* NM Top 75 singles, 4 December 2004 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 6 ) So What Could I Do / Trouble Is - Cranebuilders < 1st #1 hit >
2 ( 2 ) Interstate 5 - Wedding Present
3 ( 4 ) Paint The Moon - Czars
4 ( 1 ) Akira The Don's First EP - Akira The Don (#1[5])
5 ( 3 ) Kiss On The Lips - Dualers (#2[1])
6 ( 7 ) My Declaration [RE] - Tom Baxter
7 ( 5 ) Mary - Scissor Sisters (#3)
8 ( 12 ) Ashes - Embrace
9 ( 8 ) I Believe In The Good Of Life - Hidden Cameras (#8)
10 ( 19 ) A Pattern / Tape 23 - Fans Of Kate

11 ( 20 ) This Is The Last Time [RE] - Keane (#1[5] in 2003)
12 ( 15 ) Massive Crush - Barbs
13 ( 24 ) If There's Any Justice In The World - Lemar
14 ( 18 ) Born In The 70s - Ed Harcourt
15 ( 23 ) Contrary Mary - Thee Unstrung
16 ( 17 ) Never Enough [re] - Open
17 ( 32 ) Irish Son - Brian McFadden
18 ( 13 ) Happy People - R Kelly (#13)
19 ( 11 ) Here Am I - Mercedes (#9)
20 ( 25 ) Hotride - Prodigy

21 ( 10 ) Francesca - Special Needs (#7)
22 ( 9 ) Amerika - Rammstein (#4)
23 ( 28 ) Dreaming - I Dream ft Frankie & Calvin
24 ( 31 ) Lua - Bright Eyes
25 ( 21 ) Old Habits Die Hard - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart (#21)
26 ( 33 ) Take It Easy (Love Machine) - Bright Eyes
27 ( 16 ) Cold Man's Nightmare - Cathy Davey (#16)
28 ( 42 ) Party For Two - Shania Twain ft Mark McGrath
29 ( 26 ) Better Get Ready For A Fist Fight - Wonder Stuff (#25)
30 ( 14 ) Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey (#2[4])

31 ( 44 ) Room On The 3rd Floor - McFly
32 ( 48 ) Lost In A Melody / Wanderlust - Delays
33 ( 29 ) Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram (#29)
34 ( 41 ) Psycho Killer - Rico
35 ( -- ) Right To Be Wrong - Joss Stone
36 ( 43 ) Hard Hand To Hold - Willy Mason
37 ( 22 ) I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs (#20)
38 ( 52 ) Not For All The Love In The World - Thrills
39 ( -- ) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
40 ( 47 ) Nothing Wrong With You - Finn Brothers

41 ( 34 ) Why Do I Do - Tyler James (#31)
42 ( 50 ) Breathless / There She Goes My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
43 ( 37 ) The Bucket - Kings Of Leon (#34)
44 ( -- ) Could Well Be In - Streets
45 ( 56 ) Unconditional - Bravery
46 ( 51 ) Change Your Tune - Great Northwestern Hoboes
47 ( 38 ) Pressure / Cow Cow Yicky - Neville Staple (#38)
48 ( 49 ) Turn The Radio Up - Loose Salute (#48)
49 ( 75 ) Two Thousand Places - Polyphonic Spree
50 ( 61 ) Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse

51 ( 53 ) Prince Harry - Soho Doll
52 ( -- ) She Wants To Be Me - Busted
53 ( 57 ) What Ya Crying For - Landaus
54 ( 45 ) Vertigo - U2 (#39)
55 ( 65 ) London Bridge / End Of An Era - Dogs
56 ( 39 ) Wasn't Even Looking - Jukes (#39)
57 ( 66 ) Welcome To My Truth - Anastacia
58 ( 40 ) First Day Of My Life - Rasmus (#36)
59 ( -- ) Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid 20
60 ( 64 ) Wow Machine - Caves

