I love that version of 'Do You See The Light'.

My top pick here is an obscure gem - a gorgeous reinvention of a 1976 track “Misty Blue” by Dorothy Moore. Having heard the original I really think this version is better.

8	Amillionsons	Misti Blu	Only hit for them with a soul cover: this has the most beautiful soundscape and the vocals are full of amazement and joy
8	Sugababes	Round Round	932nd #1: so different from their early hits but a unique song with tempo changes and production like a motor whirring
7	Daniel Bedingfield	James Dean (I Wanna Know)	Doesn't quite have the magic of his debut but has a similarly homemade feel and I really enjoy the punchy starkness of it
6	Nukleuz DJ's	DJ Nation	Nukleuz was a group of DJs and "DJ Nation" a whole project of which this is one track: it's a strong piece of hard trance
5	Lasgo	Alone	Their 2nd hit which doesn't have the striking power of "Something" but it a nice dance track with soaring emotive vocals
5	Hear'Say	Lovin' Is Easy	Their last hit which obviously didn't really connect, but I quite like the production and overall prefer this to their #1s
4	Snap! Vs Plaything	Do You See The Light	They haven't had any original hits this century: this remix of a 1993 #10 hit is not bad but I prefer the original production
3	H And Claire	Half A Heart	A mid tempo duet very different from "DJ": you can see why H didn't get many solos in Steps as his parts aren't great
3	Mary J. Blige Featuring Ja Rule	Rainy Dayz	Two superstars collaboarating on a surprisingly boring track: Mary J's final vocals are the only enjoyable aspect of this
2	B2K	Uh Huh	1st hit for this US RnB boyband who will be back with stronger material but this feels like all production and no song
1	Romeo	Romeo Dunn	1st solo hit for So Solid Crew member Marvin Dawkins: as well as not enjoying it musically I find the lyrics terribly silly

2002 Week 35:

#1448	31/08/2002	Blazin' Squad	Crossroads	1	{1}-2-4-12-24-34-39-38-51-60-57-51-48->13
#1449	31/08/2002	Truth Hurts Featuring Rakim	Addictive	3	{3}-4-5-9-17-19-27-30-35-50-69-73->12
#1450	31/08/2002	Abs	What You Got	4	{4}-7-9-20-32-42-58-74->8
#1451	31/08/2002	Oakenfold	Starry Eyed Surprise	6	{6}-10-14-16-28-36-45-55->8
#1452	31/08/2002	Milky	Just The Way You Are	8	{8}-14-19-31-50-66->6
#1453	31/08/2002	The Music	Take The Long Road And Walk It	14	{14}-32-54->3
#1454	31/08/2002	3rd Edge	In And Out	15	{15}-30-37-51-75R(3)->5
#1455	31/08/2002	Celine Dion	I'm Alive	17	{17}-26-28-40-55-69->6
#1456	31/08/2002	Boniface	Cheeky	25	{25}-42-67->3
#1457	31/08/2002	The Flaming Lips	Do You Realize?	32	{32}-68->2
#1458	31/08/2002	Moby	Extreme Ways	39	{39}->1

Royksopp are always good, Remind Me reminds me of The Bad Touch rhythm, and So Easy is lovely. Neither are familiar to me, having not heard them in 23 years, but they grabbed a double 7/10 from me at the time. ATC OTOH managed a mere 4/10, I do remember it from the time though, and am in favour of nicking Russian tunes (see Those Were The Days). In My Place was a biggie for me, the moment when Coldplay moved into the big league. I'd caught them in concert around this time, and bought the single. 9/10.

Fascinated was OK, a 4/10 but Bowling For Soup ended up in the gutter at first throw, and Def Leppard could also only just grab a 4/10. Intenso Project, well I adored Dreadlock Holiday and 10CC, so I was bound to like this one I remember being a fan, so did the chart position match the memory? Yes, 8/10. Cam'ron had a 6 week run but fell short of the top 60 so that's a 4/10 from me, while Mad'House "could have been far worse" indeed 😄 a generous 5/10, and also for for old times sakes for Quo. Sometimes the very familiar is reassuring - or annoying. One or the other! So that leaves Toploader hot off 2 number ones in my charts, and this single grabbed an 8/10 from me. Not that I remember it all, and I'm embarrassed to find I first listed it as Time Of Our Lives and never corrected it throughout its chart run. Oops my chance of ever getting a 3 in 10 for Toploader on Popmaster is quite low 😎 Playing it now, bomps along reasonably well though the song isn't memorable, I think a borderline 7/10 is more realistic for me now!

