Excellent tune, heard the drop loads on the car advert at the time and was suprised when I heard there was a full song with it in it, really liked the song at the time.

 

This an electro song but unlike many of the later ones it has a very soulful vocal on it and is almost a bridge between the soulful vocal house we have been seeing make the charts in the mid 00s with The Shapeshifters, Inaya Day, Freemasons, Axwell, Joey Negro etc. and the spoken word electro that was coming next.

Edited July 30, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

I'm getting so confused with all of your name changes - I think I'll just call you Snakey from now on if I can recognise who you are :lol:

That's what we all do ha.

 

Lenny I think you're up for the next four, do you have the list or need me to send you the songs?

There is one song I found that I really like that made the charts at this time

 

 

#39

 

Great funky house tune which still sounds quite relevant sounding. The singer reminds me of Melissa Steel quite a bit, she definitely has a similar voice!

 

 

That's what we all do ha.

 

Lenny I think you're up for the next four, do you have the list or need me to send you the songs?

 

The next four go down quite a bit from our last four in terms of quality imo.

YES that Chanel track is amazing.

 

Also shout out to Til West's Same Man. UTTER BOP

YES that Chanel track is amazing.

 

It still sounds quite relevant this decade, not a million miles away in style if nothing else from 'Way We Are' by Kove and Melissa Steel this decade. Both tracks flopped sadly.

Other dance hits at the time that missed a spot at Dance #1.

 

I particularly enjoy 'Moving Too Fast' out of this lot, check it out. 'Dancing In The Dark' is also good although quite sad as it marks the end of that sort of 'Clubland' music doing well in the chart (aside from a few Cascada songs).

 

#10. Micky Modelle vs. Jessy - Dancing In The Dark

 

#27. Basement Jaxx - Hush Boy

 

#23. Supafly Inc - Moving Too Fast

 

#30. Jealousy - Lucy

 

#39. Chanel - My Life

(linked above)

Never heard that Lucy track before, it is a good nu disco track, unfortunately that sort of funky house was dying out by this point as a chart force.

 

Love Moving too Fast (the woman singing in the chorus does sound like Romina Johnson from the 2000 Moving too fast with Artful Dodger!). I think I remember the Supafly Moving Too Fast from the time and liked it, especially its nice chilled chorus instrumentation sampled from Phil Collins 'Another Day In Paradise'.

 

Hush Boy isn't one of Basement Jaxx's best.

 

Dancing In The Dark I didn't mind at the time though it was a bit too soppy and Clublandy for my liking though. I like it now but it still wouldn't be one of my favourite eurotrance songs, and I prefer Jessy's Look At Me Now from 2002.

 

Dancing In the Dark together with Everytime We Touch shows how eurodance was beginning a revival at the time, at the time it was a surprise to me seeing this type of dance have a revival as Clublandy dance had gone for a while from the charts (and for some reason I didn't consider Listen To Your Heart in late 2005 Clublandy back then).

Edited July 30, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

That's what we all do ha.

 

Lenny I think you're up for the next four, do you have the list or need me to send you the songs?

Ooh that was quick - I don't have the list, no.

Other dance hits at the time that missed a spot at Dance #1.

 

I particularly enjoy 'Moving Too Fast' out of this lot, check it out. 'Dancing In The Dark' is also good although quite sad as it marks the end of that sort of 'Clubland' music doing well in the chart (aside from a few Cascada songs).

 

Well I would say the last cheesy Clublandy track doing well in the chart was Laserlight by David Guetta and Jessie J in 2012.

Edited July 30, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

The next four go down quite a bit from our last four in terms of quality imo.

That's usually my luck :lol:

That's usually my luck :lol:

 

Hope you're ready to do our next four because looking at the list again there is actually one of them I really like!

Edited July 30, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

Hope you're ready to do our next four because looking at the list again there is actually one of them I really like!

If that's in my next four then there's two other absolute BANGERS I'm expecting and you need your dance ears testing ;)

If that's in my next four then there's two other absolute BANGERS I'm expecting and you need your dance ears testing ;)

 

You already mentioned one of them earlier in the thread (you said it was your first clubbing song) I don't know what the other one is though.

 

Well they are still good, but they don't compete imo with many of the dance number 1s we have had so far in 2006 (apart from the one I mentioned there) . I do prefer all of them to From Paris To Berlin though. Aside from the dance number 1s up to this point in 2006 and that 80s influenced dance number 1 to come near the end of the year, the funky house revival in the top 20 in the first half of the year (particularly Watchin', Most Precious Love, Make A Move On Me and Fade) will always be my favourite part of 2006 dance of course!