61 ( 58 ) Smash It Up - Damned (#58)
62 ( -- ) Persimmon Tree - Midnight Movies < DEBUT >
63 ( 60 ) I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud (#60)
64 ( 68 ) I Love You More Than Rock 'N' Roll - Thunder
65 ( 27 ) Riot Radio - Dead 60s (#13)
66 ( 70 ) What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani
67 ( -- ) Killamangiro - Baby Shambles
68 ( 72 ) Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
69 ( -- ) Ladyflash - Go! Team
70 ( 59 ) One Moment More - Mindy Smith (#44)
71 ( 30 ) What Became Of The Likely Lads - Libertines (#18)
72 ( 62 ) Lost In The Plot - Dears (#50)
73 ( -- ) Angels From The Ashes - Blair Douglas < DEBUT >
74 ( 35 ) The Long Goodbye - A Girl Called Eddy (#16)
75 ( 36 ) Breeze On By - Donny Osmond (#3)
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-- ( 46 ) Butterflies & Hurricanes - Muse (#1[1])
-- ( 54 ) Heaven - Los Lonely Boys (#36)
-- ( 55 ) Monster - Beauty Shop (#9)
-- ( 63 ) I Love A Good Fight - Jobriath (#12)
-- ( 67 ) Hit The City - Mark Lanegan Band
-- ( 69 ) All That I'm Allowed (I'm Thankful) - Elton John (#38)
-- ( 71 ) Cinnamon Girl - Prince (#53)
-- ( 73 ) Radio - Robbie Williams (#3)
-- ( 74 ) The Love Of Richard Nixon - Manic Street Preachers (#21)
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-- ( -- ) Circle Of Fifths - Clinic
-- ( -- ) Ride It - Geri Halliwell
-- ( -- ) Bloody Mother F**king Asshole - Martha Wainwright
-- ( -- ) Do You Think You're Movin' On - Basement
-- ( -- ) Wonderful Night - Fatboy Slim
-- ( -- ) Some Say - Kristian Leontiou
-- ( -- ) Nightrocker - Chalets
-- ( -- ) Rip It Up [RI] - Razorlight
-- ( -- ) Good Show - Dive Dive
-- ( -- ) Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
-- ( -- ) Flying - Bryan Adams
-- ( -- ) Get On Your Life - Black Velvets
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There it is, comments to follow. But for many who thought the Wedding Present were pretty much certainties to be #1 this week. Oh well, there's always "Edinburgh.."

[TheThorne]

ahhh you fixed it, you just like to keep us guessing

NM cant be predictable can he? ? ?

[Sofie]

You told me that the new single was NOT called Edingbrugh...

Thorney - sometimes Nm CAN be predictable...

[Sofie]

Ok, proper comments now:

Good chart. Still not heard your #1.

Only know one of your bubblers (Tasha) hopefully I'll be able to hear more. How many of them are you actually sharing on Soul Seek?

With the exception of Scissor Sisters, great Top 10 - from what I've heard anyway.

Don't know many of your new entries, only two I really remember are Busted and Band Aid 20. The Busted song is quite good ( ) but am not too keen on the Band Aid 20 song. Maybe it'll grow on me, but I doubt it.

Good to see Thrills rising, it'd be nice to see them rise some more.

@ Dead 60s falling. TBh, I'm slightly bored of it now.

Maybe Thorney's right - #1 is probably a fix, even though last night, I think you said that Cranebuilders did have a chancve and at that time, you weren't too sure about which song was going to be #1...

[TheThorne]

35 ( -- ) Right To Be Wrong - Joss Stone

almost made by bubblers shes had hits in my cahrt but just couldnt squeeze thsi one in.

39 ( -- ) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day

amazing on eof the songs of the year and arguably Green Day's finest moment yet.

