy People 37.The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow
May 22, 201114 yr 01.Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss) Our office supervisor drove us mad singing this back then, along with the bloody smurf song and Gary Glitter hits...somehow i don't think she'll be singing those now. Anyway awful song which is so overplayed. 02.KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral Okay 03.Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee) Annoying 04.Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas 05.Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long) Good track 06.Beverley Craven - Promise Me Beautiful song, she released a new album in 2009 which went completely unnoticed. 07.Zucchero Featuring Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman) Okay 08.Blur - There's No Other Way Okay debut track, even though Damon Albarn's voice can be annoying after a while. 09.Electronic - Get The Message Good track 10.Soft Cell Featuring Marc Almond - Tainted Love 1991 remix which doesn't sound all that different to the 1981 version. Classic track. 11.Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only Okay, written by Nick Kershaw from the film Buddy's Song. A one-hit wonder apart from a minor Top 30 hit with the follow up I'm A Man Not A Boy which isn't the later song by crap TV boyband North and South. 12.Roxette - Fading Like A Flower Great track. 13.Seal - Future Love (EP) Great track 14.T-99 - Anasthasia Not my cup of tea but a popular sound with ravers at the time. 15.Vic Reeves And The Roman Numerals - Born Free Don't mind it 16.De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) 17.Nomad - Just A Groove Pass 18.Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me Okay 19.James - Sit Down {1991} Classic track, but overplayed. 20.New Kids On The Block - Call It What You Want I think they'd had their day by now. Did manage a comeback minor Top 40 hit in 2008 with Summertime, although they should have released the Lady GaGa collab Big Girl Now. 21.Dannii Minogue - Success N Okay 22.Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia Popular with ravers at the time i guess, not really my cup of tea. 23.Michael Bolton - Love Is A Wonderful Thing Okay 24.The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991} Classic but overplayed, usually turn off if it comes on the radio 25.Jason Donovan - RSVP Another artist on the decline, not one of his memorable hits 26.Amy Grant - Baby Baby Great track 27.Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up Okay 28.Roachford - Get Ready Okay, now replaced Paul Carrack in Mike & The Mechanics 29.Wilson Phillips - You're In Love Great track 30.Samantha Janus - A Message To Your Heart Okay, i liked the b-side Heaven Is A Place For Heroes 31.T'Pau - Whenever You Need Me Their last hit, never to trouble the charts again unless someone performs one of their hits on the X-Factor/BGT 32.Madonna - Rescue Me Okay 33.Lonnie Gordon - Gonna Catch You Great track 34.Flowered Up - Take It Okay 35.REM - Shiny Happy People Okay but overplayed and annoying after a while 36.Paul Weller Movement - Into Tomorrow Okay 37.The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow Okay 38.Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature I can remember the boss of our YT singing this one at work, along with Walking In The Air at Christmas 39.The Wedding Present - Dalliance John Peel favourite, forgettable track 40.EMF - Children Big in their day, last hit the chart in 2005 with Perfect Day (not the Lou Reed song), although Duran Duran did chart with that version the same year.
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