Post by Earl Purple on Oct 25, 2006 1:14:47 GMT 1
A bit of a surprise here, I have the same top 3 singles as in the UK chart which are also the 3 most recent UK #1s.
1 ( 1 ) I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters < 4th week at #1 >
2 ( 11 ) Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
3 ( 3 ) America - Razorlight
4 ( 2 ) Mean Son Of A Gun - Kitty Daisy & Lewis (#2[2])
5 ( 4 ) Replacement Man [toe rag version] - Dan Sartain (#4)
6 ( 18 ) Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind - Badly Drawn Boy
7 ( 7 ) Suspicious Character - Blood Arm
8 ( 26 ) Girl That Speaks No Words - Infadels
9 ( 6 ) Sea Of Trouble - Cord (#6)
10 ( 12 ) Jump In My Car - David Hasselhoff
11 ( 5 ) Waterproof / Dick Around - Sparks (#4)
12 ( 32 ) Anglia - Laibach
13 ( 17 ) When The Night Feels My Song [RE] - Bedouin Soundclash (#17 in 2005)
14 ( -- ) Generator - Holloways
15 ( 9 ) Recover - Automatic (#9)
16 ( 15 ) Nothing I Can Do - Ben Taylor (#15)
17 ( 23 ) Run Run Run - Goldenhorse
18 ( 40 ) Meds - Placebo ft Alison Mosshart
19 ( 46 ) Work It Out - Jurassic 5 ft Dave Matthews Band
20 ( 8 ) Non Smoking Single Female - Eleanor McEvoy (#1[1])
21 ( 19 ) I Don't Wanna Go To School - Drugleader Cheerleader (#19)
22 ( 20 ) Jenny Don't Be Hasty - Paolo Nutini (#20)
23 ( 31 ) Don't Listen To The Radio - Vines
24 ( 10 ) Oh Stacey (Look What You've Done) - Zutons (#6)
25 ( 22 ) LDN - Lily Allen (#22)
26 ( -- ) Liberty Jones - Shakes
27 ( 24 ) Philadelphia - Mike Rosenberg Band (#24)
28 ( 54 ) Back In The Food Chain - My Elvis Blackout
29 ( -- ) Last Night I Nearly Died - Duke Spirit
30 ( 16 ) Let's Get Out Of This Country - Camera Obscura (#11)
31 ( 39 ) Sophia - Nerina Pallot
32 ( 60 ) Without - Jack Savoretti
33 ( 14 ) A Town Called Hypocrisy - Lostprophets (#8)
34 ( 21 ) Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is - Jet (#18)
35 ( 29 ) Judy - Pipettes (#29)
36 ( 13 ) Crush On You - Daniel O'Donnell (#4)
37 ( -- ) The Hit Parade - Unkle Bob
38 ( 65 ) Ring Of Fire - Dario G
39 ( -- ) Change My Mind [RE] - Blueskins
40 ( 34 ) Checkin' it Out - Lil' Chris (#34)
41 ( 49 ) Come Write Me Down - Memory Band
42 ( 37 ) English Gentleman - James Dean Bradfield (#37)
43 ( 28 ) Setting Sun - Howling Bells (#24)
44 ( 38 ) Wondering - Dirty Pretty Things (#38)
45 ( -- ) You're Like A Woman - Broken Family Band
46 ( 52 ) Make Out Fall Out Make Up - Love Is All
47 ( 27 ) The Rabbit - 12 Stone Toddler (#21)
48 ( 42 ) Here It Goes Again - Ok Go (#42)
49 ( 75 ) All Night Long - Blazin' Squad
50 ( -- ) Lonely At The Top - Ordinary Boys
51 ( 45 ) Once Upon A Time - Boyfriends (#45)
52 ( 79 ) Like A Star [RE] - Corinne Bailey Rae
53 ( 58 ) A Tried And Tested Method - Longcut
54 ( 36 ) Snakes on A Plane (Bring it) - Cobra Starship (#32)
55 ( -- ) Traffic Jam - Vega4
56 ( 25 ) Fill Me Up - Shawn Colvin (#14)
57 ( 47 ) Call Me When You're Sober - Evanescence (#47)
58 ( 82 ) Become The Enemy - Lemonheads
59 ( 61 ) Land Of Confusion - Disturbed
60 ( -- ) Forever [RE] - Blackbud
61 ( 85 ) When We Were Wolves - My Latest Novel
62 ( 66 ) Empire Building - David R Black
63 ( 87 ) Still The Only One - Webb Sisters
64 ( -- ) Bigger Than Dynamite - Deacon Blue
65 ( 91 ) Shine - Luther Vandross
66 ( 56 ) Up Close And Personal - South (#56)
67 ( -- ) Couldn't Be Done - Tim Finn
68 ( 71 ) Never Stop Waiting - Karen Louise
69 ( 94 ) ElectroBoogie - JD73
70 ( 73 ) Come Get it - Yummy Bingham
