As The Rush Comes NOT being a dance #1 - or even a top ten - genuinely astonishes me :o One of those songs that seemed far bigger than it actually was, should surely have done a 'Touch Me' and gone to #1 during a quiet January week.

 

I remember hearing it a ton during 2004-05, but I wasn't too keen on it at the time - a fantastic build during the first half of the song, but it doesn't quite kick back into gear as much as I hoped it would. But then pump it out in a club and I'd probably be in heaven - at fifteen years old (then) I'm still too young for clubs, so most of my listening was still on internet radio or badly-encoded mp3s!

 

Really really liked 'Good Luck' at the time too, still one of my fave Basement Jaxx tracks - that vocal is brilliant!!

As The Rush Comes NOT being a dance #1 - or even a top ten - genuinely astonishes me :o One of those songs that seemed far bigger than it actually was, should surely have done a 'Touch Me' and gone to #1 during a quiet January week.

 

I remember hearing it a ton during 2004-05

 

But then 2005 had its own chilled vocal trance song, Need To Feel Loved by Reflekt and Delline Bass. Like 'As The Rush Comes' it made top 15 but unfortunately not top 10.

Edited January 21, 20178 yr by Snake Got Hissed

But then 2005 had its own chilled vocal trance song, Need To Feel Loved by Reflekt and Delline Bass. Like 'As The Rush Comes' it made top 15 but unfortunately not top 10.

 

 

Actually, I don't find Need To Feel Loved a bit trance'y. Rather chill-house/ vocal-house.... nah forget genre discussion, I strongly agree it's a crime both tracks didn't make top 10... still remain classics though

Edited January 21, 20178 yr by jszmiles

Actually, I don't find Need To Feel Loved a bit trance'y. Rather chill-house/ vocal-house.... nah forget genre discussion, I strongly agree it's a crime both tracks didn't make top 10... still remain classics though

 

Well NTFL is either progressive house or trance, I thought it was trance as it is on a trance compilation on itunes and it does sound similar in style to the Motorcycle track.

 

Never thought about the 'Touch Me' (Rui da Silva) comparison to Motorcycle before but I can see it. I think the Motorcycle just lacked that hook to make it absolutely massive, but it is a great track as it is. I love the way it builds up, the bassline and the raw vocal.

Well NTFL is either progressive house or trance, I thought it was trance as it is on a trance compilation on itunes and it does sound similar in style to the Motorcycle track.

 

I'll save my actual thoughts about NTFL until we get to '05, but just gonna share this Thrillseekers remix as it's the one I remember hearing the most at the time, which definitely makes it trance:

 

I'd say Need To Feel Loved is definitely trance, or more specifically trouse (progressive house with the feeling of trance)

 

this is the most popular version, which is definitely trouse.

 

and this is the original version, which is slightly more trancey.

LMC vs U2 ft Rachel McFarlane - Take Me To The Clouds Above

 

 

Date 7th Feb 2004

5 Weeks

Official Chart Run 1-1-3-4-5-11-17-21-27-33-48-62 (+01/01/05 86-79-96) (15 weeks)

 

 

LMC are a British dance group consisting of a trio of producers, Lee Monteverde, Matt Cadman and Cris Nuttall. This number 1 hit from them consists of a cover of the verse of Whitney Houston's How Will I Know and a new chorus (both sung by Rachel McFarlane). The instrumental uses a sample from U2's With Or Without You, leading to U2 being credited on the single.

 

The song is a deep house and progressive house track, not unlike Love Inc's You're A Superstar in subgenre combination. I do prefer this to You're A Superstar. The instrumental, like You're A Superstar is rather sad sounding due to its use of minor keys. For me I always lumped these two in in the trilogy of dance ballads of the early/mid 00s along with DHT and Edmee's Listen to Your Heart.

 

The Boogie Pimps track and the next track on our list (a house song too) I think really shows how house music was definitely starting a resurgence when up to this point eurotrance had been the main type of dance music in the charts.

 

Take Me to The Clouds Above as well as making number 1 in the UK for 2 weeks (keeping Kelis' Milkshake off the top spot both weeks), also reached number 21 or higher in 10 European countries and in Australia.

