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 17th July 2018, 01:34 PM
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The original is the best- these pointless reinventions have become increasingly tired and unwelcome, and this doesn't even sound that different to the 1993 original anyway? It's a bit like “Ain't Nobody” and “You've Got The Love” in being re-made so many times, yet each time I care less about it.
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18th July 2018, 02:49 PM
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Can't Get Over is very good, I prefer it to 'Cry For You'.
Show Me Love 2009 is fab, I prefer it to the original, the additional percussion is great in it. Of Robin S's two 1993 hits I prefer Luv 4 Luv. The Sam Feldt cover of 'Show Me Love' I don't rate much, it takes most of the energy out of it. |
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 23rd July 2018, 04:39 PM
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Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone
 Date: 12 April 2009 Weeks at #1: 6 weeks Official Chart Run: 1-1-3-4-4-8-12-14-17-28-29-34-48-54-46-34-39-38-42-40-40-57-67-xx-98-xx-99-xx-69-67-84 (25 weeks top 75 +3 top 100) Calvin Harris was well on to becoming a household name following the release of "I'm Not Alone", the lead single from sophomore album "Ready For The Weekend" - follow up to "I Created Disco" which spawned the singles "Acceptable In The 80s", "The Girls", "Merrymaking At My Place" and "Colours", and post-"Dance Wiv Me", his Dizzee Rascal collaboration. "I'm Not Alone" - first played on BBC Radio 1 by Pete Tong as his 'essential new tune' as early as January of that year (given the April release date) - infused trance with euphoric dance and showed Calvin's creative hand. Calvin made bold moves to get himself to the top, rather than copying everyone elses sound, he wanted to set the trends. He described this track as 'light and shade' with two styles put together - a happy, euphoric feeling juxtaposed with lyrics about loneliness. A number of official remixes for the track were released including from Tiësto, Hervé, deadmau5 and Burns. There was controversy over Chris Brown's 2010 single "Yeah 3x" due to the similarity of the synths to "I'm Not Alone" - Calvin tweeted that he "choked on his Cornflakes" upon hearing the track for the first time... the situation was resolved and Calvin was added as a songwriter for "Yeah 3x". It's a good example to illustrate just how Calvin had become a trendsetter so quickly. The vocals on the track - as usual in his earlier days - were provided by himself. Calvin also produced the track, and is credited for the instrumentation, arrangement, engineering and mixing. Brian Gardner is credited with mastering. The single peaked at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart for 2 weeks, knocking Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" off of the top spot. It has sold upwards of 600,000 copies in the UK. I was absolutely obsessed by this song at the time and Calvin became an idol for me! He's in a ding-dong battle with Lily Allen for my 2nd most listened to artist of all time (well, from 2006 to date) according to last.fm and this track is top of the pile with several hundred plays. This post has been edited by Midge: 23rd July 2018, 04:40 PM |
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23rd July 2018, 04:49 PM
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Say that hiss with your chest, and...
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Strange, the Yeah 3x synths/melody remind me more of Future Breeze's Temple Of Dreams than 'I'm Not Alone'.
Anyway, I wasn't really a fan of 'I'm Not Alone at the time, but I do really like it now. 
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23rd July 2018, 04:52 PM
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Why do today, what you can do tomorrow?
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Still one of Calvin's best imo!
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24th July 2018, 07:40 AM
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1st classic by calvin and one of his best ever
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25th July 2018, 04:24 PM
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Dizzee Rascal vs. Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
 Date: 24 May 2009 Weeks at #1: 2 weeks Official Chart Run: 1-1-2-4-6-9-14-15-19-20-21-30-36-39-30-37-49-55-42-59-69-85-81-90-94-x-100-52-52-93-x-79-92-x-92-x-80-65-31-48-85-x (37 weeks top 100) Following Dizzee's push to a wider mainstream audience with multi-week number one 'Dance Wiv Me' he took ten months to finally release a follow-up. Collaborating with a dance music artist again, he easily got a second number one of what would eventually be five. 'Bonkers' was produced by American Armand Van Helden, who had a long chart career himself including the 1999 #1 single 'You Don't Know Me'. The song instantly went to #1 on sales of 114k, kicking off The Black Eyed Peas, and held it for two weeks before they reclaimed #1 for another week. It eventually got certified platinum for sales of 600k. The song really turned Dizzee into a household name, and he would be a huge chart presence for a short while. Follow-up 'Holiday' which was produced by Calvin Harris became his third #1. Following this he released his fourth album 'Tongue n' Cheek' which peaked at #3 and was certified platinum. At the same time 'Dirtee Cash' (which sampled The Adventures Of Stevie V's similarly named 90s hit) entered the chart and went on to peak at #10, and then #2 in mash-up form with Florence + The Machine's 'You Got The Love', which they performed at the BRITs (a studio version was never recorded but the live version was made available to download and stream). A deluxe edition was released in 2010, with a new single preceding it instantly becoming his fourth #1 ('Dirtee Disco'), and only two weeks later he got his fifth with 'Shout' (featuring James Corden), that year's anthem for the England football team at the World Cup. Both singles spent very little time in the chart though and it became very clear that Dizzee's career had peaked. No more #1 singles came though he managed a few more top 10 hits. His fifth album unimaginatively titled 'The Fifth' was released in 2013 to mixed reviews and poor sales (also achieving only a #10 peak). Following one last failed attempt at mainstream success with a Calvin Harris collab single (2016's 'Hype' fell flat, only achieving a #34 chart position) he quickly returned back to his grime roots for his most recent album, 2017's 'Raskit' (which also made it to #10 and fell quickly). Armand van Helden had further success in the chart as part of Duck Sauce, who had two chart hits in 2009-10. The song's production is a mix of electro and bassline house which helped to accentuate Dizzee's lyrics about his crazy lifestyle. With Dizzee repeating the same verse twice it was most likely intended as a party anthem rather than a showcase of his own talent, though he performs well on this nonetheless. It's a bit of a tune. |
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25th July 2018, 04:35 PM
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Good tune, although it isn't one of my favourite of Armand's as of course I prefer his funky house stuff. At the time 'Bonkers' really reminded me for some reason of the Audio Bullys 'We Don't Care' that was on a Lucozade advert shortly before Bonkers was released!
