Gouryella... NICE track!

 

Veracocha 'Carte Blanche' is another belter which would've fit this lsit nicely aswell.

 

 

amen to that!

Apart from Faithless and one or two others, this is a bullsh!t list of such mind-numbing blandness and predictability as to be unreal... Any list that claims to be an "Ultimate" of Dance has to include Leftfield - "Open Up", The Shamen - "Move Any Mountain" (or indeed "Boss Drum"), Orbital - "Chime", FSOL "Papua New Guinea", The Prodigy - "No Good", The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rocking Beats", A Guy Called Gerald - "Voodoo Ray" or The KLF - "What Time Is Love", or it is simply not worthy of the name.... And waaaay to go in choosing just about the WORST Underworld song you can imagine... "Born Slippy"??? FFS.... <_< What about "Cowgirl", "Rez", "Mmmmm Skyscraper I Love You", "Dark And Long (Train Mix)", "King of Snake"..........

 

And almost totally ignoring the Rave and Detroit scenes as well.... Hmmm, well, says it all really dunnit....?

OH i can do my ranking, let me see....

 

1. Children

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near 10000000000000000000000000. the rest :P

Totally agree, Scott - especially about Underworld....

 

No list that includes travesties like Baby D, Ian van Dahl and Sash can be taken seriously, though, really.....the only place these songs would have been called all-time dance anthem greats was in some chav's souped-up Ford Fiesta, I reckon, when Daz and Kevin were speeding on their estate blasting out their Woolies 'dance' purchases ^_^ ....

Apart from Faithless and one or two others, this is a bullsh!t list of such mind-numbing blandness and predictability as to be unreal... Any list that claims to be an "Ultimate" of Dance has to include Leftfield - "Open Up", The Shamen - "Move Any Mountain" (or indeed "Boss Drum"), Orbital - "Chime", FSOL "Papua New Guinea", The Prodigy - "No Good", The Chemical Brothers - "Block Rocking Beats", A Guy Called Gerald - "Voodoo Ray" or The KLF - "What Time Is Love", or it is simply not worthy of the name....

.....the only place these songs would have been called all-time dance anthem greats was in some chav's souped-up Ford Fiesta, I reckon, when Daz and Kevin were speeding on their estate blasting out their Woolies 'dance' purchases ^_^ ....

 

I'm with you both there :lol:

 

(although I've bopped to Baby D in my time, it would never make it into an ULTIMATE top 20 dance list)

 

oh, and harsh but hilarious Russ :rofl:

Edited March 15, 200718 yr by snowbaby

Gouryella... NICE track!

 

Veracocha 'Carte Blanche' is another belter which would've fit this lsit nicely aswell.

 

And Ayla 'Ayla' also from 1999 :wub:

Ayla - Ayla Part II from 98 was much better, dunno why they had to remix it for the UK. This list captures some of the main records that defined the peak moment for trance in club and chart history combined, Ayla would've fitted right in. Gouryella, Diving Faces, Binary Finary, York, would've all fitted right in.

(although I've bopped to Baby D in my time, it would never make it into an ULTIMATE top 20 dance list)

 

Baby D were really just pop music with a few 'dance' knobs added on to try and garner some cred... I certainly never heard any actual Clubbers wax lyrical about them, and they certainly never made any DJs set lists at any of the Clubs or Raves I went to.. There is far too much revisionism going on in Dance/Techno music, stuff that was NEVER regarded as Dance or Techno at the time is now being claimed as such (saying that the likes of Baby D or 2 Unlimited were Dance/Techno would be a bit like saying The Velvet Underground or Joy Division were Goth bands just because they dressed in black and wrote dark, depressing lyrics..)... I blame journalists almost entirely for this gross distortion of facts...

 

And waaaay to go in choosing just about the WORST Underworld song you can imagine...

 

i can imagine a worse one!!!

 

this is Danielle singing Underneath The Radar on the Live Big Brother 06 Finale btw

 

 

this is (imo) their best song:

 

 

 

 

times change, different concepts arrive. deal with it please.

i can imagine a worse one!!!

 

this is Danielle singing Underneath The Radar on the Live Big Brother 06 Finale btw

 

 

Oh fukkin' HELL that is truly horrendous..... :o :o :puke: Cos I'm really fukkin' sure that was what Karl Hyde and Darren Emerson had in mind when they wrote this tune - some Chav Bimbo totally ruining it....

 

times change, different concepts arrive. deal with it please.

