14 Hinda Hicks – I Wanna Be Your Lady

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

14 Hinda Hicks – I Wanna Be Your Lady

I didn’t think much of her last single “If You Want Me” (No.25, March 98)which stayed in the charts for a week, but since recent endless play onthe excellent Manchester station Galaxy 102 FM it’s grown on me.

I haven’t heard this new one much so when I do perhaps it’ll grow on me,although I’d prefer it if that honour went to Hinda herself 🙂

4 Placebo – Pure Morning * !!!

Now this is an absolute work of pure genius. Despite a No.30 hit in Sept 96with “Teenage Angst”, Placebo didn’t come to the fore until February 97 whenthey reached No.4 with “Nancy Boy”, but things slipped a bit when “BruisePristine” spent a week in the charts at No.14 in May 97.

“Pure Morning” is a loud, raucous noise which gets better with every secondthat goes by and with a promo video that is very bizarre, featuring singerBrian Moloko throwing himself off the roof of a building…almost.

2 Sash featuring Tina Cousins – Mysterious Times

Another Sash single. Another No.2 hit. Not bad but a bit on the dull side.

1 (NEW) Boyzone – No Matter What :O === *1st Week at No.1*

No matter what Boyzone seem to release it goes straight in at No.1 these days.Sometimes it’s not too bad, sometimes it really sucks and this one falls intothe latter category.

My girlfriend loves it but this twee ballad sung in a goody-goody style bymore than one member of the band just grates like hell!

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

New releases :

August 3rd :

Star Chasers – 4Hero (Talkin Loud)
What It Means – Barry Adamson (Mute)
Jane B / Jane X – Baby Birkin (Dishy)
What Can I Do (To Make You Love Me)? [ri] – The Corrs (143/Lava/Atlantic)
Talking With Myself ’98 – Electribe 101 (-)
Love Unlimited – Fun Lovin’ Criminals (Difontaine/Chrysalis)
Pure Morning – Placebo (Elevator Music/Hut)
The Rhyme – The Strike Boys (Wall Of Sound)
I Know – Luther Vandross (Epic)

August 10th :

I Want You Back – Cleopatra (WEA)
Rewind – Beverley Knight (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
One For Sorrow – Steps (Jive)
Friends – Tiger (Trade 2)

August 17th :

I Want You Back (Puff Daddy Remix) – Jackson 5 (Motown)
Luxury: Cococure – Maxwell (Columbia)
Grass Ain’t Greener (In The Other Side) – Richard de Ryus (Boilerhouse!/Arista)
I Am – Suggs (WEA)

August 24th :

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

August 31st :

Skin – Charlotte (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
The Future Of The Future (Stay Gold) – Deep Dish with EverythingBut The Girl (Deconstruction)
Fashion – Glamma Kid (WEA)

September 7th :

Space Lord – Monster Magnet (A&M)

September 14th :

Generation Sex – The Divine Comedy (Setanta)

Other forthcoming releases

AUGUST :

Everybody Get Up – 5 (RCA)
[tba] Fortune Teller – Ash (Infectious)
I Dream I’m Dancing – Billie (Innocent/Virgin)
[tba] – Dina Carroll (1st Ave./Mercury)
[tba] – Chicks (Supremo)
Each Time We’re Alone – East 17 (Telstar)
Morning Afterglow – Electrasy (MCA)
My Weakness Is None Of Your Business -/ You’ve Got To Say Yes –
Embrace (Hut/Virgin)
God Is A DJ -/ She’s My Baby – Faithless (Cheeky)
[tba] – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci (Fontana)
River – Hanson (Mercury)
[tba] – Nik Kershaw (-)
[tba] – Manic Street Preachers (Epic)
She’s Gone – Matthew Marsden (Viper/Columbia)
[tba] EP – Merz (Epic)
Some Kind Of Angel – Mojave 3 (4AD)
Walking – Pocket Size (EMI)
Silly Man – Tony Rich (LaFace/Arista)
Time – Lionel Richie (Mercury)
Tears Never Dry – Stephen Simmonds (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
[tba] – Space (Gut)

SEPTEMBER :

[tba] – Dana International (Dancepool/Sony S=B2)
[tba] – Electronic (Parlophone)
Heaven Sent – Esthero (Columbia)
[tba] – Tom Jones & The Sounds Of Blackness (Really Useful/Polydor)
[tba] – Mint Condition (A&M-Polydor)
Prop – Propellerheads (Wall Of Sound)
EP: Bye Bye Baby / You Can’t Put Your Arms Around A Memory / She Talks
To Rainbows / Don’t Worry Baby – Ronnie Spector (Creation)
[tba] – Sister Said (-)

