As for 'Rock This Party', I enjoyed it at the time but there's tons of dance songs from the 00s that are better, I find this one a bit too 'in yer face'/shouty.

As for 'Rock This Party', I enjoyed it at the time but there's tons of dance songs from the 00s that are better, I find this one a bit too 'in yer face'/shouty.

I don't mind that so much - a la Fatman Scoop "Be Faithful" or Blackbox "Ride On Time" :P

I don't mind that so much - a la Fatman Scoop "Be Faithful" or Blackbox "Ride On Time" :P

Well I do enjoy those two songs.

As for 'Rock This Party', I enjoyed it at the time but there's tons of dance songs from the 00s that are better, I find this one a bit too 'in yer face'/shouty.

 

Yes the chorus particularly is a bit too shouty/in your face for my liking with the addition of the man shouting on it, the verses are good though.

 

This in-your-face vocal in dance songs was becoming a trend though as we will see. There is a track with an in-your-face vocal which is coming very very soon on our thread which doesn't make dance number 1 but just missing dance number 1 by one place in the chart. I am sure it will be mentioned on the thread though!

 

I definitely prefer more soulful retro vocals in dance songs like in 'Changes' I just posted to this new in-your-face vocal trend that was emerging.

Edited August 5, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

'Changes' sounds great, should have done better really.

Changes has a bit of electro in it with the bassline synths too, but the additional piano and funky synths and soulful vocal makes it sound a lot warmer than pure electro house. Definitely should have done better, at least it managed three weeks top 40 though which is good back then for a #27 peaking track.

 

Not overly keen on 'Superfreak', a bit too much of a 'well our last song was huge so let's cash in' moment, it's not half as good as 'Somebody's Watching Me'.

 

I think its the fact Superfreak is a bit of a silly novelty song anyway, Sunblock with Corona's 'Baby Baby' will cover a better song with the original singer Sandy in 2007 and I certainly much prefer that one to Superfreak.

Edited August 5, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

We're now - very slowly - transitioning from songs I heard exclusively in my room as a teenager to those I actually heard in clubs at the time, although we're still a few months away from when my regular clubbing days began as I'd just turned eighteen in late 2006. Rock This Party was a staple for years, right through to the end of the noughties! Always loved the beginning with the shouted vocals/C&C samples, but the rest of it always underwhelmed a little.

 

Going back a bit, Moving Too Fast was one I really liked at the time, it was refreshing to hear an 80s-looped sample backed up with a full vocal track for once! That and Supermode's Tell Me Why are two of the most evocative dance tracks of Summer '06 for me.

Forgot about Changes - really liked that!

 

I remember buying Lucy and Moving Too Fast on single on the same day in Asda, and was gutted that both missed the top 20, I'd thought both would be a lot bigger. Lucy in particular is very Stardust/Supermen Lovers, but hardly surprising in the latter case as Mani Hoffman was the singer on the track. I liked the video too, with the underwater swimming pool/flume!

 

Everytime We Touch and Dancing In The Dark were both amazing too, and I bought both <3 I was so pleased to see that sort of Eurodance back in the charts briefly, as only the odd hit of that genre had charted since 2003.

 

Come to think of it, I bought Love Don't Let Me Go, Borderline and Horny As A Dandy on single too, I really loved summer 2006 dance (Bob Sinclar's crap Rock This Party shouty mess excluded...)

Also the last really hot summer of the decade - a lot of the last few songs remind me of struggling to move in 30+ degree heat!

 

2007 was (infamously) wet, 2008 almost as bad and 2009 pretty average...

I remember buying Lucy and Moving Too Fast on single on the same day in Asda, and was gutted that both missed the top 20, I'd thought both would be a lot bigger. Lucy in particular is very Stardust/Supermen Lovers, but hardly surprising in the latter case as Mani Hoffman was the singer on the track. I liked the video too, with the underwater swimming pool/flume!

Lucy would have probably done better if it was released in early 2006 when a lot of retro sounding house songs still made the chart!

 

(Bob Sinclar's crap Rock This Party shouty mess excluded...)

 

Yes I don't think it deserved to be as high in the chart as it was, I think its my least favourite dance number 1 we have had on this thread since 'Somebody To Love' in early 2004 (although I wouldn't be the biggest fan of the next dance number 1 on our list, although its still good imo).

Edited August 6, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

Dancing In The Dark was ok, I'd rather Jessy had had a hit with "How Long" in the UK charts tbh.

 

All of Bob Sinclar's tunes from this era were SO overplayed in all the clubs I went to. He was definitely the most popular dance artist for a while here.

 

Dont really care for the original version of "My Life" by Chanel. The Fonzerelli remix makes it 100000x better!

 

 

The remix is still is quite chilled and deep for a funky house song I would say.

 

Nah, the remix is just your standard funky house song. Nothing chilled or deep about it. The original is the definition of Ibiza Cafe Del Mar 2001.

Fedde le Grand - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit

 

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Date: 29th October 2006

Weeks at #1: 5 weeks

Official Chart Run: 95-84-53-62-xx-xx-xx-98-88-79-2-1-4-6-7-8-9-15-19-18-16-19-26-30-32-40-49-48-58-71-77-88-87 (22 weeks top 75 +8 top 100)

 

 

Hardcore dance music fans and the general public needed a dance anthem that could be taken more seriously and "Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" was that track.

