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here is a post carrying on the year countdown...



So the next 3 years. My last 3 years in Dorset...

what changed? lots of things, I stopped hanging with a crowd of people that, as much as I love them held me back... I met some people that seemed to be more than just friends, but people that will be with me forever, that were on my wavelength... they encouraged me on so many levels. Their story continues over the next posts, but from here on in, its all about them.

I thought it would be best to spoil you with 3 years of posts, thats 15 songs and 3 birthday number ones.

and by the way I made those there pictures.

The Number Ones of 1996

20 Jan 1996 George Michael Jesus To A Child
27 Jan 1996 Babylon Zoo Spaceman
2 Mar 1996 Oasis Don't Look Back In Anger
9 Mar 1996 Take That How Deep Is Your Love
30 Mar 1996 Prodigy Firestarter
20 Apr 1996 Mark Morrison Return Of The Mack
4 May 1996 George Michael Fastlove
25 May 1996 Gina G Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit
1 Jun 1996 Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds Three Lions
8 Jun 1996 Fugees Killing Me Softly
20 Jul 1996 Gary Barlow Forever Love
27 Jul 1996 Spice Girls Wannabe
14 Sep 1996 Peter Andre Flava
21 Sep 1996 Fugees Ready Or Not
5 Oct 1996 Deep Blue Something Breakfast At Tiffany's
12 Oct 1996 Chemical Brothers Setting Sun
19 Oct 1996 Boyzone Words
26 Oct 1996 Spice Girls Say You'll Be There
9 Nov 1996 Robson & Jerome What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted
23 Nov 1996 Prodigy Breathe
7 Dec 1996 Peter Andre I Feel You
14 Dec 1996 Boyzone A Different Beat
21 Dec 1996 Dunblane Knockin' On Heaven's Door
28 Dec 1996 Spice Girls 2 Become 1

The Number Ones of 1997

18 Jan 1997 Tori Amos Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big)
25 Jan 1997 White Town Your Woman
1 Feb 1997 Blur Beetlebum
8 Feb 1997 LL Cool J Ain't Nobody
15 Feb 1997 U2 Discotheque
22 Feb 1997 No Doubt Don't Speak
15 Mar 1997 Spice Girls Mama / Who Do You Think You Are
5 Apr 1997 Chemical Brothers Block Rockin' Beats
12 Apr 1997 R Kelly I Believe I Can Fly
3 May 1997 Michael Jackson Blood On The Dance Floor
10 May 1997 Gary Barlow Love Won't Wait
17 May 1997 Olive You're Not Alone
31 May 1997 Eternal featuring Bebe Winans I Wanna Be The One
7 Jun 1997 Hanson Mmmbop
28 Jun 1997 Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You
19 Jul 1997 Oasis D'you Know What I Mean
16 Aug 1997 Will Smith Men In Black
13 Sep 1997 Verve The Drugs Don't Work
20 Sep 1997 Elton John Candle In The Wind 97 / Something About The Way You Look.
25 Oct 1997 Spice Girls Spice Up Your Life
1 Nov 1997 Aqua Barbie Girl
29 Nov 1997 Various Artists Perfect Day
13 Dec 1997 Teletubbies Teletubbies Say Eh-oh!
27 Dec 1997 Spice Girls Too Much

The Number Ones of 1998

17 Jan 1998 All Saints Never Ever
24 Jan 1998 Oasis All Around The World
31 Jan 1998 Usher You Make Me Wanna...
7 Feb 1998 Aqua Doctor Jones
21 Feb 1998 Celine Dion My Heart Will Go On
28 Feb 1998 Cornershop Brimful Of Asha
7 Mar 1998 Madonna Frozen
21 Mar 1998 Run DMC vs Jason Nevins It's Like That
2 May 1998 Boyzone All That I Need
9 May 1998 All Saints Under The Bridge / Lady Marmalade
16 May 1998 Aqua Turn Back Time
30 May 1998 Tamperer featuring Maya Feel It
6 Jun 1998 B*Witched C'est La Vie
20 Jun 1998 Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds Three Lions '98
11 Jul 1998 Billie Because We Want To
18 Jul 1998 Another Level Freak Me
25 Jul 1998 Jamiroquai Deeper Underground
1 Aug 1998 Spice Girls Viva Forever
15 Aug 1998 Boyzone No Matter What
5 Sep 1998 Manic Street Preachers If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
12 Sep 1998 All Saints Bootie Call
19 Sep 1998 Robbie Williams Millennium
26 Sep 1998 Melanie B featuring Missy Elliott I Want You Back
3 Oct 1998 B*Witched Rollercoaster
17 Oct 1998 Billie Girlfriend
24 Oct 1998 Spacedust Gym & Tonic
31 Oct 1998 Cher Believe
19 Dec 1998 B*Witched To You I Belong
26 Dec 1998Spice Girls Goodbye

