Week commencing 18 January 1993

One thing this week in 1993’s new entries peaking outside the top 100 have in common is that I hadn’t heard any of them before.  Three of the four singles are also by Australian artists.  Let’s take a look at them.

The Sharp fell a bit flat on the Australian chart with this release.

Top 150 debuts:

Number 130 “Stand Out” by v Spy v Spy/“Troubled Waters (A Song for Somalia)” by Quick and the Dead

Peak: number 122

Peak date: 1 February 1993

Weeks in top 150: 3 weeks

Top 150 chart run: 130-134-122

We last saw Aussie band (v) Spy v Spy in 1990.  Australian band Quick and the Dead, on the other hand, are new to the chart.  This double A-side single was recorded for charity, with “all proceeds donated to Feed the Hungry”, which was presumably a charity to raise funds for a famine in Somalia.  Given that the single stalled at number 122, I am guessing that there weren’t a whole lot of “proceeds” raised by its release.  I hadn’t heard “Stand Out” until writing this post, but liked it.  “Troubled Waters (A Song for Somalia)” was not available to listen to online.  “Stand Out” was lifted from the sixth v Spy v Spy studio album Fossil (number 42, May 1993), their last major label release.

We shall see (v) Spy v Spy again in March 1993.

Number 146 “Back of Beyond” by Warren Derwent

Peak: number 146

Peak date: 18 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 1 week

Top 150 chart run: 146

Australian country artist Warren Derwent made his debut on the Australian chart with this single, which was released back in October 1992.  Warren won the 1992 Tamworth Star Maker Quest.  “Back of Beyond” eventually appeared on Warren’s debut album Southern Sky in 2016.  I am not generally a fan of country music, but thought this song was alright.

Number 149 “Anything but Lonely” by Sarah Brightman

Peak: number 149

Peak date: 18 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 1 week

Top 150 chart run: 149

English opera singer Sarah Brightman last graced our presence in 1989.  Since then, she scored a major hit on the Australian chart with the awful “Amigos Para Siempre (Friends for Life)” (number 1 for six weeks in August-September 1992), a duet with Jose Carreras, recorded for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

“Anything but Lonely” was recorded for the 1989 Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical original London cast album Aspects of Love (number 86, November 1989).  The single peaked at number 79 in the UK in May 1989.  We saw another track from the musical bubble under in 1989.  I assume that the belated interest in this track was due to the musical being on stage in Australia around this time.

Sarah will join us again in 1997.

Bubbling WAY down under:

Number 179 “Love Your Head” by The Sharp

Peak: number 179

Peak date: 18 January 1993

Weeks on chart: 1 week

Australian band The Sharp formed in Melbourne in 1991.  “Love Your Head” was their debut single, released in May 1992, independently.  The song does not appear on their debut album, This Is the Sharp (number 13, September 1993), but is on their compilation album Single File: The Best of (number 133, September 1995).

The Sharp landed their first Australian hit with the Spinosity EP (number 28, December 1992), their first major label release, led by the track “Talking Sly”.  Presumably there was renewed interest in “Love Your Head” due to the success of that EP.  The Sharp are probably best remembered for their fourth single, “Scratch My Back” (number 40, September 1993), despite it not being their biggest hit, thanks to The Late Show parodying the song as “Skivvies Are Back”.  The group’s highest charting single in Australia was “Alone Like Me” (number 20, August 1994).

On the state charts, “Love Your Head” performed strongest in New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory, where it reached number 163.

We will next see The Sharp in 1994.

Next week (25 January): Four top 150 entries and four bubbling WAY down under debuts.

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Week commencing 11 January 1993

I don’t know how to categorise this week in 1993’s new entries peaking outside the top 100, other than to say they are an eclectic bunch.  Let’s take a look at them.

Swing Out Sister: is this the same girl you’d remember from “Breakout” about 6 years ago?

Top 150 debuts:

Number 143 “Am I the Same Girl” by Swing Out Sister

Peak: number 123

Peak dates: 18 January 1993 and 1 February 1993

Weeks in top 150: 5 weeks

Top 150 chart run: 143-123-132-123-124

Weeks on chart: 20 weeks

We last saw English sophistipop group, now pared down to a duo, Swing Out Sister in 1989.

“Am I the Same Girl”, a cover originally recorded by Barbara Acklin in 1968 and later covered by Dusty Springfield (her version peaked ay number 75 in Australia in November 1969), was the lead single from Swing Out Sister’s third studio album Get in Touch with Yourself (number 141, January 1993).  The single was originally released in Australia in early July 1992, debuting at number 189, and was re-released in January 1993.  Despite peaking at number 123, the single spent a decent 20 weeks on the ARIA chart.

