We finally got a bit of stability right at the top of the chart this week even if the rest iof the chart feels about as stable as smebody's stomach while sick with the noro virus but anyway let's not waste any time and get started with the top ten because Madonna hangs on to number one with "Like a Prayer", it's got a decent sized sales margin ahead of our new number two that being "The Living Years" by Mike + The Mechanics as it got a sales boost of it's own enough to oush "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals back to number three.
"I'm On My Way" by The Proclaimers remains at number four, "Stop!" by Sam Brown stuck at number five and "Ring My Bell" by Collette at number six.
Debbie Gibson got a one place gain for her ballad "Lost In Your Eyes" to number seven while breaking into the top ten is Paul Norton's "Stuck On You" which rose from 11 to 8 and further entrenching itself in the top ten is "Chained to the Wheel" by The Black Sorrows as it climbed one to number nine.
Finally falling back one is "One Summer" by Daryl Braithwaite to number ten.
Gains
So "Cry in Shame" by Johnny Diesel & The Injectors has absolutely taken off this week as ut flew from 39 to 14!
Tone Loc also had a top twenty break through as the good "Wild Thing" climbed from 22 to 15 and the awful "Wild Thing" by Sam Kinison climbed from 25 to 19
In good news "Compulsory Hero" by 1927 jumped from 34 to 20 while "Young Years" by Dragon but I have no idea why anyone wants the song where cats in heat are being strangled with "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Bette Midler up from 38 to 22...come on, we can do better.
In more bad news Samantha Fox's cover of "I Only Wanna Be With You" is up from 32 to 26.
James Freud got a ten place gain to 33 with "Hurricane" while "Real Gone Kid" by Deacon Blue is up seven places to 41.
Re Entries
One re entry courtesy of Johnny Diesel & The Injectors with "Don't Need Love" back at 47
Losers
Former chart topper "Teardrops" by Womack & Womack is on the way out down 12 to 48 while "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul slipped nine places to 39.
1927's previous single "You'll Never Know" utterly collapsed from 21 to 37 while in pleasing news "Where Did I Go Wrong" by UB40 slipped from 29 to 35...good.
Disappointingly "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry slipped from 27 to 34 and "Your Mama Don't Dance"by Poison slipped from 26 to 32.
Roy Orbison's "She's a Mystery to Me" slumped from 17 to 23 and "You Got it" is on the way out as it tumbled ten places to 29 while the same goes for "Soul Revival" by Johnny Diesel & The Injectors down ten to 28.
New Entries
Three new entries this week, beginning with
50. "The Beat(en) Generation" by The The
We're starting off with British post punk courtesy of The The.with this song being the lead single from the band's third album entitled "Mind Bomb" and while this song does have an oddly lounge feel for post punk, the lyrics are no less angry as they urge people to open their eyes and see what is happening, start questioning politicians motives etc (keeping in mind that in 1989, Britain was in the final throes of the Margaret Thatcher era and the Brits had gone through some really dark times during her tenure as Prime Minister) and challenging the youth to stop believing what they see as half truths and how hatred has been sown into the hearts of a lot of Brits during that time. Not going to say it's a bad song but it's not one that I am going to remember much.
46. "When Love Comes to Town" by U2 with B.B. King
This is a collaboration I wasn't expecting to be released as a single, Irish rock act U2 collaborating with American blues singer songwriter, guitarist and record producer B.B. King taken from U2's 1988 album "Rattle and Hum" and you know I think this song has the energy and passion that I was missing from that The The song. Bobo and B.B. King throw themselves vocally into this song that it does get impossible not to get carried away with it, it's pretty much a story about how two guys did some really awful things before the loves of their lives come along to turn them into well behaved and well heeled gentlemen. I loved this more than I expected...check this out.
43. "I'd Rather Jack" by The Reynolds Girls
And we're ending this week with Liverpool sisters Linda and Aisling Reynolds with their breakthrough single "I'd Rather Jack" and as I suspected it's written by two of the members of Stock, Aitken and Waterman because wow it sounds like their formula just a shame the synths here are just completely annoying while the Reynolds sisters have good harmonies, there's not much by the way of interplay between the two. Really, this song is only here because of that hook and that hook alone but otherwise I see no use for this.
It's the worst of this week easily. Best of the week is also easy with that going to "When Love Comes to Town" by U2 with B.B. King
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