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 May 26 2020, 02:10 AM
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1995 was the real start of my teenage years, and the beginning of my weekly charts which I've still kept. I remember everyone else in our year having lots of fun going to house parties, fighting each other, getting pregnant...you know all the joyous activities 14 year olds participate in. Me? Well, myself and my gang of geeks and misfits spent most of the year making our own 'TV shows and concerts' (one of them had video cameras and loved 'editing') I still have these VHS tapes buried deep into the far reaches of the cupboard. I must destroy them before I die. Can't have those seeing the light of day!
This was also the year I fell in love for the first time. Or lust. By now, hormones were raging. I already had crushes on a few teachers, but this was different. A new boy joined our year. He was a Geordie. He was perfect as far as I was concerned. Love at first sight etc. Though not for him obviously. For the next four miserable years he occupied every single waking thought. When everyone else threw things at me, bullied me or called me names I'd get angry. When he did it, I would be overjoyed. Tragic really. At least I never went on to do anything so pathetically stupid like only taking certain A Level classes because I knew he was taking them...Oh no wait, I did do that. Looking back it's incredible he never cottoned on. I mean I was hardly subtle. I practically salivated every time he was in the same room as me. Shockingly, we never did hook up romantically or otherwise. I can't think why. Oh, one more thing. Because my greatest talent is making a complete tit of myself, I should tell you about when I went on holiday to Spain. It was karaoke night at the hotel. Mum and Dad egged me on to do it. I did 'Dreams' by Fleetwood Mac (recently covered by Wild Colour, which I adored). Five lines in, I caused a power cut. They wouldn't let me do karaoke again. Anyway, on to the soundtrack to my despair. A massive 77 songs made my shortlist for '95. Some more famous ones end up outside the 40 than inside, and they include Madonna, Green Day, Prodigy, Weezer, Oasis, Blur, Portishead, Strike, Def Leppard, Pulp, Supergrass, Whigfield & Scatman John. My Favourite Top 40 Hits Of 1995 1. Sparks When Do I Get To Sing My Way 2. Edwyn Collins A Girl Like You 3. Wild Colour Dreams 4. Everything But The Girl Missing 5. Livin Joy Dreamer 6. Grace Not Over Yet 7. Saint Etienne Feat. Etienne Daho Hes On The Phone 8. Crescendo Are You Out There 9. Jam & Spoon Feat. Plavka Find Me (Odyssey To Anyoona) 10. Billie Ray Martin Your Loving Arms 11. Garbage Only Happy When It Rains 12. Kingmaker You And I Will Never See Things Eye To Eye 13. Rappin 4 Tay Feat. The Spinners Ill Be Around 14. Deuce Call It Love 15. Garbage Queer 16. Bucketheads The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) 17. Lightning Seeds Change 18. Jinny Keep Warm 19. Human League Tell Me When 20. Jam & Spoon Feat. Plavka Right In The Night (Fall In Love With Music) 21. Erasure Stay With Me 22. Evoke Runaway 23. N-Trance Set You Free 24. Sophie B Hawkins As I Lay Me Down 25. DeLacy Hideaway 26. Scarlet Independent Love Song 27. Those 2 Girls All I Want 28. Corona Baby Baby 29. Nightcrawlers Feat. John Reid Push The Feeling On 30. Ace Of Base Lucky Love 31. Erasure Fingers And Thumbs (Cold Summers Day) 32. Bobby Brown Two Can Play That Game 33. Boo Radleys Wake Up Boo 34. Isha D Stay (Tonight) 35. Corona Try Me Out 36. Tyrell Corporation Better Days Ahead 37. Alex Party Wrap Me Up 38. Moby Everytime You Touch Me 39. Ruffneck Feat. Yavahn Everybody Be Somebody 40. 20 Fingers Feat. Gillette Short Short Man |
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May 26 2020, 11:23 AM
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from your list I like: Missing, A Girl Like You, He's on the Phone,
Your Loving Arms and Independent Love Song plus the Garbage songs fav 1995 songs for me: Portishead - Glorybox, Massive Attack - Protection, Pulp - Common People and Disco 2000, all the Bjork singles, all the Radiohead singles especially Fake Plastic Trees, all the Tricky singles, all the Alanis Morissette singles, Oasis - Wonderwall and Some Might Say |
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May 26 2020, 05:49 PM
