Love all three of those last few singles - Sugababes as I remember them before they became the joke they are...and *NSYNC and A1 bring back happy memories of copying the dance moves and trying to bust them out at school discos in a bid to try and pull girls! Mark Read actually follows me on Twitter now, he's a cool guy, great solo album too...I'd like to think A1's two best singles are yet to come on this countdown though? ('Caught in the Middle' and 'Same Old Brand New You' ;) )

Nice to see En Vogue adding a touch of class to proceedings with Eternal and Sugababes getting their first appearances each.

Eek, I love En Vogue like crazy, but My Lovin' is easily my least favourite of their big hits, just rhythmically annoying as hell :arrr: Could drive me up the wall. Look forward to seeing how Hold On and Don't Let Go (Love) measure up against the rest though.

 

Overload is awesome, so deceptively simple in the way it worms itself into your head. And the fact it still sounds so fresh today is really a mark as to how different it was at the time, relying on little but that hypnotic drum beat and the sort of whirring sounds in the background for most of the song. Also the first single in the top 200 that I bought so we're going well on that front. The true embarrassing ones will come later :D

 

Love Be The First To Believe as well - great example of late 90s British pop IMO - and I Want You Back is one of my favourite *NSYNC songs (although Gone is my ultimate favourite, not that would get anywhere near here). Always found it cool how it debuted on the same chart as ...Baby One More Time as well - can't happen every day that two such huge acts of the future score their big breakthrough hit on the same week! (albiet one made the other look like a minor ripple in comparison :lol:)

Speaking of Sugababes 1.0, I still think this is amazing and what a shame it was only #13

 

Personally i'm more of a fan of "New Year" which was criminally overlooked in Dec 2000. Some top tunes on that first album- they'd give their right arm for them now.

All of the singles from the first album were AMAZING. They just had a soulful vibe to them back then that completely disappeared once Siobhan left, I can't really think of any song they did after off the top of my head that managed to capture that sound - anyone?! Although I love the Heidi era as well when they turned a bit more "electrovamp" with great affect, I still consider to be an almost entirely different group to the one that made One Touch.

 

Run For Cover is indeed probably my favourite of the four One Touch singles though... :wub:

I Want You Back and Be The First To Believe are two GREAT boyband songs from 1999, shame both have been cruelly forgotten by the general public.

:lol: And there I was thinking I'd be alone in my love for "Be The First To Believe"

Speaking of Sugababes 1.0, I still think this is amazing and what a shame it was only #13

 

 

My favourite single from Overload! :wub:

 

EDIT: Actually, I don't think the album was Overload, but I can't remember what it was! :P

Edited March 20, 201213 yr by liamk97

191. I WILL COME TO YOU- Hanson (139,800)

 

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RELEASED: 1997

PEAK POSITION: 5

WKS ON CHART: 9

 

The first of our contentious inclusions. Were Hanson a boy band? Well I’ve plumped for yes under my definition and back in 1997 they sold a million singles in a bumper year, this being their third single to be lifted from the No 1 album “Middle Of Nowhere”. After a couple of light and breezy pop tunes it was time to show a more mature side to the brothers Hanson and this became a third top 5 hit on the trot, and their last top 10 for 8 years.

 

190. CROSSROADS- Blazin Squad (140,000)

 

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RELEASED: 2002

PEAK POSITION: 1

WKS ON CHART: 13

 

Much derided at the time Blazin Squad were mostly 16 when “Crossroads” topped the charts, the single at the top when most of them collected their GCSE results. Only Kenzie has really achieved fame as a solo artist thanks to that Big Brother appearance and dalliance with Jody Marsh, but it’s easy to forget that the band scored 6 top 10 hits in the early 00s before splitting, this one the only track to sell in sufficient quantities and was a cover of the 1995 hit by Bone-Thugs-N- Harmony. Indeed the last group to top the charts with a younger average age was....well Hanson!

 

Wow, surprised to see Crossroads sold so few copies. I suppose the sales climate wasn't the greatest and perhaps being born in 1989 I was of the age which made the song seemed FAR bigger than it perhaps was! I'd say 'Crossroads', 'It Wasn't Me' and 'Because I Got High' were the three biggest songs around in the first Year 7-9!

189. LIQUID DREAMS- O-Town (140,200)

 

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RELEASED: 2001

PEAK POSITION: 3

WKS ON CHART: 10

 

After viewers watched their genesis on ABC’s “Making The Band” the group released their debut single- this one. With references to the big female stars of the day it went top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic but the flirtation with this particular band was particularly brief consisting of 2 top 10 singles. The band were named after Orlando where they came from, they failed to impress after their novelty wore off the band gave up the ghost in 2003.

 

Ugh. Blazin' Squad were probably one of my least favourite acts ever, awful in every way. The video to Crossroads is laughable too, those shirts! So cheaply shot as well.

 

They were basically 10 random 'street' wannabes from any typical high school thrown together and somehow turned into a successful act. So Solid Juniors basically. I don't know anybody at my school who liked them but my sister did, she was 11/12 at the time I guess as I was 15.

189. LIQUID DREAMS- O-Town (140,200)

 

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Another one I bought here. Well, I did say they'd get more embarrassing later! :D I always used to like it when songs referenced other celebrities by name though (especially popstars) and this one had them on almost every line, so I was bound to love it. Although at the time I was probably vaguely annoyed that Britney escaped with no mention, apparently O-Town only liked older women :drama:

 

O-Town had a pretty good start in general for a boyband, actually. All Or Nothing was one of the better boyband ballads of the decade, IMO, and their third single We Fit Together was very underrated chart-wise, in fact it's probably the one song of theirs I still quite enjoy now. Can't say I liked anything after that though.

 

As for Crossroads, I didn't think it was too bad, mainly because the original is so good you'd have to do a truly awful job to ruin it. What followed, however, was laughable, cheesed up R&B-lite, and, raps aside, fundamentally no different to any other selection of boybands that came before them.

Ugh. Blazin' Squad were probably one of my least favourite acts ever, awful in every way. The video to Crossroads is laughable too, those shirts! So cheaply shot as well.

 

They were basically 10 random 'street' wannabes from any typical high school thrown together and somehow turned into a successful act. So Solid Juniors basically. I don't know anybody at my school who liked them but my sister did, she was 11/12 at the time I guess as I was 15.

From the get go there was more than a whiff of the amateur about them but I guess at 16 what'd ya know really? Can't think (given the large number in the group) that they made anything at all financially.

My favourite single from Overload! :wub:

 

EDIT: Actually, I don't think the album was Overload, but I can't remember what it was! :P

 

the album was One Touch

All of the singles from the first album were AMAZING. They just had a soulful vibe to them back then that completely disappeared once Siobhan left, I can't really think of any song they did after off the top of my head that managed to capture that sound - anyone?! Although I love the Heidi era as well when they turned a bit more "electrovamp" with great affect, I still consider to be an almost entirely different group to the one that made One Touch.

 

Run For Cover is indeed probably my favourite of the four One Touch singles though... :wub:

 

Maybe "Too lost in you" :wub:

I Want You Back and Be The First To Believe are two GREAT boyband songs from 1999, shame both have been cruelly forgotten by the general public.

This. I love A1 actually - Be The First To belive is almost up there with Same Old Brand New You and Caught In The Middle.

Sugababes - Run For Cover = their best ever single!!!

 

O-Town - i actually bought their second single!!