7th January 1990

 

 

A new decade, and Distant Cousins return to the top for a second soulful week, and Jason Donovan goes back up to 2, too. The 49‘ers Touch Me at 6, Soul II Soul Get A Life and a third top 10 at 9, Wet Wet Wet meanwhile have Broke Away at 8, returning them to the top 10 3 years since Wishing I Was Lucky started the ball rolling. Band Aid II belatedly get their christmas charity cover into the 10, as Kylie also gets the highest new entry at 14 with a decent cover of a much better 1950’s classic: Tears On My Pillow promoted her movie, but I never loved it as much I loved the Little Anthony & The Imperials version. Still don’t.

 

D Mob are back, with a reworking of an O’Jays song, at 23, so Put Your Hands Together, though De La Soul think 24 is the Magic Number now that it’s a double A with Buddy. Some classic new entries lower, though, headed by Cher following up her big return (If I Could Turn Back Time) with the fantastic cowboy-inspired rock track Just Like Jesse James, a song written by Diane Warren and Desmond Child. Desmond of late had been writing hits for Bon Jovi and Aerosmith, among others, Diane for, well, EVERYTHING! She’s done Eurovision with Andrew Lloyd-Webber, written a million-seller for Aerosmith, got awards and movie songs coming out of her ears, Paloma Faith’s latest single (Feb 2015) is one of hers, so is Cher’s previous hit, and one of her biggest accolades (for me) Pet Shop Boys recorded her brilliant song Numb, the playout song England went out of the world cup with to dramatic effect. Pet Shop Boys just don’t record other people’s songs, except as covers, so that was pretty rare. Take a google at the list of songs, and acts recording them, from Roy Orbison to Rihanna, and gasp for breath.

 

Talking of brilliant songwriters, Prince. Sinead O’Connor follows up Mandinka with a heart-breaking cover of Prince’s Nothin’ Compares 2 U, complete with world-dominating tearful video, and instant world-wide fame. Classic? Absolutely! In at 57 in the first chart of the year, not a bad start. Rod Stewart meanwhile covers Tom Waits, Downtown Train, and unusually for a Rod cover it’s not bad at all, though Tom is another songwriter (like Prince) who can be, shall we say, uniquely protective when it comes to their own work? That would be worth pursuing if one were immortal, but copyright is harder to govern from beyond the grave. Unless you’re the estate of Elvis Presley.

 

Returning, Smokie, 15 years on, without lead singer Chris Singer, instead it was Black Lace singer Alan Barton on lead, and who died a couple of years later on a Smokie tour coach crash, effectively ending their career, barring the Roy Chubby Brown monstrosity version of Living Next Door To Alice. Candidate for the worst record ever that one, not because of the song though. Finally, a legend returns: Quincy Jones having been dumped by Michael Jackson as producer (and ending his classic period to boot) had some time on his hands, so got Ray Charles and Chaka Khan on featuring vocals. As you do. As he does anyway. I’ll Be Good To You is good.

 

 

1 ( 2 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

2 ( 5 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

3 ( 4 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

4 ( 3 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

5 ( 1 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

6 ( 13 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

7 ( 8 ) WORDS The Christians

8 ( 11 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

9 ( 17 ) GET A LIFE Soul II Soul

10 ( 12 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid II

 

 

11 ( 6 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

12 ( 7 ) HITMIX Alexander O’Neal

13 ( 9 ) CHEER DOWN George Harrison

14 ( NEW ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

15 ( 34 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

16 ( 16 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

17 ( 14 ) I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU Tina Turner

18 ( 20 ) OH PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison and Friends

19 ( 10 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

20 ( 28 ) HANGING TOUGH New Kids On The Block

 

 

21 ( 56 ) HEY YOU The Quireboys

22 ( 15 ) GETTING AWAY WITH IT Electronic

23 ( NEW ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob

24 ( 43 ) THE MAGIC NUMBER/ BUDDY De La Soul

25 ( 19 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

26 ( 38 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

27 ( 35 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART Sonia

28 ( 18 ) LET’S PARTY Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers

29 ( 55 ) VOLARE The Gypsy Kings

30 ( 21 ) EVE OF THE WAR (DEEPSPACE MIX) Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds featuring Justin Heyward

 

31 ( 24 ) HOUSE OF THE BLUE DANUBE Malcolm McLaren

32 ( 25 ) TELL ME WHEN THE FEVER ENDED Electribe 101

33 ( NEW ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

34 ( 29 ) RHYTHM NATION Janet Jackson

35 ( NEW ) QUEEN OF THE NEW YEAR Deacon Blue

36 ( 46 ) 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY Silver Bullet

37 ( 26 ) LAMBADA Kaoma

38 ( 23 ) LA LUNA Belinda Carlisle

39 ( 32 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

40 ( 53 ) FREE FALLIN’ Tom Petty

 

41 ( 33 ) PACIFIC - 707 808 State

42 ( 42 ) LAY ME DOWN EASY Sinitta

43 ( 37 ) DEEP HEAT ’89 Various Artists

44 ( 31 ) DIFFERENT AIR Living In A Box

45 ( 40 ) DON’T ASK ME WHY Eurythmics

46 ( 22 ) BLAME IT ON THE RAIN (US REMIX) Milli Vanilli

47 ( 41 ) YOU SURROUND ME Erasure

48 ( 30 ) SISTER Bros

49 ( 48 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

50 ( 50 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

 

51 ( 47 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

52 ( 39 ) SIT AND WAIT Sydney Youngblood

53 ( 44 ) WOMAN IN CHAINS Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams

54 ( NEW ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

55 ( 27 ) HEY GIRL DON’T BOTHER ME ’89 The Tams

56 ( 51 ) SOMETHING/ COME TOGETHER The Beatles

57 ( NEW ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

58 ( 45 ) MY LOVE The London Boys

59 ( NEW ) BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS Smokie

60 ( 60 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

 

 

61 ( NEW ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

62 ( 52 ) SMOKE ON THE WATER Rock Aid Armenia

63 ( 64 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

64 ( 49 ) INNER CITY MAMMA Neneh Cherry

65 ( 61 ) OH WELL Oh Well

66 ( 63 ) PUMP UP THE JAM Technotronic featuring Felly (Ya Kid K)

67 ( 67 ) BRITE SIDE Deborah Harry

68 ( 36 ) (SEXUAL) HEALING ’89 Marvin Gaye

69 ( 68 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

70 ( 58 ) I’LL SAIL THIS SHIP ALONE The Beautiful South

 

 

 

71 ( 59 ) SIGN O’ THE TIMES Simple Minds

72 ( 69 ) LEAN ON YOU Cliff Richard

73 ( 65 ) LEAVE A LIGHT ON Belinda Carlisle

74 ( 74 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

75 ( 75 ) TALK IT OVER Grayson Hugh

For me the new decade started on several sleepless nights, missing grandma on the first birthday without her, both her birthday and my 32nd. At home, the smoking and general upheaval of kids in the house was getting to me a bit, too. On TV, The Road To Singapore (Hope and Crosby movie), David Attenborough dinosaurs programme (who doesn’t love dinosaurs!), and worried about being too old for the new squash courses I’d joined. 32, old? Pah!

14th January 1990

 

 

3 weeker for Distant Cousins at 1, and a quiet chart otherwise, bar a batch of mostly uneventful new entries. Happily, though, Cher’s shooting her 6-guns at 6 with one of her great records, and Sinead O’Connor cries her way up into the top 40. Kylie gets her 4th Top 10, and De la Soul find 12 is this week’s magic number. Living In A Box stop yo-yo-ing and make a firm dive into the 20, their 4th time.

 

New entries start with the Mission at 41, and the good Butterfly On A Wheel, more melodic than usual for them, while just behind is Lloyd Cole and the pretty No Blue Skies, 6 years on and without his Commotions anymore. Cyndi Lauper’s Heading West for one solitary chart week at 49 - oops! - and so might Everything But The Girl be, as they are Driving at 52, and like Lloyd Cole part of the Class of ’84 still plugging away classily, if not exactly on fire. A bit more lively, UB40 cover Al Green, and do a nice enough reggae version of a great soul song, Here I Am (Come And Take Me), giving them a cool decade of pretty much non-stop chart entries.

