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Post by TheThorne on May 5, 2024 16:04:21 GMT 1
Feeder - Black / Red Pearl Jam - Dark Matter Justice - Hyperdrama
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2024 12:59:52 GMT 1
So finally we are back, I have no idea why 1994 has taken me so long, I actually said this
We are back and we are going to do the rest of the 90s and then we will go back and do the 70s in reverse order so that's the plan for 2024.
Lol be lucky to do 95 and 96 this year. Maybe I will do 1979 next!!
I have 151 albums that are a 3.5 or above but will just talk about the ones bubbling under
120 L7 - Hungry For Stink 119 Superchunk - Foolish 118 Gun - Swagger 117 The Wedding Present - Watusi ( sorry it was close!!) 116 Pretenders - Last of the Indepemdents 115 The Farm - Hullabaloo 114 Swell - 41 113 Bonnie Raitt - Longing In Their Hearts 112 Moist - Silver 111 The Black Crowes - Amorica
110 The Fatima Mansions - Lost in the Former West 109 Flying Saucer attack - Flying Saucer Attack 108 Sloan - Twice Removed 107 Miranda Sex Garden - Fairytales of Slavery 106 Pink Floyd - The Division Bell 105 Velvet Crush - Teenage Symphonies to God 104 Magnum - Rock Art 103 Chumbawamba - Anarchy
These two are very unlucky but just couldn't switch anything else out
102 Everything but the Girl - Amplified Heart 101 Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Sleeps With Angels
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2024 12:46:57 GMT 1
So what could be the worst song of 1991. Well some say comedy records are easy targets and don't pick on novelties but what if they fail to be funny and have no real novelty what if they are just completely stupid.
1 Hale And Pace and The Stonkers - The Stonk
I am sorry I lasted 42 seconds. Ok I get it, Jive Bunny is popular and this is a kind of Blues Brothers thing ok.... Firstly, Hale & Pace haven't been funny for nearly 10 years and even then only when it was in small doses on FNL/SNL on C4. The song is really really really bad, I would preferred if they had just done a cover and if they were doing the Blues Brothers why not do it as The Management that might have worked, but instead they thought no we will try to really sing and be zany!! No No No No!!!! It is not funny, it is embarrassing and anyone who bought this rather than just give Comic Relief cash was just a masochist, although I am sure they never actually played it but still someone must have?? Maybe?? Nah surely not. This was a UK number one.............................................
ps. The B Side by Victoria Wood - The Smile Song not one of her best but 100x better than the above.
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2024 12:35:28 GMT 1
Well it is top 2 time, have you guessed what thr other song is, well this is not my number one!!
2 Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
It is not often I hate a song instantly but this is for sure one of those. It was bad enough on the radio but watching it with the video or nearly as bad on TOTP. The song is just awful in so many ways but really it is the lyrics more than anything that make it so painful. The whole concept How do you sex someone up?? If you replace sex with a much stronger word, it sounds like you are going to put them in hospital!!! It does not make any sense and it is super cringe and creepy and weird and they are just the oddest looking boy group. Nothing makes sense. The only reason this isn't number one, is the backing vocal is fine and the groove itself is ok. Which gave it a 1/2 out of 10 not a total zero!!! It was of course an International number one because singing the word 'Sex' was super edgy in 1991.
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2024 12:28:26 GMT 1
3 Another Bad Creation - Playground
I did promise you more from one of the worst rnb boy bands ever. This makes 'Candy Girl' look like Kendrick Lemar. The US charts had lost it with this stuff in 1991. This reached #10 in the US.
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2024 12:25:37 GMT 1
4 Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers - Hot Summer Salsa
Just one last time, this is beyond dreadful in every way, nothing about it makes any sense. Modern Romance covers with bad cartoon impressions. Even Jive Bunny can jump the shark. It reached #43 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 4, 2024 12:22:28 GMT 1
Well I doubt there is much argument about my top 5 although maybe some defence for my number one, but if that defence is what i think it will be, don't worry I will debunk that !! I really dislike these more than Simply Red luckily most of them I will never hear again after this and maybe noi even my top 2 since we have past that point in Top Of The Tops reruns.
5 The Osmonds - Boys Will Be Boys
It's The Osmonds they aren't that bad??? Er no this is the next generation stealing the name and trying to get the fame by basically copying New Kids On The Block. Very hard to find any info about this but it was a big hit. Google is not playing ball but anyway it is awful.
