October 26, 20204 yr Author 28th October 1990 It's a first week on top for All Along The Watchtower, and the first number one for The Jimi Hendrix Experience, who'd peaked 9 places lower, or thereabouts, back in 1968 when I was starting up my first charts: this masterpiece took time to grow into a monster classic, but 22 years later here it is knocking another 60's classic off the top. Poor ol George Michael thus denied a chart-topper due to oldies-blocking. Kim Appleby bounds up to 8, her 4th top 10, and Kylie also grabs a 5th top 10. Prince is straight in at 14, New Power Generation name-checking his new backing band, and Jimmy Somerville reggae-fies the old Bee Gees ballad, as hit by Nina Simone in 1969, To Love Somebody, entering at 16. Stevie Wonder surprises me by re-entering a track I barely recall into the 40 for 22 years of doing that, Happy Mondays leap their Kinky Afro into the 30, as we get 2 more re-entries and a modest new entry from Tom Petty, and another track I don't recall from No Sweat - Heart And Soul. Maybe it'll come back to me if I check it out.... 1 ( 2 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 2 ( 1 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 3 ( 3 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 4 ( 5 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 5 ( 4 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 6 ( 10 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 7 ( 8 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 8 ( 28 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 9 ( 6 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 10 ( 18 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 11 ( 11 ) WORKING MAN Rita McNeil 12 ( 9 ) IT’S A SHAME (MY SISTER) Monie Love featuring True Image 13 ( 7 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 14 ( NEW ) NEW POWER GENERATION Prince 15 ( 14 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 16 ( NEW ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY Jimmy Somerville 17 ( 37 ) DRESSED FOR SUCCESS Roxette 18 ( 12 ) FASCINATING RHYTHM Bass-O-Matic 19 ( 17 ) BLUE VELVET Bobby Vinton 20 ( 20 ) I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat 21 ( 13 ) SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee 22 ( 19 ) GOOD MORNING BRITAIN Aztec Camera featuring Mick Jones 23 ( 22 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 24 ( 30 ) YOU GOTTA LOVE SOMEONE Elton John 25 ( 16 ) I CAN’T STAND IT Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood 26 ( 34 ) CLOSE TO ME (REMIX) The Cure 27 ( RE ) KEEP OUR LOVE ALIVE Stevie Wonder 28 ( 15 ) MOTHER UNIVERSE The Soup Dragons 29 ( 29 ) BE TENDER WITH ME BABY Tina Turner 30 ( 62 ) KINKY AFRO Happy Mondays 31 ( 25 ) GHETTO CHILD (REMIX) The Detroit Spinners 32 ( 39 ) DON’T ASK ME Public Image Ltd 33 ( 33 ) THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 34 ( 21 ) GROOVE IS IN THE HEART Deee-Lite 35 ( 24 ) DIDN’T I BLOW YOUR MIND (THIS TIME) New Kids On The Block 36 ( 36 ) AFRICA Toto 37 ( 59 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 38 ( 38 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 39 ( 70 ) CAN’T STOP After 7 40 ( 23 ) CRYING IN THE RAIN a-ha 41 ( 26 ) FROM A DISTANCE Cliff Richard 42 ( 32 ) CULT OF SNAP Snap! 43 ( 31 ) THEN The Charlatans 44 ( 40 ) TOM’S DINER DNA featuring Suzanne Vega 45 ( 44 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 46 ( 45 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 47 ( RE ) (I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOUR) LOVE AND AFFECTION Nelson 48 ( 48 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 49 ( 41 ) WE’VE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE The Animals 50 ( 27 ) WE LOVE YOU JBC 51 ( 54 ) I’M YOUR BABY TONIGHT Whitney Houston 52 ( 53 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 53 ( 47 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART/ DANGEROUS Roxette 54 ( 46 ) RIDING INTO BLUE Inga 55 ( 55 ) BLACK VELVET Alannah Myles 56 ( 51 ) KING OF WISHFUL THINKING Go West 57 ( NEW ) HEART AND SOUL No Sweat 58 ( 50 ) LET IT ALL HANG OUT ’90 Jonathan King AKA JK25 59 ( 43 ) ONLY YOUR LOVE Bananarama 60 ( 61 ) A BEAT CALLED LOVE The Grid 61 ( RE ) BABY I’M YOURS Cher 62 ( 60 ) THE JOKER The Steve Miller Band 63 ( 74 ) I’M DOIN’ FINE Jason Donovan 64 ( 65 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 65 ( 63 ) HOLD ON Wilson Philips 66 ( 35 ) RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW Jesus Jones 67 ( 52 ) LIFT ME UP Jeff Lynne 68 ( 68 ) MOVIES Hothouse Flowers 69 ( 42 ) CAN’T GET ENOUGH Kim Wilde 70 ( 69 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode 71 ( 71 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush 72 ( 64 ) KINGSTON TOWN UB40 73 ( 49 ) MEGAMIX Technotronic 74 ( 57 ) WHERE ARE YOU BABY Betty Boo 75 ( NEW ) A FACE IN THE CROWD Tom Petty
November 7, 20204 yr Author 4th November 1990 It's The Jimi Hendrix Experience on top for a second week as an entirely oldies to 3 stops George Michael, Kylie & Kim Appleby getting a 1,2,3 - which, to be fair, they all deserved as all 3 are fab. Kylie gets a second top 5 in a row, though, The Charlatans do an about-turn and hit a new peak of 7 with Then, and Jimmy Somerville goes where Nina Simone went with her version of The Bee Gees song 21 years earlier - top 10. Highest new entry is Dusty Springfield, taken from the Reputation album - 4th single off it and a bizarre choice when Pet Shop Boys' Daydreamin' was never released: when asked why not, Dusty replied "ask the boys". Still, it's a great album and track anyway, her 5th top 10 of new material in the 80's comeback period, and 8th in total. In a very busy week for new entries, The La's 1989 minor entry comes back bigger at 16 with the classic There She Goes; Happy Mondays go top 20 with a Kinky Afro; Jon Bon Jovi smashes in at 19 with Miracle, his solo stuff proving more popular with me than more recent band singles; Blue Pearl have stooped dancing naked in the rain and sing about Little Brother, a minor follow-up I preferred, under-rated! The Beloved keep the ball rolling, and It's Alright Now at 35, as Robert Palmer has an unlikely team-up with UB40 to cover a Bob Dylan song to good effect, giving them both top 40's in 3 decades. Dream Warriors debut Daisy-age stylee with the fab Bombastic Jazz Style, as defined by them at 42, Was (Not Was) feel better than James Brown - it's not bragging, it's a reference to his I Feel Good - Danielle Dax (possibly an earlier host of Jadzia Dax, or possibly not) covers The Beatles, Sinead O'Connor has 3 babies (I'm fairly sure she didn't), Black Box attempt to ruin Earth, Wind & Fire's fabulous Fantasy, but fall short of being awful, just, and Aswad bounce back with a Smile. Finally, Hall & Oates re-enter with So Close at 39 cos I saw them in concert this week, with fab assistance from 70's folk/disco/showtune singer Linda Lewis. Tellingly, they showed their roots in soul music by covering Marvin Gaye & The O'Jays and impressing me with those more than most of their own material, which is pretty strong anyway. 