I remember discovering 'Ding Dong Song' from it being featured in a YouTube video with Snape from Harry Potter mouthing the lyrics, had no idea it was a chart hit until shortly afterwards. :lol:

 

Special D - Come With Me

 

 

Date 16th May 2004

1 Week

Official Chart Run 6-9-11-11-15-21-31-37-41-52-71 (+3 weeks 07/8/04 93-94-96 +1 week 30/10/04 100 + 1 week 08/01/05 86) (16 weeks)

 

 

This hardstyle/eurodance track really shows the way Eurodance was slowly heading away from the structure of trance and eventually turning into the sort of Eurodance Cascada and Basshunter would later produce. This song is also notable for having the 'turn it up, up up up up up up', before the drop, and this really seems like a precursor to the style of big room house hits in 2014 for me. The vocal is a very cheesy pitched up affair and I do remember it from the time and I disliked it a lot as the vocal really sounded too Clublandy for me at the time and also it is a hardstyle track too, a genre which I wasn't a fan of. It sounds quite good now though.

 

Special D is a German DJ and producer from Hamburg. The D doesn't stand for a rude four letter word as I initially thought, but comes from Special D's real first name 'Dennis'.

 

The video sadly is starting to go towards the standard mid 00s type (like the Narcotic Thrust - I Like It one). Come With Me is notable in that it reached dance number 1 quite late in its chart run, it initially reached number 6 on the sixth week of Cha Cha Slide at dance number 1, that track was one place higher at number 5 that week.

 

The track had a good chart run for the time at 8 weeks in the top 40 and 16 top 40 (5 of these weeks being at later dates in 2004 and early 2005). I assume this track must have heavily relied on The Box plays to become a hit as I think it was mentioned before on Buzzjack by someone that Radio 1 at the time would have shunned a lot of the more cheesy Clubland songs for being too cheesy, and I think this would fit into that category. I think I do remember it played a lot on The Box at the time.

For me this Come With Me track is a little bit like Bad by David Guetta, Showtek and Vassy from ten years later, the pitched vocals, spoken word bit before the drop, the hard dance nature of it all. Of course Come With Me is considerably faster.

 

It is undoubtedly also a precursor to the likes of Basshunter in 2008.

 

Come With Me may be cheesy with a high pitched but I undoubtedly much prefer it to the likes of Discoland and Hungry Eyes later in 2004. I think it is a good, very energetic hardstyle track. :dance:

I did like 'Come With Me' a bit, a nice introduction to the sort of hardstyle we'd be getting from the likes of Cascada and Basshunter years later.

I think Lenny is doing the next four dance number 1s (does he have the list yet?)

Other tracks that made the top 40 during the time of Sunny, Ding Dong Song and Come With me at dance number 1

 

#35 Plummet - Cherish - a great trance song - maybe not quite as good as Damaged but that would be hard to beat tbh. Should have done better than number 35 though imo, just shows how a lot of true trance was underperforming in the charts by this stage.

 

#30 Tiësto featuring BT - Love Comes Again - another good trance song - DJ Tiësto by this stage, just known as Tiësto. I hope Tiësto returns to making this sort of stuff eventually again. The singer sounds like a bit like Rob Swire from Pendulum.

 

 

 

 

I think Lenny is doing the next four dance number 1s (does he have the list yet?)

Not been sent anything yet

Ooh, you touch my tra-la-la - wow there's a blast from the past :lol: it's almost so bad that it's good. It's like a male Cheeky Girls anthem.

 

Come With Me I remember being on TV ALL THE TIME. It irritated the hell out of me haha. So cheesy. But I suppose it's alright. I remember it hitting number 1 for a while in @jase.'s chart back in the day :lol:

Come With Me and Sunny are two fantastic tracks from this year.

 

Come With Me pretty much ignited my interest in Clubland in general!

Come With Me pretty much ignited my interest in Clubland in general!

 

The only Clubland eurodance-esque song we have had this decade really has been Bad in 2014 and maybe Take Me Home by Cash Cash, which has a suitably cheesy style of vocal.

 

Hated the whole Clubland hard eurodance thing at the time but I didn't mind the 80s remixes we will see soon on the thread (but ironically they were Clublandy too of course, just in a different way :lol:)

 

 

That Cash Cash song is really not Clubland-esque... IMO

Edited February 5, 20178 yr by Lenny

Re: Party Rock Anthem, I can confirm that as a drunken 22 year old in 2011 I would indeed do the 'shuffling' on the dancefloor at the appropriate moments :P But wasn't there a dance routine to We No Speak Americano too, or was that just people making one up? I've got hazy memories of a series of hand claps and fist pumps to that song...

