UK Top 40, w/e 18th May 1991

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Fairly simple hop-and-a-skip-and-a-jump from last week's poll to this - last week we had the Dancing DJs' loving kneecapping of "Fading Like A Flower", this week it's the finest top 40 hour of Roxette's original version - and what a week it was! Several cusps come smashing into each other at once, and it also features arguably the worst single of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiUn8RwpcfY

But from this remarkable little selection box, who is the best? YOU DECIDE.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
03. Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (La Da Dee)	7
02. KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train To Trancentral	6
39. The Wedding Present - Dalliance	3
08. Blur - There's No Other Way	3
14. T-99 - Anasthasia	2
35. REM - Shiny Happy People	2
16. De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)	2
10. Soft Cell Featuring Marc Almond - Tainted Love	2
09. Electronic - Get The Message	2
29. Wilson Phillips - You're In Love	2
27. Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up	1
24. The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon {1991}	1
25. Jason Donovan - RSVP	1
34. Flowered Up - Take It	1
05. Cathy Dennis - Touch Me (All Night Long)	1
36. Paul Weller Movement - Into Tomorrow	1
38. Gary Clail On-U Sound System - Human Nature	1
26. Amy Grant - Baby Baby	0
28. Roachford - Get Ready	0
37. The Wonder Stuff - The Size Of A Cow	0
30. Samantha Janus - A Message To Your Heart	0
31. T'Pau - Whenever You Need Me	0
32. Madonna - Rescue Me	0
33. Lonnie Gordon - Gonna Catch You	0
01. Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)	0
23. Michael Bolton - Love Is A Wonderful Thing	0
04. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Sailing On The Seven Seas	0
06. Beverley Craven - Promise Me	0
07. Zucchero Featuring Paul Young - Senza Una Donna (Without A Woman)	0
11. Chesney Hawkes - The One And Only	0
12. Roxette - Fading Like A Flower	0
13. Seal - Future Love (EP)	0
15. Vic Reeves And The Roman Numerals - Born Free	0
17. Nomad - Just A Groove	0
18. Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me	0
19. James - Sit Down {1991}	0
20. New Kids On The Block - Call It What You Want	0
21. Dannii Minogue - Success	0
22. Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia	0
40. EMF - Children	0

― Gertcha Armour (William Bloody Swygart), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

That's a solid Top 40! I voted for "Gypsy Woman" over "Ring Ring Ring," "Get The Message," "I Wanna Sex You Up," "Touch Me (All Night Long)" and a coupla others.

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

"Fading Like A Flower" is indeed Roxette's best ballad.

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

sooo tempted by 'promise me' vs 'i wanna sex you up'

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:43 (sixteen years ago)

over half that chart makes me seriously physically flinch tho

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:44 (sixteen years ago)

I am now ploughing through the dance singles here that I don't know. T-99's "Anasthasia" = rather a lot of fun but won't embed.

― Gertcha Armour (William Bloody Swygart), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:47 (sixteen years ago)

And yeah, this is a hell of a chart, I was very surprised by it. So much going on all at once... and yet, I'm still having to remind myself that voting for "Whole Of The Moon" is sort of cheating. Sigh. Here's Quadrophonia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhqJBGISNT4

― Gertcha Armour (William Bloody Swygart), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:49 (sixteen years ago)

ill just go ahead and give you all a heads up that the one vote for gary clail is me

― PLURrrrrrggghhhh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

back with the heavyweight
back with the heavyweight
back with the heavyweight JAMMS

― all we hear is lady o'gaga (donna rouge), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

oh shit how the hell did i miss that KLF track

― PLURrrrrrggghhhh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

hah well subtract one from gary clail and add one to the klf column when the results come in

― PLURrrrrrggghhhh (jjjusten), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

Jeez this is so easy. T-99, people!

― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:58 (sixteen years ago)

Beverley Craven

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 05:58 (sixteen years ago)

No wait, KLF

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 05:59 (sixteen years ago)

got to #3, went straight for vote

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 06:13 (sixteen years ago)

chesney hawkes takes it.

seriously.

best bryan adams ripoff ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8f2mW1GFSI

― Jamie_ATP, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 07:30 (sixteen years ago)

the dannii minogue album that her single here was taken from was one of my first ever cassette purchases. i remember thinking i was being really cool and alternative in preferring her to kylie. i genuinely don't remember how 'success' even goes, or what the album was called, or anything about it at all apart from the one line "i ain't no plain jane type".

