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 23rd June 2015, 06:46 PM
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23rd June 2015, 06:52 PM
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'Get Up' is quite good but does sound like an inferior 'Pump Up The Jam'. Now that was a tune, definitely sounds very early 90s so they were clearly ahead of the times releasing that in 1989.
Unfamiliar with 'Got To Get' / 'Touch Me', they're not bad I guess but I imagine they'll be amongst the lower end of my rankings of this list. |
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23rd June 2015, 07:27 PM
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Got to Get is strikingly similar to Neneh Cherry's early style, something that has only occured to me 25 years later
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23rd June 2015, 08:19 PM
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Beats International - Dub Be Good To Me
 Date 24th Feb 1990 5 Weeks Official Chart Run 15-3-2-1-1-1-1-5-10-20-24-32-60 *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Here we come to the first song that was a number one in the parallel world we call reality. When the Housemartins split in the late 80s, no one guessed that any of the former members would go on to be an ever changing figure in 90s dance music. But that is what happened and a certain Norman Cook made his first waves on the dance scene by forming Beats International with rapper MC Wildski. They were joined by Lindy Layton on vocals, Lester Noel, DJ Baptiste and keyboardist Andy Boucher on the bands first proper single - a cover of SOS Band's Just Be Good To Me - reportedly Layton's idea. They matched it with the bassline from The Clash's Guns of Brixton and a haunting piece of harmonica from a film score and voila - a number 1 single. It was reported afterwards that they hadn't cleared the Clash sample and ended up paying three times the royalties that they earned from the track. You'd think they would have learned from Black Box's much publicised controversy with Loletta Holloway 6 months earlier. Dub Be Good To Me was an official number 1 for four weeks in March 1990 but gains an extra weeks at the top in this rundown. They had a Top 10 hit with the follow up Won't Talk About It and a few minor hits in the following years. Layton had some minor solo success when the bands split and, of course, Norman Cook went on to bigger and (arguably) better things with Freak Power, The Mighty Dub Katz, Pizzaman and most famously Fatboy Slim. This post has been edited by AntoineTTe: 23rd June 2015, 08:37 PM |
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23rd June 2015, 08:25 PM
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Love that version
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23rd June 2015, 08:29 PM
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Tank Fly Boss Walk Jam Nitty Gritty!
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23rd June 2015, 08:33 PM
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You don't have to be fabulous to be good
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Fatboy Slim (kinda) has connections to this all-time classic? Wow. Music industry is like a village sometimes.
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23rd June 2015, 08:34 PM
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QUOTE(SITCHUAISHAAAN @ Jun 23 2015, 09:33 PM)  Fatboy Slim (kinda) has connections to this all-time classic? Wow. Music industry is like a village sometimes. Not just 'kinda' as he was a part of the band. |
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23rd June 2015, 08:35 PM
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Snap! - The Power
 Date 31st March 1990 5 Weeks Official Chart Run 12-1-1-2-3-4-7-10-13-17-30-37-47-71-62 *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Here we have the most consistently successful dance band in the first half of 1990s. No other dance act registered more weeks in the Top 10 (42) during the whole decade than Snap! and they achieved this all before 1994 had finished - their final time to grace the Top 10 was in mid November of that year. One other band were close behind (with 41 weeks) - more of that later. They started all this by releasing The Power in early 1990 which, at the time, registered one of the highest jumps to number 1 in chart history (excluding singles that charted on import). It climbed from its entry position of 12 the week before. It boasted immediate hooks, not least of which were the hard edged synth riff, the title vocal and a soulful almost hypnotic vocal phrasing. Like much dance music at the time it was mostly sampled from other lesser known songs - in this case from Jocelyn Brown, Chill Rob G and Chaka Khan. It stay at the top for two weeks in the official chart but gains 3 weeks in this rundown. We'll be hearing much more from the band later. This post has been edited by AntoineTTe: 23rd June 2015, 10:12 PM |
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23rd June 2015, 08:38 PM
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QUOTE(SITCHUAISHAAAN @ Jun 23 2015, 09:33 PM) Fatboy Slim (kinda) has connections to this all-time classic? Wow. Music industry is like a village sometimes. He formed the band and produced the track too. This post has been edited by AntoineTTe: 23rd June 2015, 08:39 PM |
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23rd June 2015, 08:43 PM
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'The Power' is a bomb
  I imagine 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' will spend a very long time at #1 here considering it was officially #1 for 6 weeks and spent 13 weeks in the top 10. |
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23rd June 2015, 08:44 PM
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The Power is of course great but Rhythm Is A Dancer is one of the all time greats of Dance
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23rd June 2015, 08:50 PM
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QUOTE('Dan @ Jun 23 2015, 09:43 PM) I imagine 'Rhythm Is A Dancer' will spend a very long time at #1 here considering it was officially #1 for 6 weeks and spent 13 weeks in the top 10. We'll see
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23rd June 2015, 08:50 PM
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My fave Snap songs are Welcome To Tomorrow and The First The Last Eternity. Not that Rhythm Is A Dancer isn't a classic, but I love the tracks with Summer.
