10 (7) Cartoons - Witch Doctor

In the last chart of 1998, I posted my Top 50 singles of the year, pickingout the Top 10 first. During 1999, I’ll be going through the list one by onestarting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week : 14 new entries, 0 climbers, 0 non-movers & 26 downers.

new entry re-entry climber faller non mover

CHART TIME !

(* – 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)

A brief analysis on the current chart situation…

14 new entries :

39 Deetah – El Paraiso Rico

34 Freddy Fresh featuring Fatboy Slim – Badder Badder Schwing

30 UB40 – The Train is Coming

29 BMR – Check It Out

28 Eric Benet/Faith Evans – Georgy Porgy

23 Faith Evans/Puff Daddy – All Night Long

18 Armand Van Helden – Flowerz

14 Faithless – Bring My Family Back

7 TQ – Bye Bye Baby

6 Busta Rhymes & Janet – What’s It Gonna Be

5 Basement Jaxx – Red Alert

4 Texas – In Our Lifetime

2 Fatboy Slim – Right Here Right Now

1 Westlife – Swear It Again so the following dropped out :

40 Blur – Tender

39 George Michael & Mary J Blige – As

38 Corrs – Runaway

37 Cher – Strong Enough

36 Gene – Fill Her Up

35 Ace Of Base – Everytime It Rains

34 2 Pac – Changes

32 Steps – Heartbeat

31 Mariah Carey – I Still Believe

30 Des’ree – You Gotta Be

29 Beverley Knight – Made It Back 99

28 Ben Folds Five – Army

27 Reef – I’ve Got Something To Say

17 Electronic – Vivid 0 climbers : 0 non-movers : and 26 going down. Big fallers include :

8 (2) Phats & Small

11 (3) Eminem

12 (4) Abba Tribute

16 (9) Honeyz

21 (5) Suede

26 (14) Ruff Driverz – La Musica

27 (18) E-Z Rollers – Walk This Land New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :

54 Emilia – Good Sign

55 Elliott Smith – Baby Britain

57 Jennifer Brown – Tuesday Afternoon

66 Cake – Never There

72 Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach – Toledo

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…
10 (7) Cartoons – Witch Doctor

Not a new song by a long chalk, but I figured it was worth a mention afterHomer’s “trip” in an ambient water-tank as part of his homeopathic treatmentduring which he sang this tune which cracked me up.

4 Texas – In Our Lifetime

First single from their new album, “The Hush”, and it looks like their barrendays are now behind them, but it’s a shame this new single is a little barrenitself, sounding rather like a light same-tempo version of “Say What You Want”.

2 Fatboy Slim – Right Here Right Now

This track was tipped as a No.1 follow-up to his last No.1, “Praise You”,especially as for the past few weeks it has been featured in an Adidas advert.The song is okay but nothing special.

1 Westlife – Swear It Again *1st Week at No.1*

And yes I’m swearing again as yet another average song goes straight in at No.1,this time being a band who had to change their name before they released theirfirst single – turns out there was already a band called Westside.

Westlife are an Oirish 5-piece boy band. Sounds familiar? Sound like Boyzone?You won’t be surprised to hear that one of their managers is Boyzone’s leadsinger Ronan Keating.

This is the 12th single to go straight in at No.1.

1. Fatboy Slim – Praise You

2. 911 – A Little Bit More

3. Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)

4. Armand Van Helden featuring Duane Harden – You Don’t Know Me

5. Blondie – Maria

6. Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away

7. Britney Spears – Baby One More Time

8. Boyzone – When The Going Gets Tough

9. B*witched – Blame It On The Weatherman

10. Mr Oizo – Flat Beat

11. Martine McCutcheon – Perfect Moment

12. Westlife – Swear It Again

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New releases :

If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know

April 12th :Ash AphroditeBaby DC Feat Imajin Bounce, Rock, Skate, RollBen Folds Five ArmyBMR Feat Felicia Check It OutBrown, Jennifer Tuesday AfternoonCox, Carl Phuture 2000Deetah El ParadisoDesert Eagle Discs All Night LoveDJ Dado Ready Or NotDJ SS SS RevengeEminem My Name is (12″)Faithless Bring My family BackFridge, Ralph ParadiseGus Gus StarloversHoneyz Love Of A LifetimeKawala SnowballMcAlmont Lose My FaithMunroe, Hollis P I’m LonelyNail, Jimmy Blue Beyond The GreyOldfield, Mike Far Above The CloudsRico Attack MeRuff Driverz/Arrolla La MusicaS.O.L. (aka Oliver Lieb) QuantensprugSound 5 Ala KabooStar Power X Ray OK (Remixes)Straw Moving To CaliforniaSuede ElectricityToybox Tarzan & JaneUB40 Train Is ComingVan Helden, Armand FlowerzVarious Artists 3 The Hard Way

