@chartlifepod.bsky.social That Harmonix track is bizarre. It's well-produced library music you'd find on a game menu in 2003, except for that sample which somehow ends up sounding like Eye In The Sky instead of U2 anyway. Imagine Deconstruction putting that out in 1996. Deconstruction! How? Why?

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open.qobuz.com/playlist/343... I’ve also transferred that to Qobuz but I know not as many people use that.

open.spotify.com/playlist/5cT... When I still used Spotify I was able to recreate it in playlist form (with a few compromises, eg the Shed Seven and Joy Division tracks aren’t available in the correct versions).

Great review of it here. It’s on Discogs I think too. apopfansdream.wordpress.com/2021/07/03/c...

This sounds great 🧡🖤

#TOTP How could anybody hate this S Club track. Innocence personified.

#TOTP This Lauryn Hill single ended up charting quite low, i think. Great live version of a great track though!

#TOTP This Cher track was mildly diverting last week, irritating now.

#TOTP Tatyana Ali’s last single was great, this is such a letdown in that context. Just mid.

#TOTP Some of the Cartoons comments have been amazing - good work everybody!

#TOTP Oh good LORD i forgot the Cartoons had another single. Better than some wretched stuff we’ve had in 1999, mind.

#TOTP The Austin Powers intro stuff is LAME but this was a good one by Madonna.

#TOTP Banger from Shania. Every episode please, and thanks.

#TOTP Great re-spin for Wiseguys 🙌

#TOTP Oh Theakston again??

#TOTP Oh wow - Baz Luhrmann! One of the weirdest no.1 singles of the age. We at Chartlife are as fat as we imagine, but we love this all the same.

#TOTP First time ever on TOTP for the Chilis… shame that run didn’t continue. Bad execution of a rubbish song.

Haaa!

#TOTP Wow, one of Feeder’s best early singles getting an airing despite only being at no.22. Underrated track.

#TOTP Another not-half-bad Cher single from the era.

#TOTP Yes!!! The Chems! Some genuine quality for a change.

#TOTP Didn’t Another Level have a single like four weeks back?

#TOTP 21st Century Girls with a track named after themselves that sounds very much like Republica. Can’t be that many instances of hit singles where artist and title are the same?

#TOTP Ugh, this soppy Backstreet Boys track has already been around a month. Why?

#TOTP Theakston again!!

While you were getting Bizarre Inc mixed up with Bad Boys Inc, I was getting them mixed up with Incognito. To be fair this does sound a lot like them.

"It sounds like a bad UB40 thing!" Of COURSE they did it. youtu.be/29krMA5Tt-M?...

HAPPY NEW CHARTLIFE DAY! Episode 31 - I Think They Thought They Were Quite Cool. The chart as it was on 17th March 1996! Do join Juliet and Ed, wherever you get your podcasts

Happy ChartLife Eve! Juliet shopping in STYLE today

Happy 40th Birthday Ed! Thank you listener @cat_meets_cocker for letting us into The Boyzone Ultras!

#TOTP PERFECT EPISODE KLAXON! Shanks & Bigfoot again, a perennial fresh classic. 1999 was great, after all!

#TOTP Seven from seven here… nearly a perfect ep, but what’s number one…?

#TOTP Right, we don’t care what you all say: Jamiroquai are great, and this is a classic.

#TOTP Shed Seven with a really underrated single. Rick Witter is a marmite singer but it works here.

#TOTP A great song with a great video by Supergrass… what a treat. Chris Cowey, i take it all back.

#TOTP Top class episode so far… underrated banger this by Chicane. Four from four, keep em coming!

#TOTP Don’t really remember this being a single… but Garbage on top form as always. Such a reliable singles band.

#TOTP Wiseguys with a classic one hit wonder. Total classic, no notes.

#TOTP A double dose of Kiss Me? Abso-bloody-lutely.

#TOTP him again

#TOTP a GREAT number one this week by Shanks & Bigfoot. Still fresh as a daisy, not aged a bit.

#TOTP Hepburn? Cannot remember these at all… until the chorus starts! One hit wonder personified.

#TOTP Sixpence None The Richer - another peak summer ‘99 classic. Sappy, but glorious.

#TOTP YES SHANIA. Proper banger this.

#TOTP gosh how young Fran Healy looks here. Good song this one, much better than Writing To Reach You.

#TOTP Sugar Ray - now we’re talking. Peak summer 1999 vibes.

#TOTP don’t remember this Texas track being released for a good few months from this point… a banger nonetheless.

#TOTP *record scratches* Precious did not, in fact, become Eurovision winners.