19/09/1993

 

New Order - World (The price of love) (Perfecto remix)

 

3 Weeks

 

One of my favourite remixes ever, Paul Oakenfold takes a rather drab track from Republic and makes it all wonderful with lots of sequencers and bright shiny drums. Anyway, I love it and the full version is something I'd kill to be able to make.

 

It also has one of the best covers I've seen.

 

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Top 3s

19/09/1993

1 - World (the Price of Love) - New Order

2 - Wild Wood - Paul Weller

3 - Sometimes - James

 

26/09/1993

1 - World (the Price of Love) - New Order

2 - Wild Wood - Paul Weller

3 - Go West - Pet Shop Boys

 

03/10/1993

1 - World (the Price of Love) - New Order

2 - Today - Smashing Pumpkins

3 - Distant Sun - Crowded House

 

 

 

10/10/1993

 

Distant Sun - Crowded House

 

3 Weeks

 

The song that really got me into Crowded House. I'd liked Fall at Your Feet and had heard Nails in My Feet too and liked that but when I got Now 26 in Dec 1993 I completely fell in love with this song. I got the album Together Alone on the 16th March 1994 and spend the next year being completely obsessed by them.

 

The album spent a while as my favourite ever - granted, I probably only had about 10 albums at the time.

 

They were the first band I ever say in concert - 26th May 1994.

 

 

Top 3s

10/10/1993

1 - Distant Sun - Crowded House

2 - Today - Smashing Pumpkins

3 - World (the Price of Love) - New Order

 

17/10/1993

1 - Distant Sun - Crowded House

2 - Sunday Sunday - Blur

3 - Today - Smashing Pumpkins

 

24/10/1993

1 - Distant Sun - Crowded House

2 - Play Dead - Bjork and David Arnold

3 - Go - Pearl Jam

 

31/10/1993

 

Pearl Jam - Go

2 Weeks

 

When the rock world was going mental about/being disappointed by In Utero I was busy enjoying Pearl Jam's Vs. Considering I hate with a passion all that they influenced I still have a soft spot for the first two Pearl Jam albums. This has a blistering solo.

 

Pity they didn't release Rearview Mirror as a single.

 

Top 3s

31/10/1993

1 - Go - Pearl Jam

2 - Distant Sun - Crowded House

3 - Play Dead - Bjork and David Arnold

 

07/11/1993

1 - Go - Pearl Jam

2 - Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb

3 - Distant Sun - Crowded House

Edited December 11, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

 

14/11/1993

 

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

1 Week

 

 

The third quarter of 1993 was a period when the peak of the decade started. It wouldn't end for 5 years. Some magic singles only manage one week at number 1 and some dont get there at all.

 

This is one of the lucky ones. One of their hookier numbers - it ended up on chill-out albums but it's far too uplifting for that.

 

Top 3s

14/11/1993

1 - Little Fluffy Clouds The Orb

2 - Go - Pearl Jam

3 - Play Dead - Bjork and David Arnold

 

 

21/11/1993

 

Crowded House - Nails in My Feet

1 Week

 

Another one-weeker. This has aged slightly better than Distant Sun - I think it's the build, and the backing harmonies and the way it goes so all over the place when it's finishes. They really were dragging their formula into weird new places with Together Alone which was done to huge benefit. The instrumentation was nicely off-kilter, that solo was almost grungy. The strings are sinister too.

 

 

Top 3s

21/11/1993

1 - Nails in My Feet - Crowded House

2 - Little Fluffy Clouds The Orb

3 - Go - Pearl Jam

 

28/11/1993

 

Aphex Twin - On

 

3 Weeks

 

Hearing this on MTV in late 1993 was one of the pivotal points in my love affair with music. From this point on I wanted to find brittle precise, beautiful music. The delay on the piano-like sound just mesmerised me and the fast paced percussion made it sound otherworldly, like an alien language.

 

Up to that point my interest in electronic music was mostly dance or synth-pop orientated. After that it would delve into strange new places.