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Good to see Sparks at no.1 in your list. I think their last top 40 hit before this year was in 1979. My top 20 from the year:
1. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees 2. Massive Attack - Protection 3. Passengers - Miss Sarajevo 4. Lightning Seeds - Perfect 5. Radiohead - High And Dry 6. Mike & the Mechanics - Beggar On A Beach Of Gold 7. Sophie B Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down 8. Queen - A Winter's Tale 9. Marillion - Beautiful 10. Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way' 11. New Order - 1963 (remix) 12. Lightning Seeds - Change 13. Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone 14. Annie Lennox - No More 'I Love You's 15. The Human League - Tell Me When 16. Mike & the Mechanics - Over My Shoulder 17. Queen - Heaven For Everyone 18. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You 19. Suggs - I'm Only Sleeping 20. Radiohead - Just |
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May 26 2020, 07:36 PM
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1995:
Ooops just 3 chart-toppers (Edwyn Collins, Bobby Brown, Human League) for me, bit of a drop from 10!! I notice some of me others listed as outside the 40 though. To be fair, Sparks hit 2, and should have topped my charts, as should Missing, Grace, Garbage. I'm guessing the hormone-raging dance tracks pushed out the other chart-toppers for me, poor you, it's hard to be in love with someone who doesn't belong to you. TBH I've only ever been in that situation if you don't count part-time semi-relationships. Though I can beat yours, mine was a close friend in the early 90's, and last talked to him, oooh, yesterday. Took about 6 or 7 years, but I came to my senses eventually 
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May 26 2020, 08:20 PM
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QUOTE Ooh I don't know - I'll look forward to finding out! And you have my favourite chart hit of 1995 at #10 - Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms - great vocal and brilliant dance tune. Jam and Spoon ft Plavka - Right In The Night is my second favourite chart hit of the year with De'Lacy - Hideaway third. Dreamer, Not Over Yet, Set You Free, Push The Feeling On and Missing are four iconic dance tracks. Push The Feeling On definitely sounds more modern than 1995. Bucketheads, Bobby Brown - Two can Play That Game, Jinny - Keep Warm and the Corona tracks are good dance tunes. The unfortunate double meaning of 'Corona - Try Me Out' now though. No thanks! 'Wake Up Boo' really is the 90s equivalent of 'Mr Blue Sky' isn't it. Great uplifting song. Short Short Man reminds me of those weird minimal dance tracks that made the charts in 2014-5 like 'Jack' and 'Rhymes'. It is catchy though. Human League - Tell Me When is another good song from them Would also add Scooter - Move Your Ass just for the pure energy of the track, and the Scatman John, Supergrass and Strike tracks that just missed your top 40. And the Annie Lennox and Mike and the Mechanics tracks from Rollo's list. I do remember No More I Love You's from when I was younger and I have always liked that song. This post has been edited by The Snake: May 26 2020, 08:26 PM |
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May 28 2020, 01:07 AM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ May 26 2020, 12:23 PM)  from your list I like: Missing, A Girl Like You, He's on the Phone, Your Loving Arms and Independent Love Song plus the Garbage songs fav 1995 songs for me: Portishead - Glorybox, Massive Attack - Protection, Pulp - Common People and Disco 2000, all the Bjork singles, all the Radiohead singles especially Fake Plastic Trees, all the Tricky singles, all the Alanis Morissette singles, Oasis - Wonderwall and Some Might Say Glorybox, Protection, Common People, Disco 2000 & Wonderwall all made it onto my shortlist. Glorybox in particular only just missed out on a place in my Top 40. Cheers for the comments 
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May 28 2020, 01:09 AM