71 ( -- ) Wonderful World - James Morrison
72 ( 30 ) Hugging My Grudge - Boy Least Likely To (#8)
73 ( 59 ) Radiate - Oblique (#59)
74 ( 35 ) Farewell - Don McLean (#19)
75 ( 97 ) Side To Side - Vatican DC
76 ( -- ) She's Got It - Misha Williams
77 ( 99 ) I Will Talk - Seafood
78 ( 63 ) Breaking Free - High School Musical (#63)
79 ( 100 ) Writer's Block - Just Jack
80 ( 64 ) Mothers Sisters Daughters & Wives - Voxtrot (#64)
81 ( 51 ) My Neighbour's House - Bluetones (#43)
82 ( -- ) The History Of Britain - New Rhodes
83 ( 33 ) Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis (#5)
84 ( 68 ) Impossible Sightings Over Shelton - Victorian English Gentlemen's Club (#68)
85 ( -- ) It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Meat Loaf ft Marion Haven
86 ( 44 ) Couldn't You Tell - BC Camplight (#25)
87 ( 57 ) Death Of A Star - 747s (#48)
88 ( -- ) I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree - Sleepy Jackson
89 ( -- ) Numb - Pet Shop Boys
90 ( 48 ) It's Only Pain - Katie Melua (#27)
91 ( 41 ) Lucy - Jealousy (#10)
92 ( 50 ) Happy As Annie - Larrikin Love (#29)
93 ( 76 ) Right Where You Want Me - Jesse McCartney (#76)
94 ( -- ) Whites Only Party - Dears
95 ( 53 ) Mama Your Boys Will Find A Home - Scissors For Lefty (#32)
96 ( -- ) Give In - Tina Dico
97 ( 55 ) Target - Embrace (#33)
98 ( 43 ) The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg - Iron Maiden (#1[4])
99 ( -- ) Listen - Snowfight In The City Centre
100 ( 69 ) Love Train - Wolfmother (#56)
_________________________________________________
-- ( 62 ) Hotel Room - Richard Hawley (#13)
-- ( 67 ) Time On My Hands - Five O'Clock Heroes (#40)
-- ( 70 ) Psychobaby - Love Minus Zero (#57)
-- ( 72 ) The Happy Song - Aliens (#59)
-- ( 74 ) Alive With The Glory Of Love - Say Anything (#18)
-- ( 77 ) A Place For You - Breaks Co-op (#62)
-- ( 78 ) Break My Heart Slowly - Nicky Wire (#66)
-- ( 80 ) Louisiana - Walkmen (#45)
-- ( 81 ) Starlight - Muse (#20)
-- ( 83 ) When You Were Young - Killers (#72)
-- ( 84 ) Spectre Of Love - Stranglers (#49)
-- ( 86 ) Not A Crime - Gogol Bordello (#4)
-- ( 88 ) It's Not that Easy - Lemar (#32)
-- ( 89 ) Red Flag - Billy Talent (#56)
-- ( 90 ) Young Pretender - Dustin's Bar Mitzvah (#2[1])
-- ( 92 ) Consolation Prizes - Phoenix (#64)
-- ( 93 ) Bring Back Tomorrow - Jynxt (#9)
-- ( 95 ) Many Lives 49 MP - Final Fantasy (#10)
-- ( 96 ) We're From Barcelona - I'm From Barcelona (#69)
-- ( 98 ) The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Part One) - Get Cape Wear Cape Fly (#77)
______________________________________________
-- ( -- ) Patent Pending - Heavens
-- ( -- ) Peace & Quiet - Rifles
-- ( -- ) The Rock 'N' Roll - Maybes
-- ( -- ) Stay With You - Goo Goo Dolls
-- ( -- ) Hole In The Earth - Deftones
( -- ) If You Got The Money - Jamie T
( -- ) Watching You - Rogue Traders
( -- ) Unlike Me - Kate Havnevik
( -- ) Headlock - Imogen Heap
( -- ) Like A Pen - Knife
________________________________________________
In the last few weeks, great songs have actually been getting their just deserts and topping the UK singles chart, which means that the top end of my chart is starting to look "familiar". In fact the "automatically generated" chart reversed the top 3, and had I left it that way and put MCR at #1 next week I'd have had 3 in a row UK/NM #1s, something that in the past has happened just once in 1980 with Jam/Detroit Spinners/Blondie around April of that year.