 

Best new entry by far though is Mantronix featuring Wondress and rthe sublime Got To Have Your Love, one of the few contemporary dance tracks in the chart that doesn’t sound horribly dated. At 61, The Happy Mondays Hallelujah is in remix form (apparently), but I’m sticking with the original on the video, as it has Kirsty MaColl on Top Of The Pops with them, and that’s good enough for me! Eurythmics are back with a spot of lesser royalty, just below them, Phil Collins is hoping for some rain, 9 years on from In The Air Tonight, and no comparison. Megadeth take on Alice Cooper and lose, of course. Fish’s Marillion days are in the past, but he swims in briefly with a Big Wedge. Finally janet Jackson’s latest Rhythm Nation track is a sweet ballad, Come Back To Me at 75.

 

1 ( 1 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

2 ( 2 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

3 ( 6 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

4 ( 3 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

5 ( 4 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

6 ( 33 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

7 ( 9 ) GET A LIFE Soul II Soul

8 ( 7 ) WORDS The Christians

9 ( 5 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

10 ( 14 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

 

11 ( 11 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

12 ( 24 ) THE MAGIC NUMBER/ BUDDY De La Soul

13 ( 16 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

14 ( 44 ) DIFFERENT AIR Living In A Box

15 ( 15 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

16 ( 18 ) OH PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison and Friends

17 ( 23 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

18 ( 21 ) HEY YOU The Quireboys

19 ( 8 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

20 ( 27 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART Sonia

 

21 ( 20 ) HANGING TOUGH New Kids On The Block

22 ( 26 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

23 ( 12 ) HITMIX Alexander O’Neal

24 ( 10 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid II

25 ( 17 ) I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU Tina Turner

26 ( 13 ) CHEER DOWN George Harrison

27 ( 22 ) GETTING AWAY WITH IT Electronic

28 ( 29 ) VOLARE The Gypsy Kings

29 ( 19 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

30 ( 25 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

 

31 ( 35 ) QUEEN OF THE NEW YEAR Deacon Blue

32 ( 36 ) 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY Silver Bullet

33 ( 34 ) RHYTHM NATION Janet Jackson

34 ( 31 ) HOUSE OF THE BLUE DANUBE Malcolm McLaren

35 ( 40 ) FREE FALLIN’ Tom Petty

36 ( 32 ) TELL ME WHEN THE FEVER ENDED Electribe 101

37 ( 57 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

38 ( 39 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

39 ( 54 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

40 ( 30 ) EVE OF THE WAR (DEEPSPACE MIX) Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds featuring Justin Heyward

 

 

 

41 ( NEW ) BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL The Mission

42 ( 37 ) LAMBADA Kaoma

43 ( 43 ) DEEP HEAT ’89 Various Artists

44 ( 28 ) LET’S PARTY Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers

45 ( 49 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

46 ( 41 ) PACIFIC - 707 808 State

47 ( 50 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

48 ( NEW ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

49 ( NEW ) HEADING WEST Cyndi Lauper

50 ( 45 ) DON’T ASK ME WHY Eurythmics

 

 

 

51 ( 51 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

52 ( NEW ) DRIVING Everything But The Girl

53 ( 53 ) WOMAN IN CHAINS Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams

54 ( NEW ) HERE I AM (COME AND TAKE ME) UB40

55 ( 59 ) BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS Smokie

56 ( 61 ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

57 ( 46 ) BLAME IT ON THE RAIN (US REMIX) Milli Vanilli

58 ( 60 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

59 ( 56 ) SOMETHING/ COME TOGETHER The Beatles

60 ( NEW ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

 

 

 

61 ( NEW ) HALLELUJAH (REMIX) The Happy Mondays

62 ( NEW ) KING AND QUEEN OF AMERICA Eurythmics

63 ( 63 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

64 ( 52 ) SIT AND WAIT Sydney Youngblood

65 ( 38 ) LA LUNA Belinda Carlisle

66 ( NEW ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Phil Collins

67 ( 69 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

68 ( NEW ) MORE THAN YOU KNOW Martika

69 ( 65 ) OH WELL Oh Well

70 ( NEW ) NO MORE MR NICE GUY Megadeth

 

 

 

71 ( 66 ) PUMP UP THE JAM Technotronic featuring Felly (Ya Kid K)

72 ( 74 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

73 ( NEW ) BIG WEDGE Fish

74 ( 75 ) TALK IT OVER Grayson Hugh

75 ( NEW ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

 

 

In the 1990 world, still not sleeping at night, feeling my life isn’t my own and having bouts of lowness and anxiety, not helped by a good news bad news situation at work: good news Parks were giving me a permanent job (yay!) along with Andy and Cathy, bad news it was a salary drop of £1300, quite a bit of cash, which made the likelihood of getting my own place more difficult. The new Tower Park cinema/bowls/ice-skating/swimming/clubs/food outlets was great though for me - I went off to see Back To The Future 2 again, my top film of 1989.

21st January 1990

 

 

Cher finally grabs another solo chart-topper 16 years after Dark Lady got there, and her third in total (one with Sonny in 1972). Just Like Jesse James is fab, Cher is at her best when she’s being mega dramatic. Up from 37 to 6, Sinead O’Connor is finding not much compares 2 her, and a well deserved even bigger hit for her than Mandinka. Jimmy Somerville follows Sylvester’s original into the Top 10, while the highest new entry at 9, wham bam thank you ma’am, it’s Lisa Stansfield’s follow-up to a classic number one, this one Live Together almost as good.

 

In at 16, Stock Aitken Waterman’s production-line keeps on churning out hits, with Lonnie Gordon the happy beneficiary of one of their better songs, Happenin’ All Over Again, Silver Bullet go top 20 with the good 20 Seconds To Comply, going all rap Robocop with attitude, and one second less than a future less good UK number one. Good climbs for Mantronix and Quincy Jones into the 40, but the best news is The Beloved returning with a terrific slow-groove funky list of celebrities, Hello at 30: Leslie Crowther, as they say, come on down! Great record.

 

Another great new entry at 39, the not-that-well-known (but fab) House Of Love’s Shine On, summoning up the spirit of classic Lloyd Cole and The Smiths, jangly indie rock that needs revisiting. Meanwhile Terry Hall is back with yet another collaboration of new mates, this time as Terry, Blair and Anoushka. Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes, and not bad at 74. At 64, Dion is back, his late 50’s and early 60’s teen heart-throb doowop pop far behind him now, as Written On The Subway Wall is more Springsteen than his 1976 revived biggie The Wanderer. Produced by the great Dave Edmunds, that can only be a good thing.

 

 

1 ( 6 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

2 ( 3 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

3 ( 1 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

4 ( 4 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

5 ( 2 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

6 ( 37 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

7 ( 10 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

8 ( 15 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

9 ( NEW ) LIVE TOGETHER Lisa Stansfield

10 ( 17 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

11 ( 5 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

12 ( 7 ) GET A LIFE Soul II Soul

13 ( 9 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

14 ( 12 ) THE MAGIC NUMBER/ BUDDY De La Soul

15 ( 8 ) WORDS The Christians

16 ( NEW ) HAPPENIN’ ALL OVER AGAIN Lonnie Gordon

17 ( 11 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

18 ( 22 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

19 ( 32 ) 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY Silver Bullet

20 ( 13 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

 

 

21 ( 14 ) DIFFERENT AIR Living In A Box

22 ( 60 ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

23 ( 56 ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

24 ( 20 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART Sonia

25 ( NEW ) NOTHING EVER HAPPENS Del Amitri

26 ( 61 ) HALLELUJAH (REMIX) The Happy Mondays

27 ( NEW ) COULD HAVE TOLD YOU SO Halo James

28 ( 52 ) DRIVING Everything But The Girl

29 ( 18 ) HEY YOU The Quireboys

30 ( NEW ) HELLO The Beloved

 

 

31 ( 19 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

32 ( 39 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

33 ( 16 ) OH PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison and Friends

34 ( 54 ) HERE I AM (COME AND TAKE ME) UB40

35 ( 30 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

36 ( 23 ) HITMIX Alexander O’Neal

37 ( 41 ) BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL The Mission

38 ( 25 ) I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU Tina Turner

39 ( NEW ) SHINE ON The House Of Love

40 ( 38 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

 

