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Post by Gezza on Feb 19, 2012 0:12:39 GMT 1
8TH JANUARY- YOU'RE MY NUMBER ONE/ TWO IN A MILLION- S Club 7 (1 wk)Well what a cheery way to start a decade! January was, and remains, a slow month when the record business generally has a long holiday, and the charts throw up anomolies. January 2000 was no exception, this song had been around for 3 weeks (an eternity by the turn around rates of 1999/2000) and had been the band's attempt at the Christmas No 1 for 99, a cheeky double A-Side and with Westlife at No 1 it was one of the few instances where the top 2 were both double A-Sides, anyway let's take them in turn. "You're My Number One"- a serious attempt at apeing Motown going on here, chirpy, upbeat, full of teenage stomach churning sentimentality, you can almost see the acne erupting on their faces. It's very 1999 and has therefore aged much more than the flipside, I actually preferred this at the time probably due to the fact it was more club friendly. "Two In A Million"- Actually not bad at all, a far more sophisticated piece of work than anything they had thus far produced. Naturally it has the winter warmth feeling tradionally associated with big Xmas hits, but without the cloyingly irritating over emoting that they became guilty of on later hits such as "Have You Ever" or Never Had A Dream Come True". It actually rather showcases Jo O'Meara's voice which can be like nails down a blackboard on occasion but here is rather more endearing. All in all much better than what was to come....oh yes!
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 19, 2012 0:20:09 GMT 1
I wonder what they're doing now? Heroin, probably.
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Post by Gezza on Feb 19, 2012 0:27:59 GMT 1
22ND JANUARY- U KNOW WHAT'S UP- Donnell Jones (2 weeks)There's always something far more authentic about US R N B isn't there? From the bump N Grinding of R Kelly compared to Mark Morrison and Craig David to Donnell Jones, you just know what the real deal is. I'm not an enormous fan of the genre but this is like silk, a vocal delivery that seems to glide over the percussion, OK there's nothing new here thematically, adn we shouldn't have too high hopes for a January release but I recall this was like a breath of fresh air in amongst those old hits hanging around with the stench of 1999 wafting off them. Then again I recall it's always easirer to kinder to one hit wonders, he isn't but let's be honest can you name any of his other tracks?, as they never stick around to build apathy or hatred, but looking back I find this an innocent record, just a few years later it would be all ho's and beatches etc, and whilst this was certainly around in the 90s mainstream success for that kind of rap was still lacking in the charts, so this is perhaps a snapshot of rap's childhood but it became that ugly teenager?!
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Post by Gezza on Feb 19, 2012 0:30:11 GMT 1
I wonder what they're doing now? Heroin, probably. Naughty Vas- You're going to be no kinder in this decade are you?
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 19, 2012 0:41:16 GMT 1
I wonder what they're doing now? Heroin, probably. Naughty Vas- You're going to be no kinder in this decade are you? Dreading it, although given that there was such a turnover of rubbish there are probably new depths that I have mercifully forgotten or never even noticed at the time. Show me most charts from 1995 (say) and I'd probably recognize most of it; just picking this week in 2002 I don't recall DB Boulevard AT ALL and couldn't pick out the Sclub, Brandy, Beckham and Ja Rule singles even if I were listening to them at the time. And I only recognize Alizee because she was hotter than the sun's core.
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Post by Gezza on Feb 19, 2012 0:44:32 GMT 1
Naughty Vas- You're going to be no kinder in this decade are you? Dreading it, although given that there was such a turnover of rubbish there are probably new depths that I have mercifully forgotten or never even noticed at the time. Show me most charts from 1995 (say) and I'd probably recognize most of it; just picking this week in 2002 I don't recall DB Boulevard AT ALL and couldn't pick out the Sclub, Brandy, Beckham and Ja Rule singles even if I were listening to them at the time. And I only recognize Alizee because she was hotter than the sun's core. "Moi Lolita" is a cracker of a record I agree- a forgotten gem. I'm gonna see how I feel by the time I get to 2004 if I can bear to do the second half!
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Post by Gezza on Feb 19, 2012 13:25:04 GMT 1
12TH FEBRUARY- ADELANTE- Sash! (1 wk)Now the traditional way to view Sash is to say that the early work 1997 was fantastic then it was a clear progression downhill. I have to tend to disagree, I was never a fan of his 1997 work as you know with "Mysterious Times" shining out from his 90s ouput for me, THIS however I have a great love for. In a bizarre way it seems like a far more substantial piece of work from him, whether it's that deep growling spanish voiceover, or the chord progression which all seem to be rather dark and harrowing. Obviously it's not Wuthering Heights or anything but to look for that in a trance track is perhaps asking too much, but as with Alive Deejay in 1999 there is more going here than first meets the ear. A glorious return to Tina Cousins was on the horizon for Sash next time out (another great track "Just Around The Hill") then it went rather tits up, but if asked back in 1997 whether or not he'd be making top 10 hits in 2000 I doubt many would have said yes, it's Feb already and I'm quite enjoying 2000 so far- there's a dark cloud on the horizon though, VERY dark indeed.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 19, 2012 15:29:29 GMT 1
Don't remember Adelante, probably because "adelante" is not as interesting a chant as a line of latitude, but, bloody hell, it's the same seven note sting over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again...
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 19, 2012 17:34:00 GMT 1
picking this week in 2002 I don't recall DB Boulevard AT ALL . Actually a good pop dance record i'm sure youll know it when you hear it agree on the others though.
