8 Supersister Coffee The 2nd great coffee related song of the week: a bit of a camp classic and an excellent pop song that should have been bigger

 

Very rare time, when I agree with you. # 1 hit in my chart for two weeks.

Oh no, 'The Lonely One' is my favourite Alice Deejay track.

 

I'm sure danG appreciates that Azzido da Bass song which is an early electro-house song similar to Mr Oizo - Flat Beat

'Silence' (for which I'm team Airscape), 'Beautiful Day' and 'Dooms Night' are my faves from the last two batches - I find that "wub wub wub" sound through the latter weirdly compelling :wub:

Yeah The Lonely One is majestic trance for me, a much harder edged kind of single from Alice Deejay, and the polar opposite of the cheesy Eurodance of Will I Ever. I prefer this track, it's really euphoric to me.

 

I wouldn't personally agree that Who The Hell Are You is a weaker Don't Call Me Baby or a waste of time, I prefer the latter for sure but think this is quite a different prospect, and was actually a No.1 hit in Australia, which its predecessor didn't manage there. Also, it led to this iconic awards show performance with the dancing with/around the glass of water.

 

 

Muscle Museum is certainly an epic, you could already see from this track that Muse were going to be something special.

 

Beautiful Day is a classic and memorable No.1, but I've never really loved it. Likewise Kids, it's catchy but I wouldn't call it a Robbie or Kylie favourite of mine.

 

Was nice to see Shelley Nelson on another hit, she was such a good singer and should have appeared on more dance. Good garage.

 

Warrior was a good dance track, I didn't like Dooms Night very much myself though.

 

I really liked Follow Me a lot, it was my favourite Atomic Kitten single to date by some stretch to this point and it was a shame it ended up doing so much worse than their first three singles.

 

I Wish I thought was pretty nice at the time but I haven't listened to it for ages, Angel is only ok.

Muse, a good 8/10 from me, though I couldnt hum Muscle Museum - to be honest a lot of their melodies are quite complex and not that hummable, part of the appeal, I think. I don't recall Ed Case, but I've met Shelley Nelson's mum at the Radio One Roadshow she was on when plugging the Tin Tin Out hit. Beautiful day is a 10, U2 back on their 80's anthemic vibe.

 

Kids is another 10 from me, amazing record, play loud. Very loud. Seen Kylie do it in concert, and it's exciting. Madison Avenue I liked, 7/10. I Wish I dont recall, but it was Kelly's 7th-highest charting track for me - number 20. I think I liked his gospel tracks best, but a 7/10 at best, knocked down a bit more as the sincerity of the lyrics might be less believable these days.

 

The rest I didnt chart.....

Muscle Museum is my favourite of that bunch too. Although I always liked the Soulwax remix of it, so much so that I think of it as being the normal version now

Saturday's batch:

 

Not one but two girl-group tracks with 'coffee' in the title released in the same week :lol: I don't share the Supersister love (random observation upon relisten: the production reminds me of 'Stomp' by Steps) but 'Black Coffee' is another excellent single from All Saints :wub: the girls and William Orbit really did slot together so well. Just like 'Pure Shores', they treat us to more dreamy ambience, but with the extra kick of that explosive outro this time - what a finale *.*

 

The Airscape version of 'Silence' was my introduction to the song thanks to its inclusion on Now 47. Like Dandy, I agree that it pretty much works in any form, but my version of choice is still the Airscape makeover. That euphoric trance production is a perfect match with the oomph of Sarah's incredibly emotive vocals.

Monday's batch:

 

I really like 'Don't Call Me Baby' but this Madison Avenue follow-up doesn't do a lot for me either, it's a bit vocally annoying in places. LOL at the awards show performance that Rich posted, I remember that being shared on plug.dj before but it's been a while :lol:

 

The production of 'The Lonely One' reminds me a little of 'U Got To Let The Music' by Cappella in places melodically, a bit of a switch-up for them.

 

'Kids' is quite nostalgic for me as it was my SingStar duet of choice when younger :P neither artist's best work or anything but good fun if it's on.

