Love this song though not quite as good as "Feel It". The title along with Manic Street Preachers "If You Tolerate This, Your Children Will Be Next" are still hilarious. :D

Edited May 25, 20169 yr by Ne Plus Ultra

At the time I thought that Maya from The Tamperer records was the same Mya who featured in Ghetto Supastar. And they kind of look alike.

Edited May 25, 20169 yr by N-S

Not nearly as good as Feel It.

At the time I thought that Maya from The Tamperer records was the same Mya who featured in Ghetto Supastar. And they kind of look alike.

 

And there was also Meja who charted around about the same time (although she looked totally different).

Lyrics translation

 

Dancing in a club as usual

I saw through the smoke

the stare of the disc-jockey.

Our eyes met for just an instant

but since then, I'm all fire all flame

 

I see the disc-jockey

 

Dancing in a club as usual

I saw through the smoke

the stare of the disc-jockey.

 

I see the disc-jockey

 

All fire, all flame

All fire, all flame

All fire, all flame

I didn't know Sabine was German. Her French pronounciation is quite accurate.

 

If only being in a club was so exotic.

Two weeks ago when I was in a club I saw the DJ, skidded on the wet floor and did my knee in.

 

This will nearly be over - gonna miss this thread when it's gone.

 

 

I don't think I would have the knowledge (or perhaps the interest) to do this for the 00s. I mean, after 2002 dance music just fell off a cliff in chart terms until 2009/10 when the bangers started again.

 

 

Oh please continue!! ;)

I'd agree that dance music was the preserve of the 90s, a lot of pop since 2000 had a pretty heavy dance edge, so the boundaries aren't so clear.

 

Carry on, but a different genre? ;)

Dr Blind may continue. I haven't spoken to him about the prospect of continuance.

Concluding 1998 then..

 

Vengaboys - Up and Down

 

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Date 22nd November 1998

7 Weeks

Official Chart Run 4-4-9-13-17-14-12-18-23-32-36-47-52-59-60 (15 weeks)

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

 

Whilst their brand of upbeat pop-leaning dance aimed at a much younger audience would ordinarily preclude acts like the Vengaboys from our countdown, “Up and Down” - a largely instrumental club ready hit - was fairly atypical of their back-catalogue yet also demonstrates the groups ethos of the party that never stops.

 

Following in the footsteps of their Dutch contemporaries Vengaboys are fronted by four dancers and singers in a variety of interesting costumes: Kim, Denise, Roy and Robin - and they don’t hide the fact that they, much like 2 Unlimited before them, were the faces of a behind-the-scenes Dutch production duo, formed by Wessel van Diepen and Dennis van den Driesschen in 1992. Wessel Van Diepen was formerly part of L.A. Style whose 1991 single “James Brown Is Dead” is largely credited as the first rave hit in the US, however despite equal success in Australia and much of Europe it did not chart in the UK. “Up and Down” (released originally in 1997) which followed previous singles “Parada De Tettas” and “To Brazil” into the Dutch charts and marked their entrance into the wider European market, entered the UK singles chart over 18 months later at number 4. The single marked the culmination of almost 5 years touring an old school bus (the so-called ‘Vengabus’) across Spain and Ibiza for a series of impromptu beach parties where they met the four dancers during the summer of 1996, and began work on the aforementioned early underground singles.

 

“Up and Down” remains atypical in their vast cannon because though it does contain the groups familiar trademark of using almost the exact same backing track to the two singles that followed it, it differs by having a much more minimal dance orientated, and somewhat credible sound. It fuses an uplifting and euphoric synth melody with a fitness video instructive as a hook (repeated ad-nauseum) from which the track takes its title - and then proceeds to throw in a somewhat gratuitous amount of a sample of American disco diva Loleatta Holloway’s “Crash Goes Love” for the energetic ‘whoop’. Though this debut suggested yet another faceless European dance 1-hit-wonder who would be forgotten within weeks, the group had not even began to get the party started properly yet.

 

Edited May 26, 20169 yr by Doctor Blind

I've missed a couple of pages but re-joining now with the great Vengaboys :lol: :cheer:

 

I really liked them :o :kink:

Up And Down is so much fun, love that signature backing track! :D

'Up & Down' sounds basically the same as the backing track of 'We Like To Party' (a future Dance Chart #1 here I'd imagine), but is nonetheless quite a bangin' tune.

Vengaboys were pretty blimmin' awful but I had no idea one of them was in LA Style! I've got a couple of their 12"s in my rack at home.

At the time I was probably sick of them but I have an attitude about novelty bands - no one takes them seriously so I'm not bothered by them. It's awful bands that some people take seriously like Nickenbck, Googoo Dolls, that offend me most.

