Advantages: 100 Songs on 5 CDs! Value Disadvantages: ???
100Hits No.1s is the album which has 100 songs which have reached No.1.
CD.11. Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
2. Oh Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
3. Runaway - Del Shannon
4. Reet Petite - Jackie Wilson
5. All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers (The)
6. Poetry In Motion - Johnny Tillotson
7. Magic Moments - Perry Como
8. Diana - Paul Anka
9. It's Over - Roy Orbison
10. Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds
11. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
12. Young Girl - Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
13. Sugar Sugar - Archies
14. In The Year 2525 - Zager & Evans
15. Everlasting Love - Love Affair (The)
16. Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) - Edison Lighthouse
17. Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
18. Gonna Make You A Star - David Essex
19. Chirpy Chirpy ...
Advantages: The 6 number 1 records Disadvantages: The rest of the tracks are rubbish
France & Mexico & #1 on the US Billboard dance chart. It failed to chart in the UK, so we liked Sinitta but not her mum? Yep, she was Sinitta's mum!
10. Feet Don't Fail Me Now - Trammps. The only date I could find for this was 2006 and I could find no chart position at all, they were also listed as Soul as well as R&B. So not disco then.
11. We Are Invincible - 501's. From 1984 its another HI-NRG dance track, I can't find a chart position for this either in any countries chart so its unfair to be calling it a hit.
12. Love Machine - The Miracles. From 1975 and it was an actual disco hit too reaching #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 as well as #3 in the UK.
13. Bass (How Low Can You Go) - Simon Harris. From 1988 this was a House track if it was anything but it was a US Billboard Dance #1. So yes a hit, no not disco sorry.
14. Strut Your ...
Advantages: wide variety of music, great price Disadvantages: a couple of notable absences
overlooked.
Or so I thought . . .
Then one day in work we realised (while having a random conversation) that there was a whole plethora of new 90s compilation albums out there. Now - okay, we probably ALL own a couple of these from when we actually were IN the nineties . . . but these ones are different because they span the WHOLE 90s, not just a specific few months or one year from within the decade.
After perusing the various options on play.com, I finally settled on100Hits - 90s. Partly because with 100 songs and 5 CDs for less than a tenner is was pretty damn good value for money, and partly because there were a whole heap of songs on there that made me go "Oh my god, I had forgot ALL ABOUT THAT ONE!"
Most 90s album seem to embrace the dance genre that seemed so damn big at the time and forget that there were other types of music out ...