 

41 ( 27 ) GETTING AWAY WITH IT Electronic

42 ( 33 ) RHYTHM NATION Janet Jackson

43 ( 31 ) QUEEN OF THE NEW YEAR Deacon Blue

44 ( 29 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

45 ( 45 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

46 ( 34 ) HOUSE OF THE BLUE DANUBE Malcolm McLaren

47 ( 47 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

48 ( 48 ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

49 ( 36 ) TELL ME WHEN THE FEVER ENDED Electribe 101

50 ( 21 ) HANGING TOUGH New Kids On The Block

 

51 ( 26 ) CHEER DOWN George Harrison

52 ( 66 ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Phil Collins

53 ( 28 ) VOLARE The Gypsy Kings

54 ( 68 ) MORE THAN YOU KNOW Martika

55 ( 51 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

56 ( 70 ) NO MORE MR NICE GUY Megadeth

57 ( 35 ) FREE FALLIN’ Tom Petty

58 ( 62 ) KING AND QUEEN OF AMERICA Eurythmics

59 ( 58 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

60 ( NEW ) JUICY Wrecks ‘N’ Effect

 

61 ( 59 ) SOMETHING/ COME TOGETHER The Beatles

62 ( NEW ) I CALLED U Lil Louis

63 ( 40 ) EVE OF THE WAR (DEEPSPACE MIX) Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds featuring Justin Heyward

64 ( NEW ) WRITTEN ON THE SUBWAY WALL Dion

65 ( RE ) HOUSE OF FIRE Alice Cooper

66 ( 63 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

67 ( 73 ) BIG WEDGE Fish

68 ( 67 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

69 ( 75 ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

70 ( 53 ) WOMAN IN CHAINS Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams

 

71 ( 24 ) DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS Band Aid II

72 ( 46 ) PACIFIC - 707 808 State

73 ( NEW ) INSTANT REPLAY Yell

74 ( NEW ) ULTRA MODERN NURSERY RHYMES Terry, Blair and Anoushka

75 ( 72 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

 

In life, surveying Bournemouth’s parks still, and at home teaching the kids how to draw. Buying loads of albums in sales and raving about the forgotten UK historical sit-com Chelmsford 1-2-3, a Roman invasion laugh starring Jimmy Mulville and Rory McGrath. It deserves to be better remembered as it’s still funny, and being period set it doesn’t date! Played an actual game of squash with cool Peter from work - and lost. Fun though. Had a strange dream about Janet Jackson, which if nothing else is a pop culture reference! Saw When Harry Met Sally at the cinema, a pleasant romcom, and decided to myself it was time I started looking around at possibly maybe moving out and sort of maybe getting into a relationship, as I wasn’t especially happy with my lot in life. Maybe. On the other hand, I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one this century if I were you...!

28th January 1990

 

2 weeks for Cher at 1, and The 49‘ers at 2, leaving Lisa Stansfield as the next bet to replace Cher at 4, Live Together making it a 3rd cool top 5 for Lisa. Sinead O’Connor also moves to 5 with her Prince cover classic. FPI Project’s Odyssey cover is at 7, showing their roots, and Mantronix just miss the top 10 at 11.

 

Quincy Jones, The Beloved (Hello!) and Rod’s train all chug in to the 20, as Janet Jackson gets another top 30 hit with ballad Come Back To Me. Highest new entry, though, is at 27 and it’s the band who made the song that became an anthem for the London Special Olympics: Public Enemy who Welcome you To The Terrordome, not Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Pleasuredome. A hugely influential rap act, but not a band I ever became passionate about so it comes as a pleasant surprise to see Public Enemy managed to beat out the competition for at least one week! There’s another welcome, albeit a dance welcome, too, at 29, from Gino Latino.

 

Sybil! Sybil!! No it’s not Fawlty Towers, it’s a dance soul shuffle cover of Dionne Warwick’s definitive version of Bacharach/David’s Walk On By. It’s a song that is impossible to ruin, so classic is it, but it’s also a song where no-one can better the cool heartbreak of the original, though Sybil does a fine job at 32. In the week that I went to see an Ex-Beatle live in concert, he drops by with a tuneful optmistic new ditty, Put It There Macca mate, at 49! It’s a spot of awesome though at 55, as Depeche Mode enter with their finest moment a full 9 years into their career, Enjoy The Silence is moody, tuneful, mysterious and brilliant, the Mode hitting new mature career highs worldwide and setting themselves up to be another influential act. Finally, it’s yet another dance cover at 59 - but this one’s different: Beats International was Norman Cook evolving his solo dance music career ex-Housemartins into a rave-dance DJ legend, starting with this very good cover of The SOS Band’s Jam & Lewis brilliant Just Be Good To Me. Dub Be Good To Me isn’t quite as good, but it does the job and tops the UK chart!

 

 

1 ( 1 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

2 ( 2 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

3 ( 3 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

4 ( 9 ) LIVE TOGETHER Lisa Stansfield

5 ( 6 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

6 ( 4 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

7 ( 18 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

8 ( 8 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

9 ( 7 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

10 ( 5 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

 

 

11 ( 22 ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

12 ( 16 ) HAPPENIN’ ALL OVER AGAIN Lonnie Gordon

13 ( 10 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

14 ( 23 ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

15 ( 30 ) HELLO The Beloved

16 ( 25 ) NOTHING EVER HAPPENS Del Amitri

17 ( 17 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

18 ( 13 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

19 ( 12 ) GET A LIFE Soul II Soul

20 ( 32 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

 

21 ( 11 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

22 ( 27 ) COULD HAVE TOLD YOU SO Halo James

23 ( 28 ) DRIVING Everything But The Girl

24 ( 14 ) THE MAGIC NUMBER/ BUDDY De La Soul

25 ( 69 ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

26 ( 20 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

27 ( NEW ) WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME Public Enemy

28 ( 15 ) WORDS The Christians

29 ( NEW ) WELCOME Gino Latino

30 ( 34 ) HERE I AM (COME AND TAKE ME) UB40

 

 

31 ( 39 ) SHINE ON The House Of Love

32 ( NEW ) WALK ON BY Sybil

33 ( 19 ) 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY Silver Bullet

34 ( 60 ) JUICY Wrecks ‘N’ Effect

35 ( 54 ) MORE THAN YOU KNOW Martika

36 ( 74 ) ULTRA MODERN NURSERY RHYMES Terry, Blair and Anoushka

37 ( 52 ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Phil Collins

38 ( 62 ) I CALLED U Lil Louis and The World

39 ( 29 ) HEY YOU The Quireboys

40 ( 56 ) NO MORE MR NICE GUY Megadeth

 

 

41 ( 40 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

42 ( 35 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

43 ( 48 ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

44 ( 21 ) DIFFERENT AIR Living In A Box

45 ( 24 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART Sonia

46 ( 47 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

47 ( 45 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

48 ( 59 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

49 ( NEW ) PUT IT THERE Paul McCartney

50 ( 38 ) I DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU Tina Turner

 

51 ( 36 ) HITMIX Alexander O’Neal

52 ( 58 ) KING AND QUEEN OF AMERICA Eurythmics

53 ( 42 ) RHYTHM NATION Janet Jackson

54 ( 33 ) OH PRETTY WOMAN Roy Orbison and Friends

55 ( NEW ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode

56 ( 26 ) HALLELUJAH (REMIX) The Happy Mondays

57 ( 31 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

58 ( 55 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

59 ( NEW ) DUB BE GOOD TO ME Beats International

60 ( 41 ) GETTING AWAY WITH IT Electronic

 

 

61 ( 46 ) HOUSE OF THE BLUE DANUBE Malcolm McLaren

62 ( 44 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

63 ( 61 ) SOMETHING/ COME TOGETHER The Beatles

64 ( 43 ) QUEEN OF THE NEW YEAR Deacon Blue

65 ( 65 ) HOUSE OF FIRE Alice Cooper

66 ( 75 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

67 ( 66 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

68 ( 73 ) INSTANT REPLAY Yell

69 ( 68 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

70 ( NEW ) BLUE SKY MINE Midnight Oil

 

71 ( NEW ) NRG Adamski

72 ( 49 ) TELL ME WHEN THE FEVER ENDED Electribe 101

73 ( 51 ) CHEER DOWN George Harrison

74 ( NEW ) THE FACE And Why Not

75 ( NEW ) WHEN THE NIGHT COMES Joe Cocker

 

London Wembley Arena Paul McCartney Live In Concert January 24th 1990

 

Took my mum to see an Ex-Beatle, Ex-Wings legend after a day at Oxford Street record stores shopping and the like, or PAUL MCCARTNEY!!!! as I noted it in my diary. We weren’t too far from the stage, on the flat, but a 12-foot-tall woman was sat in front of me which was very annoying. Tall people should be made to sit or stand at the back, and tickets should be issued on a height-proximity-to-stage basis! Large numbers of old people in the crowd, I age-istly noted (some of them must have been, ooh pushing 50, I guess, speaking now as someone who pushed 50 some time ago!). Not the most exciting concert I’d been to, but it was “certainly the largest collection of classic songs you’ll ever see this century” as Paul ran through Beatles classics, and fab solo Macca grooves, with revolving platforms for Paul and for the now-much-missed Linda, some 60’s psychedelic backdrop videos and some nostalgic eye-moistening from me over 2 and a half hours.

