Nicely surprised to see a lot of early to mid 90s tracks here. no doubt there will be a lot of tosh nearing the end, sadly sales peaked when dance music wasnt quite as amazing.

Agree. But "Pray" remains far and away her best song (it so deserved to be top 5)

 

Pray is a beast of a song. I remember the first time I saw her live (probably around 14 years ago now), she sang the opening and closing opera parts. It was outstanding. Sadly, her voice has deteriorated quite a bit and she couldn't do it nowadays.

Yep - it's cruel that 1992 was the lowest year for sales seeing as it was a classic year for dance. I mean look at the singles that had decent chart runs that are missing out

 

Something Good and Don't You Want Me, for 2.

 

 

Don't You Want Me spent 20 weeks in the Top 75 with all chart runs combined and still misses out :(

 

1992 14-9-{6}-6-7-10-14-19-30-46-74->11

1995 {10}-11-24-46-74->5

1996 {17}-26-44-66->4

Edited April 7, 201411 yr by Sinner

I didn't realise Don't You Want Me was re-released. I knew there was some trancy version of it but I thought that was later than 96.

65. REMEMBER ME- Blue Boy (302,000)

 

http://www.audiodrums.com/audio/2011/03/The_BlueBoy_-_Remember_Me.jpg

 

YEAR: 1997

PEAK POSITION: 8

 

Long a DJ in his local Glasgow, Lex Blackmore took a sample of “Woman Of The Ghetto” a 1969 track by Marlena Shaw with some additional help from mid 90s dance guru’s Sure is Pure and scored himself a top 10 hit with this. Follow up “Sandman” was his chart adieu at No 25.

 

64. MYSTERIOUS TIMES- Sash! Featuring Tina Cousins (306,000)

 

http://991.com/NewGallery/Sash-Mysterious-Times-153765.jpg

 

YEAR: 1998

PEAK POSITION: 2

 

The song that introduced Tina “I should have been massive but it never quite happened” Cousins to the world. It had the misfortune to be released in the same week as “No Matter What” by Boyzone so was always going to lose out but in debuting at No 2 it gave Sash! a track record of 2-2-2-3-2, at the time a start beaten only by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Kylie Minogue and The Spice Girls.

 

63. PUSH THE FEELING ON- The Nightcrawlers (308,000)

 

http://i58.tinypic.com/2njhs1s.jpg

 

YEAR: 1995

PEAK POSITION: 3

 

Originally released to a disinterested UK audience in 1992 (No 86) it became a modest US hit in 93 (No 80) before being remixed with John Reid’s vocals and hitting No 22 in 1994. To give them their due they knew they had a hit and a re-release in early 1995 proved the right move when it went top 3, Reid has since gone on to co-write Leona Lewis/ Kelly Clarkson’s “A Moment Like This” Westlife’s “Unbreakable” and The Saturdays “If This Is Love, this track was last heard on Pitbull’s (again) hit “Hotel Room Service”

 

'Push The Feeling On' :wub: One of my favourite songs ever!

1995 - a bloody brilliant year for handbag girly house music and shaped my music tastes for good.

Edited April 7, 201411 yr by ScottyEm

'Push The Feeling On' is a tune and a half! :wub:

 

Love that Blueboy track too! :heart:

Not a big on Remember me, but Push The Feeling on. I never let Pitbull ruin that for me too! :P Also I'm still in love with Mysterious Times 16 years after release. :)

'Remember Me' is still worth a spin today...and I didn't realise the creator was Scottish. I was only too aware that the bloke from the Nightcrawlers was though - always looked like the kind of seedy bloke who'd have had his own booth at the Tunnel.

 

Hope we get through Sash! as quickly as possible - a string of number twos...quite literally.

JX 'You Belong To Me' was always their best single for me, and rightfully so was their MASSIVE hit here in Australia rather than 'TNIWD'

63. PUSH THE FEELING ON- The Nightcrawlers (308,000)

 

http://i58.tinypic.com/2njhs1s.jpg

 

I also remember this version that mashed up "I Like To Move It"

 

62. THE REAL THING- Toni Di Bart (315,000)

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71fah1v6QBL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

 

YEAR 1993/4

PEAK POSITION: 1

 

Another song that took a remix to finally make it big. Di Bart was famously a bathroom salesman prior to him hitting the big time yet releasing almost identikit tracks as follow up was never gonna keep in the public eye- a remix of this hit in 1998 was his last chart entry.

 

61. INSOMNIA- Faithless (316,000)

 

http://amlan-majumdar.com/Tunes/Images/faithless_insomnia.jpg

 

YEAR: 1995/6

PEAK POSITION: 3

 

Now pretty much a certified dance classic “Insomnia” made No 27 and left the charts after a fortnight when first released in late 1995 which could have been the end of the track. However a re-release coupled with a slew of new mixes saw the track debut at No 3 behind Boyzone and The Spice Girls, the track has spent 38 weeks in the top 75 since the download era came to be, in part thanks to further new mixes in 2005.

 

60. BACK IN MY LIFE- Alice Deejay (319,000)

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/s6t7pu.jpg

 

YEAR: 1999

PEAK POSITION: 4

 

Hailing from Amsterdam, this trance group had a pretty impressive 1999 topping it off by proving those who thought they were a one hit wonder wrong when this became a sizeable Christmas hit that year.

 

Love that Alice Deejay song but weird how it's outsold songs that are more remembered than that. The benefit of 1999 for sales!

 

"Insomnia" - classic. "The Real Thing" is pretty nondescript (but good) and would oddly fit in perfectly with the mellow dance sound of 2014.

Insomnia :wub:

Back In My Life :wub:

Push The Feeling On :wub:

Mysterious Times :wub:

I think "mysterious times" is the only Sash track which sounds passable in 2014.

Edited April 8, 201411 yr by ScottyEm