To be honest there's still 90s nostalgia mania. That and early/mid 00s urban like Ignition Remix, Get Busy, Turn Me On and Yeah.

Freeloaders vs The Real Thing - So Much Love To Give

 

 

Date:17th April 2005

Weeks at #1: 1 week

Official Chart Run: 9-12-17-31-41-56-72-80-89 (9 weeks)

 

 

Freeloaders consist of Kevin O'Toole and Dale Longworth, who were two of the founding members of N-Trance. 'So Much Love To Give' made top 40 in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands as well as reaching number 9 in the UK and was a one hit wonder for them under the name 'Freeloaders'.

 

It samples the 1977 song "Love's Such A Wonderful Thing" by The Real Thing (reaching number 32 in the UK originally). The Freeloaders remix is not the first looped house track to sample this song , a looped house track was released in 2002 by Together, consisting of Thomas Bangalter (best known for being a member of Daft Punk) and DJ Falcon. It samples the same line of the original song (without the 'To You' addition in the Freeloaders track).

 

 

The Freeloaders vs The Real Thing song is different to the Together remix in that it has more eurodance style synths and also has a mostly instrumental bit in the middle (the bit after 1:32) with not much looped vocal with some fast progressive synths, somewhat similar in style to the ones in later looped house songs which momentarily break the organ house production of Wish You Were Mine by Philip George and Joe Stone ft Montell Jordan -The Party (This Is How We Do It). I do prefer this to the other two songs as the Freeloaders song is less cold sounding (which I find organ house to be a bit) and minimal imo than them.

 

If the two looped house versions sampling the same line of the original Real Thing song by Together and Freeloaders were not enough, there is another looped house track sampling that line of The Real Thing's track by Fedde le Grand in 2011, called So Much Love.

 

 

This didn't chart in the UK though. I do prefer it to Fedde's late 2006 and 2007 stuff though it is the weakest of the looped house songs to sample the song, I like the violins and progressiveness of the Together track (also the fact it was the first one to sample the line from the original song). I like the fact it switches music a few times in the Freeloaders one for variety.

 

Uniting Nations song 'You and Me' samples some of the music from So Much Love To Give but not the vocal, adding some different instrumentation (including a guitar) and effects to it. More about 'You and Me' later perhaps.....

 

Anyway, the Freeloaders one I remember hearing in the gym of the leisure centre my mother was working in at the time and I did like it.

 

Freeloaders went on to release an album, Freshly Squeezed in 2006 with 'So Much Love To Give' being the first track.

 

Finally there something different about the video for a mid 00s looped house track. It's not over sexualised, instead showing a mixture of animations and people dancing.

Other dance tracks entering the top 40 that week.

 

 

#32

 

By coincidence, Thomas Bangalter who was part of the first song sampling the line So Much Love To Give uses, made the charts the same week the Freeloaders were dance number 1, with Robot Rock. Don't remember it or the video from the time, but it is a good track, and one of a few dance songs to make the top 40 in 2005, along with Mylo's Destroy Rock And Roll, Martin Solveig's Everybody and one of the songs that will make dance number 1 to strongly feature an electric guitar.

 

#24

 

 

This was everywhere at the time, especially on music channels, I really liked this at the time and ended up knowing it quite well, and its minimal tech house production was definitely ahead of its time, and I liked the dark atmospheric vocal on it, a bit like on Deep Dish's Flashdance or Say Hello or on Need To Feel Loved.

 

#37

 

 

Another track that like So Much Love To Give had a similar track before it, that being William Orbit's trance version in 1999, which made number 4 in the charts. This is fantastic I think, and although I like the other dance songs, this is my favourite of all the dance entries to the top 40 on the week of Freeloaders being dance number 1. I think I prefer it to the Orbit version as it builds up more. Don't remember it from the time though sadly. I can see why it didn't do that well in the chart, trance instrumentals had been struggling in the charts well before April 2005. However it did have good longevity in the top 75, spending another 8 consecutive weeks in the top 75 immediately after its initial week at number 37.

Quite shocked Tiesto's version is that low tbh. I've heard it that much it sounded like something that was a Top 5 hit! Still sounds so good and euphoric now though.

