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Post by vastar iner on Oct 13, 2011 22:15:00 GMT 1
I remember that Snow's record company re-issued the video with subtitles, to prevent a Louie Louie scenario...
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Post by evansabove on Oct 14, 2011 8:32:08 GMT 1
I remember that Snow's record company re-issued the video with subtitles, to prevent a Louie Louie scenario... What is a Louie Louie scenario?
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 14, 2011 14:17:11 GMT 1
"Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen got banned, and probably lost a number one spot in Billboard, when radio stations thought it was rude because they couldn't decipher the lyrics.
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Post by evansabove on Oct 14, 2011 15:42:36 GMT 1
"Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen got banned, and probably lost a number one spot in Billboard, when radio stations thought it was rude because they couldn't decipher the lyrics. I've looked at those lyrics and can't see anything that could be mistaken for being rude
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Post by Gezza on Oct 14, 2011 16:55:25 GMT 1
8TH MAY- THAT'S THE WAY LOVE GOES- Janet Jackson (1 week)I own three Janet Jackson albums, "Rhythm Nation", "Design Of A Decade" and 1993's "Janet" which is in my opinion her best most complete album that she ever made. It marks the point of Jackson's greatest commercial period in the UK 92-00 and when she emerged from Brother Michael's shadows, and "That's The Way Love Goes" marks a new much sassier, sexual Jackson than the abstinence pleading Jackson of "Let's Wait A While", or the hard edged "Rhythm Nation"era, and I have to say I loved it at the time. Laid back, sensual, a song that almost massages you as you listen to it, it's a song that is also a step up in quality for 1993, and whilst it may not have the vulnerability of "Again" or the dancefloor savvy of "If" but it's a pop gem none the less, and still sounds remarkably fresh for a track almost 20 years old......
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Post by Gezza on Oct 14, 2011 16:56:24 GMT 1
3RD JULY- WHAT IS LOVE?- Haddaway (2 weeks)Dear god I bought this at the time, I flipping loved it, i still love it now, it's a song that takes me back to sixth form parties and 1993 instantly. With a chugging beat and production that is very much of its time, it never fails to lift the spirits, the finest in euro dance that was very much the Dr Alban moment of 93. Again the female vocal is what links Haddaway's sections together, but unlike Dr Alban, Haddaway was actually a bona fida hitmaker in the UK generating 4 top 10 hits in a row of which this was very much the biggest, and I still recall listening to this song on the top of a double decker bus on my walkman on the way to Northampton that summer. What's so great about "What Is Love" is what fantastic gubbins it is- lyrically you'd be hard pushed to identify correctly what the flip is going on, but being so strong melodically it doesn't really matter, a fine piece of pop aimed squarely at the dancefloor- it didn't miss its mark!!
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Post by borneoman on Oct 14, 2011 17:20:53 GMT 1
I think Janet is a very poor album, with all those boring interludes and songs like If that are just noise to my ears That's the Way Love Goes and Again and the only good ones off the album but they're actually great... but the rest... not so much my fav album of hers is Control and Let's Wait Awhile her best song ever
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 14, 2011 18:39:35 GMT 1
"Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen got banned, and probably lost a number one spot in Billboard, when radio stations thought it was rude because they couldn't decipher the lyrics. I've looked at those lyrics and can't see anything that could be mistaken for being rude No. Thing is, though, they were so obscure in the song that nobody could decipher them. In the same way MTV asked Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine for lyric sheets before playing their stuff in case there was anything rude in them. They used to submit any old rubbish and nobody noticed...
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Post by thehitparade on Oct 14, 2011 19:09:33 GMT 1
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Post by andrew07 on Oct 14, 2011 20:54:13 GMT 1
In the same way MTV asked Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine for lyric sheets before playing their stuff in case there was anything rude in them. They used to submit any old rubbish and nobody noticed... Bet they never asked Sigur Ros either, who sang in a made-up language.
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Post by evansabove on Oct 14, 2011 21:17:44 GMT 1
Haddaway had a string of great euro pop hits and his career rather mirrored Dr Alban. One album and it was all over
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 14, 2011 21:20:50 GMT 1
I think the Geordies have an appropriate phrase about Haddaway.
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Post by Gezza on Oct 14, 2011 22:35:40 GMT 1
I think the Geordies have an appropriate phrase about Haddaway. C'mon then Vas tell us!
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 14, 2011 23:18:49 GMT 1
Well, there are two more words after "Haddaway", the first following being "and"...for the second I recommend Viz.
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Post by evansabove on Oct 15, 2011 7:01:57 GMT 1
Well, there are two more words after "Haddaway", the first following being "and"...for the second I recommend Viz. That makes no sense at all
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 15, 2011 10:19:46 GMT 1
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Post by Gezza on Oct 15, 2011 10:59:04 GMT 1
24TH JULY- WHAT'S UP?- 4 Non Blondes (2 weeks)Six weeks, that's how long it took "What's Up?" to make it to No 2 back in 93, a genuine case of a hit growing week by week something which by this point in 93 was becoming a rarity, I recall this track climbing week after week almost unnoticed and uncommented on, yet guitar driven ballads were just about to become a staple in the charts thanks to brit pop. 4 Non Blondes contained main songwriter Linda Perry, who's claim to fame (in addition to dating Cybil Shepard's daughter) wrote many hits for most of the 00s biggest female solo artists Gwen Stefani, Pink, Kelly Osbourne and Christina Aguilera to name but a few, and whats on show here is very competant songwriting. Lyrically a song challenging the notion of men-centric society it may be slightly ham fisted but it's actually not a song that bludgeons its message overly (though I confess the remix by DJ Miko just one year later rather stripped all meaning out of the track), but it's a great song to sing drunk I can confirm that. It seems rather an innocent song now, post Morissette, more angry teenager than homicidal maurader, not a bad song certainly but I haven't heard it in years!....
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Post by Gezza on Oct 15, 2011 11:00:08 GMT 1
14TH AUGUST- THE KEY THE SECRET- Urban Cookie Collective (2 weeks)
Ah now this, for me, is where 90s dance really starts to be represented in this thread! Made up of a "collective" of Manchester producers and musicicans, it included former memebers of A Guy Called Gerald and Together who had been hit makers at the turn of the 90s, an this is a very hard song to dislike. I have no idea what the song is about, but that's not essentially to either enjoyment of the track or to understanding the purpose of the record, in this case to get moving and shaking their booty! We're going to be quite fortunate in this thread to be able to chart the evolution of the dance scene throughout the decade, from rave to trance, and UCC are just a step along this timeline.
Naturally for a genre altering so frequently it now sounds particularly 1993 but it's all the better for it, it has a charm and cutesy-ness (?) that many other dance records in the year simply failed to have and we'll come across one of the most charmless ones later in the year....
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Post by vastar iner on Oct 15, 2011 12:33:04 GMT 1
For more on UCC, see here...
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Post by evansabove on Oct 15, 2011 13:38:00 GMT 1
I've lost count of the number of times TKTS has come out over the years in new mixes. The original still sounds the best and freshest.
Great vocal performance from Linda Perry on What's Up. She seemed to write better songs for other people than for 4NB though.
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