11/11/1990

 

The La's - There She Goes

 

3 Week

 

I read somewhere once that this should never have been a hit - it was the wrong speed for the era that it was released in, or something. Madness of course. There was clearly an appetite for this sort of jangle pop because, perhaps of the audience that The Stone Roses has cultivated. In any case, there should always be an audience for a classic like this. Like a lot of guitar pop of the early 90s it has to be re-released to be a hit.

 

 

Short and sweet.

 

 

Top 3s

 

11/11/1990

1 - There She Goes - The La's

2 - Waiting for That Day - George Michael

3 - Unbelievable - EMF

 

18/11/1990

1 - There She Goes - The La's

2 - Unbelievable - EMF

3 - Waiting for That Day - George Michael

 

25/11/1990

1 - There She Goes - The La's

2 - Falling - Juilee Cruise

3 - Unbelievable - EMF

Edited November 3, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

 

 

02/12/1990

 

Julee Cruise - Falling

 

1 Week

 

As unique and as wonderfully fresh as anything you could wish for. Written by Angelo Badalimenti and David Lynch for David Lynch's Twin Peaks series - the word haunting doesn't do it justice. Like a more radio friendly Cocteau Twins it soundtracked many a dinner party in 1990 and appeared on multiple chill-out and relaxation albums since then - both the vocal and instrumental version.

 

It couldn't hold on long before being cast aside by the upcoming career peak of the next number 1.

 

Top 3

 

02/12/1990

1 - Falling - Julee Cruise

2 - Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys

3 - There She Goes - The La's

 

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09/12/1990

 

Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring

 

4 Weeks

 

Another shockingly low peak in the official chart for a classic song - it entered at number 36 - their lowest entry since thet started having hits and their lowest entry for over 20 years afterwards. Anyway, it peaked at 20 the following week.

 

A song looking back at friendship and a glorious opening to Behaviour. There's not quite a sense of regret but not of achievement either - as song of uneasy contentment acknowledging that it could have been worse. They left it out of their set list for a while in 1991 but fans demanded that it was returned and it became part of their encore.

 

Beautiful.

 

 

Top 3s

 

09/12/1990

1 - Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys

2 - Wicked Game - Chris Isaac

3 - Falling - Julee Cruise

 

16/12/1990

1 - Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys

2 - Wicked Game - Chris Isaac

3 - Falling - Julee Cruise

 

23/12/1990

1 - Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys

2 - Justify My Love - Madonna

3 - Wicked Game - Chris Isaac

 

30/12/1990

1 - Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys

2 - Sadness Pt 1 - Enigma

3 - Justify My Love - Madonna

Edited November 3, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

"There She Goes" :wub: - I always thought that this was a 1980s tune but it turns out it was a proper hit in 1990.

It almost re-peaked nine years later when Sixpence None The Richer did a decent cover of it.

Top 20 of 1990

 

 

1 Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode (1)

2 Killer - Adamski (1)

3 Elephant Stone - Stone Roses (1)

4 Chime - Orbital (2)

5 Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants (1)

6 There She Goes - The La's (1)

7 Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys (1)

8 What time is Love? - KLF (1)

9 Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri (1)

10 Naked in the Rain - Blue Pearl (1)

11 Hardcore Uproar - Together (1)

12 Shine On - House of Love (1)

13 Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode (1)

14 It Must have Been Love - Roxette (1)

15 Roam - B-52s (1)

16 Blue Savannah - Erasure (3)

17 Praying for Time - George Michael (1)

18 So Hard - Pet Shop Boys (1)

19 Epic - Faith No More (1)

20 Dirty Cash - Adventures of Stevie V (2)

Edited November 3, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

Top 20 of 1990

1 Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode (1)

2 Killer - Adamski (1)

3 Elephant Stone - Stone Roses (1)

4 Chime - Orbital (2)

5 Birdhouse in Your Soul - They Might Be Giants (1)

6 There She Goes - The La's (1)

7 Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys (1)

8 What time is Love? - KLF (1)

9 Nothing Ever Happens - Del Amitri (1)

10 Naked in the Rain - Blue Pearl (1)

11 Hardcore Uproar - Together (1)

12 Shine On - House of Love (1)

13 Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode (1)

