Oh well I daren't say we'll be seeing the like in this thread in good time ;) the disco house revival is very much something I'm looking forward to following here!

 

There has been a kind of one this year too (The Girl is Mine (this one is so much like the last two tunes that make it on to the thread for 2004), Sugar by Robin Schulz, Peanut Butter Jelly (good instrumental although the vocals are terrible for this), Cry by Sigma and Take That (although that is more drum and bass admittedly), Clean Bandit and Louisa) so that is good. Also Bakermat - Living is great too, although it isn't a hit yet.

The Trouble With Me is awful.

'You See the Trouble With Me' is great but seems like a very bizarre #1 looking back, especially as it beat a far more iconic dance song to the top in the process (which we will be seeing in the thread shortly). I imagine it was one of those songs that clubs and Radio 1 nighttime hyped for months before its release anyway so it must have been popular - though I wasn't there at the time.

At least the UK was spared of an even worse treatment of a well-known song as the follow-up single. Other countries were not so lucky.

 

 

"Somebody" is easily the best Black Legend track, which is not saying much.

 

 

 

'You See the Trouble With Me' is great but seems like a very bizarre #1 looking back, especially as it beat a far more iconic dance song to the top in the process (which we will be seeing in the thread shortly). I imagine it was one of those songs that clubs and Radio 1 nighttime hyped for months before its release anyway so it must have been popular - though I wasn't there at the time.

 

They could have done a much better remix ie. keeping the song the same and adding a beat like what they did with another disco legend's song in 2006. :)

 

I do remember the song, and I didn't like it because I knew the Barry White song and wondered why more of it wasn't in the song.

 

There is a worse remix of a really classic 60s song (whose singer sounds quite a bit like Florence Welch) in early 2004 although the video is amazing for it.

At least the UK was spared of an even worse treatment of a well-known song as the follow-up single. Other countries were not so lucky.

 

 

"Somebody" is easily the best Black Legend track, which is not saying much.

 

 

I disagree, just heard Somebody for the first time it is a great tune. It's like Duck Sauce's songs, especially with that video too.

Darude-Sandstorm

 

 

Date 2nd July 2000

1 Weeks

Official Chart Run 80-3-3-5-9-9-11-11-16-18-19-25-26-36-47-54

 

 

Darude is a Finnish DJ and for this track he collaborated with the producer of another Finnish act which had a massive hit in the early 2000s, The Bomfunk MCs.

 

Of course I knew this song in 2000 and kind of liked it too but had no idea what it was called or who wrote it. I actually rediscovered it a few years ago because of a spam comment someone wrote on a video for a song on youtube. Apparently it is not the only Darude - Sandstorm related spam comment that has ever been made on the internet.

 

When i was searching for this track on OCC apparently there was another trance track in 2000 called The Return Of Nothing by a group called Sandstorm, sadly it only reached number 58 so it wont feature on this thread. There was also according to OCC an original track called Sandstorm by Cast in 1996 which reached number 8 but that was by a Britpop band. Sorry for sounding like Suedehead2 here (although that is a good thing, he is the king of Buzzjack).

 

Anyway, Sandstorm is instrumental futuristic trance, one of the few purely instrumental tracks that does make it into our thread. It was one of the biggest trance hits worldwide ever although it only reached number 83 in America, meaning it was the second biggest trance song there after a cover of a 90s power ballad by a trance act (which will appear on this thread), which reached number 8 there. In the UK it sold in excess of 600,000 copies. Maybe by 2050 it might become a million seller, although judging how sales are going down now that seems unlikely.

 

By the way, for those who wonder, Darude was named after a song by Leila K called Rude Boy (for which he got the name Rude Boy, later corrupted to Da Rude and then Darude) which he played several time to a friend in Turku Polytechnic where he was studying music production.

Edited July 28, 20168 yr by danG

600,000 sales? When was that revealed?

 

 

I got the info from Wikipedia. I hope it is right.

 

Anyway Sandstorm is great, so futuristic and probably the second most iconic trance track after Faithless-Insomnia. I remember hearing it a lot and I didn't mind it, whereas most other dance music in 2000 I didn't like at the time because I mostly listened to pop music (apart from Jennifer Lopez- Waiting For Tonight and the Sonique track)

Edited July 28, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Sandstorm :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

An all time classic, and I loved it way before it became an Internet meme too.

I got the info from Wikipedia. I hope it is right.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_in_British_music_charts

 

 

Only 4 tracks sold more that 600,000 in 2000. Sandstorm was the 26th best selling single.

Sandstorm must have sold a lot of downloads though? Maybe not enough to push it past 600k but with its status it must have got a fair few trickle sales

'Sandstorm' was certified Platinum in October last year. That will include streams of course but it probably isn't that far from 600k in physicals/downloads.

 

 

'Sandstorm' was certified Platinum in October last year. That will include streams of course but it probably isn't that far from 600k in physicals/downloads.

 

 

:cool:

It took AGES for the Black Legend song to click with me, it just seemed like such a random hit that sounded unfinished/demo-ish. However, that pulsating beat eventually wormed its way into my affections. :music:

 

'Sandstorm' on the other hand was love at first listen :wub:

I forget all these classics came from 2000 and how vintage and diverse a year for dance music it was - Flowers, It Feels so Good, The Time is Now, Don't Call me Baby have all aged so well, though Dankstorm Sandstorm is the best of them, don't get trance much better than that :heart:

 

I do echo the disdain for Bound 4 Da Reload and You See The Trouble with Me, both too reliant on gimmicks to actually stand alone as great songs, a bit like a lot of today's dance music 'reinventing classics'

Artful Dodger ft Robbie Craig and Craig David - Woman Trouble

 

 

Date 9th July 2000

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run6-7-14-19-25-35-36-45-59-66

 

 

The third track from the Southampton based garage duo, this, like Re-Rewind, features Craig David and the Jamiroquai-ish vocals of Robbie Craig. The song is a mix of UK Garage and funky house.

 

Robbie Craig's vocals are so Jamiroquai like, and the music is too, so I genuinely thought this was a Jamiroquai song until I did this thread. :lol: Mind you there were quite a few songs that featured Jamiroquai like vocals during the early 2000s including Starlight by Supermen Lovers and of course by 2004, an American soft rock band named after a colour and a number had a hit with their singer that also sounded like Jamiroquai. :huh:

 

Now Robbie Craig is a new member of the reformed East 17 according to Wikipedia.

 

The video doesn't feature the perennially serious looking Artful Dodger and also doesn't feature Craig David or Robbie Craig. It is set in an office. In the 2005 part of the thread we will see another video set in an office with MUCH more casually dressed workers.

Oh I'm so glad Sandstorm sneaked in for one week on this count. I was worried it wouldn't with so many #1 dance tracks around. Biggest Finnish track ever I believe

I never really liked all this Jamiroqai-ish stuff around in the early 2000s at the time, like this Artful Dodger track.

 

But now I really like it, one of my favourite garage songs ever as it is uplifting and doesn't have the sad sounding zylophones or acoustic guitar in it like most garage songs did (like in Moving Too Fast for example).

 

Also there is much funky house influence so that is good :)

 

'you see the trouble with me' is one of my faves from 2000 ~ that bassline *.* ~ immense jam :dance: :music: :dance:

 

'sandstorm' is an all-time classic of epic proportions :wub: :dance: :wub: