Not a big fan of this Madison Avenue track the bassline is good (one of the best and just shows you dont need an electronic bassline for a dance song) but I dont like the generic early 2000s jazz funky house vocal (like Just Wont Do) in 2003 Funky house was at its best with a disco vocal and string samples I think and thats why I liked the Moloko track. Best time for funky house was between 2004 and 2006 imo although there is a fantastic funky house track in 2001 by a group named after a shop apparently which is a classic.

Edited July 26, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Don't Call Me Baby is awful. I dont like the tone of the singer's voice and I dont like the melody of the song.

Don't Call Me Baby is awful. I dont like the tone of the singer's voice and I dont like the melody of the song.

 

The melody is good. The vocal ruins it though. The kind of vocal that unfairly gave funky house a bad name. I dont think its the singers fault as it is heavily autotuned (I think) Could have been a good track with a retro disco style vocal.

 

We will see some great nu disco dance tracks later including some from production duos named after things that are mentioned a lot in conspiracy theories.

I like 'Bound 4 Da Reload' for its novelty value but that's about it!

 

ADORE 'Don't Call Me Baby' though. Childhood defining and I remember having a crush on Cheyne in the video. Not sure what the hate on the vocals are; dance tracks are rarely a source of fantastic singing.

 

Toca's Miracle is incredible, really good trance that's very much helped by its vocal. Also it would end up as the #2 in the year-end 2000 dance chart. Keep #1 guesses in spoiler tags.

I'm not sure, but I'm sure it'll be

totally bonafide

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Bound 4 Da Reload awful...

 

Don't Call Me Baby on the other hand brilliant song :D

Don't Call Me Baby on the other hand brilliant song :D

 

There were much better funky house songs around than this in the early 2000s imo as we will see in 2001 with a classic, a title which refers to something you might get in McDonalds :lol:

 

Bound 4 The Reload is a great remix of the casualty theme tune and puts a bit of fun into usually serious UK garage so i don't understand the hate for this one. Would have been better without the rap though and just music and the controversial quote.

Dance tracks are rarely a source of fantastic singing..

 

I disagree, I think the singing is very important in dance tracks, and that's probably why I like the middle of the 00s decade, those songs with retro sounding female disco vocalists. There were some great trance vocalists too in 2001 and 2002. For a dance song with great vocals, see the next one one the list.

 

Dance vocals were better in the 2000s than they are this decade in general I think.

Edited July 27, 20168 yr by TheSnake

There was no really trance in the charts by 2002. IIO brought in an era where the music took second place to a female vocal and in 2002 many of the so called trance songs were really bland dance pop with a weedy lead vocal from a woman.

Edited July 27, 20168 yr by Colm

There was no really trance in the charts by 2002. IIO brought in an era where the music took second place to a female vocal and in 2002 many of the so called trance songs were really bland dance pop with a weedy lead vocal from a woman.

 

Yes there were so many big female vocals on dance songs from 2002 to 2006 but I liked that. They were disco vocals so it provided a retro feel. Worse for me was the second half of 2006 and 2007 when horrific annoying vocals from the likes of Luciana and Princess Superstar started on the electro songs, the worst year of dance ever for me apart from 2016 was 2007.

 

 

Edited July 27, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Trance was still around in parts, with 2003's Loneliness & 2004's Now We Are Free but it was definitely fading out i.e. becoming less popular.

 

LOVE Bound 4 Da Reload, not too often you got a novelty garage track but I still love it to this day. Don't Call Me Baby is also very good but not something I've ever been rushing back to play, pales a bit compared to a lot of the other tracks around.

Going to try and remember to comment before I get about 30 pages behind! :lol:

 

My highlights so far are 'Movin' Too Fast' and 'Toca's Miracle' :wub: The former is the first single I ever bought for my record player, a very shabby copy from the charity shop :kink: The latter is the song that reminds me of my childhood the most so that holds a special place. Although apparently I used to drive my parents crazy singing it, oops :lol:

Trance was still around in parts, with 2003's Loneliness & 2004's Now We Are Free but it was definitely fading out i.e. becoming less popular.

 

And 2005's Need To Feel Loved too.

 

Yes by 2004, house was growing in popularity first deep and progressive (Angel City's first track and Deepest Blue responsible for this) and then increasingly disco based by the middle of 2004 largely because of one big track that summer that will feature on this thread.