April 19th :3rd Storee If EverAdams, Bryan Cloud Number 9Basement Jaxx Red AlertCake Never ThereCalyx Acid BluesEvans, Faith All Night LongE-Z Rollers Walk This LandFatboy Slim Right Here, Right NowFaultline MuteFreddy Fresh feat. Badder Badder SchwingFun Lovin Criminals Korean BodegaHappy Mondays The Boys Are Back In TownHeller, Pete Big LoveKings Of The Wild Frontier Trans AmLeilani Do You Want MeMishka Give You All The LovePras What You Gonna DoRevolutionary Corps Of Pay Tha WreckRhymes, Busta What’s It Gonna BeSalt N Pepa Push It ’99Shanks & Bigfoot Sweet Like ChocolateSmith, Elliot Baby BritainTexas In Our LifetimeWestlife Swear It Again

April 26th :911 Private NumberBackstreet Boys TBCCamisra Clap Your HandsCassius Feeling For YouCast Beat MammaCube ScroungerDa Click We R Da ClickGroove Armada If Everybody LookedIndian Ropeman 66 MetersJamelia So HighMartin, Billy Ray HoneyMeja How Crazy Are YouMethod Man Feat D’Angelo Break Ups 2 Make UpsMoby Run OnNas I Will SurvivePrice, Kelly Secret LoveShaker, Johnny Pearl RiverStoneproof Everything’s Not YouTilt InvisibleVera Coche Carte BlancheVictoria FallYello vs. Hardfloor Vicious Games

May 5th :A Old FolksBolland, CJ Ain’t Gonna Be MeCharlotte SkinChieftans Feat The Corrs I Know My LoveDJ Sakin TBCHouston, Whitney My Love Is Your LoveMike & The Mechanics TBCSkunk Anansie SecretlyStereophonics Pick A Part Thats NewTerrorvision TBCTwain, Shania That Don’t Impress Me Much

May 10th :Beastie Boys TBCBoyzone You Needed MeBrown, Foxy (J.O.B) TBCGay Dad JoyHalliwell, Geri TBCLucid Stay With Me Til DawnMorrison, Van Back On TopPavement Carrot RopeSuper Furry Animals Northern Lights

May 17th :Blondie Nothing Is Real But The GirlMoffats, The TBCShed 7 Disco DownSupergrass TBCTerry, Todd Let It RideThree Colours Red This Is My Time

May 24th :Chemical Brothers TBCDef Leppard TBCJamiroquai Canned HeatMicronauts, The The JagParadise Lost TBCVengaboys TBC21st Century Girls TBC

Other forthcoming releases

APRIL :

MAY :

JUNE :

JULY :

[tba] – Whitney Houston (Arista)

AUGUST :

[tba] – Johnson Brothers (WEA)

SEPTEMBER :

~ [tba] – Oasis (Creation)

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Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

3 Reef – Rides

7 The Cranberries – Bury The Hatchet

9 Tom Waits – Mule Variations

23 Ultrasound – Everything Picture

24 BB King – Greatest Hits

43 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Echo

55 Hurricane #1 – Only The Strong Will Survive

56 Beverley Knight – Prodigal Sista

57 Fish – Raingods with Zippos The top 5 goes like this :

1 Abba – Abba Gold: Greatest Hits

2 Catatonia – Equally Cursed and Blessed

3 Reef – Rides

4 Corrs – Talk On Corners

5 Fatboy Slim – You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

New releases :

If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know

April 19th :

April 26th :

Us & Them – Godflesh (Earache)

May 3rd :

[tba] H – Suede (Nude)

May 10th :

Supreme Clientele – Ghostface Killah (Epic)

Other forthcoming releases

APRIL :

MAY :

JUNE :

JULY :

AUGUST :

SEPTEMBER :

OCTOBER :

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Dominator’s Top 50 of 1998

18. Dario G & David Bowie – Sunmachine

It took me a while to warm to Dario G’s second single “Carnival De Paris”(No.5, June 98) but it took no time to warm to this one when I first heard it.The combination of a good dance tune and David Bowie couldn’t fail to impress,as did an earlier Bowie single, “Little Wonder”, making “Sunmachine” a singleof the week even though it only made No.17 in September last year.

I didn’t like Dario G’s first single, “Sunchyme” (Sept 97) though. It’s beenabout 14 years since one-hit wonders Dream Academy had a No.15 hit with “Lifein a Northern Town”. It was a slow affair, and a classic that has stood the testof time…

…and one of those songs that no-one should dare try and dancify, but nowDario G (whoever the hell he is) has done just that. Removing all the vocals,bar the backing singers chant, it has been speeded up, and whenever it cameon the radio, I had to turn it off very quickly, or I’d probably smash theradio.

I concluded at the time that
“A public flogging wouldn’t be enough for Dario G…”

The end bit :

Well, that’s it for now. If you want to be added to the WidescreenVideo and Laserdisc lists, just mail me atCharts Request to tell me.

Bye for now,

Dominator

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Dom Robinson

Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.

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