I did quite like the video for that Outhere Brothers record - lots of ye olde cartoons stuck together over a wee groove. The "club mix" is a load of bollocks. In fact, bollocks are about the only thing they don't mention.

 

Never really understood people who went out to buy the single (and other stuff like Chubby Brown's Alice) just because there were naughty words on it though.

They sang a clean version of the original on TOTP as well. The Townhouse version is better though IMO.

'don't give me your life' ~ what a bop :dance:

 

never knew there was an x-rated version of 'don't stop' like bbb :o ~ if it wasn't for comic relief + take that the outhere brothers would've had 2x 6 week #1's in 1995! :lol:

Oh I totally forgot about the Outhere Brothers and Don't Stop :lol:

 

Wasn't this the official song/video? although I remember on the cartoon version tbh.

 

That video has been blocked in the UK - but the cartoon video I posted was the one that was used in the UK at the time of the singles release.

I preferred Don't Stop (Wiggle Wiggle) a lot more than Boom Boom Boom.

Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K-Klass Mix)

 

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

 

Date 30th Apr 1995

1 Week

Official Chart Run 5-3-3-3-3-4-8-16-25-30-46-63

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

 

The roots of Bobby Brown's career in music stretch back to the tender age of 9 when he and his school mates formed the band New Edition in Boston. Appearing at several talent shows in the city brought them to the attention of Maurice Starr's record label who signed them. They had a European hit with Candy Girl, their second single, even hitting number 1 in the UK.

 

They would cultivate a much more solid career in the USA where the have been credited as introducing the boy band phenomenon.

 

Brown was forced to leave the group in 1986 because of increasingly unacceptable and rebellious behaviour that didn't sit well with the other band members.

 

He signed to his former group's label MCA and launched a successful solo career in 1986 which went on to globally eclipse that of New Edition. In 1989 he struck gold, internationally with several of his most famous hits such as Don't Be Cruel, My Prerogative. Brown spent more time in the UK Top 40 than any other artist that year.

 

His second album, Bobby, was released in 1992 to slightly more modest success, the 6th single from which was Two Can Play That Game. It was a minor hit in the UK hitting number 38 in mid-1994. This of course was before it was picked up by K-Klass and transformed into the piano-house flooriller that we all know and, er, know.

 

After languishing behind The Outhere Brothers for 4 weeks, Two Can Play That Game finally gets a week as the best selling dance single in the UK.

 

This success led to a series of re-released singles of his earlier hits. His public persona and troublesome marriage to Whitney Houston overshadowed the rest of his career and he was last seen in the singles chart in 2006.

 

 

 

Edited November 21, 20159 yr by Cauldron

Two Can Play That Game :D

 

So totally start of the 90s sound :D

 

I quite liked it :kink:

That video has been blocked in the UK - but the cartoon video I posted was the one that was used in the UK at the time of the singles release.

blocked in Germany too (but I've got an unblocker :heehee:)

Two Can Play That Game had a week at #5 before its 4 week run at #3. It was listed as a re-entry that week (rather than a re-issue), as was Strike's U Sure Do at #6 the same week (it had reached #31 the previous year).

Two Can Play That Game had a week at #5 before its 4 week run at #3. It was listed as a re-entry that week (rather than a re-issue), as was Strike's U Sure Do at #6 the same week (it had reached #31 the previous year).

 

 

Apologies. Polyhex didn't have the week at number 5.

Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game (K-Klass Mix)

 

His second album, Bobby, was released in 1992 to slightly more modest success, the 6th single from which was Two Can Play That Game. It was a minor hit in the UK hitting number 38 in mid-1994. This of course was before it was picked up by K-Klass and transformed into the piano-house flooriller that we all know and, er, know.

 

It was the K-Klass version that got to #38 in '94 as well

The K-Klass remix makes the track, worth mentioning that “Rhythm Is A Mystery” was their biggest hit and despite peaking at #3 in November 1991 was not mentioned in this thread due to peaking below 2 Unlimited. They also made The Corrs’ “So Young” into a Top 10 hit in November 1998 (#6).

I haven't forgotten about this - I'm just really busy at the moment. :(

Not at this precise one you're not! :D

Edited November 25, 20159 yr by dandy*

Whilst we wait then, let's discuss some DANCE hits that didn't quite make the list from early 1995. First up Perfecto Allstarz (aka early Paul Oakenfold). The Skeleton in the video used to scare my sister! :D

 

17-8-9-7-6-7-13-24-41-67-75 (11 weeks)

 

One of THE biggest omissions and casualties of this list is yet another Oakenfold mix - Not Over Yet from Grace (also peaking at #6) a few months later in April 1995.

 

8-6-9-13-21-34-42-65 (8 weeks)

 

Edited November 25, 20159 yr by Doctor Blind

Good time to post this happy hardcore gem from Germany, a huge hit over Europe during early 1995 and one of the few happy hardcore top 40 hits to reach the UK, peaking at #24 here.

 

Livin' Joy - Dreamer

 

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

 

Date 7th May 1995

3 Week

Official Chart Run 1-2-4-10-18-26-34-41-60-67-70

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

 

 

Back to Italy for our next number 1.

 

Technically a re-entry in the chart, Dreamer had already been released and charted in 1994 for brothers Paolo and Gianni Visnadi, who Doctor Blind quite rightly mentioned in his Alex Party write up. It topped the US dance chart in November 1994 and was a huge club hit making a re-release in the UK a tempting prospect.

 

Taking on vocal duties for this now classic 90s dance anthem was Janice Robinson. It was released in April 1995 and this time around it hit the jack-pot.

 

As far as I remember, and I'm sure I will be corrected if I am incorrect, Dreamer became a sort of watershed moment in chart entry terms as it was the first time that a concerted effort was successfully made to co-ordinate distribution around the UK record shops and and so availability was immediately widespread to meet the instant demand on release date built up by airplay. It started a trend of singles entering at number 1 which lasted over a decade.

 

We'll hear more from Livin' Joy later in this list.

 

 

I remember Radio 1 trailing all week that this was possibly going to enter at #1, it was the moment for me that the UK chart changed emphasis from 'songs climbing to #1' to 'songs entering at #1 and then lingering around for ages'. DULL, SAFE, TEDIOUS but an effective strategy to get a instant big hit.

 

Funny enough “Dreamer” technically wasn't the best selling single that week as Oasis had a second entry at 71 for the 12” vinyl for “Some Might Say” with a further 3,000 sales to more than make up the gap of tiny 500 sales which separated the two singles by the end of the week. After hitting 18 the previous year and failing to yield any further momentum Janice Robinson (who sings on the track) left the group before this charged to 1 meaning a long gap before a moderately successful follow-up.

 

Anyway the bassline that kicks this off and runs through gets me every time, and the vocals are great too. Good record!