January 1st 1995

 

A new year a new number one for a new band - Oasis take Whatever to the top in all of it’s All You Need Is Love-ish strings-tastic fab-gear-ish-ness Britpop delight. It’s a great record and deserved to top the UK charts as well, though it did get near.

The Human League, meanwhile go top 5, Tell Me When? Now! The Lightning Seeds add Change to their list of top tenners, and Riverdance hits 8. I don’t remember it doing that well, but there ya are, stomp-a-clomp-a-stomp-a, it did.

 

Sting shoots his cowboy way into the 20 16 years after first doing it, Siouxsie ditto only 17 years on, while the highest new entry is 1963 in 1994 from a B side in 1987 remixed by Arthur Baker for New Order charting in 1995. Date-Confusion! Also a New Order track...

 

Some re-entries from Ace Of Base who enjoy Living In Danger at 29, Youssou N’Dour at 37, and again at 64 as chart-topper 7 Seconds comes back in (though not called a re-entry as it’s a new year and been out the chart a while), both helped by Neneh Cherry. At 35 it’s a record from the year I was born, back as a huge UK hit thanks to an advert on TV - Guaglione, Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and horn-hooked old big swing band fun. Both terrific and highly unexpected.

 

New UK girl duo Scarlet enter at 50, with an Independent Love Song, and it’s good, while Bristol’s Portishead enter at 69 with the fab Glory Box, an influential trip-hoppy track. Which leaves veteran Barry White back at 55 after a few years gap, helped by his Lisa Stansfield and Edie Brickell associations, giving him a span of 22 years of chart entries since I’m Gonna Love You A Little More Baby went top 5 in 1973. Oh, and Jimmy Somerville has 11 years of entries, with Bronski Beat and Communards, and solo hits.

 

 

 

1 ( 17 ) WHATEVER Oasis

2 ( 1 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey

3 ( 2 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

4 ( 7 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

5 ( 6 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

6 ( 3 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

7 ( 14 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

8 ( 11 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

9 ( 8 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

10 ( 10 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone

 

11 ( 5 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

12 ( 4 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

13 ( 9 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3

14 ( 13 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong

15 ( 29 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting

16 ( 12 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi

17 ( 45 ) OH BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees

18 ( 15 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters

19 ( 16 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan

20 ( NEW ) 1963 ’94 New Order

 

 

21 ( 24 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail

22 ( 19 ) YOU BLOW ME AWAY Robert Palmer

23 ( 21 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

24 ( 23 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D

25 ( 22 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly

26 ( 25 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure

27 ( 27 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze

28 ( 18 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17

29 ( RE ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base

30 ( 20 ) GO GO POWER RANGERS Power Rangers

 

31 ( 33 ) LET THE HEALING BEGIN Joe Cocker

32 ( 32 ) GALLOWS POLE Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

33 ( 26 ) STARS China Black

34 ( 31 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

35 ( NEW ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra

36 ( 28 ) LOVE SPREADS The Stone Roses

37 ( RE ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest

38 ( 38 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee

39 ( 42 ) CRAZY Eternal

40 ( 30 ) CHRISTMAS WRAPPING Peaches

 

 

41 ( 37 ) WHEN I’M CLEANING WINDOWS 2 In A Tent featuring George Formby

42 ( 34 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

43 ( 35 ) IF I ONLY KNEW Tom Jones

44 ( 36 ) ANOTHER NIGHT MC Saar and The Real McCoy

45 ( 48 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses

46 ( 39 ) ONE MORE CHANCE EYC

47 ( 40 ) DON’T DON’T TELL ME NO Sophie B. Hawkins

48 ( 43 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow

49 ( 41 ) DOLLARS C.J. Lewis

50 ( NEW ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

 

51 ( 51 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Music Relief 94

52 ( 46 ) END OF A CENTURY Blur

53 ( 53 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona

54 ( 47 ) THE STRANGEST PARTY INXS

55 ( NEW ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White

56 ( 56 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

57 ( 50 ) ETERNAL LOVE PJ and Duncan

58 ( 54 ) SENSE Terry Hall

59 ( 59 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

60 ( 61 ) I’LL FIND YOU Michelle Gayle

 

61 ( 58 ) YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS MAD Pet Shop Boys

62 ( 65 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

63 ( 63 ) SIGHT FOR SORE EYES M People

64 ( NEW ) 7 SECONDS Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry

65 ( 74 ) SEARCHING China Black

66 ( 69 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

67 ( 67 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

68 ( 68 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma

69 ( NEW ) GLORY BOX Portishead

70 ( 73 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal

 

 

71 ( 71 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys

72 ( 72 ) GOOD TIMES Edie Brickell

73 ( 52 ) HOW DO YOU STOP Joni Mitchell and Seal

74 ( 60 ) ONE LAST LOVE SONG The Beautiful South

75 ( NEW ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

 

8th January 1995

 

Oasis make it 2 weeks on top for my 37th birthday, hey whatever. Riverdance inexplicably goes top 5. Whatever. Glory Box is a glorious 61 place leap to 8 though, hooray for quality! However the highest new entry at 10 is really dodgy. No, honest, So Let Me Go Far and one I’ve utterly forgotten, but it’s Dodgy and that’s good enough for me if it’s good enough for you. Must have loved it though. Youtube awaits!

 

At 31, new for Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter, One Cool Remove from being country and folk, but nice anyway. Runrig are in at 30, with This Time Of Year, Scarlet go top 20, and in at 33 it’s the great pop dance delight of Strike...U Sure Do! Jimmy Somerville has a Heartbeat at 39 from 75, The Sounds Of Blackness return with a new track, declaring I’m Going All The Way from 49. Best of all Simple Minds at 55 return with the terrific She’s A River for a cool 14 years of chart entries. This was the tour I finally got to see them in concert, so yay for me! Finally Let Loose are back, twice, once with Seventeen reissued, at 75, and also with the better One Night Stand a bit higher at 65.

