35 Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti - You'll Never Walk Alone

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 : 13 new entries, 0 climbers, 0 non-movers & 27 downers

You’ll also find new release info and album chart analysis later on onthis page.

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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…

13 new entries this week :

36 S.O.A.P. – This Is How We Party

35 Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti – You’ll Never Walk Alone

30 Massive Attack – Angel

28 Billie Myers – Tell Me

23 Boyz II Men – Can’t Let Her Go

17 187 Lockdown – Gunman *

14 Ultra Nate – New Kind Of Medicine *

12 Energy 52 – Cafe Del Mar 98

10 Echobeatz – Mas Que Nada :O ===

8 Peter Andre – Kiss The Girl :O ===

5 Ace Of Base – Life Is A Flower :O ===

4 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – You’re The One That I Want (R) *

1 Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground * !!! so the following dropped out :

40 Ricky Martin – The Cup Of Life

39 Mariah Carey – My All

38 Breakbeat ERA – Breakbeat ERA

37 Destiny’s Child – With Me

36 LCD – Zorba’s Dance

35 Bus Stop featuring Carl Douglas – Kung-Fu Fighting

34 Tamba Trio – Mas Que Nada

33 Aaron Carter – Surfin’ USA

32 Jungle Brothers – I’ll House You 98

31 Dr Dre & LL Cool J – Zoom

29 Ultimate Kaos – Casanova

28 Mansun – Legacy EP

15 2 Pac & Notorious BIG – Runnin’ :O === 0 climbers : 0 non-movers : and 27 going down. Big fallers include :

18 (8) Sparkle & R Kelly

19 (12) Don Henley

20 (13) Five

22 (9) Garbage

27 (14) Beastie Boys

32 (18) Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds

33 (20) Lighthouse Family

34 (26) Wimbledon Choral Society

37 (21) Fat Les

38 (25) Ultra

39 (23) Dario G

40 (30) Lutricia McNeal

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

35 Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti – You’ll Never Walk Alone

Two surprises here. Firstly, since they only recorded this last Sunday inParis before the World Cup Final, it got a single release last week. The othersurprise is how badly it’s done. Perhaps the single-buying public’s fascinationwith opera has died down now, but the album-buying public will no doubt lap upthe whole album next month.

28 Billie Myers – Tell Me

Second single, following the awful “Kiss The Rain”, and is certainly better(with a promo that was apparently too hot for UK TV in its uncut form) butthe single-buying public clearly haven’t thought so.

17 187 Lockdown – Gunman (R) *

Re-release of the top dance tune from 187 Lockdown which made No.16 lastNovember.

14 Ultra Nate – New Kind Of Medicine *

Third single release from Ultra Nate and still maintaining the quality of thesingles that have gone before it. Definitely one of the better new entries inthis week’s chart.

10 Echobeatz – Mas Que Nada :O ===

Another dreadful remix of the classic samba track.

8 Peter Andre – Kiss The Girl :O ===

New song released to coincide with the remastered re-release of Disney’s“The Little Mermaid”. Give me Homer Simpson’s version of “Under The Sea”any day!

5 Ace Of Base – Life Is A Flower :O ===

First single from Ace Of Base since the excellent “Beautiful Life”(No.15, Jan 96), but this new track is rubbish.

4 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John – You’re The One That I Want (R) *

Of a few songs released from the soundtrack in 1978, this one was the first tohit the top slot. Now the film has been re-released 20 years down the line,here it comes again.

The good news is that this CD single comes with a track containing the videowhich can be played back on a PC with Windows 95/98, and that the soundtrackalbum has an ‘interactive’ feature.

The bad news is that the soundtrack contains 4 snatches of videos (not the wholesong) and the quality of video is appalling, so if you’ve already got thesoundtrack on CD, don’t get the updated version. Spend the money on a widescreenvideo instead!

1 (NEW) Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground * *1st Week at No.1*

First single since last November’s “High Times” and their first No.1, “DeeperUnderground” is taken from the Godzilla soundtrack and is a funky, memorabletune which deserved pride of place in the film, but its only appearance wasplaying on a radio in the background while the Jimmy Page/Puff Daddy abomination”Come With Me” had the same AND was played over the end credits.

So, is the film worth seeing? Yes. Several moments of excellent SFX, includingone or two jaw-dropping moments such as when the big G runs across the bridgenear the end, all courtesy from the “Independence Day” team. Just don’t expecttoo much character development along the line. At least this film has a numberof good one-liners from the cast including Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno,both of whom suit the film well, unlike “Independence Day” which was ruined byWill Smith‘s unfunny wisecracks.

This is the fifth 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

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New releases :

July 13th :

July 20th :

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

JULY :

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

1 Jane McDonald – Jane McDonald

12 Blonde – Atomic: The Very Best Of..

16 Lutricia McNeal – Lutricia McNeal

21 Rialto – Rialto

27 Counting Crows – Across A Wire: Live In New York

36 Trisha Yearwood – Where Your Road Leads

38 4 Hero – Two Pages The top 5 goes like this :

1 Jane McDonald – Jane McDonald

2 Beastie Boys – Hello Nasty

3 The Corrs – Talk On Corners

4 Lighthouse Family – Postcards From Heaven

5 Robbie Williams – Life Thru A Lens

New releases :

July 13th :

July 20th :

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

JULY :

AUGUST :

SEPTEMBER :

OCTOBER :

NOVEMBER :

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Dominator’s Top 10 of 1997

30. Lightning Seeds – You Showed Me

This single made No. 8 in April last year. I can’t remember who did theoriginal, but it was last covered by Salt N Pepa a few years ago. The LightningSeeds have done it much better though.

Their other hit last year was “Sugar-Coated Iceberg” (No.12, Jan), whiletheir Xmas single, to tie in with the ‘Best Of’ album, “What You Say” wascriminally ignored making only No.41 in December.

For their next big hit they ought to release “Waiting For Today To Happen”which accompanies the Sky One trailer for “E.R.”.

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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