Yep, including the Tweenies and Bob The Builder. I was still young enough to enjoy that kind of 'kiddy pop' back then, though I guess those were my last purchases of that kind that I remember. Looking back, my music taste was quite bizarre at this point in general considering I bought The Tweenies and Bob The Builder, and then also bought something like Wu-Tang Clan. I guess I liked anything that had a catchy enough hook in it.

 

Hmm, it was very rare I bought a single that missed the top 40 at this point for two main reasons: 1) I was very much into pop music, which with a few exceptions, never usually flopped that badly; and 2) I used to buy my singles at the local ASDA store and they only ever stocked the main singles that were out. To get some of the lesser known stuff, I would have had to hop on a bus to town and go to HMV or something which I didn't particularly want to do at that age.

 

Judging by your list there you were a big fan of dance music - looks like we were in different musical worlds at that time :P

 

Oh yeah, 1999-2002 dance was by far my genre of choice. It's only when it died in 2003 that I got into pop by default :lol: That said, pop was easily my second favourite genre in those years. I bought the majority of my CD singles at Woolworths (we used to go every Monday after school) but occasionally bought some of the rarer ones in HMV or Virgin.

Oh yeah, 1999-2002 dance was by far my genre of choice. It's only when it died in 2003 that I got into pop by default :lol: That said, pop was easily my second favourite genre in those years. I bought the majority of my CD singles at Woolworths (we used to go every Monday after school) but occasionally bought some of the rarer ones in HMV or Virgin.

 

Our tastes were so similar back then, shocking really. Although I seemed to like garage more than you, and my love for R&B was increasing at a rapid pace, a genre you weren't too fond at the time. It's shocking how much the quality of dance music has fallen since that period.

Our tastes were so similar back then, shocking really. Although I seemed to like garage more than you, and my love for R&B was increasing at a rapid pace, a genre you weren't too fond at the time. It's shocking how much the quality of dance music has fallen since that period.

 

Indeed, I still look back on those years with incredibly fond memories dance music wise, will never tire of those songs :wub: I never got into garage really, aside from that Oxide and Neutrino song and De nada's Love You Anyway which I absolutely adored. Weirdly I did enjoy most of the garage records from the 2007/8 mini-revival! R&B was definitely not my genre of choice, in fact I was sick to death of it in 2003/4 but now it's probably one of my favoured genres, strange...

 

Agreed on your final point though, dance will never be the same really, this isn't just nostalgia talking either, there's just no inspiration anymore and it shows. Yes a lot of pop and urban is influenced by dance now which is good but as for pure dance songs, the quality just isn't there at all anymore...and barely any 'pure' dance is promoted in the UK anymore either :(

By 2003/4 I already fully loved R&B, although I had a bit of love-hate relationship with it, I liked what I heard, but I was pissed off it killed dance music off and pop music somewhat.

 

Listening to "Good Feeling" and then checking out "Light A Rainbow" which wasn't a huge hit but fit the mood of early 00s dance music, the difference is night and day. Not sure you know the latter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6MEFeDE9k

The lack of xmas songs in the early noughties charts was disappointing!

Yeah I remember Light A Rainbow, dance hits are very few and far between now and are either huge or do absolutely nothing, 1999-2000 often had about 4 or 5 random dance entries per week in the 21-40 region which was always interesting.