We might have got a week off the almost near frantic turn over on the chart last week but holy hell it's back this week at the lower end of the chart, nothing new debuted high enough to worry the top ten but still, it's wild just how much turn over there is this week, let's get to our top ten though where for yet another week, it's "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys at number one but's hold on number one is looking shaky as sales margins closed this week.
It's a good sign for "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack which remained steady at number two this week and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Proclaimers which also climbed one place to number three and looks like being more of a chance to challenge for number one than "Teardrops" but we'll have to see.
It did push "Especially for You" by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan back to number four as it continues to weaken, it's coming under pressure from "You Got It" by Roy Orbison which climbed one spot to number five and looks like rising higher in the weeks ahead.
Unfortunately it meant that "Rock and Roll Music" by Mental As Anything got pushed back to number six this week, those sales are on the decline for it.
Roy Orbison's supergroup The Traveling Wilburys stayed steady at number seven with "Handle With Care" while "Tucker's Daughter" by Ian Moss climbed one place to number eight.
We have two songs making their first appearances in the top ten this week and I am not all that thrilled about either with "Orinoco Flow" by Enya up three to number nine because boring shlock like this somehow has a place in the top ten when it shouldn't while Art of Noise's cover of Prince's "Kiss" feat. Tom Jones rose four places to number ten because when the quality is questionable you got to shoot into the top ten...ugh...
Gains
One song into the top twenty this week with "Angel of Harlem" by U2 up from 22 to 18 this week while "Orange Crush" by R.E.M climbed six places to 22 (nice to see!).
Happy to see "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle rise five spots to 25 but head scratchingly people like "Like the Way I Do" by Melissa Etheridge which jumped from 48 to 31 somehow...really?
The awful "Nobody's Perfect" by Mike + the Mechanics climbed from 49 to 31 however on a better note "Last Frontier" by Jimmy Barnes climbed nine spots to 35 off it's debut last week.
New Order's having a "Fine Time" up nine to 37 with their latest single.
Re - Entries
There is one return to speak of this week with "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns 'n' Roses back at 46
Losers
"Til I Love You" by Barbra Streisand and Don Johnson gets us started with the fallers this week as it stumbled ten places to 47.
It wasn't a good week for 1927 as "That's When I Think of You" fell from 34 to 42 and "If I Could" fell out of the top ten down five to number 11.
"As Long as You Follow" by Fleetwood Mac is down five places to 35 and "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi swallowed a heap of bad medicine to slip from 32 to 39.
Turns out "Sweet Child O' Mine" has gone sour on the chart for Guns 'n' Roses as it went south nine places to 33.
The love has stopped being groovy for Phil Collins as "A Groovy Kind of Love" slipped from 17 to 23.
New Entries
Six new entries this week, starting with...
50. "Armaggedon It" by Def Leppard
The latest single from Def Leppard's album "Hysteria" with vocal delivery being described as "T Rex meets Eddie Cochran plus backing vocals" which kind of got me a little worried but as it turns out it's your pretty standard 80s hair metal song even if I think this particular brand of sound is getting rather washed out. It's fine enough even if I think the vocals really don't do much for me and I'm going to forget this in record time.
49. "Let's Put The X in Sex" by KISS
Ohh yes some shallow penetration into the bottom part of the top 50 with this song by Kiss that talks about putting the X in sex..not thrusting the X into sex but putting the x there even though the x is already there...okay bad sex jokes aside and the song starting out with Gene Simmons whispering 'Let's put the x in sex', this isn't all that good even with the cheeky vibe mostly because Simmons sounds like he got shot out of a cannon or just recently had sex before recording this song...also why does this sound more like a Bon Jovi song? Maybe somebody should have put the Kiss back in Kiss before they decided to want to put the X back in sex especially when they haven't hit first base yet and nobody is moist off this shit...next!
48. " Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry
Well this is a song I was looking forward to covering, it comes from Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and is from her debut album "Raw Like Sushi" and I got to say this song absolutely earns it's swagger with the use of the sample and Cherry's attitude making it absolutely believeable that the buffalo stance is an attitude needed in order to surive in the inner city and elsewhere and yeah, I definitely believe it with Cherry's rapped verses and that sung hook which sounds absolutely excellent so yeah this is a damn great song, check it out.
45. "Missing You" by Chris De Burgh
Oh look the dude who recorded the boring "Lady In Red" is back with a new single from the album called "Flying Colours" and well...this song really is as bland as your white cotton bed sheets, its a pretty stereotypical love song where he has everything he needs except her and he misses her. I mean really this is pretty formulaic and not very interesting...at least Kiss had the benefit of hinting at sex...this is just a bland whisp of a song...next!
41. "Early in the Morning" by Robert Palmer
So Robert Palmer's "She Makes My Day" is actually a really solid song that I don't mind all that much which made me curious to hear how he would follow it up with this being a cover of a 1982 song from The Gap Band and honestly I am not sure how I feel about this cover because while the vocal delivery sounds flat and like Palmer was recording this early in the morning, I do like the driving energy the production has courtesy of those synths and drums so I guess this one is a bit take it or leave it and in most cases I'd probably leave it.
38. "Real Gone Kid" by Deacon Blue
Highest new entry of the week belongs to a Scottish pop rock band and was written about a performance by Maria McKee that vocalist Ricky Ross saw once with the song being a tribute to McKee with "Real Gone Kid" referencing McKee's onstage performances. The song is the lead single from the album of the same name and I mostly like this! Yeah, it's nice to get a break from 80s synths for a nice pop rock song lead by a keyboard with some nice interplay between the vvocallists. Definitely would love to see this one become a hit, check it out!
However it's not getting best of the week because that's going to "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry...that song packs a punch. As for the worst, that's going to Kiss for "Let's Put the X in Sex" for being a blatant Bon Jovi knock off.
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