Dominator's UK Top 40 Chart Analysis (w/e January 20th 1996)
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This week : 15 new entries, no non-movers, 1 climbers & 24 downers.
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 : The Human League - Stay With Me Tonight *
The Human League made a good comeback last year with the Top 10 hit, "Tell
Me When" which harkened back to their days in the early 80's. The follow-up's
"One Man In My Heart" and "Filling Up With Heaven", were good but didn't do
as well, the latter only barely breaking into the Top 40 for one week.
This new hit would equally feel at home had it been released 10 years ago,
but hasn't been received as well as this low placing shows. Most singles which
enter the Top 40 anywhere in the bottom ten rarely get higher. I don't think
this one will go anywhere but down unfortunately.
39 (14) FALLER : Gene - For The Dead
38 (17) FALLER : Robson & Jerome - Up on the Roof/I Believe
37 NEW ENTRY : Frank Black - Men in Black
I haven't heard this yet, but the man from the Pixies is on the climb.
The last single I heard from him was 1994's "Headache" which only made no.53
but should've been a monster. The only other solo track of his which springs to
mind is the older "Los Angeles" which is excellent.
36 NEW ENTRY : Pato Banton with Sting - Spirits in the Material World :O ===
You think Sting would've learned his lesson with the mess that Pato Banton
turned Sting's "This Cowboy Song" into. A good song had loads of rap-crap
babbled all over it, and I kept yearning for the original every time the
Pato version came on the radio.
This song is even worse, and barely sounds like the original Police classic.
Perhaps Sting will take the hint this time.
35 NEW ENTRY : Upside Down - Change Your Mind
The latest in a long line of teen-boy bands, and whether they become
successful, or fade into obscurity after a week in the charts, is something
I couldn't care less about. I'm tired of this type of music.
34 (22) FALLER : Judy Cheeks - Reach
33 NEW ENTRY : Tak Tix - Feel Like Singing
32 (21) FALLER : Madonna - Oh Father *
I was so sure that I'd heard this one a few years ago, and I was right.
Thanks to Chris for pointing out that while we had "Dear Jessie" as a single
way back when, the rest of the world had this one which is currently featured
on her album containing only ballads, "Something To Remember".
It's a shame that this one didn't reach the Top 10. Her last single to miss
the Top 10 was "Take a Bow" which also peaked at No.16.
31 (23) FALLER : Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart (R)
First released in 1988, this one went Top 3. I don't know why it's been
re-released in this remixed form. Ah, of course, a Best-of in the pipeline.
Out of all of Taylor Dayne's singles, I only really liked "I'll Be Your
Shelter" which scraped No.43 in 1990. Should've been a big one.
30 (26) FALLER : Symbol/Prince - Gold *
29 (18) FALLER : Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day
On Radio 2 last week, I heard a short piece in which people on the street were
asked to give their impression of hell. Some people drew religion into the
subject, talking about all the bad things that Satan would do to them (as if),
but the best one was a girl who said that her idea of hell would be to be
locked in a room where the Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men video was played over
and over again :)
Apologies to Anders in advance for this one, but I couldn't help it :)
28 (19) FALLER : Dubstar - Not So Manic Now *
27 (16) FALLER : Pulp - Disco 2000 *
26 (12) FALLER : 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. You have them to blame...
25 NEW ENTRY : Sunscreem - White Skies
24 (20) FALLER : Tori Amos - Caught a Lite Sneeze *
23 NEW ENTRY : Nightcrawlers featuring John Reid - Let's Push It :O ===
The Nightcrawlers singles get more pointless with each release.
This one is even worse than the last two....put together.
22 (13) FALLER : The Levellers - Just the One *
21 NEW ENTRY : Lush - Single Girl * !!!
I first fell in love with the music of Lush with their album "Gala", and
one particular track "Sweetness and Light", a tuneful, airy, bright sort of
(mostly)instrumental, well it has some lyrics but they fade into the music
too much (but just enough). It could be classed as ambient.
"Single Girl" is completely different. Definitely their best shot for an
assault on the charts, and I love it, and the lead singer, Miki, is a babe!
And they were both on the Big Breakfast recently too with Zig and Zag.
Certainly brightened up my morning :)
20 (24) *HIGHEST CLIMBER* : Dreadzone - Little Britain
...for the second week running.
