New entries in the UK singles chart week commencing 24/4/94

I think Richard Marx, 7669 and Deadly Sins are my favourites here

the Richard Marx songs sounds kind of out of time to me, a bit like Squeeze or Nick Heyward or something

there's a cumulative feeling of rootsy drabness I get from this era of the charts, maybe a reaction to the flashy, gaudy archness of 80s pop? I definitely found it dull at the time

I don’t think I know a single song that’s on here, though of course I recognise a lot of the names. Nothing that’s included here would have been of interest to me at the time. It was a strange time for me as well. I’d been into (and trying to make) house and street soul and things like that for a number of years, but I was beginning to change direction. I’d heard Portishead and that was a huge shift that seemed to open up a lot of possibilities. On the other hand, I loved things like De’Lacy (‘Hideaway’) and Alex Party (‘Don’t Give Me Your Life’). But the stuff that’s on here seems for the most part like it would be drab and boring, as you say.

I've come to like some of the dance and RnB stuff from this era that was maybe too low-key for me when I was a kid, there's still so much dirge-y midtempo alt-rock though (I think the Elvis Costello song maybe benefits from being heard in this context because sounds sprightly compared to all the other rock songs here, with the exception of the Fall track, which sounds disconnected from everything else here and like it could just as easily been released in 1984 or 2004)

I do feel like this represents a particularly shit 1994 chartweek (and with half the entries unknown or unmemorable to me) but it's proabably just bang average.

quite partial to that Ride song as it was on the legendary "Go Ape" cd that came free with Donkey Kong Country

I like that Costello track

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this is minor Fall but I just don't see any reason not to vote Fall here

This might have been the last Ride song I liked.

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Good to see Man U in the relegation places.

I thought I'd voted for 7669, but maybe I forgot to vote?

Didn't realise that Skin were so popular

Maybe 6 people just saw the name Skin and thought it was a solo EP by the singer of Skunk Anansie?

I nearly thought that

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