 

Dutchman and relatively unknown Fedde le Grand - which is his actual real name - took Matthew Dear & Disco D's 1999 track "Hands Up For Detroit" and transformed it into this monster hit. Initially held off of the top spot in the UK Singles Chart by McFly's fanbase buy hit "Star Girl", the track climbed to number 1 the week after holding off another big dance track - Bodyrox featuring Luciana's "Yeah Yeah" which had climbed from 11-2 on full release, and was then knocked off by another fanbase buy hit - Westlife's latest cover/lead single "The Rose".

 

This anthem was inescapable in the clubs before and for quite some time after release and really launched Fedde le Grand's DJ career. In the year following, he had a further 2 top 10 UK hit singles, and was named at number 22 in DJ Magazine's top 100 DJs. He peaked at number 14 in this chart in 2011.

 

The music video was typically sexed up as per other dance hits of the mid-00s, featuring a futuristic scene of android nurses with incredibly short skirts testing a topless android man in a science lab.

 

I absolutely loved this track - it was my first clubbing anthem as I had not long turned 18 when this came out and we all used to go crazy when it came on! It was often played with the Bodyrox track I mentioned above and both seemed to influence the direction of commercial dance music for the next while.

 

Bodyrox featuring Luciana "Yeah Yeah" thoroughly deserved to be a dance number 1 as well but that's what happens when there's a monster hit! Here it is below:

 

Well this really is the start of a new era in dance.

 

Don't really remember Put Your Hands Up For Detroit much from the time, certainly not as much as Yeah Yeah which was on the music channels loads and I did like it, as it sounded very different. heard PYHUFD later on radio dance classics shows and I did like it, even if I did wonder why it was Detroit that was the city being mentioned.

 

Put Your Hands Up For Detroit is a good tune but I do prefer the looped house songs earlier in 2006 like Somebody's Watching Me as they were more atmospheric. Yeah Yeah I do prefer as it is less minimal and has more to it imo.

 

I thought the Detroit was referring to Detroit Techno which electro house gets its influence from but it is actually sampled from another song.

Also the last really hot summer of the decade - a lot of the last few songs remind me of struggling to move in 30+ degree heat!

 

2007 was (infamously) wet, 2008 almost as bad and 2009 pretty average...

 

Indeed, I was going to make the same point, all these songs remind me of the sun <3

 

Also, I bought both Fedde and Bodyrox that week, such a good top two <3 Wasn't Something Kinda Ooooh No.3 that week as well? Making it the most dancy/electronic top three for some years, and one of the best for that matter.

Edited August 6, 20177 yr by gooddelta

Detroit is seen as the birthplace of house and techno music, probably why that was the namecjecked city.

 

Absolutely LOVE that song though, one of my absolute faves of the 00s (at one point I'd have called it my fave song ever) and Yeah Yeah is very much up there as well - shame they both got big around the same time leaving Yeah yeah to sadly stall at number two officially and in the dance chart.

Well this really is the start of a new era in dance.

 

Don't really remember Put Your Hands Up For Detroit much from the time, certainly not as much as Yeah Yeah which was on the music channels loads and I did like it, as it sounded very different. heard PYHUFD later on radio dance classics shows and I did like it, even if I did wonder why it was Detroit that was the city being mentioned.

 

Put Your Hands Up For Detroit is a good tune but I do prefer the looped house songs earlier in 2006 like Somebody's Watching Me as they were more atmospheric. Yeah Yeah I do prefer as it is less minimal and has more to it imo.

 

I thought the Detroit was referring to Detroit Techno which electro house gets its influence from but it is actually sampled from another song.

I think if you weren't clubbing yet, you won't appreciate this one for what it is.

I've never actually been clubbing - I love dance music fully for the music aspect.

I think if you weren't clubbing yet, you won't appreciate this one for what it is.

 

The drop is fantastic though in PYHUFD I must admit, but the song doesn't really have the atmosphere of other looped house songs we have seen like on here recently like Tell Me Why or Somebody's Watching Me.

 

I think i would like the electro era if the mid 00s funky house revival before wasn't such a favourite of mine, it makes the arrival of electro a bit of a comedown for me.

 

I can see why electro got popular though, the more futuristic and all-electronic based sound must have sounded fresh and cool at the time.

 

There is one electro song in early 2007 that I love - Erick E - The Beat Is Rocking because the synths in it remind me a little of the style of those in Tomcraft - Loneliness. Sadly it doesn't make dance number 1 though.

I've never actually been clubbing - I love dance music fully for the music aspect.

 

Same here, despite that it does help if I find dance songs are easy to dance to if a DJ plays them at a work party or something.

 

I don't know how people dance to future bass these days, must be a very slow dance!

 

This anthem was inescapable in the clubs before and for quite some time after release and really launched Fedde le Grand's DJ career. In the year following, he had a further 2 top 10 UK hit singles, and was named at number 22 in DJ Magazine's top 100 DJs. He peaked at number 14 in this chart in 2011.

 

Its ironic he released a looped house 80s remix, So Much Love To Give in 2011

when he was partly responsible for the change away from that sort of dance in the UK charts in the first place when PYHUFD was a success!

Edited August 6, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

I'd been listening to the original full-length mix of Detroit all summer, before it got its full chart release. I remember really liking it but being aware it would probably never chart highly as it didn't sound commercial enough...imagine my utter shock when it finally climbed up to #2 then #1!

 

Almost a similar story with Bodyrox, I think the first version I heard of that didn't have Luciana on vocals and was just the instrumental...once I heard the full vocal version though it sounded like an obvious hit.

 

The other big track I remember during this time didn't reach its chart peak until early 2007, once it got a vocal added to it...but let's not exceed our timeframe right now :P