UK number ones of 1995

Or it could be the fact that Simply Red were at the height of their popularity. Stars was a huge selling album, and 'Fairground' was the first new Simply Red material for a long time.

I am pretty sure I never heard "Fairground" until now because "Simply Red samples The Goodmen" would have been pure aural catnip to me in 1995

That's how it would work now, back then a huge-selling album wasn't a guarantee of the music press taking your new record seriously AT ALL. Especially if you were Mick Hucknall at the height of Britpop. He might as well have been Phil Collins.

I remember pete tong enthusiastically play a remix of that simply red track quite a lot so maybe the 2xCD singles with remixes helped sales of that single.

back then a huge-selling album wasn't a guarantee of the music press taking your new record seriously AT ALL

it still isn't, though it is a guarantee of the music press slavishly covering your every move anyway (see: sheeran)

also being 14 is no fucking excuse for enjoying "country house" or blur at all

Blur has some great songs, it's just that "Country House" isn't one of them.

Never heard winning song... Weird

Cher/Hynde/Cherry w.Clapton - Love Can Build a Bridge 2

ILX neneh cherry bloc strikes again

outthere brothers were robbed

*outhere

"it still isn't, though it is a guarantee of the music press slavishly covering your every move anyway (see: sheeran)"

There's still a music press?