90s Music Monday
In most places in Europe this next track made number 1 or, at least, in the top 5 yet peaked at 21 in the US. I'd like to make an interesting and stimulating point about that but I honestly can't think of one. Something about the US rave scene lagging about 10 years behind the European one maybe? Meh.
The Wikipedia page for this says that it shows scenes from Mile's home country Switzerland (I'd agree - I think I recognise bits of Geneva) and Paris - "The Eiffel tower is visible" which just goes to show that you should never let stupid people near computers lest they spew forth torrents of wrong or accidentally stab themselves or something. The British policeman in his distinctive helmet should have been the first clue, that and the writing in English. Oh and Nelson's Column and the fountain at Haymarket might have been the teeniest of clues. Sheesh. Soon we'll be at a point where you can't trust what's said on the internets.
I'm trying to work out if this was the highest placing of an instrumental in the UK or not - the other obvious candidate would be the "Mission: Impossible" theme by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. which Wikipedia tells me hit #8 in the Billboard charts although now that Wikipedia's thin veneer of factuality has been torn back like a crusted plaster to reveal a pulsating, putrid under bell of lies and falsehoods it could very well be that it made #1. Or #756. There's just no way of knowing.
One of Mile's goals for this song was to calm Ravers down before they drove home and thus reduce the number of accidents caused by exhaustion and the general side effects of being mashed of your tits which was, by all accounts, a growing problem and was known as the strage del sabato sera or Saturday Night Slaughter in Italy.
So now you know. Or maybe you don't. Maybe I'm just making all this up. Maybe I'm using this opportunity to fill you minds with inaccuracies and half truths for no other reason than I'm a complete bastard.
I'm trying to work out if this was the highest placing of an instrumental in the UK or not - the other obvious candidate would be the "Mission: Impossible" theme by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. which Wikipedia tells me hit #8 in the Billboard charts although now that Wikipedia's thin veneer of factuality has been torn back like a crusted plaster to reveal a pulsating, putrid under bell of lies and falsehoods it could very well be that it made #1. Or #756. There's just no way of knowing.
One of Mile's goals for this song was to calm Ravers down before they drove home and thus reduce the number of accidents caused by exhaustion and the general side effects of being mashed of your tits which was, by all accounts, a growing problem and was known as the strage del sabato sera or Saturday Night Slaughter in Italy.
So now you know. Or maybe you don't. Maybe I'm just making all this up. Maybe I'm using this opportunity to fill you minds with inaccuracies and half truths for no other reason than I'm a complete bastard.
Comments
Your friendly neighbourhood chart geek.
But does Tubular Bells really count as an instrumental? It does have all that Viv Stanshall "two slightly distorted guitars" stuff at the end of side one.
I'm probably over-thinking this.