My Top 500 Songs (complete!!)

Anyway the countdown so far... for the last time!

51 Röyksopp - The Girl and the Robot
52 Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky
53 Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's for Real
54 Haddaway - What Is Love
55 Dana International - Diva
56 Whigfield - Saturday Night
57 Dario G - Sunchyme
58 CeCe Peniston - Finally
59 Kylie Minogue - Say Something
60 Donna Summer - I Feel Love

61 Robyn - Handle Me
62 Jennifer Lopez - Waiting for Tonight
63 Corona - Baby Baby
64 Whitney Houston - It's Not Right but It's Okay
65 Cappella - U Got 2 Let the Music
66 2 Unlimited - No Limit
67 Real McCoy - Run Away
68 Sash! - Encore une fois
69 Kylie Minogue - Confide in Me
70 ABBA - The Day Before You Came

71 ABBA - Summer Night City
72 a-ha - Take On Me
73 Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam
74 Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
75 Pet Shop Boys - Go West
76 Robert Miles - One and One
77 Kylie Minogue - In My Arms
78 Steps - Scared of the Dark
79 The Source ft. Candi Staton - You Got the Love
80 ABBA - Take a Chance on Me

81 Enigma - Return to Innocence
82 Melanie C - I Turn to You
83 Kylie Minogue - On a Night Like This
84 Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart
85 BBE - Seven Days and One Week
86 Rihanna - We Found Love
87 Blondie - Atomic
88 ABBA - Super Trouper
89 Roger Sanchez - Another Chance
90 Shakedown - At Night

91 Plummet - Damaged
92 Robyn - Be Mine!
93 The Space Brothers - Shine
94 Nicki Minaj - Starships
95 OT Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down
96 Chicane - Saltwater
97 Ace of Base - All That She Wants
98 The Original - I Luv U Baby
99 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
100 Rui da Silva - Touch Me

101 Tony Di Bart - The Real Thing
102 ABBA - Mamma Mia
103 Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!
104 Dua Lipa - Physical
105 Röyksopp - Only This Moment
106 DJ Sammy - Heaven
107 Faithless - Insomnia
108 David Guetta ft. Sia - Titanium
109 Dua Lipa - New Rules
110 ABBA - Waterloo

111 Madonna - Hung Up
112 Hole - Celebrity Skin
113 Berri - Sunshine After the Rain
114 Kylie Minogue - Dancing
115 Cappella - Move On Baby
116 The Tamperer ft. Maya - Feel It
117 Olive - You're Not Alone
118 Ultra Naté - Automatic
119 Kim Wilde - You Came
120 DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima

121 Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
122 Tomcraft - Loneliness
123 Sash! - Ecuador
124 RuPaul - Sissy That Walk
125 Ariana Grande - Break Free
126 Girls Aloud - Something New
127 Kylie Minogue - Better the Devil You Know
128 September - Cry for You
129 Sia - Chandelier
130 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

131 ABBA - Don't Shut Me Down
132 Rihanna - Disturbia
133 Layo & Bushwacka! - Love Story (vs. Finally)
134 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
135 Charlotte Perrelli - Hero
136 Darude - Sandstorm
137 Ultra Naté - Free
138 Kylie Minogue - I Believe in You
139 Dannii Minogue - All I Wanna Do
140 Helene Fischer - Atemlos durch die Nacht

141 Nicole Scherzinger - Poison
142 Bobby Brown - Two Can Play That Game
143 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
144 All Saints - Pure Shores
145 Faithless - God Is a DJ
146 Soft Cell - Tainted Love
147 Motorcycle - As the Rush Comes
148 Blondie - Heart of Glass
149 T2 - Heartbroken
150 Sam Sparro - Black and Gold

151 Saint Etienne - He's on the Phone
152 Kylie Minogue - Love at First Sight
153 ABBA - SOS
154 Love Inc. - You're a Superstar
155 Moby - Disco Lies
156 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share
157 Madonna - Get Together
158 ABBA - Voulez-Vous
159 Loreen - Tattoo
160 Dannii Minogue - I Begin to Wonder

161 Eric Prydz - Call On Me
162 Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
163 Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
164 Pet Shop Boys - Always on My Mind
165 Lady Gaga - Just Dance
166 Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes
167 Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around
168 Lonnie Gordon - Happenin' All Over Again
169 Céline Dion - My Heart Will Go On
170 Cheryl - Call My Name