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 08:03 (sixteen years ago)

Jeez this is so easy. T-99, people!
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:58 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

KLF or Crystal Waters would have edged it otherwise.

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 08:39 (sixteen years ago)

Bought at the time: Cher, Crystal Waters (on import, when it first blew up), OMD, Cathy Dennis's inferior Fonda Rae cover (hmm, maybe I was DJ-ing at a party or something?), Blur, Electronic, De La Soul's Curiosity Killed The Cat sampler, Frances Nero's gorgeous Ian Levine-produced steal from "Thinking Of You" ("faith, hope and charity - love is the greatest of these three" - WTF?!), James (two years earlier), Waterboys, Color Me Bad, Madonna, maybe Lonnie Gordon but I'd have to check the attic, REM, Wonder Stuff, Gary Clail.

A solid chart, but there's nothing here which makes me go "OH MY GOD CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC". Favourite at the time: Frances Nero, weirdly enough. By the time that "Gypsy Woman" went Top Three, we'd all grown completely sick of it, as the track had been ubiquitous a couple of months earlier. "Last Train To Trancentral" was the only KLF/JAMMs single that I didn't bother buying, and I'd been more or less a completist since 1987. It just felt like treading water to me.

― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 09:09 (sixteen years ago)

I stopped reading at "Gypsy Woman" cos it cannot be beaten.

― tuch her body to get her in a good mod (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 09:10 (sixteen years ago)

No way on earth is "Senza Una Donna" worse than any incarnation of "Sit Down" btw.

― tuch her body to get her in a good mod (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 July 2009 09:13 (sixteen years ago)

i honestly can't think of anything right now that's worse than 'sit down'

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 09:17 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHM8xG6i8o

― Moka, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 09:19 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 20 July 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

KLF

― Aqua Teen Cunga Force (blueski), Monday, 20 July 2009 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

"Sit Down" is a good song, you people are just knobs.

― challop matters (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:05 (sixteen years ago)

"Dalliance" by the Wedding Present (although Electronic was a close one).

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:06 (sixteen years ago)

"Get The Message" has to win, surely. It's only one of the best songs ever and is the perfect example of the Mancunian industrial output of pop ((C) Robin Carmody).

"Last Train To Trancentral" is the weakest of the KLF's singles so I can't possible vote for that.

― challop matters (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:08 (sixteen years ago)

Weddoes in second place because "Dalliance" is quite good.

― challop matters (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)

Exactly that for me too. (xpost, that is, what AlexinNYC said)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 12:09 (sixteen years ago)

so what's the occasion of "Tainted Love" charting? just an 10th anniversary re-release of the '81 version or some kind of re-recording/remix?

― trife's rich padgett (some dude), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:33 (sixteen years ago)

Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)

I have never heard this = my life is far better than I thought it was moments ago.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 16:18 (sixteen years ago)

It's from the movie "Mermaids"

― grocery groin (snoball), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 16:24 (sixteen years ago)

It was as big as hit as, and in some ways better than, "beLLLLLIIIIeEeEeEeEvvveee"

― grocery groin (snoball), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 16:25 (sixteen years ago)

Blur FTW

― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:57 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

the Frances Nero i had completely forgotten about until watching an old Chart Show from around this time that someone had put on YouTube, and only after that did i remember hearing it all the time on the radio

― Aqua Teen Cunga Force (blueski), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 23:12 (sixteen years ago)

Might've voted "Rescue Me."

― Eazy, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 23:26 (sixteen years ago)

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― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

(Yes, that is an awful and horrible poll winner - one of the worst songs ever!)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 19:18 (sixteen years ago)

It's pretty melodic though Geir, you have to admit.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

Repetitive is the opposite of melodic.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 July 2009 08:03 (sixteen years ago)

Naa na na nanana na
nanana na
Hey Geir.

― Mark G, Thursday, 23 July 2009 08:31 (sixteen years ago)

That song (although no masterpice) only has repetitive lyrics. That is OK, as long as the melody isn't.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 23 July 2009 08:33 (sixteen years ago)

Think you'll find they are singing the same tune throughout that bit.

― Mark G, Thursday, 23 July 2009 08:34 (sixteen years ago)

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