 

Kate had terrible luck being in the charts at the same time as On and Nails in My Feet.

 

Top 3s

28/11/1993

1 - On - Aphex Twin

2 - Nails in my Feet - Crowded House

3 - Little Fluffy Clouds The Orb

 

05/12/1993

1 - On - Aphex Twin

2 - Nails in my Feet - Crowded House

3 - Moments of Pleasure - Kate Bush

 

12/12/1993

1 - On - Aphex Twin

2 - Nails in my Feet - Crowded House

3 - Moments of Pleasure - Kate Bush

Edited December 12, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

 

19/12/1993

 

R.E.M. - Find The River

 

4 Weeks

 

And after 5 other singles that held various levels of my attention (didn't like Man on the Moon much, liked the rest of them) Find The River makes it to number 1, but fails to make the UK top 40. Why would anyone have bought it? They'd already sold 2 million copies of Automatic for the People and the b-sides were an Orange Crush instrumental and a live version of Everybody Hurts.

 

The reason this hits number 1 for me is that I didn't kill it off. There's not much on that album that does anything for me anymore - Sweetness Follows and Try Not to Breath still do great things to me. The rest leave me cold.

 

Anyone who loves this band have already made up their mind about this track - some will see it as a after-thought single, some will be bored by it. Some, like me will love its effortless chorus, like a lullaby soothing and aching at the same time. Mike Mills' harmonies entwined with Stipe's are a thing of magic.

 

The wouldn't be so openly populist as this for quite a while and by that time people would have lost interest.

 

 

Top 3s

19/12/1993

1 - Find the River - REM

2 - Lenny Valentino - The Auteurs

3 - On - Aphex Twin

 

26/12/1993

1 - Find the River - REM

2 - Lenny Valentino - The Auteurs

3 - On - Aphex Twin

 

02/01/1994

1 - Find the River - REM

2 - For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Beegees

3 - Lenny Valentino - The Auteurs

 

09/01/1994

1 - Find the River - REM

2 - Daughter - Pearl Jam

3 - For Whom the Bell Tolls - The Beegees

Edited December 12, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

Top 20 of 1993

 

1 Animal Nitrate (1)

2 Regret (1)

3 On (1)

4 Find the River (1)

5 Walking In My Shoes (1)

6 Nails in my Feet (1)

7 From Despair to Where (1)

8 Come Undone (1)

9 World (the Price of Love) (1)

10 Screamager (2)

11 Lovesong for a Vampire (1)

12 Go (1)

13 Distant Sun (1)

14 Moments of Pleasure (3)

15 Sweet Harmony (1)

16 Jump They Say (3)

17 Constant Craving (2)

18 Lenny Valentino (2)

19 You Got Me Thinking (2)

20 Cannonball (1)

Edited December 12, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

Here's what I would have had at #1 in 1993:

 

02-01-93 Man on the Moon - R.E.M. (2 weeks)

16-01-93 Showgirl - The Auteurs (1 week)

23-01-93 Get The Girl Kill The Baddies - Pop Will Eat Itself (4 weeks)

13-02-93 Open Your Mind - Usura (2 weeks)

27-02-93 Are You Gonna Go My Way? - Lennie Kravitz (1 week)

06-03-93 Animal Nitrate - Suede (3 weeks)

27-03-93 Screamager - Therapy? (2 weeks)

10-04-93 Jump They Say - David Bowie (2 weeks)

24-04-93 Sunshine Smile - Adorable (2 weeks)

08-05-93 For Tomorrow - Blur (3 weeks)

29-05-93 The Return of Pan - The Waterboys (1 week)

05-06-93 Blue - Verve (2 weeks)

19-06-93 From Despair To Where - Manic Street Preachers (3 weeks)

10-07-93 Belaruse - Levellers (2 weeks)

24-07-93 Chemical World - Blur (2 weeks)

