:lol:

 

You should read it all.

Ouch 23 pages... but 2 Unlimited :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

Now I'm listening to the very best of 2 Unlimited on my iTunes :lol:

Ouch 23 pages... but 2 Unlimited :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

Now I'm listening to the very best of 2 Unlimited on my iTunes :lol:

 

 

It wont be finished until 2016 so you have plenty time to catch up.

Edited October 5, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe

Re: Ride On Time, it seems to be about 50/50 these days as to where you hear the original Loleatta Holloway sampled vocal or the re-recorded Heather Small vocal, different compilations and different youtube uploads have both. My iPod copy is from 2003's Now That's What I Call Music Decades and it's Holloway, but on 1989's 'Monster Hits' it's Small.

 

The biggest difference for me is on the line "You're such a" which sounds notably different on the Small re-record. Here's both to compare:

 

Loleatta Holloway

 

Heather Small

http://www.masterton.co.uk/2011/03/numero-uno-was-better/

 

That's James' write up about it. Blew my mind when I found out about it!

Yeah it is a fun game trying to work out which version of Ride On Time you're listening to when you hear it out and about. Heather did an amazing impression!

Brilliant song but does anyone know why they completely messed up the radio edit? The video - and the 12" mix - starts with that brilliant opening synth riff, but the radio mix has a really underwhelming first minute or so in comparison, like they massively watered it down. And there doesn't seem to be a radio edit like the one in the video, unless you edit the 12" or copy the sound from the video.

 

EDIT: Oh, even the linked video above has the radio edit I mentioned. The video mix I mean is this one, which is the first version of it I heard. Note the completely different intro:

 

I would guess that the softer start to the song just made it more palatable for mainstream radio play.

The video I linked to is the UK special radio edit which was track 1 on the CD single and the version played on UK radio, the video mix you've linked to is the album version (which was 5 minutes 37 seconds) and was the basis behind the 2003 remix “Mr. Vain - Recall” which made #51. Most of the tracks on Serenity were over 5 minutes and the radio edits were definitely needed!\

 

I've tried where possible to always link to the version that UK radio played at the time.

 

The Special Radio Edit was released worldwide, not just the UK

I really disliked M People. Their Bizarre Fruit singles were uniformly awful.

I really liked them when they began but have to agree they became absolutely dreadful from Search For The Hero onwards. At the time of it's release, I was particularly fond of One Night In Heaven and it's intro that I always used to think was a sample of the theme tune to kids cartoon Stop It & Tidy Up. I was also fond of Renaissance if I remember correctly.

 

Wow I've never known about the two versions of Ride On Time. Very interesting read and I agree Heather Small did a good job, although here and there you can hear the differences.

 

Great track anyway. Loved it that time :wub:

Ouch 23 pages... but 2 Unlimited :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

Now I'm listening to the very best of 2 Unlimited on my iTunes :lol:

 

Ironically my fave 2 Unlimited track is their only non-dance single, "Nothing Like The Rain". But at the time I also listened to this "Rainy Remix" as much as the ballad version.

 

I'm really glad that this thread is getting more contributions and enjoyment :)

It depends when you purchased it though, I bought it early on in it's chart run before it was changed to the Heather Small vocal.

 

That means I probably haven't ever heard the original vocal mix. Wow.

I really disliked M People. Their Bizarre Fruit singles were uniformly awful.

 

They did get worse as they went on. I did really like How Can I Love You More? when it first came out though.

I didn't mind How Can I Love You More? the intro was cool.

Cappella U Got 2 Let The Music

 

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/capella.jpg

 

Date 24th Oct 1993

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 7-2-3-5-6-12-24-35-56-55-55-68 (12 weeks)

*Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible.

 

Way back on page 1 of this thread we mentioned that a Gianfranco Bortolotti would become better known as part of Cappella. Well, here he is making his second appearance. Although they had been having hits - some of them very good hits - since 1989, it was 1993 when they started having Top 10 hits. And despite being known as an Italian dance outfit they were fronted by two Brits during their purple patch - Kelly Overett (who appeared with SL2)and Rodney Bishop. Bortolotti also founded the unsually titled Anticappella.

 

Like many others around them, Cappella used the formula female singer + male rapper + sythns + liberal samples = eurodance. A slight difference was employed by this lot - they stole their riffs from better places - stand up Siouxsie and the Banshees and your Happy House.

 

And so to U Got 2 Let the Music - which is basically three things put together.

 

1 A riff from Sounds Like a Melody by Alphaville

2 A vocal sample from Let the Music Take Control by JM Silk and

3 Another vocal sample from Dance Now by Mosaic.

 

This would be their biggest hit and sadly their only appearance in this run down. Further hits would come, though - the biggest of which was Move On Baby in early 1994.

 

After a few more hits in 1994 Kelly Overett was fired from the band when it emerged that she hadn't sang any of the vocals on any of the singles which she promoted, which is bizarrely harsh given the genre she was working in.

 

They continued to have minor hits on the continent for the rest of the decade but by the end of 1995 the UK had lost interest and their final chart placing was for Tell Me The Way, reaching number 17.

 

 

 

I love Move On Baby, the synths in that one are really good.

 

Played it at the nineties night and the reaction was most favourable!! : )

Move On Baby is my favourite of all of their songs. I love the way it fades out at the end. Like a Depeche Mode song, the layers get thinner and fewer at the end until it disappears.

Another great song! :D Incredible production, I would kill for a proper Eurodance revival. "Move On Baby" is even better!

This is a hoot..... in an era when you weren't allowed to mime on TOTP Kelly Overett's real vocals :rolleyes:

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g27_buTv7Fw

The blue corridor video for UG2LTM is better but I have a soft spot for the falling shoes video.

Edited October 8, 20159 yr by N-S