Ahh remember when I said last week that there was going to be a disruption to the top ten...well that disruption happened and it looks like being the most significant challenge our number one has faced for awhile so let's get right into it because for another week, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" by The Prcolaimers spends another week at number one, it's still mostly pretty strong but it's going to need to be to withstand the challenger coming in the next few weeks.
That challenger is not going to be "Tucker's Daughter" by Ian Moss as it's starting to show signs of weakness and is coming under severe pressure from stronger songs below it.
This brings us to our highest new entry of the week and the most likely challenger to our current number one "Like A Prayer" by Madonna, we'll talk about the song's quality later but it's here thanks to good sales that will only get better with the controversy around the music video.
"She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals rose one spot to number four this week, it's momentum has kind of stalled a bit but all this was enough to push both "You Got It" by Roy Orbison back to number five and "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack back to number six.
Now I'm happy to see a new arrival in the top ten with "The Living Years" by Mike + the Mechanics rising five places to number seven this week! Awesome stuff.
It pushed the naturally fading "Kokomo" back one place to number eight for the Beach Boys. The sooner this song is gone the better.
Also rising into the top ten this week (the top ten actually almost awesome!) is "Soukl Revival" by Johnny Diesel and the Injectors which climbed two spots to number nine.
Finally falling two places os "Kiss" by The Art of Noise feat. Tom Jones to number ten.
Gains
Wll the gains outside the top ten are an interesting and kind of mixed in terms of quality bunch because on the one hand you have "Belfast Child" by Simple Minds rising ten places to number 12, "End of the Line" by Traveling Wilburys rising five places to number 13 and "You'll Never Know" by 1927 leaping up twelve places to 15 but on the other you have "I'm On My Way" by The Proclaimers rising tweny slots to 16. "Stop!" by Sam Brown up seven to 21 and more infuriatingly, "Your Mama Don'y Dance" by Poison up from 42 to 29 this week.
Losers
Pleased to see "I Want Your Love" by Transvision Vamp down ten places to 47...that song has just gotten painful to listen to in recent months.
Not a good week for Robert Palmer as "Early in the Morning" slimped twelve places to 46 and "She Makes My Day" down from 14 to 27.
On the way out is "Every Rose Has It's Thorn" by Poison because that plunged eleven spots to 43 while "Copperhead Road" by Steve Earle dropped from 35 to 41.
'Bring Me Some Water" by Melissa Etheridge slipped five places to 38 and "Love Bites" by Def Leppard copped a six place hit to 36. There was a nine place fall for New Order with "Fine Time"...a song that seems to be fizzling out.
Former top ten hits also took falls this week with "Especially for You" by Kylie Mimogue and Jason Donovan slipping from 17 to 30. "Handle With Care" by The Traveling Wilburys taking a hard hit down from number nine to 25 (ouch!) , "Rock And Roll Music" by Mental As Anything slipped six places to 19 and "Orinoco Flow" by Enya fell five to number eleven ending it's way too god damn long tenure at number six (I was beginning to think the flow had rented the number six slot).
New Entries
Four new entries this week beginning with...
39. "Love Train" by Holly Johnson
So this song comes from English singer Holly Johnson and comes from his debut album "Blast" so how's the song? It's a pretty enetgetic, bouncy pop song that really does soak in a lot of the late 80s pop music tropes and even if the lyrics are pretty cliche, this is still a lot of fun. Holly sounds really damn good and that guitar solo works well for what it is even if it doesn't really fit with the rest of the song...I liked this more than I expected. Check it out
37. "Chained to the Wheel" by The Black Sorrows.
About time we got a new single from The Black Sorrows with this being the third single from their fifth studiio album "Hold On To Me" and what's even better is that this song is AWESOME. Joe Camilleri trades verses with Vika and Linda Bull before the songs bursts into a hook that is just a massive sing a long about doing it tough and knowing what you want enough to make ends meet and feed the family and oh that guitar riff is fucking iconic. Great song!
34. "Something's Got a Hold of My Heart" by Marc Almond feat. Gene Pitney
And now for your regularly scheduled charting cover song this week coming from English singer-writer Marc Almond who recorded a version of "Something's Got a Hold of My Heart" alongside Gene Pitney, the man who recorded the song in 1967 and sadly this song really doesn't do much for me especially as the vocals feel somewhat buried in the orchestral priduction and the song feels like it should be apart of a musical theatre production...yeah no, this one kind of bored me...not completely bad but it's not a song I'll go back to.
3. "Like a Prayer" by Madonna
Well, here we have the lead single from Madonna for her album "Like A Prayer" and let's just skip past the video controversy because we know Madonna's team is fantastic at whipping up controversys for those who get their knickers too easily into a twist, let's get right to the music because "Like A Prayer" is a damn fantastic pop song with how airy and open the song is with a gospel choir adding an incredible element to the end of the song on the hook as Madonna sings about this young girl who is so in love with God or the idea of a God to the point where she believes this God to be the pre eminent male figure in her life this the relationship between this girl and God.-Now while I am agnostic, I do understand what Madonna is trying to do with this song and it winds up being pretty damn great. Check it out.
And that ends a great week to the point where I'm not having a worst of the week this week but giving a tie for the best of the week between "Like a Prayer" by Madonna and "Chained to The Wheel" by The Black Sorrows.
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