171 Cher - Strong Enough
172 This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
173 LeAnn Rimes - Can't Fight the Moonlight
174 ABBA - The Winner Takes It All
175 LeAnn Rimes - How Do I Live?
176 Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles
177 S'Express - Theme from S'Express
178 D:Ream - U R the Best Thing
179 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath
180 Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

181 Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh
182 Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
183 Special D. - Come with Me
184 Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness
185 Steps - Last Thing on My Mind
186 The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
187 La Bouche - Be My Lover
188 Magic Affair - Omen III
189 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
190 September - Satellites

191 Matt Darey - Beautiful
192 The Human League - Don't You Want Me
193 Sash! - Stay
194 George Michael - Fastlove
195 Freya Ridings - Castles
196 Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground
197 Kylie Minogue - Speakerphone
198 Soul II Soul - Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
199 Vargas & Lagola - Selfish
200 Liza Minnelli - Losing My Mind

201 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings
202 Dannii Minogue - Disremembrance
203 Adele - Hometown Glory
204 Evelyn Thomas - High Energy
205 Madonna - Frozen
206 Culture Beat - Inside Out
207 Madonna - Music
208 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
209 Céline Dion - Think Twice
210 t.A.T.u. - All the Things She Said

211 Maxx - Get-A-Way
212 Blondie - Maria
213 Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World)
214 Gabrielle - Dreams
215 Freddie Mercury - Living on My Own
216 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
217 Sash! - Mysterious Times
218 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
219 Kylie Minogue - Stop Me from Falling
220 Future Islands - Seasons (Waiting on You)

221 Kylie Minogue - Turn It into Love
222 New Order - True Faith
223 Lucie Jones - Never Give Up on You
224 Britney Spears - Gimme More
225 Agnetha Fältskog - Dance Your Pain Away
226 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - The Power of Love
227 Sonia - You'll Never Stop Me from Loving You
228 Lady Gaga - Born This Way
229 ABBA - Knowing Me, Knowing You
230 Wynter Gordon - Dirty Talk

231 Glass Animals - Heat Waves
232 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor
233 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
234 Britney Spears - Toxic
235 The Shins - Heartworms
236 Daft Punk - One More Time
237 Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments
238 Chicane ft. Bryan Adams - Don't Give Up
239 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
240 Kate Ryan - Désenchantée

241 Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
242 The Cardigans - Lovefool
243 Mariah Carey - Obsessed
244 ABBA - Angeleyes
245 ABBA - The Visitors
246 Sonikku - Remember to Forget Me
247 Enya - Only Time
248 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
249 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
250 Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin

251 Missy Elliott - 4 My People
252 Röyksopp - 49 Percent
253 Sugababes - About You Now
254 Prospa - Ecstasy (Over & Over)
255 Roxy Music - More Than This
256 Amber - This Is Your Night
257 Helena Paparizou - Baby It's Over
258 Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
259 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Get Over You
260 M People - Moving On Up

261 Ofra Haza - Im Nin'alu
262 Rihanna - S&M
263 Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love
264 Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer
265 Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
266 Cyndi Lauper - Into the Nightlife
267 Madonna - Like a Prayer
268 Faithless - We Come 1
269 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
270 Edward Maya ft. Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love

271 George Michael - Spinning the Wheel
272 Spice Girls - Wannabe
273 Solange - Losing You
274 Céline Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore
275 Céline Dion - A New Day Has Come
276 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
277 La Roux - Bulletproof
278 Sonique - It Feels So Good
279 Cher - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
280 Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone

281 Tori Amos - Professional Widow
282 Guru Josh Project - Infinity
283 M83 - Midnight City
284 Mel & Kim - Respectable
285 2 Unlimited - The Real Thing
286 Alicia Keys - No One
287 KEiiNO - Spirit in the Sky
288 Captain Hollywood Project - More and More
289 Madonna - Celebration
290 Amy Winehouse - Rehab

291 Bananarama - Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)
292 Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
293 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love)
294 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
295 Bloc Party - The Prayer
296 Blondie - Call Me
297 Cappella - U & Me
298 Rihanna - Where Have You Been
299 Whigfield - Think of You
300 Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

