Speaking of Milk Inc's In my Eyes taking a long time to be released here, which version of Milk Inc's In my Eyes became a hit, was it the exclusively electronic one or the one with the guitar in it (which I prefer). I imagine it was the first.

 

 

I forgot to say two members of N-Trance will get another top 10 hit....will it make this thread though?

I love both "Forever"'s in this thread, and another one also from 2002 by Trinity X. Although the Voodoo & Serano mix of the N-Trance hit was my favorite - and it was actually playlisted by Radio 1 after they snubbed the remix of Set You Free.

 

The Mad'House song was EVERYWHERE back in 2002 in the whole of Europe basically, peaking at #2 on the Eurochart and only missed the top spot cause it wasnt released everywhere at the same time. Radio 1 didnt playlist the song, but Chris Moyles gave it a few spins on his breakfast show.

 

Shooting Star brings back great memories for me, I actually first heard the song on TOTP thanks to the BBC being available in Portugal :D Not as good as TLND, but a great summer song.

 

I remember being addicted to Tell It To My Heart, me and a friend of mine used to sing it all of time. I actually heard the song at a spanish club that summer and it was such a rush

Interesting Mad'house being snubbed by Radio 1, I wonder was it because it may have been seen as a cheesy dance version of an old song,and they preferred to play original new dance songs?

Yeah pretty much that. Chris Moyles did give it (and a few of Scooter hits) some spins but they were never playlisted for regular rotation. But back then, you actually didnt need Radio 1 behind you to get a hit. The Box was just as big of an influence.

 

The same can be said for the bubblegum pop hits of the early 00s

Edited September 23, 20168 yr by Euphorique

Yeah pretty much that. Chris Moyles did give it (and a few of Scooter hits) some spins but they were never playlisted for regular rotation. But back then, you actually didnt need Radio 1 behind you to get a hit. The Box was just as big of an influence

 

Yes I remember watching this tune on it at a similar time to when this video was made of a The Box play in 2005.

 

 

I also remember Lil Love by Little Love was played a lot on it from the same year. These two were played a lot on it but only strangely both only just top 40 (not even top 30) for a week.

 

 

Yeah pretty much that. Chris Moyles did give it (and a few of Scooter hits) some spins but they were never playlisted for regular rotation. But back then, you actually didnt need Radio 1 behind you to get a hit. The Box was just as big of an influence.

 

The same can be said for the bubblegum pop hits of the early 00s

was The Box TV play basically the early 00s equivalent to being put on a big Spotify playlist then? In the way that it influenced a lot of hits.

These two were played a lot on it but only strangely both only just top 40 (not even top 30) for a week.

 

Well it was 2005, the nadir for dance music in the charts.

Wasn't it revealed that record companies would basically spam-call The Box requesting to play their own artists videos, hence why seemingly random songs few cared about would air all the time? And then if they underperformed in week 1 they'd almost immediately disappear and never be played again. And in the very early days, if no one was calling in at all (like during the middle of the night) they'd just show a blank screen until someone did! This changed eventually to playing random videos during quieter times.

 

I have a really odd memory of one of the channels - I think it was Magic - going completely nuts one evening and playing Don't You Want Me by the Human League over and over again for absolutely no reason. I couldn't work out whether the computer system had broken down or some crazy obsessive was calling the channel up and requesting it a million times, or whether it was some kind of joke or gimmick.

 

Something I've never quite worked out is when The Box & other 'music request' channels dropped the interactivity element and just became like any other music channel. It must have been sometime around the late-2000s when Youtube's rise meant the old format had become completely pointless, but back in the late 90s it felt like the coolest thing ever to ring in and request a song. I did it tons from around 1999-2003 and racked up one hell of a phonebill!

was The Box TV play basically the early 00s equivalent to being put on a big Spotify playlist then? In the way that it influenced a lot of hits.

 

Definitely. Music channels in general, but especially The Box. You can find many more top 10 hits without Radio 1 support from back in the late 90s/early 00s than nowadays, its not even in the same scale. The Box had a much bigger playlist and imported a lot of european dance hits, many didnt become huge hits but at least they charted.

Edited September 23, 20168 yr by Euphorique

Well it was 2005, the nadir for dance music in the charts.

 

You could say that 2016 is the nadir for it, at least many dance songs did enter the top 40 in 2005 because of the fast chart even if few of them did make top 10.

 

But the first few weeks of 2005 saw quite a few dance songs making the top 10.

 

Strange it did seem to me, perhaps because The Box played a lot of dance music at the time that dance music was everywhere in 2005, as much as in 2002.

2016 can hardly be the nadir when dance is dominating the top10 and has been for a while now. 2005 was atrocious, the genre is a lot more dominating now. Back then it was pretty much forgotten, most of them being flops even with radio support. Dance was not everywhere like it was 2002, anyone who went through that period remembers it clearly. It was replaced by urban and rock.

 

Quality wise, that's another different issue, and very subjective.

