Dominator's UK Top 40 Chart Analysis (w/e September 23rd 1995)
The Dominator
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Details for positions 41-75 and anything marked "[@]" courtesy of
Chris Dunford(cdun...@dunford.demon.co.uk)
This week : 15 New entries, no non-movers, 2 climbers and 23 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 (22) FALLER : Jam & Spoon featuring Plavka - Find Me * (R)
Ah well, it could've made it second time around... :(
39 NEW ENTRY : Haddaway - Catch a Fire
38 NEW ENTRY : Strike - The Morning After (Free At Last)
37 (24) FALLER : Lloyd Cole - Like Lovers Do *
36 (31) FALLER : The Connells - 74-75 *
35 NEW ENTRY : David Bowie - The Heart's Filthy Lesson
I've only heard a little bit of this, but today in the post I received a
strange promotional thing advertising the album and rabbiting on about the
year 1999 and "The Diary of Nathan Adler (Detective Professor)"
Has he completely lost his marbles?
34 (27) FALLER : Seal - Kiss From A Rose (R)
33 NEW ENTRY : EYC - Ooh-Ah-Aa (I Feel It)
32 NEW ENTRY : The Grid - Diablo
31 (21) FALLER : Vanessa Williams - Colours of the Wind
30 NEW ENTRY : Grace - I Want To Live
29 (23) FALLER : Michelle Gayle - Happy Just To Be With You
28 (16) FALLER : Donna Summer - I Feel Love (R)
27 NEW ENTRY : Brownstone - I Can't Tell You Why
26 NEW ENTRY : Thunder - In a Broken Dream
Anything to do with the Python Lee Jackson/Rod Stewart song?
25 (20) FALLER : D:Ream - Party Up The World :O ===
I hate D:Ream, I hate their music, and I've probably said that before.
A few weeks ago, Peter Cunnah came into the Little Chef I used to work in at
Monks Heath, near Alderley Edge, and they weren't very impressed with his
behaviour. :)
24 (12) FALLER : The Original - I Luv U Baby (Remix) (R)
23 (15) FALLER : Nush - U Girls (Look So Sexy)
Haven't heard the record, but the cover wins "Single cover of the week" award ;)
22 (17) FALLER : Cappella - Tell Me The Way
21 (10) FALLER : Oasis - Roll With It :O ===
20 NEW ENTRY : Prince/Symbol - I (Eye) Hate U
19 NEW ENTRY : Umboza - Cry India
18 (13) FALLER : Whigfield - Close To You
17 (19) *HIGHEST CLIMBER* : Gompie - Alice (Who The X is Alice?) (R)
For the past 3 weeks the other version of "Alice" has been the highest climber.
Now, again thru default, this one gets a look in. Do they deserve it though?
16 (14) FALLER : Scatman John - Scatman's World
15 NEW ENTRY : Erasure - Stay With Me
14 (11) FALLER : De'Lacy - Hideaway
13 (7) FALLER : Celine Dion - Tu M'aimes Encore (To Love Me Again)
12 (8) FALLER : TLC - Waterfalls
11 (4) FALLER : Blur - Country House *
10 (6) FALLER : Michael Bolton - Can I Touch You...There?
9 (5) FALLER : Berri - Sunshine After The Rain :O === (R)
Previously released under "New Atlantic featuring Berri", and sounding NO
different, can anyone please explain to me why re-releasing a song makes it
go immeasurably higher than the last time it was in the charts?
I have a bit of a nightmare about this song. I was in a fast-food restaurant
in St.Helens a few months ago (I won't say which one, but let's just say they
don't have a Burger King there so it's the other one), and it was full, but
we found a seat upstairs, where loads of seating had been roped off for a kids
party. They were playing a tape endlessly - a sort of 'musical chairs' game,
and the music started, then stopped, then started, etc. etc. but it was
SO LOUD I COULDN'T HEAR MYSELF FART, and as a consequence was completely
disssttoorrrttedd that it couldn't be heard properly. One of the songs playing
was this one, and I've hated it even more since then.
8 (9) CLIMBER : Smokie featuring Roy Chubby Brown -
Living Next Door To Alice(Who the F**k is Alice?)(R)
Roy "Chubby" Brown. Not funny. The end.
