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Jason Maloney reviews

Shaggy: Best of Vol.1 In ten years' of hit-making, Simply Red had fallen one place short of the top spot on two occasions; 1986's Holding Back The Years and 1989's If You Don't Know Me By Now both reached #2, but that first UK chart-topper eluded them until the final chart week of September 1995 when Fairground went straight in at #1. During 1991 and 1992, Mick Hucknall's crew had established themselves as by far the biggest album act in the country; 1991's Stars album had been the best-seller of both years, an unprecedented feat at the time and one still to be emulated. Fairground was the introductory single from Stars' follow-up, the ultimately disappointing Life which failed to yield another Top 10 single, and dislodged Shaggy's Boombastic from the summit. Nearly half of the Top 40 were new to the chart, and there was only one climber - Smokie's irreverent remake of their own 70s classic Living Next Door To Alice in league with foul-mouthed comedian Roy "Chubby" Brown, entitled Who The Fuck Is Alice - which moved up 3 places to #5. Michael Jackson's former #1 You Are Not Alone slipping another notch to #3 and Fantasy by Mariah Carey remaining at #4 completed the Top 5. Michael's sister Janet was in the Top 10, her Runaway single falling 2 places from its debut position of #6 the previous week. It was one of two new songs on her Greatest Hits set Design Of A Decade.

The Cardigans: Life A group of four debutants occupied the positions from #10 to #13, led by Wet Wet Wet's Somewhere Somehow. The umpteenth single from their Picture This album, it continued a sequence of Top 10 hits started by Love Is All Around some 18 months earlier. That 15-week reign revived their chart fortunes for a third time, the momentum of Goodnight Girl's #1 success in 1992 having started to wane by Love Is All Around's release in the spring of 1994. All of the Picture This singles did well, but the band came fatally unstuck after 1997's 10 managed just one Top 10 hit and a pointless cover of The Beatles' Yesterday for the Mr. Bean movie became their chart swansong not much later. The quartet of arrivals was completed by 20 Fingers featuring Gillette's censored Short Short Man at #11, Something For The Pain by Bon Jovi at #12 and Cast's Alright at #13. Britpop had already peaked, and was in the process of transforming into Dadrock; Paul Weller's fourth and final single from his Stanley Road set, Broken Stones, entered at #20 while a pre-Bittersweet Symphony The Verve debuted at #24 with the mournful History. There was, however, still time for Menswear to extend their chart career with another middling Top 20 hit; Stardust was new at #16, but two bands of the immediate future were already making modest inroads - Garbage and The Cardigans both made their Top 40 breakthrough on the same week with Only Happy When It Rains (#29) and Sick & Tired (#34) respectively.

Carter USM: Straw Donkey (Best of) Emerging R'n'B queen Mary J Blige came in at #17 with Mary Jane (All Night Long), and TLC had the longest-running single on the Top 40 as Waterfalls dropped to #18 after 9 weeks of action. Between #31 and #40 Annie Lennox debuted at #31 with Waiting In Vain, her third single from covers album Medusa, AC/DC were struggling to remain relevant in the 90s with Hard As A Rock managing a meagre #33 peak, idiosyncratic indie troupe Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine continued to think up punsome titles as Born On The 5th Of November entered at #35, and Dubstar got their first Top 40 hit courtesy of Anywhere (in at #37). In a reflection of the times, 17 of the week's 18 entries wouldgo into immediate decline 7 days later.