1 ( 1 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 2 ( 2 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 3 ( 6 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 4 ( 3 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 5 ( 10 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 6 ( 8 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 7 ( 43 ) THEN The Charlatans 8 ( 5 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 9 ( 16 ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY Jimmy Somerville 10 ( NEW ) ARRESTED BY YOU Dusty Springfield 11 ( 4 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 12 ( 14 ) NEW POWER GENERATION Prince 13 ( 9 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 14 ( 7 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 15 ( 30 ) KINKY AFRO Happy Mondays 16 ( NEW ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 17 ( 26 ) CLOSE TO ME (REMIX) The Cure 18 ( 13 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 19 ( NEW ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 20 ( 11 ) WORKING MAN Rita McNeil 21 ( 12 ) IT’S A SHAME (MY SISTER) Monie Love featuring True Image 22 ( 37 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 23 ( 15 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 24 ( 17 ) DRESSED FOR SUCCESS Roxette 25 ( 20 ) I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat 26 ( 23 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 27 ( 39 ) CAN’T STOP After 7 28 ( 18 ) FASCINATING RHYTHM Bass-O-Matic 29 ( 19 ) BLUE VELVET Bobby Vinton 30 ( 32 ) DON’T ASK ME Public Image Ltd 31 ( 21 ) SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee 32 ( 22 ) GOOD MORNING BRITAIN Aztec Camera featuring Mick Jones 33 ( NEW ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 34 ( 33 ) THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 35 ( NEW ) IT’S ALRIGHT NOW The Beloved 36 ( 31 ) GHETTO CHILD (REMIX) The Detroit Spinners 37 ( 38 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 38 ( 57 ) HEART AND SOUL No Sweat 39 ( RE ) SO CLOSE Daryl Hall & John Oates 40 ( NEW ) I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Robert Palmer & UB40 41 ( 45 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 42 ( NEW ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 43 ( 51 ) I’M YOUR BABY TONIGHT Whitney Houston 44 ( 25 ) I CAN’T STAND IT Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood 45 ( 27 ) KEEP OUR LOVE ALIVE Stevie Wonder 46 ( 36 ) AFRICA Toto 47 ( 34 ) GROOVE IS IN THE HEART Deee-Lite 48 ( 40 ) CRYING IN THE RAIN a-ha 49 ( 48 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 50 ( 46 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 51 ( 63 ) I’M DOIN’ FINE Jason Donovan 52 ( 64 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 53 ( 52 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 54 ( NEW ) I FEEL BETTER THAN JAMES BROWN Was (Not Was) 55 ( 28 ) MOTHER UNIVERSE The Soup Dragons 56 ( 54 ) RIDING INTO BLUE Inga 57 ( 49 ) WE’VE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE The Animals 58 ( 24 ) YOU GOTTA LOVE SOMEONE Elton John 59 ( 59 ) ONLY YOUR LOVE Bananarama 60 ( 55 ) BLACK VELVET Alannah Myles 61 ( 53 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART/ DANGEROUS Roxette 62 ( 44 ) TOM’S DINER DNA featuring Suzanne Vega 63 ( 56 ) KING OF WISHFUL THINKING Go West 64 ( 29 ) BE TENDER WITH ME BABY Tina Turner 65 ( NEW ) TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS Danielle Dax 66 ( 58 ) LET IT ALL HANG OUT ’90 Jonathan King AKA JK25 67 ( 71 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush 68 ( 65 ) HOLD ON Wilson Philips 69 ( NEW ) THREE BABIES Sinead O’Connor 70 ( 47 ) (I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOUR) LOVE AND AFFECTION Nelson 71 ( 70 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode 72 ( 42 ) CULT OF SNAP Snap! 73 ( 62 ) THE JOKER The Steve Miller Band 74 ( NEW ) FANTASY Black Box 75 ( NEW ) SMILE Aswad HALL & OATES LIVE AT BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL CENTRE 1 She’s Gone 2 Maneater 3 What’s Going On 4 Backstabbers 5 I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) LINDA LEWIS LIVE AT BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL CENTRE 1 For What It’s Worth
November 17, 20204 yr Author 11th November 1990 It's a 3rd week on top for Hendrix's Dylan cover as The La's is the biggest new(ish) challenger for the top spot, up to 3 with the fab There She Goes, while yet another oldie returns at 10 - Donna Summer's terrific Jon & Vangelis cover of State Of Independence gets a 2nd shot in the top 10 8 years on. In at 19, it's the brilliant haunting beauty of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game, which fit in perfectly with the music backdrop of the bizarre, enthralling Twin Peaks TV series, which throws off a hit performer from the show in the form of Julee Cruise entering at 35 with Falling - the vocal version of the ethereal instrumental theme tune. Was (Not Was) grab another top 40 hit, Dream Warriors a first, and Whitney returns after failing to get so high for some time. New entries are bombarding in, though, in the pre-christmas rush, with Madonna's new & controversially naughty Justify My Love (assisted by Lenny Kravitz), in at 40, EMF's debut with the still-popular Unbelievable at 45, Marc Almond's latest goodie, Waifs & Strays at 47, and 1991 hit (remixed) Sunshine On A Rainy Day gives Zoe an early bit of chart action before actual UK chart action, in at 56. A cover of Johnny Wakelin's pounding 1976 biggie In Zaire pops in at 60, Queen & Bowie drop at 64 under a pseudonym (Vanilla Ice wasn't reeally a Florida white rapper was he?) and a lyric change to Ice Ice Baby, collaborate & listen! Mory Kante gets a follow-up 2 years on to Ye Ke Ye Ke, and JJ debuts with Slide Away. Not the Oasis song. 1 ( 1 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 2 ( 2 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 3 ( 16 ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 4 ( 5 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 5 ( 6 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 6 ( 3 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 7 ( 4 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 8 ( 9 ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY Jimmy Somerville 9 ( 8 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 10 ( NEW ) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE Donna Summer 11 ( 19 ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 12 ( 12 ) NEW POWER GENERATION Prince 13 ( 10 ) ARRESTED BY YOU Dusty Springfield 14 ( 15 ) KINKY AFRO Happy Mondays 15 ( 13 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 16 ( 7 ) THEN The Charlatans 17 ( 11 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 18 ( 14 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 19 ( NEW ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak 20 ( 22 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 21 ( 18 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 22 ( 33 ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 23 ( 54 ) I FEEL BETTER THAN JAMES BROWN Was (Not Was) 24 ( 23 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 25 ( 39 ) SO CLOSE Daryl Hall & John Oates 26 ( 17 ) CLOSE TO ME (REMIX) The Cure 27 ( 27 ) CAN’T STOP After 7 28 ( 42 ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 29 ( 26 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 