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Dominator's UK Top 40 Chart Analysis (w/e December 30th 1995)

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Jan 6, 1996, 3:00:00 AM1/6/96

The initial bit :
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Thanks to the following who made their votes count this year :

Anders (anders....@mailbox.swipnet.se)
Andreas Froehlich <froe...@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Chris Dunford <Ch...@dunford.demon.co.uk>
Chris Sharp <ch...@the-ark.demon.co.uk>
David Hembrow <dav...@lsl.co.uk>
Gillian Hardy (aa1...@orac.sunderland.ac.uk)
Iain Culverhouse <iculv...@epschool.demon.co.uk>
Jean-Emile Paraiso <par...@ensta.fr>
John Lawtie (jla...@express.ca)
Katsadorakis Alexis (mel...@hol.gr)
LAM-HANG BENEDICT ANDREW <lam...@ecf.toronto.edu>
Linda Orton <li...@srv1.jig.ed.ac.uk>
M P Reynolds <bmb...@gps.leeds.ac.uk>
Mitch Hoes (MH...@JohnWare.cbe.ab.ca)
N.Morgenstern (frog...@dircon.co.uk)
Neil Treeby (mm...@central.sussex.ac.uk)
Rob Graham (R.Gr...@lut.ac.uk)
Rossano Beghin <bros...@ing.unico.it>
SUZANNE MAREE ALLDIS <sal...@deakin.edu.au>
Name Unknown k...@aquarius1.mti.cdc.com
Name Unknown m04...@rad.net.id
Name Unknown PMa...@aol.com
Name Unknown ws...@aol.com

The results are posted later on in this article.

Details for positions 41-75 and anything marked "[@]" courtesy of
Chris Dunford (cdun...@dunford.demon.co.uk)

This is the Xmas 95 chart, and the first trend you'll spot is that there are
very few new entries (1 in fact, plus a re-entry).

This week : 2 new entries, 6 non-movers, 11 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 (35) FALLER : Mary Kiani - I Give It All to You/I Imagine
39 (39) NON-MOVER : Mr Blobby - Christmas in Blobbyland
38 (38) NON-MOVER : Wet Wet Wet - She's All on my Mind
37 (36) FALLER : Tina Turner - Goldeneye
36 (33) FALLER : Jimmy Nail - Love
35 (30) FALLER : M-People - Itchycoo Park
34 (34) NON-MOVER : Simply Red - Remembering the First Time
33 NEW ENTRY : Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
- Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me) (R)

Re-released to promote his Greatest Hits album.

32 (24) FALLER : LV - Throw Your Hands Up / Gangstas Paradise
31 (27) 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 :)

30 (29) FALLER : Blur - The Universal *
29 (20) FALLER : Crescendo - Are You Out There
28 (31) CLIMBER : 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.

27 (32) *HIGHEST CLIMBER* : Queen - Heaven For Everyone
26 (22) FALLER : 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.

25 (28) CLIMBER : 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.

24 (26) CLIMBER : Passengers - Miss Sarajevo *
23 (19) FALLER : The Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together
22 (25) CLIMBER : Skee-Lo - I Wish
21 (23) CLIMBER : East 17 - Thunder
20 (16) 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.

19 (21) CLIMBER : Madonna - You'll See *
18 (17) FALLER : Symbol/Prince - Gold *
17 (15) 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... :)

16 (18) CLIMBER : Molella featuring the Outhere Brothers - If You Wanna Party
15 (14) FALLER : Pulp - Disco 2000 *

I heard that apparently Jarvis Cocker wanted a song that people will be
playing endlessly in a few years time. Prince had already got 1999 covered,
so he went for the next one.

14 (12) FALLER : The Levellers - Just the One *
13 (6) FALLER : 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.

12 (11) FALLER : Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day
11 (9) FALLER : 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!?!"

10 (13) CLIMBER : Eternal - I Am Blessed
9 (8) FALLER : Robson & Jerome - Up on the Roof/I Believe
8 (3) 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.

7 (10) 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.

6 (7) CLIMBER : Coolio featuring LV - Gangsta's Paradise
5 (5) NON-MOVER : Everything But the Girl - Missing *
4 (4) NON-MOVER : Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet *
3 (2) FALLER : Boyzone - Father And Son
2 *HIGHEST NEW ENTRY* : The Mike Flowers Pops Orchestra - Wonderwall

Mike Flowers demo version of Oasis's song was discovered by Radio One DJ
Kevin Greening, and then played endlessly on that show, and on Chris Evans'
show.
Basically, it's little more than the chorus of the song played to a 50's-type
beat with the clothes to match. The only line of a verse from the original
comes at the start of the record :
"Backbeat, the word on the street, that the fire in your heart is out.
I'm sure you've heard it before, but there never really was a doubt."