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25th July 2018, 05:31 PM
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Say that hiss with your chest, and...
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David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over
 Date:21st June 2009 Weeks at #1: 2 weeks Official Chart Run: 7-1-2-4-5-6-6-9-11-16-19-22-28-35-42-44-49-55-65-71-83-85-91 (plus 7 additional later weeks lower half of top 100) (30 weeks top 100) And now for the big summer dance tune of 2009 (or at least one of them)! David Guetta started off with a French house style for 'Just A Little More Love' in 2003 before moving on to electro in 2006. For this song Guetta changes his style again, embracing progressive house, this genre in 2009 was a bit of a trend, as we have seen on this thread with Calvin Harris having a #1 hit with 'You're Not Alone' and elsewhere in the chart in summer 2009 there were progressive house hits from deadmau5 and Chicane. Kelly Rowland was of course one third of the American R&B trio Destiny's Child. This is the first of three dance hits making the top 10 of the UK chart for Kelly, the second another Guetta collab 'Commander' in 2010 and the third a collab with Alex Gaudino in 2011, 'What A Feeling'. Her final UK chart hit to date was the dance influenced 'Down For Whatever' ft the WAVs in 2011. 'When Love Takes Over' has rather nice use of classically influenced piano in parts of the song (as 'Forever' by N-Trance also had, a dance number one on this thread for 2002  ). I also particularly like Kelly Rowland's good use of vocal acrobatics on the 'I' of 'I'll be loving you for all time', going up and down the musical scale. What else can I say about the song, a euphoric summery tune I quite liked at the time but like a lot more now. Notably 'When Love Comes Over' had a cover version in the top 40 in the UK chart the same week as it debuted at #7, the version by British singer Airi L reaching #22. Indeed it was the success of the Airi L version on download sites in the absence of the original which had not been released yet in the UK that prompted an early release of the original song. Anyway the original David Guetta and Kelly Rowland version of the song became a massive hit all over Europe and Australia. Perhaps surprisingly, despite being Kelly a well known American singer, it only went to #76 in the US chart. Electronic dance music had not quite taken off in the chart there yet, although it wouldn't be long before it did. Also surprising perhaps is the fact that 'When Love Takes Over' only makes dance #1 on our thread for two weeks, that's of course due to another big summer dance tune being about to be released, and its the return of an artist that first got very popular a few years before. As for David Guetta, he may perhaps be back later on in this thread.... |
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27th July 2018, 10:50 AM
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Cascada featuring Carlprit - Evacuate The Dancefloor
 Date: 05 July 2009 Weeks at #1: 6 weeks Official Chart Run: 1-1-2-4-5-7-11-17-20-27-36-39-40-53-56-63-74-85 (17 weeks top 75 +1 top 100) German dance music group Cascada - led by vocalist Natalie Horler - hit the top of the UK Singles Chart for the first time with "Evacuate The Dancefloor", with the helping hand of rapper Carlprit, despite the threat from posthumous sales of Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror" which was the main track downloaded following his untimely death. It's hard to call "Evacuate The Dancefloor" a dance song per se, given that it is very Lady Gaga of the time - it sounds like it was produced by RedOne - but it is considered dance-pop and it was certainly a very bleak time in the chart for dance music on the whole, though the likes of Calvin Harris and David Guetta were beginning to change the landscape. It was also released through All Around The World records - a dance label. It was actually written and produced by Cascada members Yanou (of "Heaven" with DJ Sammy and Do) and DJ Manian with Dutch songwriter Allan Eshuijs, who said that "Cascada moved from their trademark anthemic Eurodance sound towards electropop because with sales of their second album, Perfect Day, marking a downward turn they decided they had to break from their formula and come up with something different." Official remixes were provided by Wideboys, Chriss Ortega, Rob Mayth, Frisco, Buena Vista, Cahill, and Ultrabeat. "Evacuate The Dancefloor" was lead single of Cascada's third album, also titled "Evacuate The Dancefloor". The album also provided singles "Fever" and "Dangerous", and peaked at number 8 in the UK Albums Chart. It was their 4th and final appearance at the top of the dance chart. Cascada went on to represent Germany in the Eurovision song contest in 2013 with "Glorious". It was one of the favourites to win but surprisingly finished in a lowly 21st place. |
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27th July 2018, 10:59 AM
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Cascada never forgiven.
