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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 : 11 new entries, 0 climbers, 0 non-movers & 29 downers.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…
11 new entries:
New track to be taken from the “Greatest Hits” album, but don’t go lookingfor Volume 2 any time in the future.
20 Charlotte Nilsson – Take Me To Your HeavenEurovision winner Swedish Charlotte Nilsson is blonde, pretty and that’s aboutit. It’s a perfect Eurovision song, but completely sucks when heard anytimeelse.
15 Three Amigos – Louie Louie :O ===Godawful dance ‘cover’ version with scratches aplenty. Alas, none on the backof the CD.
4 Jennifer Lopez – If You Had My LoveDebut solo single from the actress who recently made the big-time alongsideGeorge Clooney in “Out of Sight” and has now set her sights on a pop career.
She’s not new to music as she used to be a backing singer for Janet Jackson,but the song doesn’t sound out of the ordinary compared with most femalesolo soul singers these days.
1. ATB – 9pm (Till I Come) * !!! *1st Week at No.1*There’s not a lot I can say about this other than it’s been around in importform for quite a while and it’s the song with a ‘bendy synthesiser’ sound thatI’ve heard many times but the radio station NEVER said who they were playing!(Don’t you hate that?)
Probably the best dance track of the summer, although I think it’s been aroundsince last summer.
STOP PRESS: Mon 28th June: I found the cassette single in Our Pricetoday in Chester for 99p and managed to find a decent box that wasn’t smudgedwith stickyness from the price label. Since this is the first cassette singleI’ve bought in about 3 years I never thought to check the following, but whenI thought the bloke was going to get the tape from the back, he actuallychanged the box to one of those shitty cardboard ones. I only found this outwhen I was driving home. Methinks a letter to “Our Price Customer Services”is in order as it technically breaks the Trades Descriptions Act.
This is the 19th single to go straight in at No.1.
If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know
June 21st :2 Pac Dear MamaA Very Good Friend Just AroundA1 Be The First To BelieveArsonists PyromaniaATB 9PM (Till I Come)Auteurs, The Rubettes, TheBjork All Is Full Of Love (Box Set)Blaque Ivory 808Bolland, CJ Aint Gonna Be MeBuilt To Spill Centre Of the UniverseCarson A VisionCasey, Paddy Everybody Wants To Feel…Clark, Petula DowntownDa Mob It’s All GoodDC Talk Between You & MeDeus Sister DewDixie Chicks There’s Your TroubleDonatella The JourneyDustball Like Monkeys DoEverlast EndsFreska Allstars Keeping Our Hands In EPGray, Macy Do SomethingHefner Hymn For The CigarettesHH Presents Ice EPHorsman, Liz Just ThinkingHouston, Whitney My Love Is Your LoveImpulsion Rock That House MusiqInterfearance WonderlandJega & Kid Spatula Unity GainJungle Brothers V.I.P.Kudos Do It FluidKulay BurnLiquido NarcoticLopez, Jennifer If You Want My LoveLuscious Jackson Lady FingersMagnum Force Unlucky PunkMatchbox 20 Real WorldNightcrawlers Never Knew LoveNilsson, Charlotte Take Me To Your HeavenPachinos BOMB/GirlPrima Not EverythingPrincess Paragon Angel Of MineQuannum ExtravaganzaReq Daily Beats Vol.1Rhythm Masters Ibiza (In My Soul)RM Project Get It UpÂ…Salt Tank DimensionSprung Monkey Get Em Outta HereSuede She’s In FashionTaylor, Pauline Come DownThree Amigos Louie LouieVarious Artists Fantastic Four II EPVarious Artists World Of Drum & Bass SamplerWestbam & Afrika Agharta – City Of ShamballaWide Angle Diablo June 28th :Azaman CelebrationBachelor Girl Buses & TrainsBeautiful South The TableBlur Coffee & TVColdcut Autumn LeavesCousins, Tina ForeverCover U Want MoneyCranberries Animal InstinctCube Natural MillionaireDion, Celine Treat Her Like A LadyDylan Blackout (Remix)Elliot, Missy She’s A B*tchFive TBCFoul Play Red RumFreq Nasty Move BackFresh, Freddy