Here's my weekly look at the Top 30 from 26 years ago. The plan is for these posts to go out at 17:30 on a Sunday.
Here is the Top 40 in full.
I've decided against repetition from previous weeks moving forward so will only feature the records I'm reviewing for the first time.
Once again my opinions are inevitably going to differ from other people, but I'm not trying to convince anyone something is good or rubbish, I'm simply giving my opinion.
So this is the records new to the top 30 from this week in 1999 with my verdict on each record:
PJ Harvey is one of those artists who I've never really got to be honest. She writes songs, plays lots of instruments, likes to experiment with different styles etc. but in terms of music output it's just throwaway rubbish to me.
Verdict - Rubbish
T-Spoon are best known for the cheesy and somewhat controversial "Sex On The Beach" but they had one further Top 40 hit with this. It's a mash up of "Toms Diner" and "Dreadlock Holiday" with that eurodance signature to it. Therefore it's just as cheesy as it's predecessor but perhaps not as catchy.
Verdict - Rubbish
The final Top 40 hit for Juliet Roberts as the sole artist. She'd made her Top 40 debut in 1993 so that wasn't a bad innings. We have a cover of the Donna Summer record "Bad Girls" which follows the trend of house makeovers of old disco records. "I Like" isn't as well known but follows a similar sort of formula.
Verdict - OK / OK
Although Timbaland had been writer and producer of several Top 40 hits by this point and had also featured on some of them, this was his first Top 40 hit as a credited artist. It would be the final Destiny's Child Top 40 hit not to make the Top 10 which is pretty tragic.
Verdict - Rubbish
3 Colours Red were one of the first post-Britpop indie bands to make the Top 40 in 1997. After being absent from the Top 40 in 1998 they were back in 1999 with this which became their highest charting single to date. It seems like they've truly perfected the boring indie formula on this one.
Verdict - Rubbish
When Tony Christie made his big comeback in 2005 with a reissue of "Is This The Way To Amarillo?" many thought he'd been in the music wilderness since the 70s. They forgot about this brief revival of his music career. I don't blame them really, it's not very good.
Verdict - Rubbish
The Top 40 debut for French electronic duo Cassius. This was different to anything I'd heard before and in a good way. It was a record that everyone seemed to agree on at the time, and one of those records that I could keep on listening to.
Verdict - Good
This was a dance cover of the Roxy Music record. It goes without saying that the Roxy Music version is much better but this cover is decent too. I would say that the backing track to this would work well as an instrumental or at least with minimal vocals.
Verdict - Good
The fourth Top 40 hit for Another Level and the first one that they wrote themselves, officially. The featuring of Ghostface Killah was presumably to give them some credibility but there have been a number of times a decent rapper has appeared on a crappy pop song. This is one of those.
Verdict - Rubbish
Dr Hook were a band I really got into in late 1998 and I remember fuming when I heard this terrible cover. It turns out the Dr Hook version was also a cover and it was originally by Bobby Gosh. The point still stands though, this version is absolutely terrible.
Verdict - Rubbish
If we give the records which were good 1 point each and those which were OK half a point, the final score is 7/30, or 23%. 1999 is consistently shit so far.
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