2 hours ago, Last Dreamer said:

I don't understand how anybody can like 90s dance music. Only Motown girl groups are worse.

Why do you always have to try and make everything so negative?

I don't understand why you declare just about anything as awful without expanding on it, unless it's a cheesy pop song by a white blonde woman. Which probably says more about your narrow-mindedness than anything else.

On 07/12/2025 at 20:38, dandy* said:

Well it's difficult to argue with that one! A 0/10 if ever there was one... aside from it just being an absolutely awful monstrosity, I kind of thought it was in pretty bad taste as well. Making money off the Lord's Prayer just felt kinda wrong somehow. I had the same issue with Fast Food Rockers 😂

Jesus is listed as a songwriter. 😄

I discovered this song for the first time last week. I couldn't be less Christian (I'm Muslim) but I just find this such a fascinating moment in time.

Top 3 in 1999 being Britney Spears, Eiffel 65 and him.

The whole "one song to the tune of another" idea, did he get that from I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue? 😄

10. Armand Van Helden feat. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me

Rank: 9/10

Reason: Two years after the American DJ and producer gave Tori Amos a boost to her only UK No.1 with his shapeshifting remix of Professional Widow, early 1999 saw Armand Van Helden score the biggest hit of his career under his own name, the sublime house anthem You Don't Know Me. Featuring a string sample from Carrie Lucas' Dance With You, a drum sample from Jaydee's Plastic Dreams and a looping bassline that had a lot in common with French dance acts of the time like Daft Punk, Stardust and Cassius, the track featured vocals from fellow American Duane Harden.

I will always love string heavy house; Lola's Theme by Shapeshifters being the absolute pinnacle of the genre for me five years later, but this song has such a hypnotic groove to it and while it was a semi surprise chart topper at the time for me in the quiet early year period, it wasn't an unwelcome one by any means and came in an interesting time that also saw great and long overdue one-week No.1s for The Offspring and Lenny Kravitz, plus a landmark return for Blondie.

Dance music was in such a strong state in 1999, commercially the strongest it probably ever was, which is why I decided to make a BuzzJack Presents album focusing solely on the dance of 1999 (see the first post of this thread for the playlist), and this was one of the big gems, although I also loved Duane's feature on What You Need by Powerhouse, which was pretty similar and peaked at No.13 in May 1999. Duane has a great, soulful voice that works well on house music. Armand, meanwhile, had a weaker follow up commercially with No.18 hit Flowerz in May, but returned to the top five in 2000 with Koochy, which sampled Gary Numan. He would return to the top a decade later with his production and co-credit on Bonkers by Dizzee Rascal.

You Don't Know Me was bigger in the UK than anywhere else but was also a top ten hit in Belgium, Greece, France and Italy and top 15 in many other countries.

I didn't think I'd know this song, but the music is so familiar. I just don't recall the vocals, but I know I certainly heard it around 1999.

I wasn't a fan then, but I do like it now.

My only childhood memories of S Club were 'Don't Stop Movin' and 'Reach' being school disco classics, so their TV show passed me by. My cousin, who is four years older, was a big fan though. She had a clear out of her room in her early teen years and passed some stuff on to me; I remember their merchandise being part of that big declutter. Despite the lack of nostalgia, I do still quite like 'Bring It All Back', it's pure unadulterated joy really and the music video, with that quintessentially '90s dance routine, only adds to the fun.

'You Don't Know Me' is a biiiiig favourite though so I'm pleased it's made your top 10 couldn't agree more that the house production is hypnotic and Duane puts in a soulful performance. I also enjoy the self-assured, triumphant lyrics in the face of naysayers.

Curious on your thoughts @gooddelta I've always loved this song from 1999 (when it was released in Australia)

Pandora - A Little Bit

Is this more dance or more pop? Only asking as I noticed it was absent on you 1999 Dance playlist in your first post. :)

3 minutes ago, Paddington James said:

Curious on your thoughts @gooddelta I've always loved this song from 1999 (when it was released in Australia)

Pandora - A Little Bit

Is this more dance or more pop? Only asking as I noticed it was absent on you 1999 Dance playlist in your first post. :)

It's a good track! This song is definitely dance and would have fit the album although I only really included UK hits on the 1999 dance album and this didn't chart in the UK (Pandora never did, although I know she recorded the original version of Kylie's On A Night Like This).

'You Don't Know Me' is one of the greats of this era, such a classic.

Edited Tuesday at 11:111 day by Jessie Where

3 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

It's a good track! This song is definitely dance and would have fit the album although I only really included UK hits on the 1999 dance album and this didn't chart in the UK (Pandora never did, although I know she recorded the original version of Kylie's On A Night Like This).

Thanks! That makes sense, I thought this would’ve done well in the UK.

She did have one other minor hit in Australia, Smile n Shine which reached the top 30 from memory. Though I can’t find the remix version released here on streaming, just the original.