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Post by TheThorne on May 3, 2024 7:58:50 GMT 1
Missed two albums
Alien Ant Farm - Mantra Microwave - Let's Start Degeneracy
will have to carry over to next week
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Post by TheThorne on May 2, 2024 18:56:43 GMT 1
I don't get the hate for Simply Red at all, and Stars is one of their best songs, but I wonder if For Your Babies is the other one you can't stand because that's my favourite of all of theirs and reached #1 in my chart. well that's just the kind of band they are, I have hated it long before I ever used the internet so your chart was not an influence. I think it helps where you are in your life, last thing I wanted at 20 and even 30 was a baby!!
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Post by TheThorne on May 2, 2024 13:49:37 GMT 1
6 Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch, Loleatta Holloway - Good Vibrations
Higher than Simply Red I know a bit harsh as this at least makes me grin in its awfulness. The beat isn't bad, and yes we have the lazy reuse of Loleatta's sample which she at least fronts herself this time. But Marky Mark is just terrible, just laughable cringe of the first order. This was a US number one and reached #14 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 2, 2024 13:44:35 GMT 1
7 Simply Red - Stars
First off I will say I hated Simply Red before it was cool. I didn't actually mind 'Something Got Me Started' and their early singles but everything from this onwards maybe 'Fairground' excepted, is awful. I would rather be water boarded than hear this album again. Yes two of my flatmates girlfriends loved this album, NOOOOOOOO!!! This isn't even the worst song, we will save that for 1992!! Also before I didn't know anything about him but the more I read and heard about him just made me hate the band more. This reached #8 in the UK and #44 in the US, their last hit there, US got off at this point as well as the album only got to #76
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Post by TheThorne on May 2, 2024 13:38:28 GMT 1
8 SNAP! - SNAP! Megamix
So early 90s, you run out of singles so you just do a megamix and then you just resell the same songs again. hate this so much. If you like the 'The Power' just buy that, totally not needed. It reached #15 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 2, 2024 13:35:09 GMT 1
9 Sonia - Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
Well her last appearance and it's a cover and a totally forgettable one at that, I was reading a post and I didn't even notice the song finishing, that's how nothing this is. It reached #22 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 2, 2024 13:20:33 GMT 1
Ok top 10 time as we should be able to start my albums of 1994 list next week
10 Color Me Badd - All 4 Love
Yes it's them again, one of the worst boy groups to come out of the US ever. Now if this had been a hit first I might not hate it so much but their biggest hit had ruined any goodwill this might have got, not that it would have got much maybe raised it from a 1/10 to a 3/10. It is pretty harmless rubbish I guess. This was another US number one for them and reached #5 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on May 2, 2024 7:47:01 GMT 1
1 3 Ride - Twisterella 2 1 Blur - Popscene 3 13 Adorable - Sunshine Smile 4 9 Carter USM - The Only Living Boy in New Cross 5 2 The Charlatans - Weirdo 6 7 Pearl Jam - Even Flow 7 18 Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love 8 8 Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose 9 5 James - Ring The Bells 10 4 One Dove - Fallen 11 21 Flowered Up - Weekender 12 6 Cure - High 13 24 Metallica - Nothing Else Matters 14 16 Catherine wheel - I Want To Touch You 15 10 Senseless Things - Hold It Down 16 new Richard Marx - Hazard 17 11 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 18 12 L7 - Pretend Youre Dead 19 15 Cud - Through the Roof 20 33 The Black Crowes - Remedy 21 new Del Amitri - Always The