30 ( 40 ) I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Robert Palmer & UB40 31 ( 20 ) WORKING MAN Rita McNeil 32 ( 21 ) IT’S A SHAME (MY SISTER) Monie Love featuring True Image 33 ( 25 ) I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat 34 ( 31 ) SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee 35 ( NEW ) FALLING Julee Cruise 36 ( 34 ) THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 37 ( 37 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 38 ( 28 ) FASCINATING RHYTHM Bass-O-Matic 39 ( 43 ) I’M YOUR BABY TONIGHT Whitney Houston 40 ( NEW ) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Madonna 41 ( 29 ) BLUE VELVET Bobby Vinton 42 ( 24 ) DRESSED FOR SUCCESS Roxette 43 ( 41 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 44 ( 35 ) IT’S ALRIGHT NOW The Beloved 45 ( NEW ) UNBELIEVABLE EMF 46 ( 36 ) GHETTO CHILD (REMIX) The Detroit Spinners 47 ( NEW ) WAIFS AND STRAYS Marc Almond 48 ( 32 ) GOOD MORNING BRITAIN Aztec Camera featuring Mick Jones 49 ( 75 ) SMILE Aswad 50 ( 49 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 51 ( 52 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 52 ( 30 ) DON’T ASK ME Public Image Ltd 53 ( 50 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 54 ( 53 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 55 ( 46 ) AFRICA Toto 56 ( NEW ) SUNSHINE ON A RAINY DAY Zoe 57 ( 38 ) HEART AND SOUL No Sweat 58 ( NEW ) RELEASE ME Wilson Philips 59 ( 56 ) RIDING INTO BLUE Inga 60 ( NEW ) IN ZAIRE African Business 61 ( 60 ) BLACK VELVET Alannah Myles 62 ( 48 ) CRYING IN THE RAIN a-ha 63 ( 47 ) GROOVE IS IN THE HEART Deee-Lite 64 ( NEW ) ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice 65 ( 44 ) I CAN’T STAND IT Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood 66 ( 59 ) ONLY YOUR LOVE Bananarama 67 ( 67 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush 68 ( 57 ) WE’VE GOTTA GET OUT OF THIS PLACE The Animals 69 ( NEW ) BANQUERO Mory Kante 70 ( 61 ) LISTEN TO YOUR HEART/ DANGEROUS Roxette 71 ( 63 ) KING OF WISHFUL THINKING Go West 72 ( 71 ) ENJOY THE SILENCE Depeche Mode 73 ( NEW ) SLIDE AWAY JJ 74 ( 74 ) FANTASY Black Box 75 ( 68 ) HOLD ON Wilson Philips PLAYLIST OLDIES/ALBUMS 1 “BEHAVIOUR” Pet Shop Boys 2 “REPUTATION” Dusty Springfield 3 BETCHA BY GOLLY WOW The Stylistics
November 21, 20204 yr Author Great top 3 there! Been missing these 1990 chart for a bit now! Thanks Steve :)
November 21, 20204 yr Author 18th November 1990 It's straight in at 1 for the second single off Behaviour, the gorgeous Being Boring, giving the Pet Shop Boys an 11th Chart-topper, putting them one behind ELO, and some way short of Michael Jackson, Abba and The Beatles in all-time number of chart-toppers. It's also 6 in a row. That means Chris Isaak's brilliant Wicked Game is held off the top despite a rise of 17 places. Jon Bon Jovi gets a first solo top 10, and a 3rd in total, that's a Miracle! Madonna is on 9 chart-toppers and keen to cactn up with the Pet Shop Boys, shooting up to 9 with Justify My Love. EMF and Vanilla Ice have big climbs into the top 30, and Donny Osmond enters at 30 some 18 years since Puppy Love kicked off the solo run, My Love Is A Fire. Probably need some penicillin, Donny! Mory Kante gets a 2nd top 40, and The Proclaimers cover Roger Miller's fab King Of The Road, some 24 years on from my kiddie love of the original, and are rewarded with a decent track entering at 38. F.A.B. follow-up Thunderbirds with Stingray - any 60's kid LOVES both TV themes. Those who watched TV at any rate. Inspiral Carpets do an EP, AC/DC make it 12 years since debut with Money Talks, and they are back in my current charts an incredible 30 years on, while topping the UK album charts. The Traveling Wilburys keep the singles coming, INXS appear then Disappear at 60, Rod & Tina team-up and attempt to ruin a Motown classic. They don't quite succeed, but it's a close call. Marvin & Kim can't be beat. Bobby Vinton makes it two early 60's oldies, and footballer Gazza teams up with his local lads Lindisfarne to bring Fog On The Tyne into the chart. As the track was never a classic anyway, not too much to worry about ruining. Still, even with the bar set low it's worse than the 1972 original, and not a patch on Lindisfarne's great 70's hits. 1 ( NEW ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys 2 ( 19 ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak 3 ( 5 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 4 ( 1 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 5 ( 2 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 6 ( 10 ) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE Donna Summer 7 ( 11 ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 8 ( 3 ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 9 ( 40 ) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Madonna 10 ( 7 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 11 ( 4 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 12 ( 8 ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY Jimmy Somerville 13 ( 6 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 14 ( 20 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 15 ( 47 ) WAIFS AND STRAYS Marc Almond 16 ( 9 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 17 ( 45 ) UNBELIEVABLE EMF 18 ( 13 ) ARRESTED BY YOU Dusty Springfield 19 ( 35 ) FALLING Julee Cruise 20 ( 28 ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 21 ( 12 ) NEW POWER GENERATION Prince 22 ( 18 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 23 ( 23 ) I FEEL BETTER THAN JAMES BROWN Was (Not Was) 24 ( 64 ) ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice 25 ( 17 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 26 ( 22 ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 27 ( 15 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 28 ( 16 ) THEN The Charlatans 29 ( 14 ) KINKY AFRO Happy Mondays 30 ( NEW ) MY LOVE IS A FIRE Donny Osmond 31 ( 21 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 32 ( 69 ) BANQUERO Mory Kante 33 ( 24 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 34 ( 29 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 35 ( 30 ) I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Robert Palmer & UB40 36 ( 73 ) SLIDE AWAY JJ 37 ( 25 ) SO CLOSE Daryl Hall & John Oates 38 ( NEW ) KING OF THE ROAD The Proclaimers 39 ( 49 ) SMILE Aswad 40 ( 37 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 41 ( 34 ) SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee 42 ( 32 ) IT’S A SHAME (MY SISTER) Monie Love featuring True Image 43 ( 33 ) I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat 44 ( 43 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 45 ( NEW ) STINGRAY F.A.B. 46 ( 36 ) THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 47 ( NEW ) ISLAND HEAD EP Inspiral Carpets 48 ( NEW ) MONEY TALKS AC/DC 49 ( 56 ) SUNSHINE ON A RAINY DAY Zoe 50 ( NEW ) SHE’S MY BABY The Traveling Wilburys 51 ( 51 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 52 ( 50 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 53 ( 26 ) CLOSE TO ME (REMIX) The Cure 54 ( 27 ) CAN’T STOP After 7 55 ( 31 ) WORKING MAN Rita McNeil 56 ( 54 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 57 ( 46 ) GHETTO CHILD (REMIX) The Detroit Spinners 58 ( 53 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 59 ( 38 ) FASCINATING RHYTHM Bass-O-Matic 60 ( NEW ) DISAPPEAR INXS 61 ( 42 ) DRESSED FOR SUCCESS Roxette 62 ( NEW ) SPIT IN THE RAIN Del Amitri 63 ( 44 ) IT’S ALRIGHT NOW The Beloved 64 ( 41 ) BLUE VELVET Bobby Vinton 65 ( NEW ) HANDS ACROSS THE OCEAN The Mission 66 ( 74 ) FANTASY Black Box 67 ( 55 ) AFRICA Toto 68 ( 59 ) RIDING INTO BLUE Inga 69 ( 67 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush 70 ( 60 ) IN ZAIRE African Business 71 ( NEW ) STRANDED Heart 72 ( 61 ) BLACK VELVET Alannah Myles 73 ( NEW ) IT TAKES TWO Rod Stewart & Tina Turner 74 ( NEW ) ROSES ARE RED Bobby Vinton 75 ( NEW ) FOG ON THE TYNE Gazza & Lindisfarne Playlist/ Oldies 1 MOONLIGHT FEELS RIGHT Starbuck 2 ”Behaviour” Pet Shop Boys 3 “Listen Without Prejudice” George Michael
