I can definitely understand why people love Breathe - it just doesn't click in my head.

 

It's that cheesy riff, I tell's ya!

I quite like the Professional Widow remix - I do agree that it's always been more of an Armand Van Helden record than Tori Amos really. Shame she would presumably have pocketed the money while he just got an upfront fee. These days it would be Armand Van Helden featuring Tori Amos with all spoils split.

Re Tori... I never minded that becoming her biggest hit, I definitely prefer the remix to the original version as it's always been one of my least liked Tori tracks. Plus, as Tony suggested, if it inspired her to make Choirgirl then it more than served its purpose! :wub:

 

 

And as for the X Files, the main track was definitely just the normal theme to the show which wasn't really dance music so I'd say excluding it was the correct thing to do. Half of the singles released in the 90s had dance remixes as b-sides, we can't really be including them all just in case someone bought the single for a remix. I remember at the time being absolutely gobsmacked when Mark Snow entered the chart at #2 - even though I'd actually bought it myself on my weekly trip to the local record shop, I never really expected it to make the top 40 and I remember listening to the chart and being completely unable to work out what was still to come aside from Firestarter.

Plus, as Tony suggested

 

 

:angry:

Haha. Sorry but you will forever be Tony in my mind!

:no:

The Orb - Toxygene

 

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm82/TheMagicPosition86/Toxygene_zps4h6cfuau.png

 

Date 2nd February 1997

1 Week

Official Chart Run 4-20-37-62 (4 weeks)

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

 

The Orb (not to be confused with Orbital) were, like so many dance groups of the era born out of the British rave scene of the late 1980s. The group started out as a collaboration between one half of the KLF, Jimmy Cauty, and DJ Alex Paterson in 1988. Before going their separate ways, which resulted after a falling out between Cauty and Paterson, the group recorded 1988s acid-house influenced “Tripping on Sunshine” and the bizarrely titled “A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre Of The Ultraworld” which became their first single; it peaked at #78 in July 1990 and would go on to epitomise the groups experimental and chill-out dance music used to soundtrack those post-rave moments.

 

Perhaps the best known of the groups work was the single that followed their debut; “Little Fluffy Clouds” which samples a

interview, was released at the end of 1990 and made #87 initially, but on re-release following their growing success made the Top 10 3 years later in autumn 1993.

 

In 1991 after Cauty's departure, in came producer Kris Weston (aka Thrash) who wrote the majority of the tracks on debut The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld and the follow-up 1992s U.F.Orb which went straight to number 1 and became the lowest selling #1 album of the 1990s. Controversy was courted by the group throughout the early 90s with many of their samples not being properly cleared or credited (including the aforementioned Rickie Lee Jones interview), and single “Blue Room” became the longest single to ever chart (officially: 39 minutes and 57 seconds long) which then featured Alex and Kris playing a game of chess in the Top of the Pops studio over a heavily edited playback for its public appearance after debuting at #12.

 

Citing differences of opinion Kris left the band in 1994 after a relatively successful period of 5 consecutive Top 20 hits (including a re-release of 1991 single “Perpetual Dawn”) and Alex continued along with part-time contributors Thomas Fehlmann and Andy Hughes, though the inspiration clearly dried up and a lot of their work post-1994 was not nearly as inspired. In 1997 they released the first single from Orblivion entitled “Toxygene”, which was originally meant to be a reinterpretation of Jean Michel Jarre’s “Oxygene 8” for Oxygene 7–13, however Jarre thought that rather than remix they had obliterated it, hated it, and refused to release it - Alex in response slated Jarre in the music press and decided to release it himself as the re-titled “Toxygene” which went in at #4 and became the groups biggest charting single.

 

The Orb continue to record and perform to the current day with recent album Moonbuilding 2703 AD landing at #90 last summer - however bitter divides remain between Kris Weston and Alex Paterson as to the royalties and contributions that each gave to the project in the 1990s.

 

Edited February 23, 20169 yr by Doctor Blind

from what I can garner the terrestrial remix of ‘the x-files’ was the primary reason for the 1996 release, irrespective of the commercial vagaries of the track listing ~ in any case the original composition is still very much a downtempo dance track with elements of trance and trip-hop. chill-out/electronica is a rather large branch of dance music to be excluded per se imo~

 

the armand van helden rmx of 'professional widow' is legendary~ :dance: :wub: :dance:

from what I can garner the terrestrial remix of ‘the x-files’ was the primary reason for the 1996 release, irrespective of the commercial vagaries of the track listing ~ in any case the original composition is still very much a downtempo dance track with elements of trance and trip-hop. chill-out/electronica is a rather large branch of dance music to be excluded per se imo~

 

I guess it all depends on whether

White Town's "Your Woman"

or

any of Portishead's top 15 chart hits

will appear here. :P

Why are we getting hung up on a TV theme when Toxygene has just entered the run down? Great record and a bit of a shame that it's likely to be their only inclusion here.

 

1997 has been very good so far. Who knew?

 

(Although a certain ! will be along soon to ruin that I'm sure)

 

from what I can garner the terrestrial remix of ‘the x-files’ was the primary reason for the 1996 release, irrespective of the commercial vagaries of the track listing ~ in any case the original composition is still very much a downtempo dance track with elements of trance and trip-hop. chill-out/electronica is a rather large branch of dance music to be excluded per se imo~

 

 

 

Downtempo is not included in this rundown. In the main, this rundown is for music that was played in clubs - not just the cool clubs - to dance to. We had to draw the line somewhere and that decision will not be compatible with everyone's expectations. It's worth noting that X-Files Theme would not have had a write up in this thread as it was always being outsold by Firestarter.

 

 

 

Already we've seen a comment about Gina G being excluded which is arguably an oversight on our part.

 

I think 1997 will throw up a lot of controversial inclusions and exclusions. In the end it's not a matter of life and death - we're not the OCC you know :D

Edited February 24, 20169 yr by Colm

I guess it all depends on whether

White Town's "Your Woman"

or

any of Portishead's top 15 chart hits

will appear here. :P

 

 

Now that would be telling :lol:

In the end it's not a matter of life and death - we're not the OCC you know :D

 

Please exclude Eiffel 65 when they come.

Please exclude Eiffel 65 when they come.

 

 

Well, you know...... the devil you know, etc. If we exclude Eiffel 65 we may have to replace them with someone even worse. :lol:

Edited February 24, 20169 yr by Colm

Always thought it was quite neat how both Orbital and The Orb got their highest-charting hits within a couple of weeks of each other in early '97.

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

 

 

I've nearly finished compiling this. We're looking at around 61 tracks covering all the genres featured. As always I'm obsessed with getting the sequencing perfect.

 

mp3 packs distributed when the thread is finished.

Edited February 25, 20169 yr by Colm

Well, you know...... the devil you know, etc. If we exclude Eiffel 65 we may have to replace them with someone even worse. :lol:

 

Urgh, true. What else was around at that time? Alice Deejay or Ann Lee perhaps? Urghhhhh!!!!

The Boys from Venga

Ah, rubbish indeed...but at least in a good-natured way.

This was the big version in Australia, after listening to all three versions I'd definitely say this was the better one.