February 3, 20232 yr Unfortunately I never really got into 'Thank God I Found You' but I do think Rainbow is one of Mariah's best albums (I actually have it on a t-shirt!) and 'Heartbreaker', also mentioned, is one of my favourite singles by her. Really enjoying the commentary ^_^
February 3, 20232 yr Author If there's one thing I have learnt here is that Eiffel 65 topped your chart twice and not with any of their singles :lol: Three times! Blue (Da Ba Dee) came before, and they were sort of responsible for the next one too: 2000 7/30: Kim Lukas - All I Really Want (Eiffel 65 Remix) (3 non-consecutive weeks at No.1) 82ASOqyAwjM On my holiday in Tenerife in March 2000, I had the radio on and among the tracks I heard was a continental hit, All I Really Want by Kim Lukas. It sounded like Eiffel 65 with a female vocal, unsurpising when I later found out they had remixed the track for its release. While Kim is from Surrey, the track was not released in the UK and like Ann Lee, she found fame on the Italian music scene. All I Really Want reached the top ten there, as well as in Austria, Denmark and even Canada, which is where I eventually imported the CD single from for my first EVER eBay purchase, or online purchase of any kind. A super infectious, catchy, cheesy pop song, I expect it could have been a UK top ten and I have no idea why it was passed over for release here.
February 3, 20232 yr Author Looking forward to seeing this .gooddelta. Off to a sensational start with The Corrs. Thanks! More to come from them :wub: interesting to see an ATB album track make it to #1 here! the two Eiffel 65 tracks are... a lot less to my taste than their two actual UK hits, they were clearly better at doing novelty dance than outright pop. Yes, I was obsessed with ATB, although this was the only time he took an album track to the top. Yeah I guess it was very of its time sort of stuff, as with a lot of these first few - I'm about to finally hit the proper UK hits section! Unfortunately I never really got into 'Thank God I Found You' but I do think Rainbow is one of Mariah's best albums (I actually have it on a t-shirt!) and 'Heartbreaker', also mentioned, is one of my favourite singles by her. Really enjoying reading the commentary ^_^ I love Rainbow too, the first album I bought from her. Love that you have that t-shirt! I can see though that Thank God I Found You wouldn't be to everyone's taste, for some reason it really resonated with me.
February 3, 20232 yr Author We've reached the end of the Eiffel 65 related chart toppers but I have to post some of the other remixes they were responsible for. Eiffel 65's idea of doing a remix was essentially to use all of their own sound effects, and it produced some iconic results: H_0etox0laI mle_6cQAGV8 4ssMoYjsv8g DBlPoZgNkP4 Jon's voice put through the vocoder on Reach always gets me :lol:
February 3, 20232 yr I remember hearing All I Really Want on commercial radio late one evening (in Nov 1999 I think), as its rhythm track sounded exactly like Blue (Da Ba Dee)!
February 3, 20232 yr Author I remember hearing All I Really Want on commercial radio late one evening (in Nov 1999 I think), as its rhythm track sounded exactly like Blue (Da Ba Dee)! Yeah they didn't think too far out of the box with their remixes, pretty hilarious. I was obsessed! But obviously these styles have a limited shelf life.
February 3, 20232 yr Author 2000 8/30: Fragma feat Coco - Toca’s Miracle (3 weeks at No.1) 3dDV9cKAK0E Thanks for indulging me for the first run of chart toppers! Now we finally have a run of UK hits, but of the 42 songs that topped the UK chart, just three of those also topped mine. Here's the first, can anyone guess the other two? Anyway, German dance act Fragma had hit No.11 with largely instrumental track (apart from a vocal sample) Toca Me in late 1999, while British singer Coco had gone to No.39 in 1997 with I Need A Miracle. The idea was formulated to put the two together and one of the earliest successful mash-ups was born. An absolute dance powerhouse, the tracks fit together beautifully and the result was a HUGE No.1 single, one of the few to spend more than a week at the top of the UK chart in 2000, and actually quite a long one for me too by 2000 standards, with three consecutive weeks at the top. Still a classic that is played on the radio to this day.
