So this week finally feels some form of normal even if there's not really any consistency with the revolving door going on number one and that's evident this week because if we look at the top ten, "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles returned to the number one spot thanks to a decent sales week but it's all margins because right behind it "Wind Beneth My Wings" by Bette Midler, this is still a player to return to the top spot.
This all pushed "Bedroom Eyes" by Kate Ceberanp back to number three, it's not really as competitive for the top spot though, it did hold up over "Hand on Your Heart" by Kylie Minogue which remains at number four and "Stuck On You" by Paul Norton which rebounded one place to number five.
The same goes for "Like a Prayer" by Madonna which moved up one spot to number six however it could come under pressure from our latest arrival in the top ten which is Roxette's "The Look" which leapt nine places ti number seven...I'm not complaining about this, the song is fantastic.
All it did was help further push "Now You're in Heaven" by Julian Lennon back three places to number eight while former number one "The Living Years" by Mike + The Mechanics slipped back one to number nine.
Returning to the top ten is "Lost in Your Eyes" by Debbie Gubson which rebounded two places to number ten.
Gains
Outside of the nine place gain into the top for "The Look" by Roxette, what else gained? Madonna's "Express Yourself" made one of the biggest gains in a while leaping from 36 to 12 while "Iko Iko" bt The Belle Stars climbed five places to 14
"I Drove All Night" by Cyndi Lauper climbed six places to 20 while "Let Me Be" by Daryl Braithwaite climbed from 32 to 26.
"Lullaby" by The Cure jumped from it's debut of 37 last week to 32 while "You Got It (The Right Stuff)" bb New Kids On the Block jumped from 44 to 36.
At least "The Crack Up" by The Black Sorrows gained ten places to 40.
Re Entries
Just the one return this week courtesy of Jason Donovan's former top ten hit "Too Many Broken Hearts" at number 47
Losers
So unfortunately most of the good songs took hits this week starting with "Leave Me Alone" by Michael Jackson which tumbled from 49 to 43 while "When Love Comes to Town" by U2 with B.B. King tripped over twelve places to 33.
Mercifully some crap did take a hit with "Wild Thing" by Sam Kinison down nine places to 48 and "Help" by Bananarama down ten places to 37.
"I'm On My Way" by The Proclaimers is on it's way out of the top fifty as it tumbled twelve places to 42 while "How'm I Gonna Sleep" by Tim Finn slid from 35 to 41.
Daryl Braithwaite's "One Summer" looks set to be coming to a close as it stumbled nine places to 33 unfortunately but in better news Samantha Fox's terrible cover of "I Only Wanna Be With You" tumbled nine placess to 29.
The Black Sorrow's former top ten hit "Chained to the Wheel" slipped from 18 to 23 while "Stop!
by Sam Brown hit an eight place skid to 18 and "Ring My Bell" by Collette stumbled five places to 13.
New Entries
Four new entries this week starting with...
50. "After All" by Cher & Peter Cetera
Ugh...what a way to start the new entries this week, Anyway, we've got Cher and former Chicago frontman Peter Cetera collaborating here on the love theme for the film "Chances Are" a nd make no mistake, the song sucks..the piercing flute or recorder that opens the song, Cher and Cetera have about as much chemistry as a bowl of oatmeal with no milk or anything else substantial to flavour it, Also why does this sound like both of them recorded the song in separate rooms and it sounds like the instrumentation is overpowering the vocals...yeah, no chance in hell, will I be coming back to this...hit the fast forward on this one.
46. "Rocket" by Def Leppard
Well we can only go up from here, I doubt we'll hear anything as bad as that love ballad so what do Def Leppard bring us with the sixth single from "Hysteria"...well turns out they bring a pretty damn catchy song even if the chorus is as basic as hell and yeah the guitar solo does sound pretty lazy but I do think this is a song that could play well to a live audience hence I really don't hate this as much as the critics do because I don't think it's designed to be an overt serious slice of music, I enjoyed this for what it is.
39. "Come Anytime" by Hoodoo Gurus.
The lead single from the Hoodoo Guru's fourth album "Magnum Cum Louder" and on a 2022 sidenote: I am now really fucking nostalgic for "Thank God You're Here" but anyway back to the actual business of talking about the song and yeah, it's good but it's also exactly what you'd expect from a band in their fourth album cycle with that pretty damn awesome guitar riff that opens the song before the song goes into full gear. The lyrics being quite romantic about a rather unromantic subject according to Hoodoo Gurus frontman Dave Faulkner, this is pretty damn good, check it out.
35. "I Want It All" by Queen
Ahh I have been looking forward to this one, this is the lead single from Queen's album "The Miracle, it was written by Brian May but credited to the band and yeah...it's everything I expected with the defiant tone of the production with the instrumentation sounding overall rather defiant and Freddie Mercury just taking an infinitely more defiant tone in his voice, May says the song is more about having ambitions and individuals fighting to achieve their own goals, All in all this is one of my favourite Queen songs because I do love what it represents in many ways and it can be argued that it reflects the time that it was made with the political upheaval recently in China and other places.
And yeah, Queen's "I Want It All" easily wins the best of the week. Worst also falls out easily "After All" by Cher and Peter Cetera...I have no use for flavourless mush.
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