 

 

1 ( 1 ) WHATEVER Oasis

2 ( 4 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

3 ( 3 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

4 ( 2 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey

5 ( 8 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

6 ( 5 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

7 ( 7 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

8 ( 69 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

9 ( 9 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

10 ( NEW ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy

 

 

11 ( 6 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

12 ( 18 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters

13 ( 10 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone

14 ( 20 ) 1963 ’94 New Order

15 ( 15 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting

16 ( 11 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

17 ( 17 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees

18 ( 50 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

19 ( 14 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong

20 ( 13 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3

 

21 ( 19 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan

22 ( 12 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

23 ( 27 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze

24 ( 42 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

25 ( 21 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail

26 ( 29 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base

27 ( 23 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

28 ( 31 ) LET THE HEALING BEGIN Joe Cocker

29 ( 38 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee

30 ( NEW ) THIS TIME OF YEAR Runrig

 

31 ( NEW ) ONE COOL REMOVE Shawn Colvin featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter

32 ( 16 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi

33 ( NEW ) U SURE DO Strike

34 ( 39 ) CRAZY Eternal

35 ( 37 ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest

36 ( 34 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

37 ( 33 ) STARS China Black

38 ( 24 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D

39 ( 75 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

40 ( 45 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses

 

 

41 ( 22 ) YOU BLOW ME AWAY Robert Palmer

42 ( 46 ) ONE MORE CHANCE EYC

43 ( 25 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly

44 ( 35 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra

45 ( 26 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure

46 ( 55 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White

47 ( 28 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17

48 ( 30 ) GO GO POWER RANGERS Might Morph'n Power Rangers

49 ( NEW ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness

50 ( 32 ) GALLOWS POLE Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

 

51 ( 40 ) CHRISTMAS WRAPPING Peaches

52 ( 36 ) LOVE SPREADS The Stone Roses

53 ( 60 ) I’LL FIND YOU Michelle Gayle

54 ( 43 ) IF I ONLY KNEW Tom Jones

55 ( NEW ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

56 ( 53 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona

57 ( 56 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

58 ( 41 ) WHEN I’M CLEANING WINDOWS 2 In A Tent featuring George Formby

59 ( 48 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow

60 ( 59 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

 

61 ( 44 ) ANOTHER NIGHT MC Saar and The Real McCoy

62 ( 51 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Music Relief 94

63 ( 62 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

64 ( 61 ) YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS MAD Pet Shop Boys

65 ( NEW ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

66 ( 66 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

67 ( 67 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

68 ( 68 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma

69 ( 64 ) 7 SECONDS Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry

70 ( 70 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal

 

 

71 ( 71 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys

72 ( 54 ) THE STRANGEST PARTY INXS

73 ( 52 ) END OF A CENTURY Blur

74 ( 72 ) GOOD TIMES Edie Brickell

75 ( NEW ) SEVENTEEN Let Loose

 

 

15th January 1995

3 weeks at 1 for Oasis, as Riverdance hits 3. I’m shocked! Actual chart peak 3. I mean it’s nice, but let’s be honest, it’s the dancing - watch the video! The Lightning Seeds get a 3rd Top 5 hit, with Change at 4, while an Independent Scarlet hit 8. New Order add to their growing tally of Top 10’s with a track that never should have just been a B Side, 1963.

 

Highest new entry at 15 is Annie Lennox, now onto a covers album and she covers old friends A Lover Speaks 1986 minor UK hit (and big hit in my charts) No More I Love You’s, improves on it, and hopefully the royalties have helped them out ever since cos it’s fab. An unusual melody, but gorgeous, and it forever now reminds of later in 1995 when I was in an Orange Juice bar on Orchard Road in Singapore gasping for a drink in the heat and humidity, and this came out of the speakers. Pretty sure no-one else has those associations with the song!

 

In at 19, Massive Attack are back with a bang, with help from Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl, over a decade into her run of big hits in my charts, and what a mellow lovely atmospheric track it is too. Jimmy Somerville goes top 20, Simple Minds 30, Barry White 40, and in at 32 it’s Crush - With Eyeliner: aka REM’s glamrock Velvet Underground-ish rifftastic move away from the mainstream appeal of their more recent stuff, and it’s great.

 

We’ve also got the original version of the hideous 2014 dance remix of R. Kelly’s Bump ‘n’ Grind at 43 which wasn’t that bad before I went off him a bit. Tanita Tikaram’s back, I Might Be Crying but it’s been 7 years since she arrived with a bang, and then quickly faded out without ever deserving that. At 50, what the Deuce!? Call It Love, or call it pop. M People want to Open Your Heart at 53, but I’m opening my heart to the disco classic from 1977 that the Communards more or less were inspired by, and it’s back at 65 18 years on - Thelma Houston’s version of Don’t Leave Me This Way. The song was originally lined up to be Diana Ross’ follow-up to the still-epic Love Hangover in 1976, but Thelma got the big disco smash out of it instead. Best of all, the original 1975 Philly version of the Gamble & Huff song became a bigger hit in the UK for Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes, still my fave version.

 

 

1 ( 1 ) WHATEVER Oasis

2 ( 2 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

3 ( 5 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

4 ( 7 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

5 ( 3 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

6 ( 8 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

7 ( 18 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

8 ( 6 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

9 ( 9 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

10 ( 14 ) 1963 ’94 New Order

 

 

11 ( 4 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey

12 ( 17 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees

13 ( 11 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

14 ( 10 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy

15 ( NEW ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

16 ( 13 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone

17 ( 12 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters

18 ( 23 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze

19 ( NEW ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

20 ( 39 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

 

 

21 ( 16 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

22 ( 19 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong

23 ( 26 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base

24 ( 15 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting

25 ( 29 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee

26 ( 21 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan

27 ( 55 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

28 ( 34 ) CRAZY Eternal

29 ( 35 ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest

30 ( 31 ) ONE COOL REMOVE Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter

 

31 ( 20 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3

32 ( NEW ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

33 ( 22 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

34 ( 46 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White

35 ( 24 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

36 ( 27 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

37 ( 40 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses

38 ( 25 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail

39 ( NEW ) WHERE’S YOUR LOVE BEEN Heliocentric World

40 ( 49 ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness

 

 

41 ( 37 ) STARS China Black

42 ( 36 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

43 ( NEW ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly

44 ( 38 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D

45 ( 65 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

46 ( 30 ) THIS TIME OF YEAR Runrig

47 ( NEW ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

48 ( 28 ) LET THE HEALING BEGIN Joe Cocker

49 ( 32 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi

50 ( NEW ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

 

51 ( 33 ) U SURE DO Strike

52 ( 43 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly

53 ( NEW ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

54 ( 44 ) GUAGLIONE Perez ‘Prez’ Prado and His Orchestra

55 ( 45 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure

56 ( 41 ) YOU BLOW ME AWAY Robert Palmer

57 ( 57 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

58 ( 56 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona

59 ( 47 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17

60 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

 

61 ( 51 ) CHRISTMAS WRAPPING Peaches

62 ( 54 ) IF I ONLY KNEW Tom Jones

63 ( 48 ) GO GO POWER RANGERS Might Morph'n Power Rangers

64 ( 63 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

65 ( NEW ) DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY Thelma Houston

66 ( 59 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow

67 ( 66 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

68 ( 67 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

69 ( 50 ) GALLOWS POLE Jimmy Page and Robert Plant

70 ( 68 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma

 

 

71 ( 70 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal

72 ( 64 ) YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS MAD Pet Shop Boys

73 ( 71 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys

74 ( 74 ) GOOD TIMES Edie Brickell

75 ( 62 ) WHAT’S GOING ON Music Relief 94

 

 

 

 

Hoorah! '95 here a last!

 

Like you, Riverdance performed much better in my chart than I remember. Then again, the same could be said for many. On the flipside, some faves like Perfection and 1963 completely underperformed for me at the time.