 

Bob Sinclar & Cutee B featuring Dollarman, Big Ali & Makedah - Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)

 

 

Date: 8th October 2006

Weeks at #1: 3 weeks

Official Chart Run: 21-5-4-3-8-10-16-17-23-26-41-53-57-53-62-84 (15 weeks)

 

 

French DJ and music producer Bob Sinclar was becoming familiar with the dance number 1 spot by his third release from UK number 107 hit album "Western Dream" which had already heralded hits "Love Generation" and "World Hold On (Children Of The Sky)". "Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now)" was a collaboration with Cutee B and featured the vocals of Dollarman, Big Ali and Makedah, which largely updated C+C Music Factory featuring Freedom Williams's massive "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" 1991 peaking hit, giving it a more upbeat edge and 'in-your-face' feel to it.

 

In addition to hitting dance number 1, the track climbed for 3 consecutive weeks after its release to peak at number 3 in the UK singles chart. The first week of course was its 'download only' peak as back in 2006, a track could chart on downloads for one week before its physical release, and having the physical release was still incredibly important. The track also hit number 1 in Belgium and Hungary, and top 10 across a variety of other countries (mostly European) including number 6 in Australia.

 

The music video once again featured boy David Beaudoin - this time with two female friends. The boy puts the track on and starts pretending to be a rockstar - their imagination opens up a world where the boy is playing numerous stars past and present (at the time) taking off a variety of music videos including Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit", AC/DC, Eminem, Bob Marley, Sean Paul, The Beatles, Justin Timberlake "Cry Me A River" at which point a neighbour - played by Bob Sinclar - comes to complain about the noise, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. I think he looks like JP Cooper when he's supposed to be Bob Marley! See how a now 21-year-old David Beaudoin looks now below...

 

http://www.chaplintalents.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/David-Beaudoin01.jpg

 

At this point it was looking as though Bob Sinclar would be the big French DJ having hit after hit, but of course David Guetta ended up stealing his thunder having followed a similar path to this point... This would in fact be Bob's third and last foray into the UK top 10. He is still making music today - he had a US Dance number 1 as recently as 2015 with "Feel The Vibe" while "Someone Who Needs Me" hit France's top 100 last year (although limped in at UK number 192).

 

I did like this song, although I can't help finding it quite cheesy! A decent updating of a true dance classic. I actually prefer playing this one in a DJ set due to it being more upbeat and in your face. Bizarrely this track is unavailable on Apple Music...

Edited August 5, 20177 yr by Lenny

This is OK, I don't think I like the two elements of the song, the verses and chorus being put together. Too much of a difference between the music of the verses and chorus for me to really like.

 

I remember it from the time, I liked the verses in particular.

 

Also its the first dancehall including dance number 1 to appear on our countdown! Probably why the verses in particular still sound very relevant, given that dancehall has undergone a revival in the charts recently.

Two other dance tracks in the UK top 40 around this time. Only one actually entering during the time of Rock this Party (Everybody Dance Now) as Changes, the first one below entered during the second phase of Cascada's Everytime We Touch at dance number 1.

 

 

#27 I love this tune, may remember it a little from the time and I think I liked the chorus in particular, sadly this sort of funky vocal house track was dying out in the charts by this time. It only reached #27 but managed 3 weeks in all top 40.

 

 

#8 Rare example of a funky house song I don't like. Its more the original Superfreak to blame for me not liking it, which I don't like anyway as it is too much of a novelty song and I don't like the vocal.

 

Such a comedown from the fantastic "Somebody's Watching Me" for Beatfreakz anyway :(

Edited August 5, 20177 yr by Slitherhisser

'Changes' sounds great, should have done better really. Surprisingly Chris Lake is still somewhat of a thing today though he's significantly changed his music style (check out recent club hit 'I Want You' released on Skrillex's label).

 

Not overly keen on 'Superfreak', a bit too much of a 'well our last song was huge so let's cash in' moment, it's not half as good as 'Somebody's Watching Me'.

I didn't like "Superfreak", I just found it too cheesy and annoying. I don't find it so bad now I guess.

 

Edit: pretty much exactly what DanG said above I agree with!

Edited August 5, 20177 yr by Lenny