Charly and Bamboogie *.*

Guessing 'Everybody In The Place' is the The Prodigy's other song to come aside from the two obvious ones?

 

'Charly' does seem like a bit of a 'one hit wonder' style song now you mention it but thankfully that wasn't the case :P

 

I'm recognising a lot less of these than I thought I would, I guess quite a few of them are probably ones that I'd recognise if I listened to them but don't immediately remember from the title.

Good god I'm very late at joining the party here! This is basically my youth wrapped up in one! Loving the majority of these so far, Nomad, The Goodmen, Strike and Sl2 being highlights. surprised at Blue pearl being so high but still total tune! Some tosh also.... Dj sakin was truly awful in 1999 so good knows what it sounds like now!!

 

For me, the first half of the 90s was better for dance music. The house and rave of the early 90s had a buzz about it... As opposed to the euro trance and filter house of the late 90s, which lacked the charm of the early days... But that's my opinion...

Edited April 1, 201411 yr by ScottyEm

Guessing 'Everybody In The Place' is the The Prodigy's other song to come aside from the two obvious ones?

I'm hoping it may be No Good (Start The Dance) as it stuck around a little while. Although 1994 wasn't that great for sales I guess.

I hope Baby D and Livin' Joy are VERY HIGH UP

I'm hoping it may be No Good (Start The Dance) as it stuck around a little while. Although 1994 wasn't that great for sales I guess.

 

I would have said it would be that as well but as you say 1994 wasn't a great year for sales (or was it? I might be confusing it with another year). 'No Good (Start The Dance)' is certainly more of a 'classic' than 'Everybody In The Place' though I'd say, so it is a shame it's probably not made this top 100!

'Bamboogie' and 'Charly' :music: :bounce:

No Good will be in the chart I think. Everybody is in the Place was a January release so poor sales.

Everybody In The Place was released in 1992, which I think was a very poor year for sales, and as has been said it was a January release so that didn't help either, so I'm guessing No Good is still to come (as well as Breathe and Firestarter obviously)

Oh, maybe I was thinking of 1992 as a bad sales year then :lol: I always forget which years were good and bad for sales in the 90s.

The Love I Lost 7

Seven Days and One Week 8

Coco Jambo 6

I've Got a Little Puppy 4

It's My Life 8

Out of Space 11

Try Me Out 6

Hey Boy Hey Girl 10

Protect Your Mind 8

I Wanna Give You Devotion 8

U Sure Do 6

Ooops Uo 6

Baboogie 6

Naked in the Rain 10

Charly 10

As with a few early 90s dance tracks, the radio/video edit of 'Charly' has, as far as I'm aware, never been released on CD or download. The only one available is the full length Alley Cat mix or the very different sounding 'Original Mix', and the version on my iPod is copied directly from the 7".

 

Even without the novelty of the sample (which means nothing to me anyway as I was born too late to know what it is in the first place) it's a fantastic track, must have sounded mindblowing in 1991 particularly for something charting in the top 3!

I think, for the uninitiated, Charly would have been a bit of a mindblower - it's one of the first times that something that fast had hit the top 10. There had been quite a few rave and hoover house records in the lower reaches and outside the top 40 by then though, 'Dominator' by Human Resource and 'Anasthasia' by T99 spring to mind, so the genre was already pretty well known.

 

I was exactly the right age for 'Charly' - 14 - so I still remembered the adverts and wasn't put off by the fact it sounded like a car alarm. Oh, and I'd take 'Everybody in the Place' over 'No Good' any day. I love the Fairground mix, always have...but, yes, sales in January 1992 were ultra-low.

 

Great to see 'Naked in the Rain' by Blue Pearl in there...didn't expect that.

 

 

Everybody in the Place took ages to grow on me. Years, in fact. For ages it just wasn't Charly. Now I love it.

Oh, maybe I was thinking of 1992 as a bad sales year then :lol: I always forget which years were good and bad for sales in the 90s.

 

I think 1990-1992 were bad, a slow recovery in 1993, a bit of a jump in 1994, then a big jump in 1995 and kept on going.

80.SUN IS SHINING- Funkstar De Luxe Vs Bob Marley (268,000)

 

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YEAR: 1999

PEAK POSITION: 3

 

Dating back to 1971 in its original form, it took a certain Martin Ottesen AKA Funkstar De Luxe to pluck from the back catalogue and propel it into the top 10. It was the first time that permission had been granted by the Marley estate to release a remix of the singer’s work.

 

79. EBENEEZER GOODE- The Shamen (277,000)

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/The_Shamen_-_Ebeneezer_Goode.jpg

 

YEAR: 1992

PEAK POSITION: 1

 

So onto one of the most controversial No 1 hits of the 90s. A not so veiled reference to recreational drug use the song was not played by radio 1 and had altered lyrics when the band sang the song on TOTP. The video features comedian Jerry Sadowitz and the track is another example of a song deleted whilst successful to make way for its less stellar follow up- the song dropping 8-29-48- OUT.

 

78. NO GOOD (START THE DANCE)- The Prodigy (280,000)

 

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YEAR: 1994

PEAK POSITION: 4

 

Taking a failed 1987 hit by Kelly Charles and sampling it proved commercial gold for The Prodigy as it gave it them their biggest pre “Fat Of The Land” era. The song again found the top 10 in 2000 for Oxide & Neutrino, its success is largely credited with allowing “Music For The Jilted Generation” to debut at No 1

 

the last 3 songs :heart: :heart: :heart: No Good ESPECIALLY

 

Really shocked Devotion, U Sure Do and Its my Life have come up already. Proper classics.

 

Fatboy Slim was popular for a summer in 1999 it seems