Week 31 & 32

'Underneath Your Clothes' my top fave from the first week there, both Linkin Park tracks predictably great. 'Automatic High' is a nostalgic bop for me and did buy on cd both the single and album!

'A Thousand Miles' is one of those I didn't like for the longest time purely down to Vanessa's nasally vocal, the piano and instrumental aspect is good though and I guess nowadays now I've seen White Chicks with the iconic Terry Crews scene it's grown on me a fair bit.

My Friends Over You' is also a tune and finding 'All You Wanted' nice enough but not better than 'Everywhere'. Both versions of 'Rockstar' are sounding rather decent.

Week 33

Top faves being Coldplay, A Touch of Class and Bowling For Soup. All super tracks. 'Jam Side Down' is fun for what it is for your typical Quo track and the Royksopp songs are very good, 'So Easy' especially is so lush. 'Fascinated' is solid also.

Some decent elements in both the Def Leppard and Toploader songs but they're not quite hitting it for me overall.

I was amazed to find that The Music were barely 18 when they released their eponymous debut album. Apparently they received ridicule for having a pretentious band and album name which is understandable, but I really think this debut single is incredible. The way the guitars build up, the majesty of the one line chorus and then towards the end with the more distorted sound when he almost starts scatting.

9	The Music	Take The Long Road And Walk It	1st hit for this UK rock group and what a powerhouse of swirling guitars with incredibly strong and clear lead vocals
8	Truth Hurts Featuring Rakim	Addictive	Only hit for US RnB singer Shari Watson with rapper Rakim; a wonderfully unusual pulsing Middle Eastern styled track
8	Moby	Extreme Ways	Used in the Bourne films, I love the menacing violin riff and it's another incredibly atmospheric arresting track from him
7	Oakenfold	Starry Eyed Surprise	His biggest hit featuring Shifty Shellshock of Crazy Town: it's a one off, delightfully quirky and effective rap dance track
7	Milky	Just The Way You Are	Only Top 40 for this Italian house group: the "doo doo doo" feels very dreamy and it's a repetitive but really sweet track
6	The Flaming Lips	Do You Realize?	1st hit for this US psychedelic rock band: they'll have better but I really enjoy the slow and pensive vocal lines in this
5	3rd Edge	In And Out	1st of a couple of hits for this UK garage boyband: not fussed about it as a whole but impressed by the rapid rapping
5	Celine Dion	I'm Alive	Not as good as "A New Day Has Come" but still one of her better songs: it has that similar beautiful dawn feeling to it
4	Boniface	Cheeky	Only hit for Bruce Boniface: this is not bad but a very standard early '00s RnB track that doesn't stick in the memory
3	Abs	What You Got	Debut solo hit for this Five member based on "Uptown Top Ranking" from 1977: this version is OK but doesn't add much
2	Blazin' Squad	Crossroads	933rd #1: there's something quite charming about this unwieldy 12 piece group making it big, but it's a raucous cover

2002 Week 36:

#1459	07/09/2002	Atomic Kitten	The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)	1	{1}-1-1-2-5-8-12-13-16-20-24-32-45-52-69-74->16
#1460	07/09/2002	Ms Dynamite	Dy-Na-Mi-Tee	5	{5}-10-17-22-21-31-37-47-64-75->10
#1461	07/09/2002	Nickelback	Too Bad	9	{9}-17-23-39-45-56-63-67R(2)-62->9
#1462	07/09/2002	Enrique Iglesias	Love To See You Cry	12	{12}-26-28-40-50-66-72->7
#1463	07/09/2002	3SL	Touch Me Tease Me	16	{16}-36-60-59R(5)->4
#1464	07/09/2002	Mint Royale	Sexiest Man In Jamaica	20	{20}-35-49->3
#1465	07/09/2002	Ash	Envy	21	{21}-44->2
#1466	07/09/2002	Harvey	Get Up And Move	24	{24}-42->2
#1467	07/09/2002	Tweet	Call Me	35	{35}-60->2
#1468	07/09/2002	JamX And Deleon	Can U Dig It	40	{40}-63->2

Catching up on week 33 + 34:

The production is my favourite part of 'You See The Trouble With Me', so not mad about the same beat appearing on 'Like A Prayer', but can't say I'd ever choose to listen to that version over the Madonna masterpiece.