Last To Know 22 34 House Of Love - Feel 23 23 Tom Petty - Too Good To Be True 24 new Pale Saints -Throwing back The Apple 25 new Morrissey - We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful 26 14 Buffalo Tom - Velvet Roof 27 17 Power of Dreams - There I Go Again 28 22 The Soup Dragons - Divine Thing 29 new Revolver - Venice 30 32 Degrees in Motion = Do You Want it Right Now 31 28 The Mission - Never Again 32 new Thomas Dolby - Close But No Cigar 33 19 Manic Street Preachers - Slash 'n' Burn 34 42 EMF - Getting Through 35 20 Heartthrobs - Hooligan 36 38 Extreme - Song For Love 37 25 U2 - One 38 29 Iron Maiden - Be Quick or Be Dead 39 43 Jam & Spoon - Tales From A Danceographic Ocean - Stella 40 26 Def Leppard - Let's Get Rocked 41 new Captain America - Flame On 42 41 Texas - Tired Of Being Alone 43 27 XTC - The Disappointed 44 30 The Wedding Present - Silver Shorts 45 new Sultans Of Ping Fc - Stupid Kid 46 new Mercury Rev - If You Want Me To Stay 47 31 Nirvana - Come As You Are 48 46 Kim Wilde - Love Is Holy 49 37 Beastie Boys - Pass The Mic 50 35 The Lightning Seeds - The Life of Riley
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Post by TheThorne on May 1, 2024 13:16:44 GMT 1
1 6 Karma Police - Pierce The Veil 2 3 Mother of God - Imogen and the Knife 3 13 I Love It When It Rains - Loveless 4 12 Seeing It Now - swim school 5 7 You Are The Answer - Afflecks Palace 6 10 Heavy Pour - Pillow Queens 7 14 Oil & Water - PVRIS 8 new Grendel - Sunny Day Real Estate 9 20 Frog In Boiling Water - DIIV 10 new Neverender - Justice 11 new What's An Hour Really Worth - The Dangerous Summer 12 17 Different Directions - The Flints 13 15 Rosie - No Money Kids 14 new Girl - IDER 15 new I Was Made For Lovin' You (from The Fall Guy) - YUNGBLUD 16 28 MONSTER - Telltale 17 new Dark Spell - Graywave 18 new Low - Cold Years 19 new Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter 20 new Earth To Sea - M83 21 new Home - Bat For Lashes 22 new Like I Say (I runaway) - Niliufer Yanya 23 16 Debbie Downer - Marlhy 24 26 Davey Says - King Hannah 25 25 Break You - Trash Boat 26 new The Wilderness - From Indian Lakes 27 21 Drown A Fish - Islands 28 new Easy on the Eyes - The Academic 29 new King Cowboy - Slow Joy 30 new Star - Mitski
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Post by TheThorne on May 1, 2024 13:16:32 GMT 1
1 1 Lazerlove - Royal Republic 2 5 Midnight Butterflies - Sea Girls 3 7 Further / Burn It Down - Webbed Wing 4 10 Changes - Empire Of The Sun 5 6 Spiralling Out - Softcult 6 8 Your Side, Forever - Middle Kids 7 3 Know - Paerish 8 2 Showtime - Catfish & The Bottlemen 9 4 Monaco - Ride 10 15 Hey You - Feeder 11 24 Midas - Wunderhorse 12 16 Sliding Doors - Boston Manor 13 25 House - London Grammar 14 14 Dopamine - Sum 41 15 23 Take Me to the River - Lorde 16 21 Docket (feat. Bully) - Blondeshell 17 20 Favourite Songs - Maximo Park 18 13 obsessed - Olivia Rodrigo 19 32 Walk Through Fire - Yannis & The Yew 20 9 Mustang - Kings Of Leon 21 11 Dancing In Babylon (feat. Christine and the Queens) - MGMT 22 33 Sinner - The Last Dinner Party 23 19 Split Screen - Kings Of Leon 24 12 Change Shapes - Lauren Mayberry 25 30 Next Semester - Twenty One Pilots 26 29 24 Hours - Hands Like Houses 27 17 Fake a Happy Face! - Small Pools 28 37 Application For Release From The Dream - Thursday 29 38 Ain't Got Time - Royal Republic 30 42 Descend - Split Chain 31 52 Kiss Me (Kill Me) - RINSE, Hatchie 32 59 Get Out - Twin Atlantic 33 18 Last Frontier - Ride 34 54 Starburster - Fontaines DC 35 62 Nothing To Do - Kings Of Leon 36 40 Good Time - Cage The Elephant 37 45 Sink Ya Teeth - The Mysterines 38 22 Time::Fate:: Karma::God - Nothing But Thieves 39 39 Ride Or Die - Baby Queen 40 43 Salt - Oversize, Heavenward