 

Adore that Freeloaders track too.

Don't let the peak for Adagio for Strings fool you - it has racked up a large amount of sales for a number 37 hit (more than the William Orbit version thanks to good trickle sales) and is one of the most iconic / well known trance songs ever.

 

I did like that Freeloaders track a lot back then, I wouldn't call it a classic but it is a fun listen and very much welcome in the dance number ones thread.

 

Also quite like that Daft Punk song although it isn't one of their very best.

Quite shocked Tiesto's version is that low tbh. I've heard it that much it sounded like something that was a Top 5 hit! Still sounds so good and euphoric now though.

 

It was 2005 though, trance instrumentals didn't make top 10 after early 2002 (PPK - Resurection was the last one to make top 10 iirc). Adagio For Strings should have charted higher than it did though, maybe the release wasn't held back long enough to get a higher chart position the first week and reduce trickle sales in following weeks?

 

I did like that Freeloaders track a lot back then, I wouldn't call it a classic but it is a fun listen and very much welcome in the dance number ones thread.

I like how it didn't have to rely on a sexualised video (like most looped house tracks in the mid 00s) to get top 10. As I said, I much prefer it to Philip George or Joe Stone's looped house tracks in 2015, as it has a less minimal sound and I prefer the retro synths in it to the organ of those. It also sounds a bit different to the other looped house remixes of the mid 00s by having a varied structure rather than the usual fadeouts and having some eurodance and progressive fast synths, most notably in the middle part.

 

Being from N-Trance, they should have brought Kelly Llorenna back to sing a bit on the track though in addition to the original The Real Thing vocal. Although it probably wouldn't have worked very well.

 

Also quite like that Daft Punk song although it isn't one of their very best.

 

It was a little familiar to me when I first rediscovered it on the chart updates, although I think I heard it much later on the radio rather than at the time.

Don't let the peak for Adagio for Strings fool you - it has racked up a large amount of sales for a number 37 hit (more than the William Orbit version thanks to good trickle sales) and is one of the most iconic / well known trance songs ever.

 

I am quite sure it spent like 50+ weeks inside top 200 in UK. It sold a lot indeed.

loved Tiesto back in the day, was a huge fan, I used to live in Belgium in 2002-2005 and went to see Tiesto a few times, he did this crazy concerts that went from midnight til 8 in the morning and he was playing either his own songs or his remixes so was only his stuff... my fav will always be Traffic, which I think never did anything in the UK, but in Belgium and Holland, it was like the national anthem, it was played in all bars and parties and people were always going crazy, at that time and place he was really God is a DJ :D

#24

 

 

This was everywhere at the time, especially on music channels, I really liked this at the time and ended up knowing it quite well, and its minimal tech house production was definitely ahead of its time, and I liked the dark atmospheric vocal on it, a bit like on Deep Dish's Flashdance or Say Hello or on Need To Feel Loved.

 

This actually went to #1 on my personal chart in 2005 (a year where 26 different songs made #1!) and I have it on CD single somewhere in my collection. TUNE! :D

I re-discovered that Freeloaders track fairly recently and have played it in my DJ set a few times - decent track, uplifting.

 

Also was a big fan of "Avalon" by Juliet, it got to number 2 in my chart so just missed out. Can't remember what to - possibly Stereophonics, Natalie Imbruglia or Kelly Osbourne, lol

This actually went to #1 on my personal chart in 2005 (a year where 26 different songs made #1!) and I have it on CD single somewhere in my collection. TUNE! :D

 

Yes I really liked at the time and still do. This was on the music channels loads at the time, surprised it didn't do better, I suppose because it is quite minimal (for the time) and is tech house which wasn't the most chart friendly type of dance at this time (although Mylo made the top 20 with his first two hits from the same subgenre).

 

Usually I don't like minimal tech house much but it isn't minimal enough to be boring imo, the whirring sound effects are interesting on this and the vocal is brilliant.

The way "Avalon" builds up is excellent, really deserved to be a much bigger hit.

An uplifting, cheerful track is 'So Much Love To Give' deserved to peak above #9 at least.