301 Britney Spears - I'm a Slave 4 U
302 ABBA - One of Us
303 Robyn - Time Machine
304 The Shins - Phantom Limb
305 Ava Max - Sweet but Psycho
306 Madonna - Vogue
307 Cher - All or Nothing
308 Salt-N-Pepa - Push It
309 Janet Jackson - Together Again
310 Infernal - From Paris to Berlin

311 Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
312 Corona - Try Me Out
313 Lady Gaga ft. Beyoncé - Telephone
314 Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains
315 Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
316 Alison Moyet - Whispering Your Name
317 Céline Dion - I Drove All Night
318 Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
319 Urban Cookie Collective - The Key, the Secret
320 Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)

321 Kylie Minogue - The Loco-Motion
322 Carola - Främling
323 Destiny's Child - Survivor
324 Kylie Minogue - Got to Be Certain
325 Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful
326 Whitney Houston & Kygo - Higher Love
327 Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
328 Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle
329 Kate Ryan - Je t'adore
330 Tracey Thorn - Dancefloor

331 Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne - Rather Be
332 Jessie Ware - Spotlight
333 Emmie - More Than This
334 Scatman John - Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)
335 Enya - May It Be
336 Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby
337 Mary J. Blige - Family Affair
338 Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
339 Steps - What the Future Holds
340 Madonna - Ray of Light

341 Blondie - Long Time
342 Britney Spears - Stronger
343 Avicii - Seek Bromance
344 Desireless - Voyage, Voyage
345 Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella
346 Hot Chip - I Feel Better
347 Alizée - Moi... Lolita
348 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain on Me
349 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This
350 Haddaway - Rock My Heart

351 Kylie Minogue - Timebomb
352 Ivi Adamou - La La Love
353 System F - Out of the Blue
354 Samantha Fox - Hot Boy
355 Aaliyah - Try Again
356 The Bangles - Eternal Flame
357 Lady Gaga - Judas
358 Carly Rae Jepsen - Party for One
359 Vanessa Amorosi - Absolutely Everybody
360 Chicane ft. Tom Jones - Stoned in Love

361 Mark Ronson ft. Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like a Heart
362 Dina Carroll - Don't Be a Stranger
363 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
364 Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull - On the Floor
365 Alice Chater - Hourglass
366 Alicia Keys - Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart
367 Disclosure ft. Sam Smith - Latch
368 Kylie Minogue - Into the Blue
369 Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam
370 Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

371 Cappella - U Got 2 Know
372 Lady Gaga - Marry the Night
373 Agnes - I Trance
374 Susanne Sundfør - Delirious
375 iiO - Rapture
376 MGMT - Kids
377 Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
378 The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
379 Sasha - Xpander
380 Katy B - Crying for No Reason

381 Joe Smooth - Promised Land
382 Deuce - On the Bible
383 Björk - Big Time Sensuality
384 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Hypnotized
385 Lana Del Rey - Ride
386 Annie Lennox - No More "I Love You's"
387 Caroline Polachek - Sunset
388 High Contrast - Remind Me
389 Mariah Carey - Without You
390 Portishead - Glory Box

391 Rihanna - Man Down
392 Scarlet - Independent Love Song
393 deadmau5 - Strobe
394 Kelis - Milkshake
395 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep
396 ABBA - Honey, Honey
397 Evanescence - Bring Me to Life
398 Let Loose - Crazy for You
399 Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is a Place on Earth
400 Mini Viva - Left My Heart in Tokyo

401 Deuce - Call It Love
402 Faithless ft. Dido - One Step Too Far
403 Beverley Craven - Promise Me
404 Jon Secada - Just Another Day
405 Crystal Waters - 100% Pure Love
406 Samantha Mumba - Always Come Back to Your Love
407 Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
408 Bananarama - Venus
409 Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu
410 The Prodigy - No Good (Start the Dance)

411 KDA ft. Tinie Tempah & Katy B - Turn the Music Louder (Rumble)
412 Ultra Naté, Amber & Jocelyn Enriquez - If You Could Read My Mind
413 Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
414 2 Unlimited - Let the Beat Control Your Body
415 Mariah Carey - Fantasy
416 Röyksopp - Beautiful Day Without You
417 Sophie B. Hawkins - Right Beside You
418 The Pussycat Dolls - I Hate This Part
419 P!nk - What About Us
420 No Mercy - Where Do You Go