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QUOTE(King Rollo @ May 26 2020, 06:49 PM) Good to see Sparks at no.1 in your list. I think their last top 40 hit before this year was in 1979. My top 20 from the year: 1. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees 2. Massive Attack - Protection 3. Passengers - Miss Sarajevo 4. Lightning Seeds - Perfect 5. Radiohead - High And Dry 6. Mike & the Mechanics - Beggar On A Beach Of Gold 7. Sophie B Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down 8. Queen - A Winter's Tale 9. Marillion - Beautiful 10. Sparks - When Do I Get To Sing 'My Way' 11. New Order - 1963 (remix) 12. Lightning Seeds - Change 13. Saint Etienne - He's On The Phone 14. Annie Lennox - No More 'I Love You's 15. The Human League - Tell Me When 16. Mike & the Mechanics - Over My Shoulder 17. Queen - Heaven For Everyone 18. Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You 19. Suggs - I'm Only Sleeping 20. Radiohead - Just Yes, Sparks It should have been a much bigger hit, although it did go Top 10 in Germany. Protection, Perfect, 1963, No More I Love You's & Over My Shoulder are my picks of the others which didn't make my list.Cheers for the comments
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May 28 2020, 01:15 AM
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QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ May 26 2020, 08:36 PM) 1995: Ooops just 3 chart-toppers (Edwyn Collins, Bobby Brown, Human League) for me, bit of a drop from 10!! I notice some of me others listed as outside the 40 though. To be fair, Sparks hit 2, and should have topped my charts, as should Missing, Grace, Garbage. I'm guessing the hormone-raging dance tracks pushed out the other chart-toppers for me, poor you, it's hard to be in love with someone who doesn't belong to you. TBH I've only ever been in that situation if you don't count part-time semi-relationships. Though I can beat yours, mine was a close friend in the early 90's, and last talked to him, oooh, yesterday. Took about 6 or 7 years, but I came to my senses eventually It's nice that you're still in contact. Sadly, this wouldn't be the last time of me falling for someone who didn't feel the same way Ah, memories.Surprised there was just 3 chart-toppers. I did think Sparks might have topped your chart. Although, looking at my list for '96 there may be even less Cheers John
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May 28 2020, 01:19 AM
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QUOTE(The Snake @ May 26 2020, 09:20 PM) And you have my favourite chart hit of 1995 at #10 - Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms - great vocal and brilliant dance tune. Jam and Spoon ft Plavka - Right In The Night is my second favourite chart hit of the year with De'Lacy - Hideaway third. Dreamer, Not Over Yet, Set You Free, Push The Feeling On and Missing are four iconic dance tracks. Push The Feeling On definitely sounds more modern than 1995. Bucketheads, Bobby Brown - Two can Play That Game, Jinny - Keep Warm and the Corona tracks are good dance tunes. The unfortunate double meaning of 'Corona - Try Me Out' now though. No thanks! 'Wake Up Boo' really is the 90s equivalent of 'Mr Blue Sky' isn't it. Great uplifting song. Short Short Man reminds me of those weird minimal dance tracks that made the charts in 2014-5 like 'Jack' and 'Rhymes'. It is catchy though. Human League - Tell Me When is another good song from them Would also add Scooter - Move Your Ass just for the pure energy of the track, and the Scatman John, Supergrass and Strike tracks that just missed your top 40. And the Annie Lennox and Mike and the Mechanics tracks from Rollo's list. I do remember No More I Love You's from when I was younger and I have always liked that song. I'm glad all three of your faves were in my list. Your Loving Arms is pretty faultless. I'm surprised it hasn't been covered in a crossover dance hit in the last ten years. There's a youtube video of an uncensored version of Short Short Man being performed on children's TV in, I think, Brazil. It's pretty jaw-dropping Cheers for the comments
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May 28 2020, 01:50 AM
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1996 proved to be a monumental year for me. As well as me pointlessly pining away for a straight Geordie 24/7, I made a life-changing decision. I had it all planned. It would take place on my 15th birthday, at school. I would round up my the other six members of my social group and break the news to them during the hour long lunch break. They would be aghast, shocked even, and say things such as "Is this a sick joke?" whilst choking on their sandwiches.