 

Ignoring a few Flowers In The Dirt album tracks which were a bit out of place amongst the jewels, songs like Fool On The Hill, Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be, and the like, though some uptempo numbers would have been even better, to add to Sgt Pepper, Jet, Got To Get You Into My Life etc. Live And Let Die came over powerfully, and Hey Jude was spine-tingling, though the crowd singalong was somewhat interrupted by a bloke just behind fainting and causing a commotion. Admittedly it was a very special moment for me - my first ever memory of record getting to UK number one, the first to top my own personal charts, and a Beatles highlight - but fainting is going one step too far for me! The encore? Yesterday (bit of a biggie that one), Get Back (brilliant), and Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/ The End. I wished I’d had a better seat, and a delayed drive back to moan about, but all in all... it was one of The Beatles! yay!

 

 

Above: Macc’s current song, but here’s the rated highlights:

 

1st: Hey Jude

2nd: Live And Let Die

3rd: Sgt. Pepper

4th: Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

5th: Can’t Buy Me Love

6th: Jet

7th: Back In The USSR

8th: Band On The Run

9th: Get Back

10th: Eleanor Rigby/This One/My Brave Face/Fool On The Hill/Let It Be

 

Phew! That’s quite a line-up of songs!

 

In the real world, I showed my gratitude at being given a full-time job by getting wound-up about the drop in wages and starting a meeting about the new role going straight to the point. I’d forgotten how stroppy I could be when stressed! Turns out they agreed to keep me on the same wage, which then pissed off colleagues. Oh dear! Had another game of squash (lost) with Peter, and at work Andy and I were dealing with tree damage from storms as we went out in the lashing rain and wind to note what needed attention in various parks. At home, I took the neice and nephew into the neighbouring woods to see all of the trees that had come down in the high winds. On TV: Whose Line Is It Anyway, The Golden Girls, A Day At The Races (Marx Brothers), Chelmsford 1-2-3...

4th february 1990

 

3 weeks for Cher on top, as the great Lisa Stansfield hits 3, and fabulous Sinead 4. The wonderful under-rated House Of Love’s Shine On gleams at 8, brightening up the top 10, and Hello! So do The Beloved, at 10, and a trio of veterans, Ray, Chaka and Quincy at 9. Leaving the highest new entry at 13 for a less-good but similar-sounding Technotronic follow-up, only this time Ya Kid K gets the justly-deserved featuring credit, not a model pretending to be her.

 

At 16, Chris Rea enters with a lush, cinematic, heart-breaking gentle song. If you’ve never heard Tell Me There’s A Heaven, click on the Youtube link and pay attention to the words, essentially a child dealing with death. It’s tender and affecting, and just plain gorgeously sad. Pure class. As is Paul McCartney’s under-stated up-beat ballad Put It There, up 35 spots to 14. Sybil, meanwhile Walks On By into the 20, Driving past Everything But The Girl and Janet Jackson.

 

Lloyd Cole goes Top 30, and Madonna enters at 35 with one of the best tracks on Like A Prayer, another lushly-orchestrated and sad-themed bit of class, Oh Father. Not a UK single until 1996, it was out in the USA in 1989 instead of Dear Jessie, and didn’t make the Top 10 in either country, sadly. Cos it’s fab. At 39, it’s a new return from Gilbert O’Sullivan, 20 years since debuting, in a contemporary dance stylee - pushed out on a white label to DJ’s with no artist credit, I think, which gave him a buzz he hadn’t had since 1972/3. It’s one of his best records, actually, and has a great video with the late lovely long-time comic actor Eric Sykes lending a hand. Gilbert changed the music biz the next year when he sued and won a case against Biz Markie for sampling Alone Again (Naturally) - since then people rightly pay for sampling.

 

Barry Manilow’s at 50 with Elvis’ 1969 Top 10 huge ballad, If I Can Dream, giving Bazza 15 years of covering other people’s songs. Another cover, from Tina Turner, at 56, as she brings Tony Joe’s bluesy swamprock great Steamy Windows into the charts but keeps the feel just right. One of her best solo records too. Fab. At 60, Faith No More enter with the raprocking Epic, a terrific blend of the genres, insistent and exciting. Seduction’s good US girl dance hit Two To Make It Right enters at 62, The Stranglers cover ? And The Mysterions (pronounced Question Mark!) the delightfully organtastic odd 1966 hit 96 Tears, and do it very well. Cliff’s at 69, though he’s Stronger Than That, while 5 years since his last hit Adam Ant’s got a room at the top, but it’s located at the bottom - 75.

 

 

1 ( 1 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

2 ( 2 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

3 ( 4 ) LIVE TOGETHER Lisa Stansfield

4 ( 5 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

5 ( 7 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

6 ( 9 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

7 ( 11 ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

8 ( 31 ) SHINE ON The House Of Love

9 ( 14 ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

10 ( 15 ) HELLO The Beloved

 

11 ( 12 ) HAPPENIN’ ALL OVER AGAIN Lonnie Gordon

12 ( 6 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

13 ( NEW ) GET UP (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER) Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K

14 ( 49 ) PUT IT THERE Paul McCartney

15 ( 3 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

16 ( NEW ) TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

17 ( 32 ) WALK ON BY Sybil

18 ( 13 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

19 ( 25 ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

20 ( 23 ) DRIVING Everything But The Girl

 

 

21 ( 17 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

22 ( 10 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

23 ( 8 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

24 ( 35 ) MORE THAN YOU KNOW Martika

25 ( 18 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

26 ( 20 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

27 ( 43 ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

28 ( 19 ) GET A LIFE Soul II Soul

29 ( 16 ) NOTHING EVER HAPPENS Del Amitri

30 ( 34 ) JUICY Wrecks ‘N’ Effect

 

 

31 ( 21 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

32 ( 28 ) WORDS The Christians

33 ( 29 ) WELCOME Gino Latino

34 ( 26 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

35 ( NEW ) OH FATHER Madonna

36 ( 36 ) ULTRA MODERN NURSERY RHYMES Terry, Blair and Anoushka

37 ( 37 ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Phil Collins

38 ( NEW ) HIGHER THAN HEAVEN Age Of Chance

39 ( NEW ) SO WHAT Gilbert O’Sullivan

40 ( 52 ) KING AND QUEEN OF AMERICA Eurythmics

 

 

41 ( 71 ) NRG Adamski

42 ( 22 ) COULD HAVE TOLD YOU SO Halo James

43 ( 48 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

44 ( 57 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

45 ( 27 ) WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME Public Enemy

46 ( 46 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

47 ( 42 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

48 ( 41 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

49 ( 55 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode

50 ( NEW ) IF I CAN DREAM Barry Manilow

 

51 ( 47 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

52 ( 59 ) DUB BE GOOD TO ME Beats International

53 ( 24 ) THE MAGIC NUMBER/ BUDDY De La Soul

54 ( 30 ) HERE I AM (COME AND TAKE ME) UB40

55 ( NEW ) BEACH BUMP Baby Ford

56 ( NEW ) STEAMY WINDOWS Tina Turner

57 ( 58 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

58 ( 68 ) INSTANT REPLAY Yell

59 ( 39 ) HEY YOU The Quireboys

60 ( NEW ) EPIC Faith No More

 

