34 The Divine Comedy – Bad Ambassador

M A Y 2 6 T H 2 0 0 1 [This week’s digest] [New Singles Release Info]

[Album Charts] [New Albums Release Info]

[Last week’s chart]

The initial bit :

For my last chart of 2000, I’ve posted my Top 50 singles of the year,starting with the Top 10. During 2001, I’ll be going through the list one byone starting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week: 10 new entries, 1 re-entry, 3 climbers, 2 non-movers & 24 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…

10 new entries and 1 re-entry :
• 38 (RE 59) Stereophonics – Mr Writer
• 34 The Divine Comedy – Bad Ambassador
• 32 Storm – Storm
• 30 King Adora – Bionic
• 29 Jon B – Don’t Talk
• 23 Mark B & Blade – Ya Don’t See the Signs
• 20 Pepe Deluxe – Before You Leave *
• 17 Stereo MCs – Deep Down and Dirty
• 10 A*Teens – Upside Down
• 8 BBMak – Still On Your Side
• 7 Oxide & Neutrino – Up Middle Finger

so the following dropped out :

• 40 Maria Rubia – Say It
• 39 Linkin Park – Crawlin’
• 38 Push – Strange World
• 37 Starsailor – Good Souls
• 36 Dumonde – Never Look Back
• 34 Scott & Leon – Shine On
• 32 Lindsay Dracass – No Dream Impossible
• 29 My Vitriol – Grounded
• 28 Papa Roach – Between Angels and Insects
• 27 Dirty Vegas – Days Go By
• 22 Badly Drawn Boy – Spitting in the Wind

3 climbers :

• 1 (2) S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin’
• 4 (5) MOP
• 6 (7) Gabrielle

2 non-movers :

• 3 Nelly feat. City Spud
• 14 Gorillaz

and 24 going down. Big fallers include :

• 11 (6) Eve
• 25 (10) Bon Jovi
• 40 (27) Dirty Vegas

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

• 50 DJ Gert – Give Me Some More
• 66 Dave Holmes – Devotion
• 67 Resonance feat. The Burrells – DJ
• 68 Moogwai – The Labyrinth

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

34 The Divine Comedy – Bad AmbassadorThe second single from their new label, but while it’s better than mostof what’s in the charts it’s still hardly a vote winner.

20 Pepe Deluxe – Before You Leave *The funky dance track from the Levi’s “Twisted” jeans adverts. Cool stuffbut it still doesn’t make me want to buy them.

17 Stereo MCs – Deep Down and DirtyThey’ve been away for around 9 years and still “Connected” is played to deathin the Carphone Whorehouse radio adverts, but this new single is ratherdull indeed.

8 BBMak – Still On Your SideReminds me of something incredibly similar but I can’t quite put my fingeron it.

Anyway, they come across as another dreadful American teen boy-band, despitethe fact that they come from the North West of England.

1 (2) S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin’ :O === *1st new Week at No.1*

And in a week where La Halliwell has been plugging her new album, her singledrops to No.2 and “Scream If You Wanna Go Faster” goes in at No.5, whichleaves S Club 7 to climb back up to No.1 after being deposed from the topslot 3 weeks ago, a move that hasn’t happened since Xmas 93 when Mr Blobbyswapped places, with Take That taking the No.1 slot inbetween his run at thetop.

This breaks the run of 11 singles going straight in at No.1 :

• 1. Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me
• 2. Jennifer Lopez – Love Don’t Cost a Thing
• 3. Limp Bizkit – Rollin’
• 4. Atomic Kitten – Whole Again
• 5. Shaggy feat. Rikrok – It Wasn’t Me
• 6. Westlife – Uptown Girl
• 7. Hear’Say – Pure and Simple
• 8. Emma Bunton – What Took You So Long
• 9. Destiny’s Child – Survivor
• 10. S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin’
• 11. Geri Halliwell – It’s Raining Men

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New releases :

April 30th :

Nobody – B.O.N. (Epic)
[tba] – Bon Jovi (Mercury)
I’m Back – Eminem (Aftermath/Interscope)
It’s Raining Men – Geri Halliwell (EMI)
Bawitaba – Kid Rock (Atlantic/East West)
Play – Jennifer Lopez (Columbia)
As Cold As Ice [rm] – M.O.P. (Loud)
Just Friends (Sunny) – Musiq (Soulchild) (Def Jam/Mercury)
Imitation Of Life – R.E.M. (Warner Bros.)
Back Up (To Me) – Wookie (Soul II Soul/PIAS)