The rest is chorus, instrumental, chorus.
At first it was quite funny, and preferable to the original which I had
got tired of, but now I'm sick of this one, and prefer the original which
is creeping back up the charts.

However, it's undeniable that the timing of this release was almost impeccable.
It's the kind of record which will go down a storm at Xmas parties, but
afterwards everyone will put it back in the box and forget about it.

1 (1) **XMAS NUMBER ONE** : Michael Jackson - Earth Song *4th Week at No.1*

Firstly, has anyone else noticed that when Top of the Pops played this
video last week, and on the Xmas show, they exorcised it to make it fit in
a 3 minute gap. The missing piece was part of MJ's wailing while he ploughs
the earth, but the stupid thing is that it's so badly done with a VERY
noticeable key change.

Secondly, 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.

The rest of the chart from 41 to 75...
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41 N Marc Almond - Child Star
42 41 -1 Bon Jovi - Lie to Me
43 47 +4 PJ and Duncan - Perfect
44 49 +5 Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
45 51 +6 Coronation Street Cast - Always Look On the Bright Side of
Life/Something Stupid
46 55 +9 Celine Dion - Misled
47 43 -4 Luther Vandross - Every Year, Every Christmas
48 40 -8 Motiv 8 and Kim Mazelle - Searching for the Golden Eye
49 52 +3 Suggs - the Tune
50 45 -5 Mary J Blige - (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman
51 57 +6 Jon Secada and Shanice - If I Never Knew You
52 37 -15 Pauline Henry - Love Hangover
53 50 -3 Michael Ball - the Rose
54 56 +2 Cliff Richard and Olivia Newton-John - Had To Be
55 54 -1 Lenny Kravitz - Circus
56 48 -8 Menswear - Sleeping In
57 58 +1 Backstreet Boys - I'll Never Break Your Heart
58 44 -14 Jinny - Wanna Be With You
59 63 +4 Ali & Kibibi Campbell - Somethin' Stupid
60 62 +2 Simply Red - Fairground
61 65 +4 Meat Loaf - I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth)
62 53 -9 Fluke - Tosh
63 46 -17 Pearl Jam - Merkinball
64 R Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
65 R Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol
66 R Oasis - Whatever
67 72 +5 Happy Clappers - I Believe
68 42 -26 Morrissey - Sunny
69 59 -10 Roy Wood Big Band - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
70 64 -6 Dorothy - What's That Tune? (Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo-Doo)
71 71 0 Michael Bolton - a Love So Beautiful
72 69 -3 Black Grape - Kelly's Heroes
73 61 -12 Berri - Shine Like a Star
74 R Oasis - Supersonic
75 R Pulp - Mis-Shapes/Sorted for E's and Whizz

Those that fell out of the Top 75...
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60 Oleta Adams - Rhythm of Life (remix)
66 Gary Glitter - Hello, Hello, I'm Back Again (Again!)
67 Nicolette - No Government
68 Erasure - Fingers and Thumbs (Cold Summers Day)
70 Garbage - Queer
73 Benz - Boom Rock Soul
74 Jodeci - Love U 4 Life
75 Ethics - To the Beat of the Drum (La Luna)

New releases :
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(* - my current favourites)

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

December 27th :
The Auteurs - Back with the Killer
Blair - Life
Dreadzone - Little Britain
Eazy E - Just Tah Let U Know
Flaming Lips - Bad Days
Green Day - Stuck with Me
Madonna - Oh Father
Billie Ray Martin - Imitation of Life
Q-Club - Tell it to my Heart
- a cover of Taylor Dayne?

January 2nd :
Tori Amos - Caught a Little Sneeze
Baby D - So Pure
Paul Brady - The World is What You Make It
- the theme tune to ITV's "Faith In the Future"
Jose Carreras - Passion
Taylor Dayne - Tell it to my Heart (R)
- I'm beginning to spot a pattern here...
Gene - For The Dead
Nick Heyward - Roller Blade
Lamb - Cottonwool
Dennis Leary - Asshole
- I saw this used in the latest Holsten Pils ad to combat drink
driving (ie. the guy doing the drink-driving was an asshole, but
not expecting ITV to feature the word 'asshole' at any time in
their schedules, I thought it was an advert for "Esso" as that
sounded quite close :)
Live - Lightning Crashes
Nu Soul - Hideway
Scanners - Pure
Shaggy - Why You Treat Me So Bad
Tears for Fears - Secrets
TLC - Creep

