April 10, 201411 yr "Sunshine After The Rain" & "Justified & Ancient" are both wonderful. :heart: Was basically going to say this! Justified and Ancient being one of my favourite tracks of the early 90s :heart:
April 10, 201411 yr 56. JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT- The KLF Featuring Tammy Wynette (332,000) and oh yeah country legend Tammy Wynette was drafted in to provide some vocal help- gloriously out there and amazing!You could not have said it any better :wub:
April 10, 201411 yr Berri :wub: Stayin' Alive is absolutely awful. Despite Set You Free being my all time favourite song, I'd struggle to name many other good songs by N-Trance. 2002's Forever was brilliant, and that's about it.
April 11, 201411 yr Great thread! Just wondering about sales for Sunshine After The Rain, though. On the year-end 1995 chart it finished one place lower than Baby D's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime on 275k, and I don't think either release fell across two years, so how did Berri get those extra sales to take her up to 338k? Just wondering, in case I missed something! :-)
April 11, 201411 yr Ricardo Da Force featuring on two records in a row there from the sublimity of 56 to the ridiculousness of 55. If you read Bill Drummond's '45' he tells the story of when they went to the USA to record with Tammy Wynette and how they were devastated to find she couldn't sing in the key of the backing track any more due to time taking its toll on her vocal chords. But I think Jimmy Cauty knew of some software (autotune we'd call it now!) that could manipulate her vocal and, hey, the track was saved. Funnily enough, it took me about 10 years to realise that the main guitar hook on the track is lifted directly from 'Voodoo Chile' by Jimi Hendrix. I take Sinner's point about it being a bit camp, it doesn't quite stand up to the stadium house trilogy - but it was good to get their "justified and ancient" refrain into the top 10 after 5 years. I think it's difficult to tell how far the duo enjoyed their own music and how far they were going just to expose how "easy" it is to have a big hit if you follow the right formula. I thought it was a little odd that Sunshine After the Rain got re-released without credit to New Atlantic, but hey-ho it was a much bigger hit second time round. Very cheesy, but nothing like as cheesy as N-Trance.
April 11, 201411 yr Great thread! Just wondering about sales for Sunshine After The Rain, though. On the year-end 1995 chart it finished one place lower than Baby D's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime on 275k, and I don't think either release fell across two years, so how did Berri get those extra sales to take her up to 338k? Just wondering, in case I missed something! :-) It had a short chart run in 1994 too?
April 11, 201411 yr KLF 'Justified & Ancient' :wub: It's hard to believe that N-Trance could go from the brilliance of 'Set You Free' to the abortion of 'Staying Alive' in a matter of months, but of course it had taken SYF three years and three re-releases to smash (#83 in 1993, #39 in 1994 & #2 in 1995). Mind due they managed to produce some decent tracks in the mid-nineties in-between the dire remakes: dVdczhLxEGE Berri 'Sunshine After The Rain' ~ 1995 was an amazing year for dance music! :heart:
April 11, 201411 yr Author Great thread! Just wondering about sales for Sunshine After The Rain, though. On the year-end 1995 chart it finished one place lower than Baby D's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime on 275k, and I don't think either release fell across two years, so how did Berri get those extra sales to take her up to 338k? Just wondering, in case I missed something! :-) It had a short chart run in 1994 too? Indeed so- I've combined the two releases as they are the same song
April 11, 201411 yr Author 53. ANOTHER NIGHT- MC Sar & The Real McCoy (339,000) http://www.avatune.com/pics/07020412.jpg YEAR: 1994 PEAK POSITION: 2 Spending 11 wks at No 3 stateside it did one better here eventually! Peaking at No 61 in late 1993 it was a substantial hit all over Europe and when it finally became a US hit the UK took notice and propelled the track to the runner up spot behind Pato Banton, though this another case of the lead “singer” in the group not actually being the vocalist! 4Yu8eJRcqCA
April 11, 201411 yr Author 52. YOU’RE NOT ALONE- Olive (342,000) http://i60.tinypic.com/jutmon.jpg YEAR: 1997 PEAK POSITION: 1 Another song that missed out first time around making No 42 in 1996 it was remixed a year later and shot straight to No 1. The group were formed after Tim Kellet left Simply Red in 1995 a connection I hadn’t realised until now, he also co-wrote album tracks for Girls Aloud and Taio Cruz, I won’t dwell on the Tinchy Stryder sample of this a few years back. EsTZOLWJpzo
April 11, 201411 yr Author 51. DON’T STOP MOVIN- Livin Joy (350,000) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rG-taNhGaH4/UCePX-FWv7I/AAAAAAAACzE/hc-nIGXAen0/s400/lj.jpg YEAR: 1996 PEAK POSITION: 5 Charting 5 tracks on the UK Charts it was certainly a case of diminishing returns for Livin’ Joy with this track (their second release) being one of two entries for the Italian outfit. The song spent 7 weeks in the top 10 despite never making it higher than No 5, quite a feat by the mid 90s. GS384TrgGKM
April 11, 201411 yr Another Night was the first song I ever really loved. It was odd that for a long time after about 1996 you'd never hear it anywhere, but more recently I've heard it on the radio and on TV quite a bit and it's been featured on a lot of 90s compilations. Edited April 11, 201411 yr by AcerBen
April 12, 201411 yr Indeed so- I've combined the two releases as they are the same song Thanks guys for clearing that up! :-)
April 12, 201411 yr It's Grim Up North, while the least catchy and the least fun single by the KLF guys is my well documented favourite. Edited April 12, 201411 yr by AnthonyT
April 12, 201411 yr 51. DON’T STOP MOVIN- Livin Joy (350,000) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rG-taNhGaH4/UCePX-FWv7I/AAAAAAAACzE/hc-nIGXAen0/s400/lj.jpg YEAR: 1996 PEAK POSITION: 5 Charting 5 tracks on the UK Charts it was certainly a case of diminishing returns for Livin’ Joy with this track (their second release) being one of two entries for the Italian outfit. The song spent 7 weeks in the top 10 despite never making it higher than No 5, quite a feat by the mid 90s. Remember this getting released when I was just 12 and popping into my local Woolies in Stockport - they had a policy where every new release was never more than £1.99! 18 years on and now in my 30s, I still absolutely adore it... even just that little bit more than "Dreamer", which is still a seminal track.
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