The Nick Cave and Kylie song is a gem!

was Lucky a proper release? cos the band were already stablished and hitting the top 30 with every release by now

so it's weird a brand new song didn't go top 40

It wasn’t credited to Radiohead, it was called the ‘Help EP’ or something like that and contained songs by other acts too.

 

I had absolutely no idea it existed at the time and only bought it later, so I assume that it wasn’t particularly well advertised

that makes sense :) I just checked the Radiohead discography page at the OCC and indeed Lucky is not listed as part of their chart history

Oh wow, I had no idea Pulp came that close! Shame they couldn't get it :(

21ST OCTOBER

 

 

Simply Red have a had a great week…fifth album “Life” explodes into pole position with a great sale of 283,000 to become their third LP chart topper, and lead single “Fairground” makes it a month at the top. As you might expect sales of the single are down now to 96,000 making 578,000 in total over the last month, impressive tallies. Def Leppard equal their highest placed hit “Let’s Get Rocked” as “When Love & Hate Collide” soars 7-2 (71,000) and stands an outside chance of hitting the top next week if nothing emerges. Smokie & Roy “Chubby” Brown continue to climb 4-3 (45,000) but sales are down once again, bizarrely the song has lost sales each week as it moved 5-4-3 surely any further climbs must be beyond it?

 

 

 

Louise’s solo single “Light Of My Life” drops 8-10 (25,000) whilst her former group Eternal smash in at No 5 (42,000) with “Power Of A Woman”. It’s their first single from a second album of the same title and marks their debut without Louise so they must be feeling pretty pleased with the outcome. It’s written by Carl Sturken and Evan Rodgers who formed the group Rhythm Syndicate and hit No 2 in the states with “PASSION” in 1991, for Eternal it gives them a 5th top 10 single from 7 releases.

 

 

 

One of the big dance hits in Ibiza in the summer was Josh Wink’s “Higher State Of Conciousness” which has only been available on import up until now but has had strong club support. It’s new at No 8 (28,000) this week, though the song appeared on a dance compilation last year it is now remixed for the charts though the current release states “Original Mix”.

 

 

Shaggy continues his slow descent 3-4 (44,000) and Pulp hurtle 2-6 (39,000), lower down Michael Jackson drifts 5-7 (33,000) and Mariah Carey dives 6-9 (25,000)

 

 

1- FAIRGROUND- Simply Red (96,000)

2- WHEN LOVE AND HATE COLLIDE- Def Leppard (71,000)

3- LIVING NEXT DOOR TO ALICE (WHO THE f*** IS ALICE)- Smokie Ft Roy Chubby Brown (45,000)

4- BOOMBASTIC- Shaggy (44,000)

5- POWER OF A WOMAN- Eternal (42,000)

6- MIS-SHAPES/ SORTED FOR E’S & WHIZZ- Pulp (39,000)

7- YOU ARE NOT ALONE- Michael Jackson (33,000)

8- HIGHER STATE OF CONCIOUSNESS- Josh Wink (28,000)

9- FANTASY- Mariah Carey (25,000)

10- LIGHT OF MY LIFE- Louise (25,000)

 

Didn't think Def Leppard's 90s-boybandish-but-still-good song would rise to #2, assumed it would peak first week.

 

Higher State of Consciousness is uncommercial dance and is very good, I do think it influenced early 00s dance music like Public Domain and Scooter in the early 00s and Calvin/Fatboy Slim/Beardyman's Eat Rave Sleep Repeat in 2013.

Edited March 15, 20241 yr by TheSnake

28TH OCTOBER

 

 

Well the charts threw up another surprise this week and Britain now has its first gangsta rap No 1. A former US chart topper “Gangsta’s Paradise” features an extensive sample of Stevie Wonder’s “Pastime Paradise” and propels Coolio and LV to the top spot here on a sale of 107,000, the track features in the new Michelle Pfeiffer film “Dangerous Minds” which also forms part of the promo.

 

 

 

For the fourth time in chart history (and the second time in 1995) both the top 2 are new entries and arriving just behind Coolio is a returning Meat Loaf. His last era led with the 7 week chart topping “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” and he’s now back with the Diane Warren penned “I’d Lie For You (And That’s The Truth)”- he loves a spot of parenthesis- and whilst it isn’t produced by John Steinman it certainly sounds like it could be and female vocals come courtesy of Patti Russo on this occasion. A big budget promo featuring Loaf as a kind of Indiana Jones helps the song to sales of 90,000, the album will follow in a fortnight!

 

 

 

It’s been 7 years since we last saw Everything But The Girl when their cover of “I Don’t Want To Talk About It” peaked at No 3, all but one of the intervening hit singles peaked outside the top 40 including a track called “Missing” which disappointed at No 69 in August 1994. It’s since been remixed by Todd Terry which is already creating waves in the US which has prompted a UK release. It smashes into the charts at No 8 (29,000) which just goes to show the power of a dance remix especially for a group renown for playing laid back indie pop.

 

 

Simply Red spend a second week at No 1 in the album charts but “Fairground” is all spent at the top of the singles chart as it moves 1-3 (76,000) going platinum in the process, Def Leppard fall back 2-4 (63,000) and Smokie Featuring Roy “Chubby” Brown complete the top 5 as it finally reverses 3-5 (38,000).

