My Top 500 Songs (complete!!) (1 Viewer)

I've got the Baby D album somewhere. I rather embarrassingly don't recall most of it beyond the singles. I liked the jungle element and Kangol hat fashions - Deee-Lite and N-Trance also tinged some of their stuff with this. Bits of Mind of the Machine were reminding me of this only a few nights ago.

Born Slippy took ages to click with me in full. I've always loved the gorgeous bits, but the terrace sneer-shout bits now I properly love. There was a minor hit not too long ago that reminded me of it a little (a Jamie T remixed Lights Burn Dimmer) and an actual Lights song has a bit that practically samples Slippy (Toes at the 2:03 mark) and always hits the spot.
 
straightorbroken said:
I've got the Baby D album somewhere. I rather embarrassingly don't recall most of it beyond the singles. I liked the jungle element and Kangol hat fashions - Deee-Lite and N-Trance also tinged some of their stuff with this. Bits of Mind of the Machine were reminding me of this only a few nights ago.

Born Slippy took ages to click with me in full. I've always loved the gorgeous bits, but the terrace sneer-shout bits now I properly love. There was a minor hit not too long ago that reminded me of it a little (a Jamie T remixed Lights Burn Dimmer) and an actual Lights song has a bit that practically samples Slippy (Toes at the 2:03 mark) and always hits the spot.
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I never got the album, not even when I picked up most of the 90s dance albums in Cash Converters in the 2000s.

Take Me To Heaven was my favourite of their follow up singles.

 
I don't think I know that!

Trying to share the album YouTube playlist:


I've quickly reminded myself why I don't remember the album. It's very long and vibes, but I'm remembering Euphoria, Daydreaming, Destiny and of course So Pure. I might have to put Euphoria into my 90s dance gym playlist.
 
I don't think I have any knowledge of Baby D beyond the 2 singles. Maybe if I ever get back to my 90s thread I can refresh my memory.
 
I think they got lost in the giant haystack of dance acts that were being churned out at the time - it wasn't really until the critics faves like Chemical Brothers, Faithless and Basement Jaxx emerged that dance acts were allowed to be considered "bands" and dance albums were recognised as a thing. Before then, all my dance music was bundled together on mixtapes and dance compilations.
 
funky said:
I think they got lost in the giant haystack of dance acts that were being churned out at the time - it wasn't really until the critics faves like Chemical Brothers, Faithless and Basement Jaxx emerged that dance acts were allowed to be considered "bands" and dance albums were recognised as a thing. Before then, all my dance music was bundled together on mixtapes and dance compilations.
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I stand by Leftism by Leftfield being the album that gave dance acts credibility for making a really strong cohesive album rather than 2 hits plus filler.
 
It was an interesting time. House went from underground in the 80s to mainstream in the 90s via multiple different routes, and then kinda reinvented itself as a credible force. Really they just swapped the lyrics and singers for something a bit more edgy and twiddled the knobs a bit more. For me the music of the Chemical Brothers, Underworld and Faithless sits easily next to the more obviously commercial, say Olive, Robert Miles, or Ultra Nate (for example)
 
Sardonicus said:
Forgot about Elegant Slumming. Getting the Mercury Prize over the Britpop critical darlings was quite the achievement.
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At the time it felt ludicrous, but looking back it was a polite reminder that dance reigned supreme at the same time as grunge and Britpop.
 
Sardonicus said:
I stand by Leftism by Leftfield being the album that gave dance acts credibility for making a really strong cohesive album rather than 2 hits plus filler.
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I think also they were more on the ambient side of dance which was given a lot more attention and recognition, thanks to the likes of Massive Attack and later Portishead that opened doors for that side of electronic music. Leftfield in turn opened doors for MANY other acts from Groove Armada to Air to Goldfrapp and Royksopp, so yes they were massively influential.

M People are a good shout. They might have eventually turned into a female-led Simply Red in later years, but their early stuff was grounded in UK dance culture and they still managed to have great commercial success out of it.
 