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27th July 2018, 11:08 AM
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Say that hiss with your chest, and...
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Yeah despite the fact it is Cascada, calling this dance really stretches it. It certainly sounds dancier than some of the stuff that makes the chart that we call dance now! This track is great fun though.
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27th July 2018, 11:16 AM
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Agnes "Release Me" being a dance-pop/disco song was not considered 'dance' so it really is a fine line here
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27th July 2018, 11:24 AM
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For this one I decided it should be considered dance because Cascada are known as a dance act and it is a bit dancey (I'd call it a cross between electro pop and eurodance), indeed around this time we started getting a lot of dance-pop some of which we'll consider to be more one than the other.
(also; I Gotta Feeling will not feature here despite being produced by David Guetta and being kinda dancey, unless anyone wants to change my mind) |
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27th July 2018, 11:27 AM
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QUOTE(danG @ Jul 27 2018, 12:24 PM)  For this one I decided it should be considered dance because Cascada are known as a dance act and it is a bit dancey (I'd call it a cross between electro pop and eurodance), indeed around this time we started getting a lot of dance-pop some of which we'll consider to be more one than the other. (also; I Gotta Feeling will not feature here despite being produced by David Guetta and being kinda dancey, unless anyone wants to change my mind) Fair decisions all round there, no complaints. |
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27th July 2018, 11:28 AM
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QUOTE(danG @ Jul 27 2018, 12:24 PM) (also; I Gotta Feeling will not feature here despite being produced by David Guetta and being kinda dancey, unless anyone wants to change my mind) I'm happy with that... But boy do the lines get very blurred hereon! It's even worse these days. On another note, I loved the electro mix of "When Love Takes Over" at the time more than the main version: |
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27th July 2018, 12:20 PM
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Say that hiss with your chest, and...
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QUOTE(Midge @ Jul 27 2018, 12:16 PM) Agnes "Release Me" being a dance-pop/disco song was not considered 'dance' so it really is a fine line here I had spoken to danG by PM about this a while back iirc. I said 'Release Me' could possibly be considered dance but he said we wouldn't be including 'Release Me' because Agnes, much like the Black Eyed Peas, are not usually a dance artist and I agreed with him on this! |
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27th July 2018, 12:48 PM
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This is the period where dance music really started to become good again imo!
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30th July 2018, 05:24 PM
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Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
.jpg) Date: 16 Aug 2009 Weeks at #1: 1 week Official Chart Run: 3-4-4-11-17-27-37-51-59-74-96-x (11 weeks top 100) Calvin Harris gets a third consecutive dance number one as 'Ready For The Weekend' follows 'I'm Not Alone' and 'Dance Wiv Me'. Released as the second single from the album of the same name it became his fifth top ten hit, out of 24 to date (and more if you count his remixes and production credits). Instead of carrying on with the trancey synths of 'I'm Not Alone' he went down a completely different path, with clear disco and diva house influences. The song is written, produced and also sang by Calvin himself (we're not yet at the point where he mostly relied on guests) but with its chorus being sang by Mary Pearce (who received no official artist credit). Pearce previously worked as a backing vocalist for Beverley Knight, Lionel Richie and Chaka Khan. Calvin described her as being a diva with a great big voice, and by having her on the track it gives a nod to dance classics of the late 80s and 90s (where diva house was more prevalent). Fake Blood, High Contrast and Dave Spoon also made official remixes for the single's release. It was a decent sized hit (reaching #3, the same peak as 'The Girls') and eventually got certified Silver, though as he is a man of many hits this lands well outside of his top ten best sellers and is not remembered too well amongst his discography. It also made the top ten in Belgium and Ireland. The era scored him two more hits, 'Flashback' (#18) and 'You Used To Hold Me' (#27) before he took an 18 month break between singles, eventually coming back with #2 hit 'Bounce' and being a hit machine ever since. It is a fun song about the weekend arriving and going out to celebrate, which sounds like a lot of hit singles from the time but it was very much a Calvin Harris song. It's a bit of a tune but one of his weaker singles in my opinion, even amongst only the singles he'd released up to that point; it's quite a comedown from 'I'm Not Alone' let's be honest - it also sound a bit out of place amongst the other singles released from the album and would have perhaps fit better in the I Created Disco era. |
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30th July 2018, 05:28 PM
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I absolutely loved RFTW at the time! Haven’t heard in a long while. Must give it a spin again.
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