 

A cover of 'Muscle Museum' turned up in Unknown Pleasures recently (by Birdeatsbaby) - quite a few people were defensive of the original at the listening session, but I didn't really know it well enough to compare the two. It's sounding awesome today - I'll have to give the Soulwax version a go too.

“White Ladder” is one of my most played ever albums and so it’s difficult to review the singles objectively here, but I do genuinely think “Please Forgive Me” is fantastic both as the album opener and in its own right. Just ahead of it though is a track from another album I’ve heard countless times, and which I think still stands up as one of Coldplay’s very finest singles.

 

9 Coldplay Trouble A more reflective and slightly haunting follow up to "Yellow" with a gorgeous piano riff and the tenderest vocals from Chris

9 David Gray Please Forgive Me {2000} The opener on "White Ladder" that sets the tone of melancholy longing: I love how the electronica creates a sense of motion

8 Samantha Mumba Body II Body For me this is her finest work: a mature performance and the track retains the character of the Bowie original but with twist

8 Blur Music Is My Radar The lead from their best of album and it has interesting instrumentation and the hook has a hypnotic and compelling quality

7 Ricky Martin She Bangs My favourite of his singles: quite clever lyrically and has more subtlety than "Livin' La Vida Loca" but still with the Latin flavour

7 Gabrielle Should I Stay This should have followed up "Rise": a very effective ballad with nice instrumental touches and the relentless beep of heartache

6 Fatboy Slim Sunset (Bird Of Prey) Another one with a mesmerisingly repetitive quality to it: it's very atmospheric but doesn't quite sustain my interest all the way

6 JJ72 October Swimmer A re-issue of their lead single: it doesn't quite have the soaring power of "Oxygen", but it's enjoyable and lyrically very interesting

5 Afro Medusa Pasilda Only hit for this UK dance music group: one of them had moved from Spain hence the strong Latin vibe to this enjoyable track

5 K-Gee I Don't Really Care Only hit for this UK DJ: an unusual track which samples Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" but it works quite nicely and it's a good tune

4 Spice Girls Holler/Let Love Lead The Way 879th #1: "Holler" is a decent but unremarkable RnB track and the other side is rather saccharine; an underwhelming comeback

4 Martine McCutcheon I'm Over You Her 4th Top 10 hit and it's a decent 2000 formula pop song delivered reasonably well, but looking back it's amazing it did so well

3 Iron Maiden Out Of The Silent Planet A pleasant enough listen for a couple of minutes but after 6 it's really quite monotonous and sounds like many of their others

3 Idlewild Roseability The 4th single from "100 Broken Windows", which maybe is why I find this one quite pedestrian but they'll be back stronger

3 Jill Scott Gettin' In The Way Only Top 40 for this US all round performer: possibly this just isn't my thing but I feel it plods along and doesn't really get going

2 Steps Stomp 878th #1: shame their 2nd chart topper is one of their worst hits; the chorus is weak and the autotuned "stomp stomp" is naff

2 Honeyz Not Even Gonna Trip The song's about not caring and that's the response it brings: no wonder this ended their Top 10 run as it's very inconsequential

2 Damage Rumours There's no real melody to this and it's very forgettable: shame after their comeback "Ghetto Romance" was a strong piece of RnB

 

 

 

2000 Week 45:

 

#462 11/11/2000 Westlife My Love 1 {1}-2-9-14-19-21-17-27-38-59->10

#463 11/11/2000 Tweenies Number 1 5 6-{5}-7-8-10-10-9-8-12-16-27-39-45-44-48-61-68-70-73R(2)-74-72-74-73->23

#464 11/11/2000 Nelly (Hot S**t) Country Grammar 7 {7}-11-17-26-34-45-64-66-64->9

#465 11/11/2000 Christina Aguilera Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) 8 {8}-14-25-32-41-53-69-65R(2)->8

