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Jason Maloney reviews

JASON'S   JUKEBOX

V o l u m e # 3 4

Chart Date: 22nd September 1979

Online Date: 24th September 2004

Cover
Premier Hits: The Best
of Gary Numan
Parking itself in the #1 spot this week 25 years ago, Cars gave Gary Numan a second consecutive chart-topper just a couple of months after Are "Friends" Electric? had ruled the roost. Cars' reign would last only 7 days, however, and Numan never scaled the same heights again, his chart fortunes steadily declining over the next decade until his singles barely scraped into the Top 75 at all.

The outgoing #1, We Don't Talk Anymore by Cliff Richard, swapped places with Cars after a month at the top. It was Cliff's first UK #1 since 1968, and ended the decade on a high note after the least successful period of his career. The single's success also meant he had reached #1 in the 1950s, 1960s and now 1970s. Subsequently, that sequence would be extended to include the 1980s (Mistletoe & Wine), 1990s (Saviours Day) and, remarkably, even the 21st Century's first decade (courtesy of The Millenium Prayer).


Cover
The Best Of
The Bellamy Brothers
Completing one of the most memorable Top 3s in chart history, Electric Light Orchestra's Don't Bring Me Down moved up a notch from #4 to continue their strong Top 10 showing throughout 1979. Previous single The Diary Of Horace Wimp fell from #10 to #19 on the chart of August 25th, the same week as Don't Bring Me Down entered at #38. The latter's surge to #11 and then #4 meant E.L.O. had only been out of the Top 10 for a fortnight. Its peak of #3 proved to be the band's all-time high, despite numerous Top 5 hits both before and after.

The records at #4 and #5 were also on the up; The Bellamy Brothers' If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me climbed 3 places from #7, while Love's Gotta Hold On Me by Dollar rose from #9. The Crusaders' Street Life, which introduced the vocal talents of Randy Crawford to the public, slipped from #5 to #6 and B.A. Robertson's former #2 smash Bang Bang was falling from #3 to #7. Highest of 7 new entries to the chart was Message In A Bottle by The Police at #8. The following week it would topple Cars from the #1 spot. Their next two official releases (not including the mutil-single Six Pack which hit #17) would also reach the very top.


Cover
Divine Madness
Between #11 and #20, Frantique were up 12 to #11 with Strut Your Funky Stuff, Bill Lovelady's Reggae For It Now rose 6 to #12, Sail On by The Commodores was climbing 10 to #14, Johnny Mathis moved #21-#15 with Gone Gone Gone and Nick Lowe's Cruel To Be Kind continue its ascent of the Top 40 by going from #26 to #16. Going in the opposite direction, The Flying Lizards' Money, Duchess by The Stranglers and Gangsters by The Specials were falling to #17, #18 and #19 respectively.

Knocking on the door of the Top 20 were Secret Affair (up 6 to #21 with Time For Action) and Racey, whose Boy Oh Boy (peaking at #22) proved a far less popular single than its predecessor, the #2 hit Some Girls. Two bands widely acknowledged as among the finest British singles acts of the past 30 years were also moving up towards the upper half of the chart; the debut Madness single The Prince had debuted at #37 the previous week and now soared 14 places to #23, while Slap & Tickle by Squeeze moved up 7 places from its entry position of #32 but despite following a brace of seminal #2 singles in the shape of Cool For Cats and Up The Junction it eventually went no higher than #24.


Cover
The Very Best of Rainbow
Two other rising hits were, however, destined for the Top 10; Rainbow's Since You've Been Gone (up from #33 to #26) and the Kate Bush On Stage EP, which climbed 8 to #27 on its second week in the Top 40. Something of a stopgap release between her second and third albums, and also a kind of souvenir from her one and only tour, the lead track was a live version of The Kick Inside album cut Them Heavy People.

A pair of non-movers at #28 and #30 for the UK Subs (Tomorrow's Girls) and Gerry Rafferty (Get It Right Next Time) bookended the second-highest entrant of the week, Michael Jackson's Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough at #29. The single went on to hit #3 and effectively kickstarted his sensational run of success through the 1980s and 1990s. Other newcomers to the chart included The Jags' Back Of My Hand at #34, Status Quo's future Top 5 smash Whatever You Want at #35 and one of Donna Summer's less popular releases Dim All The Lights at #38.

Page Content copyright © Jason Maloney, 2004.

The following is a list of Jason's Jukeboxes online for week ending:

And in chronological order:

DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.

PC games reviewed by the editor are on:

  • Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
  • Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
  • Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
  • Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
  • Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP