69 Various Artists - Perfect Day :O ===

J U N E 1 7 T H 2 0 0 0 [This week’s digest] [New Singles Release Info]

[Album Charts] [New Albums Release Info]

[Last week’s chart]

In the last chart of 1999, I posted my Top 50 singles of the year, pickingout the Top 10 first. During 2000, I’ll be going through the list one by onestarting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week : 14 new entries, 0 climbers, 3 non-movers & 23 downers.

new entry re-entry climber faller non moverCHART 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 :

35 Agnelli & Nelson – Embrace
29 Ian Brown – Golden Gaze * !!!
28 Ariel – A9
27 Northern Line – All Around the Line
20 Muse – Unintended * !!!
19 Kelis – Good Stuff :O ===
18 Daphne & Celeste – Ugly
11 Angelic – It’s My Turn
10 Fat Les 2000 – Jerusalem :O ===
9 Whitney Houston/George Michael – If I Told You That :O ===
7 B15 feat. Chrissy D & Lady G – Girls Like Us
6 Gabrielle – When a Woman
5 Travis – Coming Around * !!!
3 Richard Blackwood – Mama – Who Da Man? :O ===

so the following dropped out :

40 Ricky Martin featuring Meja – Private Emotion
39 Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers
38 The Dandy Warhols – Get Off * !!!
37 Paul Van Dyk feat. Saint Etienne – Tell Me Why
36 Belle & Sebastian – Legal Man
35 Shaft – More Mambo
34 Toploader – Achilles Heel
33 Maxim & Skin – Carmen Queasy
32 Doves – Catch The Sun * !!!
31 Armand Van Helden – Koochy
30 Toni Braxton – He Wasn’t Man Enough
29 Embrace – Save Me *
28 LEN – Cryptik Souls Crew
26 Aqua – Around the World

0 climbers : 3 non-movers :

1 Sonique
2 S Club 7
4 York

and 23 going down. Big fallers include :

12 (6) Pink
13 (7) Dr Dre feat. Eminem
15 (3) Stephen Gately
25 (12) Trevor & Simon
34 (13) Mikey Graham
40 (17) Buffalo G

New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :

41 Badly Drawn Boy – Another Pearl
59 Romina Johnson feat. Chic – My Forbidden Lover
62 Lucie Silvas – It’s Too Late
69 Various Artists – Perfect Day :O ===
73 Kosheen – Empty Skies

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

69 Various Artists – Perfect Day :O ===Yeah, great. It’s a perfect day for raising money for charrideee bysinging a song about taking heroin!

34 (13) Mikey Graham – You’re My AngelThat’s rather a big drop for his new solo career…

29 Ian Brown – Golden Gaze * !!!Weird and wonderful, some of his tunes have been rather bizarre but I’vehad this one drummed into me on MTV2 and I’ve really got into it.

It makes no sense at all, and the video was directed by Dom Joly (TriggerHappy TV), but I urge you to check it out.

20 Muse – Unintended * !!!A haunting ballad that’s been doing the endless rounds on MTV2 (Sky 446)and one that could almost bring tears to the eyes, it’s that emotive.

19 Kelis – Good Stuff :O ===Not a word I’d use to describe this!

18 Daphne & Celeste – UglyNot a word I’d use to describe them 🙂

15 (3) Stephen Gately – New Beginning / Bright Eyes *That’s rather a big drop for his new solo career… (again)

11 Angelic – It’s My TurnEthereal, ambient music with vocals from DJ Judge Jules’ missus.Not much to write home about.

10 Fat Les 2000 – Jerusalem :O ===After “Vindaloo” and that Xmas song comes a dreadful return for Keith Allen,Blur’s Alex James and Damien Hirst in tow.

I hated hymns when I was at school, I’m not religious, and this does nothingto convince me that I should be singing it during Euro 2000 (oh, and I hatefootball too!). It doesn’t even sound much different, apart from a few forcedbig bass drum sounds, so why did they bother?

9 Whitney Houston/George Michael – If I Told You That :O ===If I told you that, I would give you all my love… is not how it goes butit’s a BLATANT rip-off of Jennifer Lopez‘s “If You Had My Love” with exactlythe same backing tune. Just different words.

6 Gabrielle – When a WomanA more upbeat track and I can put up with it, but I still can’t forgive herfor “Rise”(ible !)

5 Travis – Coming Around * !!!Now here’s a class track. I’ve been getting into more of their music withendless repeats of their tunes on MTV2 (Sky channel 446) and this is noexception.

It’s a straight-forward jaunty track, but the video is bizarre, with singerFran Healy dressed as an egg trying to make it round town to get to a gigwith some girl he’s just met. Of course, most TV shows (not MTV2) will cutout the slow-moving song-free opener which sets the story, so you’ll haveno idea what’s going on if you only see it from when the music starts!

3 Richard Blackwood – Mama – Who Da Man? :O ===Christ, almighty. Who gave this idiot a recording contract?

He just copies everything Will Smith does and his behaviour and he’s thenephew of Junior Giscombe, hence the cover of “Mama Used To Say”.

Anyone could get up on camera and shout “Yo!”, behave like a twat andget jiggy with it, but I wouldn’t lower myself.

1 Sonique – It Feels So Good *3rd Week at No.1*I’ve now heard this and it sounds like a rip-off of a Madonna riff.

This single is the 18th in a row to go straight in at No.1.

1. Westlife – I Have a Dream / Seasons in the Sun

2. Manic Street Preachers – The Masses Against the Classes

3. Britney Spears – Born to Make You Happy

4. Gabrielle – Rise

5. Oasis – Go Let it Out

6. All Saints – Pure Shores

7. Madonna – American Pie

8. Chicane featuring Bryan Adams – Don’t Give Up

9. Geri Halliwell – Bag It Up

10. Melanie C – Never Be The Same Again

11. Westlife – Fool Again

12. Craig David – Fill Me In

13. Fragma – Toca’s Miracle

14. Oxide & Neutrino – Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty)

15. Britney Spears – Oops! I Did It Again :O ===

16. Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby

17. Billie Piper – Day & Night

18. Sonique – It Feels So Good

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New releases :

June (date unknown) :

June 5th :

June 12th :

June 19th :

June 26th :

July (date unknown) :

July 3rd :

July 10th :

July 17th :

July 24th :

July 31st :

Stop – Jon Secada (Epic)

August (date unknown) :

October (date unknown) :

November (date unknown) :

[tba] – The Prodigy (XL)

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Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

6 Jane McDonald – Inspiration
10 Belle & Sebastian – Fold Your Hands
12 Paul Van Dyk – Out There and Back
24 The Best of Black Sabbath
27 A-Ha – Minor Earth Major Sky
32 Steve Earle – Transcendental Blues

The top 5 goes like this :

1 Tom Jones – Reload
2 Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
3 Whitney Houston – Greatest Hits
4 Bon Jovi – Crush
5 Moby – Play

New releases :

June (date unknown) :

June 5th :

June 12th :

June 19th :

June 26th :

July (date unknown) :

July 3rd :

July 10th :

July 17th :

July 24th :

July 31st :

August (date unknown) :

September (date unknown) :

September 4th :

Everything Is Everything – Underworld (Junior Boy’s Own/V2)

October (date unknown) :

November (date unknown) :

January 2001 (date unknown) :

[tba] – Cast (Polydor)

February 2001 :

Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned – The Prodigy (XL)

February 2001 :

[tba] – Stereophonics (V2)

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Dominator’s Top 50 of 1999

24. Garbage – When I Grow UpMaking No.9 in February last year, this was another good tune from Garbage,but a bit too mainstream for them with little of the edge we’re used to.

It was followed in June by “You Look So Fine” (No.19) and in Novemberby the Bond theme, “The World is Not Enough” (No.11), a DVD review of whichcan be foundHERE.

The end bit :

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