February 2, 20169 yr Author great one, love it!!! we'll hear more from them?? cannot recall any other BBE song :D I'm surprised you care so much about a single person saying he didn't like Children, God forbid there was an unanimous praise for a song here in Buzzjack, there's always some weird guy that is not gonna appreciate an amazing song no matter what... I don't even like it very much. I am usually the person who dislikes the unanimously liked song :D
February 2, 20169 yr Fable <3 Don't Stop Movin <3 Seven Days <3 I dont like the Underworld or Prodigy tracks, at all.
February 2, 20169 yr Seven Days and One Week :heart: what a great song, discovered it in 2010 on a trance compilation and was surprised to learn it was a UK #3.
February 2, 20169 yr UK single cover http://streamd.hitparade.ch/cdimages/bbe-seven_days_and_one_week_s_3.jpg
February 3, 20169 yr What's weird about not liking Robert Miles? The melody is so simple it's practically a nursery rhyme. Good dance music should have a bit of depth.
February 4, 20169 yr I couldn't even remember on that Stretch n Vern track but quite good. On the other hand BBE was quite big at that time, but I always found it a non event tbh :( Their follow-ups Flash and Desire were better tracks imo.
February 4, 20169 yr Author Seven Days and One Week is very minimal and doesn't really take off for me.
February 8, 20169 yr Author The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/tonyttt31/settingsun.jpg Date 6th Oct 1996 2 Weeks Official Chart Run 1-4-11-25-39-54-68 (7 weeks) *Positions in red are the weeks when the track would be number 1 if just dance music was chart eligible. It's sometimes hard to remember it now but Oasis dominated the mid-90s and in particular 1996 in ways that are hard to fathom now. Yes, they sold fewer copies of their album than Alanis did of hers but they'd already sold well over 1.5 million the year before so it was well on its way to becoming the decade's best seller. On top of that Definitely Maybe was clocking up its 3rd year in the Top 25 year end albums chart. The appetite for Oasis product was so strong that all their old singles started to flood the bottom half of the Top 100 for months on end. In 1996 they would obliterate the record for most weeks in the Top 75 singles chart in a calendar year (134), all in an era with finite copies of singles. No downloads. No streaming. They would casually open with figures of 250,000 with mere 4th singles off an album. What the hell has this got to do with dance music, you say? Well, by October 1996 Noel Gallagher adding his vocals to your track meant that you were sitting on a pot of gold and that's exactly what happened to The Chemical Brothers. The Chems had been around since 1989. For a while though they weren’t even known as the Chemical Brothers. They originally chose to use the name the Dust Brothers but after proposed legal action by an American production duo also called the Dust Brothers they decided to change to the Chemical Brothers. The two DJ-ed around Manchester in the early 90s but like a lot of DJs they developed ambitions of making their own music. Using a Hitachi hi-fi system, a computer, a sampler and a keyboard, they recorded their first piece Song to the Siren. They got signed to the Andrew Weatherall’s label Junior Boy’s Own on the strength of that first track. Along with working on their own material they spent a lot of time remixing other artists and built up quite a demand for their remix sound, which worked well with live drums and live guitar samples. As a result they remixed The Charlatans, the Manic Street Preachers and Primal Scream. It was during this period when Noel Gallagher approached them to provide the music for a track he had an idea for. This didn’t come to fruition but their association would start at this juncture. There would be further conversations where Noel would speak about how much he liked Exit Planet Dust and offered to sing on a future track. The band would support Oasis at Knebworth in August 1996. That future track would be Setting Sun which the duo created with a vocalist in mind. They sent demo tapes of the song to Noel to which he added lyrics from an old Oasis song called Coming On Strong. Recording was done swiftly and the whole project was released soon afterwards. Setting Sun was a hit and spent two weeks as the best selling dance single in the UK. This is not the last we’re hear of the Brothers Chemical but alas it is the last that we hear from the Brothers Gallagher. p5NX1FC-7-w Edited February 8, 20169 yr by Colm
February 8, 20169 yr :wub: Amazing song, and still their very best, Noel's vocals are excellent on it. Eek though, it really did deserve a better chart run than that, feels like it's much more well known than that suggests. Born Slippy is an all time favourite too, was surprised to hear it was such a big hit in the UK when I first heard it even with the film feature, still sounds very out-there and unconventional even for it's time.
February 8, 20169 yr Author Setting Sun is nowhere near my favourite Chems song. They went on to do so much more amazing music.
February 9, 20169 yr Indeed they had produced much better stuff before Setting Sun too...Leave Home still sounds huge! No mention of the similarities to the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows? And, yes, Oasis were gigantic in 1996. Mainly because of the quality of the B-sides to the earlier singles. Setting Sun is a bit of a watershed as Oasis just stopped trying after it...although some would argue they stopped trying after Some Might Say got them their first number one.
February 9, 20169 yr oh didn't know Setting Sun had lyrics based on an old Oasis song, great to know! Love the song, one of their best
February 9, 20169 yr Author Indeed they had produced much better stuff before Setting Sun too...Leave Home still sounds huge! Loops of Fury was very good.
February 9, 20169 yr Just realised Setting Sun was their first number 1. In fact I thought Block Rockin' Beats was their only number 1 :wacko: Can we say this was really a "non number 1"? Only 7 weeks top 75 and 5 weeks top 40. :o To be honest, I don't really like Setting Sun. I much prefer Block Rockin Beats or Hey Boy Hey Girl (their best for me)
February 10, 20169 yr Loops of Fury was very good. Indeed! Difficult to get hold of too as it wasn't on an album.
February 13, 20169 yr Author All time dance classic next up. One I have not yet got on 12" but it's on my shopping list.
February 14, 20169 yr Guys I was yesterday on a 90s party in Munich. I danced all night long, only 5-6 songs were I didn't like the others were fantastic, from trash to rave to pop everything :lol:
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