May (date unknown) :

It’s Over Now – 112 (Bad Boy/Arista)
Another Way – Gigi d’ Agostino (RCA)
Heard It All Before – Sunshine Anderson (Soulife)
There She Goes – Babyface (Arista)
Life Is A Game – DJ Bailar Project (Mostiko)
Phattmove – Basstone (Curious/Slinky)
Save Your Life – Black Spider (Vision)
Still Sexy (Yes U Are) – Errol Brown (-)
Never Gonna Come Back Down [rm] – B.T. (Ministry Of Sound)
Hit `Em Up Style (Oops!) – Blu Cantrell (Arista)
How Wonderful – Paul Carrack (Carrack UK)
15 Feet Of Pure White Sow – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Mute)
The Door – Cicuit Boy feat. Alan T. (Black & Blue)
Know You – Cirque De Paris (Subliminal)
Over You – Warren Clarke (Defected)
Home – Coast2Coast feat. Discovery (Religion Music/Edel)
Voodoo – Chuck Coogan (Soul Phusion)
Play To Win – Cosmos (Blue/AM:PM)
Put The Needle On The Record – Criminal Element Orchestra (Finger Lickin’)
Casa Del Regardo – CTRL (Nicheblue)
Innocente – Delerium (Nettwerk)
She Rides – D:Fuse & Joy (Perfecto/Mushroom)
Never Enough – Boris Dlugosch with Roisin Murphy (Peppermint Jam)
Barbarella’s Nemesis – Doctor Strangelove (BN1)
Sublime – Drax & Scott Mac (Spot On)
Soulshaka – Jan Driver (Infusion)
Get Her – The El B’s (-)
Electric Deluxe – Electric Deluxe (Additive/Positiva)
[tba] – Sophie Ellis-Bextor (-)
[tba] – Embrace (Hut/Virgin)
Just Can’t Get Enough (No No No No) – Eye To Eye feat. Taka Boom (Xtravaganza)
Silver Screen (Shower Scene) – Felix Da Housecat (City Rockers)
Voices [rm] – KC Flight vs. Funky Junction (Hooj Choons)
Gotta Thing – Foreal People (Z)
Terror – Fused (INCtraxx/Columbia)
Forever – G-Dubs (Essence)
Soul Heaven [rm] – Goodfellas (Azuli)
19–2000 – Gorillaz (Parlophone)
Barabarati – The Gypsymen (Sound Design)
A Friend For Life – Steve Harley (-)
Mad About You – Hooverphonic (-)
One Night In NYC – The Horrorist (-)
Outskirts – Ron Houder (Global Cuts)
I Feel Stereo – I Feel Stereo (white)
I Can Do Bad All By Myself – In-Step feat. Mintzi Berry (In House)
You Drive Me Crazy – Java & Jan (Multiply)
All I Want – JBN (Manifesto/Mercury)
Save My Soul – Jon The Dentist (Phoenix Uprising)
B Y Whop To THe Y – Junkie XL (Mostiko)
What A Night – Just Us (Sound Design)
Wasteland – Kamaya Painters (Data/Ministry Of Sound)
Fiesta – R. Kelly feat. Jay-Z (Jive)
Wounded – Nik Kershaw (Eagle)
