So this one felt busier than it probably should have mostly outside the top ten because nothing changed at the very top where "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys held on to number one with "Kokomo" and it looks like its got an iron clad grip on number one at this point.
It held up over "Especially for You" by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan which remains at number two for a second week, although it had to fend off a challenge from three place climber this week "Handle With Care" by The Traveling Wilburys up to number three.
"If I Could" by 1927 remained at number four while "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin slipped two places back to number five.
Unfortunately "The Only Way is Up" by Yazz and The Plastic Population lived up to it's name by moving up one spot to number six...ugh.
Also on the rise is 'Teardrops" by Womack & Womack up one spot to number seven this week which is good news.
Both songs pushed "A Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins back three spots to number eight as it's run looks to be done which paves the way for the big rise of "Rock And Roll Music" by Mental As Anything which jumped from 27 to number nine this week...I'm fine with that...I think.
Finally there's an eight place rise to number ten for "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green.
Gains
So I've already mentioned the big gains for Mental As Anything's "Rock And Roll Music" and Annie Lennox and Al Green's "Put a Little Love In Your Heart" but there were also other major gains this week most notably to songs that debuted last week like "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers which lapt from it's debut of 42 to 26 this week while "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson climbed six to 32 and "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins climbed ten to 33
Then there's the gain for Toni Childs "Stop Your Fussin'" which rose from 29 to 22 and 'Finger on the Trigger" by The Angels up from 41 to 34.
Losers
So the biggest loser of the week belongs to "So Excellent/I Go Go" by Kylie Mole which slumped from 19 to 49 this week. OUCH.
"Can't Control Myself' by Wa Wa Nee can't control it's slide down from 31 to 45 while Daryl Braithwaite dropped from 37 to 42.
Noiseworks are losing their "Touch" as their 1988 hit slumped from 24 to 39 qhile "That's When I Think of You" by 1927 slipped ten places 36.
"Imagine" by John Lennon was the only debut last week to fall, it's down ten places to 31.
Bon Jovi have taken some "Bad Medicine" to cause a slip of eight places to 23.
Finally Jason Donovan's "Nothing Can Divide Us" fell six places to 16.
New Entries
50. "As Long As You Follow" by Fleetwood Mac
So this is one of the two new songs on the Fleetwood Mac greatest hits compilation and yeah, while this is not Fleetwood Mac's best, it's still really damn good. Christine McVie and Eddy Quintela and both sound good together over a gorgeous sounding guitar that really does shift up a gear during it's solo. A song all about finding love and sometimes having to cross boundaries and the unexpected to find it only to find that the person who you love has been following you. It's kind of wistful and really pretty. Check this out.
47. "Hippy Hippy Shake" by The Georgia Satellites
Okay, here's a cover of the 1959 song written and recorded by 17 year old Chan Romero in 1959 that peaked at number three in Australia in that same year and has been covered by The Beatles and others so throw in American southern rock group The Georgia Satellites throwing in their own cover of the song and really, it does not leave me with a lot to say as it's really just an updated and slightly more raucous version of the song that does stick really close to the original. It's fine as far as covers go but I'll stick with The Beatles version over this.
41. "Til I Loved You" by Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson
So turns out this is also a cover because this was originally set for a never staged musical called "Goya: A Life in Song" which was apparently going to be based on the life of a Spanish artist named Francisco Goya and written by Maury Yeston, it was recorded by tenor Placido Domingo and Dionne Warwick before Barbra Streisand picked the song up for her album of the same name and what a shame the recording sounds like absolute ass, Barbra's vocals sound like they weren't mixed properly and the whole thing sounds like it was recorded in mono on a radio station on the AM band. Not good. PASS.
40. "Born to Be My Baby" by Bon Jovi
The follow up to "Bad Medicine" from their fourth album "New Jersey' and well, it's just as energetic and loud as "Bad Medicine" with Bon Jovi really punishing his voice on the verses but where the song kind of falls flat is on the chorus which is weirdly flat and seems more focused on harmonues rather than rocking out, its like of like the song on the chorus took a step back in favour of the verses which makes the song kind of easy to ignore. It's not precisely bad but Bon Jovi have done better than this.
30. "Mistletoe & Wine" by Cliff Richard
It's January, what the hell is a Christmas song DOING here NOW? Well anyway this comes courtesy of good old Cliff Richard and was written for a musical called Scraps which is an adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen story "The Little Match Girl" which Cliff Richard sought to change the lyrics to a more religious theme...it spent several weeks at number one in the UK in 1988 so what's the song like?
Well this is exactly why I am reluctant to cover Christmas music on this blog because it's your pretty standard formulaic Christmas song about Jesus and kids having dreams of Santa and whatever elese set to piano with Cliff's voice oddly frail in the mix. Although don't get caught kissing Santa under the mistletoe drunk on wine, folks.
15. "Cat Among the Pigeons" by Bros
I am kind of surprised the "When Will I Be Famous" group got a song to debut this high with this song coming from the album "Push" and apparently about a friend of one of the members of the band who was struggling to come to terms with his father's early death so dealt with it through a serios of ill fated and tempestuous relationships which I respect Bros attempt to deal with serious issues but my god,,it's a shame that the song couldn't put a little more energy and darkness into the production, it just feels to gentle and to a degree breezy for a song dealing with such a serious subject matter.
That wraps up an awkward week, best is going to "As Long as You Follow" by Fleetwood Mac while the worst is going to "Til I Love You" by Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson.
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