Well, they went top 5 with that album. I'm still listening now. Really surprised it wasn't better remembered, it really shows that this was their sound they grew into and (gosh this sounds a bit trite) it's a confident display of their talents and range. The Wikipedia page has told me at least one of them went on to remix Eternal and help out Sarah Cracknell, and yet no more Baby D.
 
Is the album mostly Drum & Bass inspired or are the singles misleadingly pigeon-holed? We have to remember that the music industry was still systemically sexist then (not much has changed etc but it really was awful back then) and a female-led dance act would have automatically been labelled "commercial" no matter the genre. Goldie and Roni Size had no trouble being recognised as "music acts" first and were enjoyed by critics. I don't remember Baby D getting much industry love.
 
Not to oversell them, but I'd say they seem to enjoy not committing to the one style in the one track. I was enjoying how it all lapses into each other. Stopped listening now. You like the first track on the album, you will like all of it.
 
27 Corona - The Rhythm of the Night (1994)

One of the most insantly recisable Eurod dance tracss, that has endured priddywell.

There's a lot to discuss regarding, whether it's the unintellidgiblyrics, the facticonOlgadeSouza was basically a mime artist, or the fact they chose to put the Twin Towas on dacoverodasingle.

There's nothing subtle aboutit, although there is a slight hint of melan kolay throughout, as all the best europop should have. It's a euphoric blarst of nonsaynsundjoyyyy.

“Dis is da rhythm of da naaaiiiight…”

 
I was AGOG & DISAPPOINTED to find out OUR OLGA didn't sing on this years later. Amongst the greats of 90s dance, although my prediction of a top 5 finish was way off :D

Corona, along with Strike, Livin' Joy & a few others gave us an impeccable run of singles & one album & then departing the charts before it all got too repetitive.
 
Delighted to see Olga performing live at the San Marino Shopping Outlet a few years ago (derogatory).
 
26 Bloc Party - Flux (2007)

Picture it, it's 2007 and internet gays are patiently waiting for the big Kylie comeback. It drops early evening and it's 2 Hearts, a Goldfrapp pastiche :eyes:.

Thankfully Girls Aloud dropped Call The Shots, and out of nowhere indie favourites Bloc Party, drop a huge dance track - one part New Order, the other late 90s trance and house.

Homosexual Kele who I suspect is rather difficult loved dance music, citing the likes of Livin Joy as one of his all time faves. I have no doubt the other members were appalled, I however was in heaven - it was a passionate, yearning dance banger.

It was the era when dance music and indie really crossed over and you can imagine this blasting out in the student union bars, flip phones, emo haircuts and charity wristbands aplenty.

 
25 songs left. I might just sit down and die once it's all over. I can't believe there was a time before this project, and I refuse to believe there will be time afterwards.
 
Agneeta said:
26 Bloc Party - Flux (2007)

Picture it, it's 2007 and internet gays are patiently waiting for the big Kylie comeback. It drops early evening and it's 2 Hearts, a Goldfrapp pastiche :eyes:.

Thankfully Girls Aloud dropped Call The Shots, and out of nowhere indie favourites Bloc Party, drop a huge dance track - one part New Order, the other late 90s trance and house.

Homosexual Kele who I suspect is rather difficult loved dance music, citing the likes of Livin Joy as one of his all time faves. I have no doubt the other members were appalled, I however was in heaven - it was a passionate, yearning dance banger.

It was the era when dance music and indie really crossed over and you can imagine this blasting out in the student union bars, flip phones, emo haircuts and charity wristbands aplenty.

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Wow what a throwback to my first year uni days. Such a tune!
 
Flux is the TITS and came out of nowhere

But you touch on a fair point - I always wondered how band members must feel when their drum kits are replaced by programmed beats, and their guitars swapped for synths.

I imagine the $$$$$$ softens the blow for a Coldplay or a Maroon 5

But a Bloc Party drummer? Surely REDUNDANT
 
Shoat said:
Flux is the TITS and came out of nowhere

But you touch on a fair point - I always wondered how band members must feel when their drum kits are replaced by programmed beats, and their guitars swapped for synths.

I imagine the $$$$$$ softens the blow for a Coldplay or a Maroon 5

But a Bloc Party drummer? Surely REDUNDANT
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I feel like they went their separate ways NOT LONG AFTER.
 
