Another week and the revolving door at number one continues like every single pop artist turned up at Grace Brothers on "Are You Being Served" but anyway let's dive straight into this. "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles returns to the number one thanks to good sales through the week, it' got there just ahead of "Bedroom Eyes" by Kate Ceberano which returned to number two.
All this pushed "Wind Beneath My Wings": by Bette Midler down two places to number three this week as it somehow lost momentum and is facing a stiff challenge from the rising "The Look" by Roxette which jumped one place to number four.
"Hand on Your Heart" by Kylie Minogue slipped back one place to number five while "Express Yourself" by Madonna remained steady at number six. "Good Thing" by Fine Young Cannibals also remained steady at number seven.
Rising one place to number eight is "Pop Star" by John Cougar Mellencamp. Kind of shocked this one is doing as well as it is, a good hook does a lot!
Jumping five places into the top ten unfortunately is "Iko Iko" by The Belle Stars, less said the better while in better news climbing five places to number ten is "I Want It All" by Queen.
Gains
"I Drove All Night" by Cyndi Lauper had a nice six place gain to 13 while "Come Anytune' by Hoodooi Gurus gained from 31 to 27.
Tranvision Vamp also had a good gain off their debut last week up eleven placers to 29 with "Baby I Don't Care".
Simply Red's cover of "If You Don't Know Me By Now" jumped from 44 to 31 because it's probably going to be a hit somehow.
Sam Brown's awful "Can I Get a Witness" jumped six places to 42,.
Losers
Drasgon's :"Young Years" crashed nine plac49es to 46 while "Change His Ways" by Robert Palmer slumped from 39 to 43.
"Compulsory Hero" by 1927 tumbed from 29 to 41, "I Only Wanna Be With You" by Samantha Fox slipped ten places to 37 and former chart topper "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals plunged from 18 to 33 . The wind in the sales is starting to die down for James Freud's "Hurricane" as it fell five places to 25.
"Lost In Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson has lost it's place in the top ten as it tumbled nine to 19,
New Entries
Four new entries this week, starting with...
47. "Onion Skin" by Boom Crash Opera
The lead single from Boom Crash Opera's second album "These Here Are Crazy Times" and well I actually like this a fair bit, sure, it's pretty heavy on the percussion but dear god is this song catchy and the chanting at the beginning of the song really is engaging. It's a song about how a person has so many layers of skin like an onion and much like an onion, peeling back those layers of skin can bring tears to the eyes with what each layer reveals about a person. Yeah, I love this, well worth checking out!
40. "Telephone Booth" by Ian Moss
The follow up single to "Tucker's Daughter" from the album "Matchbook" and yeah, this another pretty fantastic song. It's actually a fair deal smoother than "Tucker's Daughter" but just like "Tucker's Daughter" there's an instant appeal about this song that should ensure it becomes a hit, it's sticky and melodic in just the right ways too. The lyrics seem to point to a lone telephone booth out on the side of a desolate highway, the song references religion amongst other things so yeah this is pretty damn great.
39. "My Brave Face" by Paul McCartney
So this is a single from Paul McCartney's album called "Flowers in the Dirt and was written by McCartney and Elvis Costello. Now this song could be about one of many things, Paul adjusting to life after The Beatles broke up in 1970 and realizing that the life he was living while he was in The Beatles is no longer there and now he has to confront life by putting a brave face on without his Beatles bandmates there. It's certainly got a nice guitar and backing vocals but I am going to forget this exists in record time.
12. "Sealed With a Kiss" by Jason Donovan
I have made no secret of the fact that I've not liked much of anything that Jason Donovan has released so I was hoping that this song would be an improvement and well, turns out that it's a cover of Brian Hyland's 1962 song that reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 however the song became a hit in Australia in 1972 when it peaked at number nine on the Kent Music Report charts for Bobby Vinton. Now I should stress that I find this song to be kind of dull and dreary sound so I was hoping Jason Donovan could inject some life into the song...well nope...the song still sounds as flat and as monotonous as ever and Donovan sounds like he'd rather be doing anything other than singing this dirge. Not a fan.
Yeah, "Sealed With a Kiss" by Jason Donovan is the worst of the week. As for the best, it's tough, but I'm going to to give it to "Onion Skin" by Boom Crash Opera but it was a close run thing with "Telephone Booth" by Ian Moss right there.
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