Sometimes I go through phases of not re-charting songs that have charted before and had a re-issue, however the chart has 4 such songs (Bedouin Soundclash, Corinne Bailey-Rae, Blueskins and Blackbud). Of those Blueskins was the biggest hit first time around, peaking at #7 in 2004.
It is exactly 17 years since "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" topped the chart for Pandora's Box - it reached #1 on 21 October 1989. Celine Dion's version reached #2 in 1996. It's difficult to see why they chose that and not a new song for Meat Loaf's release to promote the new album but it's done ok in the UK chart, reaching #6. I have bought the new album although I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet with my #1s show on - the Pandora's Box version came on yesterday during the show and really it rocks - in fact back in 1996 when I had a proper album chart the Celine Dion release inspired the Pandora's Box album back into the chart and it reached #2 - I would listen to it in the car on the way back from work.
Now my favourite song from that album is the very last one - The Future Ain't What It Used To Be and I was hoping they would give that to some diva to perform - both Heather Small and Oleta Adams were candidates in my mind for the song (the original singer was Gina Taylor, I don't know what ever became of her. I don't know whatever became of Oleta Adams either). Anyway, Meat Loaf has included that song on the new album so we'll see what has been made of it now. I might note that two of the songs on Original Sin were sung by Ellen Foley (well she narrated the Want Ad rather than singing it),. She was the female singer on Paradise By The Dashboard Light as well - the NM #1 of all time.
1 ( 1 ) I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters < 4th week at #1 >
2 ( 11 ) Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
3 ( 3 ) America - Razorlight
4 ( 2 ) Mean Son Of A Gun - Kitty Daisy & Lewis (#2[2])
5 ( 4 ) Replacement Man [toe rag version] - Dan Sartain (#4)
6 ( 18 ) Nothing's Gonna Change Your Mind - Badly Drawn Boy
7 ( 7 ) Suspicious Character - Blood Arm
8 ( 26 ) Girl That Speaks No Words - Infadels
9 ( 6 ) Sea Of Trouble - Cord (#6)
10 ( 12 ) Jump In My Car - David Hasselhoff
11 ( 5 ) Waterproof / Dick Around - Sparks (#4)
12 ( 32 ) Anglia - Laibach
13 ( 17 ) When The Night Feels My Song [RE] - Bedouin Soundclash (#17 in 2005)
14 ( -- ) Generator - Holloways
15 ( 9 ) Recover - Automatic (#9)
16 ( 15 ) Nothing I Can Do - Ben Taylor (#15)
17 ( 23 ) Run Run Run - Goldenhorse
18 ( 40 ) Meds - Placebo ft Alison Mosshart
19 ( 46 ) Work It Out - Jurassic 5 ft Dave Matthews Band
20 ( 8 ) Non Smoking Single Female - Eleanor McEvoy (#1[1])
21 ( 19 ) I Don't Wanna Go To School - Drugleader Cheerleader (#19)
22 ( 20 ) Jenny Don't Be Hasty - Paolo Nutini (#20)
23 ( 31 ) Don't Listen To The Radio - Vines
24 ( 10 ) Oh Stacey (Look What You've Done) - Zutons (#6)
25 ( 22 ) LDN - Lily Allen (#22)
26 ( -- ) Liberty Jones - Shakes
27 ( 24 ) Philadelphia - Mike Rosenberg Band (#24)
28 ( 54 ) Back In The Food Chain - My Elvis Blackout
29 ( -- ) Last Night I Nearly Died - Duke Spirit
30 ( 16 ) Let's Get Out Of This Country - Camera Obscura (#11)
31 ( 39 ) Sophia - Nerina Pallot
32 ( 60 ) Without - Jack Savoretti
33 ( 14 ) A Town Called Hypocrisy - Lostprophets (#8)