 

Unlike you, I actually prefer the 'hideous' 2014 dance remix of Bump N Grind to the original :lol:

 

Great to see Human League, Scarlet and Portishead in the top ten - all undeservedly underrated gems.

Hoorah! '95 here a last!

 

Like you, Riverdance performed much better in my chart than I remember. Then again, the same could be said for many. On the flipside, some faves like Perfection and 1963 completely underperformed for me at the time.

 

Unlike you, I actually prefer the 'hideous' 2014 dance remix of Bump N Grind to the original :lol:

 

Great to see Human League, Scarlet and Portishead in the top ten - all undeservedly underrated gems.

 

Thanks AH, I think we all went down with Riverdance fever! :lol:

 

"Hideous" is praps a bit strong - annoying is more accurate for the 2014 remix of Bump n Grind but I have a tendancy to exaggerate :lol:

I think Riverdance is a perfectly passable track, no need to be ashamed of it! All those pure moods sounding things like Enigma/Deep Forest etc were very on trend and Riverdance kinda fitted that mood.

I think Riverdance is a perfectly passable track, no need to be ashamed of it! All those pure moods sounding things like Enigma/Deep Forest etc were very on trend and Riverdance kinda fitted that mood.

 

thanks Dandy, you're probably right and I just need to reacquaint myself with Riverdance properly - I did buy it at the time but I havent played it in 20 years. Oops! B-)

22nd January 1995

 

 

It’s the Human League at 1, at last, some 7 years since the last one, and their 9th in total in 15 years of chart entries. Hoorah, I still love them! Meanwhile my top 10 gets some street cred as Portishead hit 3 and New Order 6, not to mention Massive Attack at 9, their 3rd top 10. Meanwhile Deuce rocket up to 17 with another one of those tracks I haven’t heard in 20 years and have forgotten, and forgotten I liked! Dear oh dear!

 

Let Loose go top 40 with One Night Stand, I suppose we’ve all done that at one time or another. Let Loose, I mean. One Night Stand maybe, maybe not. Highest new entry is the great soul girl band TLC, jazzy, snazzy, sultry, it’s Creep at 28, a record that still sounds fresh and fabulous. Morrissey is in at 31 with Boxers. I have my tickets for next month for Mozza, hopefully he will be tip top. Donna Allen has another chart entry some years on from her first, this time it’s Real at 33, while in at 38, it’s Sleeper with Inbetweener.

 

R Kelly and The Sounds Of Blackness join in the 40 action, as does Thelma Houston doing it second time around 18 years on. Cyndi Lauper is back at 53, tackling a classic - I’m Gonna Be Strong is Gene Pitney’s torch song, his finest moment, and a dramatic anthem with a vocal performance that no-one could possibly top, but that doesn’t stop ol Cyn giving it a good go. Another cover brings Aswad back, and a good reggae version of the 1963 Betty Everett song You’re No Good, better known in the UK as a big hit for The Swinging Blue Jeans in 1964 (they were big enough for me to know them as a poptastic fave group age 6) before Linda Ronstadt covered it in 1975 and had a big US hit. I’d stick with the original soulful version though, with Aswad as the second-best choice.

 

Stevie Wonder’s back again, some 26 years on from For Once In My Life, at 58 it’s For Your Love. At 62, it’s another cover, of instrumental Soul Limbo, a 1969 instrumental hit for Booker T & The MG’s, better known as a TV cricket theme tune. It’s not as good, even with lyrics. Yet another cover version at 65 (of Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye’s hit cover of the Pearls minor hit version of the US 1972 original version from The Stylistics. This time it’s Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts, but I think there’s still room for a definitive version of the great song. At 66 it’s Nicki French and her version of Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 chart-topper, Total Eclipse Of The Heart. It’s not as good. That concludes the covers, leaving only Jim Carrey and Cuban Pete at 71 for one week only. He did The Truman Show, though, so I forgive him.

 

 

1 ( 2 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

2 ( 1 ) WHATEVER Oasis

3 ( 6 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

4 ( 7 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

5 ( 3 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

6 ( 10 ) 1963 ’94 New Order

7 ( 4 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

8 ( 5 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

9 ( 19 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

10 ( 8 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

 

 

11 ( 12 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees

12 ( 20 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

13 ( 15 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

14 ( 13 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

15 ( 9 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

16 ( 27 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

17 ( 50 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

18 ( 18 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze

19 ( 23 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base

20 ( 11 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey

 

21 ( 25 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee

22 ( 45 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

23 ( 21 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

24 ( 24 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting

25 ( 37 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses

26 ( 17 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters

27 ( 14 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy

28 ( NEW ) CREEP TLC

29 ( 34 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White

30 ( 16 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone

 

 

31 ( NEW ) BOXERS Morrissey

32 ( 32 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

33 ( NEW ) REAL Donna Allen

34 ( 22 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong

35 ( 35 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

36 ( 40 ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness

37 ( 43 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly

38 ( NEW ) INBETWEENER Sleeper

39 ( 65 ) DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY Thelma Houston

40 ( 26 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan

 

41 ( 41 ) STARS China Black

42 ( 36 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

43 ( 53 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

44 ( 44 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D

45 ( 42 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

46 ( 38 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail

47 ( 47 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

48 ( 33 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

49 ( 31 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3

50 ( 30 ) ONE COOL REMOVE Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter

 

51 ( 28 ) CRAZY Eternal

52 ( 29 ) UNDECIDED Youssou N’Dour featuring Neneh Cherry and Deep Forest

53 ( NEW ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper

54 ( NEW ) LET IT LAST Carleen Anderson

55 ( 52 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly

56 ( 39 ) WHERE’S YOUR LOVE BEEN Heliocentric World

57 ( 57 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

58 ( NEW ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder

59 ( NEW ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad

60 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

 

 

61 ( 58 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona

62 ( NEW ) SAVED Mr. Roy

63 ( 64 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

64 ( 55 ) I LOVE SATURDAY Erasure

65 ( NEW ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts

66 ( NEW ) TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART Nicki French

67 ( 67 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

68 ( 68 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

69 ( 70 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma

70 ( 66 ) ALL I WANNA DO Sheryl Crow

 

71 ( NEW ) CUBAN PETE Jim Carrey

72 ( 71 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal

73 ( 73 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys

74 ( 59 ) STAY ANOTHER DAY East 17

75 ( 49 ) PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Bon Jovi

29th January 1995

 

 

Another new number one, and it’s Portishead and the fab Glory Box. No video as I’ve already featured it in previous weeks, just to not make it obvious what’s always going to top my chart by praising a record and then not featuring the youtube link! Hah! Scarlet meanwhile get the runners-up spot, as Bob Seger returns to my chart 17 years later, and way out-does the first-time-round as it bangs in at 6, rather surprisingly, as I wasn’t too fussed about it in 1978, and these days, but for a time I really did like it - apparently!