7 NEW ENTRY : Outhere Brothers - La La La Hey Hey
Another Outhere Brothers record in the charts. Less funny.
6 NEW ENTRY : Janet Jackson - Runaway
Janet Jackson's ear-to-nose chain. Very funny indeed :) :) :)
5 (3) FALLER : The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You
A few years ago the Rembrandts had a radio hit (but alas not a chart one)
with the excellent "That's Just The Way It Is Baby". This song is just standard
American MOR AOR and a song apparently taken from the TV programme "Friends"
(which explains why the cast of the show are in the video too), but it's not
a patch on the song that should've got this high.
4 NEW ENTRY : Mariah Carey - Fantasy :O ===
3 (2) FALLER : N-Trance featuring Ricardo Da Force - Stayin' Alive
2 (1) FALLER : Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone
1 *HIGHEST NEW ENTRY* : Shaggy - Boombastic
For those who don't know, this single is the latest in a long line up to be
used in a Levi's 501 jeans advert. This one features animated clay figures of
a girl in a blazing tower-block who is rescued by some muscle-bound guy on a
motorbike. I won't give away more of the advert as it's quite a laugh to watch
first time round.
Two No.1's out of 3 top 40 chart singles for Shaggy is very good going indeed.
The first was "Oh Carolina" just over two years ago (around the time I graduated
from Uni :), and the hit inbetween was just a few weeks ago with a cover of
"In the Summertime".
The one that got away :
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No.60 Intastella - The Night
A dance-cover of Frankie Valli's excellent original, and this is also
excellent but different, and just as much a "one that got away" as one of their
earlier singles from a few years ago, "People". I'd prefer it if this one got
more airplay.
Those that fell out of the Top 75...
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41 Echobelly - Great Things
44 Sin With Sebastian - Shut Up (and Sleep With Me)
49 Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
50 Salad - Granite Statue
51 TWA - Nasty Girls
52 CJ Lewis - R to the A
54 Bomb the Bass - Sandcastles
56 Mike Scott - Bring 'Em All In
57 Kenny Thomas - When I Think Of You
58 Real McCoy - Come and Get Your Love
60 Xpansions '95 - Move Your Body
62 Radiohead - Just
63 Aaliyah - the Thing I Like
64 Suggs - I'm Only Sleeping/Off On Holiday
65 Supergrass - Alright/Time
66 Cut 'n' Move - I'm Alive
67 Boyzone - So Good
68 Exotica featuring Itsy Foster - the Summer Is Magic '95
69 Electrafixion - Lowdown
70 Blair - Have Fun, Go Mad!
71 U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
72 Ali Campbell - Let Your Yeah be Yeah
73 Edwyn Collins - a Girl Like You
74 Silverchair - Tomorrow
75 Tony De Vit - To the Limit
The rest of the chart from 41 to 75...
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41 18 -23 Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around
42 N Eggs on Legs - Cock a Doodle Do It
43 26 -17 Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - Everybody On the Floor (Pump It)
44 25 -19 the Chemical Brothers - Life Is Sweet
45 29 -16 Nightcrawlers - Don't Let the Feeling Go
46 N Barbara Tucker - Stay Together
47 35 -12 Diana King - Shy Guy
48 32 -16 Take That - Never Forget
49 30 -19 Shara Nelson - Rough With the Smooth
50 N Osmonds - Crazy Horses
51 28 -23 BT featuring Vincent Covello - Loving You More
52 34 -18 Lenny Kravitz - Rock 'n' Roll Is Dead
53 N E-Type - This Is the Way
54 N Chupito - American Pie
55 33 -22 Clock - Everybody
56 N Dreadzone - Maximum EP
57 38 -19 Corona - Try Me Out
58 36 -22 Diana Ross - Take Me Higher
59 39 -20 Mark Morrison - Let's Get Down
60 N Intastella - the Night
61 40 -21 Mrs. Wood - Joanna
62 37 -25 Inspiral Carpets - Joe
63 42 -21 Deuce - On the Bible
64 46 -18 Madonna - Human Nature
65 48 -17 JX - Son of a Gun
66 47 -19 Squeeze - This Summer
67 N Joe Cocker - Have a Little Faith
68 53 -15 Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl
69 45 -24 Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories - Do You Sleep?