Downloads.... MEDIAFIRE

1996: The Headnod shit that makes you break yo neck

My Singles of the year...

Devil's Haricut - Beck... Beck is an artist that divides opinion in my own music taste, so much of his stuff I hate, but this I love, it was so different to what else was going on at that time.

No Diggity - Blackstreet... I was all over this tune back in '96, awesome song, still a favourite today. the sample for Grandma's hands by Bill Withers, the video was great too.

Woo-Hah (I got you all in check) - Busta Rhymes... another quality tune that was everywhere back in the day, its the head nod shit that makes you break yo neck.

Natural One - Folk Implosion... a change of direction here, this song from Lou Barlow's spin off band, featured in the soundrack to the film Kids, this film introduced me to Daniel Johnston, but thats another post.

Professional Widow - Tori Amos... this tune, albeit the remix, was all over at the tail end of '96, made number one in early 97, the original is about Courtney Love, apparently, this is Armand Van Helden remix, hands in the air...

Birthday Number One - Wannabe - Spice Girls... oh my god, why?

1997: I Think I need a cup of tea

Single of the year...

Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth - The Dandy Warhols... argh! The DW's are a band that have had a few great songs, this is one of them... herion is so passe

Between The Bars - Elliott Smith... Elliott Smith wrote some of the most beautiful songs that I have heard, this is one of them, he should have been more well known... I'll do an Elliott Smith post soon.

On & On - Erykah Badu... I love this song, so great... never really felt anything else she has done.

Kowalski - Primal Scream... Inspired by the film Vanishing Point, this is my second favourite PS moment, I love this song. Vanishing Point was more recently mentioned in Deathproof the new Taratino movie.

I Never Could Be Your Woman - White Town... I hated this song when it first came out, detested it, but as the years have passed I have grown to really love it, it was either this or Mmmbop by Hanson,

Birthday Number One - D'ya Know What I Mean - Oasis... the sound of 5 men with too much coke and too litlle on ideas, good coke albums see Sly and The Family Stone.

1998: A Junk Yard Fool With Eyes of Gloom

Singles of the year...

Hard-Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - Jay-Z... mad props for sampling Annie, I love JayZ when he's like this.

You Get What You Give - New Radicals... I like this song, it makes my foot tap, hell, I like pop music.

This is Hardcore - Pulp... I think that this is first mention of Pulp on this list, can't really be bothered to check, but this is my favourite Pulp song, I saw them live on this tour, one of the best concerts I have ever been to see. brilliant live.

Ice Hockey Hair - Super Furry Animals... The SFA's a vastly under rated band, I loved them so much, thanks to Ish, for introducing me to them, this song typifies them so much... one of the best bands ever to come out of Wales.

Dry The Rain - The Beta Band... This song always makes me feel good, it was famously used in High Fidelity, a film that I really love, probably because I have identified with all 3 of the characters in the shop, top 5 songs about ...

Birthday Number One - No Matter What - Boyzone... I want to beat Ronan Keating to death with his own vocal chords. I hate music like this, hate it.



Enjoy,

MadLove

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I am the magnificent ... guest post #3

another Guest post, from Weary...


“I am the magnificent
I'm backed by the shack of a soul boss most turnin' stormin' sound o'soul….”

When I first heard that pounding out of the speakers at my local youthclub. I was hooked. I’d heard reggae before, but it never grabbed me like Double Barrel did.

And that set me on a love affair with the sunshine music of Reggae..

