Top 30 in 1999 Reviewed: Week 13

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:

22. Echo & The Bunnymen - Rust

The final Top 40 hit to date for Echo & The Bunnymen and the end of their late 90s revival. There were just 3 Top 40 singles from this era but it felt like they did a lot more than that, when I heard the band name I think of Chris Evans introducing them on TFI Friday. This record fitted in quite well with the boring indie music that was happening around this time.

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 13/30, or 43%. An improvement despite just one rubbish record between 21-30.