Do you not get the lyrical reference to our next dance number 1? :lol:

I think it's you who doesn't get MY reference here, lol

Just thought I would post some of the tracks making the chart during our next dance number 1 tonight before Lenny does the new entry for the dance number 1!

 

 

#9 - I didn't really like this at the time, as the vocal was too jazzy and 'sexy' sounding to me at the time :kink:. Really like it now though, a great tune to continue the funky house revival of the mid 00s.

 

 

#36 - Despite this one not doing too well in the charts, I do remember this uplifting house/eurodance song at the time and liked it. This version was produced by LMC so this essentially is a follow up to Take Me to The Clouds Above.

 

 

#6 - I do remember this one from the time and liked it (especially the breakdown and fade out on it), although it got tiresome much later in the late 00s and early 10s when it was played so many times as a soundbed on Britain's Got Talent. It is a fun and rather cheesy disco house tune, Galantis' Peanut Butter Jelly was definitely this decade's equivalent of this sort of thing.

 

 

#15 - I may vaguely remember this one from the time, like 'Drop the Pressure' it did well in the charts for not a very commercial sounding track. The instrumental is tech house so a bit musically like the drop in Black Legend - You See The Trouble In Me imo, especially from about halfway through.

 

 

#23 - I liked this one at the time, remember it a lot on the music channels. Very 90s in style in think, particularly reminiscent of 2 Unlimited's style imo.

'Shine' was a major fave of mine back then, such a shame it's so forgotten now in comparison to other dance hits of the time.

'Shine' was a major fave of mine back then, such a shame it's so forgotten now in comparison to other dance hits of the time.

 

I thought when when I looked back at the chart archive for the 00s a few years ago before I listened to it that Shine was the later 2005 top 40 hit Praise Cats - Shined On Me as Shined On Me I heard a lot on late night radio shows and I also remembered it from the time too, so I thought wrongly it had made top 10.

 

Certainly Simon Cowell was doing his best to make sure it was not forgotten, it was played almost every time (or certainly it felt like it) an act got through on Britain's Got Talent for the first couple of series', and it got quite tiresome hearing it!

 

'Attention' is my favourite out of these. It is interesting seeing such a 90s style track with its sort of 2Unlimited reminiscent style appearing. 'Lover' is a very uplifting track too, I like how the beat changes at about 1:27 for a while! Take Me Away is great too, I really like this sort of jazzy sounding house so that was why I had hoped recently that KDA and Tinashe's also very jazzy Just Say would be a hit!

 

 

 

 

 

The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip - Galvanize

 

 

Date 23rd January 2005

4 weeks

Official Chart Run 3-5-7-9-13-27-28-41-58-69-58R(3)-60-71-74-65-70 (16 weeks)

Re-entry (376 weeks later): 67-71 (2 weeks)

(TOTAL: 18 weeks)

 

 

The Chemical Brothers continued to stay very much relevant with the lead single from fifth studio album "Push The Button". At 104BPM, "Galvanize" was not the traditional dance hit we had come to expect from duo, other than that it derived from the norm somewhat. The track featured vocals from rapper Q-Tip (of A Tribe Called Quest, and who had fairly recently himself had a medium sized hit with "Breathe And Stop"), and prominently featured a string sample from Moroccan artist Najat Aatabou's "Hadi Kedba Bayna (Obvious Lie)". Without either, we wouldn't have this unique masterpiece!

 

"Galvanize" was one of the very early big download hits and may have actually had a chance at hitting the UK Singles Chart Number 1 spot had downloads been included at the time. It was top of the UK Download Chart for 4 weeks - the same 4 weeks it topped the dance chart - knocking off Green Day's "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" and eventually being replaced by Stereophonics' "Dakota".

 

The video - shot in black and white in Málaga, Spain - shows three boys wearing clown face paint sneaking into an event they aren't old enough for, initiating a dance off and eventually being caught by the police.

 

"Galvanize" was nominated for multiple awards and won the 2006 Grammy for Best Dance Recording. It was also famously used in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom - directed by Danny Boyle, who decided to celebrate decades of British music history.

 

Parent album "Push The Button" was a number 1 smash hit in the UK, and was awarded gold status by the BPI. This was The Chemical Brothers fourth number 1 album, and not their last. The duo, consisting of Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands, have been together since 1989 and are still going, continuing to experiment with different electronic sounds as they did with "Galvanize". They hit the top of the album charts as recently as 2015, with lead single "Go!" a moderate success.

'Galvanise' is brilliant. Very different from what you'd see in the charts back then, or at any time in history. Boo at it missing #1 officially -_- (just looked up what beat it and of course it was a f*cking Elvis re-issue, well at least that was only #2; Ciara 'Goodies' had #1, I like that song)

 

Really love Q-Tip's rapping in it, he really makes it what it is with his catchy hooks. The production of course is amazing too, they would never better it.