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 19, 2012 20:39:50 GMT 1
2000 made a blazing start for me. In the scheme of the way I did things at the time, this would be part of the era that covers 1999-2006 and 2000 clearly made the best start from those, in particular the release week of 24 January when "The Biggest Horizon" led the way for me with "The Great Beyond", "Glorious" and "We're Going Out" all behind it. (We're Going Out passed 2 of the others to be #2 in my chart and I still play it a lot today, even more so than The Biggest Horizon in fact).
I won't hijack your topic too much, but this was what was #2 in my chart in February:
Strangely, no other songs peaked at #2 in my chart until late April by which time my life had changed in a major way and I haven't looked back since...
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Post by andrew07 on Feb 20, 2012 0:06:19 GMT 1
I did find the year 2000 slightly disappointing for new music. Oasis had released Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants, which got savaged at the time but did have a few good tracks on it, Richard Ashcroft released his first solo album which I didn't feel was as great as what he did with The Verve and Radiohead put out Kid A which actually took me a number of listens to get into before I warmed to it. Even I was stunned when that got to No.1 in the UK and the US.
But having said that, my fave albums of that year were Lost Souls by Doves, Parachutes by Coldplay and Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea by PJ Harvey.
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Post by borneoman on Feb 20, 2012 12:39:15 GMT 1
so far cannot remember any of those 3 singles!! for me the best album of 2000 was David Gray's White Ladder followed by Kid A. I personally prefer he Richard Ashcroft debut to anything the Verve ever did, even if the album doesn't have a wow track ala Bittersweer Symphony.
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Post by Gezza on Feb 20, 2012 19:40:31 GMT 1
4TH MARCH- MOVIN TOO FAST- Artful Dodger Featuring Romina Johnson (1 wk)I can't ever claim to have gotten garage/ dubstep/ 2 step or that kind of thing, and I've never to been to a club night where they play this kinda thing. Having said that I vastly preferred this back in 2000 to "Rewind" probably it's a much more straightforward pop song that the latter trick without the gimmicks and trendy pretensions that record had either. On reflection I have to confess this rather bores me. The vocals seem kinda pasted over the track and it plods along without ever really exploding, it also seems entirely like chart justice that it was beaten to No 1 by the william Orbit laced magic of "Pure Shores". There seems little doubt that this sold, and is in this thread, as a result of the former single which had sold over half a million by this point, and as Craig David worked away in that studio on his debut album it seemed as though it would be the Artful Dodger who were destined to be the bigger stars, but after 7 top 20 hits the original pairing split in 2002.
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Post by Gezza on Feb 20, 2012 19:57:14 GMT 1
25TH MARCH- ALL THE SMALL THINGS- Blink 182 (1 wk)Proving that a funny video will sometimes help considerably in the chart game, "All The Small Things" was undoubtedly the big breakthrough the band had sought since that first album back in 1994. Parodying some of the biggest teen acts around including Backstreet Boys, Five, Britney, Christina & Ricky Martin, it was clearly a sideswip at the bubblegum pop that had come to dominate the charts and the airwaves over the previous two years all bundles up into a three minute pop song. For sentiment it's hard to be churlish about it, but for all that sophisticated mockery in the video, at heart, this is just a love song, and a pretty plain one at that, the lines "Late night, come home/ Work sucks, I know/ She left me roses by the stairs / Surprises let me know she cares" encapsulates the feeling nicely, this isn't that grand flush of feeling of either young or new love, but the comfyness of a long term relationship, and for all of the posturing (and even the medium of punkish rock they deal in) this is a small tale of something very special indeed.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 20, 2012 23:38:33 GMT 1
25TH MARCH- ALL THE SMALL THINGS- Blink 182 (1 wk)Proving that a funny video will sometimes help considerably in the chart game, "All The Small Things" was undoubtedly the big breakthrough the band had sought since that first album back in 1994. Parodying some of the biggest teen acts around including Backstreet Boys, Five, Britney, Christina & Ricky Martin, it was clearly a sideswip at the bubblegum pop that had come to dominate the charts and the airwaves over the previous two years all bundles up into a three minute pop song. sh rock they deal in) it a small tale of something very special indeed. Ironic just 2 years later a similiar sounding band parodies nu-metal in a very similiar way Saying that I love Blink 182 although this isnt my favourite song a bit too overplayed cant actually choose a favourite love so many but at the moment you cant knock the new single so bizarre how they sell nothing now in the UK
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Post by Earl Purple on Feb 21, 2012 1:12:36 GMT 1
25 March 2000.... my last ever day of being single, i.e. not in a relationship.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 21, 2012 9:54:12 GMT 1
"If you want real punk..." Hm, who will it be? Buzzcocks? Eater? Damned? Discharge? Exploited? Anti-Nowhere League?
No, it's a boyband.
Gail Porter was already out of the real world by then, evidently. Lesson to learn, kids: never, ever, EVER have anything to do with Toploader.
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 21, 2012 19:06:02 GMT 1
"If you want real punk..." Hm, who will it be? Buzzcocks? Eater? Damned? Discharge? Exploited? Anti-Nowhere League? No, it's a boyband. Gail Porter was already out of the real world by then, evidently. Lesson to learn, kids: never, ever, EVER have anything to do with Toploader. Its not TOTP2 grandad hehe My favourite 'real' punk bands that were still around then Alkaline Trio,Bad Religion, Refused, Fugazi, Andrew WK and AFI imo Blink were pop-punk but that wouldnt sound as good. Im not a fan of really hard punk music thats as heavy as I get.
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Post by vastar iner on Feb 21, 2012 20:10:47 GMT 1
They're about as punk as Busted.
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