Top 100 UK singles 1996

[littlebabyjesus]

The prosecution rests m'lud. Rarely a more overrated 'tune' exists on god's earth.

That's my single crumb of comfort. And you would want to take it away from me?

Anyway, you're wrong. Listening to it now and it still sounds great.

 

[Mr Moose]

That's my single crumb of comfort. And you would want to take it away from me?

Anyway, you're wrong. Listening to it now and it still sounds great.

It wouldn't even make my top 10 new order tracks. It's one of those articles of faith everyone 'has' to like despite its awful vocals, dreary lyrics and general plodding. But hey enjoy.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

It wouldn't even make my top 10 new order tracks. It's one of those articles of faith everyone 'has' to like despite its awful vocals, dreary lyrics and general plodding. But hey enjoy.

I like the vocals. Lyrics are dreary, I'll give you that, but New Order's lyrics are never up to much. And it doesn't plod. It builds.

 

[Mr Moose]

I like the vocals. Lyrics are dreary, I'll give you that, but New Order's lyrics are never up to much. And it doesn't plod. It builds.

Partly it's the difference between a dance record and a pop record. Blue Monday only makes any sense when you dance to it. But it doesn't get near something like 'Two Tribes' remixed or 'How Soon is Now' for an 80's listening experience.

 

[Mr Moose]

Say it again.

 

[pogofish]

I don't know a single one of that top 100.

Even I managed a few - Although the spellings may not have have been quite as expected!

 

[pogofish]

1981 for my seventeenth:

01 Shakin' Stevens This Ole House
02 Adam & The Ants Stand And Deliver
03 The Specials Ghost Town
04 Soft Cell Tainted Love
05 Adam & The Ants Prince Charming
06 John Lennon Imagine
07 Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up
08 Ultravox Vienna
09 Michael Jackson One Day In Your Life
10 Dave Stewart With Barbara Gaskin It's My Party
11 Shakin' Stevens Green Door
12 The Tweets The Birdie Song (Birdie Dance)
13 Smokey Robinson Being With You
14 John Lennon Woman
15 Joe Dolce Music Theatre Shaddup You Face
16 Shakin' Stevens You Drive Me Crazy
17 Roxy Music Jealous Guy
18 Julio Iglesias Begin The Beguine (Volver A Empezar)
19 Adam & The Ants Antmusic
20 Starsound Stars On 45
21 The Human League Don't You Want Me
22 Kim Wilde Kids In America
23 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Hooked On Classics
24 Aneka Japanese Boy
25 Ennio Morricone Chi Mai (Theme From 'Life And Times Of David Lloyd George')
26 Altered Images Happy Birthday
27 Bad Manners Can Can
28 Queen & David Bowie Under Pressure
29 Cliff Richard Daddy's Home
30 Ottawan Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)
31 The Police Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
32 Imagination Body Talk
33 Stevie Wonder Lately
34 Phil Collins In The Air Tonight
35 The Human League Love Action (I Believe In Love)
36 Starsound Stars On 45 (Volume 2)
37 Coast To Coast (Do) The Hucklebuck
38 Electric Light Orchestra Hold On Tight
39 Stevie Wonder Happy Birthday
40 Odyssey Going Back To My Roots
41 Adam & The Ants Kings Of The Wild Frontier
42 Kate Robbins & Beyond More Than In Love
43 The Jacksons Can You Feel It
44 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Souvenir
45 Rainbow I Surrender
46 Landscape Einstein A-Go-Go
47 Champaign How 'Bout Us
48 Toyah Four From Toyah (EP)
49 Spandau Ballet Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure On)
50 Earth Wind & Fire Let's Groove
51 Godley & Creme Under Your Thumb
52 John & Yoko & The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
53 Sugar Minott Good Thing Going
54 Diana Ross Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
55 Alvin Stardust Pretend
56 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Joan Of Arc
57 Soft Cell Bedsitter
58 Duran Duran Girls On Film
59 Third World Dancing On The Floor (Hooked On Love)
60 The Four Tops When She Was My Girl
61 Madness Grey Day
62 The Nolans Attention to Me
63 Ten Pole Tudor Swords Of A Thousand Men
64 Cliff Richard Wired For Sound
65 The Police Invisible Sun
66 Haircut 100 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
67 Tight Fit Back To The Sixties
68 Kim Wilde Chequered Love
69 The Whispers It's A Love Thing
70 Madness The Return Of The Los Palmas Seven
71 Olivia Newton-John Physical
72 REO Speedwagon Keep On Loving You
73 Elaine Paige Memory
74 Squeeze Labelled With Love
75 Elvis Costello A Good Year For The Roses
76 Diana Ross & Lionel Richie Endless Love
77 Toyah Thunder In The Mountains
78 Toyah I Want To Be Free
79 Sheena Easton For Your Eyes Only
80 Graham Bonnet Night Games
81 Depeche Mode New Life
82 John Lennon (Just Like) Starting Over
83 Yarborough & Peoples Don't Stop The Music
84 The Teardrop Explodes Reward
85 Linx Intuition
86 The Human League Open Your Heart
87 Visage Fade To Grey
88 Rod Stewart Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)
89 Blondie Rapture
90 UB40 One In Ten
91 Lobo The Caribbean Disco Show
92 Abba One Of Us
93 Dire Straits Romeo And Juliet
94 Freeez Southern Freeez
95 Bob Marley & The Wailers No Woman No Cry
96 Specials featuring Rico With The Ice Rink String Sounds Do Nothing / Maggie's Farm
97 Laurie Anderson O Superman
98 Depeche Mode Just Can't Get Enough
99 Fred Wedlock The Oldest Swinger In Town
100 The Pointer Sisters Slow Hand