I'm more familiar with Mariah's 'Boy (I Need You)' that incorporates the Cam'Ron song than 'Oh Boy' itself, despite charting lower. Didn't realise how quickly she snapped up that sample!

I like this Raven Maize song more than the last hit under that alias but not quite up there with the best of the Jakatta/Joey Negro material.

Random observation of the day is not only does the Intenso Project song sample 'Dreadlock Holiday', but also Bowling For Soup's 'Girl All The Bad Guys Want' contains the lyric: "with fishnets on and dreadlocks in her hair"!

I agree that Coldplay have better (from this era alone!) but I do like 'In My Place', particularly the melodic guitar line and Chris' heartfelt delivery. I see Darius blocked them from the top, which I can forgive, they have far more egregious roadblock in a few years...

'Around The World (La La La La La)' is such an earworm. I quite liked what Ava Max did with it too.

Great to see Röyksopp on top I have always enjoyed their general sound but was a bit late to the revered Melody AM album... until there was a listen through for it on the forum a couple of years ago! My overall favourites included the classic 'Eple', plus 'She's So', 'In Space' and 'Poor Leno' - but both of the two songs highlighted in the relevant batch are sounding good right now in isolation, especially 'So Easy' indeed.

I love the original 'Do You See The Light?' but agree that the production on this version pales in comparison.

Wild that the story of Hear'Say is coming to an end just a year after they formed on Popstars, while Liberty X are advancing to the next level. I'm not the biggest fan of them but do think Kym Marsh brought a lot of star quality to the group, so her leaving and being replaced by Lisa Scott-Lee's future husband at this point makes sense as the beginning of the end.

I adore 'Round Round' 😍 glorious, edgy Xenomania pop that gives all three of the girls their own section to shine, on top of coming together for that euphoric, unifying chorus. Great hook and punchy drum track too. Feels like a turning of the tides for the sound of British girl-groups in a pre-Girls Aloud world.

I know the Dorothy Moore version of 'Misty Blue' well but had never come across that reimagining before! The downtempo flip is interesting. Apparently it's Chaka Khan on backing vocals while her sister Taka Boom takes on lead vocals, ooh. Maybe the second best cover version/reimagined discovery I've made during this series after Colour Girl's take on 'Can't Get Used To Losing You'!

8 hours ago, Popchartfreak said:

I do remember it from the time though, and am in favour of nicking Russian tunes (see Those Were The Days)

Didn't know ithe ATC song was a cover of a Russian song reminds me of the situation with the Azerbajani accordion sample in fellow eurodance hit Edward Maya's Stereo Love in 2010!

Edited April 29Apr 29 by TheSnake

I remember at the time that Milky track was everywhere and I thought it'd be a #1 contender, I was quite surprised to see it land as low as #8!

Even today it feels fairly well-known.

Not heard The Music track since it charted and I had no idea they were that young. One I rather like myself too, 8/10. I miss electric guitars spotlighting in the charts, though Pink Pony Club ends on one, which was great to see. Truth Hurts was decent too, a 7/10 and great to see Rakim back from his Paid In Full middle-eastern-vibes-ish 80's hit. Extreme Ways I have come to see as a Moby 10/10 classic thanks to the recent poundingly exciting dance revamp with Armin van Buuren, but at the time it was "merely" a 7/10 for me. I like it when records sound even better with time.