"You Don't Know Me" is a banger and slightly higher in my listing. At that time Armand could not go wrong. I had that tune quite earlier, because I bought it from the album sampler in 98: https://www.discogs.com/release/3398-Armand-Van-Helden-2-Future-4-U-EP . "You Don't Know Me" was oonly my third favourite from that release behinf "Entra Mi Casa", an infectious latin house banger, and "Necessary Evil", a tune that destroyed every dancefloor in 99.

The Powerhouse song is one of the biggest songs of 1999. It is one of the most euphoric house anthem ever with great vocals and a great production by Lenny Fontana. Also the "Full Intention Power Mix" is very good.

Love 'Boom Boom Boom Boom' and 'Bring It All Back'. Both take me back and are fun pop bangers.

'Pretty Fly..' is iconic too. Liked a lot of Offsprings output. My sister saw them in 2021 too and said they were fun.

'You Don't Know Me' is a tune also.

Bring It All Back is just pure pop and joyous to listen to. 1999 was great at this type of song which I think is really missed these days. Not my favourite S Club 7 by any means (Reach and Don't Stop Movin' and even S Club Party are better) but up there for sure.

You Don't Know Me is a dance classic and would easily be in my top 3 of the year.

9. Five - Keep On Movin'

Rank: 9/10

Reason: The majority of pop bands seem to have at least one major classic single in them, and a few of those have made my top 10 of 1999, so clearly lots of pop acts were firing on all cylinders (because you could probably extend this to Vengaboys and Westlife too). For British boyband Five, it took seven singles until they finally broke their duck and topped the UK charts. At this point it was surely written in the stars because their chart peaks since debut had gone 10-4-3-2-2-2 and the only way was ever going to be up from there for such a high profile act. Smart money was on them getting their first chart topper in the summer with If Ya Gettin' Down, but that just missed out to Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca on that track's third week at the top.

For the second single from the Invincible album, but the one released two weeks before the album, the band unleashed Keep On Movin' which was written by Abs, Sean and J from the band, along with Spice Girls writer Richard "Biff" Stannard (who is No.1 this week once more with Kylie Minogue and XMAS) and Julian Gallagher. It was an unexpected bit of pop magic, with Sean opening the track unusually (he was normally the least heard from member of the band) and J doing the incredibly catchy 'when the rainy days are dying...' bridge rap before the song progresses on to a feelgood chorus with a big melody and record scratch sound effects. Abs gives the second verse a cheeky and likeable touch before J takes the bridge and middle eight with that rap again. It's charming, fun pop, but with their usual cool edge, where all of the elements just work.

The song was an instant hit and although not a mega seller at the time (but it did sneak into the end of year top 40 and 13 top 40 weeks was a personal best), it has had great staying power compared to their other singles, becoming their signature hit, still receving a lot of airplay to this day, and racking up over 150m streams on Spotify, largely driven by the UK audience where it is one of the most streamed songs to have been released in the 90s. The band recently reformed with all 5ive members for an arena tour and performed it at the end of a hit medley on the final of Strictly Come Dancing.

The song also reached No.1 in Hungary, No.2 in Ireland and Italy and top 10 in many other countries, including Australia although weirdly didn't chart in the US where they had achieved top 10 success with When The Lights Go Out a year earlier. It set them up to be even bigger in the UK too, with more No.1s coming in 2000 and 2001 in the form of We Will Rock You and Let's Dance, although strangely the immediate follow up to this single, Don't Wanna Let You Go, only got to No.9 and was the only single they didn't play on tour recently.

Superb song from an overall pretty decent boyband.

Again, another I would have higher.

You Don't Know Me...just euphoric... would probably be my favourite 1999 #1.

Loving following this Rich! So many memories I have from being a kid.

I think Britney was my fave #1 of this year - I took was always surprised when Sometimes didn't do as well but remember thinking like you say You Drive Me Crazy was the highlight. I was even more surprised Born To Make You Happy got to #1!

Not a big fan of Five - for me another exchangable boyband - like there were so many at that time. And their Queen cover is so wrong. "Keep On Movin" is one of their better songs, that's why I ranked it @ #24.

Five had a clutch of pretty decent pop songs without ever releasing anything I thought was better than just good. Keep On Movin' is one of those ones, I do like it and think it's a good example of a 90s boyband track. I think it would be top half for me.

The Armand Van Helden track is my new favourite to depart <3 I bought it at the time but I think I like even more these days than I did back then, it's such a strong house track and totally deserved to get to number 1.

Love Five and never get bored of hearing 'Keep On Movin'

Keep On Movin' was by far and away my favorite song for a long long time and whilst I still like it others a few others have closed the gap considerably. Mainly If Ya Gettin Down, Everybody Get Up, When The Lights Go Out and Got The Feeling.