February 3, 20232 yr I did check out the 2nd Eiffel 65 song and it wasn't great oops but can see why you'd take to it Rich. 'All I Really Want' is great though and obviously 'Toca's Miracle' is a classic still to be heard to this day. I was saying to my mate last week that radio should play their other hits more as well.
February 3, 20232 yr Love that you have that t-shirt! *.* she brought out a pride range so I treated myself to it after going through her discography in lockdown. I love the Daydream/Butterfly/Rainbow trio! ~~~ 'Toca's Miracle' is the first ever song I can actually recall at the time of release! I used to sing "I need a miracle" phonetically around the house :lol: I still love it now, was thrilled that it was finally made available to stream last year. Well, not entirely, but the version on there still feels faithful enough. What a seamless mash-up!
February 3, 20232 yr Author 2000 9/30: Mandy Moore - Candy (1 week at No.1) NkVsJGl5d6E Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson were touted as the next big teen pop girls from the US after Britney and Christina, and as with those two I had a preferred choice - Mandy. I can't pretend that my 13-year-old self didn't have a crush on her at the time but I also found Candy to be super charming. A wholesome girl-next-door sugary sweet track with a very corny middle eight that is so American in style that it's almost a surprise that it managed to cross over here, but it reached No.6 - a much bigger hit than it was in the US. I think I even expected it to be bigger than it was too! Mandy wouldn't top my chart again but did go to No.2 twice, with the follow-up I Wanna Be With You, and album track Everything My Heart Desires, which was bizarrely a cover of a hit here for Adam Rickitt so I'm not sure how it ended up in her hands. Mandy is now an accomplished actress, most notably in the show This Is Us.
February 3, 20232 yr lol at how different our #1s from 2000 are! Still, it's interesting to see what you charted at #1 at the time. Fragma are probably my favourite inclusion so far[/mainstream]
February 3, 20232 yr Omg 'Candy'. One I do recall the CD in my dad's car as a child :lol: just listening to it again now as I haven't heard it since... 2000 I think. Bit dated and cheesy but still a bop!
February 3, 20232 yr Author I did check out the 2nd Eiffel 65 song and it wasn't great oops but can see why you'd take to it Rich. 'All I Really Want' is great though and obviously 'Toca's Miracle' is a classic still to be heard to this day. I was saying to my mate last week that radio should play their other hits more as well. Oops, yeah I guess I bought into anything they did at the time. Agree with you about Fragma Rob, they had some fantastic tunes. *.* she brought out a pride range so I treated myself to it after going through her discography in lockdown. I love the Daydream/Butterfly/Rainbow trio! ~~~ 'Toca's Miracle' is the first ever song I can actually recall at the time of release! I used to sing "I need a miracle" phonetically around the house :lol: I still love it now, was thrilled that it was finally made available to stream last year. Well, not entirely, but the version on there still feels faithful enough. What a seamless mash-up! Amazing <3 Those albums are so good, agreed, shame Glitter lost the great flow a bit. That's such a great track to remember as your first, for me that was Bryan Adams' Everything I Do (I Do It For You). That song truly must have been everywhere if it managed to penetrate my four-year-old brain at the time. Yes the version on streaming is quite close vocally, that album was so good, I got it on vinyl last year when they finally released it for Record Store Day! lol at how different our #1s from 2000 are! Still, it's interesting to see what you charted at #1 at the time. Fragma are probably my favourite inclusion so far[/mainstream] I was thinking that! My taste definitely in no way shows that I was 12/13 years old at the time :lol: Omg 'Candy'. One I do recall the CD in my dad's car as a child :lol: just listening to it again now as I haven't heard it since... 2000 I think. Bit dated and cheesy but still a bop! Oh interesting that he had it. I haven't listened to it in ages either, it doesn't get played anymore but so sugary sweet and catchy.