Going to try and remember to comment before I get about 30 pages behind! :lol:

 

My highlights so far are 'Movin' Too Fast' and 'Toca's Miracle' :wub: The former is the first single I ever bought for my record player, a very shabby copy from the charity shop :kink: The latter is the song that reminds me of my childhood the most so that holds a special place. Although apparently I used to drive my parents crazy singing it, oops :lol:

 

I never liked dance music back then much I don't think. I liked the Moloko one but i thought it was by Texas :lol: and I thought it was the follow up to Summer Son. I suppose Roisin Murphy sounds a bit like Sharlene Spiteri. Apart from the next track, I remember my mum liked the next one and I did too it is so memorable :)

Edited July 27, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Don't Call Me Baby is awful. I dont like the tone of the singer's voice and I dont like the melody of the song.

Fun fact. I always hum the Madison Avenue track when you respond to me never using your new username!

 

Don't Call Me Tony, you got some nerve and baby that'll never do.

 

 

Let's enjoy the original, shall we?

 

Fun fact. I always hum the Madison Avenue track when you respond to me never using your new username!

 

Don't Call Me Tony, you got some nerve and baby that'll never do.

 

 

You love it when I call you baby :wub:

Sonique - It Feels So Good

 

 

Date 28th May 2000

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run 1-1-1-2-4-10-17-17-22-26-27-32-32-36-41-62-75-x(11)-94-90-98- (20 weeks)

 

 

It proved to be a long haul to a number one single for Sonia Marina Clarke, or as we know her by her stage name Sonique, starting out at the age of 19 her first taste of chart action was the cheesy disco record ‘Let Me Hold You’ which reached #99 in September 1985.

 

By 1990 Sonique had joined late 80’s dance outfit S’Express for their second album ‘Intercourse’, which was the follow up to ‘Original Soundtrack’ including their 1988 #1 ‘The Theme From S’Express’. The biggest S’Express hit to feature Sonique’s vocals was ‘Nothing To Lose’ which hit #32 in September 1990. Alas the album failed to make the top100, and the group disbanded at the conclusion of the promotional campaign, however band mate Mark Moore gave Sonique a pair of decks as a parting gift.

 

Fast forward to the late 90’s and Sonique had established herself as a top DJ, becoming the DJ-in-residence at the legendary Club Manumission Nights in Ibiza in 1997. She gained some notable success mixing dance album compilations which opened the door to recording her own album ‘Hear My Cry’ in 1998. ‘I Put A Spell On You’ was the first single, a cover of the old blues standard made famous by Nina Simone, which reached #36 in June 1998. Next followed ‘It Feels So Good’ which reached a creditable #24 in December 1998, selling 30k in total by the end of the millennium.

 

‘It Feels So Good’ a lush house track, featuring elements of trance, eventually gained massive support in Florida, from the Miami Winter Music Conference, in early 2000 propelling the track to #8 in the Hot 100. Universal consequently won the race to re-release the track and in May 2000 ‘It Feels So Good’ stormed to the top of the charts on sales of 195k, it went on to become the 3rd biggest seller of 2000 shifting over 700k copies to date, 'IFSG' was also only one of two tracks that year to spend 3 weeks at the summit (the other was Bob The Builder).

 

Dance was so dominant in 2000, that despite scoring another huge hit with ‘Sky’ #2 in September 2000, she doesn’t feature in this countdown again. A re-release of ‘I Put A Spell On You’ (#8 December 2000) concluded a hat-trick of top ten hits for Sonique in 2000. She returned in 2003 with ‘Can’t Make Up My Mind’ which reached #17 that May, and the brilliant ‘Alive’ which somehow flopped at #70 and was her last piece of chart action. A breast cancer survivor Sonique continued to produce music into the 2010’s.

Another song right up there with the best of the decade :heart:

 

In fact all 3 of her top 10's are indeed 10/10 songs, such a shame Sky won't feature here I wonder what kept it off? :o

'It Feels So Good' is incredible :wub: Never got into her other hits but that one really is up there with the best of 00s dance.

Another song right up there with the best of the decade :heart:

 

In fact all 3 of her top 10's are indeed 10/10 songs, such a shame Sky won't feature here I wonder what kept it off? :o

I've just had a look at what did keep it off, and I won't spoil it here but it's a very good dance choon that very much deserved #1 over Sonique :dancing:

 

I really like 'It Feels So Good' anyway, amazing chart run for 2000 standards too!!!