I think I can remember most of them too.

 

[Kaka Tim]

1981 - ghost town and tainted love at nos 3 and 4 - two of the greatest pop singles ever. a fair smattering of classics in the rest of the list. Take that 1996. and compare with the list for 1988 for an illustration of how bad it got as the 80s dragged on.

 

[Voley]

Blue Monday though

It's everything that was wrong with the 80s plus New Order.

That's the shit remix though. Blue Monday '88. The proper one was about 5 years previous.

 

[Hellsbells]

Wow. I know every song from 1988 & 1996.

 

[killer b]

1981 is a great list: Ennio Morricone at number 25! Laurie Anderson! About a hundred Soft Cell songs!

 

[magneze]

1992 Top 20

Classics and shite. I'll let you guess which is which.

01 Shakespear's Sister Stay
02 Snap! Rhythm Is A Dancer
03 Boyz II Men End Of The Road
04 KWS Please Don't Go
05 Right Said Fred Deeply Dippy
06 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You
07 Erasure Abba-esque (EP)
08 Wet Wet Wet Goodnight Girl
09 The Shamen Ebeneezer Goode
10 Charles & Eddie Would I Lie To You?
11 Jimmy Nail Ain't No Doubt
12 Tasmin Archer Sleeping Satellite
13 Queen Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives
14 Undercover Baker Street
15 SL2 On A Ragga Tip
16 Dr Alban It's My Life
17 Richard Marx Hazard
18 Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson The Best Things In Life Are Free
19 Shanice I Love Your Smile
20 The Temptations My Girl
21 Arrested Development People Everyday
22 Jon Secada Just Another Day
23 Mr Big To Be With You
24 Michael Jackson Heal The World
25 Billy Ray Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart
26 Bizarre Inc I'm Gonna Get You
27 2 Unlimited Twilight Zone
28 Smart E's Sesame's Treet
29 The Pasadenas I'm Doing Fine Now
30 Mariah Carey I'll Be There
31 Lionel Richie My Destiny
32 Nick Berry Heartbeat
33 Vanessa Williams Save The Best For Last
34 Utah Saints Something Good
35 Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballe Barcelona
36 Guns N' Roses Knockin' On Heaven's Door
37 Kris Kross Jump
38 The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette Justified And Ancient
39 Ce Ce Peniston Finally
40 The Prodigy Everybody In The Place (EP)
41 Felix Don't You Want Me

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1981 is a great list: Ennio Morricone at number 25! Laurie Anderson! About a hundred Soft Cell songs!

Also the terrible stuff in 1981 is spectacularly terrible- Julio Iglesias and the Birdy Song, Stars on 45, The Oldest Swinger in Town...

 

[chilango]

1990: The KLF, Happy Mondays, They Might Be Giants and, at a push, The Charlatans stand out from the list.

A surprising number of "mega mixes" in the charts that year.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Wow. I know every song from 1988 & 1996.

(((Hellsbells)))

 

[Kaka Tim]

1992 Top 20

Classics and shite. I'll let you guess which is which.

couple of decent tracks. cant guess what you'd class as a "classic" in there.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Also the terrible stuff in 1981 is spectacularly terrible- Julio Iglesias and the Birdy Song, Stars on 45, The Oldest Swinger in Town...

Part of what was extraordinary about that time - the clash of the spiky, bizarre, radical, subversive and confrontational with the likes of the goombay dance band and Terry Wogan. And 1981 was the year when you had loony tunes level of gooey hysteria over Chas an Di's wedding whilst simultaneously every major city saw massive riots. In the case of Toxteth - on the same day.

 

[Mr Moose]

Also the terrible stuff in 1981 is spectacularly terrible- Julio Iglesias and the Birdy Song, Stars on 45, The Oldest Swinger in Town...

Couldn't bear the Oldest Swinger in Town back then when I was being a sulky faced Killing Joke fan. But I heard it the other day and it's quite funny.

I saw Killing Joke last year, didn't laugh once and they gave me tinnitus.

 

[salem]

96 and 92 - amazing vintage! Having a good old youtube sesh.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Am I just getting nostalgic for when I was 17 or is the the best annual singles chart ever? How many other years would feature such a small proportion of dreadful tracks?

