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Highest new entry on my personal chart this week at 41. Really enjoying this! :D Taken from the album Beach Music and now it has a video too!
The G stands for Giannascoli but I'm going to pretend it's for 'great'.
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Doctor Blind Chart - 11th October 2015
TW - LW / Artist / "Song" / (Peak- if not current)
01 - 01 FKA twigs “In Time” *4 weeks at #1*
02 - 05 Kurt Vile “Pretty Pimpin”
03 - 02 Julia Holter “Sea Calls Me Home” (02)
04 - 07 Bicep “Just”
05 - 03 Para One & The South African Youth Choir “Elevation” (02)
06 - 09 Drake “Hotline Bling”
07 - 04 Carly Rae Jepsen “Run Away With Me” (01)
08 - 13 LoneLady “Silvering”
09 - 15 Lanterns On The Lake “Faultlines”
10 - 06 Courtney Barnett “Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party” (03)
11 - 20 Oneohtrix Point Never “I Bite Through It”
12 - 14 Beirut “Gibraltar”
13 - 24 Kelela “Rewind”
14 - 08 Deerhunter “Snakeskin” (05)
15 - 22 ZHU x AlunaGeorge “Automatic”
16 - 18 Jamie Woon “Sharpness”
17 - 28 !!! “Freedom ’15”
18 - 10 Mercury Rev “Are You Ready?” (07)
19 - 25 Battles “The Yabba”
20 - 11 John Grant ft. Tracey Thorn “Disappointing” (11)
21 - 12 The Libertines “Gunga Din” (02)
22 - 17 Low “What Part Of Me” (17)
23 - 33 Autre Ne Veut “World War Pt. 2”
24 - 21 Swim Deep “Namaste” (21)
25 - 30 New Order “Plastic”
26 - 36 Beach House “PPP”
27 - 35 The Libertines “Heart Of The Matter”
28 - 16 CHVRCHES “Leave a Trace” (02)
29 - 37 The Weeknd “The Hills”
30 - 32 Rae Morris “Don't Go”
31 - 41 EMBRZ ft. pennybirdrabbit “Lights”
32 - 40 Destroyer “Times Square”
33 - 45 Petite Meller “Barbaric”
34 - 27 C Duncan “Garden” (01)
35 - 49 Daughter “Doing The Right Thing”
36 - 44 Neon Indian “Slumlord”
37 - 19 V V Brown “Shift” (13)
38 - 26 Everything Everything “Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread” (08)
39 - 47 Diplo & Sleepy Tom “Be Right There”
40 - 29 Public Service Broadcasting “The Other Side” (01)
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Well if you look at the streaming chart, Bieber is heading for his seventh week at No. 1.
The number 1s on that chart for 2015:
2015
04 Jan Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars “Uptown Funk” (6) +2 weeks in 2014
15 Feb Ellie Goulding “Love Me Like You Do” (4)
15 Mar Rihanna/Kanye West/Paul McCartney “FourFiveSeconds” (3)
05 Apr Years & Years “King” (2)
19 Apr Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth “See You Again” (2)
03 May OMI “Cheerleader” (8)
28 Jun Major & DJ Snake ft. MØ “Lean On” (2)
10 Jul Lost Frequencies “Are You With Me” (4)
07 Aug Major & DJ Snake ft. MØ “Lean On” (1)
14 Aug Calvin Harris & Disciples “How Deep Is Your Love” (3)
^04 Sep Justin Bieber “What Do You Mean” (6*)
^= debut at No. 1
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and on the opposite end of the spectrum Cumulonimbia's pick, while a fantastic song, also seems just a tad uninspired what with the Mercury Prize! Looking forward to listening. Woop.
True but to be fair, they don't seem to have had much notice/success as a result sadly - they have still yet to chart with a single, and the album and follow-up charted at 35 and 41 respectively. : (
Also Get Up was a Doctor Blind #1 in March 2014 well before the Mercury, maybe I should have sent it back then!
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The Top 10 in the week that Got To Get It went up to 4 was quite dance-tastic but my faves were at the bottom.
10 was The Orb with “Fluffy White Clouds” (which had been around since 1990 but was finally getting a proper release), at 9 was the highest new entry from Urban Cookie Collective with “Feels Like Heaven”, the follow-up to their summer smash.. Time Frequency were up to 8 with “Real Love 93”, Goodmen were at 6 with the (later ripped-off by Simply Red) “Give It Up” and Capella as mentioned earlier in this thread were at 5.
“Got To Get It” smacks of 'will this do?' follow-up syndrome but came at a time when Torsten Fenslau (the founder and producer of the group) was killed in an car crash near to Darmstadt at the age of just 29. :(
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The chorus is just about passable, but the rest of it.. oh DEAR (especially that grating guitar effect).
The last time I was this disappointed was the first time I heard “Mercury” with its Ground Force brass band averageness, but Intimacy was surprisingly good so maybe there are just trolling us again. Or not. : (
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M People - Moving On Up
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/rsz_moving_on_up_zpsgrawx0nq.png
Date 26th September 1993
4 Weeks
Official Chart Run 4-2-3-5-5-11-15-23-38-59-75 (11 weeks)
*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.
