So this week feels weird mostly because it doesn't feel like a lot happened but yet there's still a lot to talk about mostly because there's SEVEN new entries to deal with this week but let's begin with the top ten where for yet another depressing week "To Be With You" by Mr Big holds onto the the number one and right now I don't see what is going to challenge for that number one spot.
It's not going to be "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers which remained at number two but its sales are slowing down which means it's facing a threat from "Stay" by Shakespears Sister up one to number three as it's starting to do better on sales.
It pushed past "Way Out West" by James Blundell and James Reyne which slipped back to number four, again this is weakening on sales but it still held on over "In the Closet" by Michael Jackson stuck at number five because it couldn't close the margin which was the same case for "Be My Baby" by Teen Queens at number six.
We have the first of three new arrivals to the top ten at number seven and this is the one I'm not happy about..."James Brown is Dead" by L.A. Style which climbed four places to do so...yikes...I'll save my thoughts for the year end worst list with regard to this song but when you see what left the top ten just so this piece of garbage could worm it's way in is all the more infuriating.
Luckily the other two are infinitely more palatable with "Suck My Kiss" by Red Hot Chili Peppers up from 25 to number eight this week..this could be a player for number one if it keeps this momentum up and "That Word (L.O.V.E)" by The Rockmelons feat Cutty Ranks, Nardo Ranks and Demi Hines which climbed five places to number nine this week..I'm very happy about this.
All of this pushed "Not a Day Goes" by Rick Price down three to number ten as it's on its way out naturally.
Gains
I already mentioned the major gains for "Suck My Kiss" by Red Hot Chili Peppers as it scaled its way up from 25 to 8 but there were a few other scattered major gains like "Clunk (EP)" by Frente as it rose from 23 to break into the top twenty at 19.
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien climbed ten places to 22 with "Mistadobolina' while 2 Unlimited climbed five places to 25 with "Twilight Zone"
Indecent Obsession continued its climb as "Kiss Me" bounded from 33 to 27 however the weird run of "Dream Alone" by Killing Time continued as it jumped suddenly from 41 to 32 this week, this song has seen some spikes and troughs lately!
Finally, I'm happy to see "Make It Happen" by Mariah Carey climb eleven places to number 35.
Losers
So let's start with "Baby Love" by Dannii Minogue which isn't getting a lot of love as it fell from 42 to 49 this week while "I Can't Dance" by Genesis continues to be all out of rhythm down six to 40 and Julian Lennon's "Help Yourself" can't help falling from 38 to 45.
One of the larger tumbles this week was for Voice of The Beehive's cover of "I Think I Love You" which collapsed down from 26 to 44 this week...ouch.
"Sister's Crazy" by Candy Harlots slipped from it's debut of 37 to number 41 while "Insanity" by Oceanic tumbled nine places to 40. "Dizzy" by Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff is spinning out of control as its down eleven to 39.
What's not so "Marvellous" is The 12th Man feat. MCG Hammer's nine place decline to 33 (probably blame that on the Cricket World Cup having long since finished) however in better news " Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven" by Bryan Adams is down nine to 31...good, the sooner it's gone the better for the charts.
Prince & The New Power Generation slipped six with "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" to 24 while "Lets Get Rocked" by Def Leppard got pummelled back from 17 to 21.
"Get Ready for This" by 2 Unlimited was ready to free fall seven places to number 17.
New Entries
There's seven new entries this week beginning with...
48. "Joy" by Soul II Soul
So this is the latest single from Soul II Soul, a group that I've honestly never really cared for all that much, but none the less this song is the first single from the group's new album Volume III Just Right and well this kind isn't anything out of the ordinary or doing much to impress me, it feels like your standard by the numbers R'n'B song with standard inspirational/empowerment lyrics about joy and spreading it around the world except that melody and beat do nothing to be as joyful as the lyrics suggest. It's fine...there's nothing aggressively wrong with it...it's just not for me.
47. "As Ugly as They Wanna Be" by Ugly Kid Joe
So this is an EP from an American metal band called Ugly Kid Joe, the title of their debut EP is a play on 2 Live Crew's album name "As Nasty As They Wanna be" and my god this is some of the lamest so called metal I've ever heard, "Everything About You" is just literal whinging over a limp guitar that wouldn't even knock the milk out of your tea when it played, really most of this EP is pretty mediocre to down right bad. NEXT please.
43. "Hazard" by Richard Marx
Ahh Richard Marx is back with the second single from his third studio album "Rush Street" and for a single this song is pretty dark, for one thing the song tells the story of the relationship between the narrator and a woman named Mary. Mary disappeared in suspicious circumstances which resulted in the narrator being shunned in the village since he was a small boy at the age of seven and is now the main suspect in the disappearance of Mary and narrator continues to plead his innocence through out the song, it's got all the similar hallmarks to Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit 'Ode to Billie Joe" where the answers are left open to interpretation by the listener but "Hazard" isn't better than "Ode to Billie Joe" and there's certainly others that are better in this lane but if this works for you, it'll do the job.
38. "Man Alive" by Diesel
Well its about time we got a new single from Diesel and it comes in the form of this barn burner of a catchy song.There's not much that can be said here, it's really a pretty simple love song with guitars all doing their thing and Diesel has all the charm to try to rope this girl to be with him because he wants to be her lover. I enjoyed this a fair bit. Check it out if you are curious.
37. "Save The Best for Last" by Vanessa Williams
Well 1992's charts always seem to have room for one complete snoozer of a song on the chart and here we have this week's piece of blandness, this time from American singer Vanessa Williams, "Save the Best for Last" is the third single from her second album and look, there's always room on the charts for songs about being in love and how this guy is saving his absolute best for last for her but I mean come on when your song is so overloaded with cliches, it becomes a bit laughable eg: "Sometimes the sun goes round the moon" and "Just when I thought our chance had passed..." I mean even the title is a fucking cliche. It's not even like the music here is interesting either with the piano and organ...this song is for late night Love Songs and Dedications somewhere between Foreigner and Meatloaf, they would mostly play Meatloaf after playing this boring cliched slog of a song!
29. "Fathers Day" by Weddings Parties Anything
Oh thank god...a song that is good and to boot INTERESTING anyway believe it or not, this is my first time hearing Weddings, Parties, Anything and holy shit, this song does tug at the heartstrings a bit with this song inspired by one of the band's roadies and this really is an ode to being a dad in spite of frontman Mick Thomas not being a dad at the time but my god he nails the emotion of this song, he delivers the lyrics with a passion and intensity of somebody who is a dad and how you don't need one day of the year celebrate being dad, every day can be a Fathers Day. I love the sentiment here...great song.
18. "Simply The Best" by Tina Turner and Jimmy Barnes
Okay so this is an odd case, this was a song that was a hit in 1988 for Bonnie Tyler in Norway and the UK (if you've heard it, you can understand why it wasn't a hit in Australia) before Tina Turner would get hold of the song and released it as a single in 1989 where it would peak at number four and now the New South Wales Rugby League have brought in Jimmy Barnes and the song is now a duet, Jimmy and Tina are a good match too vocally, they can go toe for toe and have some really good chemistry here. Oh and the song is still the best anthem that rugby league has had.
So yet worst of the week is that Ugly Kid Joe EP...we don't need any more lame shit on the charts. As for the best, "Fathers Day" by Weddings Parties Anything just nudges out Diesel's "Man Alive" and Tina and Jimmy's "Simply The Best" collab.
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