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BuzzJack Music Forum _ Dance _ Faithless Singles Rate

Posted by: lewistgreen 14th August 2016, 01:44 PM

A prime house-pop group and consistent club act, Faithless is at its core a duo of producers Rollo and Sister Bliss. Before the group officially came together in 1995, Rollo had produced a club hit ("Don't You Want Me" as Felix in 1992), plus an album for Kristine W. and remixes for the Pet Shop Boys, Björk, and Simply Red. Sister Bliss, a piano and violin prodigy from the age of five, converted to acid house in 1987, and quickly became one of the U.K.'s best house DJs, also recording several singles as herself. Though the two had begun producing together as early as 1993, Faithless became a stable quartet two years later with the addition of vocalists Jamie Catto (previously in the Big Truth Band) and Maxi Jazz (from the Soul Food Cafe Band).

Faithless reached worldwide status quickly, with the singles "Salva Mea" (one of the biggest dance hits of the year), "Insomnia," and "Reverence." The debut Faithless album, also titled Reverence, appeared in late 1996 on Rollo's Cheeky Records, and was picked up for distribution by Arista the next year. Sunday 8pm followed in 1998, reaching number ten in Britain and lofting several of its club hits into the pop charts, including "Bring My Family Back," "Take the Long Way Home," and the Top Ten "God Is a DJ." (It was reissued the following year with a collection of remixes titled Saturday 3am.) A comedown mix album, Back to Mine, appeared in early 2001, just before Faithless released Outrospective, album number three, in June. Sparked by a pair of British hits, "We Come 1" and "One Step Too Far" (the latter featuring Dido on vocals), Outrospective charted across Europe and was certified platinum.

In 2004, the band released the quieter than usual No Roots, with a new member (LSK) adding vocals. Two years later Faithless returned with 2006's To All New Arrivals. Featuring guest vocals from Robert Smith and Cat Power, the album failed to make the British Top Ten unlike their previous album. The Dance saw Faithless make a comeback in 2010, but even with a high-profile show at that year's Glastonbury Festival, the album became their last. In 2011, Maxi Jazz announced via their website that the band would come to an end. Faithless played their final live dates at London's Brixton Academy in April 2011.

Within just a few years, however, the band made a comeback, playing several open-air venues during the summer of 2015 and releasing a remix album, Faithless 2.0, in September. The album included reworkings by a host of the biggest names in dance music, including Avicii, Tiësto, Rudimental, Armin Van Buuren, Eric Prydz, Above & Beyond, and Booka Shade. It also included several new originals from the band.

Now, here is your opportunity to rate the singles from the band. As usual, you are allowed only one -1 and one 11.

xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEpgyt3KgzE
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JEm4d6Wu4
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAd1JbtqE60
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQ0s0J1fhY
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iOojt3a1Yw
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhSB8EEnCAM
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puQFTV9Cn1k
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYcoioForU
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65EfTFUFDwI
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBvluNI6xc
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwufrpEDF9M
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67maHVfZuDs
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgBD2wysuI
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyO1dRCNnTY
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLmAZPagmfc
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDXUeI6KF8
xx | http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zer1_faithless-insomnia-2005-remix_music
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VyaeyXD374
xx | http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1t5lt_faithless-music-matters-www-kovideo_music
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAdhe9Ux-J4
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_RmjCB-k2k
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmtqbNuqG4
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8e-u7cU64
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5yIVffMEc
xx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h198WJrquXQ

Discuss the singles and post your rate in the thread below.

You have until Sunday 28/08/16 to vote.

Posted by: TheSnake 14th August 2016, 02:11 PM

Well I need to work on my rate, but I remember hearing the Insomnia remix in 2005 quite a bit at the time.

God is a DJ and all three Insomnia versions are the best though.

Posted by: mr_pmt 15th August 2016, 09:26 PM

Posted by: awardinary 15th August 2016, 09:52 PM

Can we include 1 Giant Leap – My Culture?

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th August 2016, 10:19 PM

QUOTE(awardinary @ Aug 15 2016, 10:52 PM)

Can we include 1 Giant Leap – My Culture?

Never even heard of it until now!

I'm less inclined to include it because it only features 1 member of the band and Maxi Jazz on vocals therefore technically not making it a Faithless single as such.

Posted by: awardinary 15th August 2016, 10:22 PM

QUOTE(lewistgreen @ Aug 15 2016, 11:19 PM)

Never even heard of it until now!

I'm less inclined to include it because it only features 1 member of the band and Maxi Jazz on vocals therefore technically not making it a Faithless single as such.

Fair enough, yeah they only had one major hit in 2002, Robbie Williams featured on it too.

Posted by: lewistgreen 15th August 2016, 10:25 PM

Feel free to give it an honourable mention though

Posted by: Ethan 15th August 2016, 10:31 PM

oh MY what a back catalogue! *.*

Posted by: dandy* 16th August 2016, 06:53 PM

Posted by: HarryEzra 16th August 2016, 07:00 PM

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 17th August 2016, 01:34 PM

Posted by: awardinary 18th August 2016, 03:53 PM

Posted by: Mattias 22nd August 2016, 03:34 PM

Posted by: Nick F1 22nd August 2016, 04:01 PM

Posted by: Ethan 23rd August 2016, 10:12 PM

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 4th February 2017, 12:47 PM

Are we ever getting results for this?