Bionic [rm] – King Adora (Superior Quality)
Hide U [rm] – Kosheen feat. Sian Evans (Moksha)
It Wasn’t Me – Lady Saw feat. Marcia (-)
No More Games – Laid feat. Derek Conyer (Loaded)
Spirit – Brent Lawrence (Black Vinyl)
Dirty Shame / Everybody C’mon / Who’s She Lovin’ Now? – Liberty City, Fla. (Jive)
Come Home – Lil Devious (Rulin’)
Blackout – Lil Louis vs. Hydrogen Rockers (white)
Tell Me Lies [rm] – Eva Luna (Luna)
The Baguio Track – Luzon (Renaissance/Passion)
10 In 01 – Westbam pres. Members Of Mayday (Deviant)
Take It Easy [rm]} / Shake Me – Mint Royale (Faith & Hope)
The Labyrinth – Moogwai (Platipus)
(Lab Rats Let Loose On The) See Saw – Monaco (Papillon/Chrysalis:EMI)
Get It, Got It, Good – Mr. G (Defected)
Harmonizer – Jos‚ Nunez (Sondos)
You Got The Way [rm] – Only Paradise (V2)
Vamos A Bailar (Esta Vida Nuevo) – Paola & Chiara (Columbia)
Voices – DJ Phoenix (Defected)
Do You Really Like It? [rm] – DJ Pied Piper & The Masters Of Ceremonies (Soulfood)
Answer – Plastika (United)
No Alternative – RBA (Radar/Carnal)
Satisfied – Rhona (Epic)
Happy Daize – Jim `Shaft’ Ryan (Concept)
Clumsy Lobster – Ernest Saint-Laurent (Bugged Out/Fluid)
Get Next To The Opposite Sex – Scanty (Southern Fried)
Stars / Get On Up – Sharp Disco Sessions (Sharp)
Drink To Get Drunk – S.i.A. (Long Lost Brother)
The Beat Goes On – Talvin Singh (Island/Universal-Island)
Lucky Pressure – Roni Size/Reprazent feat. MC Dynamite (Talkin Loud)
Where Did The Love Go – Ski (Oakenfull) (Ngenda)
Sound Of Slacker – Slacker (Jukebox In The Sky)
Lifetimes – Slam feat. Tyrone (Soma)
Got A Love For You – Smokin’ Beats All Stars (Smokin’ Beats)
Promised Land – Joe Smooth (Globall Cuts)
Everybody – Spank (Kidsound)
My Red Hot Car – Squarepusher (Warp)
Let’s Just Call It Love – Lisa Stansfield (Arista)
Redemption – Starchild (Curious/Slinky)
Vegas Two Times / Step On My Old Size Nines – Stereophonics (V2)
I LIke – Stonebridge pres. Dayeene (Stonebridge)
My Lover – Dave Storm (Champion)
Stand Easy – Superglider (Sneaky/Slinky)
Exclusive – System (-)
Flight 643 – DJ Tiesto (Nebula)
The Sound Of: Oh Yeah [rm] – Tomba Vira (VC/Virgin)
I Do!! – Toya (Arista)
New Year’s Dub – U2 vs. Musique (Serious)
Feel What You Want – Kristine W. (Champion)
I Hope You Dance – Lee Ann Womack (-)
Could I Be – Wood (Columbia)
Mind Made Up [rm] – Xtra Large (Vision)

