Moopy's Greatest Dance Anthems: THE RESULTS SUPERTHREAD

What should we do with the final 50?

  • Let us rate them for a more accurate result, you fucking tyrant!

    Votes: 7 41.2%

  • Just use the results you've already got, you attention seeking cunt!

    Votes: 10 58.8%
  • Total voters
    17
Into double figures now with the ten point posse!

218

Mory Kanté – Yéké Yéké (Hardfloor mix)
1988, Guinea/Germany, No 25 smash with 1995 remix! Mory died on 22nd May this year, just after this rate was announced. We commemorate him here by making him one of the fifty lowest ranked finalists. The only Guinean, and the only song in Mandinka, to make it onto this list. This was the first African single to sell over a million copies.


217

Veracocha – Carte Blanche
1999, Netherlands, No. 22 smash! Arse-tinglingly beautiful trance classic from Vincent de Moor and Ferry Corsten. This was the only track released under the Veracocha name, and it’s hard to imagine how they could possibly of topped it even if they’d continued.


216

Groove Coverage – Poison
2003, Germany, No. 32 smash! An unapologetically trampy cover of Alice Poison’s ‘Cooper’, this ticks a lot of boxes for me. Groove Coverage are one of the most successful German dance acts ever. Their lead singer is called Melanie Munch, which sounds like a character from Balamory After Dark.


215

Alex M.O.R.P.H – An Angel’s Love
2011, Germany. Well, you’re casting asunder all of my trance classics, aren’t you? This was voted one of the ten best tracks from A State of Trance in 2011, but that doesn’t matter to you, does it? ‘Where’s Alice Deejay? We want Alice Deejay!’ you cry. Bloody savages.
 
Right, I know I said I'd do the first 50, but I've done 35 and I'm frigging knackered. More tomorrow - we're moving along at a fair old lick and I'm going to try to get some housekeeping done while I'm at work so I can rattle the write ups out faster tomorrow.
 
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I really don't like King of My Castle so I'm PLEASED it flopped.

There was one summer where it was just absolutely unavoidable
 
For years I've got Wamdue woman and the Madison Avenue singer Cheyne Coats mixed up. Turns out Wamdue Woman in the video is a lip sync assassin, which is really puzzling as the actual singer is much better looking.

Anyway, this was 14 years ago so I dread to think what Ms. Coats is looking like now (I assume she'd cheer up Tina Cousins if nothing else).

 
straightorbroken said:
For years I've got Wamdue woman and the Madison Avenue singer Cheyne Coats mixed up. Turns out Wamdue Woman in the video is a lip sync assassin, which is really puzzling as the actual singer is much better looking.

Anyway, this was 14 years ago so I dread to think what Ms. Coats is looking like now (I assume she'd cheer up Tina Cousins if nothing else).

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I didn’t know that was a lip syncer. Bizarre choice of leading lady, I have to say.
 
I have now completed my write ups for the remaining songs. I know full well I’ll amend them all anyway as the evening wears on, until they devolve into erratic slam pieces around 10pm.
 
11 points each for this merry band. Can you imagine the feeling of elation at finding out you’d got 11 whole points?


214

Samantha Fox – Love House
1988, UK, No. 32 smash. This one samples ‘Just That Type of Girl’ by Madame X; ‘Ya Msaharny’ by Umm Kulthum; ‘Let’s Start the Dance’ by Hamilton Bohannon; ‘It Takes Two’ by Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock; ‘The Breaks’ by Kurtis Blow; ‘Get Up’ by James Brown; the Batman theme; M/A/R/R/S – ‘Pump Up the Volume’ and ‘Just Buggin’ by Whistle. All this effort for a woman whose claim to fame is getting her knockers out a bit.


213

Paffendorf – Be Cool

2002, Germany No. 7 smash! This glorious bit of filth samples the movie From Dusk Til Dawn. If producer Ramon Zenker’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s also on this list thanks to his other projects: Fragma, Bellini and Hardfloor.


212

Maxx – Get-A-Way
1993, Germany. No. 4 smash! ‘Maxx’ is short for ‘Maximum Xstacy’, apparently. Technically, their name should be ‘MaxEc’, but I’m not about to criticise considering they’re foreign and probably don’t know any better. Samantha Besic provides the vocals on this, and the inevitable lip syncing in the video comes courtesy of ‘Alice Montana’.


211

Bodyrox ft. Luciana – Yeah Yeah

2006, UK, No. 2 smash! Luciana’s Wiki makes her sounds a bit exhausting and artiste-y. This song was later sampled for Cascada’s single ‘San Francisco’, while Bodyrox themselves would go on to team up with N-Dubz. Truly rubbing shoulders with the greats.


210

ABBA – Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)

1979, Sweden, No. 3 smash! A surprisingly poor showing for Agnes, Boris, Bill and Anjali, here. This was released in 1979 as promotion for the BBC sitcom of the same name which debuted shortly afterwards, in 1998. It was later sampled by an old woman. The Spanish version is called ¡Dame! ¡Dame! ¡Dame!


