Well then, this is an interesting week, feels like we've been on the verge of a week like this for awhile so let's get right to it with the top ten where we do have a new number one..,"Humpin' Around'" by Bobby Brown which finally garnered enough sales to take top spot as "Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life)" by Jose Carreras and Sarah Brightman slipped back to number two as the sales finally started to fall away months after the Barcelona Olympics, it's run though has been really impressive.
"Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane continues its rise up one place to number three...because of course it is but it gets worse..."Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus which climbed six places to number four and unfortunately looks like it might have enough momentum to challenge for the top spot...eww
Anyway all this pushed "Rhythm is a Dancer" by Snap down two places to number five while "November Rain" climbed one place to number six for Guns 'n' Roses which at least it pushed "Sesame's Treet" by Smart E's back one place to number seven. "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix A Lot rose one spot to number eight.
On its way out of the top ten to my delight is "Please Don't Go" by K.W.S as it tumbled four places to number nine. Good, the sooner it's gone the better even if it's probably safe on the year end...unfortunately.
Finally there's a song spending it's first week in the top ten that being "Best Things in Life are Free" by Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson which rose seven places to number seven.
Gains
So I already have written about the major gains for "Achy Breaky Heart' and "Best Things in Life Are Free", let's find out what else gained this week,, John Paul Young 's "Love is in the Air" jumped eleven places to 14 thanks to momentum from featured in the movie "Strictly Ballroom"
Girlfriend's big ballad "Without You" jumped a massive twenty spots to 28 while "White Men Can't Jump" rose four to 32.
"Who is It" by Michael Jackson climbed six places to 34...I'm cool with that! I still like the song while "Don't You Want Me" by Felix climbed from 49 to 36 this week/
Re Entries
So there was one re entry and it came from the Black Sorrows with "Ain't Love the Strangest Thing" at number 46.
Losers
So let's begin with "Baby Don't Cry" by INXS down nine places to 50 while former number one hit 'Hazard" by Richard Marx slumped eleven spots to 45. while absolute garbage like "All I Want is You" by Bryan Adams takes a well deserved eleven place hit down to 43.
Unfortunately Peter Gabriel's 'Digging in the Dirt" fell from 35 to 42 while "Even Better Than the Real Thing" by U2 fell ten to 41.
"Heaven Knows' by Rick Price slumed from 28 to 35 while "Girl's Life" by Girlfriend slipped from 26 to 31.
"This Used to Be My Playground" by Madonna fell eight places to 27.
Five new entries, let's begin with...
48. "Neighbor" by Ugly Kid Joe
Okay so here's Ugly KId Joe's newest single from the album "America's Least Wanted" and here's the issue I have with Ugly Kid Joe...rather than forging their own sound or having a sound that's unique to them and yet again with this song, Ugly Kid Joe sound more like a Guns 'n' Roses cover act rather than having any unique identifying qualities that make them as a band stand out. The content is about this trashy person who moves in next door and starts destroying the community which could be interesting if I could get invested in the lead singer but his anger sounds more like a kid angry that is being forced to eat his vegetables...so yeah this is try hard, cry baby rock. NEXT!
47. "Share This Wine" by Things of Stone and Wood
Oh another breanch of rock here...this time folk rock from Australian band Things of Stone and Wood, this song coming from the band's debut album called "The Yearning" and you know? I like the production here with the jangly guitars providing a solid melody with percussion woven through it. Here's the thing though the vocals feel a bit anonymous even with foreboding lyrics about sharing wine while they sit on the precipice of World War III. The song isn't bad but it's sure not memorable either.
38. "Ain't No Doubt" by Jimmy Nail
So I guess this is the novelty son of the week because this song is by English actor and singer songwriter Jimmy Nail and lordy does "Ain't No Doubt" has all the trimmings of most early nineties pop songs, it's pretty slick in that regard with the horns. The subject matter though is actually a bit darker than the bright colourful production implies as its about a failing relationship where he interpreting what she says as meaning something else entirely or that she's lying to him to spare herself from hurting him. Look, it's pretty memorable but I get the feeling that this could become a nice guys or incel anthem in the years ahead.
37. "What Kind of Fool (Heard That Before)" by Kylie Minogue
Now we have the first single from Kylie Minogue's greatest hits album and was co written by Minogue and two of the team from Stock, Aitken and Waterman, it's a high energy pop number but the problem is here that the song lacks coherent melody and quite often it feels like Kylie has to battle to be heard over all the instrumental elements clashing together, it feels like two songs meshed into one combine that with the lyrics about Kylie calling out a douchebag and I'm feeling not feeling this. It could have been better.
25. "Love How You Love Me" by Teen Queens
Another Teen Queens cover song this time, this is a cover of a 1961 Paris Sisters song and really want is there to say about this? It's not quite as bad as their cover of "Be My Baby" but the flat cooing vocals that show no passion, if you truly love how this dude is loving you then show some fucking passion in your vocal delivery instead of sounding like a giggling teenage girl who has just seen her first penis in the sealed section of some by gone magazine and then there's that production that isn't even vaguely close to being sexy...Yeah it might not be as bad as past efforts but it still sucks.
And that was our week and wow there's not a lot to choose from for the best...maybe "Ain't No Doubt" by Jimmy Nail.
As for the worst...that's going to "Neighbor" by Ugly Kid Joe but any one of about three songs could have gotten it...Kylie was pretty dang close.
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