It's always a number 1 day!

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[Benjm]

I prefer disco Bee Gees to '60s Bee Gees. There seemed to be a long period when it was cooler/more respectable to talk up the latter at the expense of the former.

[Jah Womble]

I think I do, as well. You Should Be Dancing is a corker.

[Sean of the Shed]

That was probably when Disco as a whole was getting beaten down. I like 60s Bee Gees, and I like Disco Bee Gees, but which is better?

There's only one way to find out...

[Sean of the Shed]

There's no filler or dross in that chart at all. Some absolute classics packed out with good quality tunes.

[Amor de Cosmos]

The TOTP film clip that accompanied On The Road Again featured a mini-skirted dolly bird leaping into an E-Type driven by a toothy deb's delight. Showing, not for the first time, how in sync the program's producers were with both their audience and artists

[delicatemoth]

I like the Bee Gees weird proggy album, Odessa.

Aretha wins that chart, Beach Boys and Canned Heat are also good. 'Hey Jude' is one of the Beatles songs I don't get on with, 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' is a much better repeater.

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Today in 2001, Louise is Stuck in the Middle, tumbling six places to 10, while Sophie Ellis-Bextor asks to Take Me Home, dropping the minimum to 9. So Solid Crew fall two to 8 with 21 Seconds, while Eve and Gwen Stefani are unchanged at 7 with Let Me Blow Your Mind. Artful Dodger and Melanie Blatt are new at 6 with Twenty Four Seven, while Five slip to 5 from 2 with Let's Dance. Uncle Kracker's Marmite earworm, Follow Me, descends one to 4 this week, while Blue are down from the top to 3 with Too Close. Superman Lovers are straight in at 2 with Starlight, but Mambo No 5 is a brand new 1 for Bob The Builder.

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[Sean of the Shed]

In almost direct contrast to yesterday's chart, apart from the Eve and Gwen Stefani track, this one is pure dreck.

[Sean of the Shed]

By the way, just got to say many thanks to Discordant Resonance for this thread, it's an excellent idea.

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In almost direct contrast to yesterday's chart, apart from the Eve and Gwen Stefani track, this one is pure dreck.

I must confess to not being a great fan of the 2000s either, which is why I lost interest in the charts roughly twenty years ago, so might drop that from the rotation in the coming weeks unless the standard improves.

[Sean of the Shed]

I must confess to not being a great fan of the 2000s either, which is why I lost interest in the charts roughly twenty years ago, so might drop that from the rotation in the coming weeks unless the standard improves.

That would be a shame. As much as I also lost interest it does add to the discussion and increase the variety.

[delicatemoth]

'21 Seconds' is an amazing record, one of the greats.

[longeared]

If somebody asked me to guess what the UK number one single on 9/11 was then I think I'd have needed plenty of clues to arrive at Mambo #5 by Bob the Builder. I had no idea that such a recording ever existed.

(I'd probably have had a first guess of Can't Get You Out Of My Head given that it was everywhere in September 2001 - turns out that was a couple of weeks later)

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I believe this very chart featured on the 8pm edition of TOTP last night, as in 1989, Tina Turner climbs six places to 10 with (not Simply) The Best, while Starlight are unchanged at 9 with Numero Uno. Alyson Williams declares I Need Your Loving, ascending three to 8, while Damian soar 5 to 7 with The Time Warp (1989). Big Fun tumble two to 6 with Blame It On The Boogie, but Tears For Fears inch up one to 5 with Sowing The Seeds Of Love. Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers slip two to 4 with Swing The Mood, but Richard Marx climbs an amazing twelve places to 3 with Right Here Waiting. Jason Donovan moves up one to 2 with Every Day (I Love You More), but Black Box are unchanged at 1 with Ride On Time.

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[Jah Womble]

What a dismal Top Ten that is.

[Sean of the Shed]

It's enough to make you crave for the 2000s.

[Benjm]

Those are thin pickings. The Best throws up minor later-than would-have-guessed interest. Ride on Time is probably the pick of the bunch, although it sounds very clunkily put together when heard now.

[Benjm]

I must confess to not being a great fan of the 2000s either, which is why I lost interest in the charts roughly twenty years ago, so might drop that from the rotation in the coming weeks unless the standard improves.

I watched the TV version of Popmaster yesterday and the contestants seemed to share this view too, to the point that I actually said that the game would flow much better if the questions were limited to 2000 and before. The format also suffered from one contestant taking an unassailable lead in the first round, making the middle two thirds of the show almost completely redundant.

[delicatemoth]

Black Box did Loleatta Holloway dirty, but 'Ride On Time' is nonetheless a key record for me. I'd never heard vocals chopped up and rearranged exactly like that, it was electrifying, and more than makes up for the ropiness elsewhere in the top 10. Tears For Fears are decent enough, and Tina Turner is okay.

Ride on Time is probably the pick of the bunch, although it sounds very clunkily put together when heard now.

The roughness is the thing for me, it sounds like the samples are being played live from a sampler rather than programmed or played with a keyboard.

[Benjm]

You're right - I was just being a miserable old git. It is still a fantastically exciting record when it pops up at the right moment.

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Today, we go back to the future, in 1955, where The Stargazers climb two places to 10 with Close The Door, but Malcolm Vaughan falls one to 9 with Every Day Of My Life. Ruby Murray moves up two to 8 with Evermore, and Eddie Calvert slips one to 7 with John and Julie. Frankie Laine inches up one to 6 with Strange Lady In Town, and rather oddly, the top five are all non-movers, so Caterina Valente is at 5 with The Breeze And I. David Whitfield is at 4 with Everywhere, while Frankie Laine and the Mellomen are at 3 with Cool Water. Frank Sinatra is still Learning The Blues at 2, and for the eighth successive week, Slim Whitman is at 1 with Rose Marie.

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