December 9, 20204 yr Author 25th November 1990 It's another case of a great Pet Shop Boys single getting knocked off the top after one week due to a classic oldie, this time The Bee Gees wonderful re-issued How Deep Is Your Love which went top 3 in 1977, but got held off the top spot. 13 years later it becomes their 5th number one. It's not the only classic oldie to chart, either, as my chart is opened up to charting albums and tracks that haven't charted before, allowing Led Zep's 1971 epic Stairway To Heaven to enter at 4, their first-ever entry 19 years late (never a UK single). It also allows Sleeping With The Past track Durban Deep in at 33 for Elton John. Vanilla Ice takes Ice Ice Baby into the top 10, and Dimples D is a Sucka DJ at 10. Lots of climbs for currently charting tracks as I bought the latest NOW album on CD, boosting the ones that sounded fresh. INXS, AC/DC & FAB bring some alphabet activity into the top 40 with climbers, and Cathy Dennis debuts with her fabulous Just Another Dream at 37, a hit in 1991. The list of big songs she's going to co-write would have been surprising late in 1990! At 42, and still touring at Xmas to sell-out crowds, it's Gary Glitter telling us he has a Red Hot Reputation. Not anywhere near as red hot as it will be, though not quite as anticipated. Deee-Lite get a 3rd chart entry of 1990, and we move back to the Flower Power & Merseybeat 60's as novelty oldie Kinky Boots from The Avengers stars Patrick MacNee & Honour Blackman finally gets to be a hit. It's daft but a charming early 60's period piece. Hippie Donovan, and template for early Marc Bolan & T.Rex, is back as The Singing Corner cover his 1968 childhood fave of mine Jennifer Juniper. The band (duo) is an alias for Trevor and Simon, whimsical kiddie TV presenters. Soul II Soul return, this time with Kym Mazelle guesting. If Kym had a penny for every guest vocal she did... Snap! stretch out the run of 1990 hits with Mary Had A Little Boy at 63, but the formula was wearing thinner. Kim Wilde Can't Say Goodbye at 74. Given she still charts with new stuff in the 21st century for me, I'm more than happy she can't. Jive Bunny manage to chart by ruining a batch of Xmas classics. I wonder if this starts the decline in popularity for Wizzard and Slade's perennial faves. As it's listed on my playlist and So Hard is still charting, B side It Must be Obvious gets a bonus Pet Shop Boys chart entry (though as it's not officially a single it won't ruin any run of chart-toppers - if the next single hits the top spot!). 1 ( NEW ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees 2 ( 2 ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak 3 ( 1 ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys 4 ( NEW ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin 5 ( 3 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 6 ( 4 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 7 ( 9 ) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Madonna 8 ( 5 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 9 ( 24 ) ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice 10 ( 14 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 11 ( 10 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 12 ( 8 ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 13 ( 17 ) UNBELIEVABLE EMF 14 ( 6 ) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE Donna Summer 15 ( 26 ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 16 ( 7 ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 17 ( 20 ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 18 ( 11 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 19 ( 19 ) FALLING Julee Cruise 20 ( 16 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 21 ( 15 ) WAIFS AND STRAYS Marc Almond 22 ( 12 ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY Jimmy Somerville 23 ( 23 ) I FEEL BETTER THAN JAMES BROWN Was (Not Was) 24 ( 38 ) KING OF THE ROAD The Proclaimers 25 ( 13 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 26 ( 30 ) MY LOVE IS A FIRE Donny Osmond 27 ( 27 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 28 ( 22 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 29 ( 25 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 30 ( 32 ) BANQUERO Mory Kante 31 ( 45 ) STINGRAY F.A.B. 32 ( 18 ) ARRESTED BY YOU Dusty Springfield 33 ( NEW ) DURBAN DEEP Elton John 34 ( 21 ) NEW POWER GENERATION Prince 35 ( 39 ) SMILE Aswad 36 ( 48 ) MONEY TALKS AC/DC 37 ( NEW ) JUST ANOTHER DREAM Cathy Dennis 38 ( 28 ) THEN The Charlatans 39 ( 60 ) DISAPPEAR INXS 40 ( 31 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 41 ( 34 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 42 ( NEW ) RED HOT REPUTATION Gary Glitter 43 ( 49 ) SUNSHINE ON A RAINY DAY Zoe 44 ( 40 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 45 ( NEW ) POWER OF LOVE Deee-Lite 46 ( 33 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 47 ( 47 ) ISLAND HEAD EP Inspiral Carpets 48 ( 44 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 49 ( NEW ) KINKY BOOTS Patrick MacNee & Honour Blackman 50 ( NEW ) JENNIFER JUNIPER The Singing Corner featuring Donovan 51 ( 46 ) THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 52 ( 51 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 53 ( 52 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 54 ( 41 ) SHOW ME HEAVEN Maria McKee 55 ( NEW ) MISSING YOU Soul II Soul featuring Kym Mazelle 56 ( 29 ) KINKY AFRO Happy Mondays 57 ( 56 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 58 ( 37 ) SO CLOSE Daryl Hall & John Oates 59 ( 35 ) I’LL BE YOUR BABY TONIGHT Robert Palmer & UB40 60 ( 43 ) I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU Londonbeat 61 ( 42 ) IT’S A SHAME (MY SISTER) Monie Love featuring True Image 62 ( 58 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 63 ( NEW ) MARY HAD A LITTLE BOY Snap! 64 ( 36 ) SLIDE AWAY JJ 65 ( 50 ) SHE’S MY BABY The Traveling Wilburys 66 ( 59 ) FASCINATING RHYTHM Bass-O-Matic 67 ( 57 ) GHETTO CHILD (REMIX) The Detroit Spinners 68 ( NEW ) TIME TO MAKE THE FLOOR BURN Megabass 69 ( 73 ) IT TAKES TWO Rod Stewart & Tina Turner 70 ( 69 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush 71 ( NEW ) ALL TOGETHER NOW The Farm featuring Pete Wylie 72 ( 53 ) CLOSE TO ME (REMIX) The Cure 73 ( 64 ) BLUE VELVET Bobby Vinton 74 ( NEW ) CAN’T SAY GOODBYE Kim Wilde 75 ( NEW ) LET’S SWING AGAIN Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers 76 ( NEW ) IT MUST BE OBVIOUS Pet Shop Boys playlist records 1 “Behaviour” Pet Shop Boys 2 LIKE A PRAYER Madonna 3 IT MUST BE OBVIOUS Pet Shop Boys
