Posted March 8, 201411 yr eC56ZnN-7lQ ITV Chart Show Top Ten Rundown: 10 - "I Know" - New Atlantic 09 - "Weather With You" - Crowded House 08 - "It's A Fine Day" - Opus III 07 - "My Girl" - Temptations 06 - "Come As You Are" - Nirvana 05 - "One" - U2 04 - "November Rain" - Guns N Roses 03 - "Stay" - Shakespear's Sister 02 - "America: What Time Is Love?" - The KLF 01 - "I Love Your Smile" - Shanice (3rd week at #1) :o :o Opus III, Shakespear's Sister, Shanice & The KLF :heart: Was Shanice ever a midweek #1? I know it wasn't uncommon for the Chart Show to have different #1's from the official chart, but it's still quite strange! Edited March 8, 201411 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
March 8, 201411 yr eC56ZnN-7lQ ITV Chart Show Top Ten Rundown: 10 - "I Know" - New Atlantic 09 - "Weather With You" - Crowded House 08 - "It's A Fine Day" - Opus III 07 - "My Girl" - Temptations 06 - "Come As You Are" - Nirvana 05 - "One" - U2 04 - "November Rain" - Guns N Roses 03 - "Stay" - Shakespear's Sister 02 - "America: What Time Is Love?" - The KLF 01 - "I Love Your Smile" - Shanice (3rd week at #1) :o :o Opus III, Shakespear's Sister, Shanice & The KLF :heart: Was Shanice ever a midweek #1? I know it wasn't uncommon for the Chart Show to have different #1's from the official chart, but it's still quite strange! No it wasn't (or wasn't reported as such at the time). IIRC "The ITV Chart Show" had information provided by MRIB and not Gallup and covered a Thursday- Wednesday sales period but that's just from memory, Gallup were under contract to BBC and hence why they didn't provide the info. :D
March 10, 201411 yr Funny that 'America' was at number 2 there, it never quite reached the same heights as the previous KLF singles...and was kinda further proof that Drummond and Cauty had finally run out of songs having released What Time is Love there for about the 66th time. I was a big fan of that New Atlantic song at the time, but not really so sure now. It was out on the "rave" branch of Pete Waterman's PWL empire, but they used to play it every week on the Hitman and Her and Pete would pretend to play the flute when the camera was on him. What a card. Still quite like Opus III and Nirvana is ok, although a long, long way from their best. The rest...nah.
August 30, 201410 yr Thanks for linking my vid as you probably guessed from all the uploads I was Chart Show obsessed. This was the period when Chart Show complier Des Burkinshaw went nuts and go the number one wrong for nearly two months and had shakespears sister sitting at No.8 for about 4 weeks while it was still No.1 in offical chart. Edited August 30, 201410 yr by steveh31
August 30, 201410 yr In the week Shanice climbed to #2 on the official chart she was actually declining in sales, Shakespears Sister never looked likely to be knocked off the top spot (even though their sales were really quite low for a number 1 at the time). The KLF remix of "What Time Is Love" was nowhere near as good as the 1990 original, Opus III was brilliant though!
September 5, 201410 yr Being three years old in '92 a lot of this music I didn't actually hear until years later, but listening to old Now albums is strikes me that despite an absolutely mindblowing dance scene of pounding, relentless rave anthems up there with the best tracks of the decade, everything else is absolutely dead. The pop is either watered-down rave with teenybopper vocals over the top (early Take That), or still stuck in the 1980s with lots of piano licks, slap bass and kick drum, and there's no rock scene to speak of - Britpop was a few years away, and grunge was always much bigger stateside than it was here. It says a lot that there were a *huge* amount of old songs re-issued in the early half of the 90s, primarily because it was the first time they were available on CD but also a lot of them were so much better than any of the non-rave stuff around at the time. You can really sense the relief when Britpop does arrive and definitely from about 1994 things thankfully start to pick up steam again. But then it's all subjective and if I were a few years older I'd have probably loved everything that was out :P And indeed that's quite a good top 10 - 'Stay' is a fantastic song, the best #1 of the year. 'One' is U2 at their finest, New Atlantic and Opus III as nice pop-rave tracks and I adore everything the KLF ever released. That What Time Is Love remix blew me away in the mid-noughties when I first heard it, god knows what it sounded like back then!
September 5, 201410 yr relentless rave anthems up there with the best tracks of the decade, everything else is absolutely dead. The pop is either watered-down rave with teenybopper vocals over the top (early Take That), or still stuck in the 1980s with lots of piano licks, slap bass and kick drum, and there's no rock scene to speak of - Sounds a bit like the charts today :P
September 5, 201410 yr This was the period when Chart Show complier Des Burkinshaw went nuts and go the number one wrong for nearly two months and had shakespears sister sitting at No.8 for about 4 weeks while it was still No.1 in offical chart. Like proper mental or just didn't like the song?
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