07-08-93 La Tristessa Durera - Manic Street Preachers (2 weeks)

23-08-93 Cannonball - The Breeders (3 weeks)

11-09-93 Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana (3 weeks)

02-10-93 Today - Smashing Pumpkins (2 weeks)

16-10-93 Roses In The Hospital - Manic Street Preachers (2 weeks)

30-10-93 The Gift - INXS (3 weeks)

20-11-93 This Garden - Levellers (2 weeks)

04-12-93 Open Up - Leftfield Lydon (2 weeks)

18-12-93 Big Time Sensuality - Bjork (2 weeks)

 

And I just realised I forgot about (The) Verve's Gravity Grave in 1992. That would definitely have hit #1.

My 1993 at the time went like this...

 

058 17/01/93 The Beloved "Sweet Harmony" (4 weeks)

059 14/02/93 Duran Duran "Ordinary World" (2 weeks)

060 28/02/93 Depeche Mode "I Feel You" (1 week)

061 07/03/93 Annie Lennox "Little Bird EP / Love Song For A Vampire" (2 weeks)

062 21/03/93 PM Dawn "Looking Through Patient Eyes" (1 week)

063 28/03/93 Suede "Animal Nitrate" (2 weeks)

064 11/04/93 The Beloved "You've Got Me Thinking" (1 week)

065 18/04/93 Duran Duran "Come Undone" (1 week)

066 25/04/93 REM "Everybody Hurts" (2 weeks)

067 09/05/93 NewOrder "Regret" (2 weeks)

068 23/05/93 Utah Saints "Believe In Me" (2 weeks)

069 06/06/93 Saint Etienne "Hobart Paving / Who Do You Think You Are" (1 week)

070 13/06/93 Pet Shop Boys "Can You Forgive Her? (3 weeks)

071 04/07/93 4 Non Blondes "What's Up" (1 week)

072 11/07/93 Blur "Chemical World" (1 week)

073 18/07/93 Urban Cookie Collective "The Key, The Secret" (1 week)

074 25/07/93 Shara Nelson "Down That Road" (1 week)

075 01/08/93 Janet Jackson "If" (2 weeks)

076 15/08/93 Culture Beat "Mr Vain" (2 weeks)

077 29/08/93 SWV "Right Here" (3 weeks)

078 19/09/93 Pet Shop Boys "Go West" (2 weeks)

079 03/10/93 Meat Loaf "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" (3 weeks)

080 24/10/93 The Goodmen "Give It Up" (1 week)

081 31/10/93 Bjork with David Arnold "Play Dead" (1 week)

082 07/11/93 Cappella "U Got 2 Let The Music" (2 weeks)

083 21/11/93 Terence Trent D'Arby "Let Her Down Easy" (2 weeks)

084 05/12/93 U2 "Stay (Far Away, So Close!)" (1 week)

085 12/12/93 Pet Shop Boys "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing" (3 weeks)

 

 

Find The River sort of was released and ignored - it made little impact on me initially, then one night I'd fallen asleep with the radio on and woke up to it, which woke me up with a jolt, it was so great. Probably one of their best 3 records.

Find The River sort of was released and ignored - it made little impact on me initially, then one night I'd fallen asleep with the radio on and woke up to it, which woke me up with a jolt, it was so great. Probably one of their best 3 records.

 

 

I can't understand it being ignored - I didn't see a point in it being released at all and it wasn't until a few years ago until it really hit me how wonderful it is.

My 1993 at the time went like this...