After many second thoughts, I decided to go ahead with my plan. They were all sat on our favourite wall and I whispered (so no one else could hear) "I'm gay." I looked down, with my head in my hands waiting for the inevitable gasps. Silence. I looked back up and they were all still engrossed with their sandwiches. "Didn't you hear me," I said. "I'm gay!" Without looking up, one of them said "Oh we knew that before you did! Anyway when does the essay on Himmler have to be in?" Not even a slap! I was livid. 66 tracks made it onto my shortlist of favourites this time. Among the more well known missing out on my Top 40 for the year: Space, Sheryl Crow, Oasis, Joan Osborne, Celine Dion, JX, Robert Miles & Madonna. My Favourite Top 40 Hits Of 1996 1. Evoke Arms Of Loren 2. Faithless Insomnia 3. Dubstar Not So Manic Now 4. Menswear Being Brave 5. Belinda Carlisle In Too Deep 6. Underworld Born Slippy 7. Wink Higher States Of Consciousness 8. Stretch N Vern Present Maddog Im Alive 9. Bjork Hyperballad 10. Susanna Hoffs All I Want 11. CJ Bolland Sugar Is Sweeter 12. Dubstar Stars (Motiv 8 Remix) 13. Klubbheads Klubbhopping 14. Mansun Wide Open Space 15. Everything But The Girl Wrong 16. Cast Walkaway 17. Wannadies You And Me Song 18. Belinda Carlisle Love In The Key Of C 19. Hysteric Ego Want Love 20. Tina Arena Sorento Moon (I Remember) 21. Duke So In Love With You (Pizzaman Remix) 22. Chicane Offshore 23. Pet Shop Boys Se A Vida E (Thats The Way Life Is) 24. Cher One By One 25. Strike Inspiration 26. B.B.E Seven Days And One Week 27. Everything But The Girl Driving 28. Helicopter On Ya Way 96 29. Grace Down To Earth 30. Gina G Ooh Aah Just A Little Bit 31. Luniz I Got 5 On It 32. Chemical Brothers Setting Sun 33. Prodigy Firestarter 34. Dana Dawson Show Me (Motiv 8 Mix) 35. Alishas Attic I Am I Feel 36. Gat Dιcor Passion 37. Bedrock Feat. Kyo For What You Dream Of 38. Pet Shop Boys Before 39. Porn Kings Up To No Good 40. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life |
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when I think 96, I think of all the great dance tracks by UK alt-dance acts
Firestarter, Breathe, Insomnia, Setting Sun, Born Slippy other fav tracks of mine: Robert Miles - Children, Oasis - Don't look back in anger Alanis - Ironic, Tori Amos - Caught a lite sneeze Sheryl Crow - If it makes you Happy, Bjork - Hyperballad, Lush - Ladykillers Joan Osborne - One of us, Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight tonight and 1979 Suede - Trash and Beautiful ones, all the Manics singles, all the Fu-Gees singles overall a great year both in singles and albums too This post has been edited by Bjork: May 28 2020, 06:33 AM |
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May 28 2020, 07:38 AM
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1996 - well we have 5 chart-toppers for me, a slight increase on 1995!
