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post Jun 24 2015, 05:38 PM
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No problem at all, thanks Gezza. I blame AntoineTTe, he was supposed to be fact checking. biggrin.gif

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I don't know how Cher's Believe would be defined here. I see it very much as a dance song, but I might be opening a can of worms by saying that.
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I don't know how Cher's Believe would be defined here. I see it very much as a dance song, but I might be opening a can of worms by saying that.




To quote Chanandler Bong - "can open. worms everywhere"


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Adamski - Killer



An obvious classic and highlight of 1990. I liked it at the time but grew to love it in the later years. I purchased the 12" in Oxfam a few years ago.
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Chad Jackson - Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked)



Date 16th June 1990
1 Week
Official Chart Run 12-3-3-7-10-14-24-35-52-73 (10 weeks)
*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

Sampling was popularised in the 1980s and grew out of the emerging hip-hop scene. The most used sample being the so-called ‘Amen break’ (a 6-second drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Cylvester "G. C." Coleman in the song "Amen, Brother”), which was used extensively within the scene but later became used by DJs and sped-up to form the basis of early Jungle music, and what we now know as Drum and Bass. Public Enemy were one of the groups that epitomised hip-hop in the late 1980s, and it is their #18 hit from January 1990 “Welcome To The Terrordrome”, from which the title sample is taken. Other recognisable samples here include “The 900 Number” (the distinctive sax) by The 45 King and The O'Jays classic “For the Love of Money”.

This single does sound very much of its time, and perhaps came a little late to capitalise on an already heavily saturated sampling market, which ‘peaked’ in 1989 with the awful Jive Bunny trilogy of number 1 singles. Needless to say it had been done much better 3 years earlier with M/A/R/R/S’s excellent hip-hop/house sampling classic “Pump Up The Volume” and thus Chad Jackson was never to be seen again on the UK singles chart.





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Snap! - Ooops Up



Date 23rd June 1990
3 Weeks
Official Chart Run 13-6-5-5-10-9-11-15-22-31-49-71 (12 weeks)
*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

Snap! were the creation of German producers Michael Muenzing and Luca Anzilotti, and they were incredibly prolific during the early 1990s, racking up an impressive tally of 4 Top 10 hits in 1990 alone - however this instant success came at a price and the group were to undergo some big changes before burning out just 5 years later. “Ooops Up” followed soon after their debut, and once again featured Penny Ford on lead vocals and Turbo B rapping over a classic old-skool house beat. The single was based on the lyrics and melody of the Gap Band’s 1980 UK hit “Oops Upside Your Head” (#6), a band which Penny provided backing vocals to, though it has none of the uniqueness that made “The Power” such an instant hit and thus it couldn’t quite match its success… however “Ooops..” did climb to #1 on the 12” vinyl chart and secured a couple of weeks inside the Top 5 on the overall singles chart.

Tensions at this time were already growing between Turbo B and Penny (Penny was extremely angered by his actions - choking the manager of a gay club during an AIDS benefit gig at for not telling him that he was in a gay club - and it was soon to cause a split in the group).

Lyrically Turbo B is rapping about his experience of Murphy's Law, with the classic couplet “She's as soft as a bubble bath, I'm as hard as Chinese math” and Penny ends the track by singing an ad-libbed version of the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme, adding “What’s in the bowl, bitch?”. I kid you not.

Fun fact: The reason for the lyric “Somebody say Opala” is because Opala is Oops in German.


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I think I'm more of a fan of Oops Up than The Power. Its sales weren't too shabby if remember correctly. It just had the misfortune of being stuck behind four of the biggest sellers of the year - Elton's Sacrifice, Pavaroti's Nessun Dorma, New Order's World in Motion and Roxette's It Must Have Been Love.

It was the highest selling number 5 of the year, outsold all but one of the number 4s and even outsold two of the chart toppers - Kylie's Tears on my Pillow and something forgettable from NKOTB.


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Just spotted this thread - so rare to find one where I like every single song posted so far. That will change around 1993 I should think but some great tunes so far.

Gianfranco Bortolotti really was a man of many monikers. My favourite is 1992's Mig29 by Mig29 which failed to reach the top 40 but was a giant club hit.
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QUOTE(richie @ Jun 25 2015, 10:27 AM) *
Just spotted this thread - so rare to find one where I like every single song posted so far. That will change around 1993 I should think but some great tunes so far.

Gianfranco Bortolotti really was a man of many monikers. My favourite is 1992's Mig29 by Mig29 which failed to reach the top 40 but was a giant club hit.


I must check that out. I liked Capella - Take Me Away and Move On Baby were my favourites.


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QUOTE(richie @ Jun 25 2015, 10:27 AM) *
Just spotted this thread - so rare to find one where I like every single song posted so far. That will change around 1993 I should think but some great tunes so far.


It may change right about now!

Calling International Rescue! Standby for action! Anything could happen in the next 30 minutes.. like some novelty remix of a TV show making the UK Top 10!