 

Annie Lennox gets another solo top 10, as Let Loose get a second or third (I forget), and Sting goes to a new peak with his Cowboy Song as Pato Banton turns up and lends some reggae vibes. REM crush some eyeliner at 20, and quite right too. M People go top 40 as Open Your Heart hits 23, and Tanita Tikaram 24, while The Wildhearts return with two delightfully-titled songs: If Life Is Like A Love Bank I Want An Overdraft and B side Georgie In Wonderland as played on Top Of The Pops. Just behind is another cowboy song, Cowboy Dreams, Jimmy Nail’s great version of Paddy McAloon’s donated song, before he released an even better version himself as Prefab Sprout in 2001. 10 years on in 1995, the Sprouts seemed to have been spat out by the music industry quite unfairly.

 

In at 33 it’s a Perfecto remix and redesign of Pigbag’s 1982 instrumental hit Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag, retitled Reach Up with added vocals and dance, and rather good it is too. I was rather surprised to hear this one in a superstore on Orchard Road in Singapore later in the year, I didn’t think Singapore was that into dance music! Talking of dance N Trance join that annoying obsession with the capital N (Entrance having druggy refs but avoiding everyone calling them an entrance). Oh did I used to laugh at everyone applying this principle in the UK to ‘NSync, radio, TV, DJ’s, everyone got it wrong. En-sink made no sense at all, In synch did. Hey ho. Set You Free was one of those pop dance hits that just kept on coming back when once was more than adequate for a decent dance track.

 

Madonna has a bedtime story at 57 - how sweet, Dear Jessie kiddie-candy I’m sure. Oh hang on, didn’t she do some big photo books at that time, with a naughty album, ah of course, grown-up bedtime stories. Dear Jessie was much better. Another under-rated 80’s fave returns at 61, The The having seen the 1948 Hank Williams country light and turned it into a rocking light! Hooray! Also back, Del Amitri, Here And Now, and with a few years wait for an actual number one chart-topper in my charts.

 

Gloria Estefan covers another classic at 66, disco-style, a song that once upon a time was in the charts every few years with yet another cover - Everlasting Love, starting with the original US hit version from Robert Knight, followed by the UK number one hit version by The Love Affair, both of them immaculate. Since then: 1969, 1974, 1981, 1988, 1993, 1995, with 1998 and 2004 still to come, so if anyone wants a chart hit it’s been overdue for about 4 years! Lastly, China Black are back to try for that hat-trick of number ones, I can almost see them (Somewhere) at 71, boy band Ultimate Kaos are at 73, not one of Simon Cowell’s biggest acts that one, and Singapore’s classical Vanessa Mae brings Toccata and Fugue class into the charts. I liked her.

 

1 ( 3 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

2 ( 4 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

3 ( 1 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

4 ( 2 ) WHATEVER Oasis

5 ( 5 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

6 ( NEW ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

7 ( 13 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

8 ( 6 ) 1963 ’94 New Order

9 ( 9 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

10 ( 22 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

 

 

11 ( 7 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

12 ( 12 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

13 ( 10 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

14 ( 24 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton

15 ( 16 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

16 ( 8 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

17 ( 17 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

18 ( 14 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

19 ( 28 ) CREEP TLC

20 ( 32 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

 

 

21 ( 15 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

22 ( 18 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze

23 ( 43 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

24 ( 47 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

25 ( NEW ) IF LIFE IS LIKE A LOVE BANK I WANT AN OVERDRAFT/ GEORDIE IN WONDERLAND The Wildhearts

26 ( NEW ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail

27 ( 11 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees

28 ( 29 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White

29 ( 23 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

30 ( 38 ) INBETWEENER Sleeper

 

 

31 ( 20 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey

32 ( 19 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base

33 ( NEW ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz

34 ( 27 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy

35 ( 37 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly

36 ( 31 ) BOXERS Morrissey

37 ( 35 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

38 ( 21 ) DO YOU LOVE ME Duke Baysee

39 ( 26 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters

40 ( 65 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts

 

 

41 ( 41 ) STARS China Black

42 ( 25 ) SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL Guns ‘N’ Roses

43 ( 34 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong

44 ( 30 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone

45 ( 39 ) DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY Thelma Houston

46 ( 42 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

47 ( 58 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder

48 ( 45 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

49 ( NEW ) SET YOU FREE N Trance

50 ( 59 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad

 

51 ( 33 ) REAL Donna Allen

52 ( 40 ) HOLD ME THRILL ME KISS ME Gloria Estefan

53 ( 53 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper

54 ( 44 ) LET ME BE YOUR FANTASY Baby D

55 ( 48 ) DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS/ TELL ME THERE’S A HEAVEN Chris Rea

56 ( 49 ) I WANT TO BE ALONE 2wo Third3

57 ( NEW ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna

58 ( 57 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

59 ( 36 ) I’M GOING ALL THE WAY The Sounds Of Blackness

60 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

 

61 ( NEW ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The

62 ( 46 ) CROCODILE SHOES Jimmy Nail

63 ( NEW ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri

64 ( 63 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

65 ( 55 ) SHE’S GOT THAT VIBE R. Kelly

66 ( NEW ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan

67 ( 67 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

68 ( 68 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

69 ( 69 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma

70 ( 61 ) RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT Corona

 

71 ( NEW ) ALMOST SEE YOU (SOMEWHERE) China Black

72 ( 72 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal

73 ( NEW ) HOOCHIE BOOTY Ultimate Kaos

74 ( 73 ) LIBERATION Pet Shop Boys

75 ( NEW ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae

thanks Dandy, you're probably right and I just need to reacquaint myself with Riverdance properly - I did buy it at the time but I havent played it in 20 years. Oops! B-)

So I've just listened to it and I still quite like it... it hasn't aged a bit!

 

5th February 1995

Back up on top for a second week, Tell Me When? Feb. Who? Human League. Annie Lennox’ sublime cover of No More ‘I Love You’s is up to 2, her biggest post-Eurythmics hit, and beating all of their back catalogue bar 2. Not bad. REM meanwhile crush some eyeliner and streak up to 6 to get their biggest hit to date in almost a decade. There’s a couple of cowboys at 10 and 11, Sting and Pato Banton just out-shooting Jimmy Nail as they both go up with a bullet. Arf! (Old US chart chat references for old US chart fans...) Simple Minds are at 9, as the river flows upstream returning them to the higher reaches for the first time in 6 years.

 

M People and Perfecto go top 20, and The The hit 16 at the speed of light, good thing they saw it coming. Madonna tells herself a bedtime story at 21 and 22, take a bow! Morrissey goes up 10 with Boxers, one of the many many many singles he’s released that he didn’t do in concert this week in Bournemouth. Highest new entry is Lavinia Jones and one of many new entries this week I have utterly forgotten. Any that still sound good will be featured as youtubes. One I DO recall is Adam Ant, wonderfully entering at 36 for a cool 15 years of chart entries.

