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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 : 12 new entries, 0 climbers, 2 non-movers & 26 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…
12 new entries :
I haven’t heard this version yet, but I have a feeling how it will go 🙁
25 Lucid – Stay With Me Till DawnHaven’t heard this either, but I presume it’s dance music meets Judie Tzuke
18 (4) Melanie C – Goin’ Down :O ===Goin’ down the charts like a speeding bullet 🙂
5 Jordan Knight – Give It To YouA permanent migraine, that is.
4 B*Witched – Jesse Hold OnAfter a record-breaking 4 hit singles going straight in at No.1 since the startof their career, this one doesn’t. It doesn’t even deserve a Top 10 placingsince it’s so repetitve and boring.
1 Christina Aguilera – Genie in a Bottle *1st Week at No.1*It missed the Top 40 on its first release, but a bit of promotion works wonders.She’s American, blonde, pretty and like a new Britney Spears, but the song’sas dull as dishwater, unlike La Spears’ debut offering.
This is the 27th single to go straight in at No.1.
If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know
4th October :Allison, Dot Close My eyesB*Witched Jesse Hold OnBenet, Eric Spend My Life With YouCay Nature Creates FreaksCharlatans, The ForeverChemical Brothers Out Of ControlCornell, Chris Can’t Change MeCranberries Just My ImaginationDaddy’s Favourite I Feel Good Things For YouDestiny’s Child Bug A BooEurythmics I Saved The World TodayEverything But The Girl Five Fathoms (NCQ Double Pack)Fungus RebelGlamma Kid WhyHoneyz Never Let You DownJepp BabyKid Rock CowboyKnight, Jordan Give It To YouKriana The Weekend Has LandedLuscious Jackson Nervous BreakdownMadness Johnny The HorseOoberman Tears From A WillowPartision No Me GustaPop, Iggy CorruptionRhythm Masters Mutator EPRickitt, Adam Everything My Heart DesiresRoss, Diana Not Over You YetS, Johan All NightSanchez, Junior Be With YouScritti Politti Mystic HandymanStrummer, Joe TBCSugar Ray SomedaySunkids Rescue MeTerrorvision OblivionVarious Artists Limbo 100 11th October :911 WonderlandAguilera, Christina Genie In A BottleATB Don’t StopBasement Jaxx Betta Daze EPBlondie Forgive & ForgetCarroll, Dina Say You Love MeCounting Crows Hanging AroundDay One I’m Doin’ FineEternal What’cha Gonna DoFaithful, Marianne ElectraKojak You Can’t Stop ItLopez, Jennifer Waiting For TonightMavericks, The TBCMoffats, The MiseryNo Jahoda DrownPrecious Stand UpPriest, Maxi Back Together AgainPuff Daddy Feat. R Kelly Satisfy URemy Zero ProphecySteps After The Love Has GoneVan Helden, Armand Boogie MonsterWhyclef & Bono New Day 18th October :Adams, Bryan TBCAmos, Tori Glory Of The 80’sBrooks, Garth Lost In YouCarey, Mariah Feat Jay Z HeartbreakerCarlisle, Belinda TBCHill, Lauryn & Bob Marley Turn The Lights Down LowSavage Garden I Knew I Loved YouSimply Red Ain’t That A Lotta LoveSkunk Anansie TBCSpencer, Tracie It’s All About YouTravis Coming AroundTurner, Tina When The Heartache Is OverWestlife Fly Without Wings 25th October :21st Century Girls Teenage AttackBeck TBCBlacque Ivory I DoBrown, Ian Love Like A FountainColdplay ShiverCulture Club TBCDixie Chicks Ready To RunFive Get On UpFlaming Lips Waitin’ For SupermanHepburn Here Comes NapoleonMartin, Ricky She’s All I Ever HadMcCartney, Paul Brown Eyed Handsome ManSmith, Will Freakin It 1st November :Alice Dee Jay Want You BackAnother Level Bomb DiggyDeath In Vegas AishaDion, Celine TBCFerry, Bryan As Time Goes ByHalliwell, Geri Lift Me UpKravitz, Lenny Black VelveteenLightning Seeds Life’s Too ShortPrimal Scream TBCTin Tin Out What I Am 8th November :Blur No Distance LeftTo RunFun Lovin’ Criminals Up On The HillWilliams, Robbie She’s The One/It’s Only Us 15th November :Boyzone TBCEminem Role ModelThis week there are new entries for
Dominator’s Top 50 of 1998
42. Radiohead – No SurprisesMaking No.4 in January 98, this was the third single from their “OK Computer”album, and charted at just a place short of the peak of its first, “ParanoidAndroid”.
With the same pace of “Karma Police”, this ballad also has the minimum contentrequired in their promo videos. The first didn’t require anything – they justused a completely unrelated “Robin” cartoon, the series itself getting regularscreenings on the Paramount Channel in the UK shortly afterwards. The secondwas a car driving after a man, almost running him down, but before he managesthis the man turns on the car, sees the petrol leaking and sets fire to it.Man 1, Car 0.
At the time of this single’s release, all I’d seen was lead singer Thom Yorke’sface inside what looks like a space helmet with water pouring in so that thelevel rises almost drowning him, while the lyrics rise up the screen lookingfaint and in reverse. That’s as far as the Chart Show got anyway.
When I saw the rest at a later date, it showed him becoming submerged beforeit eventually being let out again.
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.