My Top 500 Songs (complete!!)

I think we're either top 10 or at least top 20 90s dance tier with Hideaway. Add Deep Dish and it truly ascends.

Not my favourite DoA, but I'm glad it exists as a means for Pete to have dined out on it (and presumably hung on by a thread by it too). Pete's voice wasn't singing, it was an outpouring, with that unmistakable flair for sounding grand and absolutely mortified at the same time.

In this company, Kylie's All The Lovers seems almost tame by comparison, but it's one of her most precision-perfect moments. A shame the album was completely in its trail. I get the feeling, as with Say Something, that sometimes with Kylie these things can happen in the studio that they just have no power over and so emulating it is impossible.
 
On certain days, and within certain corners of my fickle brain, “Hideaway” is the greatest dance song ever made.

There I said it.
 
41 Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (1978)

Imagine inventing a whole new genre at age 19. I can almost guarantee, without checking that the reaction to Kate was polarising at the time and likely vile at times. How times don't change.

I genuinely can't muster up anything new to say about it, so I'll just let it sit and shine.

 
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On certain days, and within certain corners of my fickle brain, “Hideaway” is the greatest dance song ever made.

There I said it.
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No no, go ahead, that's a statement I have no interest in debating. While it doesn't come out on top here, it's landed spectacularly well considering it's been on and off streaming for years.
 
Down to just the top 40. Coming up in the next 10 - it's wall to wall dance bangers including a legendary 80s track, one of the best selling songs of all time and one you've probably never heard.
 
Where have they come from?

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40 New Order - Blue Monday (1983/1988)

A true cultural moment, deadly serious and cold, yet that drum machine and that synth - iconic.

One of the most influential moments in 80s dance music, it's an absolute bop, my tits are out, but I'm absolutely slashing my wrists at the end.

The best selling 12" of all time, one of the worst Top of the Pops performances of all time, and one half of the greatest mash-up of all time.







 
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So many other hidden gems in the New Order back catalogue but this & True Faith as the 2 towering COLOSSI of their 80s work is, of course, entirely correct.

Kylie mashing up Blue Monday with Can't Get You Out Of My Head is one of the iconic Brits performances, & lest we forget this is the band that gave us the one England football song that works as a great tune outside of the context of football.

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39 Riva, Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? (2001)

This does not got the credit it deserves. Dannii goes full throbbing trance meets electro-house, resulting in such a thrilling relentless, euphoric smash. Why isn't this a Tik Tok hit?

It started a run that really allowed her to use the title QUEEN OF CLUBS, an honour that K-Llo is reported to be still very resentful about.

Fun fact, Riva were also Goodmen and Chocolate Puma.

 
38 Lasgo - Something (2002)

More thrilling early 00s slamming trance, and I must admit that I'm running out of things to say, and also gutted @ButterTart gave up on this topic.

Drama, melancholy, synths, hypnotic, shimmering, throbbing... I'm out.

 
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39 Riva, Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? (2001)

This does not got the credit it deserves. Dannii goes full throbbing trance meets electro-house, resulting in such a thrilling relentless, euphoric smash. Why isn't this a Tik Tok hit?

It started a run that really allowed her to use the title QUEEN OF CLUBS, an honour that K-Llo is reported to be still very resentful about.

Fun fact, Riva were also Goodmen and Chocolate Puma.

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She really went hard during that period didn’t she.
 
Three incredible monuments of grim club culture magnificence. Danni stakes her claim with her thrush of trance spreading up the charts faster than she'd ever had it before. Lasgo's doomy doggeral template was established (and arguably topped by Alone). New Order merely an unprecedented thump of robo-pop.
 
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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.

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This would go off the chains in the club back in the day. EVERYONE danced to this
 
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39 Riva, Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? (2001)

This does not got the credit it deserves. Dannii goes full throbbing trance meets electro-house, resulting in such a thrilling relentless, euphoric smash. Why isn't this a Tik Tok hit?

It started a run that really allowed her to use the title QUEEN OF CLUBS, an honour that K-Llo is reported to be still very resentful about.

Fun fact, Riva were also Goodmen and Chocolate Puma.

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One of the best dance songs of all time
 
37 Fragma - Toca's Miracle (2000)

Oh the drama! The mess around the legal issues relating to this song are ten fold. So much so, you can't even easily find the original video + 2000 edit online, it was removed from a BBC countdown of the 2000s best selling songs, despite being right up there and even Moopy got involved (as I recall we suspected there was a poster that was actually Coco Starr telling everyone who would listen - they diddled me!).

Anyway it's been back on streaming a few years, possibly with a soundalike for critically reviewed Coco Starr, and I for one am grateful, it still sounds pretty fresh.

I haven't even got on to the fact that it's a mash-up, because it's all so exhausting!

 
36 Jam & Spoon, Plavka - Right In the Night (Fall In Love With Music) (1994/1995)

Next up is some thrilling 90s dance, this time with a flamenco twist.

Fun fact: the sample—or rather, the nicked riff—must be one of the oldest to feature in a dance track, dating all the way back to 1893. While there are definitely older examples, this one is certainly up there.

Why do I love this? It’s the philosophical musings of Plavka set against a warm, euphoric Eurodance beat. With one eye on the melancholy of the upcoming shift to trance, it is absolutely me-coded

The sad truth is Jam and Spoon killed and ate Plavka.



 
I actually think New Order did better songs than Blue Monday. Or it could be overplay, I'm not sure.
 
Memories of Cala D'Or 1995 with that Jam & Spoon song. Never gotten a huge amount of spins from me, but you can't go wrong with a Spanish guitar & an insistent dance beat.

Stella is also stellar:

 
I saw Fragma (with 2nd singer Maria Rubia) live at a club in Stoke when I was a student. They were shit.

Toca Me & I Need A Miracle were both already quality tunes on their own, the mash-up worked brilliantly, & it takes me right back to being 17 & trying to get into dodgy Bootle pubs underage :disco: Shame the murky copyright issues have kept it off streaming.
 
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