 

Climbers into the 40: Vanessa Mae, Cyndi Lauper, China Black, Del Amitri, and two more new hits for Sheryl Crow, who is Strong Enough at 39, and Carter, who are still Unstoppable with a young offender’s mum. Oops! Number 40. Suede just miss out at 41, and a new generation goes doh! as Homer rules in the hottest animated TV show in the world ever makes that a catchphrase with legs. Doh! Best new entry is at 49, the very funktastic Brit boyband pop of MN8, I’ve Got A Little Something For You, a sort of JLS of their day. Second-best new entry are old-faithfuls Sparks, at 57 with a tribute to Charlie Parker giving them 21 years of fab hits.

 

1 ( 3 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

2 ( 7 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

3 ( 4 ) WHATEVER Oasis

4 ( 1 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

5 ( 6 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

6 ( 20 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

7 ( 2 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

8 ( 10 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

9 ( 15 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

10 ( 14 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton

 

 

11 ( 26 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail

12 ( 23 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

13 ( 33 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz

14 ( 5 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

15 ( 12 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

16 ( 61 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The

17 ( 13 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

18 ( 9 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

19 ( 8 ) 1963 ’94 New Order

20 ( 11 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

 

 

21 ( 57 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna

22 ( 16 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

23 ( 18 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

24 ( 24 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

25 ( 17 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

26 ( 36 ) BOXERS Morrissey

27 ( 19 ) CREEP TLC

28 ( 63 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri

29 ( 25 ) IF LIFE IS LIKE A LOVE BANK I WANT AN OVERDRAFT/ GEORDIE IN WONDERLAND The Wildhearts

30 ( 21 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

 

 

31 ( 53 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper

32 ( NEW ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones

33 ( 71 ) ALMOST SEE YOU (SOMEWHERE) China Black

34 ( 29 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

35 ( 40 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts

36 ( NEW ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant

37 ( 75 ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae

38 ( 22 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze

39 ( NEW ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow

40 ( NEW ) YOUNG OFFENDER’S MUM Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

 

41 ( NEW ) NEW GENERATION Suede

42 ( 37 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

43 ( 49 ) SET YOU FREE N Trance

44 ( 41 ) STARS China Black

45 ( 44 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone

46 ( 31 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey

47 ( 47 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder

48 ( 50 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad

49 ( NEW ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8

50 ( 39 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters

 

51 ( 35 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly

52 ( 28 ) PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH Barry White

53 ( 46 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

54 ( 48 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

55 ( 30 ) INBETWEENER Sleeper

56 ( NEW ) U WILL KNOW BMU

57 ( NEW ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING) Sparks

58 ( 34 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy

59 ( 43 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong

60 ( 58 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

 

 

61 ( 60 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

62 ( NEW ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy

63 ( 27 ) O BABY Siouxsie And The Banshees

64 ( 64 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

65 ( NEW ) MENTAL PICTURE Jon Secada

66 ( 66 ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan

67 ( NEW ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid

68 ( 67 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

69 ( 68 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

70 ( NEW ) AGOLO Angelique Kidgjo

 

71 ( 69 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma

72 ( NEW ) CAN’T GET BY Slamm

73 ( NEW ) NOW THEY’LL SLEEP Belly

74 ( 32 ) LIVING IN DANGER Ace Of Base

75 ( 72 ) KISS FROM A ROSE Seal

 

In the world, Space Shuttle Discovery launched with Briton Michael Foale on board and spacewalk bound. On a sad note, Richie from the Manic Street Preachers went missing, presumed dead. On TV Star Trek Voyager was running in the USA, and soon in the UK as Sky TV hogged the best US shows before terrestrial TV got them - and there were loads of great ones, the mid-90’s was a golden age for sci-fi/fantasy TV and sitcoms, at least a golden age in the States. The UK lagged far far behind, but there were still gems starting shortly (the brilliant father Ted) and ending (The High Life with future star Alan Cumming, set on board an airline; Bottom with the late great Rik Mayall, and the great Ade Edmondson), not to mention the successful (Mr. Bean).

12th February 1995

 

Annie Lennox gets her first solo number one, and third in total, doing what The Lover Speaks couldn’t quite do in 1986, taking it all the way to the top. They supported Eurythmics on tour but still couldn’t break through, sadly, as I loved the original version. Annie didn’t forget how good the song was though, thank goodness. Meanwhile rock gets a look-in as REM hit 3, and Simple Minds 4, both under-rated singles. The Pigbag Perfecto reworking hits 7, and also beats the original 1982 version, as Jimmy Nail grabs a 3rd top 10 with the great Paddy McAloon smooth country song (check out the definitive Prefab Sprout version attached), and M People hit 10.

 

MN8 rocket to 15, leap-frogging all and sundry, proving they do in fact have a little something for me. Jade return, Every Day Of The Week apparently, or at least one day at 16, with a bit of smooth 90’s r’n’b, as Adam Ant goes top 20 ahead of Sheryl Crow. Wonderful! Or at least, pretty good balladry, nothing like his 80’s hits, and not bad at all. At 26, Blackstreet enter, U Blow My Mind very much that SoulIIsoul shuffle beat mucho popular in the 90’s, as Aswad’s cover version belies the title, You’re No Good is in fact pretty good at 27. BoyzIImen and R Kelly enter the top 40 under a pseudonym (BMU Black Men United) along with a host of lesser stars, on a Band Aid-type superstar line-up r’n’b stylee, as Suede scrape in to the 40.

 

From 41 to 75, Elton John is at 41, can you Believe it? Dramatic balladry, and one of his better latter-day singles, as his voice was getting deeper with the years I wasn’t quite as enthusiastic as I used to be, but it suits this one. At 52, a doo-wop version, BoyzIImen styled, of childhood fave Sukiyaki, now with English lyrics and the second cover version to chart, after A Taste Of Honey. None of them is a patch on the original Japanese US Number one from 1963, which finally topped my chart in 2014 50 years late, for Kyu Sakamoto. PJ & Duncan, not yet Ant & Dec, get another hit with Our Radio Rocks, a half decent pop ditty, The Gogo’s reunite, and are welcomed by me at 74, has the whole world lost it’s head? Just me, it seemed. Finally Green day start a long run of hits at 75, a pure Basket Case...

