Dominator's UK Top 40 Chart Analysis (w/e September 30th 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 : 18 New entries, 1 non-mover, 1 climber and 20 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 : Gemini - Even Though You Break My Heart
The latest teen-type band, and presumably they're twins. Haven't heard the
record. Don't want to either.
39 (24) FALLER : The Original - I Luv U Baby (Remix) (R)
38 (25) FALLER : D:Ream - Party Up The World :O ===
37 NEW ENTRY : Dubstar - Anywhere
36 (21) FALLER : Oasis - Roll With It :O ===
35 NEW ENTRY : Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Born on the 5th of November
34 NEW ENTRY : The Cardigans - Sick and Tired
33 NEW ENTRY : AC/DC - Hard as a Rock
32 (18) FALLER : Whigfield - Close To You
31 NEW ENTRY : Annie Lennox - Waiting In Vain
Annie goes reggae...sort of. I'll pass on this one. It's even worse than the
last two covers.
30 (16) FALLER : Scatman John - Scatman's World
29 NEW ENTRY : Garbage - Only Happy When it Rains
28 (19) FALLER : Umboza - Cry India
27 (17) FALLER : Gompie - Alice (Who The X is Alice?) (R)
26 NEW ENTRY : The O.T. Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down
25 (14) FALLER : De'Lacy - Hideaway
24 NEW ENTRY : The Verve - History
23 NEW ENTRY : Candy Girls - Fee Fi Fo Fum
22 (13) FALLER : Celine Dion - Tu M'aimes Encore (To Love Me Again)
21 (15) FALLER : Erasure - Stay With Me
20 NEW ENTRY : Paul Weller - Broken Stones *
19 (11) FALLER : Blur - Country House *
18 (12) FALLER : TLC - Waterfalls
17 NEW ENTRY : Mary J Blige - Mary Jane (All Night Long)
16 NEW ENTRY : Menswear - Stardust
15 (9) 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.
14 (10) FALLER : Michael Bolton - Can I Touch You...There?
13 NEW ENTRY : Cast - Alright *
I like this one but at the moment I can't remember how it goes. However, I'm
wondering when they're going to come up with a song title that hasn't been
used before... Fine Time? Alright? :)
12 NEW ENTRY : Bon Jovi - Something For The Pain :O ===
I don't think even Paracetamol could get rid of the pain after hearing this :)
11 NEW ENTRY : 20 Fingers featuring Gilette - Short Short Man (R)
Why is this out now as "Short Short Man" when last year it was released as
"Short Dick Man" ?
10 NEW ENTRY : Wet Wet Wet - Somewhere Somehow
9 (7) FALLER : Outhere Brothers - La La La Hey Hey
8 (6) FALLER : Janet Jackson - Runaway
7 (5) 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 as high as this one did.
6 (3) FALLER : N-Trance featuring Ricardo Da Force - Stayin' Alive
5 (8) *HIGHEST CLIMBER* : Smokie featuring Roy Chubby Brown -
Living Next Door To Alice(Who the F**k is Alice?)(R)
This one has to be the highest climber as it's the *only* climber....
....unfortunately.
4 (4) NON-MOVER : Mariah Carey - Fantasy :O ===
3 (2) FALLER : Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone
2 (1) FALLER : 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.
Last week in The Sun there was an article "Guess why they call me 'Shaggy' ?"
with him giving a wry smile. Of course the answer is that he resembles the
character from Scooby Doo :)
1 *HIGHEST NEW ENTRY* : Simply Red - Fairground
When I first heard this a few weeks ago I didn't know it was Simply Red,
and thought it was some dance band, or The Beloved, or somesuch as it doesn't
sound like their usual output. Because of this I grew to like it, which is
strange, as Simply Red's music, and me, rarely mix. However, this soon died
off as the song was played to death on the radio, and now it's No.1 - their
first ever in fact - and I have to endure it all over again :(
The one that got away :
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47 Nick Heyward - The World
The Haircut 100 frontman is back, and this time his solo career sounds rather
different than when he was with that band, but it's still just as good. Shame
the record-buying public don't agree in such strong numbers. Still, there's
hope for next week...
Those that fell out of the Top 75...
