Rapture is one of best dance tracks of alltime for me, while Nadia is one of the best dance vocalists, her only solo album is a dance music masterpiece.

So Solid Crew ‎- They Don't Know

 

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Date 11th Nov 2001

1 Week

Official Chart Run 3-9-20-35-45-53-55-45-54-x(3)-97-x-99-x- (11 weeks)

 

 

The 30 strong South London Garage/Grime collective, So Solid Crew, returned in November 2001 with the follow-up to the chart topping ’21 Seconds’. ‘They Don’t Know’ made a strong debut at #3, although the ~40k it sold was a long way short of challenging Westlife’s abomination ‘Queen Of My Heart’ which shifted 139k, to assert their position at the top of the UK’s Urban scene.

 

The video for ’21 Seconds’ featured the faces of each member in an effort to stop wannabes impersonating them, a predicament that they tackle in ‘They Don’t Know’. SWAG :music:

Edited September 4, 20168 yr by Ethan

I actually much prefer this a lot to 21 Seconds. The music with the wobbly bassline is more interesting. And the chorus is better too imo.

 

I don't remember it at all though :(

Rapture is indeed sublime, a massive radio hit at the time and very evocative of late 2001. I remember Colm using it as an example of how dance music fizzled out into underwhelming vocal dancepop later in the early noughties, something that did kinda happen but I don't think Rapture deserves to be lumped in with it - we're still in golden-age territory for now, and the real decline comes with some (but not all!) of the cover versions Flip & Fill cranked out in 2002-3. some of which we might be seeing here.

 

I didn't know there was an Avicii remix! I have vague memories of it charting on iTunes but assumed it was just the original back. Just heard it for the first time...it starts really promising with the vocals, but when they stop and your typical 2010s 'drop' starts I kinda lose interest. Original's definitely way better.

 

They Don't Know on the other hand...this is definitely the worst one in the thread so far :P Just four minutes of nothing, probably one of the least interesting top three tracks I've ever heard.

Edited September 4, 20168 yr by BillyH

Have zero recollection of that SSC hit :o in fact I had no idea about anything other than 21 Seconds so to find out they had as many as 5 UK top 20 hits is somewhat surprising!

 

Sounds alright but nothing too spectacular, agree with Snake about that wub which gives it some character.

 

Also out of interest what are you basing this list of? Just curious as it seems to conflict with the Wikipedia article on a few songs: http://tinyurl.com/jaahcng

The Wikipedia list is the UK Dance Chart, which is compiled differently (anyone know how?) - Prince's 1999 is #1 in the first chart of - you guessed it - 1999, as presumably a million DJs all had the same idea at midnight on New Years Day that year.

 

Otherwise it baffles me, depending on the charts I look at it's all over the place - mid-2009, during the time of my clubbing peak, is just this completely random mix of 90s and 00s tracks together which makes no sense at all. Downloads were added later that year which stabilises it to mostly newer tracks, and by 2016 there's not much difference between it and the main chart.

Riva (feat. Dannii Minogue) - Who Do You Love Now? (Stringer)

 

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Date 25th Nov 2001

1 Week

Official Chart Run 3-5-10-17-20-19-19-24-32-42-46-45-56-67-64-81-x (16 weeks)

 

 

Next up are the kings of aliases, Dutch house producers, Gaston Steenskist (Dobre) and René ter Horst (DJ Zki) from Haarlem (Netherlands). As The Goodmen they reached #5 with ‘Give It Up’ in the fall of 1993, which was then heavily sampled by Simply Red for their 4-week #1 ‘Fairground’ in September 1995. Under their Chocolate Puma alias we’ve already heard from them in the 2001 portion of this thread, with ‘I Wanna Be U’ peaking at #6 in March 2001. Later that month the duo enjoyed a further top40 smash with ‘Wack Ass MF’ (#32) as Rhythmkillaz. Jark Prongo ('Movin' Thru Your System' #58 1999) and Tomba Vira ('The Sound of: Oh Yeah' #51, 2001) provided further top100 appearances! :lol:

 

Here we’re dealing with their Riva alias, which took them into the sphere of trance; linking up with Antipodean dance diva Dannii Minogue (her legendary sister needs no introduction) who at this point had clocked up some 12 top40 hits since 1991 - the biggest of which ‘All I Wanna Do’ reached #4 in August 1997. ‘Who Do You Love Now?’ was originally only given a limited 12” release, but gained momentum and huge support from gay clubs during 2001 resulting in a full release at the end of November. ‘Who Do You Love Now? (Stringer)’ smashed in at #3 to become both acts biggest hits to date (Nov 2001). :wub: :dance: :wub:

 

Our intrepid pair of producers are still very much prolific club track producers for SPINNIN’ records, ‘I Can’t Understand’ (Chocolate Puma with Firebeatz) was a Beatport #1 in late 2014. Not to mention a futher 4 Beatport top10 smashes so far in 2016 alone. We’ll hear from Dannii again... :w00t:

Perfection ( no pun intended). Heavenly track.

