I couldn't possibly comment :P

I hope I was suitably vague in my description for you to know what I was referring to without giving it away to everyone else. :D

 

(plus I hope I'm correct as the track is one of my favourites from the 90s :wub: )

I think I had the Sybil album! Oh my, I bought so many terrible albums based upon a love of one or two decent pop tracks back in those days...

 

(also see the likes of Real Mccoy later on in the decade)

2 Unlimited - No Limit

The Bluebells would take the mick on Top of the Pops a few weeks later by interjecting in their Young At Heart chart topping single a refrain of "indie, indie, indie, indie".

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Dizzee Rascal also trolled 2 Unlimited by singing ‘Disco Disco Disco Disco’ in the pretty DIRE offering that was “Dirtee Disco” which hit #1 in May 2010.

Has anyone heard it played in the last 20 years?

 

Wave 105 plays it fairly frequently (often on Saturday evenings). They also play No Limit - but they play the version with the rap (which doesn't feature the Techno Techno Techno Techno line), which is unusual because in many other cases they play non-rap versions of songs.

I hope I was suitably vague in my description for you to know what I was referring to without giving it away to everyone else. :D

 

(plus I hope I'm correct as the track is one of my favourites from the 90s :wub: )

 

 

It hasn't given it away I don't think.

 

 

Nope, I'm still none the wiser and I spent a while thinking about it!

 

Sybil - cheesy and best ignored but, yeah, inoffensive is fair enough.

 

No, I don't think I've heard No Limit in 20 years either except maybe in the odd parody version that no longer hits the mark.

Sub Sub featuring Melanie Wiliams - Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)

 

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

 

Date 11th Apr 1993

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run 10-4-3-4-7-9-13-19-34-46-71 (11 weeks)

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

 

Sub Sub were Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Andy and Jez Williams. The twins and Jimi met at school in the mid-80s and were regulars a Manchester's legendary Haçienda club.

 

In 1991 they released Space Face on 12", with a somewhat 808 State and New Order influence (hardly escapable influences given the bands history). After joining Rob's Records in 1993 they constructed Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use) primarily using a sample of Good Morning Starshine from disco band Revelation.

 

Needing a vocalist to make this more of a commercial prospect they asked Melanie Williams to perform on the track and to help the during promotion of the song.

 

An album followed in 1994 but when a fire destroyed everything in their recording studio in 1996 the trio changed direction completely and formed Doves who went on to have significant success in the 00s becoming one of the major guitar bands of the era earning Brits and Mercury Prize nominations.

 

Melanie went on to have a few minor hits in 1994 and 1995, her final appearance in the chart being a duet with Joe Roberts, You Are Everything, in 1995.

 

 

 

Edited September 27, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe

:wub: Great track. Had it's own edge in production to stand out at the time. Love it.

I wasn't a massive fan of 'Ain't no Use' at the time as I thought it was a disappointing departure from Space Face but I really do quite like it now. A welcome change from rubbish europop at the top of the dance chart!

 

Think a few people were surprised to learn that Doves were Sub Sub in an earlier guise, but it makes sense when you examine the Doves records as waveforms (not that I suggest anyone do this - I was making a long mix using their song 'Pounding' once on the computer!) and realise that they are perfectly quantised (beat-mapped) and ready to mix into dance records.

I was never really a fan. The sample sounded too quirky for me. I didn't dislike it either.

 

Doves Pounding is so euphoric and was one of my favourite tracks from the 00s.

I liked that one at the time and I think I like it even more in retrospect, as you say it's pretty quirky which is always a good thing in my book. It's one of the few tracks that feels even vaguely in the same mould as Groove Is In The Heart.

I liked that one at the time and I think I like it even more in retrospect, as you say it's pretty quirky which is always a good thing in my book. It's one of the few tracks that feels even vaguely in the same mould as Groove Is In The Heart.

 

 

I was thinking the same myself.

 

I've sequenced them consecutively in my Now That's What Buzzjack Calls 90s Dance compilation - to be released when this thread is finished.

 

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/Now4.png

 

:D

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lol - Fabulous! *.*

Ha ha, excellent. Will it be on Spotify?

Spotify has dodgy versions of some tracks so no.

 

 

I will provide a pack of ones and zeros which should be enough to make your computer or phone make the right sounds.

Heh, ok. I've pretty much given up on MP3s now - just Spotify for me, dodgy versions or not.

Nah, I couldn't survive on Spotify version of KLF :o

This is such an underrated pop gem - it feels very poppy now but I guess it would have been closer to a dance track for 1993 ears. Has anyone heard it played in the last 20 years? I wasn't even aware of it existing until a decade ago, my iPod copy is from a second-hand purchase of Now Dance 93.

 

Heart sometimes play it as a "Club Classic". Also seen it on Heart TV.

Ha ha! True that. I really should load my iPhone with the few tracks I can't get on Spotify. Those that are deleted or very rare mostly...I don't tend to bother with anyone who's that up themselves they have their music exclusively with one provider.

2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance

 

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Date 2nd May 1993

5 Weeks

Official Chart Run 4-4-5-5-8-11-18-28-42-64-71 (11 weeks)

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

 

When we first heard from 2 Unlimited - masterminded by Belgian producers Jean-Paul De Coster and Phil Wilde, but fronted by handpicked 19 year-olds Anita and Ray - in 1991, they were something unique, fresh and memorable. The relentless urgency of “Get Ready For This” was a force to be reckoned with and Pete Waterman’s acquisition of the rights to release the track for just £1,000 a steal. By the early part of ’93 however, with the popularity of rave and acid house fragmenting rapidly, a vacuum opened in the UK commercial dance scene. This was rapidly filled by the eurodance that was growing in popularity across the continent. Whilst 2 Unlimited would eventually become engulfed within this surge of rival groups (one of which we will encounter very soon) - few, if any of these - would go on to replicate the kind of success and popularity that the group were able to sustain. They scored 13 Top 20 hits and 2 number 1 albums in the UK; with their second LP: No Limits climbing to #1 in its fourth week on release. In the spring of ’93 the duo were riding high at their commercial peak, thrust into the mainstream after their 5 week run at No. 1 with “No Limit” and the aforementioned Spitting Image parody.

 

“Tribal Dance” didn't change the winning formula too much, the track is announced with a drum roll and promptly arrives on a trumpet riff that is built around the main synth that dominated 1992 single “The Twilight Zone”. Many of the eurodance trademarks (taken from its origins of house, hip-hop and rave) that would go on to dominate the mid-90s are exhibited here, including a catchy female driven melodic chorus provided by Anita’s uplifting vocals, a frantic beat and pounding bassline which is punctuated in the original with a rapid fire rap from Ray to change things up. Incidentally his rap is removed once again for the UK release, though is he at least given more on-record contribution than simply the word ‘Techno’ repeated eight times consecutively.

 

There were tumultuous happenings on the UK singles chart this week too - which was the first in history to ever have 3 new entries inside the Top 5, of which 2 Unlimited was only the second highest - as a result “Tribal Dance” was unable to advance beyond its entry point of 4, and it also ultimately became the groups last ever Top 5 hit.