May 14th :

Splinters / C Ept For You – 16 Horsepower (Glitterhouse)
No More (Baby I’m A Do Right) – 3LW (Epic)
South EP – Alpha (Melankolic/Virgin)
It Never Happened – Astrid (Fantastic Plastic)
Upside Down – A*Teens (Stockholm/Polydor)
See You In The Next Life / The Goodland – Atlantis ITA (Infusion)
Don’t Talk – Jon B (Epic)
Ya Don’t See The Signs – Mark B. & Blade (Wordplay/Source)
The Power – Barabas & OD1 (Phoenix Uprising)
Still On Your Side – BB Mak (Telstar)
Let’s Git Doe – Beatnuts (Loud)
Ring Ring Ring – Aaron Carl (Kickin’)
Let Go – Clearlake (Dusty Co.)
EP2: White, Organe & Purple – Colours (Tidy Trax)
Eye Bee M [rm] – Commander Tom (Noom)
Brutal Planet [ltd. tour ed.] – Alice Cooper (Eagle)
Bad Ambassador – The Divine Comedy (Parlophone)
Telemetry / Written Off – D Product (Full Cycle)
Song For The Lonely – Drugstore (Global Warming)
Feel Good / More – Eufex (Nukleuz/Media)
Dancing In The Moonlight – Evolution feat. JB (Rumour)
Tough At The Top — Instrumental – E-Z Rollers (Moving Shadow)
Amped / Transforma – Freq Nasty (Skint)
Day By Day [rm] – Funky DL (Hyde Out)
Forever In My Mind – G-Dubs (Essence)
Give Me Some More – DJ Gert (No Name/Mostiko)
Police Brutality – The Guv’nors (Purgatory)
Show Me Heaven – DJ Hitch Hiker (Rotor)
Mad About You – Hooverphonic (Columbia)
Good Love [rm] – Inner City feat. Paris Grey (PIAS)
Falling In – January (Poptones)
Put It On Me – Ja Rule feat. Lil Mo & Vita (Def Soul/Def Jam/Mercury)
Brand New Day – Jersey Street (Glasgow Underground)
Bionic [rm] – King Adora (Superior Quality)
Stalker Song – King Of Woolworths (Mantra)
Back Together – Laptop (Trust Me)
Chinese Whispers – Last Man Standing (Capital Heaven)
How’s LIfe In London – London Posse (Wordplay/Source)
Long To Belong — Sampler 2 – Meat Katie (Kingsize)
Remixed – Mescalito (Tummy Touch)
The Labyrinth – Moogwai (Platipus)
Progressive Domination – Moonchild (Heat)
Jazz Room – Paul Murphy & Marc Woolford Project (Afro Art)
Don’t Slip Up – Murry The Hump (Too Pure)
Take The Long Road & Walk It / The Walls Get Smaller – The Music (Fierce Panda)
Texas Snow – Oranger (Poptones)
Up Middle Finger – Oxide & Neutrino (Oxide Neutrino/East West)
There’s A Touch / A Land Fit For Zeros – The Proclaimers (Persevere)
Backstabber – DJ Remy (Additive/Positiva)
Serious Damage – DJ Remy (Additive/Positiva)
DJ – Resonance feat. The Burrells (Strictly Rhythm UK)
Love & Happiness – River Ocean (Mr. Bongo)
No Flow – Lisa Roxanne (Palm Pictures)
Kiss It – Schmoov (Paper)
Synchronschwimmer EP – Seelenluft (Klein)
Amusing The Amazing – Slo Burn (Cargo Germany)
Lessons In Dub – Solid Groove (Slip’n’Slide)
Ring Ring Ring – Aaron Soul (Def Soul/Def Jam UK)
Everybody – Spank (Kidsound)
I’m A Hippie – Spek (Echo)
Deep Down & Dirty – Stereo MC’s (Island/Universal-Island)
Don’t Come Around Here – Rod Stewart with Helicopter Girl (Atlantic/East West)
Storm [rm] – Storm (Positiva)
Get It Up (The Feeling) – Ultra Nat‚ (Strictly Rhythm/AM:PM)
End – The Youngsters (F Comm.)
Space – Zodiac Youth (Dragonly)

May 21st :

Radio #1 – Air (Source/Virgin)
Cowboys & Kisses – Anastacia (Epic)
Heard It All Before – Sunshine Anderson (Atlantic/East West)
All Rise – Blue (Innocent/Virgin)
BK Anthem – Foxy Brown (DefJam/Mercury)
Someone Like You – Dina Carroll (1st Ave./Manifesto/Mercury)
15 Feet Of Pure White Sow – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Mute)
Thank You – Dido (Cheeky/Arista)
Soulshaka – Jan Driver (Infusion)
Certified – Guru’s Jazzmatazz feat. Bilal (Virgin)
Colours – Tim Hutton (PIAS)
[tba] – Natalie Imbruglia (RCA)
Perfect Gentleman – Wyclef Jean (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Names (For Nameless Things) – Mo-Ho-Bish-O-Pi (V2)
Pro Celebrity Standing Around – Montgolfier Brothers (Poptones)
New Year’s Dub [rm] – Musique vs. U2 (Serious/ffrr)
Free – Mya (University/Interscope/Polydor)
Lapdance – Nerd (Virgin)
So Fresh, So Clean – Outkast (LaFace/Arista)
Do You Really Like It? [rm] – DJ Pied Piper & The Masters Of Ceremonies (Relentless/Smoove)
Pyramid Song – Radiohead (Parlophone)
The Wisp EP – Simian (Source/Virgin)
Keep Close – South (Mo Wax)
My Red Hot Car – Squarepusher (Warp)
Dumb Dumb Dumb – Teenage Fanclub (Columbia)
I Have Seen – Zero 7 (Ultimate Dilemma)

May 28th :

Electric Avenue – Eddie Grant vs. DJ Vicious (East West)
What’s Your Fantasy – Ludacris feat. Shawna (Def Jam)
Ocean Spray – Manic Street Preachers (Epic)
Rock Da Funky Beats – Public Domain feat. Chuck D (Xtra Hard/Xtravaganza)
Angel – Shaggy feat. Rayvon (Universal-Island)
Here & Now / You’ll Be Sorry – Steps (Ebul/Jive)
Sing – Travis (Independiente)
[Walk On] – U2 (Island/Universal-Island)