The track is brilliant, very atmospheric and futuristic. I do vaguely remember it, although I wasn't that big a fan as it wasn't a fan of trance at the time (but I am now)

 

The video is humorously mislabelled as 'house music' which it isn't :lol: , it is trance (unlike the next Dannii entry on the thread which will be house music)

Edited September 5, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Daniel Bedingfield ‎- Gotta Get Thru This (D'n'D Mix)

 

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Date 02nd Dec 2001

6 Weeks

Official Chart Run 1-1-2-3-2-1-3-6-13-11-13-22-27-39-45-55-54-54-77-x (19 weeks)

 

 

New Zealand MOR act Daniel Bedingfield rounds out the dance chart #1’s of 2001, thanks to a ~SICK~ :dance: :music: :dance: remix from garage production duo Arthur Smith & Dean Wilson aka D'n'D (Productions). ‘Gotta Get Thru This’ was originally conceived in Bedingfield’s bedroom as a cringe worthy saccharine ballad, however D'n'D Productions saw the potential to turn it into a garage bomb. The dub received such a massive reaction on its first club play that D’n’D bought the rights to the song from Daniel Bedingfield for £1000, and self released it on 12” vinyl in August 2001 as DND Productions Presents Daniel Bedingfield 'Gotta Get Thru This'. The demand far outstripped the limited supply, with copies reportedly being sold for as much as £25 a pop, and the track was duly snapped up by Relentless/Ministry Of Sound.

 

Thus ‘Gotta Get Thru This’ duly stormed to the apex of the chart, upon its full release at the end November 2001, shifting an impressive 108,799 copies. The track initially spent a fortnight at the top, succumbing to Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman’s festive offering ‘Somethin’ Stupid’ over Christmas moving 2-3-2-, before returning to top on the w/e 12/01/2002 on sales of just 25,354. That was a record low weekly sale for a #1 single at the time beating the 29k sold by Iron Maiden’s ‘Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter’ on its second and final week at number one in January 1991. It wasn’t until late 2004 that ‘Gotta Get Thru This’ was relieved of this unwanted title by Eric Prydz’s ‘Call On Me’ (who incidentally was also returning to the summit on sales of just 23,519 then 21,749). Elvis also plumbed new depths (21,262 & 20,463) in early 2005, before Orson’s infamous 17,694 nadir with ‘No Tomorrow’ in March 2006.

Edited September 5, 20168 yr by Ethan

2001 in review

 

The #1s:

 

Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra - Touch Me (4 weeks)

Planet Funk - Chase The Sun (2 weeks)

Jakatta - American Dream (3 weeks)

Artful Dodger feat. Michelle Escoffery - Think About Me (1 week)

Chocolate Puma - I Wanna Be U (2 weeks)

M&S presents The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna) (2 weeks)

Norman Bass - How U Like Bass (Warp Brothers Mix) (1 week)

Schiller - Das Glockenspiel (DJ Tiësto Remix) (1 week)

Fatboy Slim - Star 69 (What The F**k) / Weapon Of Choice (2 weeks)

Fragma feat. Damae - You Are Alive (2 weeks)

DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It (3 weeks)

Mis-Teeq - All I Want (Sunship Mix) (3 weeks)

Roger Sanchez - Another Chance (2 weeks)

Ian Van Dahl feat. Marsha - Castles In The Sky (3 weeks)

So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds (4 weeks)

Supermen Lovers feat. Mani Hoffman - Starlight (4 weeks)

Jean Jacques Smoothie - 2 People (Mirwais Remix) (1 week)

The Ones - Flawless (3 weeks)

iiO - Rapture (2 n/c weeks)

So Solid Crew - They Don't Know (1 week)

Riva feat. Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now (Stringer) (1 week)

Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This (D'n'D Mix) (6 weeks)

 

links to all the reviews are contained in the OP for easy reference

 

End-of-year:

 

Pos/Performer/Title/Dance Chart Peak/Actual Chart Peak/Sales

 

1 DJ Pied Piper and the Masters of Ceremonies - Do You Really Like It 1 1 473k

2 Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This (D'n'D Mix) 1 1 370k

3 So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds 1 1 350k

4 Ian Van Dahl feat. Marsha - Castles In The Sky 1 3 311k

5 Rui da Silva feat. Cassandra - Touch Me 1 1 291k

6 Supermen Lovers feat. Mani Hoffman - Starlight 1 2 260k

7 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance 1 1 246k

8 Fragma feat. Maria Rubia - Everytime You Need Me 2 3 244k

9 Jakatta - American Dream 1 3 205k

10 iiO - Rapture 1 2 175k

 

It was very much the year of garage with the genre taking the entire top 3 of the year, but house and trance get a look in the EOY chart too.