421 Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
422 Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory
423 All Saints - Black Coffee
424 Antony and Cleopatra - Why Don't You Just Call Me
425 CHVRCHES - Recover
426 The La's - There She Goes
427 Kylie Minogue - Je ne sais pas pourquoi
428 Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music
429 The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
430 Scooch - More Than I Needed to Know

431 Beyoncé - Break My Soul
432 Tove Lo - No One Dies from Love
433 Big Ang ft. Siobhan - It's Over Now
434 Shakespears Sister - Stay
435 Kesha - Tik Tok
436 Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough
437 Steps - Better Best Forgotten
438 Donna Summer - I Don't Want to Get Hurt
439 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch - Sweet Nothing
440 Alphabeat - The Spell

441 Adam Rickitt - I Breathe Again
442 Atomic Kitten - Whole Again
443 Ava Max - Kings & Queens
444 Little Boots - Remedy
445 Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
446 Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
447 Heller & Farley Project - Ultra Flava
448 Adele - Hello
449 Lizzo - Juice
450 Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven

451 Kylie Minogue - Magic
452 Mary Kiani - I Imagine
453 Dido - White Flag
454 Chicane ft. Natasha Bedingfield - Bruised Water
455 Garbage - Stupid Girl
456 Aaliyah - More Than a Woman
457 ABBA - I Still Have Faith in You
458 Agnes - Goodlife
459 Elaine Mai - No Forever
460 Kylie Minogue - Stars

461 When in Rome - The Promise
462 Black - Wonderful Life
463 P!nk - Just Like a Pill
464 Groove Armada - Superstylin'
465 Kelly Llorenna - Tell It to My Heart
466 The Corrs - Breathless
467 Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
468 Adele - Someone Like You
469 Amelia Lily - You Bring Me Joy
470 Samantha Mumba - Gotta Tell You

471 Blanche - City Lights
472 Bruce Springsteen - I'm on Fire
473 Kim Appleby - Don't Worry
474 Steps - No More Tears on the Dancefloor
475 Tina Moore - Never Gonna Let You Go
476 Scooter - The Logical Song
477 Johnny Cash - Hurt
478 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
479 Nicole Sabouné - Win This Life
480 Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl

481 Avicii - Levels
482 Lady Gaga - Stupid Love
483 Måns Zelmerlöw - Cara Mia
484 Sugababes - Too Lost in You
485 Narcotic Thrust - I Like It
486 Anastacia - Left Outside Alone
487 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy
488 Jax Jones ft. Ella Henderson - This Is Real
489 Poli Genova - If Love Was a Crime
490 Tears for Fears - Mad World

491 The Knife - Heartbeats
492 Agnes - Fingers Crossed
493 Gabrielle - Out of Reach
494 Example - Kickstarts
495 Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?
496 Diana Ross - Love Hangover
497 September - Can't Get Over
498 Lana Del Rey - Love
499 Anita Meyer - Why Tell Me Why
500 Kait Tome - Verona
 
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Nope, and neither were Mr Vain or Rhythm is a Dancer for example. Of course the convoluted stories of several eurodance tracks are messy and deceptive (particularly the Italian stuff), but I'd say the really big hits were all original. This was a German produced track, the only thing nicked was the iconic woe-oh-oh's.
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I was AGOG to find out that Rhythm Is A Dancer apparently took the synth sound from this a few years back:

 
Still no word on the top 20? :evil:

I'm not sure if this is Moopy controversial or not - but The Girl And The Robot is my go-to Robyn ahead of all of her solo material. I'm going to assume the only reason Royksopp never broke in the UK is solely because we didn't know how to pronounce them.
 
Playlist the big 3 Haddaway singles alongside the best from the 2nd album and you have quite the collection. Shame he didn't really continue striving for this quality and style. Few tracks reach the mania of What Is Love and Rock My Heart. He is absolutely front and centre of any half decent and above 1993 dance compilation.

Funnily enough with the mention of Snap! Thea Austin worked with the Haddaway producers, but the results were more subdued.

Think maybe N-Trance Electronic Pleasure:


Maybe don't think anything and just let go:
 
straightorbroken said:
Playlist the big 3 Haddaway singles alongside the best from the 2nd album and you have quite the collection. Shame he didn't really continue striving for this quality and style. Few tracks reach the mania of What Is Love and Rock My Heart. He is absolutely front and centre of any half decent and above 1993 dance compilation.

