Well the unpredictability of the chart at the moment is kind of starting to drive me a little crazy especially as there was one particularly bad song that entered the top ten this week in a really bad sign of what's ahead but anyway speaking of the top ten, let's as usual start there because "Like A Prayer" by Madonna returned to number one yet again much to my surprise, it had strong enough sales to deny "The Living Years" by Mike + The Mechanics a second week at number one with "The Living Years' slipping back to number two.
The surprise is that "Stuck on You" by Paul Norton rose three places to number three this week which is really good to see as I still like this song.
However "Stop!" by Sam Brown at number four and "Ring My Bell" by Collette stalled at four and five respectively.
Rising two places to number six is "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles, this song always set to be a surefire hit.
All this caused "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals slip four places to number seven, it's coming under pressure from "Lost In Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson which rose one spot to number eight.
What I am not thrilled about is the eight place gain for the cats in heat strangulation song "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler to number nine. Really? We really want sappy crap like this in the top ten...that Debbie Gibson song was more than fucking enough without adding this shit to it.
Wrapping our top ten is "Cry in Shame" by Johnny Diesel & The Injectors rising one place to number ten,
Gains
So apart from Bette Midler's cats in heat in a bag song, Most of last week's debuts gained hard beginning with "Bedroom Eyes" by Kate Ceberano rose nine places to 16 which yeah is great to see.however I am not thrilled that "Iko Iko" by The Belle Stars got a boost from 37 all the way to 21...can we not do this?.
Thankfully Roxette's "The Look" is on the rose as well as it climbed twelve places to 33 and even if I don't think it's Simple Minds best song, I am most okay with "This is Your Land" rising nine places to 38.
Losers
Let's start with "Something's Got a Hold of My Heart" by Marc Almond feat. Gene Pitney which slipped from 35 all the way down to 49, it's really had quite the abortive run.
Then there's "Celebrate The World" by Womack & Womack which tumbled from 39 to 46 and "Where Did I Go Wrong" by UB40 down from 35 to 43.
Former top ten hits took a massive plunge this week like "Too Many Broken Hearts" by Jason Donovan which skidded down 12 places to 42.
"Soul Revival" by Johnny Diesel & The Injectors tumbled from 34 to 41 while "End of the Line" by The Traveling Wilburys fell seven to 40 "Belfast Child" by Simple Minds skidded from 23 to 31 and "She's A Mystery To Me" by Roy Orbison tumbled eight to 30.
"Wild Thing" by Sam Kinison fell nine places to 28 while former chart topper "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" slid from 16 to 24 and former top ten hit "I'm On My Way" skidded from 7 to 13 both for The Proclaimers.
New Entries
Seven new entries beginning with...
50. "House of Cards" by James Reyne
So we're starting this week off with the lead single from James Reyne's album entitled "Hard Reyne" and look I am not the biggest fan of James Reyne so I was kind of dreading this song and yeah this isn't for me at all in that there's barely a sticky melodic hook here and Reyne sounds like he woke up in the morning with a mouth full of marbles, it's not the worst thing in the new entries this week (we'll get to that) but it's the one song this week that I am not going to remember going forward. Next!
47. "One" by Metallica
Ahh so next up, we have the third and final single from Metallica's "...And Justice for All" with this song portraying a World War I soldier who sustained serious wounds to his arms and legs, had his jaw blown off by a landmine and is thus rendered blind and unable to speak or move and is left begging for a higher power to take his life.
It's a dark, sad song that really does paint war and the impacts of it it on individual human beings in a dark but extremely powerful light, it's almost as though the song was designed for the music and the lyrics to take a backseat to the recordings that are played through out the song. May we never forget the horroes that war brings with it and is never the answer. Great song by Metallica, check it out.
45. "The Crack Up" by The Black Sorrows
Ahh finally a song with some groove to it! Well here's the latest single from The Black Sorrows from their 1987 "Hold Onto Me" and wow...I hear the Fleetwood Mac influence here with the guitar work and also some of the harmonies, I also appreciate that this has a really damn strong hook with it that gives people something to sing along with so yeah I really actually enjoyed this a lot even though I wouldn't say it's better than "Chained to the Wheel", check it out
39. "Let Me Be" by Daryl Braithwaite
Newest sungle from "Edge" hits the charts and it's actually a Daryl Braithwait song I've never heard before that was in part co written by David Reyne so this could be interesting. Turns out that "Let Me Be" is your very definition of 80s ballad just with enough spare guitar to keep it the song moving, it's also following the pattenr of songs that Braithwaite has released before (even if this one wouldn't sound out of place on a Phil Collins record). The song is about a man questioning why people won't leave him alone and let him live in his life in peace, it's not bad but I'm not going to remember this one much, Daryl has done better previously.
35. "I Drove All Night" by Cyndi Lauper
So the first of two covers to hit the chart new this week with this one being a cover of a song that was originally recorded by Rob Orbison in 1987 but wasn't released until 1992 so Cyndi Laurper took the song and recorded it for her album "A Night to Remmber" and honestly while I think the song sounds like something that would have worked for somebody like a Belinda Carlisle, Cyndi Lauper sounds better than I thought here helped by production that ampeds up some rock in the drums and the guitars on the hook. The song being all about escaping a busy city even just for a bit of respite even if it meant driving all night to do it to just get to a loved one so yeah in other words I think I liked this more than I thought would.
26. "Help" by Bananarama
Okay...what the hell? Why are Bananarama reducing themselves to recording a cover of The Beatles 1965 hit "Help" which went on to be a number one hit in 1965? Turns out they recorded the song for the UK Comic Relief charity where they teamed up with Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Kathy Burke to record this and yeah, this is exactly what I expected...a washed out 80s cover where nobody sounds like they are having any fun and some od them sound just plain bored to be on the song...this sounds dreadful...next!
18. "Good Thing" by Fine Young Cannibals
So here's the follow to "She Drives Me Crazy"...a song that I still really like by the way. and yeah "Good Thning" is that perfectly servceable follow up. Catchy and really kind of fun. My only quibble with the song is that the vocals on the verse could have been turned up a little but othrwise I am absolutely fine with this song doing well (I kind of expect it to do alright). Well worth checking out.
However it's not getting best of the week with that going to "The Crack Up" by The Black Sorrows. Worst of the week is going to that wretched cover of "Help" by Bananarama.
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