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:
With Pete Waterman enjoying success with Steps, Matt Stock and Matt Aitken started writing records for their own version of Steps. This was the Top 40 debut for Scooch and it's much the sort of formula that Steps used and could just as easily be a Steps record. Obviously it's shit then.
Verdict - Rubbish
Shola Ama was back with a 2nd album and this was the lead single. It was just the 2nd Top 40 hit written by Norwegian songwriting duo Stargate who had written "S Club Party" which was still in the Top 40 one place below this record. It's not a great comeback and it flopped.
Verdict - Rubbish
In the UK I would say that Semisonic are best known for "Secret Smile" but in America this one was their big hit. I would put both records on a par when it comes to how catchy they are, but neither record is really my cup of tea.
Verdict - Rubbish
Whilst his former Stone Roses band mate John Squires only managed one album with his post Stone Roses band The Seahorses, Ian Brown had managed to make it to a 2nd solo album of which this was the lead single. It's more of the same really and not to my liking.
Verdict - Rubbish
It had been over a year since Cher topped the charts with "Believe" and this was the final single to be taken from the album of the same name. It's another dance record, but this time there's a Latin flavour to it and it sounds like it could be a Gloria Estefan record.
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%. An improvement but still poor.
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