I'm blue, In Aberdeen I will die, In Aberdeen I will die, In Aberdeen I will die. :(

 

 

Love it.

Everyone had their own version! I thought it was "I'm a leader for Di" and wondered if they were referring to the late princess.

 

Another one I enjoy for the childhood nostalgia more than the song itself...the opening piano melody bit is great, but that weird filtered house beat that thuds over the song never sounded great to me. And the radio edit - at FOUR MINUTES FOURTY THREE SECONDS (seriously!) was utterly taking the piss, thankfully the video edit is much shorter and doesn't outstay its welcome.

 

Crazy how well it did in the US given how utterly dance-phobic the Billboard charts were at the time, I guess the novelty factor took off in the same way Ace of Base's 'The Sign' was randomly massive there a few years earlier.

All four minutes and forty-three seconds of 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' are essential tho *_* classique boppage.

A seven year old me also mistook it for 'apple deer, apple dine' and I thought it was that for years, It was a moment of revelation years later when I finally knew what he was saying!

 

It was the first song I remember hearing everywhere and liking as a youngster, oddly enough I didn't hear it at all in the next few years, but it remains a nostalgic favourite and still infuriatingly infectious to this day <3

Edited June 18, 20169 yr by Chez Wombat

Ann Lee - 2 Times

 

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Date 10th October 1999

5 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-2-4-6-11-17-22-26-40-56-58-52-52-65-49-64 (16 weeks)

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

 

Although “2 Times” is the first credited appearance for Sheffield born Annerley Gordon (aka Ann Lee), she has already had some influence with a track in this countdown, as pointed out by Rich and Colm in the review for Corona’s ubiquitous 90s anthem “Rhythm Of The Night”, on which she was a part of the writing team.

 

She become involved in the Italian house scene when, whilst in her early 20s, she moved from Sheffield to Italy, bagged a job as a singer in an Italian disco and was soon scouted out as a faceless session singer on a variety of dance projects. This is where she met prolific Italian producer Alfredo Pignagnoli who was responsible for the Whigfield project, and the reason behind the rumours that Ann Lee was the vocalist on the early Whigfield records (as far as I can tell however this is entirely untrue - though she did co-write some of the tracks), he then who worked with her whilst she started writing her own material. In 1998, now 31 and whilst improvising and trying out some unique effects they came up with the simple melody for “2 Times” with its emulated nagging ‘do do do do do do’ hook worming its way into your head within minutes of the melody starting. By adding a simple looped dance beat over the track, it quickly became a catchy anthem (which also charted on import sales alone) and became Lee’s incredibly successful debut hit.

 

A #1 in Scotland (where it held an 18 year-old Christina Aguilera off of the top spot), it sold remarkably well both in the UK and across Europe, however the success was to be fleeting with follow-up “Voices” (which I suspect most would struggle to remember) using the same tricks and unsurprisingly failing to set the chart alight - it made a very brief Top 40 appearance at 27 in March 2000 before she exited the charts for good.

 

This is my favorite track from Ann Lee's album (in fact it was the 4th single, a cover of Ring My Bell being the third)

 

2 Times was even more twee than Better Off Alone. It's quite sweet.

Another that I bought on single, along with most of the others here from 1999. I can see why some would find it annoying, and I did too the first time I heard it, but it really wormed its way into my affections by the timeit was released.

 

I was amazed it charted higher than B*Witched's Jesse Hold On though, I thought it was destined for a #3 debut behind that and Christina.

'2 Times' does seem quite subtle compared to the synth-heavy eurodance of Eiffel 65/Vengaboys/Alice Deejay though still distinctively late 90s in sound. quite a tune but I wouldn't say it's one of my fave dance tracks of its time..

I'm blue, In Aberdeen I will die, In Aberdeen I will die, In Aberdeen I will die. :(

Everyone had their own version! I thought it was "I'm a leader for Di" and wondered if they were referring to the late princess.

So true! Someone at school told me it was "I'm blue, if I were green I would die" and I assumed he was right. 17 years later there's never been another song with such mass confusion over the lyrics, has there?

 

I'm blue, In Aberdeen I will die, In Aberdeen I will die, In Aberdeen I will die. :(

Love it.

