Marcello Carlin and Lena Friesen review every UK number one album so that you might want to hear it
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(#587: 2 May 1998, 2 weeks) Track listing: Angel/Risingson/Teardrop/Inertia Creeps/Exchange/Dissolved Girl/Man Next Door/Black Milk/Mezzanine/Group Four/(Exchange) Another Major Statement. Another sixty-nine minutes of my life – or more precisely, what remains of my life - that I won’t get back, and I think this tale has reached its natural ending. Another Damoclean sword suspended over my…
(#586: 18 April 1998, 2 weeks) Track listing: Lazy Days/Life Thru A Lens/Ego A Go Go/Angels/South Of The Border/Old Before I Die/One Of God’s Better People/Let Me Entertain You/Killing Me/Clean/Baby Girl Window/Hello Sir People depend on stories, so here’s a story. It was the early spring of 1999, I think. Laura and I were browsing in (the long-gone) Books Etc. on Charing Cross Road. Both…
(#585: 11 April 1998, 1 week) Track listing: The Fear/Dishes/Party Hard/Help The Aged/This Is Hardcore/TV Movie/A Little Soul/I’m A Man/Seductive Barry/Sylvia/Glory Days/The Day After The Revolution Regular readers will be aware of certain facts. The Pope was, and most likely will still be, a Catholic. Bears do their excretory business in the woods. And I have a long-standing problem with Pulp. I…
(#584: 4 April 1998, 1 week) Track listing: Come Home (Flood Mix)/Sit Down/She’s A Star/Laid/Waltzing Along/Say Something/Born Of Frustration/Tomorrow/Destiny Calling/Out To Get You/Runaground/Lose Control/Sometimes/How Was It For You/Seven/Sound/Ring The Bells/Hymn From A Village For most people, the best music “of all time” – meaning “their time” – is the stuff they heard and patiently absorbed…
(#583: 14 March 1998, 2 weeks) Track listing: Drowned World-Substitute For Love/Swim/Ray Of Light/Candy Perfume Girl/Skin/Nothing Really Matters/Sky Fits Heaven/Shanti-Ashtangi/Frozen/The Power Of Good-Bye/To Have And Not To Hold/Little Star/Mer Girl (Author's Note: This piece was written by Lena and edited and formatted by me - M.C.) " For the first time you [lift your heart to God with stirrings…
(#582: 14 February 1998, 1 week; 28 February 1998, 2 weeks) Track listing: Never An Absolution/Distant Memories/Southampton/Rose/Leaving Port/"Take Her To Sea, Mr Murdoch"/Hard To Starboard/Unable To Stay, Unwilling To Leave/The Sinking/Death Of Titanic/A Promise Kept/A Life So Changed/An Ocean Of Memories/My Heart Will Go On (performed by Céline Dion)/Hymn To The Sea Throughout James Cameron’s…
(#581: 29 November 1997, 2 weeks; 20 December 1997, 2 weeks; 28 March 1998, 1 week) Track listing: The Reason/Immortality (ft The Bee Gees)/Treat Her Like A Lady (ft Diana King)/Why Oh Why/Love Is On The Way/Tell Him (duet with Barbra Streisand)/Amar Haciendo El Amor/When I Need You/Miles To Go (Before I Sleep)/Us/Just A Little Bit Of Love/My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic )/Where Is…
(#580: 15 November 1997, 2 weeks; 13 December 1997, 1 week) Track listing: Spice Up Your Life/Stop/Too Much/Saturday Night Divas/Never Give Up On The Good Times/Move Over/Do It/Denying/Viva Forever/The Lady Is A Vamp (Author's Note: This blog entry was written by Lena, and edited, formatted and published by me. - M.C.) "I was th e sergeant major, I was the parent, I ran everything. I was very…
(#579: 11 October 1997, 5 weeks; 3 January 1998, 6 weeks; 21 February 1998, 1 week) Track listing: Bitter Sweet Symphony/Sonnet/The Rolling People/The Drugs Don't Work/Catching The Butterfly/Neon Wilderness/Space And Time/Weeping Willow/Lucky Man/One Day/This Time/Velvet Morning/Come On/Deep Freeze "Diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible…
(#578: 27 September 1997, 1 week) Track listing: Hundred Mile High City/Better Day/Travellers Tune/Big Star/Debris Road/Besides Yourself/Get Blown Away/Tele He’s Not Talking/Foxy’s Folk Faced/All Up/Spark And Cindy/Half A Dream Away/It’s A Beautiful Thing Presume for a moment that you’re in your early twenties – 23 or 24, perhaps. You were brought up to expect such promise. You were given your…
