I adored Chicane back in the day, Offshore and Saltwater are nothing short of masterpieces. Don't Give Up is good but somehow underwhelming in comparison with those two.

By the way, the next one is an absolute tune, the production/style of the song reminds me a lot of a certain dance act that has had a quite a few hits this decade, it is especially like their most recent hit :) It's up to DanG to post it though.

 

I'm somewhat relieved the decade does end there so we don't get any arguments as to whether the likes of songs or dance songs, and god forbid the poor sod who ends up doing 2010-2019 as it's surely an impossible task!

 

I think the question is whether

All Fired Up by The Saturdays

makes the 2010s thread - lets hope so that it is one of the best dance tunes in the charts in 2011 and an absolute classic.

Edited July 23, 20168 yr by JosephStyles
Double post. Has been warned numerous times.

Something tells me that We Found Love would be a dance track where as Starships would not be.

Indeed. 'We Found Love' certainly qualifies as dance as Calvin Harris is on it, whereas 'Starships' is very much too dancepop for the list.

Would the Saturdays All Fired Up make it then? It is very dancey almost with trance synths in it and a dance beat?

Would the Saturdays All Fired Up make it then? It is very dancey almost with trance synths in it and a dance beat?

 

Not really. There were Pet Shop Boys, Kylie, & Madonna singles that weren't in the '90s ones since they were seen as pop.

Moloko - The Time Is Now

 

 

Date 26th Mar 2000

2 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-4-11-16-25-38-36-44-58-75-x (10 weeks)

 

 

The next entry on our list comes from singer Roisin Murphy from Ireland and producer Mark Brydon from England, who make up Moloko. They were a real life couple at the time too and the band name is a reference to the drink Moloko Plus, a narcotic-filled milk drink in the novel 'A Clockwork Orange'.

 

The duo were active from 1994 but did not gain much popularity until their track 'Sing It Back' got remixed by Boris Dlugosch and peaked at #4 in 1999. They would follow the single up with 'The Time Is Now', a hybrid of bass and acoustic guitar, disco strings and funky house. It certainly made more use of 'real' instruments than many others on this list.

 

It could only make #2 in the real charts, but it wasn't even close. Melanie C debuted at #1 this week selling nearly 145,000 copies - over twice the amount Moloko sold. The song would be the first single taken from their third album 'Things To Make And Do', a UK #3 album. They would release one more album after that in 2003 before Roisin and Mark split up and Roisin would start to focus on a solo career.

 

Roisin Murphy is still active today with her fourth studio album 'Take Her Up to Monto' having been released earlier this month.

Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers

 

 

Date 9th Apr 2000

1 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-4-8-9-10-17-21-27-39-49-68-72-x(407)-62-x (13 weeks)

 

 

The impact of garage lives on in this rundown as we go on to our next entry, which comes from English duo Sweet Female Attitude, real names Leanne Brown and Catherine Cassidy. 'Flowers' began life as a ballad but the version here would be a remix from Sunship, who would go on to remix Mis-Teeq's 'All I Want' for its single release, also a UK #2 hit.

 

'Flowers' would enter at #2 selling 80,000 copies, with Craig David beating it to #1 with over double that figure. The entire top six were new entries that week in fact, a record at the time. SFA would never see the top 40 again after the success of this - the follow-up '8 Days A Week' could only reach #43. This song however is still well known and recently got a set of new remixes to celebrate its 15th anniversary. It also got sampled in the M.O single 'Dance on My Own'.

 

They are still together and play at clubs and events, though they haven't released any new music since their debut and only album, 2000's 'In Person'.

I've been listening to Moloko & Róisín Murphy a lot over the past fortnight and I've been reminded just how great The Time Is Now actually is, it's so distinctive and has aged really very well indeed. At the time I remember being really surprised when it made #2 as, the Sing It Back remix aside, Moloko were always a bit of a niche act up until that point. I'd also not really expected it to feature on this list as I'd never even vaguely thought of it as dance but I guess they were a band you could arguably file under 'electronic'.

 

The Time Is Now and Flowers are two hits (and I guess this is semi-common in 2000) whose success seems really isolated, two good tracks and some cool electronic/garage sounds but I think they're improved for me by appearing so underdog and yet still grabbing #2s, something I miss in the charts now.

I've been listening to Moloko & Róisín Murphy a lot over the past fortnight and I've been reminded just how great The Time Is Now actually is, it's so distinctive and has aged really very well indeed. At the time I remember being really surprised when it made #2 as, the Sing It Back remix aside, Moloko were always a bit of a niche act up until that point. I'd also not really expected it to feature on this list as I'd never even vaguely thought of it as dance but I guess they were a band you could arguably file under 'electronic'.