Prince Busters, One Step Beyond & Al Capone were absolute storming records, guaranteed floorfillers in my youth, but I didn’t just love the harsh rawness of the Ska greats like Prince Buster & Desmond Dekker, I also loved the sexy, lyrical romantic reggae of Johnny Nash & Barry Biggs. To smooch along with some hot chick (or so they seemed to me) to the sound of ‘Sideshow’ or ‘Stir It Up’ was my idea of heaven when I was 13.

I have kept up a reasonable Reggae collection, all the usual standards and a decent collection of Trojan stuff plus some Island & Burning Spear

Pluto Shevington, Rupee Edwards, Toots & the Maytails, Lee ‘scratch’ Perry and of course BobMarley.

Great great music to do anything to, from making love to painting your ceiling, once that beat gets you I defy anyone to keep their feet or body still, even I still hit the floor & I have the co-ordination of a broken marionette nowadays.

Although these days I don’t really rate the Reggae music doing the rounds, Sean Paul & Shaggy just doesn’t do it for me, although to be fair, I did like Shaggy’s ‘Oh Carolina’. I think the last Reggae record I really liked that charted was Bitty McLeans cover of Fats Dominos ‘It’s Raining’ but I keep listening, & hoping that there’ll be a gem released once more to take me back to those heady Reggae days of the 1970’s


Weary (but never of the beat)


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Pissed in a Tube Hole... 1995

1995...

another year, I turned 20, no longer a child...

In my life a major shift was about to happen, but I had a little longer to wait...

I was bored of the shit that I went through daily, its about this time I toyed with joining the army... went as far as meeting with the local regiments Major (2 of my Uncles served under him) realised that it wasn't for me, something about compulsory basic training!

But I feel that the music of this time was not important to me, as I was still being dragged to cheesy night clubs with friends and not with people who appreciated the same music as me.

Number Ones Of 1995
14 Jan 1995 Rednex Cotton Eye Joe
4 Feb 1995 Celine Dion Think Twice
25 Mar 1995 Cher,Chrissie Hynde,Neneh Cherry &Eric Clapton Love Can Build A Bridge
1 Apr 1995 Outhere Brothers Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle)
8 Apr 1995 Take That Back For Good
6 May 1995 Oasis Some Might Say
13 May 1995 Livin' Joy Dreamer
20 May 1995 Robson Green & Jerome Flynn Unchained Melody
8 Jul 1995 Outhere Brothers Boom Boom Boom
5 Aug 1995 Take That Never Forget
26 Aug 1995 Blur Country House
9 Sep 1995 Michael Jackson You Are Not Alone
23 Sep 1995 Shaggy Boombastic
30 Sep 1995 Simply Red Fairground
28 Oct 1995 Coolio featuring LV Gangsta's Paradise
11 Nov 1995 Robson & Jerome I Believe
9 Dec 1995 Michael Jackson Earth Song

Singles of 1995
Underworld - Born Slippy (nuxx)
Coming to fame due to a film about some Scottish skagheads, I lost count the amount of times that, during that summer I was hands in the air to this tune, it was one of the few times that my chart pop loving friends and I connected musically... usually over the lager,lager,lager refrain.

Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness (Original)
its hard to think that this song is 13 years old...this song makes me want to take lots of drugs and dance my arse off till the break of day... one of my favourite dance (of any genre) tunes of all time, still love it today as much as I did the first time I heard it.

Method Man & Mary J Blige - You're All That I Need
This is one of my favourite hip hop tunes of all time, I've spoken about this song before.

Black Grape - Reverend Black Grape
Shaun Ryder from the Happy Mondays new (to '95) project, this song was probably the best thing that they did... it didn't last

Bjork - Army of Me
I have a strange like for Bjork, every now and then she does a song that I adore, and this is one of them.

Birthday Number One

Never Forget - Take That
SHIT SHIT SHIT

download here (mediafire)

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I love it when you call me big poppa.... 1994

1994

What a year for music, personally at least.

some of my favourite songs ever made were released this year, it surprises me that these songs are now 13 or 14 years old, I still think it was just yesterday.