June (date unknown) :

Club Quake – 5 Below 0 (Kickin’)
24 Hours [rm] – Agent Sumo (Virgin)
Another Day In Paradise – Brandy feat. Ray J (Atlantic/East West)
Desert Drought – Cast (Polydor)
In The Music – Deep Swing (Rise)
[tba] – Garbage (Mushroom)
Something In My Eye – Ed Harcourt (Heavenly/EMI)
Let Me Luv U – Jori Hulkkonen (F Comm.)
Sin-Nuh – Motherlode (Whoop)
Join In The Chant – Nitzer Ebb (Novamute)
See Me Here – Orion (Incentive)
Crisis – Peacemaker (Fat)
This Time Around / Respect The Cock – Phats & Small (Boo/Multiply)
Masters In The Parasol – Queens Of The Stone Age (Interscope/Polydor)
[tba] – Rialto (Eagle)
So Strong – Ben Shaw feat. Adele Holness (Fire)
London Calling – Speeka (Ultimate Dilemma)
Happy People – Static Revenger (City Of Angels/Rulin’)
Have A Nice Day – Stereophonics (V2)

June 4th :

[tba] – Atomic Kitten (Innocent/Virgin)
Romeo / Where’s Your Head – Basement Jaxx feat. Kele Le Roc (XL)
We Come 1 – Faithless (Cheeky/Arista)
The Way You Love Me – Hear’Say (Polydor)
New Born – Muse (Taste Media/Mushroom)
Close To You – Marti Pellow (Mercury)
3-2-1 Fire – Santos (Incentive)

June 11th :

Jonathan & David – Belle & Sebastian feat. The Maisonettes (Jeepster)
Squares / Won – The Beta Band (Regal/Parlophone)
So What If I – Damage (Afterlife/Cooltempo)
The Watcher – Dr. Dre (Aftermath/Interscope/Polydor)
Video – India.Arie (Motown)
My Way – Limp Bizkit (Interscope/Universal-Island)
Papercut – Linkin Park (Reprise/Warner Bros.)
Be Thankful – Omar feat. Angie Stone (Oyster)

June 18th :

Lady Marmalade – Christina Aguilera, Lil’ Kim, Mya & Pink (Polydor)
[tba] – Blink 182 (MCA/Universal-Island)
19–2000 – Gorillaz (Parlophone)
Hush Pipe – Weezer (Geffen/Polydor)

June 25th :

Sometime – Ash (Infectious/Mushroom)
Dance For Me – Sisqo (Def Soul/Def Jam/Mercury)

July (date unknown) :

[tba] – Tanya Stephens (WEA)

July 16th :

Juxtaposed With You – Super Furry Animals (Epic)

September (date unknown) :

Love Is The Key – The Charlatans (MCA/Universal-Island)
[tba] – New Order (-)

November (date unknown) :

Judas – The Charlatans (MCA/Universal-Island)

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Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

• 1 REM – Reveal
• 2 Bon Jovi – One Wild Night: Live 1985-2001
• 5 Geri Halliwell – Scream If You Wanna Go Faster
• 9 Depeche Mode – Exciter
• 10 Missy Elliott – Miss E: So Addictive
• 16 Tool – Lateralus
• 20 The Shirehorses – Our Kid Eh
• 31 Weezer – The Green Album
• 45 Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
• 56 Echo & The Bunnymen – Flowers
• 57 Mary Chapin Carpenter – Time Sex Love
• 58 Vanessa Mae – Subject To Change
• 64 Runrig – The Stamping Ground
• 70 Sunshine Anderson – Your Woman

The top 5 goes like this :

• 1 REM – Reveal
• 2 Bon Jovi – One Wild Night: Live 1985-2001
• 3 Dido – No Angel
• 4 Shaggy – Hot Shot
• 4 Eddy Grant – Greatest Hits
• 5 Geri Halliwell – Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

New releases :

May 2001 :

The Best Of … – Jefferson Airplane (Camden)
[tba] – Primal Scream (Creation)
If You Happy With You Need Do Nothing – Starsailor (Chrysalis:EMI)
[tba] – Underworld (Junior Boy’s Own/V2)
All Ten Fingers – Andy Votel (Twisted Nerve/XL)