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38 Strike - the Morning After (Free at Last)
42 Eggs on Legs - Cock a Doodle Do It
43 Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - Everybody On the Floor (Pump It)
44 the Chemical Brothers - Life Is Sweet
46 Barbara Tucker - Stay Together
49 Shara Nelson - Rough With the Smooth
50 Osmonds - Crazy Horses
51 BT featuring Vincent Covello - Loving You More
52 Lenny Kravitz - Rock 'n' Roll Is Dead
53 E-Type - This Is the Way
55 Clock - Everybody
57 Corona - Try Me Out
58 Diana Ross - Take Me Higher
59 Mark Morrison - Let's Get Down
60 Intastella - the Night
61 Mrs. Wood - Joanna
62 Inspiral Carpets - Joe
63 Deuce - On the Bible
64 Madonna - Human Nature
65 JX - Son of a Gun
66 Squeeze - This Summer
68 Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl
69 Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories - Do You Sleep?
70 Mokenstef - He's Mine
71 Goldie - Angel
72 Montell Jordan - Somethin' 4 Da Honeyz
73 the Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom
74 Mike and the Mechanics - Another Cup of Coffee
75 Artemesia - Bits + Pieces
The rest of the chart from 41 to 75...
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41 22 -19 Cappella - Tell Me the Way
42 20 -22 the Prat Who Uses a Symbol Instead Of a Name - [eye] Hate You
43 N La Bouche - Falling In Love
44 23 -21 Nush - U Girls (Look So Sexy)
45 N Dave Clarke - Red Three
46 31 -15 Vanessa Williams - Colours of the Wind
47 N Nick Heyward - the World
48 N 20 Fingers featuring Roula - Lick It
49 26 -23 Thunder - In a Broken Dream
50 N Patra - Pull Up to the Bumper
51 29 -22 Michelle Gayle - Happy Just To Be With You
52 28 -24 Donna Summer - I Feel Love
53 N kd Lang - If I Were You
54 34 -20 Seal - Kiss From a Rose/I'm Alive
55 N Bitty McLean - Nothing Can Change This Love
56 36 -20 the Connells - 74-'75
57 N Pauline Henry - Sugar Free
58 N PM Dawn - Downtown Venus
59 32 -27 the Grid - Diablo
60 27 -33 Brownstone - I Can't Tell You Why
61 30 -31 Grace - I Want to Live
62 33 -29 EYC - Ooh-Ah-Aa (I Feel It)
63 N Rappin' 4-Tay - Playaz Club
64 37 -27 Lloyd Cole - Like Lovers Do
65 48 -17 Take That - Never Forget
66 35 -31 David Bowie - the Heart's Filthy Lesson
67 40 -27 Jam and Spoon featring Plakva - Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)
68 N Man With No Name - Floor-Essence
69 47 -22 Diana King - Shy Guy
70 67 -3 Joe Cocker - Have a Little Faith
71 39 -32 Haddaway - Catch a Fire
72 54 -18 Chupito - American Pie
73 56 -17 Dreadzone - Maximum EP
74 41 -33 Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around
75 45 -30 Nightcrawlers - Don't Let the Feeling Go
New releases :
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(* - my current favourites)
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)
Dana Dawson - Got To Give Me Love
Def Leppard - When Love And Hate Collide
Levellers - Fantasy
Longpigs - Jesus Christ
McAlmont & Butler - You Do
October 9th :
The Amps - Ten City
Ash - Angel Interceptor
Eternal - Power of a Woman
Heavy Stereo - Smiler
Wildchild - Renegade Master
Josh Wink - Higher State of Consciousness
Motiv 8 - Break The Chain
Top 10 ALBUM chart :
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10 (13) CLIMBER : Pan Pipe Dreams - Inspirations
9 (6) FALLER : Michael Jackson - HIStory
8 NEW ENTRY : Skunk Anansie - Paranoid and Sunburnt
7 (2) FALLER : Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
6 (4) FALLER : TLC - CrazySexyCool
5 NEW ENTRY : D:Ream - World
4 NEW ENTRY : Echobelly - On
3 (3) NON-MOVER : Paul Weller - Stanley Road
2 NEW ENTRY : Michael Bolton - Greatest Hits 1985-1995
1 (1) NON-MOVER : Blur - The Great Escape
Other new entries in the Top 40 Album chart :
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14 Nightcrawlers - Let's Push It
15 Goldie - Timeless (Edited)
17 Inspiral Carpets - The Singles
23 Mike Scott - Bring 'Em All In
New releases :
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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 :
Carl Cox : F.A.C.T. The Silver Edition - Various
Carter USM - Straw Donkey...The Singles
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?
Shaggy - Boombastic
October 9th :
Green Day - Insomniac
Menswear - Nuisance
PM Dawn - Jesus Wept
Simply Red - Life
October 16th :
Cast - All Change
Robert Palmer - The Very Best of
- What happened to Addictions Vol. 1 and 2?
Finn - Finn
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 :
"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 "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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