 

61 ( 33 ) 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY Silver Bullet

62 ( NEW ) TWO TO MAKE IT RIGHT Seduction

63 ( NEW ) TENDER LOVE Babyface

64 ( 62 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

65 ( NEW ) 96 TEARS The Stranglers

66 ( 66 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

67 ( 74 ) THE FACE And Why Not

68 ( 67 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

69 ( NEW ) STRONGER THAN THAT Cliff Richard

70 ( NEW ) MY DOCS Kiss AMC

 

71 ( 69 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

72 ( NEW ) ALL 4 LOVE Raze

73 ( NEW ) BAD LOVE Eric Clapton

74 ( NEW ) RUNAWAY HORSES Belinda Carlisle

75 ( NEW ) ROOM AT THE TOP Adam Ant

 

At work, there was lots of storm tree damage and lots of inspecting of parks and open spaces to do, having to make decisions on which trees needed attention which was a bit daunting. Got some good photos of fallen trees in the woods round and about home, and took the kids to look at them. Even more gales and storms made it a busy time! This was one of those “once in a generation” storm events that was actually the second time in 3 years. Played squash with Peter (lost of course)and a good chat after, popped round Bob’s for a chat, and watched a lot of TV: Chelmsford 123, Cheers, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Golden Girls, TOTP etc.

11th February 1990

 

Straight in at number 1, it’s the single release of an album track I already loved (bought the album in the States Autumn 1989) Here We Are, Gloria Estefan’s second chart-topper. I really did like her a lot, nice singer, lovely person, and was very happy to see Latino music get a big push through her and hubby Emilio’s Miami Sound Machine, 6 years on since Doctor Beat. It’s a sweetly sad ballad. Lonnie Gordon takes SAW back into the 10, and Rod Stewart gets his biggest hit in 6 years or so, as Downtown Train hits 8, just ahead of Sybil (Basil!) and Macca. Put It There, Paul!

 

Lloyd Cole returns to the 20 after a 3-year gap, No Blue Skies is another good ballad, so many of them dotted around the chart! Beats International rocket to 19, as Dub Be Good To Me gives Norman Cook his biggest post-Housemartins track, chasing the position of the SOS Band original. Seduction slide sultrily into the 40, showing it takes two to make it right at 23, and Depeche Mode’s classic Enjoy The Silence is right behind at 24, quietly working their way up. More loudly, Faith No More’s Epic is 26. Tina’s getting steamy at 38, as windows do when you get sweaty.

 

Next new entry is a 1990 dance remix of classic 1977 rock hit Black Betty, from Ram Jam at 31, ahead of Tears For Fears’ good Advice For The Young At Heart. I think I followed that advice, at 33, and also did a bit of gardening as Lenny Kravitz enters at 37, I Built This Garden For Us, bringing him chart-bound not for the last-time. I’m Not Satisfied, exclaim the Fine Young Cannibals, oh well, says I, noting they are in at 53 and have a decade of hits (with The Beat), and move on to Marc Almond’s A Lover Spurned, all drama at 61, 9 years on since Tainted Love. At 65, a great rock new entry from Aerosmith, who rightly warn us that Janie’s Got A Gun, and finally Spandau Ballet do a spot of crashing into love at 75. More like a very slight bump, actually.

 

 

 

1 ( NEW ) HERE WE ARE Gloria Estefan

2 ( 1 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

3 ( 3 ) LIVE TOGETHER Lisa Stansfield

4 ( 2 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

5 ( 8 ) SHINE ON The House Of Love

6 ( 11 ) HAPPENIN’ ALL OVER AGAIN Lonnie Gordon

7 ( 7 ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

8 ( 26 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

9 ( 17 ) WALK ON BY Sybil

10 ( 14 ) PUT IT THERE Paul McCartney

 

11 ( 5 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

12 ( 19 ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

13 ( 13 ) GET UP (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER) Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K

14 ( 16 ) TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

15 ( 6 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

16 ( 4 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

17 ( 10 ) HELLO The Beloved

18 ( 27 ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

19 ( 52 ) DUB BE GOOD TO ME Beats International

20 ( 9 ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

 

 

21 ( 39 ) SO WHAT Gilbert O’Sullivan

22 ( 12 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

23 ( 62 ) TWO TO MAKE IT RIGHT Seduction

24 ( 49 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode

25 ( 21 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

26 ( 60 ) EPIC Faith No More

27 ( 18 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

28 ( 38 ) HIGHER THAN HEAVEN Age Of Chance

29 ( 22 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

30 ( 40 ) KING AND QUEEN OF AMERICA Eurythmics

 

 

31 ( NEW ) BLACK BETTY ’90 Ram Jam

32 ( 37 ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Phil Collins

33 ( NEW ) ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART Tears For Fears

34 ( 25 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

35 ( 20 ) DRIVING Everything But The Girl

36 ( 30 ) JUICY Wrecks ‘N’ Effect

37 ( NEW ) I BUILD THIS GARDEN FOR US Lenny Kravitz

38 ( 56 ) STEAMY WINDOWS Tina Turner

39 ( 15 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

40 ( 23 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

 

 

41 ( 31 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

42 ( 44 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

43 ( 34 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

44 ( 32 ) WORDS The Christians

45 ( 28 ) GET A LIFE Soul II Soul

46 ( 35 ) OH FATHER Madonna

47 ( 43 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

48 ( 46 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

49 ( 29 ) NOTHING EVER HAPPENS Del Amitri

50 ( 50 ) IF I CAN DREAM Barry Manilow

 

51 ( 48 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

52 ( 47 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

53 ( NEW ) I’M NOT SATISFIED Fine Young Cannibals

54 ( 24 ) MORE THAN YOU KNOW Martika

55 ( 55 ) BEACH BUMP Baby Ford

56 ( 51 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

57 ( 58 ) INSTANT REPLAY Yell

58 ( 36 ) ULTRA MODERN NURSERY RHYMES Terry, Blair and Anoushka

59 ( 69 ) STRONGER THAN THAT Cliff Richard

60 ( 57 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

 

61 ( NEW ) A LOVER SPURNED Marc Almond

62 ( NEW ) TALKING WITH MYSELF Electribe 101

63 ( 33 ) WELCOME Gino Latino

64 ( 65 ) 96 TEARS The Stranglers

65 ( NEW ) JANIE’S GOT A GUN Aerosmith

66 ( 67 ) THE FACE And Why Not

67 ( 72 ) ALL 4 LOVE Raze

68 ( 66 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

69 ( 68 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

70 ( 63 ) TENDER LOVE Babyface

 

71 ( 71 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

72 ( 73 ) BAD LOVE Eric Clapton

73 ( 75 ) ROOM AT THE TOP Adam Ant

74 ( 64 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

75 ( NEW ) CRASHED INTO LOVE Spandau Ballet

 

At home, big Bob (driver from work of 5 years back) and his new girlfriend dropped by, and overlapped into the chart show, oops! Nice to catch up on news, and to see him get a girl after years of good-natured trying. More gales, rain, flooding, as we got measuring at work, for plans for a big Council reorganisation, the first of millions I’ve gone through since. Every new administration or leader likes to stamp their authority by changing things, cutting things, finding it backfires, doesn’t save money, and then hire in expensive temps to do the work that cheaper pissed-off staff used to do. It’s endlessly circular because the councillors who make these sort of decisions are not experts, largely they are morons with a vision who fail to listen to people who know better. I digress, 5-year-old Gavin was sick over mum’s bed, I watched TV Horizon shows on Neptune and Triton, as more and more images and knowledge of the planets gripped my imagination. I cancelled a works ice-skating evening due to apathy from confirmees changing their minds. Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison, giving some brightness and optimism to a world where injustice seemed to rule. I swore at the previous South African regimes, at this point, so I won’t repeat, but optimistically noted “Thatcher to go must be a possibility now”. When you’re right, you’re right....

Cool. My fave decade. Deffo comment on these later.

Cool. My fave decade. Deffo comment on these later.