What It IsFriends Of Matthew Out ThereG, Mel Word UpGinuwine Same Ol’ GGomez Bring It OnGoo Goo Dolls IrisGouryella GouryellaHill, Lauryn Everything Is EverythingHole AwfulHurricane #1 Remote ControlInflexion PureJunior, TR Rock With MeKnight, Beverly Greatest DayLolly Viva La RadioMAS Collective JoyMase Get ReadyMero It Must Be LoveMoby BodyworkMoogwai A Night OutPrototype SoundpiercingREM SuspicionRun DMC Walk This Way ’99Savage Garden Animal SongSemisonic Secret SmileSkinny Friday (Going Out)Smith, Will Wild Wild WestSpace Brothers LegacySporty Thievez No PigeonsStaton, Candi Young Hearts Run FreeStraw Soundtrack Of The SummerSubcircus Do You Feel LovedSurreal Madrid Freaky People (remix)Swift ReloadTaylor, Pauline Come DownWilco A Shot In The ArmYoakam, Dwight Crazy Little Thing Called Love July 5th :Alice Dee Jay Better Off AloneAphrodite Woman That RollsBarlow, Gary StrongerBis DetourBlockster GroovelineBlur Coffee & TV (12″)Cardigans Hanging AroundCarroll, Dina Without LoveCatatonia LondiniumDe Lange, Isle Flying BlindDef Leppard PromisesDestiny’s Child Bills, Bills, BillsElectronic Late At NightFridge Of EPFunky Green Dogs Can’t Help ItJ-88 The Look Of LoveManic Street Preachers TsunamiMartin, Ricky La Vida LocaMazelle, Kym A Place In My HeartMerz Many Weathers ApartMullins, Shawn ShimmerOoberman Million Sun’sOrbital Nothing LeftPeshay BluePhats & Small September ’99Roxette AnyoneSasha Expander E.P.Sepultura TBCShaboom Sweet SensationSkribble, DJ Everybody Come OnUltrasound Aire & CalderWestlife If I Let You Go July 12th :Art Of Trance Madagascar (Remix)Blue Nature A Life So ChangedCaprice Oh YeahCassius TBCCast Magic HourDoolally Straight From The HeartFreestylers Here We GoHell CopaMadness TBCMarlo How Do I KnowOrton, Beth Central ReservationShanice When I Close My EyesVan Helden, Armand Boogie MonstersYomanda Synth & Strings July 19th :Basement Jaxx Rendez-VuBrown, Jennifer AliveClock Sunshine DayEminem Guilty ConscienceGrooves, Scott/Parliament Mothership ReconnectionJames TBCKeating, Ronan When You Say Nothing At AllMartin, Billy Ray HoneyMasters At Work & India To Be In LoveMorisson, Mark My Best FriendPet Shop Boys I Don’t Know What You WantPlanet Perfecto Feat Not Over Yet ’99Richard, Cliff The MiracleSmash Mouth All StarTyrese Nobody Else July 26th :Animal House Animal House EPCostello, Elvis SheDe-Ryus Grass Aint GreenerDope Smugglaz Double Double DutchSpace Raiders (I Need The) Disko Doktor 2nd August :All Seeing I 1st Man In SpaceBlackstreet Think About YouBrand New Heavies Saturday NightMonica Angel Of MineWestlife If I Let You Go 9th August :Salt N Pepa Gitty Up 16th August :La’s, The There She GoesThis week there are new entries for
If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know
Other forthcoming releases JULY :- [tba] – Aqua (Universal)
[tba] – No Doubt (Interscope)
- [tba] – Johnson Brothers (WEA)
[tba] – Tom Jones (Gut)
- [tba] – Mary Jane Lamond (Wicklow/BMG Classics)
[tba] – Bill Laswell (Wicklow/BMG Classics)
[tba] – Laurel MacDonald (Wicklow/BMG Classics)
[tba] – Varttina (Wicklow/BMG Classics)
- [tba] – Metallica w/San Francisco Symphony Orch. (Vertigo/Mercury)
[tba] – Oasis (Creation)
[tba] – Radiohead (Parlophone)
[tba] – U2 (Island)
Dominator’s Top 50 of 1998
27. Ian Brown – My StarThis was the first single from the ex-Stone Roses lead singer, proving inaddition to the Seahorses that there is plenty of life after the Stone Roses.As a result, it’s a catchy, memorable tune that deserved plenty of airplayand it made No.5 in January last year.
It was followed with two duff singles, “Corpses” (No.14, Apr 98) and”Can’t See Me” (No.21, June 98), as well as a jail sentence after gettingpissed on a plane and threatening a stewardess because he was a prick.
The end bit :
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Bye for now,
Dominator
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.