41 47 The Death Of The Punchline / Radar & Leda - Hold Steady 42 26 Just A Scratch - Tokyo Police Club 43 27 Too Much Too Little - Georgia 44 65 Wreckage - Pearl Jam 45 49 Coming Back To Me Good - Kasabian 46 48 Curse - Architects 47 64 David Byrne Does Hard Times - David Byrne/Paramore 48 57 The Big Decider - The Zutons 49 50 Higher Ground (feat. Roosevelt) - Purple Disco Machine 50 new One Of The Pack - Softcult 51 28 Overcompensate - Twenty One Pilots 52 new Love And Pain - Creeper 53 71 Sweet - Been Stellar 54 51 GOLDY - Eels 55 31 Lovers Led Astray - Creeper 56 new Sour - Yours Truly 57 new Let's Go - Bleeker 58 35 Oh Emily - Somebody's Child 59 34 So Sick Of Dreaming - Maggie Rogers 60 36 World Class Entertainment - Twin Atlantic 61 new Backslide - Twenty One Pilots 62 new Hollow - Hands Like Houses 63 new Big Time Nothing - St Vincent 64 74 THE DRAIN - Bad Omens, HEALTH 65 41 You're My Medicine - Greywind 66 new Girlfriend Is Better - girl in red 67 new No Backbone - Can't Swim 68 new Autumn Letter - Buffalo Tom 69 72 Kiss! / Sick to my Stomach - Rarity 70 new Feel Too Much - Cold War Kids 71 46 Like A Kennedy (feat. Awsten Knight) - Heart Attack Man 72 new Moonlit Kind - Folk Implosion 73 new The Impossible - The Drums 74 new Cold Hands - Parlor Snakes 75 44 Curse - Oakman
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Post by TheThorne on May 1, 2024 12:38:40 GMT 1
1 1 Interplay - Ride 2 2 Black / Red - Feeder 3 4 Faith Crisis Pt 1 - Middle Kids 4 new Hyperdrama - Justice 5 6 Prelude to Ecstasy - The Last Dinner Party 6 7 Loss Of Life - MGMT 7 3 Dark Matter - Pearl Jam 8 new All Born Screaming - St Vincent 9 5 Ohio Players - The Black Keys 10 new The Big Decider - The Zutons 11 9 All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade - The Libertines 12 10 Saviours - Green Day 13 8 In Lieu Of Flowers - Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties 14 11 Don't Forget Me - Maggie Rogers 15 15 Dead Club City - Nothing But Thieves 16 new A Different Life - Cold Years 17 21 Guts (Spilled) - Olivia Rodrigo 18 new Nonetheless - Pet Shop Boys 19 12 Only God Was Above Us -Vampire Weekend 20 13 Heaven x Hell - Sum 41 21 14 Sanguivore - Creeper 22 18 The Mess We Seem to Make - Crawlers 23 19 Big Sigh - Marika Hackman 24 17 Audio Vertigo - Elbow 25 16 Final Summer - Cloud Nothings 26 22 Yummy - James 27 20 Ignore This - Dead Pony 28 24 Blood Hair And Eyeballs - Alkaline Trio 29 27 Lucky For You - Bully 30 29 Bleachers – Bleachers 31 26 Mountainhead - Everything Everything 32 28 Evolution - Sheryl Crow 33 31 Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations - The Vaccines 34 new Water's Here In You - Babehoven 35 32 The Garden Dream - gglum 36 25 The Perfume of Decay - Tigercub 37 new Boys of Fall - Boys of Fall 38 23 Name Your Sorrow - Pillow Queens 39 new Grumpster - Grumpster 40 34 Tigers Blood - Waxahatchee 41 30 Cartwheel - Hotline TNT 42 35 Our Brand Could Be Yr Life - Bodega 43 36 Neck Deep - Neck Deep 44 new Dreamers On The Run - BMX Bandits 45 37 Daniel - Real Estate 46 44 But Here We Are - Foo Fighters 47 45 Paul Bunyan's Slingshot - Liquid Mike 48 46 Paint My Bedroom Black - Holly Humberstone 49 new Light Verse - Iron And Wine 50 33 This Ain't the Way You Go Out - Lucy Rose
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 28, 2024 8:14:29 GMT 1
11 Sonia- Only Fools (Never Fall In Love)
Not her last appearance, we will have more Sonia in the top 10. This is of course another thing we never asked for or wanted and it is 100x worse than any real Motown. But the only reason this isn't in the top 10 is that Motown feel but otherwise it is horrible. Have to include this quote from Smash Hits. "Sonia would be The Supremes if she could find two other people like her". I read that as "Sonia would be The Supremes if she could find two other people that liked her". Anyway, I am sure that was total sarcasm. This reached '10 in the UK.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 28, 2024 8:08:53 GMT 1
12 Whitney Houston, Florida Orchestra - The Star Spangled Banner (feat. The Florida Orchestra) - Live from Super Bowl XXV
I am sorry total cringe why is this a single!!!! This reached #20 in the US, the first time the anthem returned to the charts since 1958. Just stop!
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