Sorry DanG. How could I have made that mistake. True facts never die.

Oldham's queen of clubs will NOT be silenced, she deserves her time to shine!

 

Yass at Addicted To Bass, what a tune <3

Edited September 6, 20168 yr by gooddelta

I love the Riva/Dannii Minogue team-up! I had only heard of 'I Begin To Wonder' by her until the Radio 1 'One Hit Wonders' show, and then this one blew me away.

 

'Addicted To Bass' is one of my absolute favourite examples of 00s dance :wub: So unfortunate how close it was to being an official number 1!

 

'Gotta Get Thru This' is Daniel Bedingfield's best! I only ever really go back to that one and 'If You're Not The One' from his discography.

Flip and Fill ft. Kelly Llorenna - True Love Never Dies

 

 

Date 2nd Feb 2002

1 Week

Official Chart Run 34-47-71 (March 2001) 7-7-10-17-24-32-47-57-66-56-80 (14 weeks)

 

 

This is probably my favourite track on the thread for 2002, a very dramatic trance tune. Being 10 years old, I did not, of course go clubbing at the time but I think I heard this as a result of my growing proficiency at ice skating at the time. Of course many ice rinks played loud music at that time on the speakers, trance was a frequently played genre and I think I remember this track from that.

 

Big story for this one, here goes:

 

In 1990 back when house was still a new genre, a funky house tune was created,

 

 

This features Donna Williams and George Lamond. Btw, I have only just heard this...it is amazing :dance:

 

In 1999, a dutch trance group called Rank 1 created a tune called Airwave. It was a hit, reaching number 10 in the singles chart.

 

 

Which is a lovely (mostly) instrumental track, but I generally prefer my dance music with more vocals. Anyway vocal liking dance fans like me were in luck because this came along in 2000:

 

 

A mashup of both. Originally credited to Kylie Minogue, it was actually using the original Donna Williams vocals and I much prefer this to the original Airwave. But there is something I think that doesn't work in this song with the way she sings 'dies'.

 

And so two Manchester based producers operating under the name of Flip and Fill decided to release their own cover of the track, in March 2001 featuring the vocals of trance vocal veteran Kelly Llorenna (she sung for N-Trance in the 1990s)

 

The only problem was the song wasn't a massive success in the charts. It only reached number 34, but presumably following the late 2001 trance revival, when a version of N-Trance's Love Will Set You free (with Kelly Llorenna of course on vocals) reached number 4 in the charts, they decided to re release it. It turns out that early 2002 was the perfect time for release of this track, as trance was dominating dance music in the charts with Resurrection by PPK and Will I by Ian Van Dahl also being top 10 hits at this time, and Dannii and Riva still holding up well in the top 40. 'True Love Never Dies' entered the chart at number 7 and was Flip and Fill's debut chart hit. Flip and Fill would go on to have an even bigger hit, the excellent 'Shooting Star' later in 2002, we shall have to see if that one makes the thread....

 

Eventually Flip and Fill made the sad decline to a so-so version of Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance with Somebody in 2003 (although the follow up to that, Shake Your Shimmy with P**n Kings is a really fun track). In 2004 they then reached the top 20 (just) with Irish Blue, a very good trance track at a time when trance was otherwise mostly in decline chartwise. The end of Flip and Fill's chart success came in 2004 with the dreadful (imo) Discoland which somehow reached number 11 in the charts, :o ,the type of track that made the funky house revolution in mid 2004 kickstarted by The Shapeshifters a breath of fresh air.

 

Kelly Llorenna went on to have an amazing cover of Tell It To My Heart make the charts in 2002, a track I fondly remember from my ice skating days and a decent cover of This Time I Know Its For Real in 2004.

Edited September 6, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Insanely good vocal from Kelly on this one. It is probably my favourite trance song ever.

 

I disagree with Colm, the big female vocals do add power to dance tracks I think, and we would see a period dominated by big 'old school' female vocals in dance from this song until 'My My My' by Armand van Helden and Tara McDonald in summer 2006, and then we were left with tracks with terrible (imo) vocals, look at Yeah Yeah in late 2006 for example and Exceeder (Perfect) in early 2007.

 

Kelly's vocals carry this track I think along with the dramatic synths in the song. Such a great trance track. It makes me wish for a trance revival in the charts today.

 

 

Addicted to Bass not reaching #1 is one of the biggest chart injustices for me, I have a really random memory of a Cartoon Network advert at the time cleverly editing an episode of 'The Powerpuff Girls' so it looks like they're singing it! This and the success of Body Rock really kickstarted a chart push for drum & bass in 2002, but while there were a couple more top 10 hits to come it didn't truly break through into a #1 hit-making force until the early part of the next decade, but by then it had all fizzled out into dull vocal pop songs with a two-second jumpup loop meekly thrown over the top, nowhere near the creativity of earlier tracks. Ok yeah 'Addicted to Bass' has an (awesome) poppy vocal hook, but the drum loops and basslines are way more creative than most D&B dance #1s since around 2012 or so. But maybe that's just me getting older :P

 

What a story involving True Love Never Dies! I remember knowing it was an 'Airwave' mashup and being baffled as there was clearly no trace of Airwave anywhere in the song, but of course the Flip & Fill/Kelly cover took that bit out. I do have a bit of a love/hate relationship with Flip & Fill - this and their next track are to be fair quite enjoyable, and I'll always have love for Kelly's vocals, but there's very little creativity going on - this is just a cover of an already popular mashup made to quickly cash in, and we're a few months away from the "Let's take every happy hardcore song ever and slow it down and ruin it" era - which worked (more than) fine with their next single but got irritating really quickly.