Internationally, Swing Out Sister’s version of “Am I the Same Girl” peaked at number 21 in the UK in April 1992, number 15 in the Netherlands in May 1992, number 53 in Germany in June 1992, number 18 in the Flanders region of Belgium in June 1992, number 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in October 1992, and number 5 in Canada in November 1992.  The track also topped the US Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in October 1992.

Domestically, “Am I the Same Girl” performed strongest in Victoria/Tasmania, where it reached number 75 on the state chart.  “Am I the Same Girl” peaked higher nationally on the Australian Music Report singles chart, where it reached number 98.

I don’t think I heard this one at the time, but like it.  The main riff seems vaguely familiar,

A second single from Get in Touch with Yourself, “Notgonnachange”, peaked at number 49 in the UK in June 1992, but was not released as a single in Australia.

We shall see Swing Out Sister once again, towards the end of 1994.

Number 147 “Nightmare (Thrill Me)” by Twilight

Peak: number 143

Peak dates: 18 January 1993 and 25 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 3 weeks

Top 150 chart run: 147-143-143

Twilight were an Australian act, and this single was their only release.  The song is based on the video board game Nightmare, and E Street-affiliated Boys in Black are credited among the backing vocalists.  That’s about all I can tell you about this release, other than I hadn’t heard the track until writing this post.

Number 148 “Boom Boom” by John Lee Hooker

Peak: number 145

Peak date: 18 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 2 weeks

Top 150 chart run: 148-145

We last saw American blues musician John Lee Hooker in 1992.

“Boom Boom” was originally recorded in 1961 and released as a single in 1962.  Renewed interest in the song came after it was featured in a Lee Jeans commercial in the UK in 1992.

The 1992 release of “Boom Boom” peaked at number 16 in the UK in October 1992, number 24 in New Zealand in November 1992, and number 45 in France in March 1993.

I remember catching the video for this one on rage at the time.

John’s greatest singles chart success in Australian would come in 1993, with his collaboration with Van Morrison on "Gloria" (number 22, July 1993).

Number 149 “A Winter’s Tale” by Falling Joys

Peak: number 147

Peak date: 18 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 3 weeks

Top 150 chart run: 149-147-(out for 1 week)-150

Weeks on chart: 15 weeks

Aussie band Falling Joys last graced our presence in 1992.

“A Winter’s Tale”, the third and final single from the band’s second studio album proper, Psychohum (number 35, May 1992), debuted on the ARIA singles chart at number 168 on 14 December 1992, the final chart survey of the year.  On the state charts, “A Winter’s Tale” performed strongest in South Australia/Northen Territory, where it reached number 119.

I don’t recall hearing this one before, but like it.

We will next see Falling Joys in August 1993.

Number 150 “Drowning in Your Eyes” by Ephraim Lewis

Peak: number 145

Peak date: 25 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 2 weeks

Top 150 chart run: 150-(out for 1 week)-145

Weeks on chart: 17 weeks

“Drowning in Your Eyes” was the second single issued from English soul/R&B singer Ephraim Lewis’ only album Skin (number 185, July 1992).  It followed the single "It Can't Be Forever", which was issued locally in June 1992, but did not chart in Australia.

Internationally, “Drowning in Your Eyes” peaked at number 136 (number 102 on the compressed chart) in the UK in August 1992.

Locally, “Drowning in Your Eyes” was most popular in Victoria/Tasmania, where it reached number 92 on the state chart.  The single took almost four months to dent the national top 150, after debuting at number 175 in September 1992.

Sadly, Ephraim died in March 1994, aged 26, in Los Angeles after falling from a balcony during an altercation with police, after being tasered three times, following a report of a “naked black man acting crazy”.  Ephraim’s brother, who is a barrister, believes that Ephraim was murdered by the police, as his fall from the balcony, resulting in extensive head injuries, he believes happened as a result of Ephraim being tasered.

This track, which I had not heard before, but enjoyed, would be Ephraim’s only charting single in Australia.

 

Bubbling WAY down under:

Number 179 Young Disciples EP by Young Disciples

Peak: number 179

Peak date: 11 January 1993

Weeks on chart: 1 week

Last saw British/American acid jazz band Young Disciples in 1991.

The Young Disciples EP was led by the track “Move On", which appears on their only album Road to Freedom (number 117, March 1992).

Internationally, the Young Disciples EP peaked at number 48 in the UK in August 1992.  Locally, the EP was most popular in New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory, where it reached number 166.  The EP peaked at number 210 on the remaining four state charts, which makes me wonder if that was the lowest placing on this week’s chart from 1993.