May 14th :

Greatest Hits – Arrested Development (EMI Gold)
One Wild Night — Live – Bon Jovi (Mercury)
How I Spent My Summer – Bouncing Souls (Epitaph)
Time Love Sex – Mary Chapin Carpenter (Columbia)
Open – Cowboy Junkies (Latent/Cooking Vinyl)
Shoulda Ben Home – Robert Cray (Rykodisc)
Exciter – Depeche Mode (Mute)
Anthology – Dio (Connoisseur Coll.)
Essential Collection – The Dubliners (EMI Gold)
Flowers – Echo & The Bunnymen (Cooking Vinyl)
The Invisible Man – Mark Eitzel (Matador)
Miss E … So Addictive – Missy `Misdemenour’ Elliot (Gold Mind/Elektra/East West)
Essential Eternal – Eternal (EMI Gold)
Dancing Tight — The Best Of … – Phil Fearon & Galaxy (EMI Gold)
Greatest Hits – Samantha Fox (Jive)
Over The Rainbow – Judy Garland (Castle Pie)
House Of The Rising Sun – Woody Guthrie (Music)
Scream If You Wana Go Faster – Geri Halliwell (EMI)
Bodily Functions – Herbert (Studio K7)
Classic Freddie — The Very Best Of … – Freddie Jackson (EMI Gold)
The Very Best Of … – Jethro Tull (Chrysalis:EMI)
To Be Frank – Nik Kershaw (Eagle)
Vibrate You – King Adora (Superior Quality)
The Return Of El Santo – King Chango (Luaka Bop/Virgin)
The Best Of … – Frankie Laine (Spectrum)
Hammond A Go Go – James Last (Spectrum)
Plays Andrew Lloyd Webber – Julian Lloyd Webber (Philips)
Tico Tico – Mantovani (Spectrum)
Shakedown — Marley Remixed – Bob Marley (Edel)
Blind Science – Mavenalli Project (Toko)
The Very Best Of … – George McCrae (EMI Gold)
World Needs A Hero – Megadeth (metal-is.com/Castle Comm.)
Goodtime George – George Melly (Spectrum)
Aural & Hearty – Mocean Worker (Palm Pictures)
The Best Of …. – Morriston Orpheus Choir (EMI Gold)
Life On Planet Eartsnop – Myracle Brah (Groove Attack/Rainbow Quartz)
The State – Nickelback (Roadrunner)
Naviagtion: The OMD B-Sides – OMD (Virgin)
The Best Of … – Carl Perkins (Music)
Reveal – R.E.M. (Reprise/Warner Bros.)
The Legendary – Jimmy Shand (EMI Gold)
Our Kid Eh – The Shirehorses (Columbia)
[tba] – Lisa Stansfield (Arista)
20 Scottish Favourites – Andy Stewart (EMI Gold)
Elvis Pigfarmer – Superdense Child (Marble Bar)
A Nu Day – Tamia (East West)
People’s Colony No. 1 – Temple Of Sound & Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali (Real World/Virgin)
Tool – Tool (Music For Nations)
The Best Of …. – Treorchy Male Choir (EMI Gold)
Leaves Turn Inside You – Unwound (Matador)
Subject To Change – Vanessa-Mae (Liberty/EMI)
The Green Album – Weezer (Geffen/DreamWorks/Polydor)
Bingo Beats – DJ Zinc (S.T. Holdings)

May 21st :

Vespertine – Bj”rk (One Little Indian)
Morning Sun – Block 16 (Nuphonic)
Live – JJ Cale (Virgin)
Take Back To Universe & Give Me Yesterday – Creeper Lagoon (DreamWorks/Polydor)
The Magnificent Tree – Hooverphonic (Columbia)
The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads – Lift To Experience (Bella Union)
In The Now – Mutiny UK (Sunflower/VC/Virgin)
Malpractise – Redman (Def Jam/Mercury)
Curvatia – Spacek (Island Blue/Universal-Island)
Break The Cycle – Staind (Elektra/East West)
Can Our Love … – The Tindersticks (Beggars Banquet)
Pneumonia – Whiskeytown (Lost Highway)

May 28th :

