Genuinely don’t remember this song at all listening to it for the first time, I was probably too young though 😂

Incredibly awful track, what a perfect way to start this thread :D Though I do credit it for using the underused phrase of 'take that', the boyband rather overshadowed that phrase's utility a bit.

 

The writeups are excellent Dan, loving the effort.

Ok, so the 21 year old me absolutely loved this to the point where me and a few other Buzzjackers predicted at the time it would be the first #1 of the 2010s - it was one of the very last songs I bought on CD single along with ‘Bad Romance’ at the end of 2009! Annoyingly the radio edit cuts out the best bit of the song that’s intact on the video version (the long build-up at the start) so to make the video mix you’d have to edit it in from the full version which I never bothered to do. I’ve seen Wiley “live” twice (V2012 and Reading 2017) but he just mimed to the original songs which was a bit underwhelming and the crowd was pretty toxic.

 

I’ll probably bow out of this thread by around the end of 2014 as the start of the decade was peak clubbing era for me (when they’d play I Gotta Feeling about three times a night and tease the opening riff at random points between other songs) but once I turned about 26 I know less and less songs and my social life changed. But I’m more than happy to revisit the first half of the decade and if the next song is what I think it is it’s a proper evocative banger!

Mediocre start to the decade with that track.

 

Great write up though.

What an opener :cheeseblock: Take That is so crazy messy I love it

The next dance number one will be up tomorrow night and it will be posted by me. I certainly have a tough act to follow with that extensive dan G write up on Take That.

That's an immense write-up Dan! Loving your dedication, especially to a track which I have little to no recollection of at all. I will be keenly following this thread though as I did still buy a lot of dance CD singles around this time like Sub Focus and (although I imagine it's too pop for this countdown, Example). I was living in Lincoln at the time and remember killing a lot of time browsing the (at the time) decent singles racks at the HMV there in town so this'll probably bring back a lot of memories of that and walking up and down steep hill in the snow..

 

Wearing My Rolex remains a banger.

great to see you all liking the commentary so far

 

can’t guarantee such extensive write ups the whole way thru but we’ll see

Sidney Samson ft Wizard Sleeve - Riverside (Let's Go)

 

 

Date 10th Jan 2010

4 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-3-5-5-13-17-23-30-40-39-42-46-49-67-76-77-66-67 [10 weeks top 40]

 

 

Electro and hip house continue on our list with this higher charting dance song. Yes these two dance subgenres were certainly popular in the UK charts again in 2010, as they were back in 2007, before arguably being a bit less of a chart force in 2008 and 2009 in favour of eurodance and progressive house. Sidney Samson is from the Netherlands, which will turn out to be one of the main countries where 2010's dance producers have been from. Yes the Netherlands does seem to have its moment in the spotlight in the early 2010s especially when it comes to dance hits after neighbouring Belgium did in 2002 as we mentioned on the 00's dance forum. As it had already been a hit in Europe and Australia in 2009 and got a lot of airplay in the UK December 2009 and early January 2010, it entered the chart at #2 when it was released on 4th January 2010. It charted in Europe and Australia in 2009 without the additional vocal by Wizard Sleeve, an alternative hip hop group from Miami. Indeed Riverside (Let's Go) is essentially a mashup between the mostly instrumental Riverside and a 2008 song by Wizard Sleeve called 'Me Plus You' released on independent dance label Southern Fried Records.

 

 

 

That's the first time I have heard 'Me Plus You' and I really like its early 90s rave influenced production-meets-bass house. I am not sure whether this is the original Me Plus You by Wizard Sleeve or a remix of it by this group Black Noise as on the wikipedia page doesn't mention Black Noise as being on the track alongside Wizard Sleeve but this is the only version I could find.

 

Anyway, back to Riverside (Let's Go) and in the track notably the synths are quite high pitched for the electro-house genre, Wikipedia defines it as 'Dutch house' which has 'a lower emphasis on basslines and squeaky, high-pitched lead synths'. The genre is also is defined as 'having complex rhythms made from Latin-influenced drum kits'. You can certainly hear this influence in the percussion in the buildup to the chorus.

 

Riverside samples a line, "Riverside, motherf***er!" from Tupac Shakur from the film Juice. The swear word has been removed in the Riverside (Let's Go) version and replaced with Wizard Sleeve saying 'Let's Go'.

 

I certainly remember Riverside (Let's Go) from the time, it was on the music channels a lot, and although I might have liked the instrumental, sadly being still in secondary school I found it a bit annoying with its maths-based lyrics. After somewhat liking the disco based dance music styles of the mid 00s, I was no longer really into dance music at the time, that only started really at the end of 2010 with a certain track which I will mention later on. I do like Riverside (Let's Go) more now though, although I do still see it as more of a fun novelty track rather than something to take that seriously.

 

Notably the video for Riverside (Let's Go) uses shapes-inside-shapes, which the video for Calvin Harris' Ready For The Weekend also did with its circles; in Riverside (Let's Go)'s case these are rectangular art portraits.

