That's an excellent list. 2000 certainly equaled a few of the years in the 90s for dance music. 2001 will be poorer but still some great stuff. I image that after that I wont have much positive to say.

Airwave is complete genius, I bought it on the week it came out and was so happy it managed land in the top 10, particularly in the busiest week ever (?) for new entries at the top.

 

I adore ATB but hate that cover of Killer, Movin' Melodies had some stunning tracks that deserved to be singles yet we got that...

What about Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You, you didn't mention that one awardinary....that is noteworthy....the first big disco house hit of the decade.

That's an excellent list. 2000 certainly equaled a few of the years in the 90s for dance music. 2001 will be poorer but still some great stuff. I image that after that I wont have much positive to say.

 

Well there is a 2005 entry which was actually made in the late 90s...so you may like that.

 

 

Well there is a 2005 entry which was actually made in the late 90s...so you may like that.

 

 

We'll see :D

Joey Negro feat. Taka Boom – Must Be The Music

 

 

I mostly posted this because of the title of the video. :lol: But such a tune. :cheer:

What about Bob Sinclar - I Feel For You, you didn't mention that one awardinary....that is noteworthy....the first big disco house hit of the decade.

Point taken, and that could mean I missed a couple of others, let me check something.

One of my favourite remixes of all time dates from 2000, although I'm aware it's not to everyone's tastes and to those who grew up with the original might be somewhat horrifying:

 

 

Full 12" mix as the radio edit cuts just too much out for my liking - go to 3:48 to skip the opening buildup.

 

(just noticed on this that a couple words are randomly missing at 6:38 - wonder why? They're present and correct on both the radio edit and the Ministry of Sound 2000 Annual mix, maybe some kind of mixing error)

Edited August 10, 20168 yr by BillyH

A few other minor hits I missed;

 

Robbie Rivera pts. Rhythm Bangers – Bang

Bob Sinclar – I Feel For You

Sash! – With My Own Eyes

Armand Van Helden – Koochy

Fatboy Slim – Sunset (Bird Of Prey)

Daft Punk - One More Time

 

 

Date 19/11/2000

1 Week

Official Chart Run 2-7-13-19-28-29-22-26-35-46-59-70-x-x-88-84-84-83-92-89-95-90-99-x-x-98- (22 weeks)

 

 

Daft Punk returned to the charts in November 2000 with this all-time classic French house cut, featuring the heavily compressed auto-tuned vocals of late American DJ, producer and singer Romanthony (rip :( ). The track was originally produced in 1998 and features uncredited sample from Eddie Johns’ ‘More Spell On You’.

 

‘One More Time’ was the long awaited follow-up from Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, who’d previously enjoyed two critically acclaimed top10 hits in the late 90s - 'Da Funk/Musique' (#7) and 'Around The World' (#5) - and heralded the beginning of the ‘Discovery’ campaign which would see the duo don the now synonymous robot head garb~

 

A massive club hit it duly stormed to #2 in November 2000, shifting 59k, losing out by quite some distance to LeAnn Rhymes’ ‘Can’t Fight The Moonlight’ (113.5k). For 13 years it looked like this would be the pinnacle of their UK Chart career, but that is a story which may yet be told at a later date~ :lol:

 

Critically acclaimed ‘One More Time’ is a million seller in the US, and is widely regarded as one of the best dance tracks of the 2000’s. The subsequent singles from ‘Discovery’, which reached #2 in the album chart in March 2001, didn’t fare as well as the law of diminishing returns kicked in: 'Aerodynamic' (#97, 2001), 'Digital Love' (#14, 2001), 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger' (#25, 2001), 'Something About Us' (#138, 2003). 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger' was of course heavily sampled in Kanye West’s 2007 chart topper ‘Stronger’. :music:

One of my all time favourites :wub: :wub: It remains the highlight of their discography for me, I do like Get Lucky a lot, but I do sometimes wish the two would swap chart runs (if only because One More Time's initial chart run was criminally short :( I do really like the Leann Rimes song so at least it wasn't a complete injustice). It's also only struck me now how true the video is to the song's theme :lol:

 

I truly thought that would be their last hurrah, Get lucky blowing up still remains one of the biggest chart surprises of recent times for me.

