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Post by SheriffFatman on Apr 30, 2018 6:39:07 GMT 1
The top 10 for the week ending 15 September 1991 is pretty epic. Reading upwards, Utah Saints, GnR, Erasure, Prodigy, Zoe, Oceanic, Salt n Pepa, and Right Said Fred. Only spoilt by the overwrought Loose Women soundtrack from Bryan "let's not credit the band" Adams. I've missed one out. This was at no. 9. I suppose the garage backing was for the airplay, but the gospel vocals made it a hit. Seems to be just about it for Sabrina Johnston, a few desultory follow-ups and that was all she wrote. But at least she had this stormer. Looking good for Gezza’s next 80s thread!
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Post by vastar iner on May 10, 2018 23:11:50 GMT 1
For Eurovision weekend it's worth mentioning a one-hit wonder performer who wrote a number of Eurovision entries, some successful, most not. Stephanie de Sykes wrote Co-Co's and Prima Donna's entries for the UK, and, perhaps in revenge for Cheryl losing with Co-Co but winning with Bucks Fizz, wrote a parody with quondam paramour Angus Deayton.
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Post by vastar iner on May 15, 2018 23:18:52 GMT 1
The margins between immortality and forgettability are so tight. Had it not been for a fifties-themed musical Clout would have spent a fortnight weeks at no. 1 and been hailed as the first female band to top the charts. And that might have got them a bit more of a run at the charts.
But instead it stopped at 2 and therefore is largely forgotten today. Unjustly as this is a f***ing BRILLIANT pop song.
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Post by vastar iner on May 18, 2018 20:19:42 GMT 1
There was a time in the late 80s when Jellybean Benitez seemed to be everywhere, mostly remixing Madonna, so to speak. He had a run of middling hits under his own name, with guest vocalists popping in and out, but who plays his stuff now? It's not that surprising given how mediocre it is, but he seemed to vanish from the charts surprisingly quickly.
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Post by raliverpool on May 18, 2018 21:13:20 GMT 1
Blue Mink - Melting Pot
This early 1970 UK #3 pop hit was written by Roger Cook & Roger Greenaway. Yet nearly 50 years later this incredibly well-meaning message in the song is now so cringe-inducing due to some of the lyrics and terms used. Hence, it has become quite literally forgotten due to the BBC banning this track in 2014.
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Post by Smurfie on May 18, 2018 21:56:49 GMT 1
There was a time in the late 80s when Jellybean Benitez seemed to be everywhere, mostly remixing Madonna, so to speak. He had a run of middling hits under his own name, with guest vocalists popping in and out, but who plays his stuff now? It's not that surprising given how mediocre it is, but he seemed to vanish from the charts surprisingly quickly. Sorry, Just A Mirage. Best Jellybean hit by a mile.
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Post by vastar iner on May 18, 2018 22:11:39 GMT 1
Blue Mink - Melting Pot
This early 1970 UK #3 pop hit was written by Roger Cook & Roger Greenaway. Yet nearly 50 years later this incredibly well-meaning message in the song is now so cringe-inducing due to some of the lyrics and terms used. Hence, it has become quite literally forgotten due to the BBC banning this track in 2014.
Although it did get a revival thanks to North Norfolk's finest...
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Post by vastar iner on May 22, 2018 21:45:52 GMT 1
The Cult are Troggs syndromers; best known for "She Sells Sanctuary" , which managed to reach no. 15 twice, but "Lil' Devil" was their biggest hit.
But their best hit was this ode to Warhol acolyte Edie Sedgwick. Bold, expansive, elegiac; it had "gigantic hit" all over it. Yet it only just scraped the 40.
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Post by Laurence on May 23, 2018 0:21:39 GMT 1
The top 10 for the week ending 15 September 1991 is pretty epic. Reading upwards, Utah Saints, GnR, Erasure, Prodigy, Zoe, Oceanic, Salt n Pepa, and Right Said Fred. Only spoilt by the overwrought Loose Women soundtrack from Bryan "let's not credit the band" Adams. I've missed one out. This was at no. 9. I suppose the garage backing was for the airplay, but the gospel vocals made it a hit. Seems to be just about it for Sabrina Johnston, a few desultory follow-ups and that was all she wrote. But at least she had this stormer. The chart a few weeks back when Prodigy, Oceanic and Utah Saints all entered the top 40 was pretty much a milestone chart. 1991 was by far the most diverse chart year ever and the one I’ll Never forget. Can’t wait till Gezza starts the 1991 thread!