This EP would be the group’s final charting entry, although we will see Young Disciples’ lead singer, Carleen Anderson, bubble under on her own in 1994.

Number 183 “Sunshine & Love” by Happy Mondays

Peak: number 183

Peak date: 11 January 1993

Weeks on chart: 2 weeks

We last saw English ‘Madchester’ band Happy Mondays in 1992.

“Sunshine & Love” was the second and final single issued from the group’s fourth studio album …Yes Please! (number 99, October 1992).  The single peaked at number 62 in the UK in November 1992.  In Australia, “Sunshine & Love” performed strongest in New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory, where it reached number 171 on the state chart.

I don’t recall hearing this one before, but it’s another one that I liked.

Happy Mondays went on hiatus in 1993, though would reform in 1999, which is when we will see them next, with their final single to chart in Australia.  In the interim, we shall see Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder leading a new band that will bubble under on a few occasions, with the first occasion being in 1995.

Next week (18 January): A quieter week, with three top 150 entries and one bubbling WAY down under debut.

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Week commencing 4 January 1993

Welcome to 1993!   What were you doing that year?  1993 was an eventful year for me.  I was in year 9 at high school and officially entered adolescence.  At the time, I didn’t think 1993 was that great a year for chart music - there seemed to be many hangover songs from late 1992 clogging up the charts for the first few months of the year, and a dearth of female lead vocal songs in the top 50.  In retrospect, there was a lot of new music I enjoyed from 1993; just most of it didn’t chart so well in Australia!  But that’s what this blog is about: exploring the music that didn’t perform so well on the Australian chart.

The first chart survey of 1993 sees a number of veteran acts who had been around since at least the 1970s debuting.

 

I have updated a bunch of earlier posts:

 

* 31 July 1989 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Baby Ford; 

* 7 August 1989 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Carole King;

* 5 March 1990 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Van Morrison;

* 12 March 1990 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Rita MacNeil;

* 2 July 1990 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Eric Clapton;

* 11 February 1991 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Grand Plaz; 

* 18 February 1991 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Yazoo;

* 16 March 1992 - with new bubbling WAY down under entry from Rita MacNeil.

Deborah Harry would probably feel blue over this chart position.

Top 150 debuts:

Number 135 “That’s the Way God Planned It” by The Party Boys

Peak: number 132

Peak date: 11 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 5 weeks

Top 150 chart run: 135-132-133-136-140

We last saw Aussie band The Party boys in 1989.  Since then, they scored a minor hit with their version of "Do-Wah-Diddy" (number 81, September 1990).

"That's the Way God Planned It", a cover of the Billy Preston song which peaked at number 22 in Australia on the Go Set chart in September 1969, was recorded to raise money for charity - I remember seeing a TV commercial featuring the song at the time, but can't remember now which charity it was for.  Clearly, not much money was raised, given that this single stalled at number 132!

The single, featuring Jon 'Swanee' Swan - whom we saw bubble under in 1990 - on lead vocal, was released in September 1992 and took almost four months to dent the top 150.

This was The Party Boys' final single.

Number 145 “All Alone on Christmas” by Darlene Love

Peak: number 145

Peak date: 4 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 1 week

Top 150 chart run: 145

American R&B singer and actress Darlene Love, real name Darlene Wight, was the lead singer in the female vocal trio The Blossoms.  She previously landed one entry on the Australian chart, all the way back in 1963, with "(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry", which peaked at number 78.

"All Alone on Christmas" appears on the soundtrack album for the movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, which was also issued as Home Alone Christmas (number 148, January 1993).  The single peaked at number 31 in the UK in December 1992, and at number 83 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1993.  "All Alone on Christmas" also peaked at number 52 on the US Billboard Radio Songs chart in January 1993.

Darlene would finally crack the ARIA top 50 in 2023 with another Christmas song, "Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)", which was recorded in 1963 and, to date, has peaked at number 26 in December 2024.

Number 148 “Summertime Blues” by Deborah Harry

Peak: number 138

Peak date: 11 January 1993

Weeks in top 150: 5 weeks 

Top 150 chart run: 148-138-141-140-(out for 1 week)-150

Weeks on chart: 11 weeks

We last saw Deborah Harry in 1991.

 

"Summertime Blues" is a cover version of the Eddie Cochran song from 1958, which peaked at number 18 in Australia.  Deborah's version was recorded for the That Night soundtrack, and appears to have only been released as a single in Australia, where it performed strongest on the Queensland state chart, reaching number 109.

I remember catching the music video for this track on rage as a new release in late 1992.

We'll next see Deborah in October 1993.