 

Rangers fans used to sing "I'm blue, Aberdeen are dire" around this time.

 

Not sure which is cheesier out of Eiffel 65 and Ann Lee to be honest...

I'm blue,

All will bleed, all will die

and I'm in need of a guy.

Did Albert pee? I would die!

Double d, dot the 'i'

if I don't breathe I will die.

Gotta beat up a guy.

let me bleed, let me die,

 

I'm a dude, indeed I'm a guy,

I believe I'm a guy.

I must eat or I'll die

I got beat up and died

I'm in need of a dime.

I'm in need of a guide

 

I'm blue in Aberdeen I would die,

If I was green I would die

'Cos I believed in a lie

I O.D.ed and I died

I ate a weed, I might die.

I believe I'm a dyke

 

 

Edited June 20, 20169 yr by Colm

Paul Van Dyk - Another Way / Avenue

 

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Date 14th November 1999

1 Week

Official Chart Run 13-28-38-49-67-XX-XX-72-69 (7 weeks)

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

 

Making his long overdue appearance in this thread is German trance DJ Matthias Paul - aka Paul Van Dyk. He had been in the ascendant over the middle part of the decade with huge Ibiza anthems “Forbidden Fruit” and the iconic “For An Angel”, though both made rather muted chart appearances at 69 and 28 in the summers of 1997 and 1998 respectively.

 

From debuting in a small German club known as Tresor as a DJ in the early 1990s, it took until early 1999 for Paul to register his first Top 20 hit, a #18 placing in January for a track that he remixed more than 6 years earlier “Love Stimulation” by fellow German music producer Humate (aka Gerret Frerichs). The track was originally remixed as the ‘Love Mix’ and released in 1993, showcasing Paul’s flair for euphoric trance, uplifting balearic beats and a huge dose of carefree optimism, the template that became the Trance which evolved into the genre we now know and love. A winning combination that he replicated soon after in 1994 with the creation of the instantly recognisable keyboard melody-led “For An Angel”, arguably his most famous track and the zenith of his career- though this in its original form a slightly rawer version than the electrifying E-Werk Club Mix which would 4 years later dominate the clubs and eventually get him into the UK Top 40, spending the entire rest of the decade hovering around the Top 200 on sustained demand.

 

His second Top 20 hit came right at the end of the decade with the double A-side “Another Way / Avenue” and whilst lead radio single “Another Way” employs both the melancholic melodic prowess employed in “Forbidden Fruit” and the additional breakneck beats used in “For An Angel” it comes off sounding a little less than the sum of its parts - not to discredit the track however as it remains his second biggest hit, only trailing the Saint Etienne collaboration “Tell Me Why (The Riddle)” which made #7 the following May.

 

Edited June 20, 20169 yr by Doctor Blind

never heard of that Paul van Dyk track before, surprising that it topped the dance chart here.

 

his most remembered and biggest hit 'For An Angel' (mentioned in the previous post but won't appear here by itself because of its low peak) is definitely worth listening to if you haven't already heard it, it's a proper trance classic.

 

And another I bought on single, love Another Way, didn't expect to see it here though.

It would have been great if Another Way was a huge hit instead of the likes of 9 PM (Til I Come)

An internet radio station I listened to back in the mid-2000s would play Another Way all the time, but for some reason it was listed as For An Angel on the system and would be called that by the DJs and displayed as the Now Playing data - I was surprised when I finally heard the real For An Angel and wondered what on earth I'd been listening to all this time!

 

Always loved it and awesome it charted that high.

I think if he had gone with a more hard hitting topline melody on a piano maybe, Another Way would have been a bigger hit.

Edited June 21, 20169 yr by Colm

Anyone who is interested in receiving a pack of mp3s that accompanies this thread let me know here.

 

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Just trying to predict the last few...one of them's fairly obvious but I've no idea about the very end of the year. Late 1999 was absolutely crammed with dance classics, some of them not reaching their peak until January 2000 once all the Christmas songs were out.

 

But if the last #1 of 1999 is what I hope it is then HOLY HELL that's one heck of an end.

Bassomatic meets System F?