Mike’s People, later named M People, came about in the early part of 1990 when Mike Pickering and Paul Heard started writing together, and planned a succession of singles to recreate the best traditions of Northern Soul - these were initially planned to be recorded with a roster of different guest vocalists but that changed very quickly. Mike had been one of the original DJs at The Haçienda, giving the group a heavy club influence - though when they came across the distinctive vocals of Heather Small she was more used to singing ballads with the band Hot House, who had charted at #70 in 1988 with “Don’t Come To Stay”.
It was indeed this reason that they wrote and released the ballad “How Can I Love You More?” (their second single), which managed to sneak in a few weeks inside the Top 40 just before Christmas in 1991 and peak at #29. A re-release of “Colour My Life” followed as well as a cover of Ce Ce Roger’s “Someday” (sampled heavily in ’92 by Ce Ce Peniston - as discussed earlier) and deciding that Heather was suited so well to their sound, they decided to make her a permanent member. In 1993 the group exploded in popularity, so much so that a remixed re-release of “How Can I Love You More?” made the Top 10, and “One Night In Heaven” bagged them extensive mainstream radio play and a #6.
Continuing the upbeat pop sound, “Moving On Up” encompasses some elements of disco, and has an addictive melody that kicks off the track and mixes with a sax riff throughout. In ’93 we were still 3 years away from the ‘girl power’ mantra of The Spice Girls, and the ladette culture that followed; however the world had changed - women were much more empowered and equality, both of gender and sexuality were moving swiftly in the right direction. As you’d expect music was continuing to reflect this, and Heather Small took up this mantle of female empowerment in “Moving On Up”, a saxophone drenched kiss-off to her cheating partner, where she angrily barks ‘Take it like a man baby if that’s what you are’ recalling other such anthems like Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”. It became their biggest single when it peaked at #2 behind DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s “Boom! Shake The Room”, and started what would be the groups most successful period.
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Brilliant song but does anyone know why they completely messed up the radio edit? The video - and the 12" mix - starts with that brilliant opening synth riff, but the radio mix has a really underwhelming first minute or so in comparison, like they massively watered it down. And there doesn't seem to be a radio edit like the one in the video, unless you edit the 12" or copy the sound from the video.
EDIT: Oh, even the linked video above has the radio edit I mentioned. The video mix I mean is this one, which is the first version of it I heard. Note the completely different intro:
The video I linked to is the UK special radio edit which was track 1 on the CD single and the version played on UK radio, the video mix you've linked to is the album version (which was 5 minutes 37 seconds) and was the basis behind the 2003 remix “Mr. Vain - Recall” which made #51. Most of the tracks on Serenity were over 5 minutes and the radio edits were definitely needed!\
I've tried where possible to always link to the version that UK radio played at the time.
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Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
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Date 22nd August 1993
5 Weeks
Official Chart Run 24-12-6-1-1-1-1-3-5-9-13-16-28-43-65 (15 weeks)
*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.
Next up is an anthem about narcissism, a trait that the majority of us wrestle with, but has been increasingly celebrated in the era of Facebook and the ‘selfie’. In the 1970s we had “You’re So Vain” which was addressed to men specifically, but “Mr. Vain”, which exploded across Europe during the spring and early summer, was less gender specific despite the honorific, and thanks no doubt to the track becoming the soundtrack to Brits getting slightly inebriated on holiday in Europe - this led to the song rocketing into the upper reaches of the singles chart when these holidaymakers returned.
Culture Beat had been around for a good few years already, having formed in 1989, and were put together by German 25-year-old DJ Torsten Fenslau. The group scored a hit in Germany and minor hit here with Jo Van Nelsem (a well known cabaret singer in Germany) on “Cherry Lips (Der Erdbeermund)” (No. 55) but the follow-up “I Like You” flopped in at #96 in the UK. A few years passed after which British singer/songwriter Tania Evans was spotted and recruited by Torsten to replace original singer Lana Earl, and together with New Jersey rapper Jay Supreme took to fronting the group for the much more urgent and powerful eurodance sound he’d put together for second LP Serenity.
We mentioned earlier how influential Snap!’s 1992 #1 “Rhythm Is a Dancer” was to become, and here “Mr. Vain” unashamedly wears this influence, taking a similar but much harder approach ramping up the BPM with an urgent beat from the outset, and that influences the mood of the track (the UK special edit has a softer tinkly intro for the first 6 seconds before that beat punches in). Where it differs are the lyrics which take a darker approach, Jay Supreme’s expertly delivered rap sketches out a dancefloor predator with the confidence and charm to get whatever he wants - whenever he wants. However the line ‘I know what I want and I want it now’ could almost double as the decades mantra, summing up as it does the boom in the consumer driven economy. When the group invite us to note the equivalence of Mr. Vain to Mr. Wrong, it is quite clear the message that they are putting out however. There’ll be more to discuss about the tragedy that struck the group later in the year…
Fun-fact: This was the first UK number 1 single to not be available on the 7” vinyl format since the 1950s.
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iTunes Weekly Thread W/C 9th October 2015
in UK Charts
Like anything is going to stop KDA.
Talk about completely MANUFACTURED number 1.