Oakenfold's Starry Eyed Surprise was a big choon of then, irresistibly catchy and upbeat. Also a 7 from me. Milky I don't recall, but that's how I like my tea, coffee and hot chocolate. A 5/10 rating as per my charts, while Flaming Lips are usually good and Do You Realise is one that very much stays singable in the memory decades later, 8/10. I'm Alive is a very decent 7/10 for Celine, and I actually like the recent heavily revamped version by Majestic, mixed with The Whispers And The Beat Goes On, titled Set My Heart On Fire. That's even better than the original, though I have appreciation of that thanks to Stuart Little 2. As my mum's dementia progressed she got a lot of enjoyment out of the Stuart Little films, they made her feel a happy for a while, so I put them on a lot.

In the Abs vs Blazin' Squad battle, it's a firm abs from me, and not just because I wish my mid-riff was less flabby, it's just a better pop record. I love Uptown Top Rankin' so that's not a bad format to poach, and Five were a cut above the average boyband. a strong 8/10, as opposed to Crossroads which scrapes a 3/10. I will stick with the original for both, of course.

and back to the one before, for Amillionsons, I love Misty Blue, and it goes back even further than Dorothy Moore's hit version, I recently discovered an earlier soul cover version by Joe Simon which also worked. I just like the song in any version I think, including this one 8/10. Round Round is top Sugababes, what's not to like, 9/10! Daniel Bedingfield is all about his banging debut for me, but James Dean is his next best track 7/10.

I agree Lasgo's didn't quite match Something but still good for me, 8/10. Hear'Say, I also ditto on this track, I thought it was far and away their best single, which in the world of teenypop appeal seems to be the kiss of commercial death, 8/10. I liked the Snap! remix as much as the original I think, 8/10, though to be fair I haven't heard it since and it might have sounded better in the club on the night. Mary J obv I like, have a 7/10 Mary! Still loving her bad-ass character from Umbrella Academy season 1. The only other track here that grabbed a rating was B2k - have a 3/10!

Weeks 29 and 30:

Clubland wins for me again on these weeks. Shooting Star I thought was a solid follow up to True Love Never Dies, in fact it was the b-side to that single funnily enough and proved so popular that they gave it a radio edit and pushed it out on its own. A good vocal from Karen Parry on it too. And Forever by Dee Dee was a big part of that wonderful dance movement coming from Belgium in 2002, shame it wasn't a top ten hit. It Just Won't Do and Emerge were also great dance songs, the former feels like it should have been bigger, it was everywhere that summer.

Otherwise, not a massively remarkable fortnight for me here. Foolish was very solid R&B though with a good piano line, and better than the weak Beyoncé single - although that's a good pub quiz question (what was her debut solo hit?) as I doubt many people would name this track. It does remind me of the Austin Powers film it was on the soundtrack to though. Wish I Didn't Miss You was a strong soul track too, with a great vocal from Angie.

I would say that the Gareth Gates song was his best single, a solid 7/10 for me, nothing remarkable by any means but a good Scandipop style second single that was far better than Unchained Melody.

I Get Along is a bit ploddy for PSB, Release was a strange album for me, lyrically very good in places but a lot of it sounded like Britpop filler musically, including this.

LK is one I remember quite well, nice summer song. And that Bryan Adams song was ok too, 2002 seemed to be the last hurrah in the top ten for quite a few 90s popstars (Bryan, Celine, No Doubt, various Steps members and a few others), music really just moved fully into the new decade come 2003.

Strange Relationship is quite a nice track from Darren Hayes, with nice strings as Julian mentioned, but sounds more like an album track than a single.

I've got nothing to add on DMAC or Demi Holborn, agreed on that bottom two, both naff in different ways.

Weeks 31 and 32:

By far my favourite is Underneath Your Clothes, which I even prefer to Whenever, Wherever, such a beautiful ballad with a typically striking vocal. I remember the first time I heard this, on a listening post in music shop Borders months before its single release, and I immediately bought the album off the strength of the impression this track made on me, so good and I just had to have it.

A Thousand Miles is another classic ballad and one that's held up so well over the years, one of those classic US singer/songwriter one-off top ten hits that used to happen a lot in the 90s and 00s.

Pounding is my other favourite here, this song made such an impression on me and I was glad they included it on Now 52 when There Goes The Fear had missed out on a Now appearance. Just a great, singalong indie track.