Top 10 ALBUM chart :
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10 (9) FALLER : Enya - The Memory of Trees
9 (10) CLIMBER : Celine Dion - The Colour of My Love
8 (5) FALLER : Elton John - Love Songs
7 (6) FALLER : Madonna - Something To Remember
6 (7) CLIMBER : Pulp - Different Class
5 (8) CLIMBER : Simply Red - Life
4 (4) NON-MOVER : Michael Jackson - HIStory Book 1
3 (3) NON-MOVER : Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
2 (2) NON-MOVER : 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 18th :
The Brothers McMullen - Soundtrack
Gerald and Eddie Levert - Father and Son
Three Wishes - Soundtrack

December 27th :
100% Classics Vol.2 - Various
Four Rooms - Original Soundtrack
Pure Swingbeat Vol.5 - Various

January 2nd :
G.Love & Special Sauce - Coast to Coast Motel
Roy Harper - Unhinged
R & S Vintage Vol.1 - Various
Thin Lizzy - Wild One : Very Best of...

Vote 95 - The Results!
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The Best And Worst Of 95 !
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Firstly, thanks to the following who voted for their faves of 95 :

Some votes may seem strange because the voting was allowed from any country
and not all of the following will have been released in 1995 in every
country.

Best New Artist
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2 votes each for : Finn (inc. my vote), Bluetones, Alanis Morrissette
Supergrass and Cardigans.
1 vote each for : Cast, Elastica, Edwyn Collins (new?), Rednex,
Skunk Anansie, Brandy, Tea Party, Emjay, Deuce, Sharron Shannon,
Tricky, Black Grape, Plus, Dubstar and N-Trance.

Worst New Artist
----------------
11 votes (count 'em!) for Robson and Jerome!! (HAH!)
4 votes for the Outhere Brothers
1 each for : Alex Party, Tina Arena, Happy Clappers, Hole and
Garth Brooks.

Best Single
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3 votes each for Pulp's Common People, and Coolio's Gangstas Paradise.
2 for Oasis' Wonderwall.
1 each for :
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Stone Roses - Ten Storey Love
Soul Asylum - Misery
Garbage - Wow
Sleeper - Inbetweener
Go Go's - Whole World Lost it's Head
Jimmy La Fave - Burden To Bear
Jimmy La Fave - Thinking of You
Celine Dion - Think Twice
Skunk Anansie - I Can Dream
Mariah Carey - One Sweet Day
Crystal Waters - Relax
Robson and Jerome - I Believe
Pulp - Sorted for E's and Whizz
Blur - The Universal

Dominator's 50 best tunes of 1995 !
===================================
In the case of each artist where I liked more than one song by them, I've
included the one I liked the most to give 50 different artists in the list.

The Top 10 ! (in no particular order)
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Enya - Anywhere Is
Intastella - The Night
Madonna - Oh Father
Massive Attack - Protection
Mike and the Mechanics - Another Cup of Coffee
Nick Heyward - The World
Passengers - Miss Sarajevo
Portishead - Glory Box
Pulp - Sorted for E's and Whizz
Saint Etienne - He's on the Phone

And the other 40 (in alphabetical order)
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Adam Ant - Wonderful
Beatles - Free As A Bird
Biosphere - Novelty Waves
Bjork - Army of Me
Blair - Have Fun, Go Mad!
Blur - The Universal
Boy George - Funtime
Lloyd Cole - Like Lovers Do
Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
Shawn Colvin - I Don't Know Why
Connells - 74-75
Crash Test Dummies - Peter Pumpkinhead
Sheryl Crow - What Can I Do For You?
Del Amitri - Driving With the Brakes On
Celine Dion - Misled
Everything But the Girl - Missing
Finn - Sometimes Never
Grace - Not Over Yet
PJ Harvey - Down by the River
Jamiroquai - Stillness in Time
Elton John - Believe
Leftfield - Original
Live - I Alone
Alanis Morrissette - You Oughta Know
Van Morrison - Days Like This
Heather Nova - Walk This World
Perez "Prez" Prado - Guaglione
Queen - Heaven for Everyone
Radiohead - Just
REM - Strange Currencies
Rolling Stones - Like a Rolling Stone
Scarlet - I Wanna Be Free (To Be With Him)
Sleeper - What Do I Do Now?
Jimmy Somerville - Heartbeat
Squeeze - This Summer
Suggs - Camden Town
Tears for Fears - Raoul and the Kings of Spain
Tanita Tikaram - I Might Be Crying
Tricky - Overcome
Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me

