Oh Sunchyme! Love love love it! :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

But can someone tell me what is a Sunchyme? I was always curious but never found anything about it :o

I assume it's just word play between the word Sunshine and the word Chime.

A preview of the (un)official compilation that accompanies this thead.

 

I've masked out tracks that have yet to be announced.

 

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/sneak.png

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Colm

Sunchyme is one of my all time favourite songs and probably my favourite dance song from the 90s, so uplifting and euphoric and always puts me in a good mood :wub: :wub: It's a shame as I don't hear it often these days and it only seems to be remembered for being one of the biggest landslides between a number 1 and 2. How dare Diana pick that week to die!!11 :angry: [/kobbar]

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Chez Wombat

Sunchyme is amazing, great dance track

Never heard that Tina Moore track. Sunchyme is ok I suppose. I too was quite pleased to find out that Dario G were named after the Crewe manager. I'd always assumed it was an Italian producer until then.

 

Activ 8 is spelled wrong on that compilation grab by the way :)

Activ 8 is spelled wrong on that compilation grab by the way :)

 

 

Noted.

Sash! ft. La Trec - Stay

 

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/rsz_stay_zps8kjk2o9h.png

 

Date 12th October 1997

4 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-4-4-5-9-15-21-26-33-44-48-44-54-70 (14 weeks)

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

 

Racking up their third hit of the year, and impressively a third consecutive silver medal position (becoming the first act to open their UK chart history account with a trio of #2s) were the German production team led by Sascha Lappessen, aka Sash! - who as mentioned in previous commentaries also consisted of Thomas Lüdke and Ralf Kappmeier.

 

“Stay” replaces the euphoric and uplifting trance of its predecessors and replaces it with the melancholy of warm strings, a killer synth melody and the beautiful belting vocals of Francine McCoy (aka, La Trec) pining for a rekindling of a relationship that has long since faded out. La Trec was the third different singer in as many releases, which Sascha reasoned kept them from repeating themselves.. however they did go on to use La Trec on 3 tracks on 1997 debut It's My Life. It also became the groups third consecutive hit constituting a different language; following the French in “Encore Une Fois” and Spanish in previous hit “Ecuador”, and is a much more conventional song with more lyrics than either of its predecessors which suggested an appetite for a serious commercial assault on radio.

 

Such large overnight success often draws scepticism and criticism in equal measure, and it was all-too-predictable after Faithless had accused the group of stealing parts of “Salva Mea” and “Insomnia” for debut hit “Encore Une Fois” (though never taken as far as legal proceedings), British DJ Andy Hagerty (aka Kaleid) would then sue the group alleging plagiarism of his 1996 dance track “Durrel” for the main hook in “Stay”. Whilst there are undoubtably similarities between the two and it is tempting to think that the talent behind Sash! was contrived and that he was some kind of dance music magpie, the court ruled against Hagerty as there was no clear evidence to suggest music plagiarism.

 

Stay is yet another amazing song! :wub:

Edited April 10, 20169 yr by Ne Plus Ultra

Stay is yet another amazing song! :wub:

I agree :wub:

 

Plus almost everything from Sash! is a hit for me :blush:

I've never heard the story about Durrel. It's not easy to find it online. The only youtube video of it is a comparison clip done with Stay.

I actually got Stay of ebay years afterwards because I wanted the extended version to mix into a trance compilation. I do like it a alot.

PF Project ft. Ewan McGregor - Choose Life

 

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/135739_zpsg77mldzu.jpg

 

Date 9th November 1997

4 Weeks (2 consecutive)

Official Chart Run 6-11-17-18-28-31-28-26-36-43-57 (11 weeks)

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

 

Now for a bit of an anomaly: though given the charts of 1997 it is hardly surprising that we see yet another film related dance record on top here when they had proved an increasingly lucrative venture over the previous 12 months. By the time “Choose Life” was released it had been well over 18 months since the initial screen debut of parent film Trainspotting. In that film the opening scene is soundtracked by the youthful energy of Iggy Pop and David Bowie’s collaborative “Lust For Life” which plays out whilst Ewan McGregor’s iconic opening monologue rolls over the top with expertly fast paced and punchy narrative, an impressively ironic piece that sets up the complex moral ambiguities of the film perfectly.

 

It is testament to the artistry of director Danny Boyle that his adaptation of the Irvine Welsh book and its supporting soundtrack would encapsulate so perfectly the mood of the mid-nineties, and such was the success of the film and its soundtrack (the original soundtrack made #2 on the UK album chart) that a follow-up was planned and released over a year later in September 1997 featuring many songs not included in the film. We have already encountered one of the most well known and popular tracks off the original soundtrack in this countdown from Underworld, and to publicise the second, this club-friendly remix of that aforementioned opening monologue to Trainspotting “Choose Life” was promoted giving Ewan McGregor his first (& only) Top 10 hit.

 

The PF Project were Nottingham duo Jamie White and Moussa Clarke, who had already scored Top 40 success under the name Tzant in 1996 with “Hot and Wet (Believe It)” which made #36. Whilst there is nothing particularly innovative about “Choose Life”, in which a thumping beat and aggressive but driving synth build around McGregor’s re-recorded radio friendly vocal, it managed to finally pay homage to one of the most iconic openings to a film and for that we can be thankful.

 

Edited April 12, 20169 yr by Doctor Blind

What is also a bit shock g is that there were 27 non-dance entries above a dance #1 in one week!

Stay is mega-mega-tune.

 

Choose Life is still the only song I know that non-abreviatedly mentions "compact disc players".

What is also a bit shock g is that there were 27 non-dance entries above a dance #1 in one week!

 

 

Yes - it's quite bizarre that in a year that was swamped by dance music there were very few dance hits at the end of 1997.

 

I've just checked the week that Choose Life was at 28 (the second time) and the closest we get to a dance song at any position above are the following

 

Aqua - Barbie Girl

Steps - 5,6.7,8

Vanilla - Now Way, No Way

 

And I think we can all agree that "no way" is the best response to those three.

"Choose Life" is amazing. Love that Ewan McGregor actually had 2 top 40 hits, the other being the great "Come What May" from Moulin Rouge!

Sunchyme is one of my favourite dance songs of all-time. :wub: Outstanding!

 

Surprised to learn that Never Gonna Let You Go wasn't a Top 5 hit, nice to see it had longevity though.

Interested to read that Tzant were also PF Project. I couldn't stand "Sounds of the Wickedness" - it was the sign, along with the Rockefeller Skank, that the short-lived "big beat" scene was dead.

 

The "Choose Life" single was utterly pointless but, I guess, in the days before Youtube etc. if you really wanted to hear Ewan McGregor saying those words, you'd have had to buy the Trainspotting video. This way it was cheaper :)

 

And, with my writing hat on, I think "compact disc players" was used instead of "CD players" for rhythmic purposes - it just fits better :)

A big hit is enough to kill a genre?

 

Sounds very elitist to me.

 

Choose Life did sound pointless to me also but dance music was often about opportunism and this was an opportunity.

Edited April 12, 20169 yr by Colm