July 28, 20168 yr I do echo the disdain for Bound 4 Da Reload and You See The Trouble with Me, both too reliant on gimmicks to actually stand alone as great songs, a bit like a lot of today's dance music 'reinventing classics' I still prefer them to Jonas Blue or the majority of Kygo's output (not including Raging)
July 28, 20168 yr an honourable mention to some hotpants :P t1DWBKk5xHQ a house track by a pop princess~ :dance:
July 28, 20168 yr 'Woman Trouble' is SO catchy! That's not going to be leaving my head all night now. :kink:
July 28, 20168 yr an honourable mention to some hotpants :P t1DWBKk5xHQ a house track by a pop princess~ :dance: We could have included it :) But there is no way it would have got past danG's stringent monitoring. Ended up failing the dance test like Madonna Hung Up (which despite the fact I like the song, I am glad of as there are some iconic tunes it would have kept off the top spot), Agnes - Release Me (which i fought for to be included but lost the argument), 3oh3 and Katy Perry - Starstrukk (I also fought for this and lost the argument) and Christina Milian- AM to PM (also fought for this one too). Yet we have an amphibian (and his follow up) keeping two of 2005's greatest dance tracks off the top and a group who likes junk food (and their follow up) a few years before this and another novelty song dedicated to a body part. Ah well. Edited July 28, 20168 yr by TheSnake
July 28, 20168 yr We could have included it :) But there is no way it would have got past danG's stringent monitoring. Ended up failing the dance test like Madonna Hung Up (which despite the fact I like the song, I am glad of as there are some iconic tunes it would have kept off the top spot), Agnes - Release Me (which i fought for to be included but lost the argument), 3oh3 and Katy Perry - Starstrukk (I also fought for this and lost the argument) and Christina Milian- AM to PM (also fought for this one too). Yet we have an amphibian (and his follow up) keeping two of 2005's greatest dance tracks off the top and a group who likes junk food (and their follow up) a few years before this and another novelty song dedicated to a body part. Ah well. yeah, it’s difficult to judge where to draw the line ~ to my mind the only consistent method is to look objectively look at the production, which in the case of ‘spinning around’ is a typical millennium house track ~ madonna is an interesting case as she’s had pure pop, dance and urban chart toppers over the course a career, during which she has made a point of not being constrained into one genre~
July 28, 20168 yr More Artful :music: Really like this one, obviously Movin' Too Fast is my ultimate favourite and always will be :wub:
July 28, 20168 yr yeah, it’s difficult to judge where to draw the line ~ to my mind the only consistent method is to look objectively look at the production, which in the case of ‘spinning around’ is a typical millennium house track ~ madonna is an interesting case as she’s had pure pop, dance and urban chart toppers over the course a career, during which she has made a point of not being constrained into one genre~ Starstrukk definitely is dance in terms of production but danG refused to include it as 3oh3 are too poppy to him :(
July 28, 20168 yr Author Well the point of this thread is to highlight tracks from dance producers and groups rather than pop singers that happened to jump on the dance trend such as Kylie and Madonna. Spinning Around I'd say is too dancepop for this thread, though even I myself was conflicted over whether Hung Up should be included, and in the end decided against it as it is a pop song at heart and it would have been marketed as such.
July 28, 20168 yr Author Besides, who else thinks that 3oh3 song is dance because I've never heard anyone refer to it as a dance song until you did, TheSnake.
July 28, 20168 yr Well the point of this thread is to highlight tracks from dance producers and groups rather than pop singers that happened to jump on the dance trend such as Kylie and Madonna. Spinning Around I'd say is too dancepop for this thread, though even I myself was conflicted over whether Hung Up should be included, and in the end decided against it as it is a pop song at heart and it would have been marketed as such. Yes, sometimes there is only a thin line between dance and pop, but I would rather say dance influenced pop shouldn't be included.
July 28, 20168 yr Author indeed, though if a dance producer is credited on the track then it may have more of a case to be included. Speaking of which, we may well see a certain Ms. Minogue appear later on in the thread due to this...