Number 149 “Happy Valley” by Richard Clapton

Peak: number 110

Peak date: 1 February 1993

Weeks in top 150: 8 weeks 

Top 150 chart run: 149-139-125-137-110-122-125-136

 

We last saw Australian singer-songwriter Richard Clapton in 1989.  "Happy Valley" was the lead single from Richard's tenth studio album Distant Thunder (number 37, July 1993).

I hadn't heard this one before.  I didn't mind it; the female backing vocals were good.

Richard will join us again in August 1993.

Bubbling WAY down under:

Number 186 “I Still Believe in You” by Cliff Richard 

Peak: number 176

Peak date: 25 January 1993

Weeks on chart: 3 weeks 

'Sir' Cliff last joined us in 1991.

 

Christmas time in this era often meant a new Cliff Richard single was released.  "I Still Believe in You" was the lead single from Cliff's imaginatively-titled 31st (!) studio album, The Album (number 72, May 1993).

Internationally, "I Still Believe in You" peaked at number 7 in the UK in December 1992, and at number 18 in Ireland in December 1992.

In Australia, "I Still Believe in You" was most popular in Western Australia, where it reached number 160 on the state chart.

Cliff will join us next in July 1993.

 

Number 188 “Oh No Not My Baby” by Cher

Peak: number 188

Peak date: 4 January 1993

Weeks on chart: 1 week

Pop veteran Cher last paid us a visit in 1991.

 

"Oh No Not My Baby", a cover version of the Maxine Brown song from 1964, was written by Carole King and Geoffrey Goffin, who also wrote "The Loco-Motion" for Little Eva (which was of course later covered by Kylie Minogue, among others).  Cher's version was issued as the first 'new' single to promote her Cher’s Greatest Hits: 1965-1992 (number 48, December 1992) compilation.

 

Internationally, Cher's version of "Oh No Not My Baby" peaked at number 33 in the UK in November 1992, number 52 in Germany in January 1993, number 30 in Austria in January 1993, and number 19 in Switzerland in February 1993.

 

Locally, "Oh No Not My Baby" performed strongest in Western Australia, where it reached number 162 on the state chart.

I recall hearing a snippet of this track as a preview on Take 40 Australia, but hadn't heard the full song until writing this post.  It's not among Cher's best.

Cher will join us next in April 1993.

Next week (11 January): Five top 150 entries and two bubbling WAY down under debuts.

< Previous chart: 14 December 1992                   Next week: 11 January 1993 >

1992 - the chart year in review

As I have done in previous years, here's a list of all of the singles that peaked between numbers 101 and 150 on the ARIA singles chart during 1992.  Before we get to those, here's a preview of what's coming up in my 1993 posts, commencing on 4 January 2025:

 

Also, I have now added top 150 chart runs for all of my posts, going back to January 1989.

