Stay and Move Mania were my two faves. Move Mania had two great riffs.

Interestingly Encore Une Fois isn't my fave from Sash either. I love Mysterious Times, Stay, Move Mania but also La Primavera, With My Own Eyes. But after the 2000s I wasn't really a fan of his newer songs.

Mysterious Times and La Primavera were my favourites, both in my top ten of 1998. Also really love Move Mania, With My Own Eyes, Ecuador, Stay, Just Around The Hill and Raindrops.

 

Didn't like Adalante or Colour The World though.

Before I did the write up I would have always referred to Sash! as "he". There are three guys in the group and all three are mentioned as part of the group on their Facebook page.

Also, on behalf of Doctor Blind and myself we would like to thank you all in making this thread the most viewed non-iTunes or non-Spotify thread that

the main Chart forum has ever seen and also the thread with the 5th most posts.

 

Well done!

 

 

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On behalf of the entire site, you're welcome.

 

 

Also... I'm not overly keen on any of the Sash! singles in retrospect as they all sound a bit tinny and generally rather lacking. I did like some of them at the time and I can recall being quite impressed that they were able to change their formula a bit to create relatively distinct tracks rather than just stick to the exact same sound for each release.

I did like some of them at the time and I can recall being quite impressed that they were able to change their formula a bit to create relatively distinct tracks rather than just stick to the exact same sound for each release.

 

I totally agree. I wasn't a huge fan but I respected that they did try out different formulae.

Well done on the stats for this thread - one I keep coming back to.

 

Sash(!) were pretty awful. Ecuador(!) is the best of a bad bunch and that's mainly for the comedy Spaniard.

I remember asking my french teacher what "Encore Une Fois" meant.

 

Sash!: making GCSE French interesting in 1997.

Absolutely love everything Sash did. I saw him live in 2009 (supporting Basshunter!) just after he hit top 10 again with the Raindrops/EUF remix, and to my joy he didn't screw around with any of his older hits - they were all the originals, all sounding incredible a decade or more on. One of my pet hates is when acts update or remix their older tracks and basically ruin them - Ecuador especially still sounded epic!

and yes, thanks for this thread, best thread ever, it's almost like reading a book about the history of (dance) music :)

 

hope you don't stop at 99 and keep going!!!!!!

I've already asked Colm to do 2000-2010, I hope they will continue with this :blush:

I've had a look at 2000. Rather like the official charts there's A LOT of number 1s.

B.B.E. - Flash

 

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

 

Date 23rd Mar 1997

1 Week

Official Chart Run 5-18-33-46-65 (5 weeks)

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

 

Following up Seven Days and One Week which topped our chart for two weeks in 1996, B.B.E came back with the more synth-string-oriented Flash. It was a slightly more sophisticated offering that Seven Days, and certainly more dramatic. It could easily have sound tracked a movie sequence in the mid-90s.

 

It came backed with the usual supplementary club mix and a more Spanish guitar themed track called Photo.

 

It didn't fair nearly as well as Seven Days... around the world hitting the Top 10 in only 3 countries compared the later's 14. They would be back in 1998 with two number 19 hits, Desire and the more summery Deeper Love (Symphonic Paradise) from the Games album that came out that year also.

 

 

After that they veered into a more ethereal sound and never troubled the UK charts again.

Loved Flash! One of those that was never heard again the moment it left the charts though

They would be back in 1998 with two number 19 hits, Desire and the more summery Deeper Love (Symphonic Paradise) from the Games album that came out that year also.

 

Deeper Love (Symphonic Paradise) charted at #19 one week after Ruff Driverz charted at the same position with a track called Deeper Love.

Flash! is far better than 7 days for me, that "dramatic" sound made me love this track, this is how good trance should sound like.

It is better. Seven Days was a lot more primitive.

 

It works well with Brainbug's Nightmare.

The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats

 

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

 

Date 30th Mar 1997

1 Week

Official Chart Run 1-8-20-34-53-67-69 (7 weeks)

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

 

Wherein the Chemical Brothers give The Prodigy a run for their money at their skill of matching four or five samples and creating magic.

 

First off there's the impossibly funky opening riff which they created from the three note bass riff from The Crusaders' The Well's Gone Dry. Check it out! It's remarkable how simple they make it look. There is also a similarity to Pink Floyd's Let There Be Light - which, in my opinion sounds more like it was sampled by Placebo's Taste in Men. There's also an echo of Coup by 23 Skidoo and LFO's LFO.

 

The vocal title sample is taken from Schoolly D' Gucci Again and the block rocking beats themselves are provided by Bernard Purdie' Changes and Pucho & the Latin Soul Brothers'

Got Myself a Good Man.

They must have done some crate digging to get that distorted hollering sound in DJ Grand Wizard Theodore - hidden more than 10 minutes into the track.

A glorious key-change in the middle ups the ante and makes for one powerful hedonistic rush.

 

The overall impact is incendiary - as reflect by the hand-grenade in the artwork of the single. With the hype that the NME and Melody Maker were heaping upon the brothers and the expansion of their fanbase due to Noel G's contribution they became the commercial and credible face of big-beat which proved to be an antidote to emerging trance scene. The attendant album - Dig Your Own Hole was a critical and commercial success also.

 

The sky-scraper shaped chart runs of 1997 mean this only manages one week as the best selling dance single but the track remains a classic of the genre and also of 90s dance.

 

The track strangely won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1998 which is bizarre given that it is not a rock song and it has vocals.

 

Excellent track. :wub: