I can understand that and while I dont listen to it very often at all I do like some of the music in parts of it.

Anyway... are we due a couple more of these today? I'm loving the memories that this thread brings back ^_^

No. One tomorrow - I have deadlines of a different kind looming.

Is that the one that was performed on Going Live? I'm too young to remember it when first shown, but there's an brilliant clip I've seen of them performing it and the camera cutting back to a horrified/disgusted looking Phillip Schofield, to huge laughter from the camera crew.

 

Yes, Trevor and Simon had a couple of characters called 'Pot Fish' who were some sort of rave roadshow a bit like The Hitman and Her. Trev had Pat Sharp hair and Simon was dressed in a leotard as 'Moon Monkey'. They basically used to just talk nonsense about being sorted while The Prodigy's 'Jericho' played in the background.

 

The Keith Harris and Orville rave track is here if you want to hear it. They 'cleverly' got Orville to sing 'E E E - look at me, I'm fying'.

 

 

 

Despite what others think, this was at least a little bit of quality in my opinion. I had a Carl Cox at the Coventry Eclipse (I think) mix tape some time in late spring 1992 and this was on it. I had no idea what it was, but I loved it. I was really chuffed when it got released properly a few months later.

 

I'm a pretty big Richard D James fan and I think I'd stick this on a best of compilation of his any day!

New job is making me tired! I'll get the next entry up soon :(

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode

 

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Date 3th Sept 1992

5 Weeks

Official Chart Run 6-2-1-1-1-1-3-8-29-48

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

 

And here's another song that is part of a slightly perplexing sequence of single releases.

 

Having become successful, but not quite household names, in 1991 with the re-released (and re-named) Move Any Mountain, and despite the tragic loss of Will Sinnott, The Shamen pressed on and capitalised on their position with a new album in 1992, and its attendant singles.

 

The first of these was L.S.I (Love Sex Intelligence). Now, while this was a substantial hit (coming in as the third highest selling dance single behind Sesame's Treet and Rhythm in a Dancer in July) it was to be vastly overshadowed in terms of sales, notoriety and in the public consciousness by its follow up Ebeneezer Goode.

 

The notoriety is a well documented controversy concerning the alleged promotion of ecstasy in the chorus chant of "Es are good". Several other drug references are present in the lyrics - most famously "Veras" for Vera Lynns: skins, and "salmon" for salmon and trout: snout, slang for cigrarettes. It was initially banned by the BBC but this didn't deter the single from hitting number 1 during the BBC's drug awareness week.

 

The band were asked to change some of these references for their Top of the Pops performances. Rapper, Mr C, would perform the lyric "Has anyone got any Veras?" as "Has anyone got any underlay?". He would later claim that this was a gratuitous rug reference. :D

 

The song, overall, is ebullient and has a childish infectiousness which grated on many listeners after the huge exposure that ensued. The verse lyrics are an easy flowing character description of Mr Goode in which Mr C's delivers his most upbeat rap on any Shamen single. It is endlessly quotable with a video that matches the almost hyper-active vocal delivery perfectly. Of course, the avenue the band took to reach mainstream success was so shamelessly populist that there were claims of selling out from former fans of the band and from fans dance music in general and the song has become something of a novelty song, in retrospect. Mixmag weren't at all impressed.

 

Its chart success was intentionally cut short by the band, deleting the song while it was at number 1 because it was potentially going to mess up the release schedule of the follow up singles. They were the first act to delete a single while it was still at the top of the charts.

 

Those follow up singles came thick and fast, and as a result The Shamen featured in every weekly Top 40 from 18th July 1992 to the end of January 1993.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 5, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe

I never knew it was deleted, I remember at the time being perplexed by it's sudden tumble down the charts. Loved this when it was out - and still have a soft spot for it now actually.

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode

 

 

 

Its chart success was intentionally cut short by the band, deleting the song while it was at number 1 because it was potentially going to mess up the release schedule of the follow up singles. They were the first act to delete a single while it was still at the top of the charts.

 

Sorry I hate to look like I'm picking holes in this excellent thread but just to throw a bit of extra light on this subject......Until recently I thought this was true but as it transpires the original Band Aid was deleted on new years day 1985 due to a dispute between Bob Geldof and the record shops about pricing. I think this MAY be the first instance though I'm prepared to be corrected? :D

I would say you are correct, Gezza. I was taking The Shamen's own word for it from an interview for The Guardian and they are probably not the chart afficianados that you are. :D

Despite Mr C’s OTT cockney geezer performance I do still enjoy “Ebeneezer Goode”, it's a really fun track and the Beatmasters mix which made it a number 1 record is probably my favourite. There is something deliciously childish about the Beeb not quite getting the pretty obvious drug reference and it climbing to #1 during their national ‘drug awareness fortnight’ campaign. Not sure why they deleted the record, probably because they were fed up with it being at number 1 or maybe worrying about losing their credibility. They have two more entries to come in 1992!

