Your favourite nineties Eurodance single.

wow thanks for putting all of these songs in my head

Hardest poll ever.

I cannot believe all the songs you left off of this.

Oh wow. Dom OTM. Kudos Tuomas!

Dan, make your own poll then!

dan is kind of otm tho, i mean if you are going to include ace of base why are you including those particular choices and not the it's a beautiful life song? where is move this? and really my console is the better eiffel 65 song. i don't know, there are many questions here.

I think this might be the one genre that I dislike the most. However, I have an unbelievable weakness for the Vengaboys "We Like To Party".

"It's A Rainy Day" >>> "Think About The Way"

I think this might be the one genre that I dislike the most that I love the most

many of these are false EuroDance.

I have voted for the best Eurodance single, not the best single or the best song.

What the hell is "false Eurodance"? Okay, Moby is American, but that one song is pure Euro. Maybe I should've stuck to early nineties stuff though, and not include later, more ironic stuff like Aqua or Eiffel 65.

The best Technotronic single isn't even there :(

I've got it down to 5: Eiffel 65, Shamen, 2 Unlimited, Urban Cookie Collective, Whigfield. Akshully I think I can lose Whigfield. So 1 from 4. I'm leaning very hard towards Urban Cookie Collective. I can't do this yet tho. I wanna sleep on it.

Where is "XL" by Fluxland?!

Wait, was that known anywhere other than Canada?

Never heard of that.

or, apparently, "fluxland" by fluxland. That track was awsome and I had it on cassette on "Dance Mix USA '95," whatever the hell that was (to differentiate it from MuchMusic Canada's Dance Mix 95, I reckon).

It had, like... what sounded like a bunch of dudes in some sort of chorus singing "oh oh, o-whoa-oh oh-oh oh oh-oh oh oh oh!"

Ok, that makes no sense.

that sounds like you're talking about kernkraft 400

naw, that's similar but different.

Study aid.

I voted for Eiffel 65 :D

yeah it's a little more like "oh oh oh oh oh, o-whoa-ah oh oh-oh oh-oh"

yeah, the fluxland song was a little bit more, like, you know that beat that's like 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 / 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 ? Like that. Seriously, why do I even try to talk about music? Why did I give up piano when I was like 10? Oh wait I remember, my teacher was an alcoholic who didn't show up half the time.

Missing contenders:
Sagat - "Fuck Dat"
Captain Hollywood - "More and More"
Robin S. - "Show Me Love" (is this Euro? Easy winner if it is.)

I'm voting for "No Limits".

that's kinda heavy, bro

I think that Eiffel 65 album was the first album I fell in love with :|

The one I am talknig about may or may not have also been a football chant at some point. Many random searches are pointing towards "Italian football chant."

It sounded like it could have been played over, say, "No Limit" by 2 Unlimited.

hoyl shit! I found this:

fluxland - xl sample

"Beautiful Life" would have gotten my vote, but "All That She Wants" is a workable proxy.

Bjork covering "No Limit":
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JFGL0QEqfcA

twilight zone
tribal dance
more and more
jump
RUNAWAY
pro:gen (move any mountain)
move this
this beat is technotronic
spin that wheel
boom boom boom
wiggle it
set u free
das boot

"Don't Turn Around" is missing too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96jFtzVa80A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncvlVgGgl1Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjJwqDa1QVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyly3JtXoy4

my sixth grade Christian-school teacher let us play "The Sign" all the time because she was convinced it was about Jesus. I am not so sure.

WIGGLE IT WIGGLE IT WIGGLE IT I DEMAND A NEW POLL

"Wiggle It" video is hott - http://youtube.com/watch?v=UT6h7Sfn4bc

YOU GETTIN' BUSY LIKE A BEE AND THAT'S THE TRUTH

AS IT GROOOOOOOOVES

i love that song so much

i would vote for either wiggle it or my console and neither of these are options in this poll, some "authority" you are tuomas

Rednex: Cotton Eye Joe

I'm still perplexed by having to hear this at every Yankees game

how? why?

they play basically every single song that has been mentioned on this thread at every yankees game, though.

hang on maybe I should go with "I LIKE TO CHEW IT CHEW IT"

well yeah, true

was Cotton Eye Joe even a hit though? I think my first experience of it was some MLB douche dancing around in a straw hat.

xp

LaTour - People Are Still Having Sex

THIS POLL IS MISSING THE RAGGA VERSION OF "SATURDAY NIGHT":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmk9Oar3-k0

^^^ this video has a dancing duck, btw

for all this poll's gross oversights he at least included "max don't have sex with your ex" and shd therefore receive key to the city

that song is no my console, is the thing

arrrgh creepy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMNUBdhhZaA

The Power!

I love Eurodance in an unironically, since I grew up with it. But Aqua were by their own admission doing it in an ironic way. And I think Barbie Girl lacks the genuine emotion earlier, less ironic Eurodance had.

Scooter isn't Eurodance by the strict definition (it's rave/happy hardcore), and neither is Doop (that's house). Eurodance tunes are basically pop songs made for dancefloor, they have to have a sung chorus, most often verses too, and Eurorapping. Also, there's a definite sound to nineties Eurodance, which is why I chose songs that stretch the definition a bit (like Reel 2 Real or Cappella), but which have that sound.