01 The Spice Girls Wannabe
02 Fugees Killing Me Softly
03 Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack
04 Gina G Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit
05 Robert Miles Children
06 Peter Andre featuring Bubbler Ranx Mysterious Girl
07 Baddiel & Skinner and The Lightning Seeds Three Lions
08 Babylon Zoo Spaceman
09 Toni Braxton Un-Break My Heart
10 The Spice Girls Say You'll Be There
11 George Michael Fastlove
12 3T Anything
13 Deep Blue Something Breakfast At Tiffany's
14 The Prodigy Firestarter
15 Los Del Rio Macarena
16 Oasis Don't Look Back In Anger
17 Fugees Ready Or Not
18 The Prodigy Breathe
19 Take That How Deep Is Your Love
20 Michael Jackson Earth Song
21 Underworld Born Slippy
22 Celine Dion Because You Loved Me
23 Mark Snow The X-Files
24 Tony Rich Project Nobody Knows
25 Gabrielle Give Me A Little More Time
26 East 17 featuring Gabrielle If You Ever
27 Robson & Jerome What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted
28 Boyzone Words
29 Suggs & Louchie Lou / Michie One Cecilia
30 Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler One And One
31 OMC How Bizarre
32 Babybird You're Gorgeous
33 Livin' Joy Don't Stop Movin'
34 Celine Dion It's All Coming Back To Me Now
35 Boyzone Father And Son
36 Technohead I Wanna Be A Hippy
37 Peter Andre Flava
38 Luniz I Got 5 On It
39 Donna Lewis I Love You Always Forever
40 George Michael Jesus To A Child
41 Oasis Wonderwall
42 Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity
43 JX There's Nothing I Won't Do
44 Gary Barlow Forever Love
45 Everything But The Girl Missing
46 Faithless Insomnia
47 The Woolpackers Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll
48 Michael Jackson They Don't Care About Us
49 The Lighthouse Family Lifted
50 Manic Street Preachers A Design For Life
51 George Michael Spinning The Wheel
52 Warren G featuring Adina Howard What's Love Got To Do With It
53 The Bluetones Slight Return
54 Dunblane Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Throw These Guns Away
55 1996 Manchester United FA Cup Squad Move Move Move (The Red Tribe)
56 The Smurfs I've Got A Little Puppy
57 BBE Seven Days And One Week
58 Boyzone A Different Beat
59 Mariah Carey Always Be My Baby
60 Robbie Williams Freedom
61 Joan Osborne One Of Us
62 Ocean Colour Scene The Day We Caught The Train
63 The Chemical Brothers Setting Sun
64 Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen Theme From Mission - Impossible
65 Boyzone Coming Home Now
66 Dodgy Good Enough
67 Coolio featuring LV Gangsta's Paradise
68 3T featuring Michael Jackson Why
69 Peter Andre I Feel You
70 The Spice Girls 2 Become 1
71 Clock Oh What A Night
72 Cher One By One
73 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Tha Crossroads
74 Wink Higher State Of Consciousness '96 Remixes
75 Dina Carroll Escaping
76 The Beautiful South Rotterdam
77 Toni Braxton You're Makin' Me High
78 Stretch 'N' Vern Presents 'Maddog' I'm Alive
79 Baby D So Pure
80 Fugees No Woman No Cry
81 Celine Dion Falling Into You
82 Alisha's Attic I Am, I Feel
83 Lisa Marie Experience Keep On Jumpin'
84 Kula Shaker Hey Dude
85 Backstreet Boys We've Got It Goin' On
86 Space Female Of The Species
87 Etta James I Just Want To Make Love To You
88 3T I Need You
89 Eternal I Am Blessed
90 Gina G I Belong To You
91 LL Cool J Loungin
92 Louise Naked
93 Bjork It's Oh So Quiet
94 Kula Shaker Tattva
95 Pianoman Blurred
96 Michael Jackson Stranger In Moscow
97 Eternal Someday
98 2Pac featuring Dr Dre California Love
99 Mark Owen Child
100 Alanis Morissette Ironic

Top 100 1996 - UK Music Charts

Wow the 90s really sucked.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

"Come on Eileen" - the most awful thing to come out of the 80's, scourge of 80's revivals, cancer of 80's disco nights, the turd in the punch bowl that every fucking DJ sticks on at some point - I loathe that fucking song.

I have always thought the same. weddings, shit discos, even at the time. You know what though, it sounds tottaly fine in the context of the album, and it's a damn fine album.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Actually just proved myself wrong, lol, 1983 is full of belters

Top 100 1983 - UK Music Charts

Always fond of 81 83 85 86 88 89 but gets a bit strictly underground at around 86

 

[magneze]

96 and 92 - amazing vintage! Having a good old youtube sesh.

Yeah, you know, looking back at that 92 list. It was a good year really.