On Saturday, June 17, 1995 at 10:00:00 AM UTC+3, The Dominator wrote:

The initial bit :
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This week's Top 40 sees 13 new entries, 3 going up, 22 going down
and 2 non-movers.

All new release info, and the details for positions 41-75 and the top 10 and anything marked "[@]" courtesy of Chris Dunford(cdunford@dunford.demon.co.uk)

CHART TIME! :
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(* - my current favourites)
(!!! - Single Of The Week!!!)
(:O === the current all-time hate that makes even my smilie want to hurl!)

40 (27) FALLER : Joshua Kaddison - Jessie
39 (24) FALLER : Pizzaman - Sex On The Streets
38 (22) FALLER : Loveland & Rachel McFarland - Don't Make Me Wait
37 (23) FALLER : Michelle Gayle - Freedom
36 NEW ENTRY : Human League - Filling Up With Heaven *

The third single from the gold-selling "Octopus", which I've only heard once so far, but I don't think it's powerful enough to go as high as the previous two singles.

35 (21) FALLER : Celine Dion - Only One Road
34 (19) FALLER : Dodgy - Staying Out For The Summer '95 *
33 (25) FALLER : Dr. Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'
32 (26) FALLER : Jimmy Somerville - Hurt So Good
31 NEW ENTRY : The Bluetones - Are You Blue or Are You Blind?
30 NEW ENTRY : Judy Cheeks - As Long As You're Good To Me/You're The Story
Of My Life
29 (20) FALLER : Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
28 NEW ENTRY : Paula Abdul - My Love Is For Real
27 (17) FALLER : Reef - Naked *
26 (18) FALLER : Livin' Joy - Dreamer
25 NEW ENTRY : Duran Duran - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

Hmmm...only heard them do this one on "The Word". I think I'll pass.

24 (9) FALLER : Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape
23 NEW ENTRY : Bitty McLean - We've Only Just Begun :O ===

Bitty rips apart another classic song and turns it into a bleeding pile of mush. The video isn't much better with 'Bitty' prancing about his new pad with some girl, proclaiming "We've Only Just Begun" again and again.
Karen Carpenter must be turning in her grave...

22 (11) FALLER : McAlmont And Butler - Yes *
21 (15) FALLER : Ladysmith Black Mambazo & China Black - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
20 (13) FALLER : Nightcrawlers - Surrender Your Love
19 NEW ENTRY : Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart *

Now released in an apparently remixed form, but it's as hard to tell which bit
has been remixed as it is to 'spot the difference' in an exceptionally hard 'spot the difference' competition.
And surprise surprise, "Permanent", another Best of Joy Division album is released soon.

18 (16) FALLER : Annie Lennox - A Whiter Shade of Pale

Oh dear. Ms. Lennox rips apart another song, and this time it's the timeless classic from Procol Harum. Her voice just isn't strong enough to carry a song like this. Bring the original back to the charts please!!
And just what ARE the lyrics about? :)

17 NEW ENTRY : Chemical Brothers - Leave Home
16 (8) FALLER : Ali Campbell - That Look In Your Eye *
15 NEW ENTRY : Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom
14 (10) FALLER : Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms *
13 NEW ENTRY : Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You * !!!

It's one thing for dance records to be released, sell sod all copies, then
be re-released a few months later and be smash hits.... but for a track that's
actually worth re-releasing to be a big hit..and actually BEING a big hit
is another thing. This is an absolute classic and deserves to be heard 10 times in a row...at least.
And he was in Orange Juice in the early 80's which spawned one of my all-time favourite songs "Rip It Up" in 1983. :)

12 NEW ENTRY : East 17 - Hold My Body Tight :O ===

Crap. Next.

11 NEW ENTRY : Wet Wet Wet - Don't Want To Forgive Me Now

A more poppy effort from the Wets, but not much cop.

10 (14) CLIMBER : Jam & Spoon featuring Plavka - Right In The Night

Re-release and re-mix time for Jam & Spoon with this dance record which was
a hit last year (around the same position as this entry). Their last (and much better) chart hit was "Find Me" which reached No.37 in mid-September last year.

