Dominator's UK Top 40 Chart Analysis (w/e December 23rd 1995)
The Dominator
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This is the last week for votes on things like 'Best new artist' and
'Worst re-issued dance track that wasn't any good first time around!'
On Xmas day, I'll tot up the votes and we'll see who wins. The Worst New Artist
is a foregone conclusion though :)
However, rather than this address, please send all votes to :
vo...@festive.demon.co.uk
Plus...
Beatles : "Free as a Bird" or "Real Love" Which one's your favourite?
Details for positions 41-75 and anything marked "[@]" courtesy of
Chris Dunford (cdun...@dunford.demon.co.uk)
This week : 11 new entries, 4 non-movers, 4 climbers and 21 going down.
CHART TIME! :
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(* - my current favourites)
(!!! - Single Of The Week!!!)
(:O === the current all-time hate that makes even my smilie want to hurl!)
( (R) - Repeat., ie. a re-release)
40 NEW ENTRY : Motiv 8 and Kim Mazelle - Searching for the Golden Eye
Anything to do with James Bond?
39 (36) FALLER : Mr Blobby - Christmas in Blobbyland
38 (29) FALLER : Wet Wet Wet - She's All on my Mind
37 NEW ENTRY : Pauline Henry - Love Hangover
Is cover versions all this girl can do?
36 (37) CLIMBER : Tina Turner - Goldeneye
This is the first time this song has actually climbed!
I've seen this film now. Definitely worth a watch, and the digital
sound improved it also. Pierce Brosnan was definitely a good choice for Bond,
and apparently he couldn't make it last time round (when they hired Timothy
Dalton instead) due to Remington Steele commitments.
The supporting cast is excellent too with Sean Bean, a cameo from Robbie
Coltrane, and two new Bond babes, Izabella Scorupio and my fave, Famke Janssen.
What was refreshing was that the film was a lot better than director Martin
Campbell's last turgid effort, "No Escape".
35 NEW ENTRY : Mary Kiani - I Give It All to You/I Imagine
34 (22) FALLER : Simply Red - Remembering the First Time
Hands up all of you who are glad this one didn't do very well!
33 NEW ENTRY : Jimmy Nail - Love
Jimmy Nail's assault on the chart continues with this slow song which may take
a few more listens to grow on me, but it does sound very nice (lots of
echoey sounds :)
32 (31) FALLER : Queen - Heaven For Everyone
31 NEW ENTRY : Frank Bruno - Eye of the Tiger
Just what has this got to do with Frank Bruno, apart from the chants of
"Bruno" at the start? It just sounds like a live version of the Survivor song
(with what sounds like the original singer) with a Bruno-obsessed crowd.
And there was me thinking ol' Frank was having a crack at a singing career.
Then again I only heard the first minute of it.
30 (26) FALLER : M-People - Itchycoo Park
29 (27) FALLER : Blur - The Universal *
28 (28) NON-MOVER : Michael Barrymnore - Too Much For One Heart :O ===
First things first, I hate Michael Barrymore.
I did like "Strike it Lucky" his first quiz show on ITV, but since then
they took the 10 minute chatty bit from that and turned it into "Barrymore"
which was an hour full of nothing. After that, they took the outside filmed
bits from that and turned it into 30 mins per week of "My Kind of People"
where members of the public sing for the camera, and for some reason the
public love it. I can't understand why, as 99% of the time they just bring
little kids onto the stage, they gurgle, and then cue rapturous applause from
the audience. What for?
And now we have Michael Barrymore - the single. Well, I guess he is single
after his gay confession earlier this year. Can't have been much fun for his
wife. Did he think he was breaking new ground by 'outing' himself? Most of
the entertainers on this planet are gay...allegedly.
Some of them don't make singles as crap as this one though.
27 (21) FALLER : Whigfield - Last Christmas/Big Time
"Last Christmas" is a cover of Wham!'s song.
Whigfield hit the big time recently when she apparently got married
to Dominik Diamond on Channel 4's GamesMaster. Don't think it was a real
wedding though :)
26 (17) FALLER : Passengers - Miss Sarajevo *
25 (20) FALLER : Skee-Lo - I Wish
24 NEW ENTRY : LV - Throw Your Hands Up / Gangstas Paradise
I wonder if this is the first time ever that an artist has had the same
record twice in the Top 40?, presuming that it's the same version. I remember
in 1986 (I think) that Lulu's Shout was redone, and the original was also
released, but the new version won the battle, and the original barely scraped
the Top 50. There must be a few other examples.