TheSnake will start 2002, which has slightly less number ones than 2000/01, 19 songs will be reviewed.

 

One of the songs will spend as long as seven weeks at #1, though there will be a fair few one-week #1s also.

WDYLN - Dannii's pinnacle I think, tricky to add to what's been written so far. Pretty much a vocal trance masterpiece.

 

And all kinds of yes for Gotta Get Thru This, one of my fave UK garage tracks - imagine if Daniel Bedingfield had stuck to this kinda stuff instead of the dreary ballads that defined him later in the decade, imagining all kinds of kickass remixes of If You're Not The One and Never Gonna Leave Your Side right now! Interestingly that return to #1 early in '02 didn't happen in the Scottish Singles Chart, that honour went to (of all things)

.

 

The big loss though is PPK's Resurrection (#3 in DB's first week at #1), massive instrumental trance jam which is up there with both Dannii and Daniel's tracks as era-defining classics. Definitely deserved at least a week as dance #1, otherwise there's a ton of others during DB's six weeks at the top which are worth a listen. One of my picks is Andy C & Shimon's instrumental drum & bass anthem

, which did astonishingly well to go top 30 in the first week of 2002 - one of the oddest but refreshingly different-sounding top 40 dance hits of its era. It kickstarted some major chart success for a dance genre that was easily about to have its best-selling year in the charts so far - and that and many other reasons is why 2002's gonna be so fascinating!

Two great classics to wrap up 2001. Still love both Who Do You Love Now and Gotta Get Thru This today.

 

Here's a 2001 mix of dance hits (at least in Germany) before starting 2001.

 

omg did Hermes House Band actually go to #1 in Scotland *__* that was a kids disco classic. i still hear it fairly often too as it's on my mum's country songs playlist :lol:

 

annoying that 'Resurection' isn't a dance #1 here, I'd say it's one of my favourite trance songs ever and definitely deserving of a place in this thread.

That Riva track is sounding better now than I remember it, a truly knockout chorus stealing the song but the haunting production really works well in between, one I'll have to revisit again in the near future!

 

And where to even start with Gotta Get Thru This? An absolute masterpiece in every way IMO, one of the best songs on this entire countdown & to see it clock up the joint-highest number of weeks at #1 in this thread so far is extremely pleasing :D

 

Completely agree re Resurection, an utter stunner. Not many songs I personally would describe as "takes you on a journey" but this one really does capture the essence of a trip through space, complete with a complementary Russian astronaut recording to top it all off (which is now a perfect time to bring a sublime Pendulum track into the limelight, Streamline :wub: which also includes this extremely rare feature (in English however)!)

 

And wow at that Andy C track, sounds completely nothing like anything we've seen so far, can't believe it would be another 13 years before he had another hit (albeit one that cruelly missed the top 40)

Rapture is indeed sublime, a massive radio hit at the time and very evocative of late 2001. I remember Colm using it as an example of how dance music fizzled out into underwhelming vocal dancepop later in the early noughties, something that did kinda happen but I don't think Rapture deserves to be lumped in with it - we're still in golden-age territory for now, and the real decline comes with some (but not all!) of the cover versions Flip & Fill cranked out in 2002-3. some of which we might be seeing here.

 

The 80s covers and remixes get a lot of hate from dance fans. I wouldn't be a fan of Soda Club, Cascada and Dan Wayne's hardstyle ones though I prefer the lighter 2004 to 2006 ones. For me the golden age lasts until the end of 2006 and the rise of electro random notes hit on keyboards with terrible soulless vocals (Yeah Yeah etc). 2007 is dreadful imo mostly, 2008's few dance hits are quite good imo and then 2009 is mostly not great but with a few gems.

 

The 2002 to 2006 emphasis on big female vocals from the likes of Kelly Llorenna, Rachel McFarlane, Tara McDonald, Cookie etc. I really like as it maintains the link to the early days of dance, which was disco. I know Colm wasn't a fan though.

 

2001 was a great year, ending on a great tune from Daniel Bedingfield which I remember a lot and I much much preferred it to the dreary If Your Not The One.

 

2002 will be the year trance really becomes a big chart force. Resurrection (which is fantastic imo) and Dannii and Riva kickstart this. Although another genre also spawns some hits, a genre we have not seen much so far on the thread.