If you read my write up it said that continued success of EG was going to potentially mess up their release schedule.

Edited September 5, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe

Great, fun track! All the Shamen's 91-93 singles were quality!

If you read my write up it said that continued success of EG was going to po

 

Yeah I did read it, but I don't buy their explanation! :P

Despite Mr C’s OTT cockney geezer performance I do still enjoy “Ebeneezer Goode”, it's a really fun track and the Beatmasters mix which made it a number 1 record is probably my favourite. There is something deliciously childish about the Beeb not quite getting the pretty obvious drug reference and it climbing to #1 during their national ‘drug awareness fortnight’ campaign. Not sure why they deleted the record, probably because they were fed up with it being at number 1 or maybe worrying about losing their credibility. They have two more entries to come in 1992!

 

I didn't get it at the time either I was 13. Went completely over my head. I was a lot more innocent than I ever thought I was. I also didn't get why there was fuss about "we call it acieeeed" at the time. I thought Acid was just a type of dance (which of course it also was) I also remember "Everything starts with an E" been played on the top 40 again I didn't get it.

 

It seems nowadays they are hypersensitive to certain things when pointed out i.e. "drunk sex" edited out on Rita Ora's "this is how we do" on certain tv and radio channels.

 

I remember in late 1987 there was a single in the top 40 called 2there ain't nothing like shaggin'" Bruno used to skip over it and not even say the name as an 8 year old this caught my attention. I asked my Dad what "shaggin" was. Oh dear.

They have two more entries to come in 1992!

 

 

No spoilers please :lol:

Oh I totally didn't understand the controversy around Ebeneezer Goode either as I'm pleased to say those references weren't commonly used in my childhood!

 

My dad banned me from buying it due to the lyrics though. Not that this stopped me, I just bought it and pretended a friend had given it to me as a present. :D

I got the references as I'd heard of E when rave music broke into the mainstream charts and heard people talk on the radio about the lyrics.

Bizarre Inc ft. Angie Brown - I’m Gonna Get You

 

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Date 18th October 1992

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 17-6-4-3-4-5-9-16-25-42-57-73-x-72 (13 weeks)

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

 

Making their long overdue appearance in this thread are Stafford’s Bizarre Inc, who were formed in 1989 by Mark Archer (who later went on to set up Altern 8 with engineer Chris Peat) and Dean Meredith. The duo’s first release, a stripped down house track “It’s Time To Get Funky” received strong club play but failed to chart and later the group ended up on hiatus as Mark left to pursue other projects. However, less than a year later the group reformed when Dean invited studio engineer Andy Meecham and local club DJ Carl Turner to join and they started to produce demos. Once such demo, the pulsating classic “Playing With Knives” was sent out to independent label Vinyl Solution and bagged them a contract - it shot to No.43 when released in March 1991 and was followed by the equally impressive “Such A Feeling” which became their major breakthrough hit, peaking at 13 in September ’91. A springboard re-release of “Playing With Knives” got them into the UK Top 5 (at #4) in November under the momentum of the rave chart takeover, however it took them almost a year to follow it.

 

Returning in October ’92, the group took inspiration from Jocelyn Brown’s 1986 minor hit “Love’s Gonna Get You” (peaking at #70), which had already inspired two Top 10 hits in the 1990s already, with uncredited samples used by Snap! (for 1990 #1 hit “The Power”) and Moby (for 1991’s “Go”). Using a catchy old skool breakbeat, a string-drenched backdrop as well as a sample from Dupree’s “Brass Disk” (Yo DJ, pump this party!), the group went for a more vocal driven commercial direction for “I’m Gonna Get You” which paid off when it duly delivered their biggest hit to-date. The trio originally tried to get Jocelyn to sing on their reworked version, however she declined and in the end they settled for Brixton-born session singer Angie Brown who provided her own incredibly powerful vocals and launched her into the big time. The group continued to collaborate with Brown and hit the Top 20 the following year with “Took My Love” (#19) however despite signing with a major label and later being A-listed on Radio 1 with 1996 single “Keep The Music Strong” (peaking at #33) they failed to recapture the spark that had provided Top 10 success and were soon dropped.. their final outing was an Al Scott remix of “Playing With Knives” which charted at #30 in March 1999. Angie Brown (who goes around touring as Bizarre Inc) was last seen in 2014 appearing on the third series of The Voice UK singing “I’m Gonna Get You” but failing to capture the attention of any of the judges!

 

Still love the song. Anthem!

I always really disliked that song and things haven't changed. Even if they hadn't been responsible for the amazing Such a Feeling I would still find it repetitive and irritating. Awful.

 

 

Sorry :(