 

 

 

One More Time is absolute perfection from start to finish :wub:

 

The only other tracks of theirs that's comes anywhere close is Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger IMO. Get Lucky can't so much as hold a candle to One More Time.

Great great song by Daft Punk. Turn this one up loud! :music:

'One More Time' is so brilliant :wub: That was my introduction to Daft Punk and it still remains the best song that I have heard from them.

In fact one of the biggest outrages was that One More Time was omitted from the Now That's What I Call Music series yet the lower charting hit Digital Love did. :angry:

 

I went many years without owning this track, until I eventually bought Discovery for myself when Virgin Megastores closed everywhere.

Bucking the trend here but One More Time is a song that I don't really like. Only Too Long is weaker on the album. It's not terrible. I'd prob give it 5/10. It's very one dimensional, I dont like the sample or the vocal melody. It just doesn't nothing for me.

This is another one I'd listen to on the radio in my early-mid teens, closing my eyes and dreaming of actually being in a real proper club with this playing :P Which I don't think has ever properly happened, I've heard bits of it but never the full thing with the long slow bit in the middle. Except at a friend's wedding once, where a baffled crowd cleared the dancefloor midway through the song and never returned...

 

I mostly posted this because of the title of the video. :lol: But such a tune. :cheer:

 

Yes its a great tune, and these two came back six years later into the charts with a great retro sounding tune that fitted with the retro dance theme of the time (although Taka was uncredited for some reason but she did sing on it). It may or may not be appearing on this thread. :)

 

One More Time probably spawned or at least increased the popularity of the whole genre of looped house that we will see more of in the middle of the decade. Great tune although the bit where the beat dies away

lasts too long imo and I am just willing the funky looped house to start up again.

 

Colm says it got worse in 2002 but I think things only started getting worse in dance from the second half of 2006 when stuff like the dreadful (imo) Yeah Yeah became popular. 2007 dance was mostly dull emotionless dance songs with electro sound effects and annoying singers/female rappers with a few exceptions.

 

2008 was better with the eurodance, but the charts were so slow like today so there were few dance songs entering the chart.

 

2009 was quite poor again although I really liked Ready For The Weekend and In The Heat Of The Night.

 

 

 

 

 

One More Time probably spawned or at least increased the popularity of the whole genre of looped house that we will see more of in the middle of the decade. Great tune although the bit where the beat dies away

lasts too long imo and I am just willing the funky looped house to start up again.

 

It's quite an odd one, isn't it? In the radio edit the "slow bit" lasts for almost two of the four minutes, almost half the song - I remember some radio stations made their own various edits of it that cut most of the middle out and had the beat return quicker. I think it added to the uniqueness of the song, you can't imagine other major dance acts putting a massive slow bit into the middle of their club banger but I've always loved it, a big hands-in-the-air anthemic moment - needs to be played at the right moment of the night to work at its best though, otherwise the momentum's lost.

 

I think N-Trance's 'Set You Free' wins for slow bits in the middle of dance songs though, that moment is a heart-stopper.

 

Armand Van Helden – Koochy

 

- one of the biggest "What the HELL is this?!" moments I've ever had from a dance tune. Absolutely amazed how high it charted (#4!!) given how uncommercial it is, basically a two-second sample of Gary Numan's 'Cars' gone completely nuts with mad record scratching and weird noises over the top for eight minutes. It did get a fair bit of attention at the time though as I think Radio 1 played it a lot, and Armand was a major name by then.

- one of the biggest "What the HELL is this?!" moments I've ever had from a dance tune. Absolutely amazed how high it charted (#4!!) given how uncommercial it is, basically a two-second sample of Gary Numan's 'Cars' gone completely nuts with mad record scratching and weird noises over the top for eight minutes. It did get a fair bit of attention at the time though as I think Radio 1 played it a lot, and Armand was a major name by then.

It's his second biggest single to the chart topping You Don't Know Me from 1998.