Yes this one is OK I think, I would have hated it at the time as I didn't like eurodance much. The vocal has a bit too much autotune on it though.

 

Yes it is kind of entering later Flip and Fill/ Styles and Breeze/ Special D/ Cascada-style eurodance territory, which was always coming back periodically throughout the 2000s.

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Alice Deejay? "Who the f*** is Alice, is from the Buckingham palace" :lol:

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Alice Deejay one of my favourite eurodance groups of that time :wub:

 

I even bought the album :lol:

'Will I Ever' does nothing for me sadly :( Always here for 'Better Off Alone' though :wub:

The next one is one of my favouries and has a great vocalist on the microphone

Next one is one of my faves of 2000. Sounded like nothing else before or since.

Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler

 

 

Date 30th Jul 2000

1 Week

Official Chart Run 2-4-4-6-7-9-16-20-26-29-33-54-x (12 weeks)

 

 

Due to the frantic nature of the charts in 2000, we are now in the middle of a run of one-week #1s in the dance chart, of which this is the second of four. Bomfunk MC's would also become the second Finnish act to top the dance chart this year following Darude, selling just under 80,000 copies to become the week's biggest selling dance track - although that wasn't nearly enough to be #1 in the real chart as Craig David happened to also release that week and got his second #1 single.

 

Bomfunk MC's are described on Wikipedia as an electro hop group, although this song in particular is a mix of that with drum n' bass - making it the first song of its genre to top the dance chart in this decade, and some would say the last considering its uniqueness for a hit single. It is indeed a very good song and a great example of how versatile the charts could be at this time.

 

The title of the song refers to a 'freestyle', i.e. a rap with improvised lyrics, also reinforced with the lyric 'straight from the top of my dome'. The lyrics of the verses seem to be those that could have been improvised, though it is unknown if they are. One controversial lyric would be found toward the end of the song, namely 'who the f*** is Alice, is from the Buckingham Palace?', possibly a reference to the song 'Living Next Door To Alice', which would be censored on British radio.

 

The song and its accompanying music video would remain popular long after 2000 as well, with the video gaining over 37 million views on YouTube, not quite as many as Darude but still impressive. The guy in the music video and artwork with the cool hair and headphones is in fact not part of the Bomfunk MC's but is Finnish model Marlo Snellman, though members of the group do appear in the video.

 

The UK was one of a few European countries were the song failed to reach #1, with the song being a huge global hit reaching the top in over ten countries including Australia. Ironically it would only peak at #4 in their native Finland. The success for the group would not last for long though at least in the UK, where they would become a two-hit wonder - the follow-up 'Up Rocking Beats' reaching #11. We will not be seeing that song in this thread, nor we will we see any song by British group Freestylers which should not be confused with this song.

Didn't Up Rocking Beats hold the record for longest hit single title with unrepeating letters in it until recently?

I wouldn't know if it did, what beat it though?

I have “Freestyler” on CD Single, the UK radio edit is a really butchered and cut down 2 minutes 50 I think.

 

It was a number 1 on my personal chart for 5 weeks that summer, and it was MASSIVE in Europe - I was in Austria for a fortnight and it got played to death. As with Darude, Finland seemed to have a really good year commercially on the UK chart in 2000. I still love it, though about 65% of that is the nostalgia talking.

Yeessss! Craig from the top of my dole! (Or whatever it was)

 

One of the most evocative songs of summer 2000 for me, linked in the mind with Pokemon, Big Brother series 1 and my imminent start of secondary school - 'Freestyler' does almost feel like the end of an era in that respect for me, the last truly happy summer for about six or seven years :P Still great.

Will I Ever, much like Back In My Life is quite wonderful :heart: having said that they are still light years from touching Better Off Alone which is my favourite hit of all time.

 

Freestyler is an absolute tune too :music: really sounded nothing like anything else around at the time (and still is a very unique charting hit in the UK looking back).

 

Goodness me the VARIETY of these 2000 songs is astounding. Differences you'd expect between several years never mind a few months :o

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Great song remember this a lot when I was younger and I liked it too because it wasn't eurodance which I didnt like at the time.

 

I actually rediscovered ot when it was reduced to 59p on itunes and appeared in the top 100 a few years ago.

 

This, Barcelona and End Credits were the three best drum and bass songs of the decade for me.

Great song remember this a lot when I was younger and I liked it too because it wasn't eurodance which I didnt like at the time.

 

I actually rediscovered ot when it was reduced to 59p on itunes and appeared in the top 100 a few years ago.

 

This, Barcelona and End Credits were the three best drum and bass songs of the decade for me.

 

 

Logical Song :D

Logical Song :D

 

That wasnt drum and bass though that was techno.

 

Love Freestyler. Especially the lyric "Will your heart go on like Celine Dion Karma Chameleon" :D :lol:

Storm - Time To Burn

 

 

Date 6th Aug 2000

1 Week

Official Chart Run 3-6-8-9-13-21-32-37-49-66-x (10 weeks)

 

 

There are many groups called Storm, this one however is German trance production duo made of Rolf Ellmer and Markus Löffel. Sadly Löffel would have died just over five years after this track charted at the age of 39, though by then they'd have been long gone from the charts. 'Time To Burn' was the group's only big chart hit though two follow-ups would have charted, 2000's 'Storm Animal' (#21) and a re-release of 'Storm' in 2001 (originally peaked at #32 in 1998 and would once again peak at #32). 'Storm' particularly is well known as a trance classic, and has more YouTube views than 'Time To Burn'.

 

However, Storm are in fact an alias of the group Jam & Spoon, most known for their 1995 #10 hit 'Right In The Night' as well as their remix of The Age Of Love's self-titled single (1997, #17). Jam & Spoon would also use the aliases Dance 2 Trance and Tokyo Ghetto Pussy in the 90s, both of which had at least one UK top 40 hit single.

 

'Time To Burn' capitalises well on the trance trend of the early 2000s, and is more harder in style than the likes of Chicane and Alice Deejay who we have seen in this thread. If anything it's more similar to Darude, although it's not half as recognisable. Other than a female whispering of 'it's time to burn', the song is fully instrumental. With a few dramatic-sounding riffs, pulsating beats and towards the end some lengthy synths - it makes for a great trance song and it's definitely one that I love, though I feel it is very underrated these days.

 

In the charts the song sold a respectable 64,000 copies to debut at #3 in this week though it only sold about 200,000 by the end of the year. The next song in this rundown also comes from the trance genre and from an unexpected source too.

MAJOR :heart: for Time To Burn :dance: an absolute staple in a club I used to frequent as a student & one of the best tracks of its genre.

 

I tell ya this list is getting better and better!

Some cracking tunes so far, some dross though (Black Legend and Bound 4 Da Reload in paritcular). Totally forgot the existence of that Woman Trouble song!

Time To Burn is a trance classic!