1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

At least she took it back in the end!

My favourite Celine single is from 1999 (That's The Way It Is) but that made it nowhere near No.1 ☹️

That’s my favourite too!! Love it!

"My Heart Will Go On" is beautiful. There is also a nice handbag / hi-nrg remix of this produced by the Almighty collective:

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7 hours ago, Jester said:

You’re not missing the double entendre.

I still like C’est La Vie - pure pop at its finest.

Reminds me of Friday night at Heaven - trying to jig at the fake riverdance ha ha.

Oh that’s good thanks.

It is pure pop which I absolutely loved at the time and still really enjoy today.

2 hours ago, CRAZY CHRIS said:

Loved it too, very catchy and bought their album.

My edition of the album was 2 discs and the second one had this CD-Rom video of B*Witched with interviews and footage, kind of like of an introduction to them. As much as I’ve tried I haven’t been able to find that video online anywhere. I don’t own the CD anymore sadly.

31 minutes ago, Paddington James said:

That’s my favourite too!! Love it!

Sounds like Celine doing her best Backstreet Boys impression 😂

12 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

Sounds like Celine doing her best Backstreet Boys impression 😂

Haha yes! One of my other favourites is 2007’s Eyes On Me. Which was editor co-written by Delta Goodrem, who you can hear on the backing vocals.

Boyzone are not my thing (although I did find their documentary insightful) however I agree with those who said 'No Matter What' is their best song, that is solid.

'C'est La Vie' is a bit too cheesy for moi but a good memory attached is that the crowd went mad for it when it was part of the Spice Girls' pre-show playlist at Wembley stadium. It was a lovely moment to observe lots of people around me singing along with such glee.

Unfortunately not too keen on 'My Heart Will Go On' either which I find too overblown. There is loads of good stuff to come though so I'll be more positive soon

3 hours ago, gooddelta said:

At least she took it back in the end!

My favourite Celine single is from 1999 (That's The Way It Is) but that made it nowhere near No.1 ☹️

It’s defo having a moment on TikTok though which is nice

I can't really abide My Heart Will Go On even though I can see why it was popular... the 90s really fell for movie ballads with things like this, Love Is All Around, Everything I Do, I Will Always Love You etc being huge. It's gotten worse for me over the years because of the fact it spawned loads of people who can't really sing but very much believe they can sing trying to sing it.

B*Witched was fun but not something I particularly liked. The lyrics are really pretty cringe tbh. I also felt that the Irish thing was just too much, it's borderline parody in the way it ODs on it!!

Catching up. 'Too Much' is nice, '3 Lions' is okay but is one of those that I get tired of hearing.

'It's Like That' is a bit of a banger tbh and was so used to seeing the music video pop up on TOTP back in the day.

'Goodbye' is a lovely song but I do prefer other ballads by them like the aforementioned '2 Become 1' and the other track of theirs still to come.

'No Matter What' is a really great track as far as Boyzone are concerned and would agree it is their best song but I like 'All That I Need' to some extent too (the only other track of theirs I enjoyed a lot prior to the breakup would be 'Picture Of You'. Whereas when they reunited I've liked pretty much all the singles they put out lol).

'C'est La Vie' a pop classic and another reminder of the nostalgic kid pop that I grew up with. 'My Heart Will Go On' is another gigantic ballad from Celine and holds some childhood attachment as well and I do like it to some degree but as years have passed I'm less enthusiastic about it. Have also always preferred several of Celine's other ballads over it.

8. Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)

Rank: 9/10

Reason: Leicester indie band Cornershop had been active since 1991 without any commercial success (not that their music was in any way commercial) until 1997 when the original Brimful Of Asha reached No.60. That mini ripple was enough to bring it to the attention of Norman Cook, who had yet to fully establish his Fatboy Slim alias but would do later in 1998. The remix changed the slow burning indie track into a faster dance track, now in a higher key, and it was pretty impossible in the first half of 1998 to avoid hearing the line 'everybody needs a bosom for a pillow' everywhere. Lyrically, the song is based on the history of film culture in India, and notably about film music singer Asha Bhosle.

The remix turned the single into a far more commercial affair and gave singer/songwriter Tjinder Singh and his band by far the biggest hit of their career, and one of the freshest sounding No.1s to hit the top in the UK in a long time. The mix of indie rock, dance and Bollywood was refreshing and the song, released on CD, cassette and, of course, on the 45 (7-inch vinyl), went straight to No.1 in remixed form, seeing off Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On, although that would return. The track made the end of year top 20, largely thanks to a big first week and holding up well as it descended through the weekly top 20, and charted in many other countries across Europe. But perhaps the biggest shot in the arm was the one it gave to remixer Norman Cook, whose next four singles as Fatboy Slim were all huge hits.

Now this would be in my top 3 of the year! Brilliant song and one of the best remixes ever.

There it is, my favourite #1 of the year by some distance, and the only one I bought at the time - the original was on the 'B-side', and they're sufficiently different that it was like getting two songs for the price of one. The original goes deeper with the British/Asian popular culture references and the redeeming power of the "45" vinyl, whereas the remix shifts everything upwards in such an infectious way and makes it danceable.

I didn’t like this one at all when it was released, but the lyrics ‘everybody needs a bosom for a pillow’ always made me chuckle.

Now though, I really enjoy the song. I got back to it quite regularly.

7. Aqua - Turn Back Time

Rank: 9/10

Reason: As I alluded to earlier in the thread, Danish group Aqua were great fun but one of those bands who on paper sound like my taste to a tee, but where in reality I only loved one song by them from their heyday (because 2009's Back To The 80s was brilliant and deserved to smash outside Scandinavia), and that song was Turn Back Time.

Aqua opening their UK chart career with three straight No.1 singles probably wasn't on anybody's minds and, indeed, if they had released something in the mould of Barbie Girl and Doctor Jones as the third single, I very much doubt it would have happened as diminishing returns kicked in. We saw that in the way My Oh My underperformed against expectations a few months later. But they had an unexpected ace up their sleeve with Turn Back Time, a mostly ballad, very well sung by Lene, that had extra exposure from featuring on the soundtrack of one of the year's biggest films, Sliding Doors. The music video also saw Aqua in their own Sliding Doors style situation, and the whole thing is far more mature than their other singles, including the group being styled in leather jackets and other black clothes, although Lene's red and black spiky hair stood her apart from other balladeers of the time.

I'm not sure many people who heard this single without knowing who it was by would imagine it was an Aqua song on first listen, at least not for the first two minutes, where it just comes across as a very lovely, but well delivered pop ballad. This being Aqua, it was never going to be as straightforward a production as that, and halfway in there is a dramatic musical switch up into something of a distorted electronic breakdown, before the song suddenly returns to its ballad form, with some lovely outro backing vocals. There is no room for rapper Rene as a lead on this track, and I'm glad they didn't try to shoehorn him into it because for surprise value alone, this song was worth the admission. In a such a ballad heavy year as 1998, it's quite amazing that one of the very biggest came from Aqua.

The UK is where the track achieved its biggest success - it peaked at No.2 in New Zealand and No.10 in Australia as well as top five in Ireland and Sweden. In the UK it would be the final week at No.1 of their career, and they never hit the UK top five again after this single, aside from their credit on Nicki Minajl's Barbie World in 2023.

Perfect song from a perfect film

Celine's monster still sounds good to me, and the best thing about the film apart from the special effects and cast. Who doesnt still parody the ship bow thing when on a boat for photos? No? Just me then! I liked the Celtic tinge to it and I'm a lot more appreciative of Celine these days than I was at times when suffering some of her more dirgey ballads. Think Twice is great too. I have the blue ray of Titanic still shrink wrapped, I cant bring myself to watch 3 hours of "jack!" "Rose!" "jack!" "rose!" again 😄

Brimful Of Asha was delicious and catchy, and sparked memories of Singapore/Malayan TV from the early 70's when it was impossible to not hear Asha popping up on the Bollywood films - Singapore being multicultural catered for everyone - so I still have the same nostalgia overload now as I did in the 90's. Norman Cook, so many aliases and assists!

Aqua's was a lovely track, and impressed me that they really weren't just a novelty pop act, they still aren't just that despite Barbie Girl fame. Also rated the film, Sliding Doors, great idea and sad/sweet depending on how you look at it.

Turn Back Time would be 4th for me - beautiful song.

Still love Sliding Doors. This was number 1 when I started the job I am still in!

7 minutes ago, Popchartfreak said:

Celine's monster still sounds good to me, and the best thing about the film apart from the special effects and cast. Who doesnt still parody the ship bow thing when on a boat for photos? No? Just me then! I liked the Celtic tinge to it and I'm a lot more appreciative of Celine these days than I was at times when suffering some of her more dirgey ballads. Think Twice is great too. I have the blue ray of Titanic still shrink wrapped, I cant bring myself to watch 3 hours of "jack!" "Rose!" "jack!" "rose!" again 😄

Ha. For me it's this and someone or other shouting 'goddamn' every two minutes.

7 minutes ago, Jester said:

That would be 4th for me - beautiful song.

Still love Sliding Doors. This was number 1 when I started the job I am still in!

Wow, that's quite an innings. Congratulations!

Yes Sliding Doors was a great film, I have it on DVD at home.