#466 11/11/2000 Kandi Don't Think I'm Not 9 {9}-9-13-19-23-29-35-36-36-53->10

#467 11/11/2000 Louise Beautiful Inside 13 {13}-31-43-58->4

#468 11/11/2000 Limp Bizkit My Generation 15 {15}-34-45-54-74-74-66R(3)-65->8

#469 11/11/2000 The Corrs Irresistible 20 {20}-41-61-57-66-60R(5)-70->7

#470 11/11/2000 Kristine Blond Love Shy (Remix) 28 {28}-46->2

#471 11/11/2000 Doves The Man Who Told Everything 32 {32}-59->2

#472 11/11/2000 De La Soul Featuring Chaka Khan All Good 33 {33}-47-73->3

#473 11/11/2000 Laurent Garnier Greed/The Man With The Red Face 36 {36}-56->2

 

'Trouble' and 'Please Forgive Me' are great indeed. Body II Body is good too, didn't know it sampled Ashes to Ashes until now.

Edited May 30, 20241 yr by TheSnake

Oh I like that Jill Scott song. It’s definitely chilled but it works for me

Not enamoured with the Top 10 new entries from this week at all: in fact I think it’s saved by what’s in the 30s.

 

8 Laurent Garnier Greed/The Man With The Red Face Only Top 40 for this French DJ and it's mad but great; one side with a dark mechanical vocal and the other with a crazy sax solo

8 Doves The Man Who Told Everything Their 3rd hit and easily the best so far: interesting lyrics that seem to be about a journalist's reckoning with his conscience

7 De La Soul Featuring Chaka Khan All Good Last Top 40 for them featuring Chaka Khan's: a very good track about people who abandoned them after their initial success

7 Louise Beautiful Inside A very well written pop hit with an interesting Wu-Tang Clan sample; this is so much better and more grown up than "2 Faced"

6 Kristine Blond Love Shy (Remix) A garage remix of a hit from a couple of years before for this Danish singer, that works well and gives the track more oomph

6 Kandi Don't Think I'm Not Only solo hit for this US star who co-wrote many big hits including "No Scrubs": a well produced but not outstanding RnB track

5 Nelly (Hot S**t) Country Grammar Debut hit for this US singer: it has a very infectious rhythm and I think it's very clever but also slightly grating after a while

5 Tweenies Number 1 1st of a few hits for the TV characters and something of a guilty pleasure for me: I find it an enjoyable, cute and happy pop song

4 Christina Aguilera Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) The last single from her eponymous album and she'll be back much better: this is a very unremarkable radio friendly pop song

3 The Corrs Irresistible "Breathless" may not have been cutting edge but it had a certain sparkle: to me this is too similar to that plus much less good

2 Limp Bizkit My Generation After their debut with a well judged cover what on Earth is this: a really petulant sounding track with Fred at his most irritating

2 Westlife My Love 880th #1: could represent the archetypal Westlife original hit with the clunky key change, the overwrought chorus and so on

 

 

 

2000 Week 46:

 

#474 18/11/2000 A1 Same Old Brand New You 1 {1}-8-17-25-30-38-38-32-39-57->10

#475 18/11/2000 Backstreet Boys Shape Of My Heart 4 {4}-10-20-28-40-51-50-49-64->9

#476 18/11/2000 The Offspring Original Prankster 6 {6}-14-22-32-41-57-59-56->8

#477 18/11/2000 Marilyn Manson Disposable Teens 12 {12}-34-51->3

#478 18/11/2000 Sade By Your Side 17 {17}-28-37-46-70->5

#479 18/11/2000 Mansun Electric Man 23 {23}-63->2

#480 18/11/2000 Tom Jones And Heather Small You Need Love Like I Do 24 {24}-48-67->3

#481 18/11/2000 Girl Thing Girls On Top 25 {25}-47-60->3

#482 18/11/2000 Beatchuggers Featuring Eric Clapton Forever Man (How Many Times)? 26 {26}-52->2

#483 18/11/2000 DJ Zinc 138 Trek 27 {27}-54-74->3

#484 18/11/2000 Mary Mary I Sings 32 {32}-55->2

#485 18/11/2000 York Farewell To The Moon 37 {37}-62->2

 

I used to love Come On Over by Christina but I agree, it's a very average song in retrospect.

That version of 'Love Shy' is a quite good song but I prefer Platnum's version in 2008 lol.

