iTunes -- my 25 most played songs, Week 13
Two entries that missed out on the Top 25 a few weeks back now splash into the Top 10. Three songs from an obscure mid-Eighties collective that never really existed land in the Top 25 as well. Who are these mystery people? Find out next on iTunes -- Ian's Top 25 Airplay for the Week! To show you how you can know about good music and still suck at life, heeeeeeeere's Ian!
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TOP 25 AIRPLAY THIS WEEK
[NEW] shows a new chart entry
[2 (1 wk.) > REENTRY < 24] shows a chart reentry and lists the number of weeks the song was in the charts on its initial run(s)
[5 < 1] shows the leap in charts from one week to the next, as symbolized by the "less than" symbol
[4 > 17] shows the drop in charts from one week to the next, as symbolized by the "greater than" symbol
[19 - 19] shows no change in chart position from one week to the next, as symbolized by the hyphen
[22 (2 wks.) > -- < 18 < 12 - 12 > 15] shows an example of the progression up and down the charts over the course of a number of weeks
25. Bettye LaVette - “Talking Old Soldiers” [NEW]
24. Chantal Goya - “La Pluie du Ciel” [NEW]
23. Wah! Heat - “Better Scream” [NEW]
22. Voice of Authority - “Middle East Power Station” [NEW]
21. Died Pretty - “Caesar’s Cold” [NEW]
20. The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - “It’s Grim Up North (Radio Edit)” [NEW]
19. Artery - “The Death of Peter X” [NEW]
18. ESG - “Dance” [NEW]
17. Young Marble Giants - “Searching for Mr Right (Peel Version)” [6 > 17]
16. Voice of Authority - “In Another World (feat. Shara Nelson)” [NEW]
15. Chantal Goya - “Laisse-Moi” [NEW]
14. The Wolfgang Press - “Dig a Hole” [NEW]
13. Hunters & Collectors - “Betty’s Worry or The Slab” [2 < 1 - 1 > 13]
12. The Terminals - “Green Eyes” [7 (2 wks.) > REENTRY < 4 - 4 > 12]
11. The Wolfgang Press - “Forty Days, Thirty Nights” [NEW]
10. Ben Watt - “Thirst for Knowledge” [3 - 3 > 10]
9. The Three Degrees - “If and When” [5 - 5 > 9]
8. Mark Stewart and the Maffia - “Liberty City” [10 < 8]
7. Mahogany - “Supervitesse” [30 (1 wk.) > REENTRY < 7]
6. A.R. Kane - “A Love From Outer Space” [2 > 6]
5. Voice of Authority - “Very Big in America Right Now” [NEW]
4. Thomas Dolby - “Europa and the Pirate Twins” [1 > 2 > 8 < 4]
3. Apollo 440 - “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper” [6 > 7 - 7 < 3]
2. Heatwave - “Mind Blowing Decisions” [13 - 13 > 18 < 2]
1. Nine Horses - "Serotonin" [26 (1 wk.) > REENTRY < 1]
NOTES ABOUT SOME OF THE SONGS IN THIS WEEK'S TOP 25.
This week's top spot is taken up by a group featuring David Sylvian and Steve Jansen of Japan in their ranks. Apollo 440 climbs into the Top Three and Thomas Dolby returns to the Top Five. Voice of Authority, another weird On-U-Sound collective that was never a proper group (and whose lone album actually appeared on Cherry Red!) has three new entries this week, the highest of which appears to feature Mark Stewart of The Pop Group at one point. Another song of theirs at the 16 spot features a woman who (seven years later) would be better known for dropping the vocal on Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy". Around the time of this Voice of Authority recording, though, she also appeared on The Missing Brazilians' "Savanna Prance". Mahogany is the other new entry in the Top 10 this week, The Wolfgang Press appears twice alongside Chantal Goya in the Top 15, and rounding out the Top 25 is soul singer Bettye LaVette covering the Elton John standard with members of Drive-By Truckers and various Muscle Shoals session musicians backing her up."
TOP 25 MOST PLAYED TOTAL
1. Thomas Dolby - “Europa and the Pirate Twins”
2. Hunters & Collectors - “Betty’s Worry or The Slab”
3. The Names - “I Wish I Could Speak Your Language”
4. Yazoo - “Bring Your Love Down (Didn’t I)”
5. Moloko - "Familiar Feeling"
6. The Wild Swans - “Revolutionary Spirit”
7. Japan - “Life in Tokyo (Long Version)”
8. My Bloody Valentine - “Map Ref 41N 93W”
9. The Terminals - “Green Eyes”
10. Apollo 440 - “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper”
11. Colourbox - “Breakdown”
12. The KLF - “Kylie Said to Jason”
13. The Names - “Nightshift”
14. Band of Susans - “Elizabeth Stride (1843-1888)”
15. Ben Watt - “Thirst for Knowledge”
16. The Shamen - “Progen (Joey Beltram Dub)”
17. 24 Gone - “In Her Heart”
18. Fleetwood Mac - “Rhiannon”
19. Gal Costa - "Divino, Maravilhoso"
20. Heatwave - “Mind Blowing Decisions”
21. The Seeds - “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine”
22. The Terminals - “Last Days of the Sun”
23. Tracey Ullman - “They Don’t Know”
24. The Walker Brothers - “Shutout”
25. Artery - “Into the Garden”
"Thank you very much for joining me, and tune in next week for the results of Week 14. This is Ian, signing off. Remember, if it looks like a duck, acts like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably just a tool of the conspiracy. Goodbye!"