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:
I should be suing Alanis Morissette for copyright. The guitar riff to the intro of this record is the same as one I wrote a few years earlier. That said I'm sure someone else wrote the same riff in their bedroom never to be heard by anyone else years before I did. The point is a very basic riff I wrote when trying to get to grips with the guitar for the first time is the best thing about this record.
Verdict - Rubbish
This was the Top 40 debut for Ja Rule and only Top 40 hit for Amil who was a protégé of Jay-Z. It was from the film "Rush Hour". It was the era before Ja Rule became famous for his mix of rap and R&B and some say he had more credibility prior to that. Collaborating with Jay-Z though is hardly credible in my book and I'd much rather hear him collaborating with an R&B singer.
Verdict - Rubbish
Mytown were an Irish boy band looking to fill the void that would be left by Boyzone at the end of the year. Unfortunately for them, Westlife were just around the corner. Not sure that would have made much difference though given how this, their only Top 40 hit wasn't exactly a huge success. A couple of its members would reappear a few years later as part of The Script.
Verdict - Rubbish
I have to say I like the title of this record, it draws my interest at least. Then with the drum & bass style intro it draws my interest even further. However once the actual song kicks in I start to lose interest. It isn't a bad record, it's just lacking in excitement.
Verdict - OK
Had this single not made the Top 40 then East 17 would have had a total of 17 Top 40 hits. As it did though they had 18. They were really making the statement that they were now an R&B group with similarities to the likes of Jodeci. It's not bad but at the same time it's an illustration of British R&B not being as good as its American counterpart.
Verdict - OK
Ginuwine was back with a second album of which this was the lead single. Once again Timbaland was the main man behind it and this would be the last original Ginuwine Top 40 hit where Timbaland was involved. It's another record that fits the alright but lacking in excitement category.
Verdict - OK
If I remember correctly it was around the time of this record that we had a TV programme of Madonna being interviewed by Johnny Vaughan. My memories of that interview was that she was talking a lot of nonsense and she came across as someone who saw herself as some sort of superhuman, which she isn't. This record in particular did nothing to convince me otherwise.
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 11/30, or 37%. The 2nd week nothing new is good.
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