19 (8) FALLER : Bjork - It's Oh So Quiet *
18 (10) FALLER : Coolio featuring LV - Gangsta's Paradise
17 NEW ENTRY : LL Cool J featuring Boyz II Men - Hey Lover
16 (15) FALLER : The Presidents of the United States of America - Lump :O ===
15 (11) FALLER : Shaggy featuring Grand Puba - Why you treat me so bad ? :O ===
14 (9) FALLER : Molella featuring the Outhere Brothers-If You Wanna Party :O ===
13 NEW ENTRY : Leftfield - Release the Pressure *
12 NEW ENTRY : Bucketheads - Got Myself Together :O ===
Some people may be a fan of the Bucketheads, but I certainly am not.
I just can't see the point of taking an old 70's song and adding an extra
dance beat most of the time.
11 (7) FALLER : Eternal - I Am Blessed
10 (6) FALLER : TLC - Creep '96 (R)
9 NEW ENTRY : Coolio - Too Hot
8 NEW ENTRY : Cast - Sandstorm
7 NEW ENTRY : Cher - One By One
Cher was the guest on the National Lottery show on Saturday 6th January, for
the double-rollover jackpot, on which she performed this song. Surely her
numbers came up as she was paid UKP 30,000 for the 10 minute performance!
6 (5) FALLER : Oasis - Wonderwall *
5 (4) FALLER : Everything But the Girl - Missing *
4 (3) FALLER : Baby D - So Pure
3 (2) FALLER : Boyzone - Father And Son
2 (1) FALLER : Michael Jackson - Earth Song
1 NEW ENTRY : George Michael - Jesus To A Child * !!! *NEW NUMBER ONE*
With Michael Jackson's Earth Song, the record for the most number of No.1's
to go straight in at the top slot was broken as MJ made it 5 in a row.
George Michael breaks it further with 6. The previous four were Shaggy,
Simply Red, Coolio, and Robson & Jerome.
George Michael's first proper (ie. non-charity) solo single in years is
absolutely bloody fantastic, and IMHO sounds a lot like the sort of song
which would fit in nicely with the music on his previous album,
"Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1"
This ballad lasts 6 minutes, with a video bathed in soft focus, and George
with a sort-of goatee beard to go with it.
The album is released in the spring, and I shall be the first person in the
queue to buy it.
The rest of the chart from 41 to 75...
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41 28 -13 Pizzaman - Sex On the Streets
42 N Man with No Name featuring Hannah - Paint a Picture
43 29 -14 Enya - Anywhere Is
44 27 -17 Nu Soul featuring Kelli Rich - Hide-A-Way
45 34 -11 Skee-Lo - I Wish
46 40 -6 Paul Carrack - Eyes of Blue
47 30 -17 Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson - the Best Things In Life are
Free (remix)
48 25 -23 the Beatles - Free as a Bird
49 32 -17 Madonna - You'll See
50 35 -15 Corona - I Don't Wanna be a Star
51 31 -20 East 17 - Thunder
52 39 -13 Q-Club - Tell It To My Heart
53 38 -15 Eazy-E - Just Tah Let U Know
54 37 -17 Nick Heyward - Rollerblade
55 33 -22 Live - Lightning Crashes
56 44 -12 Passengers - Miss Sarajevo
57 N Chakka Boom Bang - Tossing and Turning
58 N the Rembrandts - This House Is Not a Home
59 41 -18 Queen - a Winter's Tale
60 43 -17 Crescendo - Are You Out There
61 42 -19 Billie Ray Martin - Imitation of Life
62 52 -10 Simply Red - Remembering the First Time
63 45 -18 Blur - the Universal
64 36 -28 ChildLiners - the Gift of Christmas
65 54 -11 Oasis - Supersonic
66 48 -18 the Smokin' Mojo Filters - Come Together
67 51 -16 Queen - Heaven for Everyone
68 46 -22 Green Day - Stuck With Me
69 60 -9 Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
70 59 -11 Oasis - Some Might Say
71 R Oasis - Live Forever
72 58 -14 Denis Leary - Asshole
73 53 -20 the Auteurs - Back With the Killer EP
74 66 -8 Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol
75 65 -10 Oasis - Roll With It
Those that fell out of the Top 75...