 

thanks, the 90's have reached the nostagiafied point for me, and I'm rediscovering stuff I'd forgotten I liked. :cheer:

18th February 1990

 

2 weeks for Gloria, here we are... as Lisa Stansfield almost gets a second number one - doh! Ram Jam bring up the spirit of ’77 as Black Betty goes top 5 for the second time, the remix admittedly not as good as the original, but good enough for 3. Paul McCartney is on a top 5 roll, as the third track from Flowers In The Dirt goes top 5, all of them under-appreciated in the world at large. Pah! Depeche Mode are also on a roll, a second consecutive top 10, Enjoy The Silence giving them a bit of consistency of chart position unseen since 1984, and their 10th top 10.

 

Faith No More hit 13, Gilbert O’Sullivan hits 14, his highest-ranked since 1974. So what? Well, a 16-year gap, that’s what. Back at 19, having been a less big chart hit in 1989, suddenly Love Shack takes off in the UK (hooray!) and gives The B52’s their first top 20 since the reissue of Rock Lobster in 1985, and 11 years of chart activity. It’s a party classic, still, but took some time to grow on everyone. Fine Young Cannibals are unsatisfied with their final record of note, more or less - they pretty much split at the top of their game, shockingly.

 

The Stranglers 96 Tears don’t dampen by appreciation of a good cover version, it suited them perfectly at 27, and Black Box come back with a new single - I don’y know anybody else either. 3 veterans scrape inside the 40: Cliff, Marc and Adam, but not their finest hours, truth be told, my preference these days is for A Lover Spurned of the 3. Leaving Kate Bush, Love And Anger, and The Creatures, Billy Fury Eyes as new entries - OK I”m just wishful thinking The Creatures had called it that, and done a 60’s styled version instead of opting for the dance sound of the time, which has dated badly.

 

 

1 ( 1 ) HERE WE ARE Gloria Estefan

2 ( 3 ) LIVE TOGETHER Lisa Stansfield

3 ( 31 ) BLACK BETTY ’90 Ram Jam

4 ( 2 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

5 ( 10 ) PUT IT THERE Paul McCartney

6 ( 5 ) SHINE ON The House Of Love

7 ( 8 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

8 ( 9 ) WALK ON BY Sybil

9 ( 24 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode

10 ( 6 ) HAPPENIN’ ALL OVER AGAIN Lonnie Gordon

 

11 ( 4 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

12 ( 14 ) TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

13 ( 26 ) EPIC Faith No More

14 ( 21 ) SO WHAT Gilbert O’Sullivan

15 ( 19 ) DUB BE GOOD TO ME Beats International

16 ( 13 ) GET UP (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER) Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K

17 ( 7 ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

18 ( 12 ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

19 ( NEW ) LOVE SHACK The B52’s

20 ( 23 ) TWO TO MAKE IT RIGHT Seduction

 

 

 

21 ( 18 ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

22 ( 11 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

23 ( 53 ) I’M NOT SATISFIED Fine Young Cannibals

24 ( 16 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

25 ( 33 ) ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART Tears For Fears

26 ( 17 ) HELLO The Beloved

27 ( 64 ) 96 TEARS The Stranglers

28 ( 38 ) STEAMY WINDOWS Tina Turner

29 ( 25 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

30 ( 15 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

 

 

31 ( 20 ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

32 ( 22 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

33 ( NEW ) I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE Black Box

34 ( 37 ) I BUILD THIS GARDEN FOR US Lenny Kravitz

35 ( 27 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

36 ( 29 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

37 ( 34 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

38 ( 59 ) STRONGER THAN THAT Cliff Richard

39 ( 61 ) A LOVER SPURNED Marc Almond

40 ( 73 ) ROOM AT THE TOP Adam Ant

 

 

 

41 ( 32 ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Phil Collins

42 ( 28 ) HIGHER THAN HEAVEN Age Of Chance

43 ( 30 ) KING AND QUEEN OF AMERICA Eurythmics

44 ( 42 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

45 ( 36 ) JUICY Wrecks ‘N’ Effect

46 ( 35 ) DRIVING Everything But The Girl

47 ( 39 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

48 ( 47 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

49 ( 41 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

50 ( 43 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

 

51 ( 40 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

52 ( 48 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

53 ( RE ) RUNAWAY HORSES Belinda Carlisle

54 ( 52 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

55 ( 51 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

56 ( 57 ) INSTANT REPLAY Yell

57 ( 56 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

58 ( 65 ) JANIE’S GOT A GUN Aerosmith

59 ( NEW ) LOVE AND ANGER Kate Bush

60 ( 60 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

 

 

 

61 ( 44 ) WORDS The Christians

62 ( 62 ) TALKING WITH MYSELF Electribe 101

63 ( 45 ) GET A LIFE Soul II Soul

64 ( 49 ) NOTHING EVER HAPPENS Del Amitri

65 ( 72 ) BAD LOVE Eric Clapton

66 ( 50 ) IF I CAN DREAM Barry Manilow

67 ( NEW ) PROBABLY A ROBBERY Renegade Soundwave

68 ( 68 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

69 ( 69 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

70 ( NEW ) WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Jamie J. Morgan

 

71 ( 71 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

72 ( 54 ) MORE THAN YOU KNOW Martika

73 ( 75 ) CRASHED INTO LOVE Spandau Ballet

74 ( 74 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

75 ( NEW ) FURY EYES The Creatures

 

 

 

A flat tyre to sort for my car, a room shift about at work, lost at squash 4-2, then chatted to Peter afterwards about his life, and at home caught a new TV show, Quantum Leap, which promised much with it’s premise of being sent back in time as other people. The BRITS were on, and I went to see Honey I Shrunk The Kids at the new impressive UCI cinema at the new Tower Park, Rick Moranis and Matt Frewer I enjoyed, good-humoured movie too, but some stupid plotting made it a bit too silly.

 

 

2 ( 5 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

3 ( 4 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

4 ( 3 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

5 ( 1 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

 

 

11 ( 6 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

 

23 ( NEW ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob

26 ( 38 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

30 ( 21 ) EVE OF THE WAR (DEEPSPACE MIX) Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds featuring Justin Heyward

 

32 ( 25 ) TELL ME WHEN THE FEVER ENDED Electribe 101

33 ( NEW ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

39 ( 32 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

 

41 ( 33 ) PACIFIC - 707 808 State

43 ( 37 ) DEEP HEAT ’89 Various Artists

45 ( 40 ) DON’T ASK ME WHY Eurythmics

47 ( 41 ) YOU SURROUND ME Erasure

49 ( 48 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

50 ( 50 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

 

51 ( 47 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

52 ( 39 ) SIT AND WAIT Sydney Youngblood

53 ( 44 ) WOMAN IN CHAINS Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams

57 ( NEW ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

 

 

65 ( 61 ) OH WELL Oh Well

66 ( 63 ) PUMP UP THE JAM Technotronic featuring Felly (Ya Kid K)

70 ( 58 ) I’LL SAIL THIS SHIP ALONE The Beautiful South

 

 

 

What a great time for music - these are my pics for the start of the 1990s.

 

2 ( 5 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

3 ( 4 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

4 ( 3 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

5 ( 1 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

11 ( 6 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

 

23 ( NEW ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob

26 ( 38 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

30 ( 21 ) EVE OF THE WAR (DEEPSPACE MIX) Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds featuring Justin Heyward

 

32 ( 25 ) TELL ME WHEN THE FEVER ENDED Electribe 101

33 ( NEW ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

39 ( 32 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

 

41 ( 33 ) PACIFIC - 707 808 State

43 ( 37 ) DEEP HEAT ’89 Various Artists

45 ( 40 ) DON’T ASK ME WHY Eurythmics

47 ( 41 ) YOU SURROUND ME Erasure

49 ( 48 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

50 ( 50 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

 

51 ( 47 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

52 ( 39 ) SIT AND WAIT Sydney Youngblood

53 ( 44 ) WOMAN IN CHAINS Tears For Fears featuring Oleta Adams

57 ( NEW ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

65 ( 61 ) OH WELL Oh Well

66 ( 63 ) PUMP UP THE JAM Technotronic featuring Felly (Ya Kid K)

70 ( 58 ) I’LL SAIL THIS SHIP ALONE The Beautiful South

What a great time for music - these are my pics for the start of the 1990s.