I don't remember much of what happened in '94, I think it coincided with some of the most alcoholic period of my life, working in the Woodman pub... a great job, some fantastic times I spent there... some fucking scary times, a run in with a smackhead that I knew from wayback, this galvanised my desire to shed a part of my past which had a habit of catching up with me, it took a few more years to do...but the seeds were there.

Number Ones Of The Year:

8 Jan 1994 Chaka Demus & Pliers Twist & Shout 700th No 1
22 Jan 1994 D:Ream Things Can Only Get Better
19 Feb 1994 Mariah Carey Without You
19 Mar 1994 Doop Doop
9 Apr 1994 Take That Everything Changes
23 Apr 1994 Prince The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
7 May 1994 Tony Di Bart Real Thing
14 May 1994 Stiltskin Inside
21 May 1994 Manchester United 1994 Football Squad Come On You Reds
4 Jun 1994 Wet Wet Wet Love Is All Around
17 Sep 1994 Whigfield Saturday Night
15 Oct 1994 Take That Sure
29 Oct 1994 Pato Banton (with Robin & Ali Campbell) Baby Come Back
26 Nov 1994 Baby D Let Me Be Your Fantasy
10 Dec 1994 East 17 Stay Another Day

My Singles of the Year

1) Bug Powder Dust - Bomb The Bass
- Based on Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, Justin Warfield (from One Inch Punk) lays down the lyrics on this awesome track, one of my all time favourites.

2) Sabotage - Beastie Boys
- Purely for the Video... Watch it - AWESOME! - how much fun must it have been to make this video.



3) Closer - Nine Inch Nails
- Will always remind me of a very special girl, that I loved greatly. I made her 2 mixtapes when we first met, she went travelling for a month round Spain, this song was the first song on tape 1, this was her "daytime" tape.

4) Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
- as with the last choice, this was on the second tape, the tape I made for her to chill out to at night time, and this song made her think of me, and it makes me think of her still, its been 9 years since I made that tape... and it still has this effect... this song haunts me, but in a good way.

5) Big Papa - Notorious BIG
- Just because I like this song... and I love it when you call me big papa!

My Birthday Song

Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
- in some alternate universe this song is still number one, and everyones brains have turned to mush... I dislike this song

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I'm Back! - 1993

1993

what do I remember about '93...

Not a great deal, I'll be honest, I was in a transient place, Moving from student to gainfully employed...

I left college due to drink, moreover I was asked to leave because I never turned up, or when I did invariably I was drunk.

I started working, many jobs, an internal conflict raged inside, for my love of music and my friends love of the chart shit (as signified by the first number one proper this year
I remember being a mates car, wanting to listen to a mix tape that I had made, his girlfriend wanted to listen to Ace of Base over and over again, I hate Ace of Base because
of this, this constant barrage of crap music I had to suffer sitting in the cars of friends, driving around the glorious Dorset countryside...

The Number Ones of the Year:

13 Feb 1993 2 Unlimited No Limit
20 Mar 1993 Shaggy Oh Carolina
3 Apr 1993 Bluebells Young At Heart
1 May 1993 George Michael & Queen with Lisa Stansfield Five Live EP (Main Track: Somebody To Love).
22 May 1993 Ace Of Base All That She Wants
12 Jun 1993 UB 40 (I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You
26 Jun 1993 Gabrielle Dreams
17 Jul 1993 Take That Pray
1 Aug 1993 Freddie Mercury Living On My Own
28 Aug 1993 Culture Beat Mr Vain
25 Sep 1993 Jazzy Jeff The Fresh Prince Boom! Shake The Room
9 Oct 1993 Take That featuring Lulu Relight My Fire
23 Oct 1993 Meat Loaf I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
11 Dec 1993 Mr Blobby Mr Blobby
18 Dec 1993 Take That Babe

Singles of The Year

1) Open Up - Leftfield & Lydon

I'm quite a fan of John Lydon, can be a bit of a twat, but this is one of the best things he ever did, love it!


2) Venus as a Boy - Bjork

I love this song, so much of Bjorks output can equally enthrall and irk me, whereas this song I always love.