34 ( 21 ) Put Your Money Where Your Mouth is - Jet (#18)
35 ( 29 ) Judy - Pipettes (#29)
36 ( 13 ) Crush On You - Daniel O'Donnell (#4)
37 ( -- ) The Hit Parade - Unkle Bob
38 ( 65 ) Ring Of Fire - Dario G
39 ( -- ) Change My Mind [RE] - Blueskins
40 ( 34 ) Checkin' it Out - Lil' Chris (#34)
41 ( 49 ) Come Write Me Down - Memory Band
42 ( 37 ) English Gentleman - James Dean Bradfield (#37)
43 ( 28 ) Setting Sun - Howling Bells (#24)
44 ( 38 ) Wondering - Dirty Pretty Things (#38)
45 ( -- ) You're Like A Woman - Broken Family Band
46 ( 52 ) Make Out Fall Out Make Up - Love Is All
47 ( 27 ) The Rabbit - 12 Stone Toddler (#21)
48 ( 42 ) Here It Goes Again - Ok Go (#42)
49 ( 75 ) All Night Long - Blazin' Squad
50 ( -- ) Lonely At The Top - Ordinary Boys
51 ( 45 ) Once Upon A Time - Boyfriends (#45)
52 ( 79 ) Like A Star [RE] - Corinne Bailey Rae
53 ( 58 ) A Tried And Tested Method - Longcut
54 ( 36 ) Snakes on A Plane (Bring it) - Cobra Starship (#32)
55 ( -- ) Traffic Jam - Vega4
56 ( 25 ) Fill Me Up - Shawn Colvin (#14)
57 ( 47 ) Call Me When You're Sober - Evanescence (#47)
58 ( 82 ) Become The Enemy - Lemonheads
59 ( 61 ) Land Of Confusion - Disturbed
60 ( -- ) Forever [RE] - Blackbud
61 ( 85 ) When We Were Wolves - My Latest Novel
62 ( 66 ) Empire Building - David R Black
63 ( 87 ) Still The Only One - Webb Sisters
64 ( -- ) Bigger Than Dynamite - Deacon Blue
65 ( 91 ) Shine - Luther Vandross
66 ( 56 ) Up Close And Personal - South (#56)
67 ( -- ) Couldn't Be Done - Tim Finn
68 ( 71 ) Never Stop Waiting - Karen Louise
69 ( 94 ) ElectroBoogie - JD73
70 ( 73 ) Come Get it - Yummy Bingham
71 ( -- ) Wonderful World - James Morrison
72 ( 30 ) Hugging My Grudge - Boy Least Likely To (#8)
73 ( 59 ) Radiate - Oblique (#59)
74 ( 35 ) Farewell - Don McLean (#19)
75 ( 97 ) Side To Side - Vatican DC
76 ( -- ) She's Got It - Misha Williams
77 ( 99 ) I Will Talk - Seafood
78 ( 63 ) Breaking Free - High School Musical (#63)
79 ( 100 ) Writer's Block - Just Jack
80 ( 64 ) Mothers Sisters Daughters & Wives - Voxtrot (#64)
81 ( 51 ) My Neighbour's House - Bluetones (#43)
82 ( -- ) The History Of Britain - New Rhodes
83 ( 33 ) Chelsea Dagger - Fratellis (#5)
84 ( 68 ) Impossible Sightings Over Shelton - Victorian English Gentlemen's Club (#68)
85 ( -- ) It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Meat Loaf ft Marion Haven
86 ( 44 ) Couldn't You Tell - BC Camplight (#25)
87 ( 57 ) Death Of A Star - 747s (#48)
88 ( -- ) I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree - Sleepy Jackson
89 ( -- ) Numb - Pet Shop Boys
90 ( 48 ) It's Only Pain - Katie Melua (#27)
91 ( 41 ) Lucy - Jealousy (#10)
92 ( 50 ) Happy As Annie - Larrikin Love (#29)
93 ( 76 ) Right Where You Want Me - Jesse McCartney (#76)
94 ( -- ) Whites Only Party - Dears
95 ( 53 ) Mama Your Boys Will Find A Home - Scissors For Lefty (#32)
96 ( -- ) Give In - Tina Dico
97 ( 55 ) Target - Embrace (#33)
98 ( 43 ) The Reincarnation Of Benjamin Breeg - Iron Maiden (#1[4])
99 ( -- ) Listen - Snowfight In The City Centre
100 ( 69 ) Love Train - Wolfmother (#56)
_________________________________________________
-- ( 62 ) Hotel Room - Richard Hawley (#13)
-- ( 67 ) Time On My Hands - Five O'Clock Heroes (#40)
-- ( 70 ) Psychobaby - Love Minus Zero (#57)
-- ( 72 ) The Happy Song - Aliens (#59)
-- ( 74 ) Alive With The Glory Of Love - Say Anything (#18)