Re: Party Rock Anthem, I can confirm that as a drunken 22 year old in 2011 I would indeed do the 'shuffling' on the dancefloor at the appropriate moments :P But wasn't there a dance routine to We No Speak Americano too, or was that just people making one up? I've got hazy memories of a series of hand claps and fist pumps to that song...

Actually I do remember doing some fisting to that song...

 

Better rephrase that...

 

I do remember doing a dance routine to that song, arms out and fists clenched, I can't really remember how it went though...

There was a dance to 'We No Speak Americano' popularised by the Inbetweeners movie although that came after the song had charted.

 

Mmm I remember doing it circa 2010/11 before the movie came about

Party Rock Anthem, that brings back memories :heart: Year 6 me knew exactly how to 'shuffle'

 

Never heard Come With Me before, but it sounds amazing!

Re: Party Rock Anthem, I can confirm that as a drunken 22 year old in 2011 I would indeed do the 'shuffling' on the dancefloor at the appropriate moments :P But wasn't there a dance routine to We No Speak Americano too, or was that just people making one up? I've got hazy memories of a series of hand claps and fist pumps to that song...

 

Fist pumps are more used for dancing to trance and hardstyle I thought. Certainly in my school in First/Second Form, which must have been about 2003 or 2004, one of my friends who was a dance music fan I remember was showing me how they fist pumped to dance songs. :lol:

That Cash Cash song is really not Clubland-esque... IMO

 

Well when I first heard it I immediately thought 'Clubland' and hated it at the time for that reason. I think its Bebe Rexha's vocal in it tbh that sounds Clubland-esque.

 

Also for Clubland-esque, Imani Williams' voice is also very reminiscent for me.

Not been sent anything yet

 

danG will have to send you the identities of the next four, chart runs and dates etc. I am quite certain one of the most iconic and best house tracks of the 00s is in our next four (and it is certainly one of my favourites), its getting near that time. :dance: That one would start a trend for the sort of production in that track for the next two years.

There was a dance to 'We No Speak Americano' popularised by the Inbetweeners movie although that came after the song had charted.

 

Mmm I remember doing it circa 2010/11 before the movie came about

 

Yeah this fits with me - this was definitely around Autumn 2010 ('Americano' first charted in the summer but really hit big around early Autumn in the clubs and with my friends) and I think people mentioned that they'd picked the dance moves up on holiday around Greece or Spain or something. That Inbetweeners one isn't identical but shares a few similarities!

 

My clubbing days fell off a cliff in about 2014 (when I started working full time) so I'd probably only be active for the first few years of a Dance Chart #1s 2010s thread.

 

Back to 2004 and my fifteen year old pre-clubbing days...

 

* Cha Cha Slide's various versions and artist names (DJ Casper/Mr C the Slide Man etc) confuse me a little - at one point it was hard to find the 'proper' version on Youtube, as in the one with the distinctive bassline that was the hit version in the UK, but the linked video is definitely correct. I remember the presence of both this (already several years old) and the re-issue of Peter Andre's 'Mysterious Girl' in the charts felt like the last remnants of the 1990s saying goodbye to us, most (if not all) dance #1s from here on firmly belonging in the noughties. I remember me and friends trying to decipher the more mysterious parts of the song on MSN Messenger - I still have no idea what a 'Charlie Brown' is, other than a cartoon character!

 

* I had it in my head that 'I Like It' went top three - didn't think it only reached #9! Felt way bigger at the time, always loved the opening vocal build but the rest of the song always underwhelmed me a little. I loved the completely forgotten followup When The Dawn Breaks, which sounded glorious on cold winter nights in early 2005:

(audio only as the video is bollocks beyond belief):

 

* Don't remember 'Sunny' at all, a chart run like that in '04 probably meant it barely sold any copies. Nothing special, the kind of chilled-dance that bored me throughout the mid-noughties.

 

* LOL at Ding Dong Song being a dance #1 :D It creeped me out a bit at the time as I wasn't sure if it was serious or not(!), but now it's just awesome - and genuinely pretty catchy at points!

 

* Come With Me is a HUGE jam, I remember the first time I heard it as part of a dance mix on late-night radio - fell in love with it immediately!! Always felt the UK radio edit was insultingly short and cut out much of the song's charm, but a massive Euroanthem all the same!