Funnily enough with the mention of Snap! Thea Austin worked with the Haddaway producers, but the results were more subdued.

Think maybe N-Trance Electronic Pleasure:


Maybe don't think anything and just let go:
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Yes the second album singles were a big drop. But by the time it came out, that brand of eurodance was sadly dead and buried.
 
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Yes the second album singles were a big drop. But by the time it came out, that brand of eurodance was sadly dead and buried.
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Catch a Fire had potential (I love it), but as you say, totally dated by this point. I didn't really like Fly Away when I first got to it years afterwards.
 
Coming up in the next 10: Madame Misery, a bit too much Kylie, Agnes, Kate Bush, and Pete Burns.
 
49 Kylie Minogue - Slow (2003)
50 Kylie Minogue - Get Outta My Way (2010)

Launching the top 50 with OH NO NOT MORE KYLIE.

Now Slow, is absolutely peak Kylie. The comeback track after the monster Fever era, no-one expected her to go in this direction. Cool as fuck, hypnotic electropop, sparse... nothing that Fever could have ever led us to believe was coming. It's absolutely top tier for me, totally future proofed, it's a 4eva Kylie moment.

Get Outta My Way is a very different bag of glitter. This is bog standard Kylie, as if that's a bad thing. It's bubbly, fun, a little sassy. I was surprised it made it this high, but the stats don't lie.

Both have great videos, Slow in particular is deeply pleasurable, because we all love men, Kylie and Barcelona.



 
48 Agnes - Release Me (2008)

Pop really had a dry patch in the middle 00s. Girls Aloud and Sugababes aside, dance pop was virtually dead. Thankfully we were able to look to Scandinavia (Robyn, Infernal, September) to bring the goods back, shortly before Gaga led the charge from the US.

This is an absolute classic from the era, lyrically emotional and a little desperate, sonically big dance pop in a minor key, complete with built in tension and a glorious key change. Famously in that godawful sing song film, with those godawful people, which weirdly gives me nostalgia for a simpler time.

 
Release Me took whatever baton Deborah Cox was carrying, snatched it and sprinted for dear life :disco:


Hate some of the witchu-ness of the pronunciations though.
 
This is the first time I have seen this list and I was particularly pleased to see 2 or 3 songs that surprised me but also I did a bit of vomit in my mouth when I saw 1 or 2 I particularly despise.
 
59 Kylie Minogue - Say Something - I love this song, it's like definitely top 10 Kylie for me.
384 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Hypnotized - First time I heard this was live, I knew it was killer.

oh and 106 Sammy - Heaven - although I'd take the Candleflip Bootleg mix, because feels. Do we say 'feels' here?

On the hate list - I fucking hate 121. Kate Bush - This Woman's Work, it's like adult nappies Kate Bush, it's like easy readers, babies first Kate Bush. Burn it.

But worse than that, worse I think than probably anything* is 182. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive. It smells of death.

(* down the bottom of the well with it: 4 Non Blondes - What's Going On)
 
47 Royksopp - What Else Is There (2005)

They've appeared so often on this list, I've ran out of synonyms for icey, but I've literally just had a revelation about this song. Musically it's an electronic symphony. Lyrically, and this is the wild part, I've only just connected the dots - it's about a car accident. I always presumed it was just another (amazing) Scandinavian loneliness track, but no it's even bleaker.

Either way, this is their last of five appearances on the list. I haven't tallied the artist totals yet, but that's pretty good for an act I couldn't pick out of a crowd.

 
46 Strike - U Sure Do (1994/1995)

"Striking" a very different tone, it's the trashy 90s dance classic, that had a second life in the Clubland era (less said about the LSL version).

The result of five samples including Donna Allen, Barry White and Tone Loc, it was lucky it came together to make something quite infectious. To give it credit, beyond my trashy sideswipe, it is quite joyous thirty years on.

 
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46 Strike - U Sure Do (1994/1995)

"Striking" a very different tone, it's the trashy 90s dance classic, that had a second life in the Clubland era (less said about the LSL version).

The result of five samples including Donna Allen, Barry White and Tone Loc, it was lucky it came together to make something quite infectious. To give it credit, beyond my trashy sideswipe, it is quite joyous thirty years on.

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Bought this on cassette. Joyous, as were the other 4 singles. I knew of the Donna sample, but I'm AGOG to hear of the others, although I'm assuming the let's do it bit was swiped from Tone Loc?
 
