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Post by raliverpool on Aug 19, 2014 22:12:45 GMT 1
330 Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do 94
329 David Bowie - Buddha Of Suburbia 93
The theme song to the brilliant BBC TV series of the same name based on the Hanif Kureishi near autobiographical book about the English playwright & screenwriter growing up as a mixed race teenager in the 1970s as part of Bromley Contingent. Its appropriately nostalgic lyrics were matched by a sound that was a deliberate pastiche of Bowie's past work, while retaining a contemporary sound. Two places in the song there are references to older Bowie songs, the guitar break from "Space Oddity" and the line "Zane, zane, zane, ouvre le chien" from "All the Madmen". Personally I rate "Buddha" as Bowie's best post 1980 album.
328 Kylie Minogue - Confide In Me 94 327 World Party - Message In A Box 90
326 Eddi Reader - Patience Of Angels 94
The former Fairground Attraction singer/songwriter recorded this Boo Hewerdine (The Bible) song as the lead single from her second solo album Eddi Reader where it reached UK #33. This single, and the album, along with a lack of competition enabled her to win the Best British Female at the following year's BRIT awards.
325 Pulp - Disco 2000 95 324 Levellers ft Joe Strummer - Just The One 95 323 Paula Cole ft Peter Gabriel - Hush Hush Hush 97 322 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open 91 321 Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows 90
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 19, 2014 22:51:17 GMT 1
Did "Endless Art" get a lot of airplay? I only recall it the once from The Chart Show. Brilliant track, later followed up with "More Endless Art", this time namechecking female artists alone.
Terry Hall also had a hit with "Sense". Difficult to split his and the Seeds' version, it's such a gem of a song. The Lightning Seeds' single bag had one of those heat sensitive strips on it that were in vogue at the time (Global Hypercolor anyone?), which read "sense" if you rubbed it hard enough. (And the strip. Wahey!)
"Candy" was a great track, rather a poignant duo. Perhaps now with another two decades behind them it would have been a sort of "Hurt". Shoutout as well to VotB, who turned a Partridge (Family, not Alan/Don) hit into a bit of a classic.
"Message In A Box" was 1990? Wow, where does the time go...
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 21, 2014 18:31:49 GMT 1
320 Thomas Dolby - Close But No Cigar 92
Taken from his last major label album release on Virgin (Astronauts & Heretics), this track featuring Eddie Van Halen on guitar, a Sgt Pepper's sample, and a clever lyric and clever video made UK #22.
319 Sting - Fields Of Gold 93 318 Inspiral Carpets - Dragging Me Down 92 317 Del Amitri - Always The Last To Know 92 316 Tricky - Black Steel 95 315 Supergrass - Pumping Up The Stereo 99 314 Space ft Cerys Matthews - The Ballad Of Tom Jones 98 313 Pearl Jam - Jeremy 92
312 Saint Etienne - Avenue 92
This UK #40 hit was the lead single from Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs stylish indie dance group featuring the now settled lead vocals of Sarah Cracknell doing there best Cocteau Twins impersonation.
311 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 93
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 21, 2014 18:47:12 GMT 1
310 Chesney Hawkes - The One and Only 91 309 Lush - Single Girl 96 308 Aimee Mann - Stupid Thing 93 307 Nirvana - Lithium 92
306 Belly - Feed The Tree 93
The first single from ex-Throwing Muses' Tanya Donnelly's band debut album, Star, topped the US Modern Rock tracks as well as reaching USA #95. It also made UK #32. Sadly the Boston based band never came close to matching this track.
305 Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy 96 304 Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time? 94 303 Janet Jackson - That's The Way Love Goes 93 302 Barenaked Ladies - One Week 99
301 Unkle ft Richard Ashcroft - Lonely Soul 98
Taken from their debut album Psyence Fiction James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy trip hop act (with the help of DJ Shadow) made a patchy, yet frequently great album featuring a number of different lead singers including Thom Yorke; Ian Brown; Badly Drawn Boy; Mike D (Beastie Boys); and this track featuring Richard Ashcroft. This was never released as a single in the UK (goodness knows why); although this 9 minute panoramic epic was in North America, Scandinavia, & Australasia.