ARTIST	TITLE	PEAK	ENTRY DATE		WEEKS IN (top 150)
ABBACADABRA	Dancing Queen	104	2/11/1992		6
ADAMSKI featuring NINA HAGEN	Get Your Body	114	8/06/1992		5
ADORE	Lowdown	109	7/09/1992		7
ALEX SMITH	This Time Tomorrow	121	15/06/1992		11
ALTERN 8	Evapor 8	124	20/07/1992		6
AMBASSADORS OF FUNK featuring M.C. MARIO	Supermarioland	126	23/11/1992		9
AMONG THIEVES	Big Thing	117	13/04/1992		6
APOTHEOSIS	O Fortuna	104	11/05/1992		15
ARMY OF LOVERS	Obsession	108	10/02/1992		7
ATOMIC DINING CLUB	Love U Love Me	129	18/05/1992		7
AZTEC CAMERA	Spanish Horses	143	3/08/1992		3
BABYFACE (featuring TONI BRAXTON)	Give U My Heart	110	28/09/1992		6
BASS CULTURE featuring GEENA	Love the Life	130	20/07/1992		6
BASSHEADS	Is There Anybody Out There?	140	6/01/1992		5
BB STEAL	Big Love	145	15/06/1992		2
BEASTS OF BOURBON	Just Right (EP)	121	10/02/1992		11
BEATFISH	Out of Control (Round and Round)	110	16/03/1992		5
BEATS INTERNATIONAL	In the Ghetto	142	11/05/1992		1
BELINDA CARLISLE	Half the World	129	27/04/1992		5
BELINDA CARLISLE	Little Black Book	106	31/08/1992		9
BETTE MIDLER	In My Life	107	17/02/1992		6
BILLY FALCON	Power Windows	136	27/01/1992		7
BILLY JOEL	Shameless	133	20/01/1992		5
BIZARRE INC featuring ANGIE BROWN	I'm Gonna Get You	127	23/11/1992		3
BJÖRN AGAIN	Santa Claus Is Coming To Town	106	14/12/1992		4
BLUR	There's No Other Way (re-entry)	120	24/02/1992		9
BOB DYLAN	Like a Rolling Stone (Live)	150	13/04/1992		1
BOB GELDOF	Room 19 (Sha La La La Lee)	143	21/09/1992		3
BOOTSAUCE	Whatcha' Need	150	9/11/1992		1
BOY GEORGE	The Crying Game	142	23/11/1992		2
BRAHMS 4 featuring the music of JOHN FARNHAM	The Full House Mega Mix	109	6/07/1992		5
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN	57 Channels (And Nothin' On)	107	6/07/1992		9
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN	Leap of Faith	133	16/11/1992		2
BUFFALO TOM	Taillights Fade/Velvet Roof	140	16/11/1992		2
CANDY HARLOTS	What Are We Fightin' For	132	3/08/1992		5
CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE	After the Watershed	124	2/03/1992		8
CARTER THE UNSTOPPABLE SEX MACHINE	Do Re Me, So Far So Good	136	17/08/1992		2
CATHY DENNIS	You Lied To Me	112	26/10/1992		4
CE CE PENISTON	Keep On Walkin'	123	27/07/1992		6
CHOICE	Pump This House Boy	123	20/01/1992		7
CHRIS DE BURGH	Separate Tables	139	1/06/1992		1
CHRIS WHITLEY	Big Sky Country	125	20/01/1992		5
CHRIS WHITLEY	Poison Girl	133	6/04/1992		8
CHRIS WILSON	The Big One	143	18/05/1992		1
CLIFFS OF DOONEEN	Through an Open Window	123	28/09/1992		5
CLIVE YOUNG	Friends & Lovers	123	28/09/1992		4
CLUB HOY	Not Like That	106	16/03/1992		9
COLOR ME BADD	Heartbreaker	101	30/03/1992		5
COLOUR BLUE	Rockwell Street	102	3/02/1992		8
CONCRETE BLONDE	Walking In London	142	30/11/1992		2
COREY HART	Baby When I Call Your Name	139	27/04/1992		5
CRACKER	Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)	148	16/11/1992		2
CRYSTAL WATERS/SABRINA JOHNSTON	Gypsy Woman/Peace (Remixes)	150	23/11/1992		1
CURIOSITY	Hang On In There Baby	127	8/06/1992		5
CURVE	Fait Accompli	121	4/05/1992		6
CYNDI LAUPER	The World Is Stone	106	6/07/1992		7
DADDY COOL	Eagle Rock (The 1992 Mixes)	104	22/06/1992		15
DAN REED NETWORK	Mix It Up	139	22/06/1992		4
DANNII	Show You the Way To Go	104	7/09/1992		6
DAVID BOWIE	Real Cool World	131	14/09/1992		3
DAVID BYRNE	Girls On My Mind	119	30/03/1992		9
DAVID FAUSTINO ("D" LIL)	Balystix (EP)	133	23/11/1992		9
DEBORAH BLANDO	Boy (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)	122	27/07/1992		3