Edited September 23, 20168 yr by Euphorique

2016 can hardly be the nadir when dance is dominating the top10 and has been for a while now. 2005 was atrocious, the genre is a lot more dominating now. Back then it was pretty much forgotten, most of them being flops even with radio support. Dance was not everywhere like it was 2002, anyone who went through that period remembers it clearly. It was replaced by urban and rock.

 

Quality wise, that's another different issue, and very subjective.

 

Well I suppose dance music didn't do quite as well in the charts but I do remember the various 80s remixes and the disco style house tracks from that year being played on The Box a lot (maybe they were more dance focused at the time than Radio 1).

 

About your last point, I will try and take this from a objective viewpoint, based on genre types, and I would say there was more variety in dance hits in 2005 making the top 40 than today making the top 40 in terms of genres.

 

2002 was the death of dance. Such a drop in quality from 2001.

2002 was the death of dance. Such a drop in quality from 2001.

 

In the 00s, 2000 to around August 2006 was great for dance music I think.

 

For me the quality drops during the second half of 2006, during 2006 we went from the warm sounding retro inspired dance music inspired house at the start of the year (

Make A Move On Me, Most Precious Love, Watchin', My My My, Love Dont Let Me Go, Tell Me Why)

to the cold emotionless electro like

Put Your Hands Up For Detroit

and the electro with annoying vocals of

Yeah Yeah

and added to this we had Cascada doing dreadful covers of old songs (Cascada's first hit though was OK though). 2007 dance is dreadful I think, with two Grooove Armada songs nowhere near as good as I See You Baby (one of these being an extremely poppy watered down song with a former Sugababe), and Fedde Le Grand style stuff I really dislike. There is one exception at the end in the bassline garage genre which I do like.

 

Then I think 2008 is an improvement because of the eurodance revival (although there is not much dance that makes the chart as the charts were very slow that year for spne reason - I dont know why. 2009 was quite good, although the global "big names on the track" dance phenomenon started at the end of the year, which I didn't like much.

Edited September 24, 20168 yr by TheSnake

Speaking of Milk Inc's In my Eyes taking a long time to be released here, which version of Milk Inc's In my Eyes became a hit, was it the exclusively electronic one or the one with the guitar in it (which I prefer). I imagine it was the first.

 

It was

by DJ Philip that was the hit in the UK.

 

That's Milk Inc's current (since 2000) singer Linda Mertens in the video but I think she's miming to former singer Ann Vervoort's vocals, as Ann had been replaced by Linda by the time of the 2002 remix. Tragically Ann died a few years ago, which makes a bit uncomfortable today to see someone miming to her vocals and getting all the credit...

It was

by DJ Philip that was the hit in the UK.

 

That's Milk Inc's current (since 2000) singer Linda Mertens in the video but I think she's miming to former singer Ann Vervoort's vocals, as Ann had been replaced by Linda by the time of the 2002 remix. Tragically Ann died a few years ago, which makes a bit uncomfortable today to see someone miming to her vocals and getting all the credit...

 

I much prefer the original version, its like 'tropical trance' with that tropical house sounding instrument in it. Also for tropical trance see XTM/DJ Chucky/Annia's two hits with the flute in it.

 

 

 

Scooter-Nessaja

 

 

Date 21st September 2002

3 Weeks

Official Chart Run 94-86-82-4-8-10-17-22-26-40-47-70 (9 weeks)

 

 

 

IS IT A BIRD, IS IT A PLANE? IT MUST BE DAVE WHO'S ON THE TRAIN.

 

You wouldn't get lyrics like those in a dance track now.....This tune is a mix of 90s style rave and the rapped lyrics and pitched vocals that we tend to associate with Scooter, this song is a dance version of a 1984 German musical song, also called Nessja. Scooter turned this middle of the road tune into a dramatic dance anthem.

 

It is the first of several 90s rave style tunes in the later part of the early and the mid 00s, others include Shake Ya Shimmy by Flip and fill ft P*rn Kings, Attention by Commander Tom and C'mon (Get it On) by Studio B.

 

Scooter would go on to have three more top 40 hits in 2003, The Weekend, The Night and Maria (I Like It Loud), and one of these will make this thread.

 

A final note...Scooter - Nessaja dance number 1 14 years ago...how times have changed...for the worse imo :(

Such a powerful sounding dance tune. I didn't like Scooter at the time because they were too hard dance for me, but I really like them now. I started rediscovering them a few years ago and realised how good they were, and they seem to play instruments live too, which is rare for a dance act.

This would make it the first rave tune in the 00s dance thread. A few more examples of 90s style rave tunes would come back towards the mid 00s with Flip and Fill ft P*rn Kings - Shake Ya Shimmy (number 28 in early 2003), Commander Tom's Attention (number 20 in early 2005) and Studio B's C'mon Get it On (number 28 in early 2006).

Porn Kings *__* what a name.

 

Shake Ya Shimmy is quite the jam too.