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 21, 2014 20:01:48 GMT 1
300 TLC - Unpretty 99 299 Supergrass - Alright 95
298 Kim Appleby - Don't Worry 90
Formerly of the duo Mel and Kim, with her sister Melanie Appleby, this was her debut solo release after her sister's death from pneumonia following treatment for cancer. Co-written by her boyfriend, ex-Bros bassist Craig Logan this great forgotten pop song was denied the UK #1 spot by the wretched 25 year old reissue of the Righteous Brothers' Unchained Melody (AKA Simon Cowell's all time favourite song); and was a top 10 hit across Europe.
297 Suede - Animal Nitrate 93 296 Echobelly - Great Things 95 295 Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl 94 294 The KLF - 3 A.M. Eternal 91 293 Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next 99 292 The Corrs - Radio 99
291 Ian McNabb - Great Dreams Of Heaven 91
Taken from the Liverpudlian singer/songwriter's debut album Truth & Beauty after the Icicle Works had split. This was its debut release. Sounding like The Byrds meets Sugar alas this failed to trouble the UK Top 75.
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 21, 2014 20:22:27 GMT 1
290 Saint Etienne - Hobart Paving 93
289 Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (1997 The Dance) 97
Written by its vocalist Stevie Nicks, it was first featured on the band's 1975 eponymous album Fleetwood Mac. However, it was the live version with a greater vocal gravitas released as a single nearly 23 years later from the live reunion album The Dance, which saw it become a standard. As it has since been covered by the Dixie Chicks (USA #7), and too many to mention American Idol, The Voice, X-Factor USA contestants, the Glee Cast, etc to mention, resulting in it being a frequent USA iTunes Top 200 entry; so according to Apple in February 2013 it had become Fleetwood Mac's most downloaded track of the digital era.
288 Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella 97 287 Santana ft Rob Thomas - Smooth 99
286 Roxette - Wish I Could Fly 99
Originally written for the 1999 James Bond movie theme The World Is Not Enough by the duo's male member Per Gessle. The clearly deaf film producers choose the for once living up to their name Garbage track instead. So after changing the lyrics, this Massive Attack meets James Bond panoramic track sung by Marie Fredriksson promptly became a huge hit across Europe (the duo's biggest for 6 years) including topping the European aggregate chart, and made UK #11. It even became their final USA Top 100 hit (their first in 5 years) at USA #40.
285 Radiohead - Karma Police 97 284 Len - Steal My Sunshine 99 283 Dinosaur Jr - Start Choppin' 93 282 U2 - The Fly 91 281 Primal Scream - Loaded 90
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 21, 2014 21:08:08 GMT 1
Belly IMO definitely did match "Feed The Tree", with the utterly, utterly, gloriously, upliftingly addictive "Gepetto". Another one of those begging to be a hit all over again.
The cover of "Close But No Cigar" was an homage to Magritte's "Ceci N'est Pas Un Pipe". Genius.
"3am Eternal" (which is the answer to "What Time Is Love?") and "Loaded" are both iconic. Whatever happened to Len? "Steal My Sunshine" was a sweetheart pop song. Remember them on The Big Breakfast with gaffa tape over their mouths. No idea why.
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Post by greendemon on Aug 22, 2014 18:01:41 GMT 1
i had no idea that 'wish i could fly' was originally written to be the theme for 'the world is not enough'! although the film is one of the weakest in the franchise and frankly doesn't deserve a song as good as that.
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 22, 2014 19:39:57 GMT 1
280 REM - Find The River 93
Taken from the Athens, Georgia alternative rockers 8th & best IMHO album Automatic For The People is the sixth and final single from it. The song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and struggled to UK #54, but the incredible angst-ridden emotional harmonies on this piano + acoustic guitar track made a fantastic album closer, which persuaded more people to buy one of the best albums of the decade or any decade.
279 Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet 91 278 Alanis Morissette - Thank U 98 277 Dionne Farris - Hopeless 97
276 Paul Young - Now I Know What Made Otis Blue 93
Whilst Paul Young voice was never the same after he damaged his vocal chords after recording his second solo album, this superb 1960s Stax homage (name checking the classic 1966 Otis Redding album) gave him his last major international hit including UK #14.