70 N Mokenstef - He's Mine
71 61 -10 Goldie - Angel
72 43 -29 Montell Jordan - Somethin' 4 Da Honeyz
73 55 -18 the Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom
74 59 -15 Mike and the Mechanics - Another Cup of Coffee
75 N Artemesia - Bits + Pieces
New releases :
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(* - my current favourites)
September 18th :
Bon Jovi - Something For The Pain
Cast - Alright
Garbage - I'm Only Happy When it Rains
Menswear - Stardust
OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down
Simply Red - Fairground
- is it just me or does this sound like The Beloved???
20 Fingers - Lick It
Paul Weller - Broken Stone
September 25th :
Boo Radleys - From The Beach at Belvedere
Cypress Hill - Throw Your Set in the Air
Louise - Light of my Life
Paradise Lost - Forever Failure
Pulp - Mis-Shapes
Rancid - Time Bomb
Sleeper - What Do I Do Now
Wild Colour - Dreams
October 2nd :
Bluetones - Bluetonic
Oleta Adams - Never Knew Love
- Oleta covering a Rick Astley flop single??? :)
Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
- now I've heard everything! (well I haven't *heard* it yet)
Def Leppard - When Love And Hate Collide
Levellers - Fantasy
Longpigs - Jesus Christ
McAlmont & Butler - You Do
Top 10 ALBUM chart :
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10 (7) FALLER : Oasis - Definitely Maybe
9 (24) CLIMBER : Portishead - Dummy *
The winner of the 1995 Mercury Music Prize!
Thank Frank that Oasis didn't win it!!
8 (2) FALLER : The Charlatans - The Charlatans
7 (1) FALLER : Levellers - Zeitgeist
6 (4) FALLER : Michael Jackson - HIStory
5 NEW ENTRY : Lenny Kravitz - Circus
Has anyone heard this? How does it compare to his previous albums?
I loved the rest, but wasn't too impressed with "Rock And Roll is Dead"
All comments welcome.
4 (6) CLIMBER : TLC - CrazySexyCool
3 (3) NON-MOVER : Paul Weller - Stanley Road
2 NEW ENTRY : Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
1 NEW ENTRY : Blur - The Great Escape
Other new entries in the Top 40 Album chart :
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13 Pan Pipe Dreams - Inspirations
14 The Rembrandts - LP
25 Mirage - Classic Guitar Moods
27 Clock - It's Time
28 Jimi Hendrix - The Ultimate Experience (R)
New releases :
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September 18th :
Black Sabbath - Between Heaven and Hell : The Best Of
Lloyd Cole - Love Story
D:Ream - World
Echobelly - On
Fantazia Presents - House Collection Vol.3
Inspiral Carpets - The Singles
Nightcrawlers - Let's Push It
Pocahontas - Original Soundtrack
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid and Sunburnt
September 25th :
AC/DC - Ballbreaker
Michael Bolton - Greatest Hits 1985 - 1995
David Bowie - Outside
Celine Dion - D'eux : The French Album
Earthrise 2 - Various
Garbage - Garbage
Lisa Loeb - Tails
Prince/Symbol - The Gold Experience
Shara Nelson - Friendly Fire
Thunder - Their Finest Hour (and a bit)
Wipeout - Various
September 28th :
Mariah Carey - Daydreams
- you can tell when an artist is too big for their boots when they
have to be different and release their album mid-week!
October 2nd :
Garbage - Garbage
Iron Maiden - X-Factor
Janet Jackson - Best of : End of a Decade (1986 - 1996)
KD LANG - ALL YOU CAN EAT
- i hate the way she never uses capitals :)
Now 32 - Various
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
October 9th :
Simply Red - Life
October 16th :
Robert Palmer - The Very Best of
- What happened to Addictions Vol. 1 and 2?
Luther Vandross - Greatest Hits 1981 - 1995
- I'm sure he's had a best of out before too!
Music group WWW sites :
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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 :
"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 "Gideon Overhead, Amiga User" <amig...@cix.compulink.co.uk> :
http://www.centrum.is/bjork/
"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...@intanet.com) adds :
Don't forget the general home of hardcore/jungle/breakbeat music which is:
http://www.intanet.com/breaks/
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.
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