14 It Must have Been Love - Roxette (1)

15 Roam - B-52s (1)

16 Blue Savannah - Erasure (3)

17 Praying for Time - George Michael (1)

18 So Hard - Pet Shop Boys (1)

19 Epic - Faith No More (1)

20 Dirty Cash - Adventures of Stevie V (2)

 

Hi Anthony, 8 of your number ones (PSB's, Adamski, George, Roxette, La's, Depeche etc) were toppers in my actual charts so can I say Faaaab! choices B-) some other greats too, like Dirty cash, Roam, Shine On, Naked In The Rain.

 

good choices!

 

will be looking forward to 1991!

 

cheers

john

 

06/01/1991

 

Enigma - Sadness Part 1

 

4 Weeks

 

As in the official chart Enigma had to wait until 1991 to make it to number 1. Sadness is a quite intoxicating mix of beats, Gregorian chants, breathy female vocals, menacing, swirling atmospherics and er, pan-pipes.

 

It sounded like nothing else around.

 

 

Top 3s

 

06/01/1991

1 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

2 - Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys

3 - Justify My Love - Madonna

 

13/01/1991

1 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

2 - Crazy - Seal

3 - International Bright Young Thing - Jesus Jones

 

20/01/1991

1 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

2 - Crazy - Seal

3 - International Bright Young Thing - Jesus Jones

 

27/01/1991

1 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

2 - International Bright Young Thing - Jesus Jones

3 - Crazy - Seal

 

Enigma! :wub:

 

I have such a soft spot for their music, I think I've got about 5 of their albums somehow(!) and the first two in particular were played to death by me in my early teens.

"Sadeness" is maybe a little bit kitsch for my liking but I sort of warm to it because it is somewhat hard to believe that it ever made #1 - it sounds so bizarre to hear a song with Gregorian chanting in it at the top of the pop charts.

Perhaps.

Enigma were wonderful, and varied, topped my charts 4 times. Sandra, Mrs Enigma and the voice of several, also nearly did it with camp disco classic I'll Never Be Maria Magdalena. I've been contemplating such as that for BJSC for a laugh :lol:

 

03/02/1991

 

Queen - Innuendo

 

3 Weeks

 

I don't know when I started liking this. It probably wasn't at the time it was released. I think it was the two solos that caught my ear first. Of course, the accusations of them trying to recreate Bohemian Rhapsody tainted Innuendo and I guess I agree that a band shouldn't try and re-create their most well known stuff - it takes a lot of luck and talent to out do your peak period.

 

 

In any case, I much prefer Innuendo. It's incredibly serious stuff. I've said this loads but Muse's whole career is encapsulated in both the solos and the vocal part that links them.

 

 

Top 3s

 

03/02/1991

1 - Innuendo - Queen

2 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

3 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

 

10/02/1991

1 - Innuendo - Queen

2 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

3 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

 

17/02/1991

1 - Innuendo - Queen

2 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

3 - Blue Hotel Chris Isaac

 

 

Hoping that "You Got The Love" climbs to #1 - that was one of my favourite songs of early '91.

 

Every cover since PALES into insignificance - especially love that bit from 3 minutes onwards where the vocals get all chopped up. :D

 

24/02/1991

 

The Source featuring Candi Staton - You Got The Love

 

3 Weeks

 

Another song that didn't really catch my ear at the time of release but it's grown on my over the period since it came out. It just builds and builds until the brutal breakdown takes you back to nothing. I'm not always one for soulful vocals but I can't deny that they're great on this track.

 

I must put it on my list of 12" to purchase.

 

I'm not a fan of Florence's cover.

 

Top 3s

 

24/02/1991

1 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

2 - Innuendo - Queen

3 - Blue Hotel Chris Isaac

 

03/03/1991

1 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

2 - Innuendo - Queen

3 - Blue Hotel Chris Isaac

 

10/03/1991

1 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

2 - Blue Hotel Chris Isaac

3 - 808 State - In Your Face

Edited November 5, 201311 yr by AnthonyT

Yay! :D Though I note there is no room for "Do The Bartman" in your Top 3. :(

 

I'm not a fan of Florence's cover.

