* NM Top 75 singles, 20 November 2004 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 1 ) Akira The Don's First EP - Akira The Don < 4th week at #1>
2 ( 3 ) Kiss On The Lips - Dualers
3 ( 5 ) Mary - Scissor Sisters
4 ( 4 ) Amerika - Rammstein
5 ( 2 ) Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey (#2[4])
6 ( 9 ) Paint The Moon - Czars
7 ( 7 ) Francesca - Special Needs
8 ( 15 ) My Declaration [RE] - Tom Baxter
9 ( 10 ) Here Am I - Mercedes
10 ( -- ) Interstate 5 - Wedding Present

11 ( 22 ) I Believe In The Good Of Life - Hidden Cameras
12 ( 6 ) Breeze On By - Donny Osmond (#3)
13 ( 17 ) Happy People - R Kelly
14 ( 13 ) Riot Radio - Dead 60s (#13)
15 ( 8 ) Butterflies & Hurricanes - Muse (#1[1])
16 ( 23 ) Cold Man's Nightmare - Cathy Davey
17 ( 16 ) The Long Goodbye - A Girl Called Eddy (#16)
18 ( 20 ) What Became Of The Likely Lads - Libertines
19 ( 11 ) Monster - Beauty Shop (#9)
20 ( 25 ) I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

21 ( 12 ) I Love A Good Fight - Jobriath (#12)
22 ( 30 ) Never Enough [re] - Open
23 ( -- ) So What Could I Do / Trouble Is - Cranebuilders
24 ( 34 ) Born In The 70s - Ed Harcourt
25 ( 28 ) Better Get Ready For A Fist Fight - Wonder Stuff
26 ( 46 ) Massive Crush - Barbs
27 ( 39 ) Old Habits Die Hard - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart
28 ( 14 ) Radio - Robbie Williams (#3)
29 ( 42 ) Contrary Mary - Thee Unstrung
30 ( -- ) Ashes - Embrace

31 ( 41 ) Why Do I Do - Tyler James
32 ( 21 ) The Love Of Richard Nixon - Manic Street Preachers (#21)
33 ( 51 ) Hotride - Prodigy
34 ( 43 ) The Bucket - Kings Of Leon
35 ( 52 ) Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram
36 ( 44 ) First Day Of My Life - Rasmus
37 ( 36 ) Heaven - Los Lonely Boys (#36)
38 ( -- ) A Pattern / Tape 23 - Fans Of Kate < DEBUT >
39 ( 48 ) Vertigo - U2
40 ( 38 ) All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful) - Elton John (#38)

41 ( 18 ) Unsquare Dance - Paddy Milner (#18)
42 ( 55 ) Pressure / Cow Cow Yicky - Neville Staple
43 ( 56 ) Wasn't Even Looking - Jukes
44 ( 45 ) One Moment More - Mindy Smith
45 ( 31 ) Over The Hill - Polly Paulusma (#31)
46 ( 19 ) Born That Way - James Maker & Noko 440 (#19)
47 ( -- ) If There's Any Justice In The World - Lemar
48 ( 60 ) Turn The Radio Up - Loose Salute < DEBUT >
49 ( 33 ) Don't Ever Think Too Much - Zutons (#33)
50 ( 58 ) Lost In The Plot - Dears

51 ( 26 ) High - James Blunt (#26)
52 ( -- ) Lua - Bright Eyes
53 ( 57 ) Cinnamon Girl - Prince
54 ( 35 ) Modern Feeling - Ikara Colt (#35)
55 ( -- ) Take It Easy (Love Machine) - Bright Eyes
56 ( -- ) Psycho Killer - Rico < DEBUT >
57 ( -- ) Hard Hand To Hold - Willy Mason < DEBUT >
58 ( -- ) Nothing Wrong With You - Finn Brothers
59 ( -- ) Change Your Tune - Great Northwestern Hoboes
60 ( 24 ) Tropic Island Hum / We All Stand Together - Paul McCartney (#1[3])

61 ( -- ) Breathless / There She Goes My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
62 ( -- ) Room On The 3rd Floor - McFly
63 ( 59 ) Since You're In Love - Jesse Malin (#59)
64 ( 40 ) Lock Up Ya Daughters / Ministry Of Mayhem - Noise Next Door
65 ( -- ) Prince Harry - Soho Doll < DEBUT >
66 ( -- ) What Ya Crying For - Landaus < DEBUT >
67 ( 27 ) 1985  - Bowling For Soup (#16)
68 ( -- ) Smash It Up [RI] - Damned
69 ( -- ) Hit The City - Mark Lanegan Band < DEBUT >
70 ( -- ) I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud
71 ( -- ) London Bridge / End Of An Era - Dogs < DEBUT >
72 ( -- ) Wow Machine - Caves < DEBUT >
73 ( -- ) Not For All The Love In The World - Thrills
74 ( 47 ) I Said Pig On Friday - Eastern Lane
75 ( 29 ) Walking In The Sun - Travis (#26)
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-- ( 32 ) With Those Eyes - Elena (#7)
-- ( 37 ) I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance (#8)
-- ( 49 ) I Don't Care - Roots (#45)
-- ( 50 ) Sand In My Shoes - Dido (#5)
-- ( 53 ) All I Want - Wet Wet Wet (#53)
-- ( 54 ) Boy - Tippi (#20)
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These below are not really "bubblers" because there are none this week. The bubblers list is those that did not make the chart making the list up to a total of 21, but there were 21 new entries this week thus no bubblers.