23 (19) FALLER : East 17 - Thunder
22 NEW ENTRY : Corona - I Don't Wanna Be A Star
Corona make a decent dance record for a change with a change in style which
harks back to the 70s. Well, by 'decent' I mean a lot better than all the junk
they've put out in the past.
21 (16) FALLER : Madonna - You'll See *
20 NEW ENTRY : Crescendo - Are You Out There
19 NEW ENTRY : The Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together
A cover of the Beatles song done for chariddee by several artists, the only
one I can remember being Paul Weller.
18 (18) NON-MOVER : Molella featuring the Outhere Brothers - If You Wanna Party
17 (15) FALLER : Symbol/Prince - Gold
16 (7) FALLER : Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson
- The Best Things In Life are Free (remix) (R)
I can't believe this has gone in so high as the 'remix' is awful, and the
song wasn't great in the first place. The film the song came from "Mo Money"
however, was better than I expected.
15 (14) FALLER : Enya - Anywhere Is *
More breathy, well-enhanced vocals from the Irish babe (how old is she BTW?)
in a song which sounds fantastic, as does the video look.
One thing I've spotted is that this song has the same time phrasing as
Squeeze's "Up the Junction", so recently I've been imagining Enya
singing that particular Squeeze song... :)
14 (13) FALLER : Pulp - Disco 2000 *
Another excellent single from Pulp, and in similar mood to "Common People".
Just a shame it didn't go in higher, but then again the album's out now
so that probably explains that.
13 (12) FALLER : Eternal - I Am Blessed :O ===
12 NEW ENTRY : The Levellers - Just the One
11 (10) FALLER : Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day
Sad, sad, sad. That's how I can best describe people who've bought this.
I *HATE* Mariah Carey, and I *HATE* Boyz II Men. However, I will say that
like Celine Dion's Misled, each of these two artists do have one song each
that I like. With Boyz II Men it's "In the Still of the Night", and with
Ms. Carey, it's "Anytime you Need a Friend".
Damn, that's my credibility down the pan...
10 (11) CLIMBER : Oasis - Wonderwall *
Just wait till you hear the new version of this by Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra.
It's one of the favourites for the Xmas No.1 and no doubt that's the reason
this one has climbed.
9 (9) NON-MOVER : ChildLiners - the Gift of Christmas
This year's Xmas charity single, this time to promote Esther Rantzen's
Childline, a phone service set up to help children with problems at home.
That's a good idea of course, but the song is dreadful. With "Band Aid" at
least you knew who was singing, but seeing this lot on Top of the Pops last
week I was endlessly thinking "Who's that?" Perhaps I'm getting too old :)
Joker of the pack had to be Sean Maguire, who upon entering every camera shot,
was showing off, and at the end kept jumping up and down from behind presenter
John Peel, as if to say "Hey look at me. I'm important. My pop career's not
gone right down the pan surely!?!"
8 (6) FALLER : Robson & Jerome - Up on the Roof/I Believe
7 (5) FALLER : Coolio featuring LV - Gangsta's Paradise
6 *HIGHEST NEW ENTRY* : Queen - A Winter's Tale *
The second single from "Made in Heaven", and this Xmas song is the last
composition that Freddie Mercury ever wrote. It seemed odds on that both Queen
singles released so far would go straight in at No.1, but the competition has
been so fierce that this isn't the case. Perhaps if they'd been released
straight after he'd died then they would've done.
The song is a ballad, and slower than "Heaven for Everyone", and is definitely
a grower. It's one of the better records in the charts at the moment.
Thanks to Alexis Katsadorakis (Music Fm 102.4) for the following format info :
"A Winter's Tale" b/w "Thank God It's Christmas"
Double CD single, cassingle, *no* vinyl.
5 (4) FALLER : Everything But the Girl - Missing *
4 (8) *HIGHEST CLIMBER* : Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet *
Bjork's Christmas Single is a cover version (I forget who did the original)
of a song which starts of quiet, and then explodes into action, and then goes
quiet again, and back and forth, etc. The video's worth a look too.
3 (2) FALLER : Beatles - Free as a Bird * !!!
John Lennon wrote this in 1970, and 25 years later, the rest of the band
finished it off with more instruments and background vocals. The end result
is excellent. It's the type of Beatles track that I prefer - the weird type
(eg. A Day in the Life) rather than the generic pop type (eg. Love Me Do).
This was tipped for the Xmas No.1, but thanks to Wacko Jacko's spell in
hospital, it's probably not going to make it.
