4 hours ago4 hr 5 hours ago, vibe said:Christina nearly stopped Westlife's No 1'S right at the beginning!Not as nearly as Alice Deejay did with the previous single! Another slice of absolute shite from them.One of my favourite Backstreet Boys songs, what a bop!
3 hours ago3 hr ATFC stands for Aydin The Funki Chile.In And Out Of My Life is based around the vocal of In And Out Of My Life by Adeva from 1989 and the instrumental sample of Right Here Right Now by Fatboy Slim from 6 months previously.
3 hours ago3 hr Quite a few pop underperformances in the last few weeks. Following Jesse Hold On, both After The Love Has Gone and Larger Than Life had certainly been expected to go top three too!I would say that the top four in that first week is one of my favourite top fours of all-time, and certainly the first chart where I had bought all four on single. Loved how Christina and Ann Lee both held up and I just adore Don’t Stop. I bought the album in the summer on import as I’d heard the original version was desperate to have a copy but the X-Cabs remix for the UK as Jester says, was just wonderful. A very impactful song that deserves more attention.I also loved that Honeyz track, a very sweet song. I wasn’t so keen on After The Love Has Gone at the time as it felt like a retread of One For Sorrow, both obviously copying The Winner Takes It All. However I’ve come around to it since and it worked absolutely beautifully in the Here and Now musical. It really suits that setting. It’s funny that Steptacular was so huge in the end despite the relative failure of this single, just a misstep of a song choice for the public I guess!I do remember this first week is the week we went to Disneyland Paris as I was trying to hear the chart with a very poor radio signal going over on the ferry to France. I managed to tune in just in time to hear 911 go in at 13 with Wonderland and was gobsmacked a brand new single by them had done so badly - then it ended up being their final hit altogether! Quite a catchy and jolly track too, crazy how fast they faded after finally getting to No.1.On paper it feels like that first Liam Gallagher featuring single outside of Oasis should have done better? I vaguely remember hearing it at the time.Flying Without Wings was one of Westlife’s better singles so I can’t deny them No.1 for this, would have felt slightly odd of all songs this one not getting to the top. Shane and Mark really give it their all on this track.Looks like we were lucky to avoid an R Kelly performance and skipped episode. I actually didn’t mind that song at the time, but don’t care to hear it again now particularly. Surprised to hear Scott Mills’ voice reading out the chart countdown after they pulled all his episodes.Pretty good although fairly forgotten song in the scheme of things by Destiny’s Child, I love that they’re singing about pagers a couple of years before they pioneered the art of dissing people on the internet. Truly ahead of their time with technology.The Tina Turner song was good too - the chorus was later used as the basis for part of Love On My Mind by Freemasons!Also not a bad song by Eternal in the top 20 but I think all their goodwill had gone after sacking Kelle, I’m glad her single peaked higher a few weeks earlier.ATFC was a great sample use but a little premature! Still, it meant the Ministry of Sound Annual could mix the two songs together very effectively on that release.Late 1999 feels like the changing of the guard a bit. Lots of big 80s and 90s acts were finally starting to fade or have lower peaking lead singles. And acts that would come to define the early 00s like Eminem, Christina and Britney had emerged this year. A really interesting period in so many ways. Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by gooddelta
1 hour ago1 hr 'Larger Than Life' is a bop.'When The Heartache Is Over' I recognised from being sampled by Freemasons - Love On My Mind in 2005!I prefer Westlife's first two #1s to 'Flying Without Wings'. Sad the 90's on this thread are nearly over :(
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