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47 Frank Bruno - Eye of the Tiger
49 LV - Throw Your Hands Up
50 Blair - Life?
55 Mary Kiani - I Give It All to You/I Imagine
56 Tina Turner - Goldeneye
57 Oasis - Whatever
61 Wet Wet Wet - She's All On My Mind
62 Pulp - Mis-Shapes/Sorted for E's and Whizz
63 Oasis - Shakermaker
64 Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
67 Paul Brady - the World Is What You Make It
68 Whigfield - Last Christmas/Big Time
69 Ministry - the Fall
70 Bon Jovi - Lie to Me
71 Let Loose - Everybody Say Everybody Do
72 M People - Itchycoo Park
73 Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
74 Jimmy Nail - Love
75 PJ and Duncan - Perfect
New releases :
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(* - my current favourites)
January 9th :
(others released this week)
Legend B - Lost in Love
Man With No Name - Paint a Picture
George Michael - Jesus To A Child *
Voice of the Beehive - Scary Kisses *
January 16th :
Ace of Base - It's a Beautiful Life *
Armando - Transaxual
Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
- the latest song featured in a Levi's ad. However, whereas the
advert has the song 'sung' with a high-pitched voice (well, after
it's been mangled by a computer), the song starts like that, but
then goes really slow for the rest of the song.
Result : Advert version : Excellent. Single version : Bogus.
The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom * (R)
The Brotherhood - One Shot
Chemical Brothers -Loops of Fury (EP)
Dub War - Enemy Maker
Eg - Stay Home *
ESP - Having a Party
The Flavour - Glitter Lips
Hannah and Her Sisters - You Keep me Hanging On
Bitty McLean - Natural High
Meat Loaf - Not A Dry Eye in the House
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
QFX - Everytime You Touch Me
Skunk Anansie - Weak
Small World - Livin Free (EP)
Smoking Popes - Need You Around
Bonnie Tyler - Making Love (Out of Nothing At All)
Urban Discharge - Wanna Drop a House
Xscape - Who Can I Run Too
Top 10 ALBUM chart :
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10 (8) FALLER : Eternal - Power of a Woman
9 (7) FALLER : Queen - Made in Heaven
8 (9) CLIMBER : Enya - The Memory of Trees
7 (6) FALLER : Madonna - Something To Remember
6 (13) CLIMBER : Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
5 (5) NON-MOVER : Boyzone - Said and Done
4 (4) NON-MOVER : Michael Jackson - HIStory Book 1
3 (3) NON-MOVER : Pulp - Different Class
2 (2) NON-MOVER : Robson & Jerome - Robson & Jerome
1 (1) NON-MOVER : Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Other new entries in the Top 40 Album chart :
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20 Sweet - Ballroom Hitz - Best of
28 (46) Cast - All Change
31 (48) Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
32 (43) Gerry Rafferty - One More Dream - Best of
36 (RE) Cher - It's a Man's World
39 (75) The Presidents of the United States of America - The Presidents of the United States of America
New releases :
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January 9th :
7 Seconds - The Music, The Message
Ace Ventura Pet Detective - Original Soundtrack
Anuna - Invocation
Burt Bacharach - The Best of..
Mary J Blige - My Life
Dead Man Walking - Original Soundtrack
Devil in a Blue Dress - Original Soundtrack
Eazy E - Eternal E
Jazzhole - And the Feeling Goes Around
Alex Lifeson - Victor
Mad Love - Original Soundtrack
R & S Vintage Vol.1 - Various
Ricky Scaggs - Solid Ground
Seven - Original Soundtrack
Wayne Shorter - Atlantis
Showgirls - Original Soundtrack
The Sweet - Ballroom Hitz (Best of)
The Wildhearts - Fishing For More Luckies
January 16th :
After Hours - Various
Michael Ball - First Love
The Bucketheads - All in the Mind
The Cars - Just What I Needed (2-CD Anthology)
Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbet
Conflict - Standard Issue 2 (1988-1994)
Desperado - Original Soundtrack
Ray Dorset - Cold Blue Excursion
The Easy Club - Essential
Fairport Convention - The Five Seasons
Free the Funk Vol.1 - Various
Golden Smog - Down by the Old Mainstream
Marcus Hummon - All in Good Time
Le Fleur de mon Secret - Original Soundtrack
M8 DJ Technotrance - Various
Money Train - Original Soundtrack
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante
Pink Fairies - Out of the Blues and Into the Pink
Planet Gong - Floating Anarchy
Rock & Water - Various
Scarlet Letter - Original Soundtrack
Somethin' for the People - Somethin' for the People
Strange Days - Original Soundtrack
Toefat - Toefat 1 & 2
Music group WWW sites :
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Chris Sully <C.M....@cs.cf.ac.uk> maintains a list of past Radio 1
Essential Mixes at his web site :
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/C.M.Sully
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)
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.
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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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