 Chemical bros, PSB's Se a Vida Es/ Before, Cher, EBTG Wrong. Plus side, Duke, mansun, Wannadies all faves too, among the more obvious biggies, but the dance invasion make it the least-agreed chart to date! My faves not in your list? Ironic, Wonderwall, Spinning The Wheel, Fastlove, Woman, Hallo Spaceboy, Jesus To A Child, Govinda, Single Bilingual, Don't Look Back In Anger, Neighbourhood, female Of The Species, Tattva, Return Of The Mack, 6 Underground, Children, Say You'll Be There, Stupid Girl, X Files....and many more...  Loved the dramatic wall confession and reaction. I was shocked - what on Earth was your school doing making you write essays on Himmler! I was also blissfully unaware I was anything less than straight-appearing, and I'd had some girls fancying me to keep me deluded, till I eventually bumped into a work acquaintance (and later friend) who I had no idea was otherly-leaning in a gay bar. He wasn't surprised at all either, so I asked why not. "Something about your manner" he tactfully suggested. I presume he meant I was skipping and mincing through the flower beds a lot when I was checking on stuff in the various Parks & gardens (my job then).
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May 28 2020, 08:27 AM
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E'voke - Arms of Loren as your #1, its one of my favourite dance songs but not the original (its still good though), its all about the Ferry Corsten remix for me, which I discovered a while back and was a low top 40 hit in early 2002.
Faithless Insomnia I have long considered the most iconic track in dance music, even when I was younger. I remember liking it too when it was re-released with a slight remix in 2005, even though I didn't usually like the trance side of dance music much back then. Underworld - Born Slippy, unique mix of indie and hard dance music, the buildup is great in it. Higher State of Consciousness is certainly a very different sounding dance track to anything else around in the charts at the time. I'm Alive is one of the best hits from the disco house genre. Klubbhopping is quite similar in style with the rap influence, good tune too, Klubbheads have two other reasonably well known tracks under different artist names, E by Drunkenmunky which just missed top 40 in 2003 and then Hi-Tack Say Say Say in early 2006. Seven Days And One Week - good trance track, Ooh Ahh Just A Little Bit is cheesy but a good track. A Design for Life was one of the first songs I ever liked, remember it from the music channels and i really liked how dramatic it was. I also remember Firestarter from the time from its video on the music channels, still a brilliant track. Porn Kings, what an artist name! The high voiced rap does remind me of the Klubbheads and Stretch N Vern songs. The production reminds me a bit of Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass in the Place) from 2000. I also know Shake Ya Shimmy from Porn Kings and Flip & Fill - quite a fun track. Loads of tracks that miss your top 40 to add to my personal list of favourite top 40 track of 1996. Here we go then, in no particular order. Donna Lewis - Love You Always Forever and Joan Osborne - One Of Us both lovely songs. Also would add Stupid Girl by Garbage, Ocean Colour Scene - Day We Caught The Train (one of the best Britpop songs imo), JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do, Robert Miles - Children and One and One (I prefer One and One of the two I think as I do like a vocal on a dance track), Livin Joy - Don't Stop Movin' and Follow The Rules, and from popchartfreak's list: George Michael - Spinning The Wheel (great mix of jazz and pop this!) and Space - Female of The Species (a quirky song I have liked for a long time). Also Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's, Rotterdam and Don't Marry Her by the Beautiful South. This sort of music of these last three was what I was most familiar with on the radio in the late 90s - must have been the station my parents listened to, but lots of this indie pop sort of stuff. Good memories. This post has been edited by The Snake: May 28 2020, 07:37 PM |
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May 28 2020, 09:01 PM
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My top 20s for each year have not included much dance music but 1996 is when that all changes. The shift to a more electronic sound of dance music in the charts was more to my liking.