February 3, 20232 yr I can't remember if he had it or if it was my oldest sisters album. Would be a bit odd for him but then again he had acts like Roland Gift as well :lol:
February 3, 20232 yr Author 2000 10/30: Watergate - Heart Of Asia (1 week at No.1) KGHu5_szC6Y Turkish DJ Orhan Terzi, who went by the name of DJ Quicksilver and scored a trio of UK hits including the mammoth Bellissima in 1997, returned under a different alias, Watergate, in 2000 to release Heart Of Asia, a cover version of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence by Ryuichi Sakamoto. I was in awe of the beautiful oriental sound on a trance song and this was a very easy No.1 for me at the time, also peaking at No.3 in the UK, for all intents and purposes an instrumental smash apart from a tiny repeated vocal sample.
February 3, 20232 yr 2000 5/30: Eiffel 65 - Too Much Of Heaven (1 week at No.1) DZ8PfXOV1fU Finally we make it out of album track territory, onto...a single that was never given a UK release. The third No.1 for Eiffel 65 was Too Much Of Heaven, a completely anthemic track with a rap verse leading to a beautifully melodic bridge and a killer chorus. I did eventually get the CD single for this, as it was released in many countries, Wiki telling me it peaked at No.2 in Italy and went top ten in France, Greece and Romania, also making the top 40 in Germany. I suspect if it had been issued as a third single after Move Your Body - which hardly disgraced itself as a top three hit in the UK - then this would have gone top 20 at least here. I don't understand why they just stopped after two...but anyway, enjoy what could have been. I don't know if you already heard it but this got already amazing remake this year...very 80's synth inspired track!!! zIy_SsdPxCk
February 3, 20232 yr Heart Of Asia is HUGE anthem!!! I looved it back then and still do. Mandy Moore was cheesy but I agree that it has a charm...I believe I preferred Jessica Simpson over her (so did I love Britney over Xtina :kink:)
February 3, 20232 yr Author I don't know if you already heard it but this got already amazing remake this year...very 80's synth inspired track!!! zIy_SsdPxCk I did hear, that, an awesome remake! I feel like Eiffel 65's synths and basslines really lend themselves to the 80s, melodically they sort of reminded me of Nik Kershaw? Which is why Gigi D'Agostino's version of The Riddle also sounded close to Eiffel 65 to me.
February 3, 20232 yr Author Heart Of Asia is HUGE anthem!!! I looved it back then and still do. Mandy Moore was cheesy but I agree that it has a charm...I believe I preferred Jessica Simpson over her (so did I love Britney over Xtina :kink:) Agreed! Me too, was so glad it was a big smash here, although tbh I half expected it to get to No.1 in the UK, but there were a lot of big songs out at the time. Haha, I love them all too, to varying degrees. My rank today would be Christina > Britney > Mandy > Jessica, but they can all stay.
February 3, 20232 yr Author 2000 11/30: Paul Van Dyk feat Saint Etienne - Tell Me Why (The Riddle) (1 week at No.1) IJSDQWtYlIw German DJ Paul Van Dyk had previously topped my chart in late 1999 with Another Way, and he was back for a second time with English group Saint Etienne and their lead singer Sarah Cracknell on vocals for Tell Me Why (The Riddle), its week at No.7 criminally being the only time either act would ever reach the UK top 10, considering all of the classics they have produced between them. For some reason this song reminds me of Butlins Bognor, so I must have gone there that summer! It also reminds me that Asda put the wrong CD in the case when I bought the single, without the radio edit, so I had to go back down and swap it. I was glad that this wonderful, atmospheric dance track introduced me at the time to Saint Etienne as they went on to become one of my favourite groups <3 Meanwhile, I sat next to Paul Van Dyk on a very early morning flight from Heathrow to Berlin a few years ago, but was too scared/polite to say anything as he was resting - missed opportunity, should have told him how he topped my personal chart multiple times! Edited February 3, 20232 yr by gooddelta
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