 

 

 

1 ( 2 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

2 ( 1 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

3 ( 6 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

4 ( 9 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

5 ( 8 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

6 ( 5 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

7 ( 13 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz

8 ( 10 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton

9 ( 11 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail

10 ( 12 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

 

 

 

11 ( 4 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

12 ( 3 ) WHATEVER Oasis

13 ( 16 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The

14 ( 7 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

15 ( 49 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8

16 ( NEW ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade

17 ( 17 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

18 ( 30 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

19 ( 36 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant

20 ( 39 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow

 

 

21 ( 21 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna

22 ( 32 ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones

23 ( 15 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

24 ( 14 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

25 ( 28 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri

26 ( NEW ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet

27 ( 48 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad

28 ( 18 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

29 ( 22 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

30 ( 23 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

 

31 ( 31 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper

32 ( 20 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

33 ( 35 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts

34 ( 19 ) 1963 ’94 New Order

35 ( 25 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

36 ( 56 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen

37 ( 27 ) CREEP TLC

38 ( 62 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy

39 ( 43 ) SET YOU FREE N Trance

40 ( 41 ) NEW GENERATION Suede

 

 

41 ( NEW ) BELIEVE Elton John

42 ( 34 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

43 ( 38 ) HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER Ini Kamoze

44 ( 37 ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae

45 ( 33 ) ALMOST SEE YOU (SOMEWHERE) China Black

46 ( 44 ) STARS China Black

47 ( 47 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder

48 ( NEW ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova

49 ( 42 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

50 ( 24 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

 

51 ( 26 ) BOXERS Morrissey

52 ( NEW ) SUKIYAKI 4PM

53 ( 29 ) IF LIFE IS LIKE A LOVE BANK I WANT AN OVERDRAFT/ GEORDIE IN WONDERLAND The Wildhearts

54 ( 66 ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan

55 ( 40 ) YOUNG OFFENDER’S MUM Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine

56 ( 53 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

57 ( 46 ) ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU Mariah Carey

58 ( 54 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

59 ( 51 ) BUMP ‘N’ GRIND R. Kelly

60 ( 45 ) LOVE ME FOR A REASON Boyzone

 

61 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

62 ( 60 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

63 ( 67 ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid

64 ( NEW ) THE ONLY ONE Gun

65 ( 64 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

66 ( 50 ) TRYIN’ TO GET THE FEELING AGAIN The Carpenters

67 ( 57 ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING) Sparks

68 ( 68 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

69 ( 69 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

70 ( 59 ) WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD Louis Armstrong

 

71 ( 58 ) SO LET ME GO FAR Dodgy

72 ( 71 ) AGE OF LONELINESS Enigma

73 ( NEW ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan

74 ( NEW ) WHOLE WORLD LOST IT’S HEAD The Gogo’s

75 ( NEW ) BASKET CASE Green Day

 

American TV 1995: was brilliant, to be honest. Going on holiday to the States was wonderful, as I got to see the latest episodes of fab shows ahead of their UK showings. Just look at this list of shows: Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Star Trek: Voyager, X-Files and its writers forgotten (but fab) sci-fi show Space: Above And Beyond, Strange Luck (also forgotten, but a great unusual show based around co-incidences), Seinfeld, Married..With Children (brilliantly low-brow white-collar), Frasier (brilliantly high-brow intellectual), Third Rock From The Sun (brilliantly slapstick and OTT sci-fi comedy), Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman, The Simpsons at it’s peak, The Drew Carey Show, Friends at it’s peak, the quirky charming Due South, Roseanne, Sliders (cross-dimensions sci-fi), Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, and the fantastically-written, classy Batman: The Animated Series. Quite possibly the best year for US TV ever.

As always, great reading. I always thought No More I Love You's topped my chart, just one of many surprises when I unearthed my '95 charts, it stalled at No.2. Great to see Tell Me When was a chart topper.

 

Fantastic stuff :D

As always, great reading. I always thought No More I Love You's topped my chart, just one of many surprises when I unearthed my '95 charts, it stalled at No.2. Great to see Tell Me When was a chart topper.

 

Fantastic stuff :D

 

Thanks AH, I've also seen some chart surprises in my 1995 charts - and a bunch I dont remember too :lol:

19th February 1995

 

2 weeks for Annie on top, as Bob Seger’s oldie peaks at 2 much to my surprise. We’ve Got Tonight obviously resonated with me, even more than boyband MN8 at 3! Look at GUN though, up 60 places to 4, far and away their biggest record in my charts, and one I’d forgotten, but it’s pretty fine. Another band called Gun made my top 10 in 1969 with the awesome Race With The Devil. Sting hits 6, and grabs his 2nd-biggest solo hit (after Russians in 1985), while highest new entry is at 15, a cover of Brotherhood Of Man’s 1970 hit United We Stand. Actually it was one of those cheap knock-off identi-kit cover versions by a jobbing musician called Reg Dwight, and it was a pretty good version all in all considering. 25 years on a whole album of Reg’s covers was released, and whaddya know it outperforms his current single Believe. Yes, Elton John!

 

Paul Young, like everyone else, was also covering classic oldies at the time, this time the Hugh Masekela 60’s song Grazing In The Grass. More to the point he covers the definitive version as done by The Friends Of Distinction, and enters at 24 for 12 years of solo hits. Let’s just not mention Streetband. At 37, the fabulous Sophie B. Hawkins returns with her gorgeous As I Lay Me Down. She’s great. 10CC do an “unplugged” version of their 1975 number one classic, and hit 43 - it’s just not the same without the intricate harmony layering, though! At 48, fantastic, well-remembered, and upbeat - yes it’s The Boo Radleys. Wake up Boo! Mike + The Mechanics return with Over My Shoulder, at 53, and 9 years since they went top 10 with their best single Silent Running, and 21 years since Mike, and Paul Carrack, both charted in Genesis and Ace respectively. At 55, John Lee Hooker shows age is no barrier, as the terrific Chill Out bluesy track enters at 55. He was 78 at the time, and still had it. Which leaves The Smiths re-issue, a good Kirsty macColl newie, Caroline, Garth Brooks, Bon Jovi and Luther vandross. Phew! Busy chart!

 

1 ( 1 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

2 ( 6 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

3 ( 15 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8

4 ( 64 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun

5 ( 2 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

6 ( 8 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton

7 ( 7 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz

8 ( 5 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

9 ( 9 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail

10 ( 3 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

 

 

 

11 ( 4 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

12 ( 16 ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade

13 ( 11 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

14 ( 14 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

15 ( NEW ) UNITED WE STAND Reg Dwight aka Elton John

16 ( 10 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

17 ( 36 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen

18 ( 21 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna

19 ( 12 ) WHATEVER Oasis

20 ( 27 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad

 

 

 

21 ( 13 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The

22 ( 17 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

23 ( 26 ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet

24 ( NEW ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young

25 ( 19 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant

26 ( 41 ) BELIEVE Elton John

27 ( 20 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow

28 ( 18 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

29 ( 35 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

30 ( 40 ) NEW GENERATION Suede

 

 

31 ( 22 ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones

32 ( 33 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts

33 ( 24 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

34 ( 23 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

35 ( 25 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri

36 ( 47 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder

37 ( NEW ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins

38 ( 38 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy

39 ( 73 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan

40 ( 63 ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid

 

 

 

41 ( 29 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

42 ( 30 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

43 ( NEW ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC

44 ( 48 ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova

45 ( 54 ) EVERLASTING LOVE Gloria Estefan

46 ( 42 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

47 ( 37 ) CREEP TLC

48 ( NEW ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys

49 ( 28 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

50 ( 50 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

 