OCTOBER :

[tba] – Elastica (Deceptive)
[tba] – Meat Loaf (Virgin)

DECEMBER :

[tba] – Fat Les (Turtle Neck/Telstar)

Top 40 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

New releases :

August 3rd :

Get In – Kenickie (EMI)
What Happened – Bim Sherman (Mantra)
The Avengers OST – v.a. (Atlantic)

August 10th :

The Sky Is Too High – Graham Coxon (Transcopic)
A Tune A Day – Supernaturals (Food/Parlophone)
I Know – Luther Vandross (Virgin)

August 17th :

There’s Something Going On – Baby Bird (Echo)
A Walk In The Park – Lodger (Island)
ChickenEye – DeeJay Punk-Roc (Airdog/Independiente)

August 24th :

As & Killer Bs – Dodgy (A&M)
Prodigal Sista – Beverley Knight (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)

August 31st :

Fin De Si?cle – The Divine Comedy (Setanta)
Sprinkler – Sprinkler (Island)
Step One – Steps (Jive)
Selected Funks – The Strike Boys (Wall Of Sound)
The Three Pyramids Club – Suggs (WEA)

September 7th :

[tba] – Manic Street Preachers (Epic)

September 14th :

100% Colombian – Fun Lovin’ Criminals (Chrysalis)
Motown 40 Forever – Remix Album – v.a. (Motown)

September 29th :

Sunmachine – Dario G (Eternal/Warner Bros.)

October 26th :

[tba] – REM (Warner Bros.)

Other forthcoming releases

AUGUST :

II – 2 Unlimited (Big Life)
[tba] – The Art Of Noise (ZTT)
Firework City – Audioweb (Mother)
[tba] – Beck (Bongload/Geffen)
Live – Mary J. Blige (Uptown/MCA)
[tba] – East 17 (Telstar)
[tba] – Electrasy (MCA)
Hard Mouth To Feed – Johnson (Hard Hands)
[tba] – Matthew Marsden (Columbia)
You & I – Shernette May (Virgin)
[tba] – The Montrose Avenue (Columbia)
Birdseye – Tony Rich (LaFace/Arista)
[tba] – Sonique (Serious)
All Disco Dance Must End In Broken Bones – Whale (Hut/Virgin)

SEPTEMBER :

Adamski’s Thing – Adamski’s Thing (ZTT)
[tba] – The Audience (Mercury)
Box Of Chocolates – Kevin Aviance (Distinct’ive)
Six – Mansun (Parlophone)
My Early Burglary Years – Morrissey (Island)
Whistle Down The Wind – Original Cast (Really Useful/Polydor)
[tba] – R Public Announcement (A&M-Polydor)
[tba] – DJ Rap (Higher Ground/Columbia)
Life Goes On – Sash! (Multiply)
History Will Prove Us Right – Sigue Sigue Sputnik (-)
[tba] – Silver Sun (Polydor)
In The Beginning … – Stephen Simmonds (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
Motown 40 Forever – v.a. (Motown)

OCTOBER :

[tba] – Ash (Infectious)
[tba] – Buffalo Springfield (-)
[tba] – Electronic (Parlophone)
[tba] – Tzant (Logic)
[tba] – The Wiseguys (Wall Of Sound)

NOVEMBER :

[tba] – Oasis (Creation)
[tba] – Elastica (Deceptive)

Dominator’s Top 10 of 1997

33. Natalie Imbruglia – Torn

“Torn” was the debut single for the ex-Neighbours star where she played BethBrennan, then with long hair, who left the show after her character marriedBrad Willis, and made the charts in November last year.

She quit to start a singing career, and it’s taken about three years, but thefirst results has struck a No.2 hit instantly, even though it was originallydue out two weeks beforehand. Perhaps a good thing they did put it back,probably because the Spice Girls put their record back to the same week. Theycould’ve had a No.1 if they hadn’t reckoned with a force stronger than theSpice Girls, namely Aqua.

For her next single, Big Mistake (No.2, Mar 98), it’s difficult to work out ifthat track was a big mistake. It’s not very good, requiring the ex-Neighboursstar to sing quietly for a while, occasionally have her voice altered so itsound like it’s being broadcast from a bad radio, and then has her shoutingout loud for the chorus.

The end result saw her looking rather uncomfortable when performing this songon the midweek Lottery show, and seems like an average Alanis-Morrissette-copywhich is only one step less-worse than Meredith Brooks.

Her third single, Wishing I Was There (No.19, June 98), wasn’t really beengiven much airplay or promotion and isn’t as poppy as the others, but is alot better.

The end bit :

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Bye for now,

Dominator