Beauty On The Fire was a pleasant single from Natalie, it has an understated beauty to it that was well used by Saint Etienne in a sample on their lovely 2021 single Pond House.

Colourblind was another good summer No.1 from the Pop Idol stable, glad Darius turned things around from being seen as a joke on Popstars to actually a good pop star with a No.1 to his name.

Some good stuff here from N*E*R*D, and Linkin Park and I didn't mind Boys although definitely not a vintage Britney single. The Co-Ed single remix with Pharrell was a good effort though and far better than the album version, which was very plodding.

I didn't like the Will Smith song, his weakest top three hit for me unfortunately, along with maybe the cover of Just The Two Of Us. And not sure what George Michael was doing on this album, another weak single although it had a memorable video.

Automatic High was ok - again, I wasn't into S Club Juniors generally but in particular this song was lacking a chorus, it felt like it had a bridge that built up to nothing.

The Natural song was nothing special, it was a bigger deal in Germany where I think they had several hits and a No.2 album somehow.

Milky - Just The Way You Are is a lovely song, Starry Eyed Surprise is catchy and I liked it at the time but not really dance I guess trance/eurotrance was oversaturated at this point so Paul Oakenfold decided to do something different. 3rd Edge song is catchy with good production but awful lyrics that have aged badly, discovered the song a while back.

Edited April 30Apr 30 by TheSnake

Week 33:

Around The World (La La La La La) is one of my favourite songs ever <3 It was a hit everywhere else in 2000 but was cancelled here at the time, I think it was on track to make top 40 or therabouts. But then by 2002 the time had really passed for it to be a giant hit, and Europop had moved on from the very cheesy style, but I'm glad it still managed to chart here, as it clearly became a very influential and classic song overtime, influencing loads of dance hits and with the hook sampled by a lot of acts over the years. I remember part of the band's schtick is that all four members cam from different countries, shame they were a one-hit wonder in the end.

I also bought Like A Prayer this week, I thought that was a very solid Madonna cover and that the Black Legend beat worked pretty well with it. Mad'house had a whole album of mostly Madonna covers, the cover of La Isla Bonita was good too. But Holiday (the follow-up single), which ripped off Stardust, was less good.

A very good double a-side from Röyksopp here, the parent album is such a classic and I loved both of these songs.

Of the rockier songs, Girl All The Bad Guys Want was my favourite and again takes me right back to my school days, very fun pop punk. In My Place is a bit of a plod for me unfortunately, the follow up single was far better. Not a fan of the Quo or Toploader tracks either particularly.

I think I thought Luv Da Sunshine would be a much bigger hit, it had a well used sample, but a lot of dance singles underperformed compared to expectations in 2002, maybe due to oversaturation.

Week 34:

Round Round was probably my favourite here, that was a really strong 1-2 punch of singles with Freak Like Me. I love the ballad middle eight before it bursts back into life. This probably could have suited Girls Aloud too.

I bought and really enjoyed that Snap! remix, and Alone was decent from Lasgo, I think I preferred the follow-up Pray overall, and Something too of course.

Of the other pop stuff, James Dean was ok, Daniel had better to come - I was surprised by the style of the song though at the time, he seemed to genre hop with every release so I found it hard to work out what kind of artist he was until well into 2003. Half A Heart was a bit plodding for me, I just didn't 'get' H and Claire musically, but I guess this single was at least very unlike a Steps song, whereas DJ and All Out Of Love could have been by them, so it was good to hear them do something different.

The Hear'Say song wasn't half bad indeed, shame it didn't do very well after week one, because you could see it was a make or break song for them, the intro was particularly bouncy.

I remember liking Misti Blu when I heard it on I think Hits 54, a lovely soundscape indeed.

Nothing to add on Mary J, B2K and Romeo. The latter was so self serving but with no wink of irony that would have made it more likeable. A boring song with a reheated hook from 21 Seconds, how did this make the top three?

Week 35:

I really like the Milky song and along with Oakenfold it was basically the sound of commercial radio in summer 2002. Both deserved higher peaks and I thought both would have been bigger.

