This silent world we're living in

Continuing my trip back through the 1994 album charts.

22/05/94 : This Way Up - Chris De Burgh


I'm somewhat surprised to see this and I can assure you I'm not expecting to like it - and it's not a great sign that it's nineteenth on the list of Chris de Burgh albums in Amazon (which meant a lot of scrolling was required).

You know what? It's not great, but it's certainly not dreadful - I have a suspicion that it sounds very similar to most of his other albums. It's not something I need in my life, but I certainly have better uses of my time than to be offended by it - if you like some light rock/ballady stuff then it's going to tick the required boxes for you. And that's pretty much all I have to say on the matter.

We're at #5 in the charts this week with a new entry on the start of a seven week run with this being as high as it got. The rest of the top five were Erasure (a new entry), Deacon Blue, Eternal and The Cranberries with the next highest new entry being Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart (#13) - which is a bizarre but pretty decent album. 

Wikipedia has two sentences which tell us it's his eleventh album and there were two singles released from it, neither of which bothered the top 40. And looking at his entry to pad things out, there's nothing on there about his music between '88 and '97 - the only thing mentioned in this year was that he had an affair with his kids' 19 year old nanny - I wonder what she saw in him?!? Critically, the reviews were pretty average but it did well enough commercially, particularly in Germany where it got to #4.

discogs.com tells us you can pick up a decent copy for two quid or you can throw a whole £16 on an "as new" version if you're really desperate! I have a sneaking suspicion that everyone who wants to own this already does so though - it was bearable but completely inessential.

15/05/94 - A bit boring really
29/05/94 - Classic ambience

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