I wasn't aware of that Freeloaders song until the Radio 1 'One Hit Wonders' show. I am generally on board with most loopy 00s dance hits and this one is no different. Not the most standout or interesting of its kind but the uplifting lyrics and feel give it a charm.

 

'Falling Stars' and 'I See Girls' are both brilliant :wub:

Seem to recall a fair bit of rage when So Much Love To Give came out - not only did it completely rip off the Together track, but they even had the cheek to call themselves the Freeloaders!! Dave Pearce (whose show by now I was listening to religiously on Radio 1 every weekend) gave the Freeloaders and Together versions fairly equal plays during this time.

 

Adagio for Strings was indeed huge despite its peak, still getting played when I first started going to clubs in 2007-08. Don't think it was available on downloads at all at the time and you had to buy it physically, but it still got heaps of radio play. I'll always prefer Ferry's version but Tiesto's is pretty damn great too, even if it makes me a little sad remembering how brilliant he was in the early-mid noughties compared to the chart bollocks he was coming out with nine years later...

Bodyrockers - I Like The Way

 

 

Date: 24th April 2005

Weeks at #1: 3 weeks

Official Chart Run: 3-4-5-8-12-13-16-14-14-19-15-19-20-23-25-23-26-24-31-39-40-47-50-60-66-69-63-70-73-72-66-x(2)-73-75-70-68-56-57-60-67-68-x (40 weeks)

 

 

Bodyrockers are an Australian based dance music duo, consisting of Anglo Irish Dylan Burns (from Canterbury) and Australian Kaz James (from Melbourne). They met when Burns was visiting Melbourne and within a month had created their debut single "I Like The Way". The song found success in James' home country where it reached #12, as well as making the charts of numerous other countries. Where it was most successful however was the UK, where it entered at #3 and spent 52 weeks in the top 100, an incredibly long chart run by 2005 standards. The song was also featured in many adverts including for Coke and a number of car manufacturers.

 

The song unlike other dance hits of the time has more of a rock feel to it, unsurprisingly perhaps given their name, with an electric guitar riff being central to the song. The lyrics are mostly spoken and describe all the things Kaz James likes about the person of his interest. These are; how she looks at him with those beautiful eyes, acts so surprised, sings along, always gets it wrong, claps her hands, loves to dance, puts her hands up in the air, shakes her hair, likes to touch and stares so much. But in particular he likes the way she moves. It's a song that doesn't take itself very seriously and I do like that aspect of it.

 

In the Dance Chart, the song spends three non-consecutive weeks at #1 - broken up by the re-release of Elvis' 'A Little Less Conversation' which briefly charted at #3. A follow-up single titled "Round and Round" would follow. This charted at #35 in Australia but made no impact elsewhere. They would also release a self-titled album which charted at the great heights of... #84 (oops). Material for a second album was recorded but never released as the duo split up in 2007 to pursue solo projects. Kaz James has been releasing music and DJing since, even releasing a song with David Guetta ("Blast Off", 2014). It is unknown what the other member went on to do.

 

The group should not be confused with similarly named Bodyrox, who we may see appear in this thread soon...

One of the best dance one-hit wonders ever. Still sounds fresh, 12 years on.

 

 

I'd love that song if it wasn't for the opening half of that song. He sounds like a serial rapist. The rest is epic.

why on earth haven't I discovered this thread yet!

Personally LOVE Bodyrockers' classic hit, haven't heard it like for AGES!

Other dance entries at the time of 'I Like The Way'...

 

#36 Black Rock (feat. Debra Andrew) - Blue Water

 

Not heard of this one before. Sounds quite forgettable really, not surprised it wasn't very big.

 

#18 The Chemical Brothers - Believe

 

Quite like this, but it is a massive step down from 'Galvanise' (anything would be) so unsurprisingly wasn't quite as big. It's got a catchy riff to it.

 

#24 Praise Cats (feat. Andrea Love) - Shined On Me

 

I think TheSnake is a big fan of this one, it's a very funky tune. Sounds like it could've been a bigger hit had it been released a few years earlier too as by this point the genre was dying in the chart. Not a bad tune really but it's not one of my ultimate faves.