If the junk food comment is alluding to Fast Food Rockers then that's definitely a pop song. It's in the same league as Steps and Scooch, watered down dance production but marketed as cheesy pop and from the SAW leftover production line (think it was Mike Stock involved in this one).

 

Ignore me if you're talking about something else of course :lol:

The junk food comment does refer to Fast Food Rockers yes, I've always thought of it as a dance song but listening to it again it's no more dancey than Scooch and we recently decided that wouldn't be eligible.

 

I definitely think Crazy Frog should stay in but I'll have a chat with Ethan and TheSnake about Fast Food, O-Zone and The Cheeky Girls (opinions on those would be great too)

Agnes is definitely not dance.

 

The one that is closest to dance is probably Hung Up, the structure of the track is quite typical for a dance track. But it still probably shouldn't feature.

Edited July 28, 20168 yr by dandy*

Crazy Frog - in

Cheeky Girls - in

 

O-zone out

Fast Food Rockers out

Agnes is definitely not dance.

 

The one that is closest to dance is probably Hung Up, the structure of the track is quite typical for a dance track. But it still probably shouldn't feature.

 

 

Agreed. Again, I wouldn't have objected but happy that it's not in,

Sandstorm? I'm sure I've heard that some place before :thinking:

 

(MAJOR :heart: which goes without saying of course).

 

Woman Trouble? I literally have no recollection of that & it's clear I'm not missing out on much...

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.

 

The guy behind Sandstorm (the artist) was Mark Picchiotti, who also charted under the name Basstoy.

 

There was also a hit called Sunstorm in 2000 (a #38 hit for Hurley & Todd), which was a re-working of Elton John's Song For Guy.

Don't forget the

too, not dance in the slightest but a Britpop classic :P (even though I prefer Walkaway)

 

Sunstorm is also definitely worth

, quite forgotten now but I listened to it a lot during sleepless nights as a mid-noughties teen.

 

What the hell, while we're on underrated trance classics, here's another from 2000...

(#35 in May 2000)

Crazy Frog - in

Cheeky Girls - in

 

O-zone out

Fast Food Rockers out

 

But Crazy Frog keeps out two great dance tunes. One of them a excellent disco house song and the other very underground sounding tech house.

Inaya Day -Nasty Girl and Audio Bullys- Shot You Down

 

 

Besides, who else thinks that 3oh3 song is dance because I've never heard anyone refer to it as a dance song until you did, TheSnake.

 

It is watered down electro house with a dubstep drop in the chorus. I would call Starstrukk dance. But I suppose if Madonna isnt included then it shouldnt be.

 

Just checked, Give It 2Me wouldnt have made it to dance number 1 of it was eligable but what a tune that was.

 

Well the point of this thread is to highlight tracks from dance producers and groups rather than pop singers that happened to jump on the dance trend such as Kylie and Madonna. Spinning Around I'd say is too dancepop for this thread, though even I myself was conflicted over whether Hung Up should be included, and in the end decided against it as it is a pop song at heart and it would have been marketed as such.

 

So Crazy Frog shouldnt be included either as it wasnt marketed as a dance song but as a novelty pop song and it stops two great tunes from being at number 1 on.the dance chart.

Edited July 28, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Also:

I had never heard 'It Feels So Good' as a kid, despite how the facts show it was huge, but it's become one of my favourite dance tracks since discovering it a few years back. It's got that perfect mix of creating both an exciting and dark atmosphere; the production and vocals are just spellbinding.

 

You see the trouble with 'You See the Trouble With Me' is that it doesn't go anywhere. It sounds like some dodgy quality live recording which just mutes any excitement the song could possibly produced. I don't understand why people would have felt persuaded to go out and buy this to the point it could hit #1; I can only assume there were some pretty fantastic remixes about.

 

It's completely gone over my head as to why 'Sandstorm' is such an internet sensation. I'm going to hazard a guess that it's seen as a bad record but is undeniably catchy which makes it the perfect song to troll people with? Anyway, I don't know much about dance history but I'd say it feels slightly ahead of its time because it sounds like it is taken right out of the peak of Clubland-appropriate music and Basshunter.

 

Like most of Craig David's music, 'Walking Away' had little impact on me.

 

-x-

 

(I've put some songs in spoilers because I wasn't sure whether they'd count as spoilers or not)

 

As for Kylie's 'Spinning Around' being brought up, I've never considered that a dance track. It certainly has influences, like the majority of Kylie's discography, but is very much pop at its heart.

'Can't Get You Out of My Head'

sounds slightly more dance territory but, again, is mostly pop. As for the song that Dan teased could appear (

'In My Arms'

) that sounds very pop to me too, despite who produced it. I've always associated the song with the one that was released before it,

'Wow'

, which I think is also pop.