-- ( 77 ) A Place For You - Breaks Co-op (#62)
-- ( 78 ) Break My Heart Slowly - Nicky Wire (#66)
-- ( 80 ) Louisiana - Walkmen (#45)
-- ( 81 ) Starlight - Muse (#20)
-- ( 83 ) When You Were Young - Killers (#72)
-- ( 84 ) Spectre Of Love - Stranglers (#49)
-- ( 86 ) Not A Crime - Gogol Bordello (#4)
-- ( 88 ) It's Not that Easy - Lemar (#32)
-- ( 89 ) Red Flag - Billy Talent (#56)
-- ( 90 ) Young Pretender - Dustin's Bar Mitzvah (#2[1])
-- ( 92 ) Consolation Prizes - Phoenix (#64)
-- ( 93 ) Bring Back Tomorrow - Jynxt (#9)
-- ( 95 ) Many Lives 49 MP - Final Fantasy (#10)
-- ( 96 ) We're From Barcelona - I'm From Barcelona (#69)
-- ( 98 ) The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Part One) - Get Cape Wear Cape Fly (#77)
______________________________________________
-- ( -- ) Patent Pending - Heavens
-- ( -- ) Peace & Quiet - Rifles
-- ( -- ) The Rock 'N' Roll - Maybes
-- ( -- ) Stay With You - Goo Goo Dolls
-- ( -- ) Hole In The Earth - Deftones
( -- ) If You Got The Money - Jamie T
( -- ) Watching You - Rogue Traders
( -- ) Unlike Me - Kate Havnevik
( -- ) Headlock - Imogen Heap
( -- ) Like A Pen - Knife
________________________________________________
In the last few weeks, great songs have actually been getting their just deserts and topping the UK singles chart, which means that the top end of my chart is starting to look "familiar". In fact the "automatically generated" chart reversed the top 3, and had I left it that way and put MCR at #1 next week I'd have had 3 in a row UK/NM #1s, something that in the past has happened just once in 1980 with Jam/Detroit Spinners/Blondie around April of that year.
Sometimes I go through phases of not re-charting songs that have charted before and had a re-issue, however the chart has 4 such songs (Bedouin Soundclash, Corinne Bailey-Rae, Blueskins and Blackbud). Of those Blueskins was the biggest hit first time around, peaking at #7 in 2004.
It is exactly 17 years since "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" topped the chart for Pandora's Box - it reached #1 on 21 October 1989. Celine Dion's version reached #2 in 1996. It's difficult to see why they chose that and not a new song for Meat Loaf's release to promote the new album but it's done ok in the UK chart, reaching #6. I have bought the new album although I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet with my #1s show on - the Pandora's Box version came on yesterday during the show and really it rocks - in fact back in 1996 when I had a proper album chart the Celine Dion release inspired the Pandora's Box album back into the chart and it reached #2 - I would listen to it in the car on the way back from work.
Now my favourite song from that album is the very last one - The Future Ain't What It Used To Be and I was hoping they would give that to some diva to perform - both Heather Small and Oleta Adams were candidates in my mind for the song (the original singer was Gina Taylor, I don't know what ever became of her. I don't know whatever became of Oleta Adams either). Anyway, Meat Loaf has included that song on the new album so we'll see what has been made of it now. I might note that two of the songs on Original Sin were sung by Ellen Foley (well she narrated the Want Ad rather than singing it),. She was the female singer on Paradise By The Dashboard Light as well - the NM #1 of all time.