51 ( 46 ) STARS China Black

52 ( 52 ) SUKIYAKI 4PM

53 ( NEW ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics

54 ( 31 ) I’M GONNA BE STRONG Cyndi Lauper

55 ( NEW ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker

56 ( NEW ) DELICIOUS Shampoo

57 ( NEW ) CAROLINE Kirsty MacColl

58 ( 44 ) TOCCATA AND FUGUE Vanessa Mae

59 ( 74 ) WHOLE WORLD LOST IT’S HEAD The Gogo’s

60 ( 49 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

 

61 ( 39 ) SET YOU FREE N Trance

62 ( 61 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

63 ( 32 ) CHANGE The Lightning Seeds

64 ( 34 ) 1963 ’94 New Order

65 ( NEW ) ASK The Smiths

66 ( 62 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

67 ( 65 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

68 ( 56 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

69 ( 58 ) JUST LIKE THAT Abba

70 ( 69 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

 

71 ( NEW ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls

72 ( NEW ) THE DANCE Garth Brooks

73 ( 68 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

74 ( NEW ) SOMEDAY I’LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Bon Jovi

75 ( NEW ) ALWAYS AND FOREVER Luther Vandross

 

 

What was hot at the cinema this week? The Brady Bunch Movie was! A great piece of fluff, taking the michael out of the 1970 fashions and attitudes of the sitcom of the period, but with Shelley Long from Cheers, and rather surprisingly directed by Betty Thomas, the tough but soft inside Lucy Bates from the great Hill Street Blues. It really IS very funny! In sports Linford Christie grabbed a new 200m World Record.

26th February 1995

 

A new number one, and it’s pure boyband pop as MN8 take their rather catchy I’ve Got A Little Something For You (such modesty, not like the current braggers!) all the way. Perfecto also try to Reach Up, but stall at 3, still not bad for a grand dance track cover reworking. Highest new entry is Janet Jackson at 7, for a sweet and pleasant 9 years of top 10 hits. Whoops Now! Leaving The Boo Radleys delicious Wake Up Boo up 39 to 9, and yes wake up it’s a beautiful morning feelgood vibes!

 

At 19, up 20, it’s another surprise top 20 hit for PJ & Duncan, future TV superstars Ant n Dec of course - Our radio Rocks was fun enough, as was another track by a future TV presenter Denise Van Outen, Those 2 Girls shooting up to 28, that’s all I want! In at 20, following up a chart-topper, Human League return with One Man In My Heart, though it’s not Phil singing that line, it’s over to the girls this time for a slight change of sound. At 31, it’s a blockbuster classic announcing it’s arrival, Take That’s Gary Barlow proving for the second time that he really can write a bloody brilliant ballad as well a s a bloody brilliant pop song (Pray), and he’s Back For Good.

 

At 34, The Tabernacle give us a rousing I Know The Lord, a fab dance toon. The great John Lee Hooker, and Mike and The Mechanics, both make the 40, as another great record I Know enters at 44 for Dionne Farris. At 53, Ye Ke Ye Ke is remixed 7 years on to lesser effect, the original Mory Kante version remains the best version, while at 56 it’s a superstar diva charity collaboration (plus Eric Clapton) as Love Can Build A Bridge for Cher, Chrissie Hynde and Neneh Cherry. Others: Springsteen, EMF, Elastica, Alex Party.

 

 

1 ( 3 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8

2 ( 1 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

3 ( 7 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz

4 ( 4 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun

5 ( 2 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

6 ( 6 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton

7 ( NEW ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson

8 ( 8 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

9 ( 48 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys

10 ( 9 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail

 

 

11 ( 5 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

12 ( 11 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

13 ( 13 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

14 ( 10 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

15 ( 15 ) UNITED WE STAND Reg Dwight aka Elton John

16 ( 18 ) BEDTIME STORIES Madonna

17 ( 16 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

18 ( 14 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

19 ( 39 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan

20 ( NEW ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League

 

 

21 ( 12 ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade

22 ( 26 ) BELIEVE Elton John

23 ( 29 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

24 ( 37 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins

25 ( 19 ) WHATEVER Oasis

26 ( 22 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

27 ( 25 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant

28 ( 71 ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls

29 ( 17 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen

30 ( 20 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad

 

 

31 ( NEW ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That

32 ( 55 ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker

33 ( 28 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

34 ( NEW ) I KNOW THE LORD The Tabernacle

35 ( 33 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

36 ( 53 ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics

37 ( 38 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy

38 ( 24 ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young

39 ( 44 ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova

40 ( 21 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The

 

41 ( 36 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder

42 ( 41 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

43 ( 42 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

44 ( NEW ) I KNOW Dionne Farris

45 ( 57 ) CAROLINE Kirsty MacColl

46 ( 23 ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet

47 ( 46 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

48 ( 27 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow

49 ( 56 ) DELICIOUS Shampoo

50 ( 34 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

 

51 ( 40 ) LISTEN TO THE VOICES Junior Reid

52 ( 32 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Melanie Williams and Joe Roberts

53 ( NEW ) YE KE YE KE (REMIX) Mory Kante

54 ( 47 ) CREEP TLC

55 ( 51 ) STARS China Black

56 ( NEW ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton

57 ( 35 ) HERE AND NOW Del Amitri

58 ( 50 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

59 ( 74 ) SOMEDAY I’LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Bon Jovi

60 ( NEW ) WAKING UP Elastica

 

61 ( 43 ) I’M NOT IN LOVE (1995) 10CC

62 ( 31 ) SING IT TO YOU (DEE DOOB DEE DO) Lavinia Jones

63 ( 62 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

64 ( NEW ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party

65 ( 60 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

66 ( 30 ) NEW GENERATION Suede

67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

68 ( 66 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

69 ( 49 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

70 ( 70 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

 

71 ( 68 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

72 ( NEW ) ALL NIGHT LONG Mary Jane Girls

73 ( 73 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

74 ( NEW ) PERFECT DAY EMF

75 ( NEW ) MURDER INCORPORATED Bruce Springsteen

Ah, Those 2 Girls shooting up to No.28, it'll be interesting to see how high it gets.

 

Naturally, love the Human League entry. Also like Kirsty and the Tabernacle, yet neither made my chart at all in '95 (although I think the latter did in '96, I'll have to check). Didn't hear Caroline until many years later.

 

Fascinating reading as ever

Ah, Those 2 Girls shooting up to No.28, it'll be interesting to see how high it gets.

 

Naturally, love the Human League entry. Also like Kirsty and the Tabernacle, yet neither made my chart at all in '95 (although I think the latter did in '96, I'll have to check). Didn't hear Caroline until many years later.

 

Fascinating reading as ever

 

Thanks AH, Those2girls did quite well for a track I'd totally forgotten!

 

The Tabernacle was remixed in 96 so I guess it will make my charts again then, too B-)

Shampoo is very underrated here and in the real life too. True number one girl group of decade, not those Spices or Saints. Predictably didn't find two number ones from my charts.