At the end of this single it sounds like a George Formby song is about to
play along with his traditional banjo, and something backwards is said by
John Lennon. When that's played forwards it's actually "Turned out nice again
didn't it?" It's true! The Big Breakfast proved that recently.
2 (3) CLIMBER : Boyzone - Father And Son
1 (1) NON-MOVER : Michael Jackson - Earth Song *3rd Week at No.1*
Firstly, this record breaks the record of the most number of No.1's to go
straight in at No.1, which was broken earlier this year with 4 in a row (Take
That, Oasis, Livin' Joy, and Robson and Jerome), and now has been surpassed
by Shaggy, Simply Red, Coolio, Robson and Jerome, and now Michael Jackson
making 5.
Now to the record itself. I wasn't too keen on it to begin with, but it's
grown on me, and the video is rather good with the Earth being overtaken
with rather harsh winds.
The battle for the Xmas No.1 is on drawing to a close. Contenders are
Michael Jackson, Queen - A Winter's Tale, and Mike Flowers Pops, but the
bookies have Jacko down as the favourite.
Thanks to Chris Dunford for the following insight into the possibilities of
the Xmas No.1 :
"Jackson's reckoned to be very likely to stay at 1 next week - Boyzone and
Bjork both increased sales a lot this week, but not enough to challenge.
Mike Flowers Pops has 270 000 pre-sales though"
Last week I asked....
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(38) Oleta Adams - Rhythm of Life (remix) (R)
Anyone know what this 'remix' is like?
Now I've heard it. What a dire load of rubbish. The original was smooth,
seductive and plenty of other things beginning with 's' apart from sellable.
The remix treatment put it in the chart, but it's turned a great song into
a dance music-ridden mess. I just hope they don't do the same thing with
"Get Here".
The rest of the chart from 41 to 75...
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41 34 -7 Bon Jovi - Lie to Me
42 N Morrissey - Sunny
43 N Luther Vandross - Every Year, Every Christmas
44 30 -14 Jinny - Wanna Be With You
45 23 -22 Mary J Blige - (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman
46 25 -21 Pearl Jam - Merkinball
47 39 -8 PJ and Duncan - Perfect
48 24 -24 Menswear - Sleeping In
49 40 -9 Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
50 59 +9 Michael Ball - the Rose
51 35 -16 Coronation Street Cast - Always Look On the Bright Side of
Life/Something Stupid
52 33 -19 Suggs - the Tune
53 32 -21 Fluke - Tosh
54 N Lenny Kravitz - Circus
55 41 -14 Celine Dion - Misled
56 43 -13 Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton-John - Had To Be
57 51 -6 Jon Secada and Shanice - If I Never Knew You
58 42 -16 Backstreet Boys - I'll Never Break Your Heart
59 N Roy Wood Big Band - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
60 38 -22 Oleta Adams - Rhythm of Life (remix)
61 46 -15 Berri - Shine Like a Star
62 56 -6 Simply Red - Fairground
63 44 -19 Ali & Kibibi Campbell - Somethin' Stupid
64 45 -19 Dorothy - What's That Tune? (Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo)
65 61 -4 Meat Loaf - I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth)
66 50 -16 Gary Glitter - Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again (Again!)
67 N Nicolette - No Government
68 48 -20 Erasure - Fingers and Thumbs (Cold Summers Day)
69 57 -12 Black Grape - Kelly's Heroes
70 47 -23 Garbage - Queer
71 64 -7 Michael Bolton - a Love So Beautiful
72 58 -14 Happy Clappers - I Believe
73 62 -11 Benz - Boom Rock Soul
74 54 -20 Jodeci - Love U 4 Life
75 52 -23 Ethics - To the Beat of the Drum (La Luna)
Those that fell out of the Top 75...
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49 Mr. Roy - Something About U (Can't Be Beat)