December 10, 20204 yr Author 2nd December 1990 It's up to 1 after 2 weeks stuck at 2 for Chris Isaak's hauntingly brilliant Wicked Game, a song that tolerates any number of different genres of cover and comes out of it smelling of roses. Marc Almond's solo hitmaking days are in a low ebb at this point, but not here, Waifs And Strays is fab and up to 4 for his biggest track since 1982's What with Soft Cell. It's a huge jump for a first top 10 for Pachelbel's Canon In D. I say first, but not the last - see Go West, Don't Look Back In Anger and hordes of other pop songs using the chord sequences, and this time it's All Together Now, The Farm's signature song, aided and abetted by Pete Wylie on his 4th top 10, dating back to chart-topper Story Of The Blues in 1983. EMF get their first (and last) top 10 - unbelievable! Blue Pearl, ditto, with Little Brother, an under-rated track. Given it's been completely forgotten I think that's fair: "Last Played on Radio in 1991". Highest new entry, it's second-time round for Patsy Cline's country classic Crazy, which became popular after a spot on the music TV show The Tube, in at 13, while it's also Crazy at 20 - as Seal debuts his solo classic hot on the heels of his show-stopping vocal on Killer. George Michael enters with another song called Freedom ('90) following on from his Wham! hit, at 19, and third single off the new album upbeat and at odds with the rest of the downbeat album. INXS leap into the 20, Human League return with Soundtrack To A Generation (it wasn't, it flopped), at 26, and Boxer Nigel Benn achieves the impossible - a career spin-off record that's actually quite good: Stand And Fight was quite funky, and had a very nice sleeve cover photo, as I recall. In at 36, while Cliff is back with a Xmas record at 39. Don't panic though, it's probably his best one, Saviour's Day being much preferable to his other seasonal UK Xmas chart-toppers. The Carpenters' 1970 Xmas goodie is back for it's 20th anniversary paired with debut hit Close To You, and was an actual UK chart hit. Merry Xmas Darling is still lovely. Clannad are back in Fortune's hand, at 44, Aztec camera extend to 7 years with The Crying Scene in at 60, UB40 have some Impossible Love at 63: one of those 3 will still be in the chart next week, two won't, as things are a bit volatile chartwise pre-Xmas. Errol Brown is praying at 65, 20 years of Hot Chocolate and solo success, and MC Hammer is also praying at 66 - with his best single by some distance. The Mission return with a Slade cover, under a pseudonym Metal Gurus, shades of T.Rex and Glam Rock! Timmy Mallet murders another early 60's whimsical pop song, Duran Duran are a bit more Serious, and the Situation is Yazoo split 7 years ago - but still manage to chart with an oldie. 1 ( 2 ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak 2 ( 3 ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys 3 ( 1 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees 4 ( 21 ) WAIFS AND STRAYS Marc Almond 5 ( 7 ) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Madonna 6 ( 71 ) ALL TOGETHER NOW The Farm featuring Pete Wylie 7 ( 13 ) UNBELIEVABLE EMF 8 ( 15 ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 9 ( 9 ) ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice 10 ( 4 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin 11 ( 6 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 12 ( 5 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 13 ( NEW ) CRAZY Patsy Cline 14 ( 10 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 15 ( 11 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 16 ( 8 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 17 ( 39 ) DISAPPEAR INXS 18 ( 12 ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 19 ( NEW ) FREEDOM ’90 George Michael 20 ( NEW ) CRAZY Seal 21 ( 14 ) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE Donna Summer 22 ( 20 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 23 ( 26 ) MY LOVE IS A FIRE Donny Osmond 24 ( 33 ) DURBAN DEEP Elton John 25 ( 16 ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 26 ( NEW ) SOUNDTRACK TO A GENERATION Human League 27 ( 18 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 28 ( 30 ) BANQUERO Mory Kante 29 ( 19 ) FALLING Julee Cruise 30 ( 36 ) MONEY TALKS AC/DC 31 ( 31 ) STINGRAY F.A.B. 32 ( 17 ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 33 ( 24 ) KING OF THE ROAD The Proclaimers 34 ( 25 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 35 ( 45 ) POWER OF LOVE Deee-Lite 36 ( NEW ) STAND AND FIGHT Nigel Benn 37 ( 37 ) JUST ANOTHER DREAM Cathy Dennis 38 ( 27 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 39 ( NEW ) SAVIOUR’S DAY Cliff Richard 40 ( NEW ) MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING/ (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU The Carpenters 41 ( 28 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 42 ( 42 ) RED HOT REPUTATION Gary Glitter 43 ( 29 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 44 ( NEW ) IN FORTUNE’S HAND Clannad 45 ( 22 ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY Jimmy Somerville 46 ( 41 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 47 ( 50 ) JENNIFER JUNIPER The Singing Corner featuring Donovan 48 ( 40 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 49 ( 49 ) KINKY BOOTS Patrick MacNee & Honour Blackman 50 ( 44 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 51 ( 23 ) I FEEL BETTER THAN JAMES BROWN Was (Not Was) 52 ( 52 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 53 ( 48 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 54 ( 53 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 55 ( 55 ) MISSING YOU Soul II Soul featuring Kym Mazelle 56 ( NEW ) THE CRYING SCENE Aztec Camera 57 ( 38 ) THEN The Charlatans 58 ( 46 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 59 ( 63 ) MARY HAD A LITTLE BOY Snap! 60 ( NEW ) TELL ME WHERE YOU’RE GOING Silje with Pat Metheny 61 ( 32 ) ARRESTED BY YOU Dusty Springfield 62 ( 57 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 63 ( NEW ) IMPOSSIBLE LOVE UB40 64 ( 51 ) THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 65 ( NEW ) SEND A PRAYER (TO HEAVEN) Errol Brown 66 ( NEW ) PRAY MC Hammer 67 ( NEW ) 24 HOURS Betty Boo 68 ( 62 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 69 ( 34 ) NEW POWER GENERATION Prince 70 ( NEW ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Metal Gurus 71 ( 70 ) THIS WOMAN’S WORK Kate Bush 72 ( 66 ) FASCINATING RHYTHM Bass-O-Matic 73 ( NEW ) SEVEN LITTLE GIRLS SITTING IN THE BACK SEAT Bombalurina 74 ( NEW ) SERIOUS Duran Duran 75 ( NEW ) SITUATION Yazoo 2nd Dec 1 “Behaviour” Pet Shop Boys 2 “Like A Prayer” Madonna 3 THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Abba