Worst Single
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9 votes for Robson and Jerome's Unchained Melody
3 for Blur's Country House, and anything by Outhere Brothers
2 for Roy Chubby Brown's Alice
1 each for :
Michael Jackson - Scream
Michael Jackson - Earth Song
Del Amitri - Roll to Me
Human League - Tell me When
Take That - Back for Good
M-People - Itchycoo Park

My most hated record of 95 : Oasis' Roll With It
(it's even worse than Rob&Jer and Celine Dion's Think Twice put together)

Best Band
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3 votes for Oasis
2 votes each for Radiohead and Take That
1 vote for : Pulp, Throwing Muses, Blur, Queen, Faith No More,
Boyz II Men, Elastica, Chris Barber Band and Saint Etienne

Worst Band
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3 votes for Robson and Jerome
2 each for Blur, Boyzone and East 17
1 each for : Cypress Hill, Shampoo, Bon Jovi, Take That and
Outhere Brothers

Best Male Singer
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3 votes for Paul Weller
2 for Michael Jackson
1 each for : Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Edwyn Collins, Tricky, Hacknett,
Moby, Shaun Ryder, Neil Finn, Scatman John (!), Julian Cope,
Anthony Kaedis, Richard Thompson, Noel Gallagher and Seal.

Worst Male Singer
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3 each for Robson Greene, Jerome Flynn and Michael Bolton
1 each for : Brian Harvey (East 17), Michael Jackson, Damon Alburn,
Sean Maguire, Mike Flowers, Bobby Brown, Mr. Blobby,
Michael Barrymore, Liam Gallagher, Jarvis Cocker & Gary Barlow.

Best Female Singer
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4 votes for Bjork
3 for Alanis Morrissette
2 each for Celine Dion and Mariah Carey
1 each for Madonna, Chrissie Hynde, Justine Frischman (Elastica),
Nina and Sarah (not sure if Cardigans or Dubstar), Tina Turner,
Emjay, Louise (ex-Eternal), Annie Lennox.

Worst Female Singer
-------------------
4 votes for Mariah Carey (WORST - SECOND YEAR RUNNING!)
2 each for Madonna and Whigfield
1 each for : Diana King, the girls from Shampoo, Donna Summer, Bjork,
Celine Dion, Kylie, Berri and Louise.

Best Album
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3 votes for Radiohead's The Bends
2 votes for Tricky - Maxinquaye
1 each for :
Now 32
Paul Weller - Stanley Road
Elastica - Elastica
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Cardigans - Life
Leftfield - Leftism
TLC - CrazySexyCool
Blur - Great Escape
Carter USM - Worry Bomb
Oasis - Morning Glory
Everything But the Girl - Amplified Heart
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
Mariah Carey - Daydream
Robson and Jerome - Robson and Jerome
Portishead - Dummy (my vote!)

Worst Album
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4 votes for Robson and Jerome - Robson and Jerome
1 each for :
M-People - Bizarre Fruit
Mariah Carey - Daydream
Celine Dion - Colour of my Love
Foetus (don't know album name)
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Jeff Beckley - Grace
Michael Jackson - History
Simply Red - Life
Blur - Great Escape
Oasis - Morning Glory

Best Pop Video
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4 votes for Radiohead's Just (definitely the weirdest video!)
2 votes for Michael Jackson - Earth Song
1 each for :
Pulp - Disco 2000
Pulp - Common People
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Shaggy - Boombastic
Bjork - Army of Me
Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet
Michael Jackson - Scream
Blur - Country House
Supergrass - Alright
Tricky - Hell is just around the Corner

Worst Pop Video
---------------
3 votes for Robson and Jerome - I Believe
2 votes for Boyzone - Father and Son
1 each for :
Madonna - Human Nature
Mariah Carey - Fantasy
Pulp - Common People
Celine Dion - the French song she did
Whigfield - Saturday Night
"anything by Bon Jovi"

Best Film
---------
1 each for :
Leon (my choice), Get Shorty, Before Sunrise, Land and Freedom,
Die Hard with a Vengeance, Clueless, Murder in the First,
Muriel's Wedding, Johnny Mnemonic, Bad Boys, Pulp Fiction,
Crimson Tide and Four Weddings And A Funeral.

Worst Film
----------
2 votes for Waterworld
1 each for :
Ace Ventura When Nature Calls, The Mask, Junior, Streetfighter,
Natural Born Killers, Judge Dredd, Johnny Mnemonic,
Dumb and Dumber, Batman Forever.

