Everybody better recognise we got the funky rhymes

Completing my trip back through the 1999 album charts.

03/01/99 : 5ive - Five

Whereas Savage Garden's bad album later in the year gave me hope for their previous one, Five's absolutely appalling album later in the year gives me absolutely no hope for this one.  So no, we never owned it which takes us to a final total of 21/52 for the year - it was looking like we might hit 50%, but a final run of seven unowned albums put paid to that.

Well, I guess the opening track "Slam Dunk (Da Funk)" isn't absolutely dreadful - but it's still pretty rubbish though.  And the rest of the album does at least feature some singing and tunes and stuff (unlike their next album) - but it's still pretty rubbish though.  Who likes/liked this shit?  And there's 66 minutes of it as well.

We're at #9 in the charts this week on their 28th week of a 37 week run, with it having debuted at #1.  The top five this week were George Michael's best-of (just finishing off an eight week run at the top - it was unsurprisingly popular over Xmas/New Year), Robbie Williams, Steps, The Corrs and Boyzone and, unsurprisingly given the time of year, there are no new entries on the chart this week.

Wikipedia tells me the album was executive produced by Simon Cowell and Denniz Pop (amazingly not his real name) and goes on and on about all the singles that were released off it - did you know "Slam Dunk (Da Funk)" was selected as the official NBA theme?  There's no section on critical reception (probably best) but the commercial reception was better than I expected globally - #1 in Belgium, New Zealand and Taiwan, top ten in waaaay more countries than you'd expect and even #27 in the US!  Bizarre.

"Customers also listened to" *NSync, Mandy Moore, Jordan Knight and S Club 7 - what an odd mix.  I'm sure they've all got to be more bearable than Five though - they really are very rubbish.

And that's it for 1999 - a write-up of the year will follow very shortly because I've been super-organised with this one!

1999 - Not the best year, but definitely not the worst
10/01/99 - Some fun nonsense

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