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 Monday, 01:43 PM
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QUOTE(TheSnake @ 1st June 2024, 11:58 PM)  That version of 'Love Shy' is a quite good song but I prefer Platnum's version in 2008 lol. I like the Electric Boutique remix of Love Shy. |
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Monday, 04:45 PM
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Week 39:
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 – iconic classic Anastacia - I'm Outta Love Green Day - Minority Pink - Most Girls – agreed on it being her best from the first era. Billie Piper - Something Deep Inside Timo Maas/Martin Bettinghaus - Ubik – Indie UK Chart #1 here  slick track anyhow. The songs that topped that chart in 2000 (or up to 2004 even) leave you a bit confused though lol.Sisqo - Unleash The Dragon – not as good as 'Thong Song' of course but still don't mind this too much. Soulwax - Too Many DJs Foo Fighters - Breakout Scott And Leon - You Used To Hold Me – sounded promising at first but descends into a rather uninteresting track. Mariah Carey Featuring Westlife - Against All Odds – never liked it then and don't now. Below mid collab. Week 40: Placebo - Slave To The Wage – this is very strong! SuReal - You Take My Breath Away – another UK indie #1 :') which knocked Timo Maas off  really nice dance track though. Architechs Featuring Nana - Body Groove Orion - Eternity Roni Size And Reprazent - Who Told You Sister Bliss - Sister Sister The Beautiful South - Closer Than Most – it's no 'Perfect 10'. Melanie B - Tell Me Monsta Boy Featuring Denzie - Sorry (I Didn't Know) DJ Luck And MC Neat Featuring JJ - Ain't No Stoppin' Us – wasn't crazy on 'A Little Bit of Luck' but it sounds like a masterpiece compared to this lol. Iceberg Slimm - Nursery Rhymes – crap a lot of this group were crap or mid but the top 4 at least are the better ones in the bunch with Placebo my fave discovery! |
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Monday, 10:23 PM
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I know it’s nothing earth shatteringly innovative but “By Your Side” is such a warm hug of a song.
9 Sade By Your Side It's hard to pin down what I love about this as there's nothing unusual musically, but somehow it's beautifully tender and warm 8 York Farewell To The Moon A similar style to "On The Beach" and just as good with a lovely chilled out vibe, ethereal female vocals and a strong guitar riff 7 DJ Zinc 138 Trek Debut hit for this UK producer: a frenetic but enjoyable drum and bass style instrumental that goes in interesting directions 7 A1 Same Old Brand New You 881st #1: easily their best track to date in quite a similar power breakup pop style to "Bye Bye Bye"; this still sounds good 6 Marilyn Manson Disposable Teens The lead from their 4th album: a good goth metal track that samples "Revolution", about teenagers rising up against authority 6 Girl Thing Girls On Top Their 2nd hit before being dropped, perhaps unjustly: this isn't hugely original but it's a strong piece of 80s style funky pop 5 The Offspring Original Prankster Lead single their 6th album and similar I. style to "Pretty Fly…": I admire the composition but it's slightly raucous to my ears 5 Mary Mary I Sings Their 2nd and last hit: this is a nice catchy little RnB track but unsurprisingly not in the same league as the unique "Shackles" 4 Beatchuggers Featuring Eric Clapton Forever Man (How Many Times)? Only hit for this Danish house producer with a dance version of an 80s Eric Clapton track: nothing special but works nicely 4 Mansun Electric Man Not surprised this performed much less well then "I Can Only Disappoint U": it has some good elements but a weak chorus 3 Backstreet Boys Shape Of My Heart Another ballad but this is quite a bit weaker than "Show Me…": lacks individuality and seems to use the Westlife recipe book 2 Tom Jones And Heather Small You Need Love Like I Do A Gladys Knight And The Pips song: I can't fathom why this collaboration happened, let alone why they did such a dull cover 2000 Week 47: #486 25/11/2000 LeAnn Rimes Can't Fight The Moonlight 1 {1}-2-3-5-6-7-8-11-15-19-26-31-37-43-61-64-74->17 #487 25/11/2000 Daft Punk One More Time 2 {2}-7-13-19-28-29-22-26-35-46-59-70->12 #488 25/11/2000 Artful Dodger Featuring Lifford Please Don't Turn Me On 4 {4}-9-16-23-30-33-29-34-45-63->10 #489 25/11/2000 Darude Feel The Beat 5 {5}-10-14-24-33-35-33-38-48-68->10 #490 25/11/2000 Wu-Tang Clan Gravel Pit 6 {6}-12-17-18-19-19-18-19-24-30-39-47-61->13 #491 25/11/2000 Savage Garden Hold Me 16 {16}-33-44-58-62-74R(4)-61->7 #492 25/11/2000 666 Devil 18 {18}-29-37-52->4 #493 25/11/2000 Lucy Pearl Don't Mess With My Man 20 {20}-34-49-71->4 #494 25/11/2000 Richard Blackwood Someone There For Me 23 {23}-42-71->3 #495 25/11/2000 Badly Drawn Boy Once Around The Block {2000} 27 {27}-52->2 #496 25/11/2000 Enya Only Time 32 {32}-40-56->3 #497 25/11/2000 Alan Braxe And Fred Falke Intro 35 {35}-48-65->3 |
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Tuesday, 08:43 AM
