I wonder if this Monday will wipe the rain off yesterday

Continuing my trip back through the 2003 album charts.

02/03/03 : Everything's Eventual - Appleton


This is the album the Appleton sisters recorded when they left All Saints - I don't mind their voices, but I can't help but feel we're going to be up there with Dannii Minogue for the absolute inessentialness (inessentiality?) of it all.

Well, that's a surprise - it doesn't hit the heights of Dannii's superfluousness! Yeah, this is merely on the Melanie C upper plains of pointlessness - their voices are actually OK and the songs aren't dreadful, with the exception of "Ring A Ding Ding" which is absolutely awful. If you like a bit of All Saints then I struggle to imagine you'd hate this - I actually thought of it as a female Robbie Williams album (who Nicole was engaged to before she traded him for Liam Gallagher - what a taste in men that girl had!). Overall, I tolerated it a lot more than I expected to but I didn't need 50 minutes of it.

We're at #9 with a new entry on the chart this week on the start of an eight week run which pleasingly featured a drop in every week. The top five this week were Norah Jones (starting a four week run at the top), a Tom Jones best-of, Justin Timberlake, Coldplay and Red Hot Chili Peppers and the next highest new entry was a Led Zeppelin best-of (#14) - very 00s!

Wikipedia tells me it's their only album, named after a Stephen King story and did OK here, but not enough for anyone to think it was worth them trying again - and that's your lot. In order to pad things out a bit here, I checked out their individual entries and was reminded they are Canadian and had quite the complicated love lives back in them 90s but seem to have calmed things down now - Natalie's been married to Liam Howlett from The Prodigy for over 20 years now.

"Customers also listened to" Alisha's Attic, Amy Studt, All Saints and Liberty X - I can see the Alisha's Attic thang, but I've never even heard of Amy (her debut album came out in this year). I have to admit I was all ready to be rude about this, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with it - I struggle to imagine anyone actually needs it in their lives but it could have been much, much worse. High praise indeed!

23/02/03 - A surprisingly successful album
09/03/03 - Not clicking like I wanted it to

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