44 ( -- ) Could Well Be In - Streets

The lyrics really make me cringe its like a p*sstake

52 ( -- ) She Wants To Be Me - Busted

havent really heard this

59 ( -- ) Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid 20

first minute great then it turns into a dirgey mess as the song goes to its throw in the kitchen sink finale


62 ( -- ) Persimmon Tree - Midnight Movies < DEBUT >

havent heard

67 ( -- ) Killamangiro - Baby Shambles

2nd best song out last week

69 ( -- ) Ladyflash - Go! Team

good stuff very like The Avalanches

73 ( -- ) Angels From The Ashes - Blair Douglas < DEBUT >

dont know this one either

[Earl Purple]

I just know what I've seen on the website - the song "Edinburgh" I first heard played as a Cinerama song at a gig in October 2003, just before the release of "Don't Touch That Dial". I read on the site that the song was being retitled to "I'm Further North Than You" but I don't know for certain if that's the case. In any case, as a January release it will probably have very little competition.

Green Day's last single "American Idiot" performed rather badly in this chart. I think the new one is a bit better and will do well because of the shortage of new material as we get closer to Christmas. Their first NM hit "Welcome To Paradise" actually reached #2, not sure if it was really worth that position, and then "Basket Case" reached #5. But for the next 3 years they failed to chart at all. Their comeback was made in style though, as "Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)" went to #1, removing the seemingly unremovable "Angels", though it could only stay on top for 1 week before Cornershop became the only act in NM chart history (excluding Abba on the first ever chart) to debut at #1 with "Brimful Of Asha".

Busted chart with a 3" single release, which is obviously chart-ineligible in the UK. I mentioned somewhere that if they had released all this kind of music 4 years ago, I might have been a bit more excited by them, but there are so many bands now charting with this sort of music.
There were quite a few posts on the Naked Apes Guestbook liking them to Busted, although they are not really that similar - but this song almost brings them closer, albeit bringing Busted closer to being the Naked Apes, which is I think what they'd really like to be. (Can you imagine though what the reaction would be if Busted released "If You See Kay?").

"Midnight Movies" is a very moody song, a bit like the Wedding Present one. "Angels From The Ashes" is from Blair Douglas of Runrig, is instrumental and very Scottish with bagpipes. I think it was released for St Andrews Day (30 November).

[Sofie]

Earl said:

(Can you imagine though what the reaction would be if Busted released "If You See Kay?").

No and I'd rather not think about that

[baskerville]

As usual, haven't heard most of the songs, but I'm trying to find some.

The Blair Douglas looks like it would appeal to me (love the pipes).

I think I dated Martha Wainwright. ;D

[anna]

b]1 ( 6 ) So What Could I Do / Trouble Is - Cranebuilders < 1st #1 hit >[/b]
2 ( 2 ) Interstate 5 - Wedding Present
3 ( 4 ) Paint The Moon - Czars
4 ( 1 ) Akira The Don's First EP - Akira The Don (#1[5])
5 ( 3 ) Kiss On The Lips - Dualers (#2[1])
6 ( 7 ) My Declaration [RE] - Tom Baxter ;D
7 ( 5 ) Mary - Scissor Sisters (#3) ;D
8 ( 12 ) Ashes - Embrace
9 ( 8 ) I Believe In The Good Of Life - Hidden Cameras (#8) yawn
10 ( 19 ) A Pattern / Tape 23 - Fans Of Kate

11 ( 20 ) This Is The Last Time [RE] - Keane (#1[5] in 2003)
12 ( 15 ) Massive Crush - Barbs this is fun
13 ( 24 ) If There's Any Justice In The World - Lemar
14 ( 18 ) Born In The 70s - Ed Harcourt
15 ( 23 ) Contrary Mary - Thee Unstrung
16 ( 17 ) Never Enough [re] - Open
17 ( 32 ) Irish Son - Brian McFadden
18 ( 13 ) Happy People - R Kelly (#13)
19 ( 11 ) Here Am I - Mercedes (#9)
20 ( 25 ) Hotride - Prodigy

21 ( 10 ) Francesca - Special Needs (#7)
22 ( 9 ) Amerika - Rammstein (#4)
23 ( 28 ) Dreaming - I Dream ft Frankie & Calvin
24 ( 31 ) Lua - Bright Eyes
25 ( 21 ) Old Habits Die Hard - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart (#21)
26 ( 33 ) Take It Easy (Love Machine) - Bright Eyes yawn
27 ( 16 ) Cold Man's Nightmare - Cathy Davey (#16)
28 ( 42 ) Party For Two - Shania Twain ft Mark McGrath
29 ( 26 ) Better Get Ready For A Fist Fight - Wonder Stuff (#25)
30 ( 14 ) Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey (#2[4])