275 George Michael - Heal The Pain 91 274 Eels - Novacaine For The Soul 97 273 Pulp - Something Changed 96 272 Leftfield Lydon - Open Up 93 271 Basement Jaxx - Red Alert 99
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 22, 2014 20:04:27 GMT 1
270 The Bluetones - Slight Return 96 269 Radiohead - Just 95 268 Prince - Gold 95 267 Oasis - Wonderwall 95 266 Catatonia - Dead From The Waist Down 99
265 Nuyorican Soul ft India - Runaway 97
AKA the project of the Masters of Work house producers/remix duo of "Little" Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez when working with real musicians. This track features the unmistakeable sound of the legendary rhythm guitarist/producer/songwriter and all round good guy Nile Rodgers on a quite superb Chic Organisation pastiche. This made UK #24.
264 Longpigs - Lost Myself 96
The Sheffield alternative rock band who rose to fame on the fringe of Britpop in the 1990s; comprising Crispin Hunt on vocals, and Richard Hawley on guitar. Whilst their On & On track is regarded as their finest effort, I always preferred this UK#22 track from their debut album The Sun Is Often Out as it's melanchly reminds me of Radiohead circa The Bends meets Suede circa Dog Man Star which is no bad thing.
263 Elliott Smith - Happiness 99 262 Beck - Loser 94 261 Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl 99
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 22, 2014 20:36:20 GMT 1
260 Aerosmith - Livin' On The Edge 93 259 Neil Finn - She Will Have Her Way 98 258 Emilia - Big Big World 98 257 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart 96
256 Boy Krazy - That's What Love Can Do 93
Arguably the pop equivalent of the old Peter & The Wolf fable. After over half a decade of inflicting musical crimes earworms on the pop universe with the odd pop gem very few and far between Stock Aitken & Waterman crafted this gem (originally slated for the lead single of the second Donna Summer collaboration album that never occurred). In 1991 Debbie Gibson's "mumager" Diane Gibson heard this demo and acquiesced the track for a New York girlgroup (female version of New Kids On The Block) she was also managing (hence Kylie Minogue never got her hands on it). Initially recorded in 1991 the track just failed to reach the USA Top 100 and limped to UK #86. At the end of 1992, the song took off in North American nightclubs, and radio airplay soon followed, prompting a re-release in early 1993 resulting in it peaking at USA #18 (SAW's last USA Top 40 hit); but after its success in the USA it was remixed and reissued, but because the public had rightly turned on the SAW brand it received minimal airplay and made UK #80. In 1999 Pete Waterman produced a terrible B*Witched/Atomic Kitten makeover of "That's What Love Can Do" credited to Toutes Les Filles which made UK #44.
255 Amy Grant - Baby Baby 91 254 The Corrs - Runaway 95 253 Silje - Tell Me Where You're Going 90
252 Paul Brady - Nobody Knows 92
The veteran Irish folk-rock singer-songwriter recorded this for his 6th studio album Trick or Treat. Despite making #2 in his native Ireland this never became a hit in the UK. Still please be thankful Louis Walsh's Borezone or Feck$h!te never ruined covered it.
251 Crowded House - Private Universe 94
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 22, 2014 20:55:01 GMT 1
250 REM - Daysleeper 98 249 PJ Harvey - Sheila-Na-Gig 92 248 Air - Kelly Watch The Stars 98 247 Madonna - Beautiful Stranger 99
246 Kirsty MacColl - Don't Come the Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim! 90
This self-penned track about the vagaries of love in a superb country music homage was the 4th and final single taken from her 1989 album Kite. It really is criminal to think the UK public are responsible for this song only making UK #82.
245 Bryan Adams & Melanie C - When You're Gone 98
244 Banderas - This Is Your Life 91
The group was an offshoot of Jimmy Sommerville's band The Communards, and featured one of his female backing musicians Sally Herbert, along with the shaven headed singer Caroline Buckley. This international one hit wonder which made UK #16 features the guitar and production of Johnny Marr (alongside Stephen Hague). Oddly it was written by Roger Swallow, a drummer/percussionist in numerous late 1960s/1970s acts of the English folk scene.
