Best Song: The Bee Gees - For Whom The Bell Tolls
There were 2 really strong contenders for best song and very little to pick between them as they're both excellent in their own ways. I've gone with The Bee Gees though as this is the best thing I've ever heard them do. When the chorus comes in and Robin Gibb starts singing it's quite something.
Worst Song: Mariah Carey - Hero
Picking the worst song was actually quite an easy choice. Whilst there's plenty of rubbish records this was by far the most painful to listen to. It's such a dreary record and it just makes me angry, the knowledge it probably inspired modern dreary shite like Adele is likely a factor.
Top 40 Review
Let's begin with the record that narrowly missed out on best song. It was "What's My Name" by Snoop Doggy Dogg which was his Top 40 debut. A great record from one of my all time favourite albums, the reason I've not picked it is because Snoop Dogg has made better tunes.
It's a full house for the 4 rap records in this Top 40 with the others coming from Ice-T, Cypress Hill and K7.
The Christmas number one battle in 1993 was an interesting one. The week before Christmas Take That knocked "Mr Blobby" off the top and looked set for Christmas number one. Then Mr Blobby reclaimed the top spot and therefore got the Christmas number one. Both records are crap though.
There was just the one Christmas record in the Top 40 and quite surprisingly it's one I like. It's "I Was Born On Christmas Day" by Saint Etienne which was at 37.
I was already aware of the score the Top 30 would get as I've already written the yet to be published Top 30 review. What I didn't anticipate though was the the records from 31 to 40 collectively score 6 out of 10 and 2 of those records with no points were older records by the Village People and Whitney Houston.
What is quite eye opening about this Top 40 overall is the sheer quantity of ballads. The definition is open to interpretation, but by my reckoning you could legitimately say that around half the records in the Top 40 could be considered a ballad.
Ballads can be really good if well written, you could argue my best song choice is a ballad for example. That quantity of ballads though doesn't make for a good listen overall and this is a reason behind my theory of the charts taking a nosedive at Christmas time.
It's a chart of 2 extremes though, just the one record gets half marks which is "Your Love" by Diana Ross which is definitely a ballad.
There's enough decent records though, particularly in the lower reaches to end up with a pretty respectable score.
Score: 15.5
Table
Thanks to the lower reaches we have a better score for the Christmas charts in 1993 than the best year charts:
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