However these were the next ones outside:

-- ( -- ) Unconditional - Bravery
-- ( -- ) At The Hop - Devendra Banhart
-- ( -- ) What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani
-- ( -- ) Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse
-- ( -- ) Welcome To My Truth - Anastacia
-- ( -- ) You Stood Up - V
-- ( -- ) Catch The Rain - Six By Seven
-- ( -- ) Hungry Eyes - Eyeopener
-- ( -- ) Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
-- ( -- ) Dreaming - I Dream ft Frankie & Calvin
-- ( -- ) Paralysed - Mando Diao
-- ( -- ) Too Tough To Die - Twilight Singers
-- ( -- ) Like I Care - McQueen
-- ( -- ) She's Not Leaving - Research
-- ( -- ) Plus - Echelon
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And looking at all those you can see why I made the chart a top 75 this week. Whether or not I can maintain this length as we approach Christmas remains to be seen. Last Christmas I was still doing only a top 50, and it may be that I reduce the chart back temporarily for a few weeks, as happened early in 2002.

Having a top 75 means that the chart show lasts longer and repeats less frequently, which I think is good.

And whoever said the CD single is dead? Look at all of those!

[anna]

It's really hard to comment on stuff that I don't know. The highest one that I know is Mary and I love that song so much but then Amerika and I don't like that one at all. Morrissey is ok, quite nice. Tom Baxter is brilliant and I really do like the Wedding Present song.

Without choosing too many, which ones do you think that I would like to look out for?

[Earl Purple]

Pretty sure you'd like the Cranebuilders, but you said you didn't find those songs, although you found other clips by them. They had one previous NM hit "Just Idleness", and have never yet released an album. "Just Idleness" peaked at NM #2 behind a band that enters 50 places lower than them this week.

Fans Of Kate are another small band with a very minor release. This was a 3-track EP, Tape 23 / A Pattern / Keep Warm (The Do Do Song). A Pattern is slow and is my favourite of the 3, Tape 23 is uptempo and my 2nd choice. Keep Warm was the weakest of the 3 in my opinion.

It's difficult to know what you'd like of the others in the chart. Probably "Monster" by Beauty Shop, possibly Special Needs or the Czars, maybe Mercedes (this is their 2nd hit, the other was "Nailed", NM #4 in 1999. Don't know what they were doing for 5 years in between).

Hidden Cameras are a Canadian band, and this song may well feature on the Festive 50. Jobriath was a failed glam rock star of the 1970s, but Morrissey liked him and bought up the rights for this recording and re-released it, thus it is 30 years old. There are rumours that he (Jobriath) died of AIDS in 1983, but they are unconfirmed.

Bright Eyes is Coner Oberst, a singer-songwriter from the US with a prolific song catalogue. You would definitely like him.

Neville Staple at #42 was one of the Specials and the Fun Boy Three. The "Rico" that sometimes featured on their songs is not the same as the band at #56 though.

Your best bet is, of course, to be able to set up RealPlayer or Winamp to listen to the radio broadcast and decide which ones you like, then investigate further.

[TheThorne]

Earl said:

And whoever said the CD single is dead? Look at all of those!

It may not be dead in London but its gasping for breath in Perth :( all records I * are not stocked here.

*10 ( -- ) Interstate 5 - Wedding Present
*23 ( -- ) So What Could I Do / Trouble Is - Cranebuilders
30 ( -- ) Ashes - Embrace
*38 ( -- ) A Pattern / Tape 23 - Fans Of Kate < DEBUT >
47 ( -- ) If There's Any Justice In The World - Lemar
*52 ( -- ) Lua - Bright Eyes
*55 ( -- ) Take It Easy (Love Machine) - Bright Eyes
56 ( -- ) Psycho Killer - Rico < DEBUT >
*57 ( -- ) Hard Hand To Hold - Willy Mason < DEBUT >
58 ( -- ) Nothing Wrong With You - Finn Brothers
59 ( -- ) Change Your Tune - Great Northwestern Hoboes
61 ( -- ) Breathless / There She Goes My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
62 ( -- ) Room On The 3rd Floor - McFly
*65 ( -- ) Prince Harry - Soho Doll < DEBUT >
*66 ( -- ) What Ya Crying For - Landaus < DEBUT >
*68 ( -- ) Smash It Up [RI] - Damned
*69 ( -- ) Hit The City - Mark Lanegan Band < DEBUT >
70 ( -- ) I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud
*71 ( -- ) London Bridge / End Of An Era - Dogs < DEBUT >
*72 ( -- ) Wow Machine - Caves < DEBUT >
73 ( -- ) Not For All The Love In The World - Thrills
-- ( -- ) Unconditional - Bravery
*-- ( -- ) At The Hop - Devendra Banhart
-- ( -- ) What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani
*-- ( -- ) Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse
-- ( -- ) Welcome To My Truth - Anastacia
-- ( -- ) You Stood Up - V
*-- ( -- ) Catch The Rain - Six By Seven
-- ( -- ) Hungry Eyes - Eyeopener
-- ( -- ) Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
-- ( -- ) Dreaming - I Dream ft Frankie & Calvin
*-- ( -- ) Paralysed - Mando Diao
*-- ( -- ) Too Tough To Die - Twilight Singers
*-- ( -- ) Like I Care - McQueen
-- ( -- ) She's Not Leaving - Research
-- ( -- ) Plus - Echelon