243 Kylie Minogue - Better The Devil You Know 90 242 2Pac ft Dr Dre - California Love 96 241 The Mock Turtles - Can U Dig It? 91
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 25, 2014 15:44:50 GMT 1
240 Cyndi Lauper - That's What I Think 93 239 Paul Weller - Wild Wood 93
238 Mansun - Stripper Vicar 96
Taken from the Chester Britpop band's debut album Attack of the Grey Lantern, this indie disco effort was the lead track from their Third EP, which peaked at UK #19.
237 Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro 90 236 Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die 97 235 George Michael - Fastlove 96 234 My Bloody Valentine - Soon 90 233 TLC - Waterfalls 95 232 The Auteurs - Show Girl 92
231 That Petrol Emotion - Tingle 91
Taken from their 1990 album Chemicrazy produced by Scott Litt, came this very catchy updated Marc Bolan inspired track which deserved to do far better than UK #49.
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 25, 2014 16:00:36 GMT 1
230 Rick Astley - Cry For Help 91 229 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl 92 228 Blur - Beetlebum 97
227 Merril Bainbridge - Mouth 95
The Melbourne, Australia, pop music singer/songwriter spent 6 weeks at #1 in her native country with this her debut single. It subsequently peaked at USA #4, but in the UK it only reached #51. Nowadays she has become Australia's answer to Cathy Dennis working with various Australian Idol alumni.
226 David Bowie - Thursday's Child 99 225 Levellers - One Way 91 224 The Beautiful South - Old Red Eyes Is Back 92 223 Stereolab - French Disko 93 222 Daft Punk - Da Funk 97
221 Depeche Mode - Halo 90
Never released as a single in the UK, or USA. This bouncy yet sinister synthpop track from Violator was released in Latin America, and in several Mediterranean countries where it became a huge hit single thanks to the uncharacteristically colourful and silly Anton Corbijn directed video.
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 25, 2014 16:26:14 GMT 1
220 Sounds Of Blackness - Optimistic 91
219 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms 97
This UK #53 track is taken from the Australian band's 10th studio album The Boatman's Call, this piano based track melancholic lyrics were inspired by Cave's break-up with English musician PJ Harvey. More famously Cave performed the song at the funeral of his friend, INXS singer Michael Hutchence, but requested the cameras recording the service be switched off as he performed. (If only Elton John had done the same?)
218 George Michael - Cowboys & Angels 91 217 Lionel Richie - My Destiny 92 216 Everything But The Girl - Missing (Remix) 95 215 Robbie Williams - No Regrets 98 214 They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul 90 213 The Charlatans - Weirdo 92
212 Propaganda - Only One Word 90
After a protracted legal battle with ZTT (not helped by lead singer Claudia Brücken leaving Propaganda to pursue a solo career, remaining signed to ZTT), the German outfit left the record label to sign with Virgin. The band (initially still including Michael Mertens, Ralf Dörper and Susanne Freytag) signed to Virgin Records, and began recording new material adding American vocalist Betsi Miller, bassist Derek Forbes and drummer Brian McGee (both ex-Simple Minds). The result was a new album, released in 1990 called 1234, produced by former Tears For Fears' associates Ian Stanley and Chris Hughes (Miller's future husband). Things started off disappointingly when the lead single Heaven Give Me Words only made UK #36. This was the follow up and faired even worse UK #71. However, it was an international success due to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour guitar playing on this dreamy organic Rock track a million miles away from their Germanic debut material.
211 Betty Boo - Where Are You Baby? 90
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 25, 2014 16:53:17 GMT 1
210 INXS - Not Enough Time 92
Despite unforgivably not getting a UK release, this became their biggest hit from their Welcome to Wherever You Are album, giving them their final USA Top 40 hit (#28), and final Australian Top 10 hit (#7) whilst lead singer Michael Hutchence was alive.