1. Underworld - Born Slippy 2. Faithless - Salva Mea 3. The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun 4. Faithless - Insomnia 5. BBE - Seven Days And One Week 6. OMD - Walking On The Milky Way 7. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life 8. Mike and the Mechanics - All I Need Is A Miracle (remix) 9. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) 10. Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler - One & One 11. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (peaked 2 places higher than it did in 1987) 12. Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight 13. Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness 14. Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter 15. Pet Shop Boys - Single 16. Baddiel & Skinner and the Lightning Seeds - Three Lions 17. Presidents of the USA - Peaches 18. Space - Female Of The Species 19. Pet Shop Boys - Se A Vide E (That's The Way Life Is) 20. Queen - You Don't Fool Me |
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May 28 2020, 09:12 PM
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Love 1996. I mean you have the new sounds of dance listed above, britpop was still at its peak and legends like George Michael came back with two of the biggest hits this late in his career, 'Jesus To A Child' is one of the greatest Soul songs in uk chart history for me.
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May 31 2020, 04:39 PM
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QUOTE(Bjork @ May 28 2020, 07:00 AM) when I think 96, I think of all the great dance tracks by UK alt-dance acts Firestarter, Breathe, Insomnia, Setting Sun, Born Slippy other fav tracks of mine: Robert Miles - Children, Oasis - Don't look back in anger Alanis - Ironic, Tori Amos - Caught a lite sneeze Sheryl Crow - If it makes you Happy, Bjork - Hyperballad, Lush - Ladykillers Joan Osborne - One of us, Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight tonight and 1979 Suede - Trash and Beautiful ones, all the Manics singles, all the Fu-Gees singles overall a great year both in singles and albums too Agreed, it was a fantastic year! Thanks for the comments
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May 31 2020, 04:47 PM
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QUOTE(Popchartfreak @ May 28 2020, 08:38 AM) 1996 - well we have 5 chart-toppers for me, a slight increase on 1995! Chemical bros, PSB's Se a Vida Es/ Before, Cher, EBTG Wrong. Plus side, Duke, mansun, Wannadies all faves too, among the more obvious biggies, but the dance invasion make it the least-agreed chart to date! My faves not in your list? Ironic, Wonderwall, Spinning The Wheel, Fastlove, Woman, Hallo Spaceboy, Jesus To A Child, Govinda, Single Bilingual, Don't Look Back In Anger, Neighbourhood, female Of The Species, Tattva, Return Of The Mack, 6 Underground, Children, Say You'll Be There, Stupid Girl, X Files....and many more... Loved the dramatic wall confession and reaction. I was shocked - what on Earth was your school doing making you write essays on Himmler! I was also blissfully unaware I was anything less than straight-appearing, and I'd had some girls fancying me to keep me deluded, till I eventually bumped into a work acquaintance (and later friend) who I had no idea was otherly-leaning in a gay bar. He wasn't surprised at all either, so I asked why not. "Something about your manner" he tactfully suggested. I presume he meant I was skipping and mincing through the flower beds a lot when I was checking on stuff in the various Parks & gardens (my job then). I totally get you. I always maintained I wasn't remotely camp and got annoyed when camp people suggested otherwise. Then, in a club one night, a Dannii Minogue track came on "oooohhhhh!...