 

Thanks Tony, yes 1990 was great - i'm three quarters through a comprehensive rate of the year, so by the end of the year I should have a Top 100 Best Of chart :cheer:

Cool. I like your taste a lot so I think there should be some great tunes in it.

25th February 1990

The second album track to enter at 1 in a row - this time off the Pet Shop Boys-produced fabulous Results album, for Liza Minelli, it’s her version of Yvonne Elliman’s 70’s disco classic Love Pains. Yvonne is still waiting to chart with it, as it was one that bypassed radio of the time, clubs only, so I never got to hear the song until Hazell Dean covered it, and charted in the mid-80’s. Needless to say, it’s Liza, it’s Chris n Neil, it’s a great song, it’s fab. Also, a big huge new entry at 4 for Erasure, the beautifully melodic Blue Savannah, their best track since Sometimes hit 1 in 1986, and hot on the heels of Depeche Mode shooting up to 2 with the sublime Enjoy The Silence for their biggest chart hit to date.

 

Beats International take Just (Dub) Be Good To Me into the top 10, just as did the SOS Band in 1984, while Tina Turner cracks another top tenner with Steamy Windows, and Chris Rea gets only his 3rd or 4th in 12 years with his best record, Tell Me There’s A Heaven. In at 22, it’s Aerosmith with their best record, the immensely exciting and horn-ey Dude (Looks Like A Lady) - watch the video right to the end, it’s just sooo great. Into the top 40, Electribe 101 get cool dance vibes blending with a snatch of Mission: Impossible’s TV theme tune, laid back, smokin’. Kate Bush also gets top 40 bound, just behind a cover of Lou Reid’s 1973 classic Walk On The Wild Side. Which leaves minor entries for 80’s acts, Shaky, Carmel, It Bites and Brother Beyond, and a great buzzing dance track, so good it was remixed and big all over again in the 21st century, Guru Josh’ Infinity. Time For The Guru!

 

 

1 ( NEW ) LOVE PAINS Liza Minelli

2 ( 9 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode

3 ( 1 ) HERE WE ARE Gloria Estefan

4 ( NEW ) BLUE SAVANNAH Erasure

5 ( 2 ) LIVE TOGETHER Lisa Stansfield

6 ( 3 ) BLACK BETTY ’90 Ram Jam

7 ( 4 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

8 ( 15 ) DUB BE GOOD TO ME Beats International

9 ( 28 ) STEAMY WINDOWS Tina Turner

10 ( 12 ) TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

 

11 ( 19 ) LOVE SHACK The B52’s

12 ( 7 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

13 ( 5 ) PUT IT THERE Paul McCartney

14 ( 14 ) SO WHAT Gilbert O’Sullivan

15 ( 6 ) SHINE ON The House Of Love

16 ( 8 ) WALK ON BY Sybil

17 ( 23 ) I’M NOT SATISFIED Fine Young Cannibals

18 ( 11 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

19 ( 27 ) 96 TEARS The Stranglers

20 ( 10 ) HAPPENIN’ ALL OVER AGAIN Lonnie Gordon

 

21 ( 16 ) GET UP (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER) Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K

22 ( NEW ) DUDE (LOOKS LIKE A LADY) Aerosmith

23 ( 17 ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

24 ( 25 ) ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART Tears For Fears

25 ( 24 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

26 ( 13 ) EPIC Faith No More

27 ( 39 ) A LOVER SPURNED Marc Almond

28 ( 18 ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

29 ( 38 ) STRONGER THAN THAT Cliff Richard

30 ( 20 ) TWO TO MAKE IT RIGHT Seduction

 

 

31 ( 67 ) PROBABLY A ROBBERY Renegade Soundwave

32 ( 29 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

33 ( 33 ) I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE Black Box

34 ( 62 ) TALKING WITH MYSELF Electribe 101

35 ( 40 ) ROOM AT THE TOP Adam Ant

36 ( 22 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

37 ( 21 ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

38 ( 26 ) HELLO The Beloved

39 ( 70 ) WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Jamie J. Morgan

40 ( 59 ) LOVE AND ANGER Kate Bush

 

 

41 ( 32 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

42 ( RE ) OH FATHER Madonna

43 ( 36 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

44 ( 30 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

45 ( 37 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

46 ( 31 ) I’LL BE GOOD TO YOU Quincy Jones featuring Ray Charles and Chaka Khan

47 ( 35 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

48 ( 48 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

49 ( 34 ) I BUILD THIS GARDEN FOR US Lenny Kravitz

50 ( 50 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

 

51 ( 44 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

52 ( 52 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

53 ( 53 ) RUNAWAY HORSES Belinda Carlisle

54 ( 49 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

55 ( 60 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

56 ( 68 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

57 ( 55 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

58 ( 54 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

59 ( 43 ) KING AND QUEEN OF AMERICA Eurythmics

60 ( 57 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

 

61 ( 61 ) WORDS The Christians

62 ( 46 ) DRIVING Everything But The Girl

63 ( NEW ) STILL TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER It Bites

64 ( 47 ) YOU USED TO Distant Cousins

65 ( NEW ) INFINITY Guru Josh

66 ( 73 ) CRASHED INTO LOVE Spandau Ballet

67 ( 41 ) I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN Phil Collins

68 ( 69 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

69 ( 71 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

70 ( 51 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) Jimmy Somerville

 

 

71 ( 45 ) JUICY Wrecks ‘N’ Effect

72 ( NEW ) I MOVE YOU Carmel

73 ( NEW ) TRUST Brother Beyond

74 ( 74 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

75 ( NEW ) I MIGHT Shakin’ Stevens

 

Spandau Ballet Live At Bournemouth International Centre 22nd February 1990

The audience were now averaging mid-20’s, 10-years on from starting their run of hits, Bob’s fave band of the 80’s, I’d seen Spandau before despite not being much of a fan, as Bob went to see Pet Shop Boys and I went to see Spandau, covering each other’s faves. Not much to say, it says in my notes, as they got off to a good start with Raw and Highly Strung before descending into the usual Pop Star Live Disease. Yes, that means sitting through a 45-minute advert for the latest album. This can work out well if it’s a classic album. Sadly, when it’s dreary it kills the mood stone-dead, nil audience participation, and so mundane. Gold livened things up a bit, but still a slowed-down version, and Through The Barricades was the highlight of the concert, only rivalled by the encore songs: To Cut A Long Story Short, and Chant Number 1. They also did True. Never mind.

My brother paid a rare visit for this time, having relationship and financial issues, with stuff he’d taken from grandma’s flat following a visit to her partner Jack, mainly sentimental stuff we’d given her, like Singapore cushion covers. I regretted not taking all of the stuff she’d badgered me to take for a couple of years, as it meant a lot to her, but I didn’t want to admit to myself she was getting to the age where she might pass away, and put it off. At the weekend, both niece Vicki and nephew Gavin were sick, Gavin throwing up in the middle of the night, and I decided my small bedroom was full up with stuff. 30-years on, I’ve spilled out into 2 other rooms, and they are all full to brimming. Mostly music, magazines, books...

Enjoy The Silence had better be heading for #1 next week or there'll be retro forum trouble.

Enjoy The Silence had better be heading for #1 next week or there'll be retro forum trouble.

 

It's either Depeche or Erasure at 1 next week. I'm such a tease... :lol: Whichever one it isn't tops when I have my first Florida holiday in late March. Phew! Saved! :yahoo:

BUT WILL IT BE ERASURE OR DEPECHE? :o

Let's assume that there's a joint number 1 for 5 weeks of Enjoy the Silence and Blue Savannah.

Edited April 9, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe

I'm not a fan early 90s (before Shampoo's invasion on the top of girl power), because I hate all those dance club hits.

 

Sadly "Tears On My Pillow" (my favourite Kylie's song with a huge gap over anybody else) didn't reach # 1.

Very cute "Dear Jessie" is lovely, my second favourite song from Madonna.