Addictive is exactly that, with a hypnotic bassline, and for a top three hit that hung around for a bit, it's one of the most forgotten songs of the 00s, it really never gets played anywhere anymore.

I'm Alive wasn't much of a hit at the time but has turned into a bit of a classic for Celine, quite a triumphant feel to it.

I thought the Abs song was ok, not a bad use of the sample, but a big no to Crossroads, the Blazin' Squad cover is one of my least favourite singles ever. It felt like a very cheaply produced sounding song with no real charm to me and by rappers whose flow didn't complement each other. They did have better singles to come though, none of which were as big.

Extreme Ways was good, I think I sequenced it next to Clubbed To Death on Buzzjack Presents 2002 as I felt they musically complemented each other well.

I had to check the song by The Music, funnily enough I don't remember anything about their music, just the mass coverage they had before launch in the indie press. Not a bad track though.

Another of my top 10 of 2002 has appeared with 'Do You Realize?' - songs about the inevitability of death can be quite life-affirming and there's a suitably celestial feel to the production - it's my favourite from The Flaming Lips.

That Blazin' Squad version of 'Crossroads' is incredibly naff!

I have a soft spot for 'Uptown Top Ranking' but don't care for the Abs song. I feel like popstars, magazines and technology references of the time could all end up being dated - but luckily for him Britney Spears remains an icon, GQ magazine is still in print and mobile phones are of course extremely prevalent

'Just The Way You Are' was a great One Hit Wonders of the Millennium discovery 💗 the hook really gets lodged in your brain. I love the laidback, breezy feel of it and Giuditta the vocalist has a very charming accent.

'Addictive' is a pretty standout hit from the time. The 'Thoda Resham Lagta Hai' sample is great, unfortunately it's one that David Guetta has now got his hands on too, as the relevant song 'Cuentale' popped up in my Release Radar playlist the other day *_*

6 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Shooting Star I thought was a solid follow up to True Love Never Dies, in fact it was the b-side to that single funnily enough and proved so popular that they gave it a radio edit and pushed it out on its own.

You're right that "Shooting Star" was a b-side on one of the CDs but that wasn't what made it popular. The original of "Shooting Star" was a happy hardcore record by Bang! and was one of the biggest happy hardcore tunes of the late 90s, all the DJs were playing it. At the end of the 90s the popularity of happy hardcore had plummeted but started to turn the corner in late 2001. One of the tactics for growing the popularity of hardcore again was by getting a big label (AATW) to put out commercial watered versions of old happy hardcore records to hook people in and get them listening to actual hardcore records. Other examples include "Heart Of Gold", "Field Of Dreams" and "Pretty Green Eyes" which were all originally by Force & Styles. I was one of those who liked the originals and hated the remakes, though 21st century happy hardcore was never really my thing.

Oh yes, I knew it was a happy hardcore cover but it's interesting that Flip & Fill decided to push their version properly after already using it as a b-side a few months earlier. I did read somewhere that it had gone down well as a b-side.

I liked Kelly Llorenna's take on Heart Of Gold too, but the originals of those tracks are all great too. Happy hardcore never really got above the underground commercially here but it spawned quite a few hits in Germany, and I think even a couple in Australia.

10 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Oh yes, I knew it was a happy hardcore cover but it's interesting that Flip & Fill decided to push their version properly after already using it as a b-side a few months earlier. I did read somewhere that it had gone down well as a b-side.

I liked Kelly Llorenna's take on Heart Of Gold too, but the originals of those tracks are all great too. Happy hardcore never really got above the underground commercially here but it spawned quite a few hits in Germany, and I think even a couple in Australia.

Yes the only big happy hardcore hit here was "I Wanna Be A Hippy" by Technohead. There were some minor happy hardcore hits in the mid-90s from the German acts such as Scooter and Mark Oh who were much bigger in their native. It was huge in Holland, even though Technohead were British they were based in Holland at the time and topped the Dutch charts with "I Wanna Be A Hippy" a year or so before it hit the UK charts by which point one of the members had sadly passed away.