Edited September 5, 20168 yr by TheSnake

2001 Noteable Absentees (in alphabetical order)

 

Alcazar – Crying At The Discoteque :music:

Alice Deejay – Celebrate Our Love

Angelic – Can't Keep Me Silent

Architechs – Show Me The Money

Armand Van Helden – Why Can't U Free Some Time

Artful Dodger feat. Melanie Blatt – Twentyfourseven

ATB feat. York – Fields Of Love

Backyard Dog – Baddest Roughest :music:

Basement Jaxx – Romeo

Bel Amour – Bel Amour

Boris Dlugosch feat. Roisin – Never Enough

Cleptomaniacs feat. Bryan Chambers – All I Do

Daft Punk – Digital Love

Da Hool – Meet Her At The Love Parade 2001

Dario G – Dream To Me

Dario G – Say What's On Your Mind

DJ Luck & MC Neat – Piano Loco

Echobass & Rat Pack – (You Are) The Weakest Link

Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue [Ringbang Remix] :music:

Faithless – We Come 1 :music:

Fatboy Slim – Ya Mamma

Fragma feat. Maria Rubia – Everytime You Need Me

Fragma – Say That You're Here

Genius Cru – Boom Selection :music:

Gorillaz – 19-2000 [soulchild Remix]

Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood [Ed Case/Sweetie Irie Refix]

Groove Armada – Superstylin'

Ian Van Dahl – Will I

Jamiroquai – Little L

Kosheen – Catch

Kosheen – Hide U

Lindsay Dracass – No Dream Impossible

Modjo – Chillin'

Musique vs. U2 – New Years Dub

N-Trance – Set You Free

Oxide & Neutrino – Devil's Nightmare

Oxide & Neutrino – Rap Dis

Oxide & Neutrino – Up Middle Finger

Phats & Small – Change

Phats & Small – This Time Around

PPK – ResuRection

Push – Strange World

Raven Maize – The Real Life

Roger Sanchez feat. Armand Van Helden & N'Dea Davenport – You Can't Change Me

Santos – Camels

Safri Duo – Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song) :music:

Sonique – I Put A Spell On You

Storm – Storm

Stuntmasterz – The Ladyboy Is Mine

Tall Paul – Precious Heart

Voodoo & Serano – Blood Is Pumpin'

Warp Brothers – We Will Survive

Wideboys feat. Dennis G – Sambuca

Edited September 5, 20168 yr by awardinary

Puretone - Addicted To Bass

 

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Date 12th Jan 2002

4 Weeks

Official Chart Run 98-2-4-8-5-4-8-13-15-21-30-35-41-62-67 (15 weeks)

 

 

Australia has given the world several drum and bass acts, most notably Pendulum/Knife Party and ShockOne, who did an excellent remix of Russo's Bad Tonight amongst other things. Puretone, real name, Josh Abrahams is also from Australia, Melbourne to be precise. In the early 00s, drum and bass wasn't the chart force it is in the 2010s but despite this, the UK dance scene began to take notice of this funky 1998 track that reached the top 20 in Australia. The track features American-Australian singer Amiel Daemion. The title Addicted To Bass was used for a series of Ministry of Sound albums starting in 2009, and the first track on the first album was a remix of the song.

 

The song has quite minimal production - drum and bass with a heavy bassline (as it would have to with that title) and funky jazz influenced vocals. The bass notes in the build up to the chorus are actually kind of trancey to my ears as it prolonged, like the synths in many trance tracks at the time.

 

Interestingly by the time of this release, Puretone had moved away from dance music and was composing film soundtracks with Baz Luhrmann, in 2001 he co-composed the Moulin Rouge soundtrack. However after he released Addicted To Bass worldwide, and it reached number 2, he recorded a follow up, Stuck In A Groove, which reached number 26 and sadly doesn't make it on to this thread.

 

Speaking of Baz Luhrmann, Puretone produced his number 1 UK single in 1998, deep house track and frequent itunes chart returner 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)'

 

Puretone, however led to more drum and bass hits in the charts after, including another one that makes this thread for 2002 and two excellent latin inspired drum and bass tracks involving Stamina MC which sadly don't make it on this thread, and another couple of excellent drum and bass tracks in 2005 (Pendulum - Slam/Roni Size and Beverley Knight - No More/The Prodigy - Voodoo People (Pendulum remix), again not doing well enough on the charts to make the thread.

 

Finally, a personal note. I do not remember this song much at all, sadly, only very vaguely. I probably wouldn't have liked it at the time, as it is quite hard dance. However I certainly like it now.

 

This song really went against the dance trend of the time, which was for epic vocal trance. However in our next entry we will see a fine example of this dominant genre that was around at the time.

Edited September 7, 20168 yr by danG

Lil correction TheSnake,

 

Addicted to Bass spends 4 weeks on top, the run is broken by another song that gets one week at number one after Puretone's second week.