So this week turned out to be reasonably normal thank goodness, standard amount of new entries with most of them being Australian which is interesting but anyway before all that let's deal with the top ten which is considerably less interesting because for yet another week "Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life)" by Jose Carreras and Sarah Brightman maintains the number one but those margins are starting to close even further and could open the way for "Humpin' Around" by Bobby Brown, which stayed at number two, to potentially take the number one spot soon...it's getting tighter.
That leave Snap's "Rhythm is a Dancer" an interested bystander at number three again this week, it could make hay if "Humpin' Around" suddenly falters in it's chase for number one.
There's a new arrival in the top five with "Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane up three places to number four because of all we have to let tepid pop/rock get high...sigh.
At least it pushed "Please Don't Go" by K.W.S down one place to number five...the sooner this is gone the better, the same goes for 'As Ugly as They Wanna Be" down one spot to number six for Ugly Kid Joe.
Unfortunately it also meant "Everything Is Alright" by John Farnham, Kate Ceberano and Jon Stevens slipped one to number seven while 'Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix A Lot remained steady at number eight,
Rising from 13 to number nine this week is unfortunately "Sesame's Treet" by Smart E's which is NOT a good thing...
Finally, on it's way out is Mariah Carey's cover of "I'll Be There" which is down one to number ten.
Gains
In promising signs, Rosette's "How Do You Do" rose six places to 14 while "The Best Things in Life Are Free" by Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson climbed from 39 to 23. I still like both songs.
In a continuation of it's weird chart run, "It's Probably Me" by Sting with Eric Clapton jumped 14 places to 26 this week. while "Love is in the Air" by John Paul Young climbed from 32 to 27.
Weirdly "Baby Don't Cry" by INXS is up five to 30 and "All I Want Is You" by Bryan Adams is unfortunately also p five to 36.
"She's Got That Vibe" by R. Kelly & Public Announcement up from 44 to 37, it's been hanging around the lower half of the chart for a couple of months now.
Surprisingly "Candyman" by Ratcat is up ten to 38, I'm fine with that...then again maybe it's because it was the best of a really awful week that I'm being nice to this song? I don't know.
Re entries
Just the one re entry with "November Rain" by Guns N Roses back at 41 which is good. I like the song...it's grown on me since it was last on the chart earlier in the year.
Losers
Alright, let's start as usual at the bottom with "Live and Learn" by Joe Public slipping five to 50 while "Warm It up" by Kriss Kross down nine to 46.
Radio Freedom's "I Can Feel It" fell nine to 39 (more on Radio Freedom in the new entries shortly). "Sexy MF" by Prince and The New Power Generation takes a slide down from 29 to 36 while "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" by TLC tumbled from 28 to 35.
Kiss plunged from 37 to 33 with "God Gave Rock n Roll to You II" while "Save the Best for Last" by Vanessa Williams slipped from 23 to 28 and "Hazard" by Richard Marx crashed eight spots to 25,
"This Used to be my Playground" by Madonna collapsed six places to number 20,
New Entriess
Five new entries this week, let's start with...
49. “Ain’t Love the Stangest Thing” by The Black Sorrows.
Here’s the lead single from the Black Sorrow’s seventh
studio album entitled “Better Times” and yeah, I’m not sure what to think about
this new song, it’s fairly standard Black Sorrows with that bluesy guitar and
the instrumentation giving the song a weirdly dark vibe for a song about
pondering how love is the strangest thing or maybe that’s the whole point of
the song where by it’s musing on the emotions that love makes you feel. Look,
it’s fine for what it is but I won’t be surprised if I forget about it in a few
days.
48. “Motor City (I Get Lost)” by Company of Strangers.
Ohh how to explain this one? Okay so Company of Strangers is
an Australian supergroup comprising of Daryl Braithwaite, Simon Hussey, Jef
Scott and James Reyne with this song being the lead single and well…this is an
interesting because for one thing, it’s got this chugging keyboard and
percussion underneath it but the vocals from James Reyne here underwhelm here
and it doesn’t quite have the explosive energy it wants and kind of mishmashes
styles here with the instrumental post the chorus sounding like something off
Daryl Braithwaite’s album of the time but the rest, if anything, reminding me a
lot of releases by U2 in 1991. This could be better. Just saying.
45. “Breaking the Girl” by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Okay, another single from “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”, a ballad
that’s more melodic than their previous singles and references the band’s
frontman Anthony Kiedis then girlfriend and honestly I’m not sure about this
one, it’s definitely not better than “Under the Bridge” but given the week
that’s been for new releases in rock and how the song slowly becomes ever more
distorted toward the end, it still works for what it is, I’ll take it…I guess.
43. “The Day You Went Away” by Wendy Matthews
Well…it’s Australians aplenty this week with this song being
the lead single for Wendy’s sophomore album “Lily”, this song originally
having been recorded by a British electronic act called Soul Family Sensation,
an act Matthews shares a publisher with. The song had been written about a
painful relationship breakdown and I got to say the production on Wendy’s
version is considerably better, it’s strips the song back to the piano taking
out some of the beyond clunky percussion, it allows the listener to focus on
the words Matthews is singing as she ponders the breakdown of this relationship
and the day this person is ‘leaving her behind’, yeah, this is a gorgeous
ballad. Please check this out.
42. “Proove” by Radio Freedom
So “I Can Feel It” becoming a top ten hit genuinely
surprised me…was not expecting that…so the success of that song means we now
get a follow up single and yeah I don’t see this one catching on like “I Can
Feel it” mostly because this doesn’t quite have the joy or energy of it’s
predecessor, it’s going for this mix between dance/gospel that doesn’t quite
work and I have never been wild on the singing vocals that don’t have as much
charisma to carry a song like this. Honestly, I feel like the only energy being
brought to the song is by the rapping so yeah I’m skipping this.
“Proove” by Radio Freedom is getting worst of the week
mainly because I can see “Motor City (I Get Lost)” by Company of Strangers
growing on me and there’s just too many elements on “Proove” don’t work, it
just feels overall a disappointing follow up to a massively successful single.
Wendy Matthews runs away with best of the week for “The Day
You Went Away” and that wasn’t even a contest.
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