9 (6) FALLER : Perez "Prez" Prado & His Orchestra - Guaglione *
8 (5) FALLER : Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Bass-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
7 (12) *HIGHEST CLIMBER - unfortunately* : Whigfield - Think Of You
6 (7) CLIMBER : Bon Jovi - This Ain't A Love Song

Another Bon Jovi song, another bag of shi.. hang on, I said the same thing earlier about Whigfield, but it's true. Bon Jovi's songs have become about
as inspiring as watching paint dry, but sadly they still sell. Can't think why though.

5 (3) FALLER : Michael & Janet Jackson - Scream

Oh dear. After all the hype, and the record bosses reckoning on it going straight to No.1, Wacko Jacko's comeback has been thwarted by releasing such a shit record. It's not even a proper duet as Jacko squawks all the way through,
and then in the middle somewhere it goes slow, and Janet says about how she "turned on the TV and was disgusted by all the injustice...".
I've never heard 'disgusted' rhymed with 'injustice' before.
And to cap it all, the single contains a track called "Childhood" from the film "Free Willy 2", as if one wasn't enough...

4 (4) NON-MOVER : Baby D - (Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime)I Need Your Loving

I've heard this now, and my worst fears are confirmed. How anyone can take a song like this and give it the dance music treatment is beyond my comprehension.
It's just like what M-Beat did to Anita Baker's Sweet Love, in that they basically sing the song as normal, but have a pointless dance beat (EXACTLY the same as M-Beat's!!) over the top of it. Still the female singer's a babe :)

3 (2) FALLER : Pulp - Common People *

This and "Do You Remember The First Time" are the best songs I've heard from Pulp, and it's this one that's catapulted them into the big time. Let's hope their follow-ups can do as well. The video for this one features Brit-babe Sadie Frost who recently starred in the British film about joyriding called "Shopping" alongside Jude Law (ITV's Children's Ward - I think) and Jonathan Pryce, and she also hit the Hollywood big-time in "Bram Stoker's Dracula"
as the sister of Winona Ryder.

2 *HIGHEST NEW ENTRY* : U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me *

Just when you thought this was going to be a cover of Gloria Estefan's "Hold/ Thrill/Kiss Me", gladly it's not. Taken from the soundtrack of the third Batman
film "Batman Forever", released July 14th in cinemas, and stars a different Batman (Val Kilmer), and has a different director (Joel Schumacher). Also starring are Jim Carrey as the Riddler, Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face,
Chris O'Donnell as Robin and Nicole Kidman as the love interest.
Soundtrack album released Monday 12th.

1 (1) NON-MOVER : Robson Greene and Jerome Flynn - Unchained Melody/
White Cliffs of Dover * 5TH WEEK AT No.1 *

Again :(

Those that fell out...
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49 Urban Shakedown featuring D BO General - Some Justice '95
51 Westbam - Wizards of the Sonic
52 Adam Ant - Gotta Be a Sin
53 Incognito - Everyday
54 Terri Symon - I Want to Know What Love Is
56 Bob Marley - Keep On Moving
58 Ronni Simon - Take You There
59 Mary Chapin Carpenter - Shut Up and Kiss Me
61 (MC Sar and) the Real McCoy - Love and Devotion
62 Nuttin' Nyce - Down 4 Whateva
63 MN8 - If You Only Let Me In
64 Peter Andre - Turn It Up
65 Van Morrison - Days Like This
66 E-Rotic - Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex
67 Charlatans - Just Lookin'/Bullet Comes
68 Martyn Joseph - Talk About It In the Morning
69 Big Country - I'm Not Ashamed
70 Dreamhouse - Stay
71 Kingmaker - In the Best Possible Taste (part 2)
72 Drugstore - Fader
73 the Future Sound of London - Far Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman EP
74 Dionne Farris - I Know
75 Sheryl Crow - Can't Cry Anymore

