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RIP Coolio. You live on as an overly enthusiastic way of saying "cool".
 
U2 trying to remake Depeche Mode's old videos is really embarrassing. For them. So calculated and boring. They really fell of the cliff fast from the Achtung Zooropa high point. Next album, they were back to the usual crap. Ah
well.
 
Unapologetically, I love "D'You Know What I Mean?". It is the biggest sounding record I have ever heard, pure bombast for the sake of it. It has backwards bits, it's far too long, the chorus has the exact same chords as the verse and yet the overall effect is near cataclysmic. Pure overload. And they all look bored shitless.
 
"Bitch" sounds different to how I remember it. Did it always have that dancey beat under it or was that a remix of some sort? I thought I'd get a few more years before the memory started going... :(
 
Oh fuck off, Wet Wet Wet again. The keyboard player got a conviction for knocking his partner about, is that not enough to get their episodes in the bin?
 
Imagine thinking "hmm....I know what Yesterday needs...a country twang and an extended bridge". Get absolutely fucked.
 
Why is Denise Van Outen shouting? Does she not know how microphones work yet?
 
The Wildhearts sound they recording this song in a metal dustbin. That's a compliment, by the way. Compare it to that On A Rope shit for a bit back, this is much more fun. MIght be the best Wildhearts song I've heard and, of course, Ginger's not on vocals. Oops.
 
Was this Robyn's first hit? Quite generic compared to what would come later. I'm assuming someone on here can give me a schooling.
 
One last chart hit for "Deep In You" for Livin' Joy, following the playbook of Corona & Strike - one album with a bunch of :disco: hits then OFF YOU POP before it all gets stale & tired.
 
"All I Wanna Do" would have been a great number 1 :disco: Dannii ahead of the game as usual working with Xenomania & getting no credit for it as usual. They should have released "Disrememberance" as the follow-up. It still annoys me how badly they dropped the ball on this campaign.
 
Fabulous as it is, Girl wasn't exactly overburdened with possible chart toppers, but Everything I Wanted as single #2 really was baffling.
 
Unless I'm missing an earlier hit, I think that "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Tina Moore was the first example of the sort of garage dance that would explode a couple of years later with the likes of The Artful Dodger.
 
The Greczula glass coffeetable underside shot highlighting Tina Moore's HOOVES AND THIGHS has been a source of much amusement CHEZ PEN these last few weeks :D
 
Sardonicus said:
One last chart hit for "Deep In You" for Livin' Joy, following the playbook of Corona & Strike - one album with a bunch of :disco: hits then OFF YOU POP before it all gets stale & tired.
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I think you’re being kind to Strike who had one top 10 hit and one top 20 hit
 
I like "Some Kind Of Bliss" but it was an awful choice for a first single. It got people thinking that Kylie had made a whole album of Manics tunes. They should have gone with "Drunk".
 
Totally forgotten about this BILGE cover of "Night Nurse" by Simply Red :wired:

More like SHITE NURSE
 
"Who's The Mack" by Mark Morrison might be utterly forgotten, but it's actually a study of how quickly egotism & hubris can take over somebody in the course of a couple of years. Written after his spell in jail, the defiance of it all in the face of THE HATERZ is unintentionally hilarious. ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME, indeed - well OK, God & also the judge that decided to send you down pal.
 
God, the COCAINE ENERGY quite literally DRIPPING from Ricky Martin in this performance :D

I always forget he had hits pre-La Vida Loca.
 
Summertime by The Sundays, definitely somewhere in my all time top 40. Just gorgeous.

I wonder if they'll ever re-emerge?
 
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Summertime by The Sundays, definitely somewhere in my all time top 40. Just gorgeous.

I wonder if they'll ever re-emerge?
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Took a break after this album to raise their kids.

YOUR KIDS ARE PUSHING THIRTY NOW RELEASE NEW MUSIC YOU LAZY SODS
 
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There's a patient by the name of... MICKEY" :DAF:

GOOD GRIEF!
 
Sardonicus said:
Unless I'm missing an earlier hit, I think that "Never Gonna Let You Go" by Tina Moore was the first example of the sort of garage dance that would explode a couple of years later with the likes of The Artful Dodger.
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I don't recall any garage hits breaking through like this did. Pretty sure it opened the floodgates.
 
Hang on she released new material for 9/11 and for Diana's death? WHAT A CURSE SHE IS.
 
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