Wow. Some proper throwbacks there.

 

LOVED 'Take Me Away' - perfect follow up to 'Put Em High'. Would've absolutely loved more from Stonebridge and Therese (although I did love 'Freak On' which followed!). The Rachel McFarlane song was decent as was Lovefreekz, and I was a huge fan of 'Attention'. Can't honestly remember the Mylo track though!

Galvanise was great...the drop in particular with the Moroccan string sample (thought it sounded Indian at the time but I didn't know it was actually Moroccan) in it is amazing in it and I really liked it at the time (although it took a couple of weeks to grow on me I remember), it of course was played loads on music channels. Q-Tip's rapping is great too in it, and the song was different to anything else at the time.

 

Go should have definitely made top 40 in 2015, that song was as good as Galvanise imo.

 

Go! was great I thought.

 

Also TWS just to clarify the Sugababes reference was to 'Push The Button' ;)

Edited March 10, 20178 yr by Lenny

“Galvanize” is great - it is one of 3 Chems singles that has made #1 on my personal chart. The others: “Go!” (coincidentally also featuring Q-Tip) in 2015 and “Star Guitar” in 2002.

Go! was great I thought.

 

Also TWS just to clarify the Sugababes reference was to 'Push The Button' ;)

 

Yes I knew that, just didn't think you knew what my reference was referring to :lol:

 

Although I did love Freak On that followed

 

I liked Freak On at the time too, should have done better in the charts than #37. The type of synths in the chorus are similar to those in Shakedown - At Night from 2001, I really like both tracks though.

 

Go! was great, I really liked the 80s influence in the chorus and how it sounded a lot less serious and more lively than the minimal bassline house around at the time.

You mentioned that Galvanize was a download chart number 1 but a lot of other dance songs looking back in the early 2005 archive charted lower than in the physical only official charts for some reason. I am guessing it is the fact that the physical came with the video as BillyH said.

 

Also I remember when I looked at the download archive for early 2005 there seemed to be a week or so's delay in the appearance of dance songs on the download chart from their official appearance in early 2005, I assume that was the song being on legal download a week or so later than release to encourage people to buy it physically the first week to count towards the chart.

 

Also were sales of legal downloads as much as those of physical singles by early 2005?

No downloads were under 10,000 a week in 2005 (I think!)

 

I remember there was a week where Mariah Carey 'We Belong Together' and Elton John 'Electricity' were in the race for number 1 - the latter due to a promotion that meant that if they downloaded 'Electricity' they got tickets to see Billy Elliott The Musical or something like that. But I remember the download figures that week being enough to swing it one way or another. I think. It's so long ago!

The next one sounds a lot production style wise imo like some of the many early 2010s progressive house-pop songs like Good Times by Roll Deep for example (the singer's rather cheesy vocal style in Good Times is similar too).

When I first heard Galvanize - end of '04/beginning of '05, shortly before official release - I'd heard about an upcoming song called 'Strings of Life' and assumed this was the one as it had strings in it! Absolutely fantastic track, amazing to see the Chems so high in the chart this late into their career. Seeing them live in 2011 was a huge highlight for me!

Angel City - Sunrise

 

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Date 20th February 2005

1 week

Official Chart Run 9-23-38-51 (4 weeks)

 

 

The fourth and final UK top 20 hit for Angel City was "Sunrise", which peaked inside the top 10, elevating it to dance number 1 for a week. It did fly out the chart quicker than the sun could even set again, though.

 

It was also taken from the number 44 album "Love Me Right" and featured vocals from Lara McAllen - who was no longer being credited as a featured vocalist, joining Dutch duo Hugo Zentveld (DJ Renegade) and Aldwin Oomen to front the band.

 

Like with their other singles, "Sunrise" was a cover, this time of lesser known Ashiva. The video shows Lara McAllen rolling around on the floor with her legs out accompanied by candlelight, while everyone else is partying and pillow fighting, eating cherries and being downright sordid to be quite frank with you. Not too sure what it has to do with looking at the sunrise, but there we go.

 

Lara McAllen ultimately left the band after this hit, but would return in 2007. However there was no further success for Angel City and they have faded into obscurity.

Now this has got to be one of the most forgotten top ten hits ever. Not that I mind though, it's very below-average for a dance #1.

I couldn't find much more to say about Angel City on top of their last appearance in this list :lol: so mainly focused on the video I'm afraid!

I do find it funny how all the Angel City songs appear as Dance #1s except for their actual biggest hit 'Do You Know (I Go Crazy)' :lol:

I do find it funny how all the Angel City songs appear as Dance #1s except for their actual biggest hit 'Do You Know (I Go Crazy)' :lol:

I thought that too :lol:

 

Does anyone know how the actual official dance chart is/was calculated? "Sunrise" only got to 9 on that!