 

No, it's called 'revisionism'..... Distortion of facts.... Mis-labelling. Taking things totally out of their context. Mind you, didn't you say once that you were some sort of music journalist anyway... So, I guess you would have to say that....

 

Bottom line - it's a lot of people who weren't even part of the Rave/Club/Dance scene of the early 90s talking complete bollocks about something they know very little about.. It was my time, my era, I was there, dont presume to lecture me on the facts as they WERE.....

Totally agree, Scott - especially about Underworld....

 

No list that includes travesties like Baby D, Ian van Dahl and Sash can be taken seriously,

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Sash!.jpg

 

Sash has a greatest hits/10th Anniversity album and dvd out. so you can go round annoying your mum shouting out Ecuador!!!! and Adelante!!! again.

 

http://www.sashworld.com/

 

also can this be taken seriously?

 

MOVE YOUR ASS!!!!

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

this so totally funny!!!!

he is out of money/ideas -> GH is released :P

Oh fukkin' HELL that is truly horrendous..... :o :o :puke: Cos I'm really fukkin' sure that was what Karl Hyde and Darren Emerson had in mind when they wrote this tune - some Chav Bimbo totally ruining it....

 

if you want the proper video its on the last Now thats what i call music australia dvd.

 

probably the tomato book might be a better purchase (note: not a book about fruit, about the design company tomato. its a good book)

nah, i'm not a music journalist.

 

nowadays the dance genre doesnt apply only to the "rave" or the club scene, part of it has commercialised so that it can be played on radio and tv, that's that. Its 2007 not 1990, things don't mean the same thing they meant decades ago.

nah, i'm not a music journalist.

 

nowadays the dance genre doesnt apply only to the "rave" or the club scene, part of it has commercialised so that it can be played on radio and tv, that's that. Its 2007 not 1990, things don't mean the same thing they meant decades ago.

 

 

as the guardian said on friday about music genres:

 

It's both funny and revealing that the Killers wrote Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll to poke fun at the snooty, ascetic independent scene in their native Las Vegas, only to find that British audiences, for whom post-Oasis indie is simply pop music with guitars, embraced it as a cheerfully unironic anthem. Useful though they are for those charged with racking or reviewing records, genres are foggy, amorphous things open to countless individual interpretations. If you want to know the definition of fruitless, just try establishing a watertight distinction between rock and pop.

 

Finally, as if in response to all the above, Denim's Middle of the Road dismisses the entire classic-rock canon, moving from the deadpan slaughter of sacred cows towards a stirring call to chart your own path through musical history: a persuasive reminder that genre distinctions are merely a map, not a destination.

 

this is true for any genre, whatever music whether it was made in 1929 or now.

nah, i'm not a music journalist.

 

nowadays the dance genre doesnt apply only to the "rave" or the club scene, part of it has commercialised so that it can be played on radio and tv, that's that. Its 2007 not 1990, things don't mean the same thing they meant decades ago.

 

You talk as if this was some ancient history, it wasn't.... The facts are that Dance has become so grossly commercialised that it now has no distinction from regular Pop Music.... When you see 'best of' year lists which include names like Madonna, Robbie Williams, etc, then it's really no wonder that no one can actually distinguish it anymore... And in any case, this so-called 'list' is supposed to be an Ultimate guide, which SHOULD be going back to the late 80s Chicago and Detroit scenes as well as taking in Rave Culture... It is entirely a wrong and distorted list heavily biased in favour of post-98... Could you imagine someone doing a similar list for "Ultimate Rock/Metal Anthems" and missing out the likes of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Rolling Stones, etc.. and heavily weighting it in favour of Nu Metal, Emo, Metalcore, etc? Wouldn't happen would it...? It would be entirely fukkin ludicrous....

No, it's called 'revisionism'..... Distortion of facts.... Mis-labelling. Taking things totally out of their context. Mind you, didn't you say once that you were some sort of music journalist anyway... So, I guess you would have to say that....

 

Bottom line - it's a lot of people who weren't even part of the Rave/Club/Dance scene of the early 90s talking complete bollocks about something they know very little about.. It was my time, my era, I was there, dont presume to lecture me on the facts as they WERE.....

 

I was there, too... and fully agree.... this is nonsense, this including 2Unlimited in ANY dance retrospective... they were ALWAYS laughed at, always ridiculed and NEVER considered part of the dance revolution that happened then.

 

History cannot be re-written whilst the participants are still alive to tell it like it REALLY was.....

yeah obviously music genres are hard to define, especially when they are so volatile. R&B nowadays is totally different from R&B from back in the day.