 

Again a dizzying amount of other dance tracks missed out during Puretone and Kelly's weeks at #1. Two vocal trance picks from me, one being

(#9 in Puretone's first week at #2) and the other the Ferry Corsten remix of

(#31 in Flip & Fill's peak week). Both far less known than they deserve!

I discovered Flip and Fill from some early 00s Now albums. 'True Love Never Dies' is wonderful and 'Shooting Star' is also great.

“True Love Never Dies” has a really wistful melancholic sound that just works (I do love the original Rank 1 track also - which helps!), my friend is obsessed with Kelly Llorenna - she is LONG overdue a random revival in the charts really, it has been over 12 years since “This Time I Know It's For Real” made #14.

Incredible song, I'm also obsessed with Kelly Llorenna, she has some brilliant tracks and she has such a brilliant voice. Also if you get time to watch her TOTP performances, she always sang live (rare for dance vocalists) and often put on a spectacle of a performance, involving wearing raincoats and umbrellas or lying down on sofas while performing :lol: such a star and I'm glad she's represented in this thread. TLND was midweek No.5 on its second week so I was rather gutted when it stalled at No.7 officially.

Edited September 6, 20168 yr by gooddelta

after listening to the Rank 1 bootleg version I'm disappointed that wasn't the hit instead, it sounds better with the proper 'Airwave' backing.

So unfortunate how close it was to being an official number 1!

 

Especially as (I believe) its gap to Aaliyah was less than what it had sold at #68 the previous week (this was due to 'leaked' sales, just like Steps a year earlier).

Puretone - Addicted To Bass

Great driving tune, and I mistakenly believed for many years that Puretone was a girl group of that era. Good BPM and another tune from my workout mix at the gym. :banana:

Flip and Fill ft. Kelly Llorenna - True Love Never Dies

Very good trance song, and possibly one of the last finest ones ever to grace our UK chart.

Edited September 7, 20168 yr by awardinary

Incredible song, I'm also obsessed with Kelly Llorenna, she has some brilliant tracks and she has such a brilliant voice. Also if you get time to watch her TOTP performances, she always sang live (rare for dance vocalists) and often put on a spectacle of a performance, involving wearing raincoats and umbrellas or lying down on sofas while performing :lol: such a star and I'm glad she's represented in this thread. TLND was midweek No.5 on its second week so I was rather gutted when it stalled at No.7 officially.

 

Yes there were some great female dance vocalists in trance in the early 00s and in house in the mid 00s. There seemed to be an emphasis on female vocalists with big voices in the epic trance songs of 2002, less so in 2003's eurodance and then more so again in 2004 to 2006 in house music (LMC, Shapeshifters etc).

 

 

 

 

'true love never dies' ~ bloody marvelous :dance: :wub: :dance:

 

'addicted to bass' is another firm fave~ :music:

I'm interested to know what TheSnake's point of view of the next song in this rundown is...

IIO - Rapture, one of the best house tracks of all time. I really hated Nadia Ali's solo version though

 

Riva - WDYLN, a classic, I remember when I first heard it on portuguese radio and was mesmerized

 

Shame about PPK and Ian Van Dahl - Will I missing out. 2001 was kinda lame for dance in the charts, but the end of the year was packed.

 

Puretone - a good dance tune that had the misfortune of leaking a week before, would've been #1 otherwise. Still, I much prefer 2 other tracks from January 2002 (Lange - Drifting Away and Goldtrix - It's Love (Trippin'))

 

True Love Never Dies - I adore Flip & Fill and was a massive fan of the whole trance-pop wave of 2002, although I can see how it the commercialization played a part in killing the trance genre chart wise by saturation and lazy covers (moreso in 2003/2004).

Edited September 7, 20168 yr by Euphorique

I'm interested to know what TheSnake's point of view of the next song in this rundown is...

Whatever it is, I'm sure it sounds like funky house to him! :rolleyes:

, which I suspect won't be part of this list.

Puretone - a good dance tune that had the misfortune of leaking a week before, would've been #1 otherwise. Still, I much prefer 2 other tracks from January 2002 (Lange - Drifting Away and Goldtrix - It's Love (Trippin'))

Goldtrix won't be appearing in this thread, but I'll put this fun fact out here anyway - for those who don't know Goldtrix is the same artist as Matrix of Matrix & Futurebound fame. :o

 

and 4 Strings 'Take Me Away' won't appear here either N-S but it is well worth a listen, brilliant tune.

, which I suspect won't be part of this list.

 

Most likely not since Shakedown charted higher that week. A shame since Take Me Away is MILES better than At Night. Song gives me chills