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. I also won't repeat the reviews from the Top 20 in 1999 Reviewed posts.
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:
This record hasn't aged well at all. I didn't mind it at the time and still think there are some good elements to it. It was always a bit on the cheesy side, but now I just find it irritating. It is a jump on the big beat bandwagon type of record.
Verdict - Rubbish
The 2nd and final Top 40 hit to date for long forgotten British R&B group Kleshay. It wasn't back to the day job for them after this though, one of them would go on to become a presenter on the TV show "A Place In The Sun". So basically entertainers who tried and failed with music.
Verdict - Rubbish
The Moffatts were a long forgotten Canadian boy band with instruments and this was their Top 40 debut. That's right, they also had another Top 40 hit but I won't be listening to that as it never made the Top 30. Based on this record though I don't think I'm missing out on anything.
Verdict - Rubbish
Yet another dance record that samples "Love Sensation". I think it had been done to death by this point and this record does nothing to tell me it was worth doing again. Had this been the first record to use the sample I may have liked it, but as it isn't I don't.
Verdict - Rubbish
Next Of Kin were basically a British version of Hanson i.e. a boy band with instruments who were actual boys. If you like Hanson then just listen to Hanson, if you don't like Hanson then it's highly unlikely you're going to like this. I'm of the latter category.
Verdict - Rubbish
The Top 40 debut for Unkle and also their highest charting hit. Amongst it's members at the time was DJ Shadow and he wrote this along with Ian Brown who provided vocals. When I first moved to London I was regularly using a tube station with a lift and it reminded me of this video. A solid record.
Verdict - Good
I thought this record couldn't be an more American if it tried, which is quite funny because the Barenaked Ladies are Canadian. They're also a male band. It's been featured in many films and it's almost the perfect song for them i.e. shit.
Verdict - Rubbish
I remember taping this tune off of Dave Pearce's Dance Anthems one Sunday night when Phats and Small were sitting in for Dave Pearce. There was also a happy hardcore version around the same time minus the vocals. It's the vocals that are the sticking point, it would be so much better without them. That said I do still like it.
Verdict - Good
In the late 90s there were still adverts on TV that I actually liked. One of those adverts was for the Peugeot 206 which featured this song on them. The general public it seemed agreed and this record ended up topping the charts as a result.
Verdict - Good
If we give the records which were good 1 point each and those which were OK half a point, the final score is 15.5/30, or 52%. We remain above 50%.
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