December 10, 20204 yr Author 9th December 1990 It's a first week on top for the 20-years-old double A side Carpenters oldies, though it's Close To You that I loved and still love the most of the two tracks. A lot of people think, like Pet Shop Boys, there is a "The" in front of the band name, but there isn't - take a look at their album covers! It's bizarre how some bands get given a superfluous "The" and some don't (see a-ha, U2 etc etc). The oldies continue to flood in as the film-featuring follow-up to the film-featuring Righteous Brothers Unchained Melody enters at 2. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' was one my mum loved when I was 7 or 8, and one I liked enough to chart on re-issue in 1969 when it hit 10. And again in 1977 when it hit 16. In 1987 it hit 10 again. By 1988 I was really starting to love it more and more and it hit 3. So, 5th time round and a new peak of 2 on it's first week. Will it hit the top spot after 21 years of charting in every decade? Well, I consider it the greatest vocal performance by a male duo in history. Not the greatest in pop music history, the greatest recorded male duo performance of all-time. Still. Not even close. In a total class of it's own. Cliff gets another top 10 Xmas song, his 4th. If only he'd stopped with this one, but no there were atrocities to come. Highest actual new track is in at 9 for Enigma, the brilliant monk-chanting New Age Sadness Pt I (as it was named in the UK) and featuring the chart-topping (for me) Sandra, last seen with Maria Magdalene. Sandra was married to writer/producer Michael Cretu, so it probably didn't hurt that she was presumably sleeping with the creator. MC Hammer is up 40 places to 26, Pray. Fleetwood Mac are back, minus Lindsey Buckingham, and The Sky's The Limit. Actually it wasn't quite the same at all. Belinda carlisle re-enters with her US hit of my March Florida holiday, Summer Rain, but as I think it was a different edit or mix from the US version it gets a New credit. Billy Connolly unexpectedly returns with a non-novelty track after his very not-funny UK chart-topping parody of D.I.V.O.R.C.E. scraped into the lower end of my charts in 1975. Finally Elton and Macca drop their latest singles for 19 years of solo success. 1 ( 40 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING/ (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU Carpenters 2 ( NEW ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 3 ( 1 ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak 4 ( 2 ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys 5 ( 4 ) WAIFS AND STRAYS Marc Almond 6 ( 6 ) ALL TOGETHER NOW The Farm featuring Pete Wylie 7 ( 39 ) SAVIOUR’S DAY Cliff Richard 8 ( 3 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees 9 ( NEW ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 10 ( 5 ) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Madonna 11 ( 13 ) CRAZY Patsy Cline 12 ( 20 ) CRAZY Seal 13 ( 9 ) ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice 14 ( 7 ) UNBELIEVABLE EMF 15 ( 19 ) FREEDOM ’90 George Michael 16 ( 11 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 17 ( 17 ) DISAPPEAR INXS 18 ( 8 ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 19 ( 14 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 20 ( 15 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 21 ( 12 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 22 ( 10 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin 23 ( 24 ) DURBAN DEEP Elton John 24 ( 16 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 25 ( 26 ) SOUNDTRACK TO A GENERATION Human League 26 ( 66 ) PRAY MC Hammer 27 ( 22 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 28 ( 31 ) THE STINGRAY MEGAMIX F.A.B. featuring Aqua Marina 29 ( 21 ) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE Donna Summer 30 ( 18 ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 31 ( 36 ) STAND AND FIGHT The Pack featuring Nigel Benn 32 ( 32 ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 33 ( 59 ) MARY HAD A LITTLE BOY Snap! 34 ( 42 ) RED HOT (REPUTATION) Gary Glitter & The Gang 35 ( 27 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 36 ( 25 ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 37 ( 44 ) IN FORTUNE’S HAND Clannad 38 ( 29 ) FALLING Julee Cruise 39 ( 34 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 40 ( 55 ) MISSING YOU Soul II Soul featuring Kym Mazelle 41 ( 38 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 42 ( 49 ) KINKY BOOTS Patrick MacNee & Honour Blackman 43 ( 41 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 44 ( NEW ) THE SKY’S THE LIMIT Fleetwood Mac 45 ( 43 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 46 ( NEW ) SUMMER RAIN Belinda Carlisle 47 ( 23 ) MY LOVE IS A FIRE Donny Osmond 48 ( 46 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 49 ( 48 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 50 ( 50 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 51 ( 60 ) TELL ME WHERE YOU’RE GOING Silje with Pat Metheny 52 ( 52 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 53 ( 30 ) MONEY TALKS AC/DC 54 ( 54 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 55 ( NEW ) IRISH HEARTBEAT Billy Connolly 56 ( 53 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 57 ( 67 ) 24 HOURS Betty Boo 58 ( RE ) ROSES ARE RED (MY LOVE) Bobby Vinton 59 ( 33 ) KING OF THE ROAD The Proclaimers 60 ( 75 ) SITUATION Yazoo 61 ( 28 ) BANQUERO Mory Kante 62 ( 58 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 63 ( 62 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 64 ( 57 ) THEN The Charlatans 65 ( 65 ) SEND A PRAYER (TO HEAVEN) Errol Brown 66 ( 35 ) POWER OF LOVE Deee-Lite 67 ( NEW ) A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat 68 ( 68 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 69 ( NEW ) EASE ON BY Bass-O-Matic 70 ( 64 ) THIEVES IN THE TEMPLE Prince 71 ( RE ) I CAN’T SAY GOODBYE Kim Wilde 72 ( NEW ) ARE YOU DREAMING Twenty 4 Seven 73 ( NEW ) EASIER TO WALK AWAY Elton John 74 ( 45 ) TO LOVE SOMEBODY Jimmy Somerville 75 ( NEW ) ALL MY TRIALS Paul McCartney Gary Glitter Live At The Bournemouth International Centre 1 I’m The Leader Of The Gang (I Am) 2 I Love You Love Me Love 3 I Didn’t Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock ‘n’ Roll) 4 Rock & Roll Part 1 & 2 5 Hello Hello I’m Back Again 6 Oh Yes You’re Beautiful
December 18, 20204 yr All Together Now is brilliant, back when I was younger and didn't know that many 90s songs I used to think it is was one of THE most iconic 90s songs, perhaps it is? Saviours Day is a lot better than Mistletoe and Wine in my opinion, I like the panpipes in it, panpipes are quite early 90s associated I think, Enigma of course sued them and Snap's song Exterminate and I Know by New Atlantic used them too. Edited December 18, 20204 yr by Road Salt Mixer
December 26, 20204 yr Author All Together Now is brilliant, back when I was younger and didn't know that many 90s songs I used to think it is was one of THE most iconic 90s songs, perhaps it is? Saviours Day is a lot better than Mistletoe and Wine in my opinion, I like the panpipes in it, panpipes are quite early 90s associated I think, Enigma of course sued them and Snap's song Exterminate and I Know by New Atlantic used them too. All Together Now is fabulous, semi-classical backdrop and evocative for the Christmas period - it's almost a Xmas song but never thought of as one :) Totally agree about Saviour's Day, it's got that World Music vibe with those pipes, all his other Xmas songs go well-over the cheese or sentimental boundary-line.