DEEE-LITE	Runaway	112	20/07/1992		7
DEF FX	Water (EP)	149	16/03/1992		1
DEFINITION OF SOUND	What Are You Under	116	19/10/1992		6
DEGENERATES	Play Dinosaur	142	18/05/1992		4
DES'REE	Why Should I Love You?	102	13/07/1992		7
DIED PRETTY	Sweetheart	129	2/03/1992		7
DIMPLES D (DIMPLES & SPICE)	Sisters Keep On Doin' It	116	3/02/1992		4
DIRE STRAITS	On Every Street	109	17/02/1992		4
DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE	The Things That U Do	109	20/04/1992		4
DJ POWER	Everybody Pump	147	25/05/1992		1
DONNA SUMMER	Work That Magic	147	3/02/1992		1
DREAM FREQUENCY featuring DEBBIE SHARP	Feel So Real	113	8/06/1992		7
DWIGHT YOAKAM	Suspicious Minds	129	30/11/1992		10
ED KUEPPER	The Way I Made You Feel	144	18/05/1992		2
ED KUEPPER	Real Wild Life	132	6/07/1992		11
EDRENALIN	I Believe	129	7/09/1992		5
EMF	Unexplained EP	136	29/06/1992		6
ENYA	Book of Days	111	22/06/1992		5
ERASURE	Who Needs Love (Like That)	120	30/11/1992		8
EVE	What a Lover	120	18/05/1992		4
EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL	Covers E.P.	136	6/04/1992		3
F.A.B. featuring MC PARKER	Thunderbirds Are Go!	135	30/11/1992		12
FALLING JOYS	Incinerator	131	17/08/1992		6
FILTHY LUCRE featuring HUNTERS & COLLECTORS	Talking To a Stranger	141	26/10/1992		3
FIREHOUSE	When I Look Into Your Eyes	140	23/11/1992		5
FISHBONE	Sunless Saturday	135	17/02/1992		1
FISHBONE	Everyday Sunshine	112	24/02/1992		5
FREAKED OUT FLOWER CHILDREN	Beautiful People	102	30/03/1992		6
GARTH BROOKS	Shameless	103	15/06/1992		6
GARY MOORE	Story of the Blues	124	1/06/1992		13
GENESIS	Tell Me Why	110	30/11/1992		13
GHOSTWRITERS	Runaway Bay	117	17/02/1992		7
GHOSTWRITERS	World Is Almost At Peace	135	1/06/1992		3
GIRL OVERBOARD	Chain of Fools	138	5/10/1992		4
GLENN FREY	I've Got Mine	137	20/07/1992		6
GLENN FREY	River of Dreams	137	7/09/1992		5
GLORIA ESTEFAN	Always Tomorrow	107	9/11/1992		8
GUY	D-O-G Me Out	148	6/01/1992		1
HAPPY MONDAYS	Stinkin Thinkin	110	21/09/1992		7
HARRY CONNICK, JR.	You Didn't Know Me When	103	9/03/1992		5
HELVELLN	Cruelest Plague	118	17/02/1992		8
HI-FIVE	Just Another Girlfriend	107	3/02/1992		5
HOLY NOISE featuring THE GLOBAL INSERT PROJECT	James Brown Is Still Alive!!	148	6/04/1992		2
HONEYMEN	Felt Like a Kiss	113	28/09/1992		6
HOODOO GURUS	Castles In the Air	113	13/01/1992		6
HOWARD JONES	Lift Me Up	131	18/05/1992		5
IAN McCULLOCH	Lover, Lover, Lover	141	6/04/1992		2
IAN MOSS	Never Give Up	128	10/02/1992		5
ICE CUBE	Steady Mobbin'	147	27/01/1992		1
INDECENT OBSESSION	Rebel With a Cause	122	12/10/1992		5
INDIGO GIRLS	Galileo	130	27/07/1992		6
INNER CITY	Pennies From Heaven	122	7/09/1992		6
IRON MAIDEN	From Here To Eternity	109	21/09/1992		7
IZZY STRADLIN AND THE JU JU HOUNDS	Shuffle It All	117	9/11/1992		5
JAMES	Born of Frustration	134	22/06/1992		5
JENNY MORRIS	Crackerjack Man	125	18/05/1992		3
JO BETH TAYLOR	You Don't Own Me	137	20/01/1992		5
JOAN ARMATRADING	Wrapped Around Her	148	6/07/1992		4
JOE COCKER	Now That the Magic Has Gone	107	13/07/1992		11
JOE COCKER	Night Calls	133	19/10/1992		5
JOHN LEE HOOKER	This Is Hip	150	16/03/1992		1
JOHN SCHUMANN	Eyes On Fire	123	31/08/1992		6
JOHN WILLIAMSON	This Is Australia Calling	123	21/09/1992		6
JOHN WILLIAMSON	I'll Be Gone	131	23/11/1992		2
JUDITH DURHAM	Australia Land of Today	124	10/02/1992		5
JULIAN LENNON	Get a Life	104	6/07/1992		6
k.d. lang	Constant Craving	138	22/06/1992		5
K.I.C	Bring Me On	135	7/09/1992		3
KARYN WHITE	The Way I Feel About You	150	17/02/1992		1
KATHY TROCCOLI	Everything Changes	106	6/07/1992		8