25 Ace of Base - The Sign (1994)

Starting the top 25 with a song, that those of us of a certain vintage will recall vividly, probably had the single and album on tape. A genuinely international hit, huge in the US, and equally dominant in Europe.

What was the sign? Well based on certain pre-AoB activities by one of the members, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a swastika, however perhaps it's more likely a symbolic sighting like seeing a robin in the garden after someone dies, allowing a period of recovery to begin. Perhaps.

Meanings are barely of consequence, with Ace of Base, so long as the words fit within rhyming couplets, and some of the most deeply infectious music written this side of the 18th century then who cares?

I knew that all my rock/ grunge loving friends had this tucked away in their tape collection and I strongly expected played it as much as Nirvana or Therapy tapes, because between all those self harming sessions, there is time for joy.

Also what the fuck was she grunting in the intro - WE'RE GONNA BOOM YA?

 
24 Girls Aloud - Call the Shots (2007)

This is really special. By the time this came out Girls Aloud were already a credible pop act, capable of pleasing the NME and internet gays equally.

The main project of Xenomania, we had come accustomed to songs where every bell and whistle has been applied, put through a vocoder backwards, and then tweaked and twisted in many a fantastic way. Call The Shots was different. Not only broken the mold scoring smash hits, this deep into their career, but the song glided beautifully across a moonlit lake under a full moon, only occasionally interrupted with distant fireworks shimmering in the night sky.

Elegant but relentless, self assured but also troubled, a very British sadness, despite all the signs that it should have been the work of melancholic Swedes. The girls naturally did it a huge favour by relying heavily on their pop voices, nobody showboated here.

Girls Aloud are absolutely my favourite ever girlband, and if called this is one to flag to cynics.

 
Agneeta said:
25 Ace of Base - The Sign (1994)

Starting the top 25 with a song, that those of us of a certain vintage will recall vividly, probably had the single and album on tape. A genuinely international hit, huge in the US, and equally dominant in Europe.

What was the sign? Well based on certain pre-AoB activities by one of the members, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a swastika, however perhaps it's more likely a symbolic sighting like seeing a robin in the garden after someone dies, allowing a period of recovery to begin. Perhaps.

Meanings are barely of consequence, with Ace of Base, so long as the words fit within rhyming couplets, and some of the most deeply infectious music written this side of the 18th century then who cares?

I knew that all my rock/ grunge loving friends had this tucked away in their tape collection and I strongly expected played it as much as Nirvana or Therapy tapes, because between all those self harming sessions, there is time for joy.

Also what the fuck was she grunting in the intro - WE'RE GONNA BOOM YA?

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I had a buddy named Jody who only listened to thrash metal but LOVED this song
 
23 Felix - Don't You Want Me (1992/1995)

If genres were countries then this sits right on the border between rave, piano house and europop, with slightly grubby hard house river running through it.

Felix was an Essex boy, and the single version was remixed by Rollo of Faithless fame and Red Jerry who ran the Hooj Choons record label. This combination created one of the defining moments of all those genres, almost Italian in sound, it's urgent, hypnotic and utterly explosive.

Pop it on, the next time you have a drink, it WILL lift you!

 
Agneeta said:
24 Girls Aloud - Call the Shots (2007)

This is really special. By the time this came out Girls Aloud were already a credible pop act, capable of pleasing the NME and internet gays equally.

The main project of Xenomania, we had come accustomed to songs where every bell and whistle has been applied, put through a vocoder backwards, and then tweaked and twisted in many a fantastic way. Call The Shots was different. Not only broken the mold scoring smash hits, this deep into their career, but the song glided beautifully across a moonlit lake under a full moon, only occasionally interrupted with distant fireworks shimmering in the night sky.

Elegant but relentless, self assured but also troubled, a very British sadness, despite all the signs that it should have been the work of melancholic Swedes. The girls naturally did it a huge favour by relying heavily on their pop voices, nobody showboated here.

Girls Aloud are absolutely my favourite ever girlband, and if called this is one to flag to cynics.

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This is their best for me, and in my top 5 of all time. Never ever tire of it.
 
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