Force & Styles had a go at cracking the charts with "Heart Of Gold" in 1998 with Kelly Llorenna on vocals but only made 55.

Edited April 30Apr 30 by My Random Music

Despite her winning the Mercury prize and being the critical darling of the year I’ve never really got into Ms Dynamite’s music. “Dy-Na-Mi-Tee” is the exception though and wins this week.

8	Ms Dynamite	Dy-Na-Mi-Tee	Her highest peaking hit and a great song full of quirky personality; nice that she isn't moaning about a man this time
7	Harvey	Get Up And Move	Only Top 40 for the So Solid Crew member: this is rough and ready but in fact it's a really strong and high octane track
6	Tweet	Call Me	A 30 places lower peak than her debut but I slightly prefer it; the soft vocals and Middle Eastern production work well
6	Mint Royale	Sexiest Man In Jamaica	Only their 2nd Top 40: this is repetitive but oddly hypnotic with a nicely used funky '80s sample under the spoken lines
5	Ash	Envy	After 5 brilliant "Free All Angels" singles this was the next lead: it's nice but quite safe and understandably fell a bit flat
4	Atomic Kitten	The Tide Is High (Get The Feeling)	934th #1: this doesn't have the charm of Blondie's version or the original but it's not bad and I like the added bridge
4	Nickelback	Too Bad	Both the follow up singles to "How U Remind Me" are dark pieces about a broken family: this does have a decent hook
3	JamX And Deleon	Can U Dig It	Only hit for this German trance project: a curious dance track with a tune based on the verse of 1984 hit "Self Control"
3	Enrique Iglesias	Love To See You Cry	He's going back to the Latin sound with this one: beyond some nice production it plods and doesn't make me feel alive
2	3SL	Touch Me Tease Me	Their 2nd and last hit: a cover of a Case 1996 single peaking higher than the original, but it's a rather laboured version

2002 Week 37:

#1469	14/09/2002	Appleton	Fantasy	2	{2}-8-19-24-37-43-55-63-63-65->10
#1470	14/09/2002	N-Trance	Forever	6	{6}-13-29-37-43-51-67-72R(2)->8
#1471	14/09/2002	Paul Weller	It's Written In The Stars	7	{7}-27-59->3
#1472	14/09/2002	Underworld	Two Months Off	12	{12}-33-58-75->4
#1473	14/09/2002	Jurgen Vries	The Theme	13	{13}-22-42-72->4
#1474	14/09/2002	Tweenies	Have Fun, Go Mad!	20	{20}-24-34-44-67-70-72->7
#1475	14/09/2002	The White Stripes	Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground	25	{25}-56->2
#1476	14/09/2002	Weezer	Keep Fishin'	29	{29}-54->2
#1477	14/09/2002	Incubus	Are You In	34	{34}-53->2
#1478	14/09/2002	4 Strings	Diving	38	{38}-62->2

Week 34

Not much to comment on here aside from 'Round Round' really which is a pop classic. I like the D Bed track and 'DJ Nation' has some cool elements too.

Week 35

'Starry Eyed Surprise' is such an anthem and 'Just The Way You Are' is a fab chillout dance tune. Think I bought it at the time. Probably did like the Abz song at the time but listening back it's very average and had a slightly better track that followed. 'Addictive' is okay.

'I'm Alive' is decent too but do much prefer 'That's The Way It Is' and another good track from Moby there. Agree on the 'In and Out' only sticking out for a solid fast rap but other than that nothing great at all.

Week 36

Atomic Kitten's cover of 'Tide Is High' is quite nice, obvs not a touch on Blondie's but still pretty good. 'Dy-Na-Ma-Tee' is a much better Ms Dynamite track and is the one I remember most so it being the highest charting of hers makes sense, though it'd still only be a 7/10 for me.

Unashamedly like 'Too Bad' as well. A solid and gritty rock anthem. Enrique's is fine but I'm also not massively keen either as it doesn't vary much or go anywhere interesting.

Of those I didn't know, 'Can You Dig It' stuck out as sounding great. Sadly not mad on that Ash song and they don't miss much for me oops and would've preferred if the Mint Royale track was instrumental as am not fond on the vocals at all.