KEITH RICHARDS	Wicked As It Seems	136	30/11/1992		8
KENNY THOMAS	Thinking About Your Love	125	20/04/1992		7
KISS	Domino	110	12/10/1992		5
K-KLASS	Rhythm Is a Mystery	138	20/01/1992		3
KYM SIMS	Take My Advice	123	1/06/1992		4
L.A. GUNS	It's Over Now	133	11/05/1992		2
LENNY KRAVITZ	Stop Draggin' Around	101	4/05/1992		5
LEON K AND THE KNOCKOUTS	The Marrickville Mauler	148	24/02/1992		1
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM	Countdown	131	19/10/1992		5
LIONEL RICHIE	My Destiny	125	5/10/1992		4
LISA EDWARDS	So Dangerous	106	19/10/1992		6
LISA STANSFIELD	Time To Make You Mine	114	25/05/1992		5
LIVE	Pain Lies On the Riverside	142	10/08/1992		1
LIVING DAYLIGHTS	Sliding	144	9/11/1992		1
LLOYD COLE	She's a Girl and I'm a Man	149	6/01/1992		1
LONDONBEAT	You Bring On the Sun	135	29/06/1992		4
LOVE DECADE	So Real	121	17/02/1992		7
MADNESS	My Girl (re-issue)	145	26/10/1992		1
MANIC STREET PREACHERS	Theme From M.A.S.H. (Suicide Is Painless)	139	2/11/1992		3
MARC COHN	True Companion	117	20/01/1992		9
MARC COHN	Ghost Train	121	23/03/1992		5
MARIAH CAREY	If It's Over	115	30/11/1992		9
MARK CURRY	The Mark Curry E.P.	146	9/11/1992		2
MARKY MARK & THE FUNKY BUNCH	I Need Money	121	6/04/1992		5
MASSIVE ATTACK	Safe From Harm	132	3/08/1992		5
MAXI PRIEST	Groovin' In the Midnight	120	19/10/1992		4
MAYBE DOLLS	Never Look Back	114	25/05/1992		8
MC OJ & RHYTHM SLAVE	Money Worries	133	30/03/1992		2
MELISSA	My House	119	16/11/1992		7
MELISSA ETHERIDGE	Dance Without Sleeping	145	23/11/1992		1
MESSIAH	Temple of Dreams	105	26/10/1992		10
MIDNIGHT OIL	Beds Are Burning (Live)	108	27/07/1992		7
MIKE OLDFIELD	Sentinel	134	16/11/1992		3
MINISTRY	Jesus Built My Hotrod	134	23/03/1992		6
MINISTRY	N.W.O	118	10/08/1992		7
MONIE LOVE	Full Term Love	150	14/09/1992		1
MY FRIEND THE CHOCOLATE CAKE	A Midlife's Tale (Get It Back Now)	134	24/02/1992		7
MYLENE FARMER	Je T'aime Mélancolie	142	4/05/1992		2
NATURAL SELECTION	Hearts Don't Think (They Feel)!	106	10/02/1992		7
NEIL DIAMOND	Don't Turn Around	117	9/03/1992		6
NEIL DIAMOND (duet with KIM CARNES)	Hooked On the Memory of You	116	20/04/1992		7
NEIL YOUNG	Harvest Moon	117	23/11/1992		11
NEW EDITION	Boys To Men	134	6/01/1992		5
NIKOLAJ STEEN featuring MELLE MEL and SCORPIO	The New Message	134	17/08/1992		5
NOMAD	Your Love Is Lifting Me	149	22/06/1992		1
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN	I Need Love	109	20/07/1992		11
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN	Deeper Than a River	136	19/10/1992		3
OSMOND BOYS	Boys Will Be Boys	132	24/02/1992		6
OZZY OSBOURNE	Mama I'm Coming Home	127	4/05/1992		8
P.M. DAWN	Reality Used To Be a Friend of Mine	118	27/04/1992		4
PAUL BEGAUD	Everybody	130	2/11/1992		6
PAUL KELLY AND THE MESSENGERS	When I First Met Your Ma	131	9/03/1992		6
PAUL WELLER	Uh Huh Oh Yeh	121	28/09/1992		6
PETER COUSENS	Love Changes Everything	136	14/12/1992		8
POISON	So Tell Me Why	142	6/01/1992		2
POP WILL EAT ITSELF	Karmadrome/Eat Me Drink Me Love Me Kill Me	121	27/07/1992		5
PSYCLONE SMYLE	Real Soul Pleaser (EP)	140	27/01/1992		1
PUBLIC ENEMY	Hazy Shade of Criminal	116	26/10/1992		4
PUSH PUSH	What My Baby Likes	118	6/04/1992		12
QUADROPHONIA	The Man With the Mastermixes	145	6/07/1992		2
QUEEN LATIFAH	Fly Girl/Nature of a Sista'	110	13/01/1992		7
REN	How Does It Feel	112	26/10/1992		5
RICK VITO duet with STEVIE NICKS	Desireé	147	13/07/1992		1
RIDE	Twisterella	105	1/06/1992		10
RIGHT SAID FRED	Those Simple Things/(What a Day For a) Daydream	121	14/09/1992		7