Willy Mason, Dogs,Finn Bros & Modest Mouse I bought from Napster, I wish I had that choice of singles every week.

Btw you didn't buy all of them did you???

[Admin]

Hoping Embrace will climb...

[Earl Purple]

You have the wonderful option though of HMV-Online.

They stock most of the singles, if you really want to buy them. The bad thing about that site though is if you make a big order, you have to wait until they get all of them from their supplier, so it may take a while until they send them. They may do a partial shipment but that's only if they pretty much give up on finding them.

And no, I didn't buy all of them. Can't afford it. I am quite surprised though at some of those you are able to find on legal download sites. Napster charge 79p a song or less?

I was hoping that legal downloads would be counted towards the normal singles chart thus causing almost everyone to release their singles through that method (possibly in addition to regular CD) and that the legal download price would be closer to 50p a song (or even 40p). For the Fans Of Kate EP I paid 2.99 - that for 3 songs. So downloading all 3 for 79p each would cost me 2.37 - not all that much less really. I got CD #1058, by the way, so there were probably over 1000 issued.

The Landaus one wasn't available in London HMV either. Had to order it from HMV.

[TheThorne]

well did some hunting just got Rico, The Research & both Nick Caves songs from Napster.

As i'm a subscriber they only cost me money if I want to burn or copy them to my walkman, or if I need to upload them to my station.

Also non Uk artists are easier to get from napster, wish they would support more indies but they are still better than most legal sites, I Tunes idea of indie is Coldplay lol

[Sofie]

I like:

1 ( 1 ) Akira The Don's First EP - Akira The Don < 4th week at #1>
2 ( 3 ) Kiss On The Lips - Dualers
5 ( 2 ) Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey (#2[4])
7 ( 7 ) Francesca - Special Needs
8 ( 15 ) My Declaration [RE] - Tom Baxter
9 ( 10 ) Here Am I - Mercedes
10 ( -- ) Interstate 5 - Wedding Present

11 ( 22 ) I Believe In The Good Of Life - Hidden Cameras
12 ( 6 ) Breeze On By - Donny Osmond (#3)
13 ( 17 ) Happy People - R Kelly
14 ( 13 ) Riot Radio - Dead 60s (#13)
16 ( 23 ) Cold Man's Nightmare - Cathy Davey
18 ( 20 ) What Became Of The Likely Lads - Libertines
20 ( 25 ) I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs

21 ( 12 ) I Love A Good Fight - Jobriath (#12)
28 ( 14 ) Radio - Robbie Williams (#3)

31 ( 41 ) Why Do I Do - Tyler James
32 ( 21 ) The Love Of Richard Nixon - Manic Street Preachers (#21)
34 ( 43 ) The Bucket - Kings Of Leon
35 ( 52 ) Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram
40 ( 38 ) All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful) - Elton John (#38)

41 ( 18 ) Unsquare Dance - Paddy Milner (#18)
45 ( 31 ) Over The Hill - Polly Paulusma (#31)
46 ( 19 ) Born That Way - James Maker & Noko 440 (#19)
49 ( 33 ) Don't Ever Think Too Much - Zutons (#33)
50 ( 58 ) Lost In The Plot - Dears

51 ( 26 ) High - James Blunt (#26)
54 ( 35 ) Modern Feeling - Ikara Colt (#35)
58 ( -- ) Nothing Wrong With You - Finn Brothers
60 ( 24 ) Tropic Island Hum / We All Stand Together - Paul McCartney (#1[3])

64 ( 40 ) Lock Up Ya Daughters / Ministry Of Mayhem - Noise Next Door
67 ( 27 ) 1985  - Bowling For Soup (#16) (well, it's growing on me, slowly...)
73 ( -- ) Not For All The Love In The World - Thrills

[anna]

I found Fans of Kate www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=55486 It's not bad, I'm not sure that I like his voice but you're right that A Pattern is the better song

[anna]

I found a clip of Monster by "THE" Beauty Shop www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/zanelowe/freshmeat/ it won't work for me though at the moment and nor will the official website link so I'll try again later

[Sofie]

Anna, I have that Beauty Shop on MP3 I think and EP has it on Soul Seek...

[anna]

Thanks but I got it to work now, I really like this one, he has a great voice