December 26, 20204 yr Author 16th December 1990 It's a second chart-topper for The Righteous Brothers, and it's their epic, timeless masterpiece finally getting there after first charting for me in 1969, and several times in the intervening years. A sign of a classic is it gets better as the years pass and lives outside of it's own time-period. The greatest recorded male vocal duo performance bar none. Seal meanwhile gets Crazy for his second top 5 after Killer, and Patsy Cline also gets Crazy with her track a couple of years older than You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin', which is around 26 years old. The Byrds classic Mr Tambourine Man debuts, pre-dating my charts as it does, at 18, and UB40 return after dropping out last week, shooting in at 20 with Impossible Love. Bass-o-matic get a 2nd top 40, Ease On By, and the oldies keep on coming as Bill Medley joins his 2 Righteous Brothers track on his duet with Jennifer Warnes, from Dirty Dancing, back again 3 years on at 28. Summer Rain returns to the top 40 for Belinda Carlisle, having already charted as a US single/album track while I was on my hols. Ralph Tresvant, ex-New Edition, enters with the slick Sensitivity, at 40 7 years since he was a kiddie singing Candy Girl. There's a Grease megamix as the record label attempt to kill off any residual fondness for the over-played 1978 anthems, and do quite a good job turning love to annoyance. Shaky tries to grab another Xmas classic. Fair to say The Best Christmas Of Them All was aiming high and disappeared without trace with the New Year. Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop do a brilliantly fun rocking version of the Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra classic Cole Porter song. That'll be 12 years for the Blondie singer. Whitney does her usual "scraping in at the lower end" with her latest single. This week I went to a fabulous concert, INXS totally rock-funked it up and Michael Hutchence proved to be one of the all-time great live frontmen. The band were brilliant and Michael worked the stage like one of the all-time greats. It helped they had almost a decade of great material, and experience, illustrated by the tracks that came over best were not necessarily my faves from INXS - but they worked best in the wall-of-sound excitement. I was so gutted when he died and the band effectively ended in 1997. They should have become one of the beloved veteran touring acts. 1 ( 2 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 2 ( 9 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 3 ( 1 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters 4 ( 10 ) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Madonna 5 ( 12 ) CRAZY Seal 6 ( 6 ) ALL TOGETHER NOW The Farm featuring Pete Wylie 7 ( 7 ) SAVIOUR’S DAY Cliff Richard 8 ( 4 ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys 9 ( 3 ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak 10 ( 11 ) CRAZY Patsy Cline 11 ( 5 ) WAIFS AND STRAYS Marc Almond 12 ( 15 ) FREEDOM ’90 George Michael 13 ( 8 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees 14 ( 13 ) ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice 15 ( 17 ) DISAPPEAR INXS 16 ( 26 ) PRAY MC Hammer 17 ( 14 ) UNBELIEVABLE EMF 18 ( NEW ) MR. TAMBOURINE MAN (4 DIMENSIONS EP) The Byrds 19 ( 19 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 20 ( RE ) IMPOSSIBLE LOVE UB40 21 ( 16 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 22 ( 28 ) THE STINGRAY MEGAMIX F.A.B. featuring Aqua Marina 23 ( 20 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 24 ( 24 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 25 ( 21 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 26 ( 69 ) EASE ON BY Bass-O-Matic 27 ( 18 ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 28 ( NEW ) (I’VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes 29 ( 33 ) MARY HAD A LITTLE BOY Snap! 30 ( 46 ) SUMMER RAIN Belinda Carlisle 31 ( 27 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 32 ( 73 ) EASIER TO WALK AWAY Elton John 33 ( 32 ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 34 ( 22 ) STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN Led Zeppelin 35 ( 44 ) THE SKY’S THE LIMIT Fleetwood Mac 36 ( 36 ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 37 ( 23 ) DURBAN DEEP Elton John 38 ( 38 ) FALLING Julee Cruise 39 ( 25 ) SOUNDTRACK TO A GENERATION Human League 40 ( NEW ) SENSITIVITY Ralph Tresvant 41 ( 30 ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 42 ( 29 ) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE Donna Summer 43 ( 35 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 44 ( 39 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 45 ( 37 ) IN FORTUNE’S HAND Clannad 46 ( 60 ) SITUATION Yazoo 47 ( 41 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 48 ( 43 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 49 ( 58 ) ROSES ARE RED (MY LOVE) Bobby Vinton 50 ( 50 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 51 ( 48 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 52 ( 52 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 53 ( 45 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 54 ( NEW ) THE GREASE MEGAMIX John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 55 ( 55 ) IRISH HEARTBEAT Billy Connolly 56 ( 54 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 57 ( NEW ) THE BEST CHRISTMAS OF THEM ALL Shakin’ Stevens 58 ( 34 ) RED HOT (REPUTATION) Gary Glitter & The Gang 59 ( 67 ) A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat 60 ( 49 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 61 ( 56 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 62 ( 31 ) STAND AND FIGHT The Pack featuring Nigel Benn 63 ( 40 ) MISSING YOU Soul II Soul featuring Kym Mazelle 64 ( 57 ) TWENTY FOUR HOURS Betty Boo 65 ( 51 ) TELL ME WHERE YOU’RE GOING Silje with Pat Metheny 66 ( 63 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 67 ( 72 ) ARE YOU DREAMING Twenty 4 Seven 68 ( 62 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 69 ( 68 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 70 ( NEW ) A MATTER OF FACT Innocence 71 ( 42 ) KINKY BOOTS Patrick MacNee & Honour Blackman 72 ( RE ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Metal Gurus 73 ( 64 ) THEN The Charlatans 74 ( NEW ) WELL DID YOU EVAH Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop 75 ( NEW ) ALL THE MAN THAT I NEED Whitney Houston INXS LIVE AT THE BOURNEMOUTH INTERNATIONAL CENTRE 1 Suicide Blonde 2 Kick 3 Disappear 4 Never Tear Us Apart 5 Guns In The Sky 6 What You Need