Best Video
----------
1 each for :
Interview with the Vampire, Three Colours Red, The Mask,
Legends of the Fall, Shawshank Redemption, Serial Mom, Speed,
Stargate, True Lies, Pulp Fiction, Lawrence of Arabia
and Backbeat.

Worst Video
-----------
2 votes for Ace Venture : Pet Detective
1 each for :
Pret A Porter (aka Ready To Wear), Flintstones, Junior,
Riverdance and Football Gone Crazy.

Best Male Film Star
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4 votes for Denzel Washington
2 votes for Gary Oldman
1 each for : John Travolta, Jean Reno, Wesley Snipes, Brad Pitt,
Tom Hanks, Peter O'Toole, Ian Hart and Michael Caine.

Worst Male Film Star
--------------------
6 votes for Jim Carrey
1 each for : Steven Seagal, Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Keanu Reeves,
Jean-Claude Van Damme and David Hasselhoff

Best Female Film Star
---------------------
3 votes for Sandra Bullock
2 votes for Alicia Silverstone
1 each for : Sigourney Weaver, Julie Delpy, Susan Sarandon,
Winona Ryder, Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman, Christina Ricci,
Drew Barrymore and Anna Nicole-Smith (!)

Worst Female Film Star
----------------------
2 each for Sharon Stone, Kylie and Madonna
1 each for Nicole Kidman, Drew Barrymore, Whoopi Goldberg, Demi Moore,
Emma Thompson and Pamela Anderson.

Best TV Show
------------
4 votes for The Simpsons (inc. my vote)
2 each for Cracker and Melrose Place
1 each for : X-Files, the Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Friends,
Beverly Hills 90210, Room 101, They Think It's All Over,
New Adventures of Superman (aka Lois and Clark),
MTV Most Wanted, Nuille Part Ailleurs, People's Century,
Beatles Anthology.

Worst TV show
-------------
3 votes for The UK National Lottery
2 votes for Neighbours
1 each for : The Richard Whiteley Show, Daytime TV, Home And Away,
Noel's House Party, My Kind of People (more Michael Barrymore),
"anything on ITV" and "lots of Greek shows".

Best Male TV Personality
------------------------
2 votes for David Duchovny (X-Files)
1 each for : Michael Barrymore, Bob Mortimer, Will Smith, Andy Gray,
Harry Gration, Chandler (Friends), Bob Monkhouse, Ray Cokes,
and Robbie Coltrane.

Worst Male TV Personality
-------------------------
2 votes for Terry Wogan
1 each for : Bruce Forsyth, Jeremy Beadle, Jim Davidson, Mr Blobby,
Rowan Atkinson, Richard Whiteley, Hugo (MTV), Dale Winton,
Michael Barrymore and Nick Owen.

Best Female TV Personality
--------------------------
2 votes for Heather Locklear (inc. my vote :)
1 each for : Lily Savage, Brett Butler (Grace Under Fire), Sue Cook,
Ulrika Jonnson, Judith Stamper, Jennifer Aniston (Friends),
Teri Hatcher, Davina (MTV) and Gaby Roslin.

Worst Female TV Personality
---------------------------
3 votes for Anthea Turner
1 each for : Gaby Roslin, Sue Charlton (weathergirl), Judith Chalmers,
Whoopi Goldberg, Paula Yates, Anne Diamon, Carol Voderman,
and the Andrex voice-over woman :)

Worst Re-Issued Dance Track That Wasn't Any Good In The First Place
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Votes were cast for : Livin Joy - Dreamer
Strike - U Sure Do
Berri - Sunshine After the Rain

I'll vote for Berri as I hated it the first time, and then even more when I
heard it in MacDonalds in St.Helens, but that's another story...

As to the question of which was the better Beatles track, "Free as a Bird",
or "Real Love" (the videos of which were premiered on ITV), the former won
the most votes by a mile.

Here's to the votes for 96!

Music group WWW sites :
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N.Morgenstern (frog...@dircon.co.uk) writes :

Mine is http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/nmorgens/music.html

Anders (anders....@mailbox.swipnet.se) has a Mariah Carey home page :
http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~d93andwa/Mariah/gallery.html
There are MANY pictures of Mariah there.

My worldchartspage:
http://www.edu.isy.liu.se/~d93andwa/stuff/html/chart.html

Katsadorakis Alexis (mel...@hol.gr) writes :

The OFFICIAL web page of Queen is: http//:www.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)

http://www.godiscs.co.uk/

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

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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