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:
As you may have guessed, this is a cover of the Guns N Roses record. It's a lot more mellow and sounds like the sort of thing you'd expect to hear on a John Lewis advert. A terrible cover and Rolling Stone readers named it the 4th worst cover of all time.
Verdict - Rubbish
The penultimate Top 40 hit to date for Tin Tin Out which came before their collaboration with Emma Bunton. Wendy Page may not be a household name but at this point she'd recently wrote the number one record "Because We Want To" by Billie and "Perfect Moment" by Martine McCutcheon. Doesn't sound too promising then, but this ones not bad.
Verdict - OK
Matt Darey was one of the big names in trance around this time and this was his first time in the Top 40 under the name Lost Tribe alongside Red Jerry. I remember this being a pretty big record at the time and was one of the reasons I thought commercial dance music had improved massively in 1999.
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 12/30, or 40%. We stay the same.
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