UK Chart Peak: 3

Release date: 20 February 1995

 

 

 

 

So, as this classic has been used yet again for an advert (We Buy Any Car), I thought it was time for its own thread!

 

 

Originally released in 1992 with a more jazzy sound, Push The Feeling On was reworked by Marc Kinchen (MK) and re-released in 1994, then re-worked again and new mixes released in 1995 finally reaching the top 3 of the UK charts. A 1995 dance classic!

 

However, its memory has been pulled by dreadful samples over the years - Pitbull's Hotel Room Service in 2008 and the Riton collaboration Friday in 2021. It was used for parts of Rihanna's Don't Stop The Music which is decent so I can forgive that±

 

Anyway, 'Just sold my car, to we buy any caaaaar'!!

 

 

I really liked the Nightcrawlers and push the feeling is great but unpopular opinion i always prefered another track from them called lets push it.

I really liked the Nightcrawlers and push the feeling is great but unpopular opinion i always prefered another track from them called lets push it.

I prefer Surrender Your Love so I’ll let you off :lol:

AJ Tracey also sampled it on his top ten single Dinner Guest. Also John Reid of the Nightcrawlers has written no.1s for Leona Lewis & Westlife.

 

Whilst the track is ok I much prefer MK"s hit 17 from a few years ago.

^Guess you mean he wrote A Moment Like This, which was the Kelly Clarkson winning song x AI, and then Leona covered it for her debut single

I actually thought of a thread concept a while back about "history of a single" whereby I went through all of the modifications/samples etc. of an original and this was the #1 track I had in mind so now with such a prompt I suppose there's no better place! I've restricted it to the most significant remixes and all are instances where Nightcrawlers are credited themselves.

 

Original

 

 

So this was the original original version released in November 1992. An acid jazz number which peaked at a lowly #86 in the UK. It was then re-issued for a US release the next year and peaked slightly higher at #80.

 

 

First MK Remix

 

 

This is pretty similar to the most popular MK version, including the same repeated vocal riff but with a noticeable difference in production. Although created as a B-side to the original, this version was not commercially released until 1994 where is peaked at #22 in the UK but fell away relatively quickly thereafter.

 

 

This is the same version of the above but was given a different title of The Dub of Doom for the US release.

 

 

Second MK Remix

 

 

Fast forward to 1995 now and we have the version most people recognise. But it was firstly released as a 7 minute long number entitled "MK Mix 95" with additional parts to the most popular version below.

 

 

And finally we arrived at the specific edit we all know and love. This is essentially a shortened version of the above to a more radio-friendly length but does cut out some of the middle sections and focuses on that distinctive house riff with the chopped vocals. This peaked at #3 in the UK in March 1995.

 

 

2003 Remix

 

 

This version is a more synthy and contains more vocals from the original than only the chopped parts. The remixer here is Jerome Isma-ae, a German producer/DJ.

 

2007 Remixes

 

 

A bundle of 4 remixes were then released in 2007, fronted by this version by Hungarian DJ Béla Gábor or Belocca.

 

2014 Remix

 

 

Now into the 2010s and London producer DJ S.K.T gave it a deeper-sounding makeover. This added exposure managed to get the original version back into UK chart for the first time since 1995, spending a solitary week at #73.

 

 

2017 Remix

 

 

3 years later and we're going garage, enlisting Big Narstie to spill some bars alongside the iconic main riff.

 

 

It's Friday Then...

 

 

It's 2019 now and here is the birth of what went onto become one of the biggest memes of the following decade so far. Jeff Obeng of Virginia, better known as Mufasa performs a rather energetic dance routine with the most popular MK version blaring out of a moving car accompanied with a hype man we could all do with in life from time to time.

 

 

And of course, this meme got enough virality that there was even more money to be made so a full studio version accredited to Riton x Nightcrawlers was concocted featuring the 2 stars from the above video. Not too different to the biggest version but added some basic vanilla female vocals and began and ended with spoken contributions from Mufasa/Hypeman. It peaked at #4 in 2021 and far eclipsed the number of weeks in the chart as all the other previous versions combined.

 

 

Samples

Obviously this song is extremely famous for it being sampled in many hits down the years. The most notable ones being:

- Pitbull - Hotel Room Service (2009, UK #9)

- Waze & Odyssey vs R. Kelly - Bump And Grind 2014 (UK #3)

- AJ Tracey feat. MoStack - Dinner Guest (2020, UK #5)

 

 

Well that was a fun mini-project. I'm sure I've probably missed some things but that's a general lifespan of this eternal classic!

Interesting and great post there :wub:

 

I have today learned that the version I'm most familiar with isn't the UK single version, it is instead the Dub of Doom - that's definitely the one I remember from the time as being on all the club playlists and dance anthems style compilation albums

Fab post Dobbo!

 

This song just keeps giving doesn’t it?!

It's crazy to think how it's taken on a life of its own so much compared to just about all the other big 1995 dance hits.

 

Love the main 1995 mix, like the Pitbull one as a guilty pleasure but that 'Friday' thing needs to be killed with fire and never heard from again.