10,000 Hz Legend – Air (Source/Virgin)
Sooner Or Later – BB Mak (Telstar)
Devil’s Night – D-12 (Interscope/Polydor)
Pause – FourTET (Domino)
Greatest Hits – InXS (Mercury)
One Love — The Very Best Of … – Bob Marley & The Wailers (Tuff Gong/Island/Universal-Island)
Execute – Oxide & Neutrino (Oxide Neutrino/East West)
Double Figure – Plaid (Warp)
Deep Down & Dirty – Stereo MC’s (Island/Unversal-Island)

June 2001 :

Music Beats Life – Architechs (Go.Beat/Polydor)
[tba] – The Beach Boys (Capitol/Parlophome)
[tba] – Blue (Innocent/Virgin)
Letting Off The Happiness [ri] – Bright Eyes (Wichita)
Don’t Stand Me Down [ri] – Dexy’s Midnight Runners (-)
[tba] – Gay Dad (-)
Chinese Democracy – Guns’n’Roses (Geffen/Polydor)
[tba] – Ed Harcourt (Heavenly)
[tba] – Natalie Imbruglia (RCA)
[tba] – Mo Solid Gold (Chrysalis:EMI)
[tba] – Pet Shop Boys (Parlophone)
[tba] – Relish (Chrysalis:EMI)
Night On Earth – Rialto (Eagle)
[tba] – Spearhead (Parlophone)
[tba] – Spiller (Parlophone)
Under A Sun – Witness (Island/Universal-Island)

June 4th :

Two Worlds – A.T.B. (Club Tools/Edel)
Broken Silence – Foxy Brown (Def Jam/Mercury)
In Full Colour – Dario G (Manifest/Mercury)
The Best Of Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield (Virgin)
Amnesiac – Radiohead (Parlophone)

June 11th :

[tba] – Blink 182 (MCA/Universal-Island)
The Very Best Of … – Dina Carroll (1st Ave./Mercury)
Thugs Lounge – It’s Jo & Danny (Boilerhouse!/Arista)
Alien Radio – Slam (Soma)
It’s A Wonderful Life – Sparklehorse (Capitol/Parlophone)
The Invisible Band – Travis (Independiente)
Further Reminders – Two Lone Swordsmen (Warp)

June 18th :

No More Dramas – Mary J. Blige (MCA/Universal-Island)
Discosis – Bran Van 3000 (Virgin)
Paper, Scissors, Stone – Catatonia (Blanco Y Negro)
Outrospective – Faithless (Cheeky/Arista)
Origin Of Symmetry – Muse (Taste Media/Mushroom)

July 2001 :

Beetroot – Cast (Polydor)
[tba] – The Corrs (Atlantic/East West)
[tba] – Craig David (Wildstar/Telstar)
[tba] – Sophie Ellis-Bextor (-)
[tba] – Groove Armada (Pepper/Jive)
[tba] – Ronan Keating (Polydor)
The Exorcist III – Mogwai (Chemikal Underground)
Sintoxicated – Tanya Stephens (WEA)

July 2nd :

Hot Shots 2 – The Beta Band (Regal/Parlophone)

July 16th :

Rings Around The World – Super Furry Animals (Epic)

July 23rd :

Iowa – Slipknot (Roadrunner)

August 2001 :

3 Feet High & Rising [rem. ri w/add. tr.] – De La Soul (Tommy Boy)

September 2001 :

Wonderland – The Charlatans (MCA/Universal-Island)
Wonderland – Kelis (Virgin)
[tba] – Massive Attack (Wild Bunch/Virgin)
[tba] – New Order (London)
[tba] – William Orbit (WEA)

October 2001 :

[tba] – Portishead (Go.Beat/Polydor)

November 2001 :

[tba] – Oasis (Big Brother)

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Dominator’s Top 50 of 2000

21. The Dandy Warhols – Get OffI don’t normally accept more than one track per artist, but as with Coldplay,here’s another double and this time it’s from The Dandy Warhols.

This week it’s the turn of Get Off (No.38, June 2000), one of many songs inthe chart that deserved to do much better. More remembered for “Not If YouWere The Last Junkie On Earth”, this track has a video that reminds me of theopening to The Fifth Element and the music itself is very singalongy.

It was followed by Bohemian Like You (No.42, Sept 2000), another excellent trackwith plenty of MTV2 airplay, but criminally ignored by the public.

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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