I find 'I Found U' a bit of a mess tbh (although I still like it)...I think this one flows a lot better. Also the breakdown at 2:02 is very atmospheric (reminds me a bit of the breakdown from Oliver Heldens' and co's Can't Stop Playing in 2015).

'Feel The Vibe' is an absolute TUNE. Should've been way bigger than that really, one of my faves of the decade with its power vocals and energetic production.

I'll have to give it a listen with fresh ears, must be at least a decade since I last heard it tbf

'Feel The Vibe' is an absolute TUNE. Should've been way bigger than that really, one of my faves of the decade with its power vocals and energetic production.

 

Yes wish I could remember it more from the time (although I do remember it a bit). The one after the next one is definitely imo one of the best dance tunes of 2005. Not that the next one isn't good though, it is one I remember a lot from the time and entered the chart on the last week of Crazy Frog being dance number 1, and as it is a quiet week for dance in the chart, it has its week at dance number 1 next.

Uniting Nations - You and Me

 

 

Date:21st August 2005

Weeks at #1: 1 week

Official Chart Run: 15-17-21-22-36-55-70-85 (8 weeks)

 

 

This track I heard a lot of at the time, it really seemed to be everywhere, and is a eurodance/funky house looped dance track. This sort of eurodance based on 80s/retro influence was becoming quite popular, and the likes of Sunblock, Cahill and Star Pilots would have hits with this sort of style throughout the rest of the decade.

 

The video is a typical sexualised mid 00s dance video, this time set in an office during a heatwave apparently. More than a bit :mellow: but I do like the bit with the man speaking at the office meeting with what seems like an earthquake going on.

 

That man is Craig Powell, the singer for the band, his vocal style is a bit reminiscent of Rick Astley I think, and I certainly like the retro style vocal.

 

The song samples the instrumental of Much Love To Give by Freeloaders vs The Real Thing, mostly for some of the background synths, but it adds different production to it like acoustic guitar and also some slightly tropical sounding synths for the fade outs.

 

I think its a great uplifting dance tune, and I did really like it at the time and found it very catchy. It's not unlike the likes of Galantis' Love On Me this decade imo in terms of style with retro influence, looped vocals and in terms of being a rather cheesy but uplifting house track.

 

Uniting Nations had one last hit with a cover of Ai No Corrida (ft Laura More) (reaching #18) which I also remember and has more of a Shapeshifters style production to it (which was becoming a bit of a trend but one I liked). It also was notable for not having a sexualised video, unlike the other Uniting Nations hits). However it won't be appearing as a dance number 1, and so we say farewell to Uniting Nations here.

I never knew that Uniting Nations actually had two more top 20 hits until recently. At the time 'Out Of Touch' felt like a big hit but I didn't recall any follow-ups, mainly because by the time 'You & Me' had charted I was out of the country (moved to Australia at the end of July '05) but the chart run suggests it was a blink and you miss it hit anyway.

You and Me , like Back To Basics by The Shapeshifters and Feelin Fine by Ultrabeat, really seemed to be everywhere at their time of release because of the radio and music channel interest after their respective first big hits.

 

You and Me's chart run was quite good for the time for a #15 peaking and debuting hit, five weeks in all top 40, 4 of them top 25.

 

It, like Feel The Vibe (although You and Me isn't quite as good as that tune imo) should have debuted top 10 imo (especially considering how much airplay it got) but we are reaching that point in 2005 where dance music was underperforming chartwise as Billy H has said before.

 

You and Me thankfully I heard more than saw the awful music video for at the time, and its one of the tunes I remember most from 2005. I am glad it made dance number 1, I do think it is as good as Out Of Touch was.

Edited April 28, 20178 yr by Вuzzjack

Yes the music video may have been awful..... I don't think. It's sexy.

Yes the music video may have been awful..... I don't think it's sexy.

 

Edited your post in the quote, I am guessing this is what you meant to write!

 

Yes the music video for it is the pits, it really fails in its already rather :mellow: aim of making a supposedly 'sexy' video imo, it is awful (apart from the earthquake bit with the table).

 

A great tune let down by an awful video but that's a common theme for many dance songs in the mid 00s.

Edited April 28, 20178 yr by Вuzzjack

Going to post the next track tomorrow as tbh, the progression of this thread's on my mind, ain't no point in me wasting time!

Freemasons ft Amanda Wilson - Love On My Mind

 

 

Date:28th August 2005

Weeks at #1: 1 week

Official Chart Run: 11-21-26-34-48-76 (6 weeks)

 

 

This is the debut hit for Freemasons, who are a production duo from Brighton, United Kingdom. The act consists of producers Russell Small (one half of Phats and Small who had a few hits in the late 90s) and James Wiltshire (who also worked with Phats and Small under the alias 'Jimmy Gomez').

 

Both Freemasons and Phats and Small are best known for working in the funky/disco house subgenre, although two of the later Freemasons hits: Uninvited (featuring Bailey Tzuke) and Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer) (featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor) veer away from the subgenre.

 

Love On My Mind is however a heavily disco influenced dance song. Its lyrics cover two songs 'This Time Baby' by Jackie Moore from 1979 and the 1999 song 'When the Heartache is Over' by Tina Turner. In being a funky house mashup between two other songs it is rather a similar idea to Salsoul Nugget by M&S Presents The Girl Next Door, and like that track it has an instrumental part near the middle (in the radio edit not the video version though) where it changes music briefly before returning to the melody. The video is rather similar to the one for Salsoul Nugget too showing people dancing on a disco style dancefloor.

 

The production has the mix of violins and horns that were becoming a popular combination (as was also demonstrated with Inaya Day's 'Nasty Girl' a month or so before) since the success of Lola's Theme by The Shapeshifters in summer 2004. However this tune is a lot more bass heavy than most mid 00s funky house songs.

