July 14, 201510 yr Anthem and Human Nature are great :dance: Human Nature reminds me of this hit which would have been a dance #1 in a weaker week: 0CMiB4z8JgY Edited July 14, 201510 yr by Ne Plus Ultra
July 15, 201510 yr Human Nature was such a breath of fresh air. I think it had been a club hit for quite some time before it was a major release on Perfecto, certainly I knew the main riff as the theme music for Snub TV. I remember thinking "Wow, someone's made a dance record of the Snub riff" not realising it was pretty much the other way around. Guest vocals were performed on the record by Alan 'Lana' Pillay. 1991 was a great year for great dance music. But, eeh, only a matter of time before Oceanic...
July 15, 201510 yr Author Guest vocals were performed on the record by Alan 'Lana' Pillay. Thanks. I couldn't find a reference for the guest vocalist.
July 15, 201510 yr Author The KLF Featuring The Children Of The Revolution - Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent) http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/023%20Last%20Train%20to%20Trancentral.jpg Date 28th Apr 1991 3 Weeks Official Chart Run 3-2-2-4-7-9-18-38-56->9 *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. The insane genius of the KLF roles on. Their domination of 1991 was furthered by the release of this track. They were the first British act to have two Top 10 tracks and the only act of any nationality in the whole year to have more than 2 Top 3 hits, or indeed more than 3 Top 10 hits when It's Grim Up North is included. This was the only time the debued in the Top 3. Back to the song. Like the preceding singles, Last Train to Trancentral began life as one of their pure trance tracks (check it out at your nearest Youtube outlet). The pure trance version being a more serene take on their earlier track Go to Sleep. Unlike the previous two singles, there were less prominent Ricardo Da Force rap verses. He was present but his role was much reduced. The ebullient originality was entirely obvious and if anything the band's vision was even more purely rendered than with either 3AM or What Time is Love? Again they plundered Wanda Dee's To The Bone for samples. This time it was "Come on boy, do you wanna ride?" Which I thought, until today was "Come on aboard, do you wanna ride?". :D The train references were piled up and vividly presented with sounds of horses and of steal wheels on the track. After a career highlight string-drenched middle eight, the track is brought to a climactic close with a terrifically exciting mix of chanting, synth riffing and regulation KLF samples. They were getting very, very good at this stage and the music press were now falling over themselves to heap praise on them. The video also showed their limitless creativity with an inexpensive aesthetic which created a world which was totally of itself. The Chart Show named it their video of 1991 at the end of the year. The madness was not over by a long shot and we shall see more of them later. 6ifNTb1Xx_I Edited July 15, 201510 yr by AntoineTTe
July 15, 201510 yr Love Last Train... it is played every home game at Exeter City FC when the players come out the tunnel! :D
July 15, 201510 yr Author It's my favourite KLF single. They got even better with It's Grim Up North. It's such an awful same The Black Room wasn't finished. They could have given the mid-90s dance giants a run for their money.
July 16, 201510 yr Wasn't The Black Room going to be just thrash metal? Anyway, while Last Train is the weakest of the stadium house trilogy, it's still pretty damn good. That middle eight riff certainly got used enough - I think it first cropped up in Chill Out and, because I had a tape copy of The White Room, I could never tell if it was being used as part of "Church of the KLF" or "Last Train" - since it sounded like a church organ, I always thought it was the former. As for the Wanda Dee sample, I always thought she was saying "Come on King Boy D, wanna ride?" - King Boy D being Bill Drummond's JAMs alter ego - but it's one of those samples that always sounds like whatever phrase you're listening out for.
July 16, 201510 yr Author I didn't know about the thrash metal sound of The Black Room. That makes sense though. They were font of confounding and subverting expectations.
July 17, 201510 yr There are some demos out there of their work with Extreme Noise Terror but it all came to nothing The White Room LP is a rare example of Drummond and Cauty actually completing something!