July 28, 20168 yr We could have included it :) But there is no way it would have got past danG's stringent monitoring. Ended up failing the dance test like Madonna Hung Up (which despite the fact I like the song, I am glad of as there are some iconic tunes it would have kept off the top spot), Agnes - Release Me (which i fought for to be included but lost the argument), 3oh3 and Katy Perry - Starstrukk (I also fought for this and lost the argument) and Christina Milian- AM to PM (also fought for this one too). Yet we have an amphibian (and his follow up) keeping two of 2005's greatest dance tracks off the top and a group who likes junk food (and their follow up) a few years before this and another novelty song dedicated to a body part. Ah well. I'm with DanG on all of these.
July 28, 20168 yr Release Me was marketed very much in the UK as a dance song, which irked me actually as it's a Scandipop song through and through to my ears by a pop idol winner :lol: Some great songs in this thread so far, Toca's Miracle and Don't Call Me Baby being my favourites :wub:
July 28, 20168 yr Author Release Me was marketed very much in the UK as a dance song, which irked me actually as it's a Scandipop song through and through to my ears by a pop idol winner :lol: Some great songs in this thread so far, Toca's Miracle and Don't Call Me Baby being my favourites :wub: It very much was, and I was under the impression that Agnes was a dance act until joining Buzzjack and finding out what Scandipop is :lol:
July 28, 20168 yr Besides, who else thinks that 3oh3 song is dance because I've never heard anyone refer to it as a dance song until you did, TheSnake. Having just listened to Starstrukk I wouldn't have been very upset if it had been deemed eligible for this thread. Then again, would that bring Pokerface and Just Dance into contention?
July 28, 20168 yr There has been a really varied set of tracks so far, some classics from 2000 that I had forgotten all about. Plus a track upcoming that I hate as I can remember what beat Sonique's Sky to #1. :/ Oh and I loved the Black Legend track at the time although I was swayed by whatever was played regularly on the clubbing scene back then - I can see in retrospect why it's not well regarded my most.
July 28, 20168 yr If the junk food comment is alluding to Fast Food Rockers then that's definitely a pop song. It's in the same league as Steps and Scooch, watered down dance production but marketed as cheesy pop and from the SAW leftover production line (think it was Mike Stock involved in this one). Ignore me if you're talking about something else of course :lol:
July 28, 20168 yr Gotta admit I've been distinctly underwhelmed by a lot of the noughties dance #1s so far, I see 2000 as one of the greatest years ever for music but most of my faves weren't actually #1. Sandstorm though, jesus christ yes - not just a great of 2000 but all-time for me. Everything I love about dance in one song, and I've always been pleasantly surprised that it never got butchered with a vocal track - you'd think they'd at least have some bloke whispering "Sandstorm!" throughout the song so people knew what it was, but thankfully it remained an instrumental classic. Had the likes of Spotify and especially Shazam existed back then I could see it being a huge multi-week #1. Black Legend passed me by at the time and I remember thinking "Huh?" when I first saw it on a list of #1 singles about three years later. I like some bits of it, but it got butchered twice between original white label and commercial release - first the replacement of Barry's original sampled vocals by a soundalike, which turned it from "clever remix" to "novelty cover version", and then a radio edit that reshuffles it and chops all the best bits out and makes it sound less dance and more cheesy pop. More of that pleasingly thudding house beat (which we might hear again if a summer 2002 track reaches #1 on this thread) and less "Put your hands together! Put your hands together!" and I'd enjoy it much more. Here's the original Black Legend white label version with Barry White's original vocals, for those who want to compare. The first time I assumed I was hearing it was on an internet radio station, but I couldn't hear anything remotely dance about it - then I realised the song I was listening to wasn't Black Legend at all and just the 70s Barry White original! Edited July 28, 20168 yr by BillyH
July 28, 20168 yr Just listened to Agnes - Release Me again. There's no way I would consider that dance.
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