209 Belinda Carlisle - In Too Deep 96
208 Jewel - You Were Meant For Me 96
Taken from the Alaskan based singer blockbusting debut album, Pieces of You, this was her second single and made USA #2 (but spent over a year in the Billboard Top 100), Canada #2, Australia #3, ...... and UK #32. The country folk ballad relates to the singer's incomprehension of a failed relationship, and her inadequate attempts at moving on with her life. Whilst its video won the award for Best Female Video at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards.
207 Pink Floyd - High Hopes 94 206 Nirvana - About A Girl (Unplugged) 94 205 Elton John - Sacrifice 90 204 Fugees - Killing Me Softly 96 203 Jamiroquai - Space Cowboy 94 202 Portishead - Sour Times 95 201 Shakespear's Sister - Stay 92
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Post by vastar iner on Aug 25, 2014 17:23:21 GMT 1
"Heaven Give Me Words" might be my favourite single by a German act ever. Although by then they were about as German as Nico Rosberg. Chris Hughes was of course Merrick, one of Adam's Ants.
"Sacrifice" was the pushed side of Elton's double-A chart-topper, but the gospel-tinged "Healing Hands" was to me by far the better track.
There is something wrong with this universe. Betty Boo is not Mrs Vas. This needs sorting rapidly.
I first appreciated Richard Keys was a grade A twunt when Good Morning Britain played "They'll Need A Crane" - which set up the top ten charge of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" - and he basically slagged it off.
Robbie Williams sang that he wished he were old before he died. As far as he is concerned, I have the diametrically opposite viewpoint.
"Cry For Help" was a surprisingly good song and made me wish Ghastly had ditched the SAWmill long before. That showed there was a talent in there somewhere.
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 26, 2014 18:55:08 GMT 1
As we are in to the Top 200, I'm counting down in batches of five, and as if this was planned .......
200 Kate Bush - Moments Of Pleasure 93
The stand out track from the (to my ears) hugely disappointing The Red Shoes album is this nostalgic piano & orchestral ballad to remember friends and family who are no longer here. It made UK #26. Bush wrote the chorus "to those we love, to those who will survive" for her mother, who was sick at the time of recording. She died a short time later. The Director's Cut version does not feature the chorus. I wonder whether she'll perform this tonight at the Hammersmith Apollo?
199 The Cardigans - My Favourite Game 98 198 Garbage - Stupid Girl 96
197 The Sugarcubes - Hit 92
The aptly titled track became the Icelandic band's only UK Top 40 hit (UK #17), it also topped the USA Modern Rock chart. It was the lead track from the alternative rockers third and final album Stick Around for Joy, before the band split, and Bjork went on the have a critically acclaimed successful solo career.
196 Pulp - This Is Hardcore 98
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 26, 2014 19:12:46 GMT 1
195 Billy Bragg - Sexuality 91
Taken from "the Bard of Barking"'s 6th studio album Don't Try This at Home. It made UK #27 & #2 in the USA Modern Rock Chart thanks to Johnny Marr of The Smiths co-writing, playing guitar and producing the track, and tagging along Kirsty MacColl for backing vocals on the anti-homophobia and generally sex-positive song.
194 The Lemon Trees - The Way I Feel 92 193 U2 - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me 95
192 Primal Scream - Don't Fight It Feel It 91
Taken from the Scottish band's seminal album Screamadelica, this Andrew Wetherall produced the Italo house style, track with vocals by Denise Johnson. Alas it only made UK #41.
191 Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite 92
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Post by raliverpool on Aug 26, 2014 19:31:58 GMT 1
190 Oasis - Don't Go Away 98
Taken from their difficult third album "Play Just Once" "Be Here Now", this for me was the stand out track (perhaps as it was the only old track written by Noel Gallagher for the album, back in 1993). Whilst it was never released as a single in Europe, it became the albums biggest hit in the USA (#35), and made the top 20 in Canada.
189 Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now 90
188 The Go-Go's - The Whole World Lost Its Head 95
Written by Kathy Valentine & Jane Wiedlin. This was a newly recorded track for the legendary LA girl band's Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's compilation album. This is very back to its punkish roots which is perhaps why the single only 'bubbled under' on the US charts at #108, but became the band's first and only Top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at #29.
187 Prince - Money Don't Matter 2 Nite 92 186 Morrissey - November Spawned A Monster 90
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