Good 1992 Vibrations. 1st November I Wonder Why I Ain't Gonna Eat Out Dancing Queen Anymore

 Alright so we've a bit of a calmer week here however it doesn't stop the top ten from being insane with all the movement happening there so let's start there even if there's no change to the top three, "Achy Bteaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus continues it's stubborn hold on the number one spot for another week ahead of "The Best Things in Life are Free" by Luther Vandross and Janet Jackson remains at number two while "The Day You Went Away' by Wendy Matthews is stuck at number three...the margins were too big for any overtaking.

That might make "The Day You Went Away" vulnerable to Madonna's "Erotica" which climbed 12 places to number four this week....I get it but come on the song isn't that good.

Remaining at number five is 'Ain't No Doubt" by Jimmy Nail however it's got "Sometimes Love just Ain't Enough" by Patty Smyth and Don Henley right behind it as it jumped four to number six.

However the song that looks to have a stack of momentum going forward is "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men up six to and into the top ten at number seven, think this has the potential to be a challenger but we will have to see.

"Love Is In the Air" by John Paul Young was a victim of all the shifting as it slipped four to number eight then to round it out, we have "My Name is Prince" by Prince and the New Power Generation steady at number nine and "November Rain" by Guns 'n' Roses down two to number ten.

Gains.

Well we're starting on a bad note this week because "Something Good" by Utah Saints somehow rose from 30 to 16 this week which is not a good sign however the tolerable "Do You Want Me" by Felix climbed eight spots to break into the top twenty at 18. 

"The Magic Friend" by 2 Unlimited jumped from 41 to 25 while "Knockin' On Heaven's Door' by Guns 'n' Roses rose from 34 to 27.  "Breaking the Girl" by Red Hot Chili Peppers climbed five to 31.

I'm happy that "Drive" by R.E.M climbed twelve off it's debut to 38 and "Too Much Love Will Kill You" by Brian May rose eight to 41 however K.W.S's cover of  "Rock Your Baby" climbed seven to 40 because of course it did.

Re Entries

Just the one re entry with "Pressure Drop" by Izzy Stradlin back at 47.

Losers

As for the losers, well there were quite a few top ten hits that fell hard this week like "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" by Sophie B. Hawkins slipped eleven to 49 while "Amigos Para Siempre" by Jose Carreras and Sarah Brightman fell twelve places to 37, "Please Don't Go" by K.W.S skidded like the proverbial shit stain of a song it is from 22 to 35, "Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane fell nine to 30 and Sir Mix A Lot's "Baby Got Back" stumbled six to 21. 

Finally "White Men can't Jump" by Riff and "Die For You" by Euphoria both fell five places to 11 and 12 respectively

New Entries

Three new entries this week, starting with...

48. “I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore” by The Divinyls

We’re starting off the week in complicated fashion as this could take a bit to explain so this song was written by Pam Sawyer and Laurie Barton in 1965 and intended to be recorded by a British Invasion artist however New Jersey act The Young Rascals had heard the song and liked it enough to subsequently record the song and release it as their debut single in November of the same year, it would only reach 52 on the Billboard Hot 100, it helped to establish The Young Rascals on the American music scene while in Australia, it would reach a peak of 48 here.

This takes us to how it appears on the chart this week in 1992 courtesy of The Divinyls recording a cover of the song for the film “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and released as the second single from their compilation album “The Collection” and so how is the song?

Well, it’s certainly a Divinyls spin on a 1960s song which they’ve managed to make into their own courtesy of the reworking of the riff and Chrissy Amphlett killing it with the attitude that she’s not going to be made to eat her heart out anymore by anyone, I wasn’t wild about the original version but yeah, I dig this cover. Nice job, Divinyls!

 

46. “Dancing Queen’ by ABBA

I am pretty certain that this isn’t a ‘new’ entry to any such degree, it was a number one for ABBA in 1976 so I am bewildered as to why it was classified as such but anyway we do have to talk about it because “Dancing Queen” has been re released by the band to help promote the group’s greatest hits compilation and really given we are dealing with an absolute classic pop song, there isn’t that much to be said about it, it’s stood the god damn test of time which is about the biggest compliment you can give a pop song where the cycle of attention is really short so yeah, absolute classic.

 

44. “I Wonder Why” by Curtis Stigers

Okay, so here we have the debut single from American singer songwriter Curtis Stigers and it comes from his self-titled debut album and unfortunately I am not feeling this song at all, Stigers voice is really nasal which would have benefitted some rougher production but instead its really smooth and really jazz based with the saxophone etc. The lyrics also feel really really clingy…it’s not precisely terrible but given the number of ballads I’ve heard in 1992, I am not going to remember it either.

 

I am going to disqualify ABBA from best or worst mostly because it’s already a god dang classic pop song so best of the week is going to The Divinyls for “I Ain’t Going to Eat My Heart Out Anymore”. Curtis Stigers takes worst of the week for “I Wonder Why”, again it’s not precisely all that terrible but it’s forgettable.