 

In regards to 'Hung Up', that's largely disco thanks to the ABBA hook but it's not dance in the same way the tracks included on this countdown are. If we look at some of the factors brought up in this thread as to what separates dance records to non-dance record, it was marketed as a pop song and was produced by Stuart Price who seems to work mostly with pop artists that dabble in dance music. Also, if the likes of 'Vogue' (referred to as one of the key songs for bringing house music to the mainstream), 'Justify My Love' (triphop) and 'Ray of Light' (looking at Wiki: electronica, rave, trance) weren't included in the 90s thread, then I don't think Madonna should appear here. The closest I can find to dance from Madonna singles of the 2000s is

'Celebration'

, produced by

Paul Oakenfold

and remixed for the single by

Benny Benassi

.

 

Madonna and Kylie's music is very club appropriate (as shown by their string of US Club Dance Play #1s) which is why there's some confusion as to whether it's more pop or dance leaning.

 

'Starstrukk', 'AM to PM', 'Fast Food Song', 'Dragostea din tei' and 'The Cheeky Song' are not dance songs. The latter three are novelty pop with only slight influences of dance (Eurodance) I think but definitely not fitting of this thread. Thinking back to the 90s, 'Cotton Eye Joe' and '5, 6, 7, 8' seem to be more dance than they are, were they included or would they have been applicable to the 90s thread? I'm kinda siding with dance for 'Axel F' but it is in a similar sort of category as the aforementioned so perhaps not. I've always seen it more as a ringtone than a song anyway.

Sandstorm was an amazing track

 

for me, Agnes, Kylie, Cheeky Girls, all pure pop even if you can dance to the songs, that doesn't make them dance tracks

 

 

So Crazy Frog shouldnt be included either as it wasnt marketed as a dance song but as a novelty pop song and it stops two great tunes from being at number 1 on.the dance chart.

 

 

I dont see why it matters how many dance tracks are stopped.

Liam,

In My Arms

won't be appearing, I was actually teasing

a Dannii Minogue song

.

I dont feel I can defend the Cheeky Girls as a dance outfit but the cheeky song reminds me of Whigfield's Saturday Night.

“Bound 4 Da Reload” was fun - the hilarity of a cool urban song blasting out of car stereos in pimped out cars whilst incorporating the theme tune to Casulty mixed in was genius. Clearly Oxide & Neutrino had been reading the KLF book about how to get a number 1 record!

 

Holby City to be featured on Skepta's new single?

 

Re: Sonique - you neglected to mention that she was featured on Josh Wink's “Higher State Of Consciousness” (a dance chart number 1 from 1995!) Great song tho. As for Sandstorm. *.*

I wonder, will I ever see TheSnake post the next dance number one? :kink:

Alice Deejay - Will I Ever

 

 

Date 23rd July 2000

1 Weeks

Official Chart Run7-8-9-17-22-28-38-41-60-73

 

 

OK we are now firmly entering eurodance territory with this one. Alice Deejay is a pop trance project formed by DJ Jurgen, who is now working as a radio host for Fresh FM in the Netherlands, where is in amazing company, with Ferry Corsten and Paul Van Dyk also part of the radio station's schedule of DJs. If these three occasionally play their own material (or each others) which can be presumed, it must be one of the only major radio stations in the world to still regularly play trance music, which has largely gone back underground now.

 

Anyway Alice Deejay rather dismissively titled his album 'Who Needs Guitars Anyway'. Fellow dance producer Robin Schulz may disagree with him on that and anyway there are a couple of dance tracks on this countdown which do contain guitars including one classic track a few years later which was rumoured to be (source Scott Mills' radio 1 show) a royal wedding favourite with prominent use of electric guitar.

 

Anyway the track is of that lovely gentle subtle production we would hear mostly in 2003 and early 2004 and again in 2008, the cheesy eurodance that my father would call 'boom boom boom' music. In 2004 there was another eurodance act performing under the cheesy name Candee Jay which is ironic as Candee is a female singer and not a DJ, she has two producers which aren't officially part of the act. Perhaps she can DJ in private though....

 

Alice Deejay is one of those acts, like Lukas Graham, Miike Snow and Jethro Tull that actually sound like it is one person but it actually a group.

 

Although this track didn't do badly in the UK, it paled in sales in comparison to the 600,000 of the 1998 debut single by Alice Deejay, Better Off Alone. Alice Deejay would have 2 further top 20 hits in the chart in October 2000 (when Will I Ever also returned to the top 100 for 2 weeks at at number 89 and 87) and February 2001.

 

'Will I Ever' is quite good for what it is, although like 'Back In My Life' which came beforehand it very much pales in comparison to 'Better Off Alone', one of the best eurotrance tracks ever made.