 

The Corrs song 'Irresistible' is a nice enough song from them but yes they have better songs.

Edited June 1, 20241 yr by TheSnake

Batch 28

 

Great

#394 23/09/2000 Sasha And Darren Emerson Scorchio 23 {23}-35-52->3 [brilliant underrated summery trance effort]

#387 23/09/2000 Kylie Minogue On A Night Like This 2 {2}-11-18-25-40-49-59-75R(10)->8 [a great week for pop efforts though this is just about the best of those]

#390 23/09/2000 Sugababes Overload 6 {6}-9-9-15-21-28-35-53->8 [very strong debut]

#389 23/09/2000 Aurora Featuring Naimee Coleman Ordinary World 5 {5}-13-24-37-50-62-70->7 [i knew this version long before the original so still sounds great to me]

#391 23/09/2000 Vanessa Amorosi Absolutely Everybody 7 {7}-12-16-20-28-34-43-57-60-74->10 [yay Aussie]

 

Good

#388 23/09/2000 S Club 7 Natural 3 {3}-10-14-26-37-33-37-49-57-70-72-75-73-73R(3)-56-71->16 [not quite their best but at least reasonably upbeat]

 

Okay

23/09/2000 K-Ci And JoJo Tell Me It's Real {2000} 16 {16}-25-32-43-61->5 [for the UK garage mix]

#392 23/09/2000 Sash! With My Own Eyes 10 {10}-22-33-45-64->5 [this and the previous single were quite a drab end to their peak run, shame they didn't go more in the direction of Adelante]

 

Meh

#397 23/09/2000 Ideal US Featuring Lil' Mo Whatever 31 {31}-45-68->3

#395 23/09/2000 Finley Quaye Spiritualized 26 {26}-42-61->3

#398 23/09/2000 Primal Scream Accelerator 34 {34}->1

#393 23/09/2000 Richard Ashcroft C'mon People (We're Making It Now) 21 {21}-41-62->3

 

Crap

#396 23/09/2000 Dumdums You Do Something To Me 27 {27}-47-73->3

 

 

The Man With The Red Face is by FAR the best song in that bunch so I’m glad to see it at the top, I absolutely love that track

Some decent tracks in Thursday's batch. No major personal favourites but I did like I'm Over You (although I agree the fact it got to No.2 is kind of surprising looking back) and Stomp - although it's a surpising song to be one of Steps' only two No.1 singles, but then I think it was on very low sales so it just got lucky. The chorus I think is very catchy though, with the hand claps and the Chic sample.

 

Trouble is obviously a classic, I wasn't very into Music Is My Radar, quite an experimental song though that suggested where they would go next.

 

Body II Body is pretty good - Bowie samples on pop records seem quite few and far between so it was a nice use of the sample.

 

Should I Stay is quite a nice song, but I think Gabrielle released them in the right order. I doubt this ballad would have worked in the summer, and don't think it would have done any better if it had gone after Rise. When A Woman was a natural summer single and was all over the airwaves.

 

The Jill Scott song is a decent soul track I think, I rather liked that at the time. Less so Holler/Let Love Lead The Way, which are the only Spice Girls No.1s that I would never to out of choice. I actually slightly prefer the latter but only as an album track. Never thought Holler suited them at all.

 

Had to remind myself of I Don't Really Care, don't think I remember that at all. Interesting use of the sample but not fond of the vocals.

 

Pasilda is a good track, I'd forgotten about that! Sounds like a beach bar on a summer holiday.

 

I can't defend this one from Honeyz, it's so average. It was on the Nutty Professor II soundtrack like that Janet single from a few weeks back.

 

From yesterday's batch, I'm afraid my favourite is Christina. That was a No.1 single in my chart and I still like it a lot. It was a decent album track given a lick of paint for the single release which I think worked.

 

Irresistible definitely was Breathless but not as good, I agree with that. I think I'd have left that as a single and released the lovely ballad All The Love In The World instead, which is a far more popular track on Spotify (39m streams vs 8m)

 

Hadn't heard the Laurent Garnier song, or maybe I did but it passed me by since. I like Greed quite a bit though.