 

Former gospel singer Rachel McFarlane (from Manchester, UK) started off her chart career as the vocalist for Loveland in the mid 90s (five top 40 singles, one of these 'Let The Music Lift You Up' making top 20) before she had the 1998 hit on her own with the lively funky Eurodance tune 'Lover' (a great tune imo), making number 38, which was re-released in early 2005 (I think I remember it from the time).

 

Later on LMC and Rachel McFarlane had a #30 hit in early 2006 with 'You Get What you Give' a looped house cover of the New Radicals track (re-recorded with Rachel McFarlane's vocals from a version LMC did in 2005 with the original vocal). I remember the 2006 version well despite the low chart placing and is one of the better 80s remixes I think.

 

Personally I think Take Me To The Clouds Above is a great emotive sounding dance track and is definitely one of the classic house tracks of the 00s.

I do like this track, for its now nostalgic sound, I don't remember what I thought about it at the time of release though sadly. Lover and You Get What You Give were very good too (these two should have done better in the charts than they did)

Yet another brilliant house song, 2004 really was brilliant for these so it's no surprise that it was in this year I started to really like dance music.

 

Shame they didn't actually release a follow-up until two years later, I reckon 'You Get What You Give' would have been a top 10 if it came out 3-6 months after 'Take Me'. I didn't even recall them having a follow-up until a few years ago when I got into reading chart archives - always assumed LMC were a true one hit wonder!

Yet another brilliant house song, 2004 really was brilliant for these so it's no surprise that it was in this year I started to really like dance music.

 

Shame they didn't actually release a follow-up until two years later, I reckon 'You Get What You Give' would have been a top 10 if it came out 3-6 months after 'Take Me'. I didn't even recall them having a follow-up until a few years ago when I got into reading chart archives - always assumed LMC were a true one hit wonder!

 

Well what happened is they did a looped house version of the New Radicals original in early 2005 (when 80s remixes were the trend) but it wasn't released for some reason.

 

Anyway Lover (2005 version) was a LMC radio edit apparently and is on the 'Complete Clubland Extra' album, I don't know how this is different to the 1998 Lover though, but certainly the 2005 one is a great funky Eurodance tune that I think I do remember from the time on music channels like The Box. :dance:

 

Take Me to the Clouds Above may have started the whole vocal house trend of mid 2004-mid 2006 with strong female vocals on tracks, although the music accompanying would soon become more funky and disco inspired :dance:

Edited January 24, 20178 yr by Snake Got Hissed

As embarrassing as it is to admit, I didn't know the vocals on this were sampled at the time - I recognised the U2 backing, but assumed the lyrics were all-new. Bit of a surprise when I heard Whitney's How Will I Know for the first time!

 

Yeah I loved this, still in the days when mashups were huge property in the charts, countless ones being remade or re-recorded for commercial release. And for those wondering, yep that video looked pretty low-budget even for then!

As embarrassing as it is to admit, I didn't know the vocals on this were sampled at the time - I recognised the U2 backing, but assumed the lyrics were all-new. Bit of a surprise when I heard Whitney's How Will I Know for the first time!

 

I actually only realised the connection with the U2 song a few years ago, I wondered up to then why U2 were credited in the song :lol:

Anyway Lover (2005 version) was a LMC radio edit apparently and is on the 'Complete Clubland Extra' album, I don't know how this is different to the 1998 Lover though, but certainly the 2005 one is a great funky Eurodance tune that I think I do remember from the time on music channels like The Box. :dance:

This is the original version, sounds very 90s eurotrance.

 

 

Doesn't sound quite as great as the 2005 remake.

This is the original version, sounds very 90s eurotrance.

 

 

Doesn't sound quite as great as the 2005 remake.

 

Yep I much prefer the 2005 remake (I assume LMC produced it) - only number 36 it made though :(

Other tracks in the charts at the same time as LMC, U2 and Rachel McFarlane's run at dance number 1.

 

#29

 

Interesting house track...somewhat similar to 2006's Faster Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold/Brittany Murphy in style (vocal style especially)

 

#25

 

Good funky house tune, obviously inspired by X-press 2/David Byrne Lazy in getting an 80s band frontman to sing for a dance track.

 

#40

 

Follow up to Satisfaction, robotic voice and electro synths....great track...should have done better in the charts. Maybe didn't do as well as the video is ahem not as interesting.