1998 at a glance...

 

1998-01-04 BT - Flaming June (1 Week)

1998-01-11 Bamboo - Bamboogie (4 weeks)

1998-02-08 Encore - Le Disc Jockey (1 Week)

1998-02-15 Camisra - Let Me Show You (1 Week)

1998-02-22 Cornershop - Brim Full of Asha (Normal Cook Remix) (3 Weeks)

1998-03-15 Run-DMC Vs Jason Nevins - It’s Like That (7 Weeks)

1998-05-03 The Tamperer ft. Maya - Feel It (4 Weeks)

1998-05-31 Mousse T Vs Hot ’n’ Juicy - Horny (2 Weeks)

1998-06-14 Dario G - Carnaval De Paris (1 Week)

1998-06-21 Mousse T Vs Hot ’n’ Juicy - Horny (2 Weeks)

1998-07-05 Karen Ramirez - Looking For Love (2 Weeks)

1998-07-19 Echobeatz - Mas Que Nada (1 Week)

1998-07-26 Mousse T Vs Hot ’n’ Juicy - Horny (1 Week)

1998-08-02 Apollo Four Forty - Lost in Space (1 Week)

1998-08-09 Sash! feat. Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times (1 Week)

1998-08-16 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (4 weeks)

1998-09-13 T-Spoon - Sex on the Beach (4 Weeks)

1998-10-11 Fatboy Slim - Gangster Trippin' (1 Week)

1998-10-18 Spacedust - Gym and Tonic (2 Weeks)

1998-11-01 Touch and Go - Would You…? (1 Week)

1998-11-08 The Tamperer ft. Maya - If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better (2 Weeks)

1998-11-22 Vengaboys - Up and Down (7 Weeks)

 

 

 

Top 10 Sellers

 

01 Run–D.M.C. vs Jason Nevins - It's Like That

02 Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You

03 The Tamperer ft. Maya - Feel It

04 Cornershop - Brimful of Asha [Norman Cook Remix]

05 Mousse T vs Hot ‘N' Juicy - Horny

06 T-Spoon - Sex on the Beach

07 Vengaboys - Up and Down

08 Sash! featuring Tina Cousins - Mysterious Times

09 Sash! - La Primavera (#2 behind Run–D.M.C. vs Jason Nevins )

10 The Tamperer ft. Maya - If You Buy This Record Your Life Will Be Better

Apart from Sash! and Karen Ramirez, I can't say that I really LOVED any of those from 1998, but I know 1999 will be a different story :wub:

I liked Brim Full of Asha and Flaming June the most from that list.

Edited May 27, 20169 yr by Colm

Fatboy Slim - Praise You

 

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/praise%20you.jpg

 

Date 10th January 1999

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run 1-4-9-13-18-23-25-34-49-61-66-72 (12 weeks)

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

 

 

Norman, of course had been to the summit of the UK charts many times before this - as part of The Housemartins, Beats International and as remixer of Brim Full of Asha - but this was the first time he did it on his own. Not that he was quite alone, however, as he was indebted to one Camille Yarbrough for the now instantly recognisable sample used in the title phrase of Praise You. The track he took the sample from song was titled Take Yo' Praise and it featured on her 1975 album The The Iron Pot Cooker.

 

Camille is an American singer who operates in the genres of soul, jazz and funk. She was an activist and poet also and influenced many more than just Normal Cook. Lauren Hill, Etherwood, O.S.T.R, Dirty Diggers, Marschmellows and King Arthur have all been connected with her work.

 

Her first steps into the entertainment industry came in 1971 when she toured a stage dramatisation of her one-woman/spoken word show: Tales and Tunes of an African American Griot. The Iron Pot Cooker was based on the material used for this show and was released to critical acclaim in the USA and remains a cult album of great repute. She is said to have raised the bar for female rap music with her semi-spoken blues style.

 

Praise You also contains many other samples. Most prominently the piano figure is taken from Hoyt Axton and James B. Lansing Sound Inc's 1973 out take Balance & Rehearsal, the bass from Steve Miller Band's Lucky Man was also used and a funky guitar lick was from Walt Disney Records Studio Group's It's a Small World.

 

The clip for the single was famously directed by Spike Jonze who made the whole thing for $800. It went on to win 3 MTV Awards - Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, and Best Choreography.

 

Yarbrough's Take Yo' Praise was remixed and re-released on 12" in 1999.

 

We're not finished with Fatboy Slim just yet.

 

 

Edited May 28, 20169 yr by Colm

One of those tracks where song and video go perfectly together. Such a shame we probably won't see Weapon Of Choice if this continued into 2001. That video is even better.