FAB ft. MC Parker - Thunderbirds Are Go



Date 14th July 1990
3 Weeks
Official Chart Run 12-7-5-6-12-25-42-63 (8 weeks)
*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

Summer 1990: novelty records are taking over the upper reaches of the UK singles chart. The week that this house remix of the theme tune to 1960s cult classic Thunderbirds climbed to 5, the highest new entry just 1 place above at #4 was “Turtle Power” by Partners In Kryme (taken from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film). The track is a cleverly edited remix of clips from the original series interspersed with a thumping house beat, and some other Anderson theme tunes such as Stingray and Captain Scarlet thrown in for good measure. They even use the infamous “Yeah! Woo!” James Brown drum break sample, taken originally from Lyn Collins 1972 recording of “Think (About It)” which he co-produced, and has since been used in numerous hip-hop and dance/pop tracks in the 80s, 90s and beyond. It's a bit repetitive and suffers massively from the production and piano-loop which dates the record badly but at least it's not Busted.

“Thunderbirds Are Go” is famously the first track to ever be played on BBC Radio 5 by Bruno Brookes (later re-titled 5 Live), as the station launched in August 1990 with a radio adaptation of the original Gerry Anderson series, and it seemed to stem a resurgence in interest in the puppet acted Sci-Fi series that eventually led to the entire series being re-broadcast on BBC 2 in 1991. F.A.B. are a bit of a mystery (the pseudonym taken from the famous phrase used in Thunderbirds to mean ‘message understood’) but are listed as a production trio led by Gary Schofield. Subsequent success and interest from the public remained a mystery to them however with subsequent remixes of “The Prisoner” and “Stingray” peaking at only #56 and #66 respectively later in 1990.

MC Parker had no further chart success, but is rumoured to still be playing some pretty tasty sets in Ibiza.





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Much better than Busted! I've just listened to this on a really rubbish music system and it sounds good! smile.gif
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DNA ft. Suzanne Vega - Tom’s Diner



Date 4th August 1990
5 Weeks
Official Chart Run 13-3-2-2-2-5-15-25-39-57 (10 weeks)
*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

Perhaps one of the very earliest example of the Bristol/Somerset trip-hop (downbeat) sound that was to dominate the early-to-mid-1990s, Bath’s Nick Batt and Neal Slateford made a name for themselves as DNA in August 1990 when they remixed “Tom’s Diner”, an a cappella track on Suzanne Vega’s 1984 album Fast Folk Musical Magazine (and subsequently a #57 hit single in 1987). Though they did this without Vega’s permission, she enjoyed the remix so much that she decided not to file legal proceedings. The track has a very simple premise and recounts in the first person someone stopping at a diner for a cup of coffee - the diner in question is in fact Tom’s Restaurant (on the corner of Broadway and 112th Street) in New York City. The production from Nick and Neal recalls a little of Soul II Soul’s 1989 #1 hit “Back To Life” and provides a catchy dance beat which contrasts really well with Suzanne’s softly spoken and laid-back vocals.

After the huge success of “Tom’s Diner”, DNA had very limited success with their only return to the Top 20 being 18 months later in February 1992 when their re-working of Sharon Redd’s 1981 hit “Can You Handle It” briefly made it to #17, although they continued as a duo until the late 1990s. Soon after DNA disbanded, Nick Batt went on in the 2000s to work extensively with Goldfrapp on Felt Mountain, Black Cherry, and Supernature and also received an Ivor Novello Award for co-writing "Strict Machine" from Black Cherry. Suzanne Vega returned to the Top 40 only once more, at the basement position of 40 7 years later in 1997 with “No Cheap Thrill”.

Fun fact: This was the world's first tune ever to be coded into MP3 format.

Concurrent with “Tom’s Diner” peaking at No. 2, the absolutely amazing “LFO” by LFO was peaking at No. 12 in the UK singles chart - unfortunately not eligible for this countdown but well worth checking out if you like 1990s dance.



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I was utterly obsessed with Tom's Diner and was delighted that it featured on Now 18, which is one of the best Now's there has been, in my opinion. Especially side 1, cassette 1.
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Never knew about the Goldfrapp and mp3 tidbits. ohmy.gif Can't wait to see this classic tune return to the top 40 once the Giorgio Moroder/Britney version is released. kink.gif
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QUOTE(Ne Plus Ultra @ Jun 25 2015, 10:31 PM) *
Never knew about the Goldfrapp and mp3 tidbits. ohmy.gif Can't wait to see this classic tune return to the top 40 once the Giorgio Moroder/Britney version is released. kink.gif



I didn't know she's did it.


Eugh, I'm listening to it now - more Robo-Britney?

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Ha ha, nope I'm still loving everything - I bought the FAB record and the follow up too which was a version of The Prisoner featuring "MC Number 6". Pretty sure that didn't reach number one and won't feature on this thread so here it is for anyone curious...

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One entry this evening. Classic track, critically acclaimed. Predictions welcome.
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One entry this evening. Classic track, critically acclaimed. Predictions welcome.


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“What Time Is Love” by the KLF? *Wishful thinking*
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