The rest of the chart from 41 to 75...
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41 N Skunk Anansie - I Can Dream
42 28 -14 Daniel O'Donnell and Mary Duff - Secret Love
43 33 -10 Blessed Union of Souls - I Believe
44 47 +3 Dusty Springfield and Daryl Hall - Wherever Would I Be
45 N Joe T'Vanilli - Sweetest Day of May
46 30 -16 Tina Arena - Chains
47 29 -18 Marillion - Beautiful
48 N Gary Moore - Need Your Love So Bad
49 N DJ Bobo - Love Is All Around
50 31 -19 Take That - Back for Good
51 35 -16 Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
52 N Size 9 - I'm Ready
53 N Mike and the Mechanics - a Beggar on a Beach of Gold
54 50 -4 Ladysmith Black Mambazo featuring P J Powers - World In Union '95 55 40 -15 Happy Clappers - I Believe
56 36 -20 the Outhere Brothers - Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)
57 34 -23 Oasis - Some Might Say
58 32 -26 Rollo Goes Mystic - Love Love Love - Here I Come
59 37 -22 Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
60 39 -21 Boyzone - Key to My Life
61 N the Jesus and Mary Chain - I Hate Rock 'n' Roll
62 41 -21 Curtis Stigers - This Time
63 46 -17 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play that Game
64 38 -26 the Manchester United 1995 Football Squad featuring Stryker - We're
Gonna Do It Again
65 N Capercaillie - Dark Alan (Ailein Duinn)
66 43 -23 Elton John - Made In England
67 48 -19 Weezer - Buddy Holly
68 45 -23 Gompie - Alice (Who the X Is Alice?)
69 55 -14 Brownstone - If You Love Me
70 42 -28 Love City Groove - Love City Groove
71 44 -27 Therapy? - Stories
72 N the Cardigans - Carnival
73 57 -16 Brandy - I Wanna Be Down
74 N Rhythm Source - Love Shine
75 60 -15 Rod Stewart - You're the Star

New releases :
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(* - my current favourites)

June 12th :
Jodeci - Freakin You
- pardon?
M-People - Search For The Hero :O ===
Terri Symon - I Wanna Know What Love Is
- Is this the Foreigner song?
Verve - On Your Own
Zig and Zag - Hands Up

Top 10 ALBUM chart :
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10 (8) FALLER : Bob Marley - Natural Mystic - The Legend Lives On
9 (6) FALLER : Take That - Nobody Else
8 (13) CLIMBER : Annie Lennox - Medusa
7 (9) CLIMBER : Wet Wet Wet - Picture This
6 NEW ENTRY : Ali Campbell - Big Love
5 (3) FALLER : Paul Weller - Stanley Road
4 (5) CLIMBER : Rod Stewart - A Spanner in the Works
3 (4) CLIMBER : Celine Dion - The Colour Of My Love
2 (2) NON-MOVER : Alison Moyet - Singles
1 (1) NON-MOVER : Pink Floyd - Pulse *

New releases :
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June 12th :
Batman Forever - Original Soundtrack
Bjork - Post
Dodgy - Homegrown
Joy Division - Permanent
Van Morrison - Days Like This
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Therapy? - Internal Love

June 16th :
Michael Jackson - HIStory Book 1 (aka HIStory Past, Present & Future)

June 19th :
Bon Jovi - These Days
Reef - Replenish
Curtis Stigers - Time Was

June 26th :
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters

Music group WWW sites :
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"The Allman Brothers Band" from Bruce Anderson (banderso@emr.ca) : http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~slee/allman/abb.html

"The Cocteau Twins" from Heather Weir : http://garnet.berkeley.edu:8080/cocteau.html

"Morrissey" from Jack Stefani (jstefani@indiana.edu) : http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~jstefani

"Bjork" from "Gideon Overhead, Amiga User" <amigauser@cix.compulink.co.uk> : http://www.centrum.is/bjork/

"Morrissey/The Smiths" and "Shelter" from Christian Arvidson
<s94moz@student.adb.gu.se> :
http://w3.adb.gu.se/~s94moz/Mozpage.html http://w3.adb.gu.se/~s94moz/Shelter.html

"Suzanne Vega" from Hugo Westerlund ipm <Hugo.Westerlund@ipm.ki.se> : http://www.vega.net/vega/

Dom Hulewicz (dom@intanet.com) adds :

Don't forget the general home of hardcore/jungle/breakbeat music which is: http://www.intanet.com/breaks/

I have plenty of links to other sites and bands from there.

Tony Bowden (P9490086@queens-belfast.ac.uk) gives us :

Manic Street Preachers : http://boris.qub.ac.uk/tony/manics/

Plus... Ewan Brown (E.Brown@roe.ac.uk) says :

Take a look at:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/misc/music_resources.html

in the "Artist-specific sites" section.

This is full of links for artists from ABBA to ZZ Top.

So, if anyone has anymore WWW sites for bands, please mail them to me, and I'll make this a regular feature.

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