 

Me neither - massively overrated. And I love Florence. "Rabbit Heart" should have been her Top 10, but I remember BBC 1 spent most of 1 January 2010 endlessely playing it and hence it jumped massively up iTunes and then she murdered it with some awful rap version at the Brits a few weeks later. A dark moment in Florence Welch's career-to-date.

I dont like Florence at all - far too shouty. Rabbit Heart and Cosmic Love were the only two listenable songs on her debut and What the Water Gave Me is quite good too.

 

Dog Days is awful.

 

I should mention - because I said I would - Chris Isaac's Blue Hotel was unlucky to be held at number 2. It's good enough to be a number 1.

 

 

 

 

17/03/1991

 

REM - Losing My Religion

 

5 Weeks

 

Such a plaintive song. It spent a time in 1993 as my favourite single of all time. There's not a whole lot to be said except that I've dulled its majesty by playing too much over the years - a feat some would say is impossible. It's quite rightly held up as one of their very best tunes and that is not an easy job considering how consistent they were for over 20 years.

 

 

 

Top 3s

 

17/03/1991

1 - Losing My Religion - REM

2 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

3 - Blue Hotel Chris Isaac

 

24/03/1991

1 - Losing My Religion - REM

2 - Can you dig it? - Mock Turtles

3 - Move Your Body - Xpansions

 

31/03/1991

1 - Losing My Religion - REM

2 - Word of Mouth - Mike and the Mechanics

3 - It's Too Late - Quartz feat. Dina Carroll

 

07/04/1991

1 - Losing My Religion - REM

2 - Word of Mouth - Mike and the Mechanics

3 - It's Too Late - Quartz feat. Dina Carroll

 

14/03/1991

1 - Losing My Religion - REM

2 - Hyperreal - The Shamen

3 - Human Nature - Gary Clail on U Sound

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

03/02/1991

 

Queen - Innuendo

 

3 Weeks

 

I don't know when I started liking this. It probably wasn't at the time it was released. I think it was the two solos that caught my ear first. Of course, the accusations of them trying to recreate Bohemian Rhapsody tainted Innuendo and I guess I agree that a band shouldn't try and re-create their most well known stuff - it takes a lot of luck and talent to out do your peak period.

In any case, I much prefer Innuendo. It's incredibly serious stuff. I've said this loads but Muse's whole career is encapsulated in both the solos and the vocal part that links them.

Top 3s

 

03/02/1991

1 - Innuendo - Queen

2 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

3 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

 

10/02/1991

1 - Innuendo - Queen

2 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

3 - Sadness Part 1 - Enigma

 

17/02/1991

1 - Innuendo - Queen

2 - You Got the Love - The Source feat. Candi Staton.

3 - Blue Hotel Chris Isaac

 

Totally agree about Innuendo, I under-rated it much at the time (to be fair it sort of peaked before radio noticed and then got ignored as it dropped) in favour of the other tracks in your Top 3...

Yay! :D Though I note there is no room for "Do The Bartman" in your Top 3. :(

Me neither - massively overrated. And I love Florence. "Rabbit Heart" should have been her Top 10, but I remember BBC 1 spent most of 1 January 2010 endlessely playing it and hence it jumped massively up iTunes and then she murdered it with some awful rap version at the Brits a few weeks later. A dark moment in Florence Welch's career-to-date.

 

and I agree with that too, though I dont hate her version...

 

Bartman is of course Michael Jackson mucking about for a laugh. He did have a sense of humour!

_

Edited December 24, 20159 yr by Ever After

Anthony, your music taste is so wide.

From Pet Shop Boys and George Michael to Queen and all these dance # 1s. :o

 

 

Not really. This is all chart music. There's so much music in the world that doesn't trouble the chart. Music that isn't even recorded or released. My taste is commercial. We haven't yet seen anything truly weird.

 

 

And you forgot The Pixies. :lol:

Edited November 6, 201311 yr by AnthonyT