209

Solu Music ft. Kimblee – Fade
2006, USA, No 18 smash! Recorded in 2001, and released commercially 5 years later. Suomi has sent five different snipers after me since I incorrectly called them ‘Soul Music’. KimBlee is a New York singer, and very possibly the friend Victoria Wood was looking for in those awful sketches.


208

Nicole Scherzinger - Poison (Dave Audé Venomous Radio Mix)

2010, USA, No 3 smash! @COB’s favourite ever song, and he has Lewis Hamilton to thank for it, as he was the one who selected Poison as the lead single from album. Surprised he found the time between all the heterosexual sex sessions with his definitely heterosexual girlfriend/aunt Nicola Shitsinger. Dave Audé is a Grammy winning producer, apparently.


207

The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats

1997, UK, No 1 smash! This one won a Grammy – one of SIX The Chemical Brothers have snagged. It samples Schooly D’s ‘Gucci Again’ and Bernard Purdie’s ‘Changes’. I had absolutely no idea this was a number one smash, but I’ve never known Wikipedia to make shit up.
 
ABBA didn't really underperform. The company on the list is all relative.
 
Tbh I avoided ABBA and Nicole etc because I felt they belonged as pop songs, and I really didn’t want to put them in with what I associated with dance.

poor Denise Van Outen being called an old woman
 
Get a Way is hot 90s Eurodance TRASH. It sounds like it was recorded in a busy office.
 
Chemical Brothers have about 10 better songs than Block Rockin Beats imo.
 
ButterTart said:
Nicole Scherzinger - Poison (Dave Audé Venomous Radio Mix)

2010, USA, No 3 smash! @COB’s favourite ever song
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That's gossip! In fact, I think I might have neglected to give this any points in the final despite it clearly being a megabanger for the ages.
 
Really enjoying this thread :disco:

song like Gimme Gimme Gimme and Boom Boom Boom Boom would be higher but they’re not really dance songs, more like weepy ballads with a bottle of wine to me. I remember being found lying in the foetal position whisper-crying the lyrics to Kiss Kiss (When the Sun Don’t Shine)
 
This lot think they’re the bloody cock of the walk, swanning around with their TWELVE points like they’re summat special.


206

System F – Out of the Blue
1999, Netherlands, No. 14 smash! Yet another of Ferry Corsten’s aliases (aliaii?) An alias of Ferry Corsten. This one’s a bona fide trance anthem and a staple of every compilation ever released by Dave Pearce. His follow up ‘Cry’ also cracked the UK top 20.


205

Daddy’s Favourite – I Feel Good Things For You
1998, UK, No. 44 smash! The genuinely disgustingly named Daddy’s Favourite is Glaswegian DJ James Harrigan, who clearly had an uncomfortably close relationship with his father. Honestly, those Scottishes, if it’s got a pulse…

This samples Patrice Rushen’s ‘Haven’t You Heard?’


204

N-Trance ft. Kelly Llorenna – Forever
2002, UK, No 6 smash. Featuring shouty frequent collaborator Kelly Llorenna, whose voice had, by this point, taken on the mellifluous tone of a distress signal on a cruise liner. N-Trance are Kevin O’Toole and Dale Longworth from Oldham, and have beaten stiff competition to be crowned its chavviest residents. Here’s our Kel wowing the crowds with those silky vox.




203

Narcotic Thrust – I Like It
2004, UK, No 9 smash! Narcotic Thrust are Londoners Andy Morris and Stuart Crichton. The vocals were provided by Yvonne John Lewis (no relation to the shop, although you’d think they’d let her do one of those boring versions of pop songs they have in their adverts.)


Fascinating fact: Narcotic Thrust is an anagram of Stuart Crichton.


202

David Morales Presents The Face - Needin' U
1998, USA, No. 8 smash! FACT: There is no ‘The Face’, it’s just a pseudonym for Morales. So he’s presenting himself, the smug twat. This one samples the Chi-Lites’ ‘My First Mistake’ and Rare Pleasure’s ‘Let Me Down Easy’.



201

Camisra – Let Me Show You
1998, UK, No. 5 smash! Camisra is better known as Blackpool’s own Tall Paul. Samples Sandy B’s ‘Make the World Go Round’ (More on that later); Lee Marrow’s ‘Da Da Da’; The Jerky Boys’ ‘The Gay Model’ (!); and Electroliners’ ‘Loose Caboose’ This one is, of course, best remembered as the soundtrack to the clubbing scene from Spaced.
 
Diddy said:
Tbh I avoided ABBA and Nicole etc because I felt they belonged as pop songs, and I really didn’t want to put them in with what I associated with dance.

poor Denise Van Outen being called an old woman
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Me too. I was harsh on some fine pop songs as I wanted to reward songs specific to the genre on the whole.
 
Not a fan of Daddy's Favourite (eww), Camisra or David Morales.

I Like It is such an under rated CLASSIC.
 
While I cobble together the next batch, please to enjoy a song I cruelly snubbed in the bonus round because I thought it was 'EDM nonsense'. I've now realised it's amazing and have had nothing but moments to it for the last week. Seriously, I'm fucking obsessed.
 
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