 

As for Sidney Samson, his career started at the age of 13 focusing on hip hop music first before starting to produce house music from 1999 onwards. After the success of Riverside, while he had no further hits to this day in the UK, he continued to have occasional top 100 hits in his home country and a few other countries up to 2016, his second biggest hit being 2016's Celebrate the Rain ft Eva Simons, making #23 in the Netherlands. He is still releasing tracks today with two new tracks featuring iconic 00s dance vocalist Tara McDonald. As for Wizard Sleeve, they are apparently still releasing new music too.

 

At four weeks this is quite a long running dance number 1. Will it be 2010's longest running dance #1?

Edited August 7, 20213 yr by sn👠ke

This looks like something to look forward to, certainly the first part of the decade had some incredible dance songs (and a heaping of trash as well like that one just posted granted x) and I guess there was occasional standouts in the second part x Great effort with the commentary.

I am just thinking that perhaps we will find during the course of this thread that it was a common occurrence during the 2010's that mostly instrumental dance tracks could become hits in Europe without a vocal, but in UK they seemed to require an additional vocal.

Great effort so far! I actually bought the CD single of ‘Take That’ at the time :lol: that has not held up as a big favourite although I applaud the production for going in hard in places. ‘Riverside (Let’s Go)’ is very NOISY as well.

 

I agree that ‘Wearing My Rolex’ is still a tune.

Hey, I never knew that Wizard Sleeve's part came from a previously-existing song, or that they're a group. According to their Discogs bio, 'Me Plus You' was "produced by Aquasky aka Black Noise" so perhaps that is the original.

 

I knew 'Riverside' from the original being a (very unusual!) hit here in mid-2009, but I did hear the vocal version in early 2010 too and I'm equally a fan of both. FYI, the swear does still exist in the explicit '(Let's Go)' version. Funnily, he later had a minor Australian hit called 'Let's Go', with no relation to 'Riverside (Let's Go)' (something something Cher - Strong Enough and Faith Hill - The Way You Love Me).

Riverside does feel very of its time but there's some great rhythm in the way they meld the production with Wizard Sleeve's bars that I've always liked. And them getting this song popular seems very much in the same wave of popularity that granted Roll Deep its hits, though those were a bit more palatable to mainstream radio.

 

Definitely remember the original of 'Riverside' far more in offline life as predictably (for Year 11 students) everyone around me just focused on the rude version.

So glad to see this thread! I loved following/catching up on the 1990s and 2000s threads :D Interested to see what is counted as dance further down the line (including one upcoming top 10 hit from this year). Great, informative writeups as per usual, Take That & Riverside are bangers *.*

Example - Won't Go Quietly

 

 

Date 7th Feb 2010

4 Weeks

Official Chart Run 6-9-10-16-21-27-45-64-56-62-61-67-x(11)-42-47-70-x [15 weeks]

 

 

Continuing the trend of rap-influenced dance hits, we have 'Won't Go Quietly' - the title track of Example's second studio album (UK #4). Following 2007's 'What We Made', a hip-hop album that didn't get any commercial success, Example re-invented himself as a dance act to break into the mainstream, signing to Data Records - a subsidiary of Ministry of Sound. 'Watch The Sun Come Up' became his first hit in October 2009 peaking at #19 with this released as the follow-up, becoming the first of 8 top ten singles he would get. The song also made it to the year-end list at #94.

 

Both singles up to this point were produced by The Fearless (Alex Smith and Matt Furmidge). They don't appear to have produced anything of note as a duo besides these and the Olly Murs #1 hit 'Heart Skips A Beat'. The album also featured production from recognisable names such as Calvin Harris, MJ Cole, Sub Focus, Chase & Status and Don Diablo – one of them producing what would be his follow-up single, but more on that later.

 

'Won't Go Quietly' is mostly sung but features a little bit of rapping, something that would be common in future singles of his. Unlike 'Riverside' and 'Take That' beforehand it has the structure of a pop song and is more inspired by the electropop trend of the time than actual house or rap music, although there is a bit of a house beat to it during the hook sections. Lyrically it is about Example getting close to a lady who he knows is bad news but goes for it anyway.

 

Either way it was certainly marketed as a dance track, and if this didn't count the four weeks would've only been taken up by 'Riverside' again. With the decade's start being such a bleak time for dance it still kept its #1 position being as low as #27 in the main singles chart - this is the lowest it gets in the thread.

 

It is not one of his big signature songs, and not a song I often revisit, but taking a look at his chart history I would say it is still one of his overall best efforts. It is reasonably well-remembered for a decade-old hit of its average size - having 10 million streams on Spotify, currently his 7th most popular song behind his three biggest hits and three songs from his newer material.

 

Example got his stage name from his own initials E.G. [Elliot Gleave] - commonly used to mean 'for example', after having studied Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has now released 7 studio albums however his last hit single was in 2014. He'll feature a couple more times in this thread before then.

That Example era really did produce some exceptional singles. I still love listening to them now which I can't say about the album that followed.

'Won't Go Quietly' is still my favourite Example song, tune! I had no idea that he dabbled with a hip-hop album pre-fame *_*

I remember the beat from "Take That" was originally used in Chew Fu bootleg of Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

'Won't Go Quietly' is still my favourite Example song, tune! I had no idea that he dabbled with a hip-hop album pre-fame *_*

 

I remember discovering a couple of years ago that he released an answer track to Lily Allen's Smile back in 2006 that didn't chart.