Well this week was a busy one in more ways than one, we got a heap of new entries which we will get to but we also got plenty of movement in our top ten so let's start there because the big story is that we have a new number one with "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers taking the number one spot and yeah, this is great news, it dominated sales this week to move past "Marvellous" by The 12th Man feat MCG Hammer which slipped back to number two this week and it could be coming under some pressure.
That pressure coming from "Way Out West" by James Blundell and James Reyne up one spot to number three following a surprisingly impressive sales week.
All this helped knock "Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited down two places to number four and its now under pressure from "Not a Day Goes By" by Rick Price which rocketed up five places to number five.
Up one place to number six is "Lets Get Rocked" by Def Leppard, it's looking pretty comfortsble in the top ten right now.
Meanwhile joining the top ten for the first time is "Stay" by Shakespears Sister which climbed four places to number seven because we need sludge like this in the top ten...yay...I guess.
Down three places to number eight is "Dizzy" by Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff. This song has secured it's place on the year end and is fading naturally so yeah I am fine with it leaving the top ten,
Mr. Big also get their first week in the top ten because unbelievably the corniest song to ever become a hit "To Be With You" climbed eleven places to number nine. How the fuck does nobody else see the cringe with this song?
Finally U2's "One look looks to be on the way out down two places to number ten.
Gains
So I already talked about the big gain for Mr Big in the top ten but there were some other notable gains like somehow Teen Queens incredibly lame cover of "Be My Baby" jumped off its debut at 30 all the way up to number 12...WHY?
In more pleasing news "Why' by Annie Lennox got a ten place gain to 22 while "Give Me Just A Little More Time" by Kylie Minogue got a big boost off it's number 40 debut to 24.
"Insanity" by Oceanic up eight to 31 while "Baby Love" by Dannii Minogue climbed from 38 to 33 (actually cool with this gain...the cover is fine)
The gain I am pleased about is "I Love Your Smile" by Shanice up from 44 to 38. Good, that song is still adorable.
Losers
So the hits again took the biggest hits this week with "The Globe" by Big Audio Dynamite II down from 36 to 50 as it's lifespan on the chart seems destined to reach its end. "Justified & Ancient" by The KLF tumbling from 22 to 35, "Come As You Are" by Nirvana come down from 32 to 26 as they are, "Rocket Man (I Think it's Going to be a Long Long Time)" by Kate Bush dropped seven places to 28 while "Human Touch" by Bruce Springsteen unfortunately suffered from lack of touch down eight to 26.
Former chart topper "Saltwater" by Julian Lennon dropped out of the top ten at number six all the way to 18. (More on Julian Lennon soon in the new entries) while "HIgh" by The Cure got taken down pegs from nine to 14
The same can mercifully be said for "Don't Talk Just Kiss" by Right Said Fred which slipped twelve places to 45, thank goodness. Nor am I complaining that "Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man" by Concrete Blonde stumbled from 31 to 39.
New Entries
We have a rather eclectic set of new arrivals this week starting with:
49. "America: What Time is Love?" by The KLF
Ahh...the follow up single to the still pretty great "Justified & Ancient" and this one is considering complicated to explain, it's had many reworkings before this version was released in the UK in February and it hit the charts this week in Australia but that complexity makes this song interesting and you can definitely hear the anti war sentiment here (especially barely a year after the Gulf War in the Middle East) and it leaping from classical to dance techno almost rock is wild enough that it actually works well, the transitions between the sounds are impressive here. Check it out and if you want to read about the history of the song than here's the wikipedia link: "America: What Time is Love" by The KLF. I highly recommend checking out the song!
43. "Help Yourself" by Julian Lennon
Here's another follow up to a highly successful single, this time from Julian Lennon and given how much I like "Saltwater", I was kind of holding some expectations for this one and look...I'm kind of disappointed? The song isn't bad per se but it just sounds so formulaic in terms of what has been the dominant sound in pop in the late 80s to early 90s. Granted the guitars here do sound good here, I just wish Lennon was a little further forward in the mix especially given the song is about encouraging people to actually stop expecting everyone else to help them but to help themselves...ehh, I don't know...I can see this growing on me but as it is...it could have been better.
41/ "Djapana (Sunset Dreaming)" by Yothu Yindi
I have always wanted to have a chance to write about Yothu Yindi at some point especially given the group's impact on Australian culture and "Treaty" being one of those songs I respect the hell out of (that song is AMAZING) so I was curious for this and yeah, this is excellent...blending modern pop music with Aboriginal music for a song that calls out Australians for not being fair to Aboriginal people over the land and yeah that hook is sticky as hell. Great song...hope it does well.
34. "James Brown is Dead" by L.A Style
Oh dear. god. Dutch electronic duo L.A. Style have landed their first single on the Australian charts and while it's not the worst thing I have heard while covering 1992,...it's up there. The obnoxious dance music interspersed with rapping and the occasional voice that says "James Brown is dead" in the utmost of creepy fashions, we get it...James Brown was a legend of soul and funk yet the best you can do to pay tribute is this piece of audio nightmare fuel? Yeah...this is awful...I don't want to ever have to hear this piece of crap again.
19. "Skin to Skin" by Melissa
Well okay, it can only go up from here in spite of my reservations about Melissa and her music (No one can really convince me that "Read My Lips" is not cringey songwriting...come on..."if you want to wait til later, get your hands off my detonator"? Describing your vagina has something set to explode is definite cringe if you ask me) but anyway here's her new single that's the highest new entry of the week and well..its definitely a Melissa song with that beat reminiscent of her previous hits but again that song writing that relies way to much on cliches "love not war", "lay down your arms" etc. It's got the feel of a song that'd do well at Rock Estefodds not the pop charts. It's not precisely bad but it's not something I'd come back to.
That ends our week and wow...we're low on best contenders, I'm giving the best of the week to Yothu Yindi for "Djapana (Sunset Dreaming)" just ahead of "America: What Time Is Love)" by The KLF...it was close there.
However there was no competition for worst of the week because that's going to "James Brown is Dead" by L.A Style. A song that is nothing but a squealing thumping headache.
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