March 17Mar 17 Take That - Pray using the wood chime sound made popular by Too Late by Quartz and Dina Carroll. Good song anyway!'Living On My Own' is good 80s style hi-NRG with a 90s update.
March 17Mar 17 Freddie's remix was a banger, still his best solo effort and nice to see top the charts belatedly. Take That is fab, Mark 1 TT's second-best track, or third, behind Back For Good and Relight My Fire.
March 21Mar 21 Author 02 - George Michael - Killer (From the Five Live EP)This isn't a great cover but it's Killer so it gets an automatic top 3 place.I guess I could have gone with The Days of Our Lives with Lisa Stansfield. Those were the only 2 that I would ever listen to.11th best seller of the yearColm's score 7.3 Edited March 21Mar 21 by Colm
March 21Mar 21 Author 01 - Bryan Adams - Please Forgive MeYeah - I know. I'm as surprised as you are.I'm neither a fan of Bryan Adams nor of this sort of saccharine ballad but I found this rather pleasant to listen to.15th best seller of the year.Colm's score 7.4 Edited March 21Mar 21 by Colm
March 21Mar 21 Killer is easily the best track on that EP, and pretty good it is too. I am a bit of a Bryan Adams sometimes-fan, he's great and I like it when he rocks, some ballads or does something unexpected musically, but Please Forgive Me wasnt one of my faves of his. Sold well though!
March 21Mar 21 Author It did. I suppose interest was still high after his previous era. Edited March 21Mar 21 by Colm
March 22Mar 22 Bit late here with 1992 - but this is my ranking:01 Ebenezer Goode02 On A Ragga Tip03 Sleeping Satellite04 Just Another Day05 It’s My Life06 The Best Things In Life Are Free07 Baker Street08 Deeply Dippy09 Hazard10 Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Livesand 1993:01 Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own02 Snow - Informer03 Chaka Demus & Pliers - Tease Me04 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Boom! Shake The Room05 Inner Circle - Sweat06 Take That - Pray07 George Michael - Killer08 Bluebells - Young At Heart09 Take That - Babe10 Bryan Adams - Please Forgive Me
Sunday at 19:282 days Author 10 - Take That - Everything ChangesAn average enough song from Take That. They managed to get a Mercury Nomination in 1994, lord knows why. Then again M People won so the panel were obviously sniffing some very toxic permanent markers.I don't really like Robbie's voice here. The 4th of their 8 number 1s of the 1990s. They'd have had 9 consecutive chart toppers if Love Ain't Here Any More hadn't got stuck behind the all-conquering Love is All Around and the less conquering I Swear by All-4-One in July 1994.This finished as the 20th best seller of 1994.Colm's score 5.5 Edited Sunday at 19:292 days by Colm
Sunday at 20:062 days The taxi cab is waiting! Robbie's voice is as distinctive as it always is.Yeah as with the chorus of 'Pray', 'Everything Changes' is rather dated because its uses those cheesy Stock Aitken Waterman style chime synths. Still a pleasant enough listen though!As for 'Please Forgive Me', you are right it is a pleasant enough song. Edited Sunday at 20:122 days by TheSnake
Sunday at 20:182 days Author 09 - Boyzone - Love Me For A ReasonAnd their successors.Boyzone were a laughing stock in Ireland among a generation of conservative simple people who had first encountered them watching a TV chat show where the boyz simply "danced" instead of sang, like pop bands should. If you haven't seen that footage, prepare yourself for some second-hand embarrassment should you choose to check it out on Youtube.As boybands are wont to do, this was a cover version and the first of 17 consecutive top 5 hits (16 in the 1990s and then a comeback single in 2008)Marginally better than Everything Changes but still relatively poor. It finished the year as the 19th best seller.Colm's score 5.6 Edited Sunday at 20:192 days by Colm
Sunday at 21:471 day Fair bottom two there, neither do anything for me. Intrigued to see what else is to come, I can’t remember what finished between 11-20 for this year at all
Yesterday at 09:031 day Both those pretty meh. The Osmonds' hit version is the definitive, great singers with over a decade experience by 1974, and its' songwriter Johnny Bristol had his own hit at the time in with the fab Hang On In There Baby, as 90's-recently covered by Curiosity who did a better job of it than Boyzone's mildly pleasant Johnny Bristol song cover.
3 hours ago3 hr Author 08 - Come On You Reds - Manchester United & Status QuoI actually like this. This would definitely have been top 4 of 1993. This is a very cramped top 8.Colm's score 7.0
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