31 ( 44 ) Room On The 3rd Floor - McFly
32 ( 48 ) Lost In A Melody / Wanderlust - Delays
33 ( 29 ) Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram (#29)
34 ( 41 ) Psycho Killer - Rico
35 ( -- ) Right To Be Wrong - Joss Stone
36 ( 43 ) Hard Hand To Hold - Willy Mason
37 ( 22 ) I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs (#20)
38 ( 52 ) Not For All The Love In The World - Thrills
39 ( -- ) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
40 ( 47 ) Nothing Wrong With You - Finn Brothers

41 ( 34 ) Why Do I Do - Tyler James (#31)
42 ( 50 ) Breathless / There She Goes My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
43 ( 37 ) The Bucket - Kings Of Leon (#34)
44 ( -- ) Could Well Be In - Streets
45 ( 56 ) Unconditional - Bravery
46 ( 51 ) Change Your Tune - Great Northwestern Hoboes
47 ( 38 ) Pressure / Cow Cow Yicky - Neville Staple (#38)
48 ( 49 ) Turn The Radio Up - Loose Salute (#48)
49 ( 75 ) Two Thousand Places - Polyphonic Spree
50 ( 61 ) Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse not too bad

51 ( 53 ) Prince Harry - Soho Doll
52 ( -- ) She Wants To Be Me - Busted
53 ( 57 ) What Ya Crying For - Landaus
54 ( 45 ) Vertigo - U2 (#39)
55 ( 65 ) London Bridge / End Of An Era - Dogs
56 ( 39 ) Wasn't Even Looking - Jukes (#39)
57 ( 66 ) Welcome To My Truth - Anastacia
58 ( 40 ) First Day Of My Life - Rasmus (#36)
59 ( -- ) Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid 20
60 ( 64 ) Wow Machine - Caves

61 ( 58 ) Smash It Up - Damned (#58)
62 ( -- ) Persimmon Tree - Midnight Movies < DEBUT >
63 ( 60 ) I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud (#60)
64 ( 68 ) I Love You More Than Rock 'N' Roll - Thunder
65 ( 27 ) Riot Radio - Dead 60s (#13)
66 ( 70 ) What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani ;D
67 ( -- ) Killamangiro - Baby Shambles
68 ( 72 ) Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
69 ( -- ) Ladyflash - Go! Team
70 ( 59 ) One Moment More - Mindy Smith (#44)
71 ( 30 ) What Became Of The Likely Lads - Libertines (#18)
72 ( 62 ) Lost In The Plot - Dears (#50)
73 ( -- ) Angels From The Ashes - Blair Douglas < DEBUT >
74 ( 35 ) The Long Goodbye - A Girl Called Eddy (#16)
75 ( 36 ) Breeze On By - Donny Osmond (#3)

[Earl Purple]

Thank you Anna for your comments. You don't know "Paint The Moon" ? - it's Carol's favourite song from my chart.

[Sofie]

Am listenign to the Blair Douglas song now, it's quite good. Are you sharing anything else like this or by Blair Douglas?

[Earl Purple]

I'm not sharing anything else but have a search for Runrig.

[anna]

Earl said:

Thank you Anna for your comments. You don't know "Paint The Moon" ? - it's Carol's favourite song from my chart.

Well I must look out for that one then. I'll try in a minute.

[anna]

www.xfm.co.uk/Article.asp?id=54370

I like this, it's moody isn't it. I think, at a push, Baskerville might like this one. He's big on lyrics.

[Earl Purple]

I don't know how you get that page to work. I thought it may have something to do with me blocking cookies - I tried to set my computer to accept all cookies but it went and blocked them anyway.

[Sofie]

That Paint The Moon song is quite good.

And I can't find that Blair Douglas song mentioned...