December 27, 20204 yr Author 23rd December 1990 It's 2 weeks on top for The Righteous Brothers classic, still holding off Enigma, with Seal going top 3 with the fab Crazy. George Michael keeps the Listen Without Prejudice tracks coming as Freedom '90 goes top 10, and boxer Nigel Benn shoots up with the Pack to 13, boosted by me getting a bunch of bargain bin recent singles from a record store in Wimborne or Ferndown, one or the other. That includes F.A.B. getting a second top 20, and Billy Connolly getting his highest-ever charting record as Irish Heartbeat goes top 30. It's Christmas and the Grease Megamix was no doubt invading parties up and down the land, up to 15 with some 12-year-old nostalgia of my College Days. 1977 golden oldie Solsbury Hill is back for Peter Gabriel, at 33, and back yet again it's Slade's festive perennial Merry Christmas Everybody at 35, at a then-still-quite-old 17 years and I still hadn't overdosed on it. 47 years later and it's done, it will never make my charts again! Probably. C+C Music Factory aka Clivilles & Cole debut with Gonna Make You Sweat. If you're dancing properly to it, that's true. Bananarama almost got top 40 with new debut Preacher Man, an under-rated goodie from them as they dump the Stock-Aitken-Waterman productions for a more 90's vibe, 9 years on from their debut Aim'wana, a cover of a fab Yamasukis track from 1971. Yamasukis were a production duo from France, including Daniel Vangarde, who happens to be the dad of another member of a better-known French production duo - Daft Punk. Soho debut at 44 with the great Hippy Chick, Jesus Jones get a hit after the fab flop Info Freako, with International Bright Young Thing at 45. Stex debut at 54 with the excellent Still Feel The Rain, ostensibly a UK soul-funk outfit, but with added Johnny Marr on guitar. Meanwhile in at 51 it's Robert Palmer's best record, and he had quite a few crackers as it was in his 12-years charting: a moving mash-up cover of 2 of Marvin Gaye's great early 70's ballads, Mercy Mercy Me the 1971 ecology anthem, and I Want You the love ballad from 1972. Both were criminally UK flops, and Robert does a magnificent job. Also new, another Sisters Of Mercy track, and Brother beyond extending their chart run to 2 years, and not much more. 1 ( 1 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVIN’ FEELIN’ The Righteous Brothers 2 ( 2 ) SADENESS PART I Enigma 3 ( 5 ) CRAZY Seal 4 ( 3 ) (THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU/ MERRY CHRISTMAS DARLING Carpenters 5 ( 9 ) WICKED GAME Chris Isaak 6 ( 7 ) SAVIOUR’S DAY Cliff Richard 7 ( 10 ) CRAZY Patsy Cline 8 ( 6 ) ALL TOGETHER NOW The Farm featuring Pete Wylie 9 ( 4 ) JUSTIFY MY LOVE Madonna 10 ( 12 ) FREEDOM ’90 George Michael 11 ( 8 ) BEING BORING Pet Shop Boys 12 ( 28 ) (I’VE HAD) THE TIME OF MY LIFE Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes 13 ( 62 ) STAND AND FIGHT The Pack featuring Nigel Benn 14 ( 13 ) HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE The Bee Gees 15 ( 54 ) THE GREASE MEGAMIX John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 16 ( 16 ) PRAY MC Hammer 17 ( 14 ) ICE ICE BABY Vanilla Ice 18 ( 18 ) MR. TAMBOURINE MAN (4 DIMENSIONS EP) The Byrds 19 ( 11 ) WAIFS AND STRAYS Marc Almond 20 ( 22 ) THE STINGRAY MEGAMIX F.A.B. featuring Aqua Marina 21 ( 15 ) DISAPPEAR INXS 22 ( 30 ) SUMMER RAIN Belinda Carlisle 23 ( 17 ) UNBELIEVABLE EMF 24 ( 21 ) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER The Jimi Hendrix Experience 25 ( 35 ) THE SKY’S THE LIMIT Fleetwood Mac 26 ( 19 ) SUCKA DJ Dimples D 27 ( 23 ) WAITING FOR THE DAY George Michael 28 ( 55 ) IRISH HEARTBEAT Billy Connolly 29 ( 24 ) UNCHAINED MELODY The Righteous Brothers 30 ( 25 ) DON’T WORRY Kim Appleby 31 ( 26 ) EASE ON BY Bass-O-Matic 32 ( 20 ) IMPOSSIBLE LOVE UB40 33 ( NEW ) SOLSBURY HILL Peter Gabriel 34 ( 29 ) MARY HAD A LITTLE BOY Snap! 35 ( NEW ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 36 ( 46 ) SITUATION Yazoo 37 ( 40 ) SENSITIVITY Ralph Tresvant 38 ( 31 ) LOVE WILL NEVER DO WITHOUT YOU (ALBUM VERSION/REMIX VERSION) Janet Jackson 39 ( NEW ) GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT C+C Music Factory 40 ( 57 ) THE BEST CHRISTMAS OF THEM ALL Shakin’ Stevens 41 ( NEW ) PREACHER MAN Bananarama 42 ( 27 ) LITTLE BROTHER Blue Pearl 43 ( 36 ) MIRACLE Jon Bon Jovi 44 ( NEW ) HIPPY CHICK Soho 45 ( NEW ) INTERNATIONAL BRIGHT YOUNG THING Jesus Jones 46 ( 32 ) EASIER TO WALK AWAY Elton John 47 ( 49 ) ROSES ARE RED (MY LOVE) Bobby Vinton 48 ( 70 ) A MATTER OF FACT Innocence 49 ( 44 ) TAKE MY BREATH AWAY Berlin 50 ( 50 ) WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER (1990 TK REMIX) Timmy Thomas 51 ( 52 ) HEY JUDE The Beatles 52 ( 48 ) A LITTLE TIME Beautiful South 53 ( 51 ) PRAYING FOR TIME George Michael 54 ( NEW ) STILL FEEL THE RAIN Stex 55 ( 43 ) STEP BACK IN TIME Kylie Minogue 56 ( 74 ) WELL DID YOU EVAH Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop 57 ( 56 ) LET IT BE The Beatles 58 ( 33 ) MY DEFINITION OF A BOMBASTIC JAZZ STYLE Dream Warriors 59 ( 47 ) (WE WANT) THE SAME THING Belinda Carlisle 60 ( 41 ) THERE SHE GOES The La’s 61 ( NEW ) MERCY MERCY ME/ I WANT YOU Robert Palmer 62 ( 38 ) FALLING Julee Cruise 63 ( 61 ) YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND Big Fun and Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle 64 ( 42 ) STATE OF INDEPENDENCE Donna Summer 65 ( 60 ) SO HARD Pet Shop Boys 66 ( 39 ) SOUNDTRACK TO A GENERATION Human League 67 ( 66 ) ESCAPADE Janet Jackson 68 ( 53 ) THE OBVIOUS CHILD Paul Simon 69 ( 45 ) IN FORTUNE’S HAND Clannad 70 ( 69 ) SACRIFICE/ HEALING HANDS Elton John 71 ( NEW ) THE GIRL I USED TO KNOW Brother Beyond 72 ( 59 ) A BETTER LOVE Londonbeat 73 ( 75 ) ALL THE MAN THAT I NEED Whitney Houston 74 ( 68 ) MORE Sisters Of Mercy 75 ( NEW ) DOCTOR JEEP Sisters Of Mercy playlist records 1 “Behaviour” Pet Shop Boys 2 “Results” Liza Minelli 3 EVERYBODY’S TALKING Nilsson
December 27, 20204 yr Hi there! Great to see "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" and "Sadeness Part I" in the top 2! I also like seeing "Freedom '90" in the top 10, the big gain for ""(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" and the debuts for "Solsbury Hill", "Merry Xmas Everybody" and "Gonna Make You Sweat"! Great chart!
December 28, 20204 yr Author I demand a recount! Enigma >>> Righteous Brothers! hah! Other way round for me, but Enigma is the best new record around for the next few weeks and it's one of my all-time faves, so fret not :lol: Poor old Seal, though, also one of the great tracks of the era with Crazy...... :teresa:
December 28, 20204 yr Author Hi there! Great to see "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin" and "Sadeness Part I" in the top 2! I also like seeing "Freedom '90" in the top 10, the big gain for ""(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" and the debuts for "Solsbury Hill", "Merry Xmas Everybody" and "Gonna Make You Sweat"! Great chart! Hi Sergej! Thanks for the picks! :)
December 28, 20204 yr hah! Other way round for me, but Enigma is the best new record around for the next few weeks and it's one of my all-time faves, so fret not :lol: Poor old Seal, though, also one of the great tracks of the era with Crazy...... :teresa: I do very much like that Seal track too, it was a really strong single and at the time I thought it was going to be a huge number 1 for him
December 29, 20204 yr Author Soundtrack To A Generation is the best Human League song. Pleasantly quirky and curiously British that one :)
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