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Saturday's batch:
The Tweenies  I was very into them as a small child and seem to recall having an album of theirs on yellow cassette I remember both the Kandi and Kristine Blond songs from Kisstory! I quite like the former track and was surprised to learn about her writing credits for some big songs - 'No Scrubs' as mentioned, plus her name is even attached to 'Shape of You' in more recent times, thanks to similarities drawn to the TLC song. Like others, the Platnum cover was my introduction to 'Love Shy' (one of the holy trinity of Bluetooth back-of-the-bus bangers along with 'Heartbroken' and 'What's It Gonna Be?') and I actually prefer it, not a huge fan of the vocals on the Kristine Blond one, a bit shrill in places. 'The Man With The Red Face' is another one that made it on to that fabulous Big Brother dance compilation I mentioned before, nice top pick *.* the electronic production reminds me of Chicane a bit. |
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Tuesday, 10:13 AM
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The only one of that batch I bought on single was Farewell To The Moon. Another strong single from York!
But the A1 song was really good, definitely nice to see them get an original song to No.1, although it dived to No.8 I think the week after. By Your Side is indeed a lovely song, I think it's the production and Sade's beautiful voice that makes it so good. 231m Spotify streams is incredible for a song that came and went quite quickly, so it's clearly still held in high regard. I'd rate Shape Of My Heart quite a lot higher than that. It's generally regarded as one of their better singles, with the classic Cheiron/Max Martin production, and was memorably used in the musical & Juliet. It's their fourth biggest song on Spotify (349m streams), and was a definite highlight when I saw them live at the O2 a couple of years back. It's streets ahead of My Love I think. Shackles succeeded in being a rare religious/gospel song with crossover/radio pop appeal but while I Sings sounds feasibly like a good church singalong, it doesn't really have any commercial potential so I'm not too surprised it didn't do much. I really didn't enjoy Girl Thing very much, they felt particularly brash in an overly clearly targeted and marketed way and it felt a bit like 'you liked Spice Girls so you will like this'. It fell a bit flat for me on this single too, although on their album (which is on Spotify) was the original version of Pure & Simple - I wonder if that could have saved their career if they'd got to it before Hear'say did. Clearly an MOR mid-tempo worked well for Atomic Kitten a few months later. Forever Man was ok, wasn't mad on it but interesting to hear Eric Clapton on a dance track. Not a fan either of You Need Love Like I Do, just sounds like two people trying to outsing each other for no reason on a very pedestrian cover with bland production. I liked the other singles from Reload but this was one too many. |
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11 hours ago
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Rob aah
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Week 41:
All Saints - Black Coffee Delerium Featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Remixes) Texas - In Demand Eminem - The Way I Am Stephen Gately - I Believe – probably his best solo track come to think of it but also liked 'New Beginning'. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out? Supersister - Coffee Everclear - Wonderful Rolf Harris – Fine Day – I mean it is quite catchy for what it is  Whitney Houston And Enrique Iglesias - Could I Have This Kiss Forever – underwhelming collab. Vengaboys Cheekah Bow Bow - (That Computer Song) – they lost it here didn't they. Worst song from them so not a surprise it didn't do great. Week 42: Alice Deejay - The Lonely One – didn't recall this one until it was sent to BJSC several years back and it's an euphoric tune. Robbie Williams And Kylie Minogue - Kids Muse - Muscle Museum U2 - Beautiful Day Atomic Kitten - Follow Me – decent Lionel Richie - Angel – Do recall this to some extent but it does sound nice to me. Nothing incredible but fine for a 2000 Lionel Richie song. Erasure – Freedom Warrior - Warrior Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night {2000 Re-Release} Ed Case Ft Shelley Nelson - Something In Your Eyes – tried to like this more as she has a solid voice and the production has some decent elements but the chorus is really boring. Madison Avenue - Who The Hell Are You? - nondescript for me. 'Don't Call Me Baby' is the better track of course. R. Kelly - I Wish – He has better songs of this type. This one drones on. |
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Another really strong week here: this time I’m particularly bowled over by both the quality and the variety of the 5 new entries in the Top 6. “One More Time” has to take the top billing but “Gravel Pit” is a classic of its genre and a unique track too.