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

Vol.40: The 40 Best Singles That Missed The UK Top 40 (20/12/2004)
Vol.39: November 12th 1977 (12/11/2004)
Vol.38: October 29th 1984 (29/10/2004)
Vol.37: October 15th 1987 (15/10/2004)
Vol.36: October 6th 1973 (08/10/2004)
Vol.35: September 30th 1995 (30/09/2004)
Vol.34: September 22nd 1979 (24/09/2004)
Vol.33: September 13th 1986 (16/09/2004)
Vol.32: September 9th 1989 (09/09/2004)
Vol.31: September 4th 1982 (02/09/2004)
Vol.30: August 26th 1978 (26/08/2004)
Vol.29: August 21st 1976 (19/08/2004)
Vol.28: August 13th 1983 (12/08/2004)
Vol.27: August 3rd 1985 (06/08/2004)
Vol.26: July 25th 1981 (29/07/2004)
Vol.25: July 21st 1979 (22/07/2004)
Vol.24: July 4th 1992 (08/07/2004)
Vol.23: June 24th 1965 (01/07/2004)
Vol.22: June 16th 1984 (17/06/2004)
Vol.21: June 11th 1977 (10/06/2004)
Vol.20: June 8th 1967 (03/06/2004)
Vol.19: May 29th 1971 (27/05/2004)
Vol.18: May 18th 1991 (20/05/2004)
Vol.17: May 14th 1969 (13/05/2004)
Vol.16: May 8th 1982 (06/05/2004)
Vol.15: May 3rd 1980 (29/04/2004)
Vol.14: April 19th 1986 (20/04/2004)
Vol.13: April 14th 1990 (13/04/2004)
Vol.12: April 8th 1989 (08/04/2004)
Vol.11: April 2nd 1983 (06/04/2004)
Vol.10: March 24th 1979 (23/03/2004)
Vol.9: March 19th 1988 (16/03/2004)
Vol.8: March 9th 1985 (09/03/2004)
Vol.7: March 3rd 1973 (02/03/2004)
Vol.6: February 28th 1987 (24/02/2004)
Vol.5: February 20th 1993 (17/02/2004)
Vol.4: February 11th 1978 (10/02/2004)
Vol.3: February 3rd 1966 (03/02/2004)
Vol.2: January 31st 1981 (27/01/2004)
Vol.1: January 21st 1984 (20/01/2004)

And in chronological order:

June 24th 1965: Vol.23 (01/07/2004)
February 3rd 1966: Vol.3 (03/02/2004)
June 8th 1967: Vol.20 (03/06/2004)
May 14th 1969: Vol.17 (13/05/2004)
May 29th 1971: Vol.19 (27/05/2004)
March 3rd 1973: Vol.7 (02/03/2004)
August 21st 1976: Vol.29 (19/08/2004)
June 11th 1977: Vol.21 (10/06/2004)
November 12th 1977: Vol.39 (12/11/2004)
February 11th 1978: Vol.4 (10/02/2004)
August 26th 1978: Vol.30 (26/08/2004)
March 24th 1979: Vol.10 (23/03/2004)
July 21st 1979: Vol.25 (22/07/2004)
September 22nd 1979: Vol.34 (24/09/2004)
May 3rd 1980: Vol.15 (29/04/2004)
January 31st 1981: Vol.2 (27/01/2004)
July 25th 1981: Vol.26 (29/07/2004)
May 8th 1982: Vol.16 (06/05/2004)
September 4th 1982: Vol.31 (02/09/2004)
April 2nd 1983: Vol.11 (06/04/2004)
August 13th 1983: Vol.28 (12/08/2004)
January 21st 1984: Vol.1 (20/01/2004)
June 16th 1984: Vol.22 (17/06/2004)
October 29th 1984: Vol.38 (29/10/2004)
March 9th 1985: Vol.8 (09/03/2004)
August 3rd 1985: Vol.27 (06/08/2004)
April 19th 1986: Vol.14 (20/04/2004)
September 13th 1986: Vol.33 (16/09/2004)
February 28th 1987: Vol.6 (24/02/2004)
October 15th 1987: Vol.37 (15/10/2004)
March 19th 1988: Vol.9 (16/03/2004)
April 8th 1989: Vol.12 (08/04/2004)
September 9th 1989: Vol.32 (09/09/2004)
April 14th 1990: Vol.13 (13/04/2004)
May 18th 1991: Vol.18 (20/05/2004)
July 4th 1992: Vol.24 (08/07/2004)
February 20th 1993: Vol.5 (17/02/2004)
September 30th 1995: Vol.35 (30/09/2004)
The 40 Best Singles That Missed The UK Top 40: Vol.40 (20/12/2004)

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