 

Amanda Wilson is the featured vocalist in the song and she will appear on the next Freemasons song 'Watchin', which, as many Buzzjackers know is one of my personal favourite of the 00s for me. :wub: Although Love On My Mind is not too far behind too.

 

Amanda Wilson is also in the video, which, thankfully, unlike most mid 00s dance videos is not over sexualised, however the music video for the next Freemasons hit is sadly.

 

I remember Love On My Mind and I liked it at the time, it stood out from the other funky house songs around in the mid 00s by being deeper in pitch in vocal and in the instrumental than most. I particularly remember hearing a snippet of it on the TV at the time for an advert for a Ministry Of Sound dance compilation, but I was already familiar with hearing the full song I remember. Certainly I remember thinking how much better this sort of dance music was to the old eurotrance, but of course I like both now, how my musical opinions have changed. :lol:

 

Freemasons will be back at dance number 1 with another two songs later in the thread, along with some different featured vocalists.

Two more dance tracks entered the charts that week.

 

 

#12 - One place below Love On My Mind, thank goodness Love On My Mind got the dance number 1 that week, although this isn't too bad though, the Crazy Frog's vocal is going into The Fox by Ylvis chorus territory in terms of style on this one. Production wise it is a cover of the instrumental of one of the first electronic music hits in the UK, Popcorn (originally by Gershon Kingsley in 1969) and covered by Hot Butter in 1972 who made it a number 5 UK hit). Like Axel F, the Crazy Frog version of this falls into the genre of eurodance. I think I remember this one, mostly from snippets of it from adverts on music channels rather than the full song as it was marketed as a ringtone by Jamster too, like Axel F was.

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? - #20 - I'm not going to mention the name of this other dance entry to the UK chart as it is a future dance number 1 on this thread. Don't remember it from this time I don't think (maybe vaguely), thought wrongly it was a new track the second time it charted.

Edited April 30, 20178 yr by Вuzzjack

I think its danG's turn to post the next one if I'm not mistaken, which perhaps more than even the Crazy Frog was everywhere at the time of its release!

Edited April 30, 20178 yr by Вuzzjack

I adore Love On My Mind...iirc this release was heavily delayed as I definitely remember it getting heavy TV airplay in early 2005, yet it took until the summer to chart.

Edited April 30, 20178 yr by gooddelta

I think its danG's turn to post the next one if I'm not mistaken, which perhaps more than even the Crazy Frog was everywhere at the time of its release!

Really? I know it was on an advert but I can't imagine it was half as prominent as Crazy Frog.

I adore Love On My Mind...iirc this was the second release for the song. I'm sure it was first given a push in early 2005, but did nothing despite decent TV airplay at the time. Clearly it went much better for them with the second push in the summer.

 

Didn't know that happened :o

 

Love On My Mind, of course I am a fan of, as with most mid 00s dance songs, even though I liked it back then I do appreciate it more now than I did at the time.

 

It's less cheesy sounding than a lot of 00s vocal funky house songs too (largely down to the lower pitched production and Amanda Wilson's deeper and more mellow vocal).

 

Was a big fan of her vocal on Seek Bromance of course too in 2010. Before I learnt the reality of Tim Berg, I wondered why he never had a follow up to that song!

Edited April 30, 20178 yr by Вuzzjack

Really? I know it was on an advert but I can't imagine it was half as prominent as Crazy Frog.

 

But the advert was on loads iirc, that's what I meant.

the Crazy Frog advert was literally on every 2 seconds though!

the Crazy Frog advert was literally on every 2 seconds though!

 

Only if you were watching music channels usually though iirc, the advert for the next was on every channel!

 

The next one also returns a top 10 song in the chart to dance number 1, after a month of no dance songs in the top 10.

Edited April 30, 20178 yr by Вuzzjack

Les Rhythmes Digitales - Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)

 

 

Date: 4th September 2005

Weeks at #1: 1 week

Official Chart Run (1999): 60-x (1 week)

Official Chart Run (2005): 9-13-21-28-45-65-x (6 weeks)

 

 

Les Rhythmes Digitales was one of many personas adopted by British producer Stuart Price, from Reading, England. The name refers to the explosion of the French house scene as kickstarted largely by Daft Punk, and he used the alias to produce in this genre. The song itself has little to no distinguishable lyrics and is based around a vocal sample from 'Loose Booty' by Sly & The Family Stone, whilst the song title refers to 'Jack Your Body' by Steve "Silk" Hurley, a UK number one hit in 1987.

 

"Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat)" was originally released in 1997, peaking at #100. It got re-released in 1999, peaking at #60 - this was following three other top 100 hits. He'd have no more hits after that re-release... until its re-re-release in 2005 following its usage in a popular TV advertisement for the Citroën C4, where it was picked up by Ministry of Sound's Data Records. The advert, linked above, sees the car transform into a giant human-like robot and dance to 'Jacques Your Body'.

 

The song was included in his second and last album as LRD titled 'Darkdancer, released in 1999. No more new releases under this alias would follow, even after the renewed success of 'Jacques Your Body'. He went on to become a very successful producer however, collaborating with Madonna to write and produce her very successful album 'Confessions On A Dancefloor' (2005). He also produced or co-produced many other albums by big artists, including The Killers' 'Day & Age' (2008), Scissor Sisters' 'Night Work' (2010), Kylie Minogue's 'Aphrodite' (2010), Take That's 'Progress' (2010), Pet Shop Boys' 'Electric' (2013) and 'Super' (2016). He has also remixed many songs using a number of his aliases, most notably Thin White Duke and Jacques Lu Cont.