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23rd June 2015, 10:48 PM
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'dub be good to me' and 'the power' are IKONIK early 90's anthems~
not so familiar with the others ~ but sounding good on spinning
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24th June 2015, 05:09 PM
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We continue then, with a bit of a 1990s classic:
Adamski - Killer  Date 5th May 1990 6 Weeks Official Chart Run 45-39-20-7-4-1-1-1-1-2-4-11-16-20-18-26-36-60 (18 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. “Killer” does not take its title from any of the lyrics here, but was included in Seal’s version (#8 in November 1991) which includes the opener: “It's the loneliness that's the killer”. The title equally well describes the thumping bassline provided by Tinley (Adamski) which announces the track and provides its centrepiece. At the time, the DJ was just a face hidden behind harsh electronic synths and the star was invariably the singer on the record - in this case the very distinctive vocals/lyrics of an unknown 27 year-old Seal - who however was left uncredited by Adam Tinley, and of course much was made of this when the record became massive. The single has quite rightly become a 1990s dance classic, and remains relatively un-dated save for the piano break, a testament to the excellent production and play between the tense electronic beats and Seal’s stunning vocals. It struck a chord with the British public and went on to spend an entire month at the top of the singles chart. Neither artist really managed to scale these heights again with Tinley managing 1 further Top 10 hit (the woeful “The Space Jungle” - #7 in September 1990) before disappearing into obscurity and ambient techno. Seal however fared better with some success into the mid-1990s including two big Top 5 hits in 1991 and 1995 (“Crazy”, a #2 and “Kiss From A Rose”) and then returning to the Top 10 with the help of another dance music producer a further one time in the 21st Century (with Jakatta to #6 in 2002: “My Vision”). Fun fact: The dog on the artwork ('Dis') is Adam's. This post has been edited by Doctor Blind: 24th June 2015, 05:31 PM |
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24th June 2015, 05:23 PM
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QUOTE(Doctor Blind @ Jun 24 2015, 06:09 PM) We continue then, with a bit of a 1990s classic: Adamski - Killer “Killer” takes its title, not from any of the lyrics here, but from Seal’s original (#8 in November 1991) which includes the opener: “It's the loneliness that's the killer”, a title that equally well describes the thumping bassline provided by Tinley (Adamski) which announces the track and provides its centrepiece. At the time, the DJ was just a face hidden behind harsh electronic synths and the star was invariably the singer on the record - in this case the very distinctive vocals/lyrics of an unknown 27 year-old Seal - who however was left uncredited by Adam Tinley, and of course much was made of this when the record became massive. The single has quite rightly become a 1990s dance classic, and remains relatively un-dated save for the piano break, a testament to the excellent production and play between the tense electronic beats and Seal’s stunning vocals. It struck a chord with the British public and went on to spend an entire month at the top of the singles chart. Sorry now I'm the one picking something apart so apologies in advance- Seal and Tinley wrote it together with Seal adding the line the quote the following year for his solo version. They met, so the story went, when Adamski saw Seal working in a McDonalds at the time (though I'm not sure if that was made up as a publicity thing). |
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24th June 2015, 05:31 PM
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No problem at all, thanks Gezza. I blame AntoineTTe, he was supposed to be fact checking.
*Corrected* |
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24th June 2015, 05:34 PM
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Who can listen to The Power now unless they actually like those B&Q adverts.
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24th June 2015, 05:38 PM
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Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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QUOTE(Doctor Blind @ Jun 24 2015, 06:31 PM) No problem at all, thanks Gezza. I blame AntoineTTe, he was supposed to be fact checking. *Corrected* No problem- I've made enough mistakes myself over the years! Looking through my reference books I think the reason that Seal went uncredited is that Adamski had had a previous hit "N-R-G" (No 12) and so was thought to be the selling point. |
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