53 Teenage Fanclub - Have Lost It EP
55 Faithless - Insomnia
60 Sid Owen and Patsy Palmer - Better Believe It (Children In Need)
63 Definition of Sound - Pass the Vibes
65 Tina Arena - Show Me Heaven
66 Def Leppard - When Love and Hate Collide
67 Annie Lennox featuring Paul Simon - Something So Right
68 Urban Cookie Collective - So Beautiful
69 Alex Reece - Feel the Sunshine
70 Morrissey - the Boy Racer
71 Smokie featuring Roy Chubby Brown - Who the F**k Is Alice?
72 Finn - Angel's Heap
73 Seal - Don't Cry/Prayer for the Dying
74 Whale - Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe
75 Technocat featuring Tom Wilson - Technocat
New releases :
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(* - my current favourites)
December 11th :
Paul Brady - The World is What You Make It
Frank Bruno - Eye of the Tiger
Corona - I Don't Want To Be A Star
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - Hard
Grab This - Get Your Tits Out For Xmas
Morten Harket - A Kind of Christmas Card (R)
Headless Chickens - Super Trouper
HELP EP No.2 - Various
Pauline Henry - Love Hangover
Ini Kamoze - Listen Mr Tic (Woyoi)
Mary Kiani - I Give It All To You
Lenny Kravitz - Circus
LV - Throw Your Hands Up / Gangstas Paradise
Levellers - Just the One
Maitai - History (R)
Morrissey - Sunny
Motiv-8 - Searching for the Golden Eye
Jimmy Nail - Love
Nicolette - No Government
Queen - A Winter's Tale
Starturn on 45 Pints - I Believe/Up on the Roof
- Excellent. They're back! Remember "Pump up the Bitter" ? :)
Luther Vandross - Every Year Every Christmas
Roy Wood - I Wish it Could Be Xmas Every Day
December 18th :
Marc Almond - Child Star
Bingo Bango Bongo Collective - Jingo
Blameless - More than I
Anne Dudley - Veni Emmanuel
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (R)
The Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra - Wonderwall
Top 10 ALBUM chart :
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10 (11) CLIMBER : Celine Dion - The Colour of My Love
9 (5) FALLER : Enya - The Memory of Trees
8 (8) NON-MOVER : Simply Red - Life
7 (10) CLIMBER : Pulp - Different Class
6 (6) NON-MOVER : Madonna - Something To Remember
5 (4) FALLER : Elton John - Love Songs
4 (9) CLIMBER : Michael Jackson - HIStory Book 1
3 (2) FALLER : Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
2 (3) CLIMBER : Queen - Made in Heaven
1 (1) NON-MOVER : Robson & Jerome - Robson & Jerome
Other new entries in the Top 40 Album chart :
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There wasn't a single new entry in the whole of the Top 40 this week! AGAIN!
Then again the amount of chart-bound new releases is very thin on the ground.
New releases :
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December 11th :
Hits 96 - Various
Outhere Brothers - the Party Album
December 18th :
The Brothers McMullen - Soundtrack
Gerald and Eddie Levert - Father and Son
Three Wishes - Soundtrack
Time to vote!
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Please send votes for the following to : vo...@festive.demon.co.uk
All votes must correspond with singles released or anything else that happened
in 1995 only.
Best & Worst New Artist
Best & Worst Single
Best & Worst Band
Best & Worst Male Singer
Best & Worst Female Singer
Best & Worst Album
Best & Worst Pop Video
Best & Worst Film
Best & Worst Video
Best & Worst Male Film Star
Best & Worst Female Film Star
Best & Worst TV show
Best & Worst Male TV Personality
Best & Worst Female TV Personality
Worst re-issued dance track that wasn't any good first time around
Plus...
Beatles : "Free as a Bird" or "Real Love" Which one's your favourite?
Music group WWW sites :
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Katsadorakis Alexis (mel...@hol.gr) writes :
The OFFICIAL web page of Queen is: http//queen-fip.com
Tobias Zywietz (10042...@compuserve.com) writes :
I've got a couple web-sites that you might add to your regular list (the first
one's actually my own homepage!):
1. The Official Zobbel Website
>From the Zobbel Homepage
http://www.rpms.ac.uk/csc/CW/tobias/zobbel.htm
I link a number of pages concerned with British charts, namely:
- The Complete 1995 Chart Runs of the CIN Top 200 Singles & Top 150 Albums
Charts
On a total of over 50 pages you can access the complete chart runs of the
2,537 singles and albums that appeared on the Top 200 of CIN's Official
UK Singles Chart and the Top 150 of CIN's Official UK Artist Albums Chart
for the period of 14.01.1995 - 4.11.1995.
- The 1960 Chart Runs of the NME/RR Charts
5 Pages with the chart runs of some 280 singles that appeared on the NME
Top 30/RR Top 40 during 1960.
- Bibliography of Chartography
12 pages with bibliographic records of over 500 books on charts, from
the UK, the US, Germany, and several other countries.
- Several statistics pages with basic statistical data on the UK & World
Record Industries:
World Record Sales, 1994 & 1993
UK Record Sales, 1972-1994
UK Record Sales: Singles by Format & Quarter, 1987-1994
UK Record Sales: Albums by Format & Quarter, 1980-1994
UK Record Releases, 1976-1994
Selected Chart Statistics
- Several Billy Bragg Pages, linking also other BB sites:
I'm constantly adding new pages.
