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 original Top 40 hit to date for Everything But The Girl. I do remember at this point they very much seemed to be considered a part of the dance music scene. Personally speaking I never liked them, their dance record all sounded the same and the dreary singing from Tracey Thorn has always irritated me.
Verdict - Rubbish
We've never really had much opera music in the Top 40 so for Andrea Bocelli to score 2 Top 40 hits in the 90s is quite and achievement. It's not a bad record once it gets to the chorus, but I'm not going to be in a hurry to listen to it again.
Verdict - OK
In 1999 Jamiroquai released "Canned Heat" which is probably the best thing they've ever done. This was the follow up that had a lot to live up to. It obviously isn't as good as "Canned Heat", but still a decent effort and contributed to my decision to buy the "Synkronized" album.
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 11.5/30, or 38%. That's quite an improvement.
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