RINGO STARR	Weight of the World	142	6/07/1992		1
ROGER WATERS	What God Wants, Part I	103	14/09/1992		6
ROY ORBISON	I Drove All Night	132	18/05/1992		2
ROY ORBISON	Heartbreak Radio	103	23/11/1992		13
SABRINA JOHNSTON	I Wanna Sing	115	3/08/1992		6
SCHASCLE	Can't Get Love With Money	138	13/04/1992		5
SEPULTURA	Third World Posse (EP)	116	6/07/1992		9
SEX PISTOLS	Pretty Vacant	126	7/12/1992		9
SHANICE	I'm Cryin'	140	6/07/1992		4
SHAWN CHRISTOPHER	Don't Lose the Magic	124	18/05/1992		4
SIMPLE MINDS	Real Life	103	27/01/1992		6
SIMPLY RED	Thrill Me	109	29/06/1992		9
SIMPLY RED	Your Mirror	120	7/09/1992		7
SINÉAD O'CONNOR	Don't Cry For Me Argentina	138	30/11/1992		6
SINITTA	Shame Shame Shame	135	12/10/1992		3
SLAUGHTER	The Wild Life	130	29/06/1992		5
SLIM DUSTY	She'll Be Right, Mate	129	9/11/1992		3
SONIC YOUTH	Youth Against Fascism	123	16/11/1992		4
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS	California Here I Come	104	7/09/1992		7
SOUTHERN SONS	I Can't Wait Any Longer	111	7/12/1992		9
SPLINTER	Splinter (EP)	135	20/01/1992		3
STEPHEN CUMMINGS	Keep the Ball Rolling	125	17/08/1992		5
STRONGHEART	Kids Are Wired	146	20/07/1992		3
SUGAR	Helpless	111	19/10/1992		5
SUGAR	A Good Idea	108	14/12/1992		8
SUNSCREEM	Pressure	137	27/04/1992		5
SUNSCREEM	Walk On	143	3/08/1992		2
SUNSCREEM	Love U More	141	21/09/1992		1
S-WITCH	Sensual Motion	135	3/08/1992		7
TALKING HEADS	Lifetime Piling Up	108	7/12/1992		8
TEARS FOR FEARS	Laid So Low (Tears Roll Down)	130	6/04/1992		7
TECHNOTRONIC featuring REGGIE	Money Makes the World Go Round	117	10/02/1992		5
TEENAGE FANCLUB	The Concept	110	20/04/1992		7
TEVIN CAMPBELL	Tell Me What You Want Me To Do	116	16/03/1992		6
THE B-52's	Tell It Like It T-I-Is	120	28/09/1992		6
THE BEACH BOYS	Hot Fun In the Summertime	122	23/11/1992		7
THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES featuring N'DEA DAVENPORT	Never Stop	140	9/03/1992		6
THE CELIBATE RIFLES	Cold Wind	138	1/06/1992		3
THE CHEVELLES	Girl For Me	144	18/05/1992		1
THE CRUEL SEA	This Is Not the Way Home	130	31/08/1992		8
THE CURE	A Letter To Elise	103	9/11/1992		8
THE FARGONE BEAUTIES	Highway To Hell (Ballad of Jed Clampett)	106	2/11/1992		6
THE FARM	Don't You Want Me	115	23/11/1992		11
THE KILLJOYS	Spin (EP)	136	6/01/1992		5
THE LIGHTNING SEEDS	Sense	107	6/07/1992		8
THE MEN	Church of Logic, Sin, & Love	143	31/08/1992		3
THE NEW ROCKY HORROR SHOW (AUSTRALIAN CAST RECORDING)	The New Time Warp	106	14/12/1992		10
THE PASADENAS	I'm Doing Fine Now	143	23/03/1992		5
THE PRODIGY	Everybody In the Place	125	22/06/1992		9
THE REELS	Bad Moon Rising (Remixes)	125	23/11/1992		10
THE SMITHS	This Charming Man (re-issue)	108	7/09/1992		6
THE SOUP DRAGONS	Divine Thing	133	22/06/1992		6
THE TEMPTATIONS	My Girl (re-issue)	104	2/03/1992		12
THE TIN LIDS	School	131	7/09/1992		7
THOMAS DOLBY	Close But No Cigar	107	15/06/1992		7
TIA CARRERE	Ballroom Blitz	101	13/07/1992		7
TONI CHILDS	I Want To Walk With You	110	10/02/1992		6
TORI AMOS	Silent All These Years	128	2/03/1992		6
TUMBLEWEED	Theatre of Gnomes (EP)	116	27/04/1992		3
TUMBLEWEED	Weedseed (EP)	111	24/08/1992		9
VANESSA WILLIAMS	Running Back To You	111	31/08/1992		5
VIC REEVES AND THE ROMAN NUMERALS	Born Free	130	11/05/1992		4
W.A.S.P.	The Idol	126	7/09/1992		2
WARRANT	Machine Gun	124	14/09/1992		6
WET WET WET	Make It Tonight	110	15/06/1992		5
XTC	The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead	132	5/10/1992		1

 

 

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