 

I had to check the Doves song too, it's decent but I prefer their 2002 singles.

 

Forgot that Beautiful Inside had a Wu-Tang Clan sample, it's kind of interesting but remember it being a surprise top ten miss for her at the time. Not a song I go back to myself.

 

Love Shy works well in that remix, a garage classic!

 

I didn't like Country Grammar much, but it's one of the few songs in the last couple of batches that feasibly sounds like it could be a hit today too.

 

My Love to me was Westlife's first move from teen aimed boyband into Daniel O'Donnell/Cliff Richard territory. It's more mature than all of their other No.1s, but in a very naff kind of way. I'm amazed they managed to sell this corny song to teenagers but maybe an older audience was coming on board by this point. And of course it also won the Record of the Year competition on ITV. It very much was far from that.

 

I don't have any strong feelings either way about Number 1. It was a cool long chart run in the top ten for it though, but that's what you get when you release a kids song near Christmas I guess. I actually thought the follow up single Best Friends Forever had a very good pop melody, and if not for the lyrics and vocals could have been a really strong single.

Thursday's batch:

 

Oh wow, I mentioned that the production of 'Coffee' reminded me of 'Stomp' at times and didn't even clock that Steps were coming up in the next section :lol: that sound was clearly in vogue for a hot minute then. It does feel like a random #1 for them - the song is quite limp and the vocals are doing far too much in places.

 

Unfortunately the musical direction of Forever failed to excite me as well. I quite liked the album track 'If You Wanna Have Some Fun', which sounds influenced by Shalamar's 'A Night to Remember', but don't really return to anything else. I do remember enjoying a remixed version of 'Holler' that made the cut for their 2019 tour though.

 

I love Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes' but can't say the Samantha song does much for me, it just makes me want to listen to the original :lol: and I knew her version first.

 

My parents had a copy of White Ladder but I don't remember listening to it while I was growing up, so I'm pretty sure 'Please Forgive Me' is a discovery - and a great one at that! I think 'Trouble' would top this batch for me as well though - I do prefer other moments on Parachutes but it's still a pretty strong offering.

Week 37

 

Sonique – Sky – This is just as good as 'It Feels So Good' for me. Loved both her hits.

Lene Marlin - Unforgivable Sinner – another strong pop record from Lene here which I remember just as much.

Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun

Wyclef Jean - It Doesn't Matter – Oh actually got The Rock on this hehe. This is hilarious and iconic at the same time. (written before it was played on the 3's listenthrough).

Cypress Hill - Can't Get The Best Of Me/Highlife – CGTBOM is really strong, 'Highlife' less so but it's ok.

Rollergirl - Dear Jessie

Slipknot - Spit It Out

Next – Wifey

*Nsync - It's Gonna Be Me

Badly Drawn Boy - Disillusion

Aaron Carter - I Want Candy

A.T.F.C. Presents OnePhatDeeva Featuring Lisa Millett - Bad Habit

Richard Blackwood 1-2-3-4 Get With The Wicked

 

 

Week 38

 

Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody – A pop classic. So joyful.

Kylie Minogue - On A Night Like This – always loved this from Kylie and actually still feels underrated despite the 2 peak!

Aurora Featuring Naimee Coleman - Ordinary World – a really good cover I thought. Always been a fan of this and it does work in dance form imo too.

Sugababes - Overload

Sash! - With My Own Eyes

S Club 7 - Natural - Found this to be one of their least faves for me. It's good but something stops it from being really great for me. The aforementioned Oboe is a standout though. Oop at this being my least fave of the top 10 new entries that week too.

Sasha And Darren Emerson - Scorchio

Finley Quaye - Spiritualized

Richard Ashcroft - C'mon People (We're Making It Now)

Primal Scream Accelerator

Dumdums You Do Something To Me

Ideal US Featuring Lil' Mo - Whatever

5 Rollergirl Dear Jessie Only hit here for this German singer and a loose Madonna cover but the chorus only: quite a nice beepy track otherwise

 

Her most well-known song, but not the best. 7/10 from me.