Oh thank goodness a much quieter week this week after the latent insanity on the chart in the past two weeks although it is just a shame the top two didn't really change this week so let's get stuck into the top ten where "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys continues to hold the number one spot and right now it's got a lock on the number one spot,
"Especially for You" by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan remains at number two, it doesn't really look like challenging for number one right now with slow sales, in fact it might have a job to hang on to number two ahead of "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack which jumped four places to number three.on the back of a surge.
It was enough to push "Handle With Care" by The Traveling Wilburys back to number four and "If I Could" by 1927 back to number five,
Also surging up is Annie Lennox and Al Green's duet "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" which climbed four places to number four...good for it...I guess...
This sent "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin continues to slide this week down two places to number seven which could be good news for "Rock and Roll Music" by Mental As Anything which this week climbed one to number eight...there's further gains for this to be had given the weaker songs above it.
Speaking of weak songs in the top ten that can be said of "The Only Way Is Up" by Yazz and the Plastic Population down one to number nine as it's also on the way out.
What's not weak and is actually looking like being a monster hit is "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers which stormed all the way from 26 to number 10 this week. Look for this to make further inroads into the top ten in he next week or so.
Gains
So I already mentioned the big gain for The Proclaimers into the top ten but as for outside the top ten, well, the bland "Every Rose has it's Thorn" by Poison climbed eight places to number 17 while "Two Hearts" by Phil Collins climbed from 33 to 27,
There were also gains for some songs that debuted last week with "Born to Be My Baby" by Bon Jovi up seven to 33 and unfortunately, "Til I Loved You" by Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson jumping from 41 to 34
Also there was a six place gain for "As Long as You Follow" by Fleetwood Mac to 44
Re Entries
"Push It" by Salt N Pepa pushed back in at number 45
Losers
We begin with "Mistletoe & Wine" by Cliff Richard which fell from it's debut of 30 down to 48 because it's a Christmas song...duh.
Then there's "She Wants to Dance With Me" by Rick Astley getting tired down eight places to 43 and 1927's 1988 hit "That's When I Think of You" down from 36 to 42.
The Angels pulled the down trigger on "Finger on the Trigger" because it plummeted six spots to 40 while people seem to have lost "Desire" by U2 because it tumbled from 29 to 35 and found the used by date on "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi which slipped seven to number 30
Howver the chart firmly put a few cats in among the pigeons for Bros because "Cat Among the Pigeons" was one of the big sliders as it plunged from it's debut of 15 to 28 while "Je ne sais pas pourquoi" by Kylie Minogue excuses her French down from 18 to 26/
Finally Jimmy Barnes cover of "When A Man Loves A Woman" slipped from 14 to 20 this week
New Entries
Three new entries this week starting with...
49. "Orange Crush" by R.E.M
So two of our three new entries are in the realm of rock or rock adjacent songs with the first of them coming from R.E.M with "Orange Crush" being the lead single for their album "Green" which was released in 1988 so how is the song? I actually like really like this! The drums sound fantastic and the guitars are damn solid as Michael Stipe sings from the point of view of a fictitious soldier serving in the US Army during the Vietnam War and the use of the chemical detfoliant Agent Orange that was used by the US during that war with the song telling of the stories that Stipe heard given he is the son of a Vietnam vereran and the impact the Vietnam War had on the US soldiers and how they were wrongly blamed for the war.
It's a dark and at times bleak song but it's still a damn great one. Check this out!
47. "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle
So here we have American country artist Steve Earle with the lead single and title track for his third album released in 1989 and yeah I love the production on this one too with the mandolin, synths and even the bagpipes sounding pretty damn good!. Steve Earle's vocals are on point too as he tells the story of a soldier who returns home from having served in the war in Vietnam to Copperhead Road East Tennessee only to start trafficking marijuana upon his return so yeah this is a pretty good song too!
19. "Kiss" by The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones
Sigh...here's a cover of a 1986 Prince song coming fom British synthpop group Art of Noise bringing in Welsh singer Tom Jones in for the vocals and well...Tom Jones just doesn't quite have Prince's suave charisma to pull a song like this off which makes the vocal delivery hit the very precise line of being so stupid it actually becomes really funny and that thought is not helped by the bizarre video. Plus the production feels about as sexy where the horns sound like they are farting on the hook...this does nothing for me.
It'a slso easily the worst of the week however it's close for the best but I'm going to give that to "Orange Crush" by R.E.M.
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