36 The Dandy Warhols - Boys Better

In the last chart of 1997, I posted my Top 50 singles of theyear, picking out the Top 10 first. During 1998, I’ll be going through thelist one by one.

This week : 10 new entries, 3 climbers, 4 non-movers & 27 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…

10 new entries this week :

36 The Dandy Warhols – Boys Better

35 The Bluetones – Sleazy Bed Track

32 The Groove Generation featuring Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

28 Barbara Tucker – Everybody Dance (The Horn Song)

25 The Audience – I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough) * !!!

20 D’menace – Deep Menace

17 Baby Bumps – Burning

7 Lucid – I Can’t Help Myself

4 Apollo 440 – Lost In Space *

2 Jimmy Page & Puff Daddy – Come With Me :O === so the following dropped out :

40 Jean Michel Jarre & Apollo 440 – Rendez-Vous 98

39 Beastie Boys – Intergalactic

38 Rachel McFarlane – Lover

37 Ronaldo’s Revenge – Mas Que Mancada

36 Lighthouse Family

35 Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank

33 187 Lockdown – Gunman

29 Garbage – I Think I’m Paranoid

26 Don Henley – Boys Of Summer

25 The Supernaturals – I Wasn’t Built To Get Up * 3 climbers :

5 (7) Ace of Base

21 (22) Des’ree

22 (30) LeAnn Rimes 4 non-movers :

1 (1) Spice Girls

3 (3) Pras Wanker featuring two crap rappers

13 (13) Brandy & Monica

18 (18) Five and 27 going down. Big fallers include :

26 (12) Charli Baltimore

27 (11) Catatonia

31 (19) Echobeatz

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

36 The Dandy Warhols – Boys Better35 The Bluetones – Sleazy Bed Track

Probably two of the best new releases this week but I haven’t heard much ofthem, so can’t remember how they go, because they’ve had next-to-zero airplay.

25 The Audience – I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough) * !!!

Third single from The Audience and a superb one at that which gets theirhighest chart position to date following “I Got The Wherewithall”(No.170, Nov 97) and “A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed” (No.27, May 98)

17 Baby Bumps – Burning

Rather an unfortunate choice of release this week as earlier this week a32-year old man and his partner were jailed for murdering a child (his partner’sfour-year-old). Not only that, but the autopsy showed that the child had over100 burns and bruises on his body of horrific descriptions (and that’s onlygoing by the ones the public were told about on the news which were bad enough)and that the child lay dying while the couple made love on the floor next tohim.

Still, that’s probably got nothing to do with this single.

4 Apollo 440 – Lost In Space *

The latest summer movie hit the screens this weekend and from it comes thetitle track which is the funkiest tune to hit the charts since Fatboy Slim‘s”Rockafeller Skank”. The tune plays over the end credits since the film doesn’thave any opening credits save for a brief pixellated-flash across the screenof the film’s title.

As for the film itself, it’s on a par with last year’s “Fifth Element”– it’s a sci-fi SFX extravaganza with Gary Oldman as the bad guy, a greatfirst half-hour which is much better than the rest of it and a Dolby Digitaltreat. Dom’s rating : 6/10

2 Jimmy Page & Puff Daddy – Come With Me :O ===

Taken from the “Godzilla” soundtrack, Puff Daddy murders another classic tuneas he rips apart the classic Led Zepplin riff (hence the Jimmy Page mention)for his dull (c)rap song.

1 (1) Spice Girls – Viva Forever * *2nd Week at No.1*

Eight singles. Seven No.1’s and the sixth one to go straight in at the top.

Taken from my review of last year’s album “Spiceworld”…

‘”Viva Forever” is the longest track on the album clocking in at 5:09, and isone of the better tracks: slow with a backbeat, and a hint of Spanish guitarall the way through – one that should be released as a single next summer whenwe get some decent weather.’

Well, I got it all right apart from the last couple of words as the weather’sshite!

This is the sixth single in a row to go straight in at No.1 :

1. B*witched – C’est La Vie

2. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds – 3 Lions 98

3. Billie – Because We Want To

4. Another Level – Freak Me

5. Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground

6. Spice Girls – Viva Forever

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New releases :

July 27th :

August 3rd :

August 10th :

August 17th :

August 24th :

Sunmachine – Dario G feat. David Bowie (Amato/Eternal/WEA)

August 31st :

September 7th :

Space Lord – Monster Magnet (A&M)

September 14th :

Generation Sex – The Divine Comedy (Setanta)

Other forthcoming releases

AUGUST :

SEPTEMBER :

OCTOBER :

DECEMBER :

[tba] – Fat Les (Turtle Neck/Telstar)

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Top 40 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

20 Fear Factory – Obsolete The top 5 goes like this :

1 Jane McDonald – Jane McDonald

2 The Corrs – Talk On Corners

3 Catatonia – International Velvet

4 Lighthouse Family – Did We Call Off Our Finsbury Park Gig For This?

5 Eagle-Eye Cherry – Desireless

New releases :

July 27th :

August 3rd :

August 10th :

August 17th :

August 24th :

August 31st :

September 7th :

[tba] – Manic Street Preachers (Epic)

September 14th :

September 29th :

Sunmachine – Dario G (Eternal/Warner Bros.)

October 26th :

[tba] – REM (Warner Bros.)

Other forthcoming releases

AUGUST :

SEPTEMBER :

OCTOBER :

NOVEMBER :

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Dominator’s Top 10 of 1997

32. Morcheeba – The Music That We Hear (Moog Island)

Morcheeba are the band who should have Top 40 hits with everything theyrelease but somehow never sell enough records to do so despite coming veryclose most of the time.

“The Music That We Hear (Moog Island)” made No.47 in February last year andwas the best single released last year from them, although their first one”Trigger Hippie” didn’t do a light in Feb 96, but after a No.42 position for”Tape Loop” in July, it was re-released to make their first Top 40 hit at No.40in October.

After “The Music…”, it wasn’t until October before “Shoulderholster” made aNo.53 hit and this year they hit No.56 with “Blindfold” in April, and No.46with “Let Me See” in June.

However, they have had a No.1 single, albeit from the lead singer joining inthe “Perfect Day” charity record last Xmas.

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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