 

058 17/01/93 The Beloved "Sweet Harmony" (4 weeks)

059 14/02/93 Duran Duran "Ordinary World" (2 weeks)

060 28/02/93 Depeche Mode "I Feel You" (1 week)

061 07/03/93 Annie Lennox "Little Bird EP / Love Song For A Vampire" (2 weeks)

062 21/03/93 PM Dawn "Looking Through Patient Eyes" (1 week)

063 28/03/93 Suede "Animal Nitrate" (2 weeks)

064 11/04/93 The Beloved "You've Got Me Thinking" (1 week)

065 18/04/93 Duran Duran "Come Undone" (1 week)

066 25/04/93 REM "Everybody Hurts" (2 weeks)

067 09/05/93 NewOrder "Regret" (2 weeks)

068 23/05/93 Utah Saints "Believe In Me" (2 weeks)

069 06/06/93 Saint Etienne "Hobart Paving / Who Do You Think You Are" (1 week)

070 13/06/93 Pet Shop Boys "Can You Forgive Her? (3 weeks)

071 04/07/93 4 Non Blondes "What's Up" (1 week)

072 11/07/93 Blur "Chemical World" (1 week)

073 18/07/93 Urban Cookie Collective "The Key, The Secret" (1 week)

074 25/07/93 Shara Nelson "Down That Road" (1 week)

075 01/08/93 Janet Jackson "If" (2 weeks)

076 15/08/93 Culture Beat "Mr Vain" (2 weeks)

077 29/08/93 SWV "Right Here" (3 weeks)

078 19/09/93 Pet Shop Boys "Go West" (2 weeks)

079 03/10/93 Meat Loaf "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" (3 weeks)

080 24/10/93 The Goodmen "Give It Up" (1 week)

081 31/10/93 Bjork with David Arnold "Play Dead" (1 week)

082 07/11/93 Cappella "U Got 2 Let The Music" (2 weeks)

083 21/11/93 Terence Trent D'Arby "Let Her Down Easy" (2 weeks)

084 05/12/93 U2 "Stay (Far Away, So Close!)" (1 week)

085 12/12/93 Pet Shop Boys "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing" (3 weeks)

[/quote

 

There's nothing there I wouldn't listen to there.

I'll just throw mine in there too

 

03-01 THE LEMONHEADS – MRS ROBINSON

10-01 POP WILL EAT ITSELF – GET THE GIRL, KILL THE BADDIES

17-01 CONSOLIDATED – GUERILLAS IN THE MIST

24-01 DURAN DURAN – ORDINARY WORLD (3 wks)

14-02 NEIL YOUNG – HARVEST MOON (2 wks)

28-02 SUEDE – ANIMAL NITRATE (2 wks)

14-03 R.E.M. – THE SIDEWINDER SLEEPS TONITE (2 wks)

28-03 DAVID BOWIE – JUMP THEY SAY

04-04 MINISTRY – JUST ONE FIX

11-04 HOLE – BEAUTIFUL SON (3 wks)

02-05 THE WATERBOYS – THE RETURN OF PAN (2 wks)

16-05 SOUL ASYLUM – RUNAWAY TRAIN (2 wks)

30-05 SENSER – EJECT (2 wks)

13-06 BLAGGERS I.T.A. – STRESSS

20-06 4 NON BLONDES – WHAT’S UP

27-06 MANIC STREET PREACHERS – FROM DESPAIR TO WHERE? (2 wks)

11-07 LEVELLERS – BELARUSE

18-07 UTAH SAINTS – I WANT YOU

25-07 MANIC STREET PREACHERS – LA TRISTESSE DURERA (SCREAM TO A SIGH) (3 wks)

15-08 NIRVANA – HEART SHAPED BOX

22-08 U2 – NUMB

29-08 THE SISTERS OF MERCY – UNDER THE GUN

05-09 BLAGGERS I.T.A. – OXYGEN

12-09 MANIC STREET PREACHERS – ROSES IN THE HOSPITAL (2 wks)

26-09 SMASHING PUMPKINS – TODAY

03-10 PRINCE – PEACH

10-10 CONFLICT – CLIMBING THE STAIRS

17-10 LEVELLERS – THIS GARDEN (2 wks)

31-10 POP WILL EAT ITSELF – R.S.V.P. (2 wks)

14-11 HELEN LOVE – SHEENA’S IN LOVE WITH JOEY RAMONEY

21-11 LEFTFIELD/LYDON – OPEN UP (2 wks)

05-12 BLAGGERS I.T.A. – ABANDON SHIP

12-12 CARCASS – HEARTWORK

19-12 NIRVANA – ALL APOLOGIES

26-12 DAVID BOWIE – BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA

 

I'll just throw mine in there too

 

13-06 BLAGGERS I.T.A. – STRESSS

 

Great single! Didn't know anyone else would remember them. I knew the guy who played trumpet for them from University.

