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:
The final Top 40 hit to date for All Seeing I which was co-written by Jarvis Cocker and features Phil Oakey from the Human League on vocals. It was apparently based on "Space Oddity" by David Bowie and "Rocket Man" by Elton John, but it just sounds like a poor mans "Blue Monday".
Verdict - Rubbish
The demise of Britpop didn't stop Suede from continuing to have Top 40 hits despite them being one of the bigger names associated with it. The big hits had finished for them though so we're now into territory I don't remember. I didn't have much hope for this record and it's as I expected. Still one more Suede record to listen to later on this year.
Verdict - Rubbish
Even in this small sector of the Top 40 we seem to be getting a new trance record every week in 1999. Generally speaking that's no bad thing, I like a lot of the trance music that was coming out in 1999. However this one is moving into the cheesy vocal shit territory that became big as we went into the 21st century.
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 7.5/30, or 25%. That's a terrible score.
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