 

Lower down it’s all fallers apart from Everything But The Girl, that includes Eternal 5-6 (37,000), Shaggy 4-7 (31,000) Michael Jackson 7-9 (25,000) and Josh Wink 8-10 (24,000). Next week sees the first “new” single from Queen in 4 years…another No 1?

 

 

1- GANGSTA’S PARADISE- Coolio Ft LV (107,000)

2- I’D LIE FOR YOU (AND THAT’S THE TRUTH)- Meat Loaf (90,000)

3- FAIRGROUND- Simply Red (76,000)

4- WHEN LOVE AND HATE COLLIDE- Def Leppard (63,000)

5- LIVING NEXT DOOR TO ALICE (WHO THE f*** IS ALICE)- Smokie Ft Roy Chubby Brown (38,000)

6- POWER OF A WOMAN- Eternal (37,000)

7- BOOMBASTIC- Shaggy (31,000)

8- MISSING- Everything But The Girl (29,000)

9- YOU ARE NOT ALONE- Michael Jackson (25,000)

10- HIGHER STATE OF CONCIOUSNESS- Josh Wink (24,000)

 

I knew about Coolio from the chart forum on here today (iconic song) but wasn't expecting Missing, such a great song, so atmospheric.

'Power of a Woman' is such a pop classic! That used to be played so often at my school discos.

 

Also;

 

Higher State of Consciousness :wub:

Missing :wub: :wub:

oh Missing <3 one of the best dance songs EVER <3

 

 

Love that Meat Loaf track and also 'Missing' is great as well. I just heard it on radio 2 tonight when Gok Wan was talking about some of his rewind song memories!

The Meat Loaf song is good, I'm guessing it was the older vs younger record buyers in the top 2 between Meat Loaf and Coolio!

God imagine a time when the top 10 could have a dance track as interesting as Josh Wink in it. Also Missing and Gansta Paradise are amazing songs!

Missing is the best pick from these 2 by far - and still one of the best dance songs of all time.

 

Gangstas Paradise is a great chart topper - way better than the last 2.

 

Meat Loaf is awful. Thought so then, think so now.

I take it Meat Loaf had been expected to debut at No.1? Seems like Coolio came as a surprise, which in itself is a surprise to me when you think of how big a classic it's seen as now.

 

The Missing remix is great of course, Todd Terry essentially used the same backing track for his remix of Corrs' Dreams.

 

I love Power of a Woman too, much more than the Louise debut.

 

Hopefully that was the last Smokie and Chubby appearance, sick of hearing it.

Loved the arrival of Gangsta’s Paradise. I wasn’t huge on rap songs but had really enjoyed Regulate the year before… was really pleased it beat Meat Loaf, that single just felt like such an artistic retread, even the structure of the title - such an uninspiring comeback.

 

Missing is of course the best of the lot though. I hadn’t grown to love it yet, I can remember thinking it was okay but would drop like a stone as I just didn’t expect an act like EBTG to have a hit. Never in a million years would I have expected it to stay top 10 next week.

 

Josh Wink also a good one, loved how big some really leftfield dance tracks were in the 90s

That Meatloaf song was. poor attempt at recreating I'd do anything for love(but I won't do that), even the title

but it's not a patch of it, Meatloaf at his worst

Catching up on a couple of week's worth of write-ups... I had no idea that 'Boombastic' was an advert song!

 

'Fantasy' is my favourite Mariah Carey single so nice to see that arriving :wub: the mid-to-late 90s eras of Daydream, Butterfly and Rainbow is her golden period for me

 

Pretty sick of that Smokie song now after I think 4 TOTP plays :lol: it's quite amusing that they concealed the swearing with "who the bleep is Alice?" but you can still hear the audience saying f**k. My best friend at University was called Alice and has had that sung to her a number of times lol, I feel for her

 

'Fairground' is one of the more tolerable Simply Red songs but still not great; I do love 'Give It Up' the instrumental it samples though

 

Fabulous double A-Side from Pulp, if I was pushed to choose my favourite then I think the exhilarating build-up of 'Mis-shapes' takes it, but do love that appropriately psychedelic production on 'Sorted' also. Aww at it being so close to #1, how annoying! :(

 

'Gangsta's Paradise' is an excellent #1 :wub: :wub: a masterful use of a sample. I had a chat with my parents about this TOTP episode, as it aired just a couple of days before they met for the first time and my mum says she does connect the song with that life event as it was everywhere. Both 'Gangsta's Paradise' and 'Missing' from the same episode have proven to be incredibly enduring, Coolio is one of the only rap songs Heart FM seem to touch. Glad it blocked that Meat Loaf song - agreed that it feels like a weaker retread of past glories.

 

'Higher State of Consciousness' has been skipped on both TOTP episodes so just reminded myself of it, what a tune :music:

 

Outside the top 10 recently I really like the Garbage, Radiohead and Nick Cave/Kylie songs - the latter is such a juxtaposition of artists with Kylie jumping on a moody murder ballad, but works

Missing is of course the best of the lot though. I hadn’t grown to love it yet, I can remember thinking it was okay but would drop like a stone as I just didn’t expect an act like EBTG to have a hit. Never in a million years would I have expected it to stay top 10 next week.

 

Spoilers :P :P