 

John, push "Runaway Horses" for the unpredictable # 1 debut. :cheer:

 

Thanks Alex, Tony, Dandy, all will be revealed soonish, just getting 1980 and 1985 sorted then the big reveal :lol:

 

still teasing :D

4th March 1990

 

 

At 1, it’s the fantastic career-peaking indie synth Enjoy The Silence, Depeche Mode finally getting that elusive chart-topper 9 years after starting a non-stop run of chart entries, and starting to catch up with former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke’s 2 (with Yazoo - Only You in 1982 - and Erasure - Sometimes in 1986). Talking of fab synth music, the more fab melodic aforesaid Vince is at 2 with his best record, the tuneful Blue Savannah. What were the chances!?

 

Jumping up to 6, it’s Cliff going all Stock Aitken Waterman in sound again, and a bit of video dancing cos he’s Stronger Than That, but it gives him a sweet non-stop run of top 10 entries for most years since 1968. Tears For Fears get a 7th top 10 in 8 years, and Electribe 101 just miss out on a second at 11. Highest new entry at 19 is JT, accompanied by his Big Family. They sound a little suspiciously like sampled Soul II Soul over some Art Of Noise, actually - well not suspiciously like, to be fair, exactly like. It’s a good shuffling soul track though. Shooting up, as well, it’s a dance anthem from Guru Josh at 31 - To Infinity and beyond! Quirky indierock classic Birdhouse In My Soul enters at 34 for They Might Be Giants, still sounds great.

 

Bros start to fade in the UK charts, but register in mine with the decent Madly In Love at 39, Jimmy Somerville is reading lips and keeping the hit singles coming fast at 38, these days solo as opposed to Bronski or Communard hits, while Billy joel is going to extremes to get into the top 40. Not one of his key tracks, but I have a new respect for Bill, having seen Elio Pace doing his songbook twice now (including this weekend April 2015), and the versatility of Billy’s songs (classical-inspired as much as poprocksoul inspired) is undeniable, and Elio Pace is great live (NOT a tribute act as such, he’s a working musician touring the songbook for now out of love for Joel).

 

Lower down and new: Innocence is sweet at 42, Wet Wet Wet a bit gospelly at 47, a mish mash of tracks and artists from the BRITS is at 50, while at 68 Eurythmic Dave Stewart is back with his best solo record 11 years after debuting with The Tourists, in tandem with sax player Candy Dulfer, and Lily Is Here is fab and instrumental. Leaving The Mission seeking deliverance at 75. Wonder if they’ve tried Duelling Banjos...

 

 

1 ( 2 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode

2 ( 4 ) BLUE SAVANNAH Erasure

3 ( 1 ) LOVE PAINS Liza Minelli

4 ( 3 ) HERE WE ARE Gloria Estefan

5 ( 11 ) LOVE SHACK The B52’s

6 ( 29 ) STRONGER THAN THAT Cliff Richard

7 ( 9 ) STEAMY WINDOWS Tina Turner

8 ( 8 ) DUB BE GOOD TO ME Beats International

9 ( 6 ) BLACK BETTY ’90 Ram Jam

10 ( 24 ) ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART Tears For Fears

 

11 ( 34 ) TALKING WITH MYSELF Electribe 101

12 ( 12 ) DOWNTOWN TRAIN Rod Stewart

13 ( 5 ) LIVE TOGETHER Lisa Stansfield

14 ( 7 ) JUST LIKE JESSE JAMES Cher

15 ( 17 ) I’M NOT SATISFIED Fine Young Cannibals

16 ( 10 ) TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

17 ( 27 ) A LOVER SPURNED Marc Almond

18 ( 22 ) DUDE (LOOKS LIKE A LADY) Aerosmith

19 ( NEW ) MOMENTS IN SOUL J.T. And The Big Family

20 ( 15 ) SHINE ON The House Of Love

 

 

21 ( 19 ) 96 TEARS The Stranglers

22 ( 13 ) PUT IT THERE Paul McCartney

23 ( 14 ) SO WHAT Gilbert O’Sullivan

24 ( 31 ) PROBABLY A ROBBERY Renegade Soundwave

25 ( 20 ) HAPPENIN’ ALL OVER AGAIN Lonnie Gordon

26 ( 21 ) GET UP (BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER) Technotronic featuring Ya Kid K

27 ( 16 ) WALK ON BY Sybil

28 ( 25 ) NOTHING COMPARES 2 U Sinead O’Connor

29 ( 18 ) TOUCH ME The 49ers

30 ( 39 ) WALK ON THE WILD SIDE Jamie J. Morgan

 

31 ( 65 ) INFINITY (IT'S TIME FOR THE GURU) Guru Josh

32 ( 28 ) COME BACK TO ME Janet Jackson

33 ( 40 ) LOVE AND ANGER Kate Bush

34 ( NEW ) BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants

35 ( 35 ) ROOM AT THE TOP Adam Ant

36 ( 23 ) GOT TO HAVE YOUR LOVE Mantronix featuring Wondress

37 ( 32 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush

38 ( NEW ) READ MY LIPS Jimmy Somerville

39 ( NEW ) MADLY IN LOVE Bros

40 ( NEW ) I GO TO EXTREMES Billy Joel

 

 

41 ( 26 ) EPIC Faith No More

42 ( NEW ) NATURAL THING innocence

43 ( 36 ) GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS/ RICH IN PARADISE The FPI Project

44 ( 30 ) TWO TO MAKE IT RIGHT Seduction

45 ( 38 ) HELLO The Beloved

46 ( 41 ) GOT TO GET Rob ‘n’ Raz featuring Leila K

47 ( NEW ) HOLD BACK THE RIVER Wet Wet Wet

48 ( 75 ) I MIGHT Shakin’ Stevens

49 ( 48 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles

50 ( NEW ) BRITS 1990 Various Artists

 

51 ( 45 ) IN PRIVATE Dusty Springfield

52 ( 55 ) SACRIFICE Elton John

53 ( 53 ) RUNAWAY HORSES Belinda Carlisle

54 ( 50 ) FOREVER BLUE Swing Out Sister

55 ( 52 ) SOWING THE SEEDS OF LOVE Tears For Fears

56 ( 43 ) WHEN YOU COME BACK TO ME Jason Donovan

57 ( 37 ) NO BLUE SKIES Lloyd Cole

58 ( 47 ) PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER D Mob featuring Nuff Juice

59 ( 51 ) BROKE AWAY Wet Wet Wet

60 ( 63 ) STILL TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER It Bites

 

61 ( 61 ) WORDS The Christians

62 ( 66 ) CRASHED INTO LOVE Spandau Ballet

63 ( 57 ) ROOM IN YOUR HEART Living In A Box

64 ( 60 ) THE SENSUAL WORLD Kate Bush

65 ( 56 ) SUGAR SUGAR The Archies

66 ( 54 ) DEAR JESSIE Madonna

67 ( 58 ) ALL AROUND THE WORLD Lisa Stansfield

68 ( NEW ) LILY WAS HERE David A. Stewart and Candy Dulfer

69 ( 33 ) I DON’T KNOW ANYBODY ELSE Black Box

70 ( 68 ) LITTLE LIES Fleetwood Mac

 

 

71 ( 69 ) SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Donovan

72 ( 44 ) TEARS ON MY PILLOW Kylie Minogue

73 ( 73 ) TRUST Brother Beyond

74 ( 74 ) BURNING THE GROUND Duran Duran

75 ( NEW ) DELIVERANCE The Mission

 

At work, I spent a few days re-checking input surveying data onto a new computer system, while the culprit was off sick - if you want a job doing right...etc. Work 10-pin bowling evening was fab fun, we were all young and keen and enjoyed social activities, hooray! Young Lucy’s new hairdo was a worthy of comment all round, and with news she had got a job with Christchurch Council, sadly, she was great fun. My top 2 singles this very week came on the video screens while we bowled. Came 2nd in two games, pah! I was moaning about my bedroom being full of crap, to my diary, and I’m happy to report that situation hasn’t changed 25 years later - except I now fill 3 rooms with my “crap”, aka records, books, mags, souvenirs, DVDs and hi fi equipment, computers, TV, blu ray and much much much more. In the news the Poll tax was getting everybody wound up, and on TV I was watching a Horizon special on the awesome Voyager spacecrafts accomplishments, and loving Quantum Leap with future Trek captain Scott Bakula. The weekend was spent getting nervous over preparations for a forthcoming American holiday with mum, dad and my little niece and nephew (7 and 5 years old)...