Posted by: gavindeejay 4th February 2017, 07:17 PM

Posted by: DalekTurret32 15th February 2017, 11:38 PM

"I only smoke weed when I need to, and I really need to get some rest. Yo, where's my sess! I confess I burnt a hole in your mattress."

10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEpgyt3KgzE
11 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JEm4d6Wu4
09 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAd1JbtqE60
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQ0s0J1fhY
09 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iOojt3a1Yw
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhSB8EEnCAM
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puQFTV9Cn1k
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYcoioForU
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65EfTFUFDwI
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdBvluNI6xc
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwufrpEDF9M
09 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67maHVfZuDs
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgBD2wysuI
09 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyO1dRCNnTY
09 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLmAZPagmfc
09.5| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDXUeI6KF8
10 | http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1zer1_faithless-insomnia-2005-remix_music
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VyaeyXD374
09.5 | http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1t5lt_faithless-music-matters-www-kovideo_music
09.5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAdhe9Ux-J4
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_RmjCB-k2k
10 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqmtqbNuqG4
09 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8e-u7cU64
09.5 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5yIVffMEc
06 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h198WJrquXQ

My Top 10:

1. Insomnia
2. We Come 1
3. God Is A DJ
4. Mass Destruction
5. Muhammad Ali
6. Bring My Family Back
7. Not Going Home
8. Reverence
9. Tarantula
10. Take The Long Way Home

Posted by: The Wise Sultan 15th February 2017, 11:50 PM

Posted by: lewistgreen 24th March 2019, 07:37 PM

Nothing like tying up loose ends 2 and a half years later eh. Anyway, here's the full list of results in reverse order!

25th If Lovin' You Is Wrong
UK Singles Chart Peak: DNC
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24th A Kind Of Peace (feat. Cat Power)
UK Singles Chart Peak: DNC
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23rd Reverence
UK Singles Chart Peak: #10 (1997)
cyQ0s0J1fhY

22nd Feelin' Good (feat. Dido)
UK Singles Chart Peak: #125 (2010)
1F5yIVffMEc

21st Sun To Me
UK Singles Chart Peak: DNC
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20th Bring My Family Back
UK Singles Chart Peak: #14 (1999)
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19th Tweak Your Nipple
UK Singles Chart Peak: DNC
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18th Insomnia 2005
UK Singles Chart Peak: #17 (2005)
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17th Insomnia 2.0
UK Singles Chart Peak: DNC
h198WJrquXQ

16th Don't Leave
UK Singles Chart Peak: #21 (1997)
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15th Bombs (feat. Harry Collier)
UK Singles Chart Peak: #26 (2006)
_VyaeyXD374

14th Music Matters (feat. Cass Fox)
UK Singles Chart Peak: #38 (2007)
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13th Miss U Less, See U More
UK Singles Chart Peak: #106 (2004)
mLmAZPagmfc

12th I Want More
UK Singles Chart Peak: #22 (2004)
QyO1dRCNnTY

11th Why Go? (feat. Estelle)
UK Singles Chart Peak: #49 (2005)
nUDXUeI6KF8

10th Not Going Home
UK Singles Chart Peak: #42 (2010)
jqmtqbNuqG4

9th Tarantula
UK Singles Chart Peak: #29 (2001)
KwufrpEDF9M

8th Take The Long Way Home
UK Singles Chart Peak: #15 (1998)
puQFTV9Cn1k

7th Muhammad Ali
UK Singles Chart Peak: #29 (2001)
XdBvluNI6xc

6th God Is A DJ
UK Singles Chart Peak: #6 (1998)
bhSB8EEnCAM

5th Salva Mea
UK Singles Chart Peak: #9 (1996: Reissue), #30 (1995)
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4th Mass Destruction
UK Singles Chart Peak: #7 (2004)
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3rd One Step Too Far (feat. Dido)
UK Singles Chart Peak: #6 (2002)
67maHVfZuDs

2nd We Come 1
UK Singles Chart Peak: #3 (2001)
65EfTFUFDwI

1st Insomnia
UK Singles Chart Peak: #3 (1996: Reissue), #27 (1995)
P8JEm4d6Wu4

Posted by: Mattias 25th March 2019, 02:01 PM

Yay for (late) results 😄 My 11 won, great tune. I think after all this time I would give 'Music Matters' a slightly higher score than a 6, the rest of my scores would probably remain relatively the same.

If 'Mass Destruction' and 'One Step Too Far' had switched places, then the top 3 would all be songs I gave either 10 or 11.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 25th March 2019, 02:11 PM

I kept thinking about these results never happening, I just thought it wouldn't be right for me to bump it yet again when everyone else had probably forgotten about it Expected #1 anyway, great tune!

Posted by: gavindeejay 26th March 2019, 12:31 AM

They have some great tunes that are sooo underrated (I Want More, Salva Mea, Tarantula, etc....)

Many thanks for coming back for the results