This week in 1992 was the quietest week for new top 150 entries peaking outside the top 100 for the whole year, with just one. Fortunately, there are also two bubbling WAY down under entries to beef up this week's post a little bit. Before taking a look, I have updated the following post:
* 17 February 1992 - with a new bubbling WAY down under entry from Glass Tiger featuring Rod Stewart.
Severed Heads had to wait 13 years for their first top 200 'hit' in Australia.
Top 150 debut:
Number 138 Weedseed EP by Tumbleweed
Peak: number 111
Peak date: 14 September 1992
Weeks in top 150: 9 weeks
Top 150 chart run: 138-137-114-111-133-127-143-145-149
We last saw Australian band Tumbleweed in April 1992, making their debut top 150 appearance with an EP, and here they are again with another EP!
The 5-track Weedseed EP was led by the track "Fish out of Water"; the music video for which is embedded below.
Tumbleweed would break into the ARIA top 100 with their next single, "Acid Rain" (number 88, November 1992). The band would land their biggest hit, and only top 40 single, with their next release after that, "Sundial" (number 35, April 1993).
We'll next see Tumbleweed in 1995.
Bubbling WAY down under:
Number 186 "Twister" by Severed Heads
Peak: number 186
Peak date: 24 August 1992
Weeks on chart: 4 weeks
Australian band Severed Heads formed in 1979 as Mr and Mrs No Smoking Sign. Tom Ellard, who would remain the band's only constant member after the founding duo left the group in 1981, joined by the end of that year. The first charting Severed Heads release (ignoring the meaningless US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and the UK indie chart) would not happen until November 1991, when their ninth studio album Cuisine (With Piscatorial) (number 171, January 1992) crept into the ARIA top 200.
"Twister", the band's first charting single, was the only single to receive a commercial release from the Cuisine (With Piscatorial) album. A music video was made for another track for another track from the album, "Pilot in Hell", however - although it is probably blocked on YouTube (another video of theirs I uploaded received a take-down notice from Tom Ellard some years ago). The music video for "Twister", embedded below, uses the Act of God edit, which appears on the CD single. You can listen to the rather different, and better in my opinion (if you ignore the mispronunciation of nuclear as "nukular"), original version of the track here.
On the state charts, "Twister" performed strongest in Western Australia, where it reached number 143.
I wasn't aware of this track until catching the video randomly played on rage in January 1994 (from which the recording below is sourced).
Severed Heads would go on to land a commercial hit (their only top 100 entry) in Australia with the 1994 remix of "Dead Eyes Opened" (number 16, January 1995).
We shall next see Severed Heads in 1995.
Number 206 "You Are Everything"/"Your Song" by Rod Stewart
Peak: number 197
Peak date: 5 October 1992
Weeks on chart: 6 weeks
We last saw English singer Rod Stewart on his own in 1989, and as a featured artist in February 1992.
To my surprise, "You Are Everything" was the fifth and final single released in Australia from Rod's sixteenth studio album Vagabond Heart (number 1, July 1991). Given that the song is a cover version of a song originally recorded by The Stylistics (their version peaked at number 20 on the Go-Set chart in May 1972), I assumed it would have been taken from Rod's 1992 covers album Lead Vocalist (number 96, April 1993). Its release followed Rod's duet with Tina Turner "It Takes Two" (number 16, February 1991), "Rhythm of My Heart" (number 2, June 1991), "The Motown Song" (number 26, August 1991), and "Broken Arrow" (number 63, January 1992).
Only an Australian pressing of this single is listed on discogs.com, where it was a double A-side of Rod's version of Elton John's "Your Song" (number 10 on the Go-Set chart, April 1971), lifted from the Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin tribute album (number 15, November 1991).
Rod's Wikipedia discography page states that his version of "You Are Everything" peaked at number 56 in Canada, but no source is provided to verify this. Rod's version of "Your Song" peaked at number 60 in the Netherlands in May 1992, number 48 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in June 1992, and number 38 in France in September 1992. A number 25 peak in Canada is listed on Wikipedia, but no source was provided to verify this.
In Australia, the "You Are Everything"/"Your Song" single performed strongest in Western Australia, where it reached number 170.
We shall next see Rod in 1993.
Next week (31 August): Four top 150 entries and three bubbling WAY down under debuts.
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