I'm also opearting a mailing list (sort of): I send out the British Reggae
charts from ECHOES on a weekly basis. Anyone interested should send me a
message with subject=Reggae Chart list and his address in the body of the
mail to : 10042...@compuserve.com
2. The Chartwatch Homepage:
http://www.rpms.ac.uk/csc/CW/CWhp.html
The homepage of Chartwatch Magazine, currently featuring mainly info about
the mag itself.
Have a look & judge yourself.
Harinderpal Singh Grewal (ha...@iti.gov.sg) :
Marc Almond & Soft Cell
http://www.iti.gov.sg/almond/
Bevis King (B.K...@ee.surrey.ac.uk) :
The Go-Gos
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/music/go-gos/
Belinda Carlisle
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/music/go-gos/belinda.html
Laura Branigan
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/music/laura-branigan/
MONDO TRASHO <rbe...@mit.edu> :
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/b/rberth/www/home.html
"The Allman Brothers Band" from Bruce Anderson (band...@emr.ca) :
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~slee/allman/abb.html
Heather Weir's hot-list of WWW music sites :
"This seems to be a good place to link
to all sorts of other music sites and was voted best music
site on the web by radio 1.
Perfecto,
WEA, Parlophone, Creation,MCA all have home page links,
there is blur, pet shop boys, black grape" :
http://www.musicbase.co.uk/music/
"The Cocteau Twins", "Dead Can Dance" and the 4ad Home Page :
http://grether.haas.berkeley.edu:8080/
The Parlaphone music site (Blur, Elastica, Supergrass, Oasis) :
http://lispstat.alcd.soton.ac.uk/~prbt/blur/links.html
Go Disks title page on :
(Beautiful South, Portishead, Paul Weller and all go discs artists
eg Drugstore and many more)
Stereolab :
http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/people/rjh/stereolab/
"Morrissey" from Jack Stefani (jste...@indiana.edu) :
http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~jstefani
"Bjork" from Tony Howat :
http://www.indian.co.uk/bjork/
http://www.indian.co.uk/ will get you to One Little Indian's home-page,
which will get you to stuff on Skunk Anansie, The Shamen and other
OLI artists.
"Morrissey/The Smiths" and "Shelter" from Christian Arvidson
<s94...@student.adb.gu.se> :
http://w3.adb.gu.se/~s94moz/Mozpage.html
http://w3.adb.gu.se/~s94moz/Shelter.html
"Suzanne Vega" from Hugo Westerlund ipm <Hugo.We...@ipm.ki.se> :
http://www.vega.net/vega/
Dom Hulewicz (d...@inta.net) adds :
Don't forget the general home of hardcore/jungle/breakbeat music which is:
http://www.breaks.com/
I have plenty of links to other sites and bands from there.
Tony Bowden (P949...@queens-belfast.ac.uk) gives us :
Manic Street Preachers : http://boris.qub.ac.uk/tony/manics/
Plus... Ewan Brown (E.B...@roe.ac.uk) says :
Take a look at:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/misc/music_resources.html
in the "Artist-specific sites" section.
This is full of links for artists from ABBA to ZZ Top.
So, if anyone has anymore WWW sites for bands, please mail them to me, and
I'll make this a regular feature.
The end bit :
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Well, that's it for now. If you want to be added to the list, just mail
me at "charts-...@festive.demon.co.uk" to tell me.
Otherwise, read it on rec.music.misc, and read the video version on
rec.video.releases and alt.video.laserdisc. Read both on uk.misc too!
If you didn't see the votes for Best of 95, then they haven't been put out
yet as I'm still collecting votes. Get Voting!
Also, if you have any questions about CDs, videos, tapes or LPs you're after
please send an enquiry to me at PastelBlue : "d...@pastel.demon.co.uk".
If it's available we'll be able to get it.
Plus, read my monthly video/CD chart mumblings on PastelBlue, by sending
a message to "sea...@pastel.demon.co.uk" with the following line in the
message (with no quotes) :
"send monthly-news"
Also, for more info on PastelBlue, include the line :
"send help"
The search engine can be used to look for specific items. Try a line like :
cat audio, search elvis
or
cat video, search speed
I can make a second search with some catalogues that I have for the complete
list of video and albums/singles which are available, just in case you can't
find what you're after with the main search engine.
Bye for now,
Dominator
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