Another busy week here with some wild turn over so let's get right into it with the top ten where as has been the morm for the past couple of weeks, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers keeps hold of the number one and really for the moment, it seems like its safe where it is and I say for the moment because there's a new Madonna release coming that's likely to shake up the top of the charts a bit.
It kept "Tucker's Daughter" by Ian Moss at number two as it couldn't bridge the margins, nor could "You Got It" by Roy Orbison at number three or "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack stuck at number four.
Continuing it's push up the charts is the insanely catchy "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals up two places to number five. Looks an ermerging challenger for the number one.
Enya's "Orrinoco Flow" has been stuck at number six for the past couple of weeks and continues to stay there like a god damn beached whale.
Regardless of the blockage, it caused "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys to slip two places to number seven.
"Kiss" by The Art of Noise feat. Tom JOnes rose one place to number eight while returning to the top ten is "Handle With Care" by The Traveling Wilburys up five places to number nine!
Finally wrapping up the top ten is "If I Could" by 1927 which remains stalled at number ten.
Gains
"The Living Years" by Mike + The Mechanics got massive boost this week up from 45 to number 12. I expect this song to be absolutely huge.
In more good news, "One Summer" by Daryl Braithwaite climbed from 38 to 15 this week which is really nice to see as that song still bangs.
What I am not thrilled about is "What I Am" by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians rising from 40 and breaking into the top 20 at 19 or the gain for the utter crap that is "Baby, I Love Your way - Free Bird" by Will to Power which rose four places to 20.
The mediocre "Stop" by Sam Brown climbed nine places to 28 while the decent "The Music Goes Round My Head" by The Saints got a ten place boost to 39
Losers
All the big moves down are mostly at the lower end of the chatrt with "Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin down eight to 49 and "The Only Way is Up" by Yazz and The Plastic Popilation slipping ten places to 46.
Collapsing is "Orange Crush" by R.E.M which is utterly dying now down from 29 to 44 while "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox & Al Green down from 28 to 43.
"Armaggedon It" by Def Leppard lost all it's gains last week to slip from 34 to 41. "I Want Your Love" by Trabsvision Vamp slimped twelve places to 37 while "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle fell nine places to 35
"You'll Never Know" by 1927 fell eight to 27 while "Real Gone Kid" by Deacon Blue slumped down from 18 to 23/
New Entries
50. 'Voice of Reason" by Noiseworks
So we're starting with the group led by New Zealand based frontman Jon Stevens with this particular song being the second single from their second studio album "Touch", now I have to be honest and say that I'm really not feeling the guitar tone or the production here mostly because Stevens vocals sound like they are buried in the mix behind the guitars which is kind of an asinine decision considering the song is about insane situations and the need for somebody to act as a voice of reason in that situation so this ain't doing it for me...next!
42. "Your Mama Don't Dance" by Poison
And just like that we have your regularly scheduled cover song, this time it's Poison covering Loggins and Messina's 1972 hit "Your Mama Don't Dance" for their album called "Open Up and Say...Ahh" and right from the get go I have to ask who was asking for this? It's just more proof really that this brand of hair metal is sounding well and truly washed out because this is really kind of chintzy and naff especially as there's no cheeky edge that sells the song from Poison. The best I can say about this is at least they kept the catchiness of the hook but that's it...I'm skipping this.
40. "Waiting For a Star to Fall" by Boy Meets Girl
So this is a single from American pop duo Boy Meets Girl which was released in mid 1988 *wgucg rauses the question as to why it took so long for it chart to in Australia tbh) after the song was rejected for Whitney Houston by Arista CEO before Belinda Carlisle recorded it and left it off her 1987 album meaning this song fell to Boy Meets Girl duo Shannon Rubicam and Greg Merrill who pretty much recorded and released this song themselves and you know I am so glad they did because this is just really adorably cute and really catchy pop love song!
I love the vocals with Boy Meets Girl harmonising on the hook and Merrill sounding fantastic on the verses, there's a certain charm that makes the song work and sound big without being overwhelming. All up it made me smile, check it out
36. "I'm On My Way" by The Proclaimers
Well I figurred we'd be getting follow up to the current number one soon enough from The Proclaimers and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a good song so I was curious to see how The Proclaimers would follow it up and well...I'm not sure I like this as much mostly because that vocal delivery kind of drives me insane, it's the sort of nasal delivery that doesn't work for me at all and even if I do like how jaunty the song sounds overall and get what the song is trying to do...just that one element just takes me out of the song, it's not precisely bad but it's not anything I'd go back to in a hurry
31/ "It's Only Love" by Simply Red
So I have a mixed relationship with Simply Red, I think they've released some really damn good songs however they've also released some mediocre to forgettable mush and unfortunately this song, taken from the album "A New Flame" and is a cover of a 1978 Barry White song called "It's Only Love Doing It's Thing", falls into the latter category of being kind of forgettable, sure Mick Hucknall sounds love struck and blissed out but dear god, the instrumentation does not much the blissed out, love struck/sexy vibe that the song is going for here, Simply Red can do better.
However it's not the worst of the week because that's going to Poison's pretty terrible cover of "Your Mama Don't Dance", Best of the week is going to Boy Meets Girl for "Waiting for A Star to Fall".
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