 

 

I think The Time Is Now is dance for several reasons. The band themselves described it as a dance track made with acoustic instruments. Also, Mixmag listed it as one of its Top 100 dance songs of all time in 2001.

 

It is one of my all time most played songs and was my song of 2000 but the overplaying has really taken its shine off. I now get more of a kick from the similar Familiar Feeling from 2003. I'm so glad it was included here as I had already included in my provisional list of 2000 before I handed the reins over to the guys doing this thread.

I love Familiar Feeling also, in fact they're back to back on my Róisín comp...

 

01 Mastermind

02 Familiar Feeling

03 The Time Is Now

04 Let Me Know

05 Fun For Me

06 Indigo

07 Night Of The Dancing Flame

08 Sing It Back (original)

09 Boadecia

10 Momma's Place

11 You Know Me Better

12 Bankrupt Emotionally

13 Sow Into You

14 Checkin' On Me

15 Pure Pleasure Seeker

16 Primitive

17 Ten Miles High

18 Overpowered

19 Forever More

20 Yellow Moon

21 Never Enough

22 Exploitation

23 Ramalama (Bang Bang)

24 Unputdownable

25 Over & Over

26 Sing It Back (Boris Dlugosch Mix)

 

I really had forgotten just how varied and essential she is, it's made me realise she's one of my favourite vocalists ever. :wub:

 

She's one of those acts who appears on all sorts of other tracks as the featured artist too so I suspect I'm missing some greats.

 

From a dance thread perspective, I always think Momma's Place was a hit that just never seemed to happen, the PSB style dance synths work so well.

Edited July 24, 20168 yr by dandy*

I haven't really heard her solo stuff (or indeed any Moloko song besides the two big hits) though I do like this:

 

 

Anyway those two songs are today's batch. The next four songs in this rundown will be posted by Ethan.

First time posting in one of these threads; will probably just dip in and out but I'll try comment when I can!

 

I agree that 'Re-Rewind' is a very fitting song to kick of the Noughties dance thread; I can't say I'm particularly wowed by garage/Craig David but this is alright. I quite like the hook.

 

'Move Your Body' definitely lacks what made 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' so special but the hook and instrumental that follows is catchy enough.

 

'Movin' Too Fast' feels like a dance classic now and I agree it is a more subtle approach to garage music which is probably why I like it and is perhaps key to its longevity in relevance as it caters to various radio stations. Sounds lovely in the gorgeous weather.

 

The first song I properly love on this countdown is 'Don't Give Up'. I suppose the crediting would have got the same reaction as Sigma ft. Take That etc. does today, but it really works and I actually like the vocal manipulation on Bryan Adams' voice, even if it does mean he's barely recognisable. I also remember really liking Chicane's interpretation of 'Hoppípolla' too.

 

Similarly to 'Movin' Too Fast', 'Flowers' feels like a dance classic too and is one I still hear on radio today. Not one I'd listen to through choice but that chorus really works its way into your head.

speaking of 'Flowers', I had radio 1 on this morning and on one of his features Dev was talking about how bad he thought it was :no:

The Time Is Now is so much like Clean Bandit today. Similar sort of music, orchestral influence.

 

I actually thought it was by Texas at the time for some reason :lol:

 

There was so much orchestral influence in dance music the 2000s with both funky house using strings/string samples (like Moloko) and trance which is orchestral based. Now only Sigma and Clean Bandit have that influence in dance music.

 

Also disco strings like in the Moloko track were a big thing in 2000s dance music compared to the 2010s, particularly around the middle of the decade but there were some in the early period too.

 

Never really liked the Sweet Female Attitude song at the time, to me like most UK Garage very sad sounding probably because like most UK garage it is 'deep'. I like it a bit more now though.

 

Its annoying because lots of dance tracks sound like it this decade especially with the R&B vocals and the chopped up vocals at the end of the chorus.

I can't listen to The Time Is Now without the Sky Sports segments popping into my head :lol: Sing It Back was FAR superior as a track though.

 

FLOWERS :wub: genuinely the best garage song of all time :dance: :yahoo:

Sing It Back was FAR superior as a track though.

 

 

I find that very hard to agree with. Time is Now has such an original approach to constructing a dance song.

 

 

Well I do agree with that but for me it just sort of plods along whereas Sing It Back had such a great hook, just my personal taste I guess.

 

Wouldn't be against more of that type of music around now however.

Well I do agree with that but for me it just sort of plods along whereas Sing It Back had such a great hook, just my personal taste I guess.

 

Wouldn't be against more of that type of music around now however.

 

Yes funky house's place in the market has been sadly mostly taken by the duller (imo) tropical house this decade.