..oh  "Fear not, the dance invasion will subside soon. Ish. Of the ones you mentioned, Fastlove, Hallo Spaceboy, Single Bilingual, Female Of The Species, Don't Look Back In Anger, Spinning The Wheel & 6 Underground were among those who made my shortlist. My school was always a bit special Cheers John
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QUOTE(The Snake @ May 28 2020, 09:27 AM) E'voke - Arms of Loren as your #1, its one of my favourite dance songs but not the original (its still good though), its all about the Ferry Corsten remix for me, which I discovered a while back and was a low top 40 hit in early 2002. Faithless Insomnia I have long considered the most iconic track in dance music, even when I was younger. I remember liking it too when it was re-released with a slight remix in 2005, even though I didn't usually like the trance side of dance music much back then. Underworld - Born Slippy, unique mix of indie and hard dance music, the buildup is great in it. Higher State of Consciousness is certainly a very different sounding dance track to anything else around in the charts at the time. I'm Alive is one of the best hits from the disco house genre. Klubbhopping is quite similar in style with the rap influence, good tune too, Klubbheads have two other reasonably well known tracks under different artist names, E by Drunkenmunky which just missed top 40 in 2003 and then Hi-Tack Say Say Say in early 2006. Seven Days And One Week - good trance track, Ooh Ahh Just A Little Bit is cheesy but a good track. A Design for Life was one of the first songs I ever liked, remember it from the music channels and i really liked how dramatic it was. I also remember Firestarter from the time from its video on the music channels, still a brilliant track. Porn Kings, what an artist name! The high voiced rap does remind me of the Klubbheads and Stretch N Vern songs. The production reminds me a bit of Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass in the Place) from 2000. I also know Shake Ya Shimmy from Porn Kings and Flip & Fill - quite a fun track. Loads of tracks that miss your top 40 to add to my personal list of favourite top 40 track of 1996. Here we go then, in no particular order. Donna Lewis - Love You Always Forever and Joan Osborne - One Of Us both lovely songs. Also would add Stupid Girl by Garbage, Ocean Colour Scene - Day We Caught The Train (one of the best Britpop songs imo), JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do, Robert Miles - Children and One and One (I prefer One and One of the two I think as I do like a vocal on a dance track), Livin Joy - Don't Stop Movin' and Follow The Rules, and from popchartfreak's list: George Michael - Spinning The Wheel (great mix of jazz and pop this!) and Space - Female of The Species (a quirky song I have liked for a long time). Also Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's, Rotterdam and Don't Marry Her by the Beautiful South. This sort of music of these last three was what I was most familiar with on the radio in the late 90s - must have been the station my parents listened to, but lots of this indie pop sort of stuff. Good memories. I liked the Ferry Corsten remix, but the original Nip N Tuck mix is the one for me. Loads of fantastic club tracks this year! Of the ones you mentioned, Donna Lewis, Joan Osborne, Garbage, JX, Robert Miles (though actually I'd go for Fable as my fave of the three '96 singles), Livin Joy's Follow The Rules, Space, George & Beautiful South all made it onto the shortlist. Great tracks all. Thanks for the comments
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QUOTE(King Rollo @ May 28 2020, 10:01 PM) My top 20s for each year have not included much dance music but 1996 is when that all changes. The shift to a more electronic sound of dance music in the charts was more to my liking. 1. Underworld - Born Slippy 2. Faithless - Salva Mea 3. The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun 4. Faithless - Insomnia 5. BBE - Seven Days And One Week 6. OMD - Walking On The Milky Way 7. Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life 8. Mike and the Mechanics - All I Need Is A Miracle (remix) 9. Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) 10. Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler - One & One 11. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (peaked 2 places higher than it did in 1987) 12. Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight 13. Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness 14. Manic Street Preachers - Kevin Carter 15. Pet Shop Boys - Single 16. Baddiel & Skinner and the Lightning Seeds - Three Lions 17. Presidents of the USA - Peaches 18. Space - Female Of The Species 19. Pet Shop Boys - Se A Vide E (That's The Way Life Is) 20. Queen - You Don't Fool Me 7 shared tracks here, plus many others I love too. Don't Dream It's Over is my favourite Crowded House song - it nearly made it into my Top 40. Salva Mea, Tonight Tonight, Female Of The Species, Single Bilingual & You Don't Fool Me are my picks of the others. Thanks Rollo
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May 31 2020, 04:56 PM
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BuzzJack Platinum Member
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QUOTE(Steve201 @ May 28 2020, 10:12 PM) Love 1996. I mean you have the new sounds of dance listed above, britpop was still at its peak and legends like George Michael came back with two of the biggest hits this late in his career, 'Jesus To A Child' is one of the greatest Soul songs in uk chart history for me. 1996 was such a great year! Cutting down my faves to just a top 40 was incredibly hard. Cheers Steve |
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