3) Loser - Beck

A great song, introduced Beck to the world, many people would state that he got better on albums such as Odelay... I disagree, this is the best thing he has ever done.

4) Feed The Tree - Belly

I love Belly, they were great. WOO!

(sorry, this song is ace!)

5) Bullet In The Head - Rage Against The Machine

SHOUTYPOLITICSRARARARARARARARARARARARARFUCKU!

thats my impression of RATM, I love this song!

My Birthday Number 1

Living on my own - Freddie Mercury

Yeuch. I hate this song


DOWNLOAD - all songs in one easy .rar file HERE (Mediafire)

MadLove

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Hi!

sorry for the delay in completing the years postings...

Xmas & New Years are keeping me tres busy

I promise to complete this very soon

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She Sells Hearts... 1992

1992... ah what a year for me, I was a young man, my drinking was heavy, my mates were cool, my music love was as strong as it ever had been, I was dabbling with drugs... now I will never advocate the use of drugs for people, I have always been an experimental person... testing my mind with substances to see how far I can push it...

I'm not a normal person, my ability to abuse myself with anything that can alter the state of mind has always been there, I started drinking before any of my friends, I did grow up in a pub, this didn't help, as most people did I started with weed, I enjoyed it, I carried on... what people would see as a bad trip, was an interesting ride for me, I have been known to have in-depth 4 hour conversations with brick wall ls... I have to date always walked away, in the morning, always been myself...

but the music that shaped this year, yes I still had that grunge ethic of the previous year.. but 2 songs helped me move forward again to another direction,


the first one was Creep, I was in Carnival records on Ashley Road, and going through the singles, and saw this... 50p bought it, took it home it blew me away... I took it into the 6 form common room, turned off the fantasia mix that was playing, told people to listen... everyone loved it, Radiohead re-released it shortly afterwards, and the rest is history.


The Second was My Insatiable One - Suede, the b-side to the Drowners, this made me re-visit my love of Bowie, which I was forgetting in the mire of the guitars of Seattle, this may have started my Dad thinking I may be a gay, which I am not I hasten to add, but having the lyrics blasting out of my room constantly, may have seemed a bit strange to him... I couldn't be more opposite to my older brother (he is an Arsenal fan), and finding a bottle of poppers in my fridge may not have helped.


The Number Ones

25 Jan 1992 Wet Wet Wet Goodnight Girl
22 Feb 1992 Shakespears Sister Stay
18 Apr 1992 Right Said Fred Deeply Dippy
9 May 1992 KWS Please Don't Go
13 Jun 1992 Erasure Abba-esque EP
8 Jul 1992 Jimmy Nail Ain't No Doubt
8 Aug 1992 Snap Rhythm Is A Dancer
19 Sep 1992 Shamen Ebeneezer Goode
17 Oct 1992 Tasmin Archer Sleeping Satellite
31 Oct 1992 Boyz II Men End Of The Road
21 Nov 1992 Charles & Eddie Would I Lie To You
5 Dec 1992 Whitney Houston I Will Always Love You


The Singles Of The Year Deep Cover - Dr Dre feat Snoop Doggy Dogg (download)

This has to be included, not only is it a great song, but it features the first collaboration between Snoop and Dre. This song helped launch the career of Snoop.

It Was A Good Day - Ice Cube (download)

My Favourite Ice Cube track, this song makes me want to ride in a drop top caddy, and just cruise.

My Drug Buddy - Lemonheads (download)

I was the biggest Lemonheads fan, from seeing Evan in a lovely red coat on TOTP which swayed it, if I had to be honest.. This song reminds me of an old friend, someone I love dearly and am sad she doesn't live in Brighton so I can see her all the time.

Creep - Radiohead (download)

for the reasons I have mentioned before, if you have to ever make a break-up compilation this song has to be on it, as an aside when I worked in the Woodman in Poole, one of the regulars was the boyfriend of the girl this song was written about.

Metal Mickey - Suede (download)

This song is about KatieJane Garside front woman of Daisy Chainsaw/Queen Adreena... my housemate Mason loves her. its also after My Insatiable One (download) my favourite Suede song.

My Birthday Number One

Rythym is a Dancer - Snap


MadLove

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