 

#11

 

Trance song, definitely not like most trance songs, the synths are quite Pendulum-y in this one. Great tune.

 

#19

 

Cheesy Eurodance song, not as good as Summer Jam, the lyrics about days of the week are easily as cheesy as Rebecca Black - Friday and sadly remind me of it. :o The production is ahead of its time, though, Eurohouse production like the likes of Inna.

 

#9

 

I remember this well being on the radio at the time, liked it then and like it now, one of my favourite deep house songs ever.

 

#14

 

Kelly Llorenna's final UK top 40 hit. Eurotrance as always, although that description is pushing it a little as there is not much trancey about this particular one even by eurotrance standards. The video (probably the best thing about the song for its humour value) is a clear Satisfaction parody featuring men instead of women demonstrating the products with very little clothing.

 

#22

 

This is a great vocal trance tune, never heard it before. Trance tracks like this were becoming rare in the charts by this stage.

 

#37

 

Different sounding version of that track we know without the organ bassline...MC Jig says he is the originator of it at the end which is interesting....is this the original version charting?

 

#39

 

Another organ house track brought back from 2000 this time by the dance group which had an unusual UK chart career in that their three hits made the chart few years later in the UK after they had broken up. A good track, not quite up to the standard of the other two though.

Edited January 24, 20178 yr by Snake Got Hissed

That Underdog Project song sounds nothing like Inna. Production is completely different.

Love the LMC track, another I own on CD single (as with Boogie Pimps).

 

Also just to clarify, You Get What You Give was originally out in 1999 not the 80s...

Love the LMC track, another I own on CD single (as with Boogie Pimps).

 

Also just to clarify, You Get What You Give was originally out in 1999 not the 80s...

 

I kind of lump YGWYG in with the 80s remixes as it is similar in style. I should more accurately call them 'retro song remixes'

 

That Underdog Project song sounds nothing like Inna. Production is completely different.

 

Very slight similarities. UD Project's first song Summer Jam (DJ F.R.A.N.K remix) was really the start of Eurodance becoming house rather than trance influenced in the 00s I would say (a trend with continued to the likes of Inna in the early 10s).

DJ Casper - Cha Cha Slide

 

 

Date 7th March 2004

8 Weeks

Official Chart Run 2-1-2-2-4-5-8-10-12-17-25-34-36-40-45-56-72-74 (18 weeks)

 

 

The house music revival in the top 10 in early 2004 continued with this track, which like our last entry made number 1. It is a very minimal affair, not unlike many early 2010s deep house tracks instrumentally, but definitely not like them vocally with the more lighthearted vocals. As a consequence of being minimal it wouldn't be among my favourite house tracks of the 2000s, although it certainly is much better than the similarly minimal electro house of 2007 for me.

 

Nevertheless, I am sure it would said by most that the vocal definitely does make this track. The original was made in 1998 and another version in 1999 by Chicago based songwriter and DJ Willie Perry Jr. also known as DJ Casper as he always wears white clothing on stage. Sadly he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year. There is no recent news about him online after June 2016, and the twitter account of 'DJCasperDJC' is actually a different DJ from Philadelphia known as TheinternationalDJCasper.

 

The version that charted eventually in the UK was first released in September 2000 and became a number 83 hit in America in February 2001. It wasn't released in the UK until March 2004.

 

It is quite apt that DJ Casper is from Chicago as that was where house music started in the late 80s, and this does maintain the original minimal electronic sound of the genre. The song Cha Cha Slide, largely because of the iconic lyrics and dance routine, is often played at events in the UK and in America, and therefore has become one of the best known house records as a result of this.

 

In the UK the song's success was helped by being pioneered on Scott Mills' weekday afternoon show on Radio 1, he obviously championed the record a lot.

 

Personally I remember the iconic video for the song more than the song from this time.

 

Interestingly the week before the DJ Casper version charted in the UK, a version under the artist name MC Jig charted at number 37. It lacks the organ bassline of the DJ Casper version and also rather humorously, given it is presumably an opportunistically released cover at the end states that 'I am the originator of this slide' and that it is 'Casper Slide part 2 ', presumably it is a cover of the second version of a song with these lyrics made by DJ Casper in 1999, entitled 'Casper Slide Part 2'.