July 17, 201510 yr Author Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/Gypsy_Woman_Shes_Homeless_Crystal_Waters_single_-_cover_art.jpg Date 19th May 1991 4 Weeks Official Chart Run 3-2-3-5-8-17-29-42-54-66 (10 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. In a not uncommon way, Crystal Waters began her career in music writing for others. Or at least that was the plan. She came from a musical family of high pedigree - her dad was a jazz musician and her great aunt a successful singer in Hollywood. She showed early promise in poetry and was accepted in to the American Poetry Society at 14 years old - the youngest ever inductee at that point. She started writing with Basement Boys (future remixers of Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, Erykah Badu among others) in Baltimore in 1987. In 1991 she was tasked with writing a song for emerging talent Ultra Naté. The song would be called Gypsy Woman. Crystal recorded a demo for the song to present to the Basement Boys but they were so impressed by her own vocals that they suggested she release it and she signed a one single deal with them. The song became a hit in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, hitting the top spot in 5 countries and opening up a whole career as a performer for Crystal. She would primarily work in the dance market but continued to have minor hits throughout the 90s in the UK. The song has a considerable legacy, musically, and has been sampled over 20 times - the introductory riff being sampled 9 of those times, most famously 2 Eivissa's Oh La La La in 1997. The next time Crystal would have significant impact on the UK top 10 would be 2007 when her guest vocals on Alex Gaudino's 2003 track Destination Unknown were mashed up with Rune's brassy instrumental Calabria on the single Destination Calabria. _KztNIg4cvE
July 17, 201510 yr Author I didn't like it at all. I didn't like her voice and it sounded out of tune all the time and the chorus was irritating.
July 17, 201510 yr I still adore it. Prefer 100% Pure Love though, which should have been a bigger hit.
July 18, 201510 yr Crystal Waters' entry at #3 (with her first hit) equalled Vanilla Ice's record from the previous year for the highest debut for an artist's first hit (excluding the first chart, featured artists such as Billy Preston, and conglomerations such as Band Aid) until beaten by Gabrielle in 1993 and then by Whigfield in 1994.
July 18, 201510 yr KLF forever. I wish they'd release a remastered best of! It's been 23 years now...
July 18, 201510 yr Author LaTour - People Are Still Having Sex http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/025%20People%20Are%20Still%20Having%20Sex.jpg Date 16th June 1991 2 Weeks Official Chart Run 45-24-15-15-20-34-51(7 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. Summer 1991 was quite a sexy time. We'd had Color Me Badd hit number 1 with I Wanna Sex You Up. In August we had Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy and in September Salt N' Pepa's Let's Talk about Sex both hit number 2. Even Billy Bragg wanted to get in on the act with his song Sexuality. LaTour joined this list with People are Still Having Sex. Although LaTour sounds like a typical female fronted Euro-dance band, he was actually American multi-genre artist Willam LaTour. His genres of choice are so varied that he almost sounds like an opportunistic, prank artist arriving in the slip-stream of the KLF - electronic, house, glam, rock, dance, punk, and parody. His full time job was equally unexpected - keyboardist and "composer" for comedy punk band The Squids. People are Still Having Sex took a faux-outraged outlook on the fact that humans are still getting it on despite the risks and warnings being issued regularly in the doom laden sexual landscape of the 1980s. In a dance music tradition stretching to Paul Hardcastle's 19 and back to New Order's Blue Monday the song is merely a detached monologue backed by a minimal, ominous dance track. The effect is not unlike what a Pet Shop Boys b-side on the subject might sound - complete with classical references to Bach's Toccata and Fugue. After this, his only UK hit, he continued to work as a dance music producer, releasing a notable deep house track, Blue, in 1992 and had several hits on the US dance chart later in the decade. In parallel LaTour would remain in The Squids until 2005 when the band disintegrated. It should be noted that this is the first of just four songs in this whole run-down which failed to manage any weeks in the official Top 10. Which, out of 170 songs, is quite an achievement. 0ImRyPymRAM Edited July 19, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe
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