Again, I knew none of this week in 1992's new entries peaking outside the top 100 at the time. Before we take a look at them, I have updated the following earlier posts:
* 18 February 1991 - with a new bubbling WAY down under entry from Iron Maiden;
* 2 September 1991 - with a new bubbling WAY down under entry from Primal Scream.
Bob Geldof: there wasn't 'room' for his new single in the ARIA top 100 in 1992.
Top 150 debuts:
Number 118 "From Here to Eternity" by Iron Maiden
Peak: number 109
Peak date: 28 September 1992
Weeks in top 150: 7 weeks
Top 150 chart run: 118-109-116-128-131-132-132
Weeks on chart: 12 weeks
We last saw English metal band Iron Maiden in 1991.
"From Here to Eternity" was issued as the second single from Iron Maiden's ninth studio album Fear of the Dark (number 11, May 1992). It followed "Be Quick Or Be Dead" (number 47, June 1992), which was the band's final top 50 single in Australia.
Internationally, "From Here to Eternity" peaked at number 21 in the UK in July 1992, number 27 in Ireland in July 1992, number 70 in the Netherlands in August 1992, and number 33 in New Zealand in August 1992.
Domestically, "From Here to Eternity" performed strongest on the New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory state chart, where it reached number 55. The single peaked outside the top 100 on the remaining four state charts.
While I'm generally not a fan of metal, I don't mind Iron Maiden's "Can I Play with Madness" (number 58, May 1988).
We will next see Iron Maiden in 1993.
Number 134 "This Is Australia Calling" by John Williamson
Peak: number 123
Peak date: 19 October 1992
Weeks in top 150: 6 weeks
Top 150 chart run: 134-134-147-126-123-148Weeks on chart: 7 weeks
We last saw Aussie stalwart John Williamson in November 1991.
"This Is Australia Calling", the third of 11 consecutive John Williamson singles to peak outside the top 100 (!), was released to promote the compilation album Australia Calling: All the Best Vol 2 (number 32, December 1992). The release of this album spawned his previous compilation All the Best! (number 27, August 1986) to re-enter the chart and climb to the dizzy heights of number 246 in November 1992.
On the state charts, "This Is Australia Calling" performed strongest in New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory, where it reached number 100.
We shall next see John in November 1992.
Number 140 "Stinkin Thinkin" by Happy Mondays
Peak: number 110
Peak date: 28 September 1992
Weeks in top 150: 7 weeks
Chart run: 156-140-110-117-130-126-134-136Weeks on chart: 8 weeks
We last saw English 'Madchester' band Happy Mondays in April 1992.
"Stinkin Thinkin" - no apostrophes - was issued as the lead single from the band's fourth studio album ...Yes Please! (number 99, October 1992). Internationally, the single peaked at number 31 in the UK in September 1992. "Stinkin Thinkin" also registered on three meaningless US Billboard charts, peaking at number 21 on the Alternative Airplay chart in October 1992, number 1 on the Dance Club Songs chart in October 1992, and number 15 on the Dance Singles Sales chart in December 1992.
Domestically, "Stinkin Thinkin" was most popular in Western Australia, where it reached number 87 on the state chart.
We'll next see Happy Mondays in January 1993.
Number 143 "Room 19 (Sha La La La Lee)" by Bob Geldof
Peak: number 143
Peak date: 21 September 1992
Weeks in top 150: 5 weeks (3 weeks in 1992; 2 weeks in 1993)
Known chart run: 215-143-144-148. Re-entered 22 March 1993: 147-(out for 9 weeks)-150Weeks on chart: 17 weeks
Irish singer-songwriter Bob Geldof is probably better known for being behind Band Aid and Live Aid, and being tangled up in the messy demise of INXS front man Michael Hutchence - via his ex-wife Paula Yates, than his music these days. Bob started out as the lead singer of Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats, who scored four Australian top 100 singles between 1979 and 1981, with one of those singles, "I Don't Like Mondays", topping the Australian singles chart for two weeks in November 1979. The only other Boomtown Rats single to dent the top 40 in Australia was "Banana Republic" (number 18, March 1981), and the band split in 1986.
Bob then launched a solo career, and just crept into the top 100 in Australia with his debut solo single "This Is the World Calling" (number 93, December 1986). His debut solo album, Deep in the Heart of Nowhere, released locally in December 1986, failed to chart in Australia.
Bob returned in 1990 with his second solo album The Vegetarians of Love (number 43, April 1991), which produced his biggest hit and only solo top 50 single in Australia, "The Great Song of Indifference" (number 25, November 1990). That single was much more successful in Western Australia, where it reached number 6 on the state chart, than anywhere else. "Love Or Something" (number 74, April 1991) gave Bob his third and final top 100 single in Australia.
"Room 19 (Sha La La La Lee)" was released as the lead single from Bob's third studio album The Happy Club (number 91, May 1993). Internationally, the single peaked at number 53 in Germany in August 1992. It just missed the UK top 75, peaking at number 78 in August 1992.
In Australia, "Room 19..." performed strongest in South Australia/Northern Territory, where it reached number 108 in May 1993. The single also peaked in Victoria/Tasmania in 1993, but in 1992 on the remaining three state charts.
"Room 19 (Sha La La La Lee)" was re-released in Australia in January 1993, and returned to the top 150 for one week in March 1993. I've got an inkling that the later re-entry at the end of May 1993, after 9 weeks out of the top 150, is a mistake on the ARIA database, and it should actually be Bob's next single, which entered the top 150 the following week.
We shall see Bob with that next single in 1993.
Bubbling WAY down under:
Number 194 "Ain't No Man" by Dina Carroll
Peak: number 162
Peak date: 6 September 1993
Weeks on chart: 9 weeks
English singer Dina Carroll last graced our presence in 1990.
"Ain't No Man" was lifted from Dina's debut album So Close (number 208, August 1993). Internationally, the single peaked at number 16 in the UK in July 1992, number 63 in Germany in October 1992, and number 34 in the Netherlands in May 1993.
In Australia, "Ain't No Man" performed strongest in Western Australia, where it peaked at number 127. I am not sure why the single peaked almost a year here after its debut, as no re-release is listed in the new releases lists in The ARIA Report, although the music video is listed as a new addition to the rage playlist in July 1993. The single peaked in South Australia/Northern Territory in October 1992, but in September 1993 on all of the other state charts.
I remember seeing this one reviewed in Smash Hits magazine, but did not hear it at the time. I did hear a couple of Dina's later singles, one of which we will see in early 1994, when she pays us another visit.
Number 198 "Slip Inside This House" by Primal Scream
Peak: number 152
Peak date: 9 November 1992
Weeks on chart: 16 weeksWe last saw Scottish band Primal Scream in 1991.
"Slip Inside This House", lifted from Primal Scream's third studio album Screamadelica (number 102, July 1992), was an Australian-only single. On the state charts, "Slip Inside This House" performed strongest in Victoria/Tasmania, where it reached number 133.
Primal Scream would have their commercial breakthrough in Australia in 1994 with the single "Rocks" (number 43, May 1994), and the album Give Out but Don't Give Up (number 28, April 1994).
We'll next see Primal Scream in 1997.
Next week (28 September): Six top 150 entries and four bubbling WAY down under debuts.