 

Those 2 Girls were # 2 in my chart, Denise's # 1 will come a little later. Don't remember this Kirsty's song. :(

 

The one from my all-time least favourite songs wasn't successful in this chart.

 

THANKS, John. :yahoo:

Edited April 16, 201510 yr by Sword of Justice

5th March 1995

 

2 weeks on top for MN8 as Human League leap to 2 with a man in their heart, and The Boo Radleys wake up to the news that they have hit 3. Hooray! Dionne Farris, ex-Arrested Development singer returns solo to the top 10 in one fell swoop where Arrested Development needed a few weeks longer with Tennessee in 1992. Elton John Believes he can still grab a top 10 hit 24 years into his career, and so indeed he can, at 9, and comfortably more than 20+ to date. Which of course leaves PJ & Duncan making number 10 with Our Radio Rocks. No, I’m not quite sure why either!

 

Sophie B. and The Tabernacle both get deserved top 20 climbs, as does a little obscure ditty by a band called Take That. Back For Good? You can bet on it! The charity collaboration wiv da girls builds a quick chart bridge to 28, and Des’ree enters at 30 with her best record You Gotta Be - it was all diminishing returns from hereon. Mory Kante takes an inferior remix of his 1988 top 3 Ye Ke Ye Ke back into the 40, and the much-missed Kirsty MacColl brings Caroline in just behind at 38. At 40, it’s a debut entry for a massive act. They were huge in the USA, the album sold and sold and sold, and they even had an episode of Friends based around tickets for one of their concerts. Hootie And The Blowfish. Yes, who? They never made it in the UK but had a couple of good singles, Hold My Hand being one, and then pretty much that was that. Hey ho.

 

Lower down, it’s new entries from Brand New Heavies and Rozalla, both still on a streak of hits, and East 17’s goodie Let It Rain is in at 51.

 

1 ( 1 ) I’VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU MN8

2 ( 20 ) ONE MAN IN MY HEART Human League

3 ( 9 ) WAKE UP BOO The Boo Radleys

4 ( 3 ) REACH UP (PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG) Perfecto Allstarz

5 ( 2 ) NO MORE ‘I LOVE YOU’S Annie Lennox

6 ( 7 ) WHOOPS NOW! Janet Jackson

7 ( 44 ) I KNOW Dionne Farris

8 ( 5 ) WE’VE GOT TONIGHT Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

9 ( 22 ) BELIEVE Elton John

10 ( 19 ) OUR RADIO ROCKS PJ & Duncan

 

 

11 ( 4 ) THE ONLY ONE Gun

12 ( 12 ) SHE’S A RIVER Simple Minds

13 ( 6 ) THIS COWBOY SONG Sting featuring Pato Banton

14 ( 10 ) COWBOY DREAMS Jimmy Nail

15 ( 24 ) AS I LAY ME DOWN Sophie B. Hawkins

16 ( 34 ) I KNOW THE LORD The Tabernacle

17 ( 8 ) ONE NIGHT STAND Let Loose

18 ( 31 ) BACK FOR GOOD Take That

19 ( 11 ) TELL ME WHEN Human League

20 ( 18 ) INDEPENDENT LOVE SONG Scarlet

 

 

21 ( 16 ) BEDTIME STORY Madonna

22 ( 37 ) RUN AWAY MC Saar and The Real McCoy

23 ( 14 ) CRUSH WITH EYELINER REM

24 ( 13 ) GLORY BOX Portishead

25 ( 36 ) OVER MY SHOULDER Mike + The Mechanics

26 ( 32 ) CHILL OUT (THING’S GONNA CHANGE) John Lee Hooker

27 ( 28 ) ALL I WANT Those 2 Girls

28 ( 56 ) LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton

29 ( 17 ) OPEN YOUR HEART M People

30 ( NEW ) YOU GOTTA BE Des’ree

 

 

31 ( 33 ) THINK TWICE Celine Dion

32 ( 23 ) CALL IT LOVE Deuce

33 ( 15 ) UNITED WE STAND Reg Dwight aka Elton John

34 ( 25 ) WHATEVER Oasis

35 ( 26 ) COTTON EYE JOE Rednex

36 ( 29 ) U WILL KNOW BMU featuring R Kelly, BoyzIImen

37 ( 53 ) YE KE YE KE (REMIX) Mory Kante

38 ( 45 ) CAROLINE Kirsty MacColl

39 ( 21 ) EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK Jade

40 ( NEW ) HOLD MY HAND Hootie And The Blowfish

 

 

41 ( 39 ) WALK THIS WORLD Heather Nova

42 ( 35 ) RIVERDANCE Bill Whelan

43 ( 27 ) WONDERFUL Adam Ant

44 ( 42 ) TAKE A BOW Madonna

45 ( 43 ) PUT YOURSELF IN MY PLACE Kylie Minogue

46 ( NEW ) CLOSE TO YOU Brand New Heavies

47 ( 64 ) DON’T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE Alex Party

48 ( 47 ) MISS YOU NIGHTS/ ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM Cliff Richard and Phil Everley

49 ( NEW ) (I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF I SHOULD CALL YOU) BABY Rozalla

50 ( 30 ) YOU’RE NO GOOD Aswad

 

51 ( NEW ) LET IT RAIN East 17

52 ( 41 ) FOR YOUR LOVE Stevie Wonder

53 ( 59 ) SOMEDAY I’LL BE SATURDAY NIGHT Bon Jovi

54 ( 54 ) CREEP TLC

55 ( 40 ) I SAW THE LIGHT The The

56 ( 50 ) HEARTBEAT Jimmy Somerville

57 ( 55 ) STARS China Black

58 ( RE ) ASK The Smiths

59 ( 38 ) GRAZING IN THE GRASS Paul Young

60 ( 60 ) WAKING UP Elastica

 

61 ( 58 ) I MIGHT BE CRYING Tanita Tikaram

62 ( 46 ) U BLOW MY MIND Blackstreet

63 ( 63 ) DANCING QUEEN/EAGLE Abba

64 ( RE ) WHEN I KISS YOU (I HEAR CHARLIE PARKER PLAYING)/ THIS TOWN AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH OF US (BBC VERSION) Sparks

65 ( 65 ) A GIRL LIKE YOU Edwyn Collins

66 ( 74 ) PERFECT DAY EMF

67 ( 67 ) YOU’VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING The Righteous Brothers

68 ( 68 ) RIGHT BESIDE YOU Sophie B. Hawkins

69 ( 49 ) DELICIOUS Shampoo

70 ( 70 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson

 

71 ( 71 ) TRUE FAITH 94 New Order

72 ( 69 ) PROTECTION Massive Attack featuring Tracey Thorn

73 ( 73 ) 20TH CENTURY BOY T.Rex

74 ( 48 ) STRONG ENOUGH Sheryl Crow

75 ( 75 ) MURDER INCORPORATED Bruce Springsteen