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Post by raliverpool on May 23, 2018 20:46:25 GMT 1
Hot Chocolate - Brother Louie
Sounding like early War, this was a great 1973 UK #7 single about racism which has been largely overlooked for HC's more popular songs (It was covered by The Stories in the USA and that became the international hit). Largely due to the "PC" crowd causing the BBC to ban the track in 2012 so you don't hear the song on the radio or Alexis Korner's chilling language which hammers home its powerful message.
Just as today you can view gratuitous violence & swearing on TV to your hearts content, but jokes about Ms Slocombe's female cat are removed from repeats of Are You Being Served.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 3, 2018 12:30:31 GMT 1
There was enough promise in this single to suggest It Bites might have a future; elements of power pop, synth pop, even prog and rock. But they never scaled such dizzy heights again. Wonder if that was because of their rubbish name. Or because they were from Cumbria, so a bit remote from the music media, which thought Watford was a bit here be dragons.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 8, 2018 20:56:49 GMT 1
One of the many quondam boy bands who had a huge amount of hype and never got the sales to justify (q.v. Bad Boys Inc, North & South). Bit weird that 2wo Third3 took the Thompson Twins look even though the name had been taken by The Thompson Twins. This might have done a bit better had they bothered with another verse or so, it's a monocultural song. Four hit singles and the album was shelved - a not uncommon fate back then; q.v., er, North & South.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 17, 2018 18:31:41 GMT 1
From the Why The f*** Did They Bother...
"hey, here's a great idea, let's take a sublime and subtle Roxy Music hit, and stick a sh*tty dance beat all over the top of it."
Was this meant to showcase Emmie? In which case why not let her voice emerge a bit more? Or maybe she could not sing. Anyhoo, it is indicative of the way the industry was going then, in that having a top 5 hit with your debut was not good enough to warrant a follow-up release. The one in the can was canned.
Although Ms Morton-Smith herself managed an unusual feat. Her first four charting singles were as part of four different acts - this one, her second with WIP, her third with Indien, and her fourth with Lovebug.
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Post by vastar iner on Jun 20, 2018 23:35:50 GMT 1
The hypocrisy of musicians? Dr Robert had a fairly proud leftist stance, as a member of Red Wedge. Yet The Blow Monkeys were named after an ethnic slur against didgeridoo players. And, like with The Smiths, Socialist principles are out of the window when there's the chance to have a bit of success - he plunged headfirst into yuppiedom to get airplay.
But this single with Kym Mazelle is a bit of a belter. A hint of Italian house and Kym's lungbusting voice take what could have been a mundane throwaway bit of fluff into something rather epic.
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Post by Wanderlust on Jun 23, 2018 9:56:20 GMT 1
This creepy affair from Winx 'Don't Laugh' (aka Josh Wink)
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Post by Wanderlust on Jun 23, 2018 10:01:57 GMT 1
Don-E 'Love Makes The World Go Round'. Pleasant enough poppy r and b/hip hop
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 23, 2018 10:13:59 GMT 1
Jo Breezer - Venus And Mars
I’m pretty sure I bought this at the time. 17 years later and Ms Breezer is still waiting to follow up this Top 27 smash.
I would let you know what she has been up to since, but even Wikipedia forgot about her chart career.
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Post by Smurfie on Jun 23, 2018 10:16:41 GMT 1
I really liked 2wo Third3! Nelly obviously copying the lead singer with the trademark plaster on his face.
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Post by vastar iner on Jul 1, 2018 17:49:26 GMT 1
Perry Como had only one minor hit single between 1960 and 1971, but he had an incongruous comeback in the 1970s that saw him score a couple of top fives, and four other top 40s. This was the closest he got to a first chart-topper in 15 years, kept off no. 1 by a glam rock tag team of Wizzard and Sweet.
Which in a sense shows the change in the evolution of music. In those 15 years crooners had been almost obliterated from the charts; we had had the Beatles and the Stones, Hendrix, the rise of metal, the rise of bubblegum, glam, rock, soul, funk. Nearly everything had happened in that time.
In the last 15 years now we've had Drake and Bieber.
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Post by vya on Jul 3, 2018 18:13:02 GMT 1
The summer of 1989, near London, I think of as having been idyllically warm and sunny as it is where I am, a bit further away from London, now. But maybe it was just that I was sufficiently young to be carefree...
There were a few really nice mellow almost dancey tracks around in the charts, including three rival versions of "Joy and Pain" (although it must be said the the Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock version was a not a patch on the re-released original by Frankie Beverley and Maze, or the new, and rather excellent, cover by Donna Allen). In a similar vibe was this - too overlooked at the time, by a singer who never quite got the degree of success that I thought she deserved. I think she (like Prince, at times), played all the instruments on her records as well as singing on them. Her couple of big hits got a bit of attention, but her smaller hits, like this one, seem as forgotten as the rest of her output. A pity.
Joyce Sims - Looking For A Love
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