 

I just looked up their website - I had no idea they were still going!

Great single! Didn't know anyone else would remember them. I knew the guy who played trumpet for them from University.

 

I just looked up their website - I had no idea they were still going!

Really? I thought Matty died and that was the end of it. Might have to look them up

 

14/11/1993

 

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds

1 Week

The third quarter of 1993 was a period when the peak of the decade started. It wouldn't end for 5 years. Some magic singles only manage one week at number 1 and some dont get there at all.

 

This is one of the lucky ones. One of their hookier numbers - it ended up on chill-out albums but it's far too uplifting for that.

 

Absolutely adore this. The vocals are taken from a Rickie Lee Jones interview - but the real winner here is the tune itself. Outstanding - the Cumulonimbus Mix is the Dr Blind CHOIX version though. :P

1994 up soon.

 

Predictions? It's my favourite ever year for albums.

Oh I'll have a couple of wild guesses and opt for maybe some Cornflake Girl and Stay Together?

 

Personally, I'd hope to also see some Regulate, Confide In Me, No Good (Start The Dance), Always and Whatever...

 

My 1993 at the time went like this...

 

058 17/01/93 The Beloved "Sweet Harmony" (4 weeks)

059 14/02/93 Duran Duran "Ordinary World" (2 weeks)

060 28/02/93 Depeche Mode "I Feel You" (1 week)

061 07/03/93 Annie Lennox "Little Bird EP / Love Song For A Vampire" (2 weeks)

062 21/03/93 PM Dawn "Looking Through Patient Eyes" (1 week)

063 28/03/93 Suede "Animal Nitrate" (2 weeks)

064 11/04/93 The Beloved "You've Got Me Thinking" (1 week)

065 18/04/93 Duran Duran "Come Undone" (1 week)

066 25/04/93 REM "Everybody Hurts" (2 weeks)

067 09/05/93 NewOrder "Regret" (2 weeks)

068 23/05/93 Utah Saints "Believe In Me" (2 weeks)

069 06/06/93 Saint Etienne "Hobart Paving / Who Do You Think You Are" (1 week)

070 13/06/93 Pet Shop Boys "Can You Forgive Her? (3 weeks)

071 04/07/93 4 Non Blondes "What's Up" (1 week)

072 11/07/93 Blur "Chemical World" (1 week)

073 18/07/93 Urban Cookie Collective "The Key, The Secret" (1 week)

074 25/07/93 Shara Nelson "Down That Road" (1 week)

075 01/08/93 Janet Jackson "If" (2 weeks)

076 15/08/93 Culture Beat "Mr Vain" (2 weeks)

077 29/08/93 SWV "Right Here" (3 weeks)

078 19/09/93 Pet Shop Boys "Go West" (2 weeks)

079 03/10/93 Meat Loaf "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" (3 weeks)

080 24/10/93 The Goodmen "Give It Up" (1 week)

081 31/10/93 Bjork with David Arnold "Play Dead" (1 week)

082 07/11/93 Cappella "U Got 2 Let The Music" (2 weeks)

083 21/11/93 Terence Trent D'Arby "Let Her Down Easy" (2 weeks)

084 05/12/93 U2 "Stay (Far Away, So Close!)" (1 week)

085 12/12/93 Pet Shop Boys "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing" (3 weeks)

 

There's nothing there I wouldn't listen to there.

 

ditto! plus 6 of my number ones and numerous 2's.. B-)