'It Must've Been Love' and 'Black Velvet' are my fave two from 1990 and I agree with your top 4 for 1991. 'More Than Words' is a lovely record. I enjoy The Clash song but not a big fave and the George/Elton collab is fine.

oooh. I'm surprised that More than Words is getting such support. I thought I'd have been given some sort of warning for liking it :D

1992 is decent. Much more enjoyable than 1991. 4 number 1s amongst the bunch.

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I think we could be looking at a surprise 10 pointer in 1992.

10 Luther Vandross And Janet Jackson With Special Guests BBD And Ralph Tresvant

There's nothing wrong with this. I just find it less interesting than anything else in the 1992 list. It was released in the summer so that might explain it's good chart performance.

I thought I'd enjoy this more than I do. It finished the year as the 17th best seller

Colm's score 6.6

I agree. I’m not sure what else is to come but I never thought this was as good as its component parts. Plus I always think it sounds quite lacklustre, not helped by me remembering the later reissue (and remix) more than the original.

It probably sounds better in the sun 😎 🌞

I always liked this, but it's been surprisingly resilient on radio since and sales in the 90's to the extent that I'd much rather hear most other Janet Jackson oldies. Luther got a long-waited-for big hit out of it though, so that was nice.

“The Best Things In Life Are Free” was terminally overplayed by my local radio station - even well into the ‘00s it was still a big favourite. So I’d quite happily never hear it again.

9 Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy

I expected this to get last place for 1992 but it's improved a lot over the years. While listening to it, I found myself wondering how it would sound if it was covered by the Divine Comedy. I think it would work really well.

12th best seller of 1992.

Colm's score 6.7

Never that much of a fan of Deeply Dippy, over-familiarity at the time came on quite quickly, though it was good natured enough. Don't Talk Just Kiss or a later minor hit or two were better tracks. I can see the Divine Comedy vibe.

The brass and the whimsical lyrics.

8 The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode

The Shamen didn't leave the top 40 between 18th July 1992 and the following January - such was their single release schedule.

I like the verses. I don't really like the chorus.

Finished the year as the 13th best seller.

Colm's score 6.8

“I’m Too Sexy” is a guilty pleasure.“Deeply Dippy” isn’t, though it’s harmless enough.

The Shamen were a force of nature and EG is a unique #1. I doubt I’ll prefer many of the top 7.

Eb Goode is a great-sounding track but the chorus isn't great, a curious mixture of appearing to be gimmicky for kids but pushing drug use while being annoying. I realise it was and is rife in the clubbing world culture (seen it myself), but really it had dodgy plausible deniability to avoid getting banned at the time so I will stick with Move Any Mountain and other Shamen tracks.

LSI was awful, I liked Boss Drum and Phorever People.

I quite like all of these so far, with Ebeneezer Goode being my favourite.

I was a bit obsessed with the Shamen at this point and I loved all the singles from Boss Drum (well, I don’t love the 8 minute ambient one but I was intrigued by it). I think Ebeneezer Goode has held up pretty well, I particularly like the 12” mix with the slightly hypnotic chanting(?) at the beginning and the slower build - I’d probably still rate it a 9 or so.

They were quite entertaining.

They had a sense of humour too. The performance of Phorever People on the a Christmas Top of the Pops was great. 😀

I'm going to have to look that one up as I can't remember it off hand.

I always felt like they took over from the KLF a bit in terms of making big fun dance singles, whilst having more 'serious' stuff on the albums.

Dance music with personality 😎