9 Daft Punk One More Time A stunning track from the French duo with an iconic auto-tuned hook with house style production, and a thrilling quiet section 9 Wu-Tang Clan Gravel Pit Only Top 40 for this East Coast hip hop group, sampling "Back And Forth" by 80s group Cameo: it's a fantastic enchanting track 8 LeAnn Rimes Can't Fight The Moonlight 882nd #1 from "Coyote Ugly": given how middle of the road her prior mammoth hit was this is an incredibly strong pop song 8 Darude Feel The Beat A worthy follow up to "Sandstorm" with the same style hook but a great tune and also a really interesting slower middle section 7 Badly Drawn Boy Once Around The Block {2000} A re-release as it reached #46 last year: I love how the meandering "ba ba ba" on this indeed feels like going for an aimless walk 7 Alan Braxe And Fred Falke Intro Only credit for these French DJs though Alan was part of Stardust: this builds into a really hypnotic and effective repeated hook 7 Artful Dodger Featuring Lifford Please Don't Turn Me On Their 4th Top 10 within a year with another guest vocalist; again a really well crafted song with a part pop part garage flavour 6 666 Devil Only Top 40 for this German DJ act and it would seem rude not to give it a 6, but it's an enjoyable rather frenzied dance track 6 Lucy Pearl Don't Mess With My Man 1st Top 40 for this US RnB group: not a personal favourite but a strong track that will be covered and feels well remembered 5 Enya Only Time Lead from her 5th album and it's Enya alright: a nice song with warm orchestral production but nothing we haven't heard before 4 Richard Blackwood Someone There For Me The last of his 3 hits: it's not a bad little tune but standard 2000 RnB; he's gone from having too much attitude to being bland 3 Savage Garden Hold Me Not an unpleasant listen but quite syrupy and a little drippy; they're clearly running out of steam and this is their last Top 20 hit 2000 Week 48: #498 02/12/2000 Destiny's Child Independent Women - Part 1 1 {1}-2-4-7-9-7-10-17-26-32-37-42-59-71-68->15 #499 02/12/2000 Craig David Walking Away 3 {3}-7-12-15-15-15-20-29-41-50-58-58-75->13 #500 02/12/2000 Public Domain Operation Blade (Bass In The Place) 5 {5}-5-8-8-11-9-12-19-25-35-43-52-67->13 #501 02/12/2000 Ronan Keating The Way You Make Me Feel 6 {6}-15-20-23-23-27-37-50-55-68-72-71R(4)->12 #502 02/12/2000 Bomfunk MC's Uprocking Beats 11 {11}-20-27-32-30-24-29-46-59->9 #503 02/12/2000 True Party Whazzup 13 {13}-24-34-39-43-50->6 #504 02/12/2000 Paul Van Dyk We Are Alive 15 {15}-26-38-49-58-57->6 #505 02/12/2000 *NSync This I Promise You 21 {21}-36-51-60-64-60-73->7 #506 02/12/2000 Point Break What About Us 24 {24}-43-64->3 #507 02/12/2000 True Steppers Featuring Brian Harvey True Step Tonight 25 {25}-47-75->3 #508 02/12/2000 MJ Cole Featuring Elisabeth Troy Hold On To Me 35 {35}-60->2 |
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Excellent picks from the last couple of batches - 'By Your Side' made my top 10 of the year and 'One More Time' top 3 behind only the two RHCP songs last time I compiled such a list. The latter runs 'Around The World' very close as Daft Punk's ultimate classic. Elsewhere, 'Intro' from the same wheelhouse is one I've heard Radio 1 play as a retro track, the sample is from The Jets - Crush On You, and I hadn't realised 'Can't Fight The Moonlight' had such a long Top 75 run with a drop every week after entering - possibly the record at 17 weeks?
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2 hours ago
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Say that hiss with your chest, and...
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One More Time is iconic, Feel The Beat is just brill
Omg I know the Wu-Tang track, so catchy - great sample |
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