45 Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms (1994/1995)

It’s the one you’ve been waiting for — Madame Misery’s big hit. Swirling electro-house grooves carry the track, elevated by BRM’s rich, soulful vocals. And they’re worth dwelling on: powerful and emotional, yes, but our Billie is no wailing house diva — instead, she delivers control where the lyrics themselves feel anything but.

Recently sampled for a new generation by Fred Again, but we dont talk about that here.

Apparently Dame Billie has seen some of the extensive discussions about on Moopy. If you're reading this, it's all love - this is a Billie Ray Martin fan forum.

 
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Bought this on cassette. Joyous, as were the other 4 singles. I knew of the Donna sample, but I'm AGOG to hear of the others, although I'm assuming the let's do it bit was swiped from Tone Loc?
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Without checking, I believe that's the case.
 
I had U Sure Do on tape, but I have since picked it up on vinyl.

The only half decent mix of it is this one, which is a bit low key ravey



As far as Your Loving Arms the Junior Vasquez Soundfactory Mix is pretty lovely, which I'm sure was solely aimed at American gay dancefloors

 
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I had U Sure Do on tape, but I have since picked it up on vinyl.

The only half decent mix of it is this one, which is a bit low key ravey



As far as Your Loving Arms the Junior Vasquez Soundfactory Mix is pretty lovely, which I'm sure was solely aimed at American gay dancefloors

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If I remember correctly, the remixes of another 1995 purchase, Keep Warm by Jinny, were all a bit wank too excepting the Alex Party one
 
U Sure Do definitely goes in the thumbs up column of mid 90s big dance anthems.

That Keep Warm remix though - no :evil:

Expected to see Billie in your top ten.

Roykopp are so underrated. That’s my favourite album of their’s too.
 
funky said:
U Sure Do definitely goes in the thumbs up column of mid 90s big dance anthems.

That Keep Warm remix though - no :evil:

Expected to see Billie in your top ten.

Roykopp are so underrated. That’s my favourite album of their’s too.
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I can't deny that remix is hard nostalgia. Mr Ag just says the bad 90s is just white noise to him.

Love Billie, but I split my time with a variety of her tracks. Obviously Arms is a staple, and Mr Ag is particularly partial to that one, so it gets bonus plays.

Röyksopp are astonishing. They're such a mood.
 
Agneeta said:
46 Strike - U Sure Do (1994/1995)

"Striking" a very different tone, it's the trashy 90s dance classic, that had a second life in the Clubland era (less said about the LSL version).

The result of five samples including Donna Allen, Barry White and Tone Loc, it was lucky it came together to make something quite infectious. To give it credit, beyond my trashy sideswipe, it is quite joyous thirty years on.

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I much prefer the LSL version
 
Having Inspiration in my head before I even got to this thread..

That's an amazing write-up for Your Loving Arms. Really hits the spot - the lyrics and music spiralling out of control, but the restraint vocal verses in the middle, I've never thought of it like that before.
 
44 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (1984)

This. Is. Everything.

It's the menace of Pete Burns, it's the manic energy from the opening note, it's camper than tits - dripping in galloping technicolor hi-nrg synth, it's excess, it's gloss, it's everything.

It's just always been there and always will be.

DO enjoy the glorious 8 minute Murder Mix, because YOU deserve it.



 
43 Kylie Minogue - All the Lovers (2010)

Kylie does not have the best voice in the pop business. But what she does have is one of the most familiar pop voices around, and at her best she knows exactly what to do with it and how to turn it into a musical event. She serenades us, with a gentle uplift few can manage. This is a track that gently bounces us around in a utopian fentanyl induced haze, softly rimming us visually and aurally.

She's your fave, because of this.

 
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42 De'Lacy - Hideaway (1995)

Good God, this has aged like Kylie. Progressive house really has a long sell by date and we're not there yet. Best heard at 4am or in the blazing sunshine at 4pm, it really offers and serves multiple needs. It's kinda classy, while also being charming.

 
Plus the LONG VERSION goes on FOREVER :disco:

I'm AGOG about STRIKE sampling BARRY WHITE's I'M GONNA LOVE YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE BABE. I love both these tracks and WHERE? Is it the STRING SAMPLE?
 
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