2 Unlimited. There's no limit!

Tuomas, the hung up thing was a joke.

Aqua were only saying that. They really meant it ;_;

4REAL

Can you feel it DV? Can you?

AWESOME also please note there must be a Wizard of Oz element to all of these songs/groups meaning PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE UGLY PRODUCER FUCKER BEHIND THE CURTAIN. I'm also not at all down with Shamen inclusion here.

I would like Army of Lovers 'Crucified' as a write-in too. Dan, I don't know if you'll love this idea or hate it but Nick Momus used to do a joke medley of that song and It's A Sin at gigs.

Urban Cookie Collective all the way.

Shamen has done lots of stuff, but I thought those two songs are pretty much in the Eurodance mold, especially "L.S.I." which has female vocals on chorus and rapped verses. I was considering Army of Lovers too, but their sound and arrangements are quite different from typical Eurodance.

Yeahbut there was zero, zip, no CAMP ELEMENT to the Shamen AT ALL, which is ESSENTIAL in Eurodance and AoL has in spades. I'd be interested to know if you'd ever seen Shamen live because then it would make a lot more sense to you.

You don't think there's a camp element to "L.S.I."? Besides, a lot of these tunes don't have any inherent camp value, they're just dance music, if they're considered campy by some, then that value is added to them by people who think they're too cool for this sort of music. (Army of Lovers, on the other hand, were very consciously campy.) Anyway, campy dance music made in Europe isn't necessarily the same as Eurodance.

Wherefore art thou Tamperer featuring Maya?

Reel 2 Real feat. Mad Stuntman: I Like to Move It

AoL sound more like the eighties, in my opinion they lack the connection to the nineties Continental European club music that's essential to Eurodance.

Poor Blueski, he'd have loved this poll.

I LIKE TA MOVE IT MOVE IT
I LIKE TA MOVE IT MOVE IT
I LIKE TA MOVE IT MOVE IT
I LIKE TA !!MOVE IT!!

That Tamperer tune is pop house, I'd say.

What I'm trying to say here is that nineties Eurodance wasn't just any dance music made in Europe (though obviously it overlapped with other forms of club music) rather than a specific genre.

i agree with this:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/old-ft/nylpm/2005/02/the-ft-top-100-songs89-reel-2-reel-feat-the-mad-stuntman-i-like-to-move-it/

I wish I hadn't found out what Ya Kid K looks like now :(

http://www.yakidk.com

Why no Get Up by Technotronic? Ah well, I think Pump Up the Jam just edges it for me anyway.

Also, there is a giant Blue Pearl-sized gap in the poll.

Also, if Ride On Time had been released a year later, it would have walked this, I suspect.

I cannot believe Ride On Time was 18 years ago.

i went for club bizarre, even though that's not the right answer. u96 had a really sinister edge to them.

Tuomas, your camp-blindness here is pretty Hongro, no offense (I've written articles for poncey magazines about this topic ooh say 15 years ago). Shamen NOT CAMP too interested in the ingestation of yage and all that Burroughs shit. On your list I vote for Rhythm Is A Dancer.

if Ride On Time had been released a year later, it would have walked this, I suspect.

Maybe a separate 1989-1992 dance poll?

I mean "Ride On Time" would be right up against "Groove Is In The Heart" and "Hippiechick".

where's DR JONES?????!?!?!?!?!?

E-Rotic: Max Don't Have Sex With Your Ex

HAHA I FORGOT THIS SONG EXISTED BUT IT MIGHT AS WELL BE THE SOUNDTRACK TO MY LIFE RIGHT NOW

altho in the song isnt max like choosing btw ex and the singer?

but the title is still the best advice ive received from a 90s eurodance act

besides Sin w/Sebastian of course

sin with sebastian, on the radio

Lucky you.

THIS BEAT IS TECHNOTRONIC MOTHERFUCKERS

Hippiechick! Featuring the drummer from the Bluetones!

JAM & SPOON 4EVA

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

there are a ton here, but if 'rhythm of the night' doesn't win, i'll be surprised. top three, at least.

God I hate this kind of music :(

(but in fairness it is for reasons of unpleasant association in early 90s so I'm biased.

yeah Trayce, i think if you were a little kid during the early 90s (and REMEMBER these songs, which i somehow do!!), it's a lot easier to like them and remember them fondly. but i have no idea how old you are, so this could just be me.

I'm 36 so I was in my early 20s when much of this stuff was around. At that point I was more into Pavement/SY/grunge/indie :|

RHYTHM IS A DANCER!!!

You should do a poll about the US-side of things... Crystal Waters' singles alone shit on everything listed here.

but the title is still the best advice ive received from a 90s eurodance act

Better than "Billy Put a Condom on Your Willy"?

(If I remember correctly, Def Dames Dope also had a "use a condom" song. I guess some Eurodance artists felt they had to spread the knowledge, knowing that their main audience was teens.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I truly hate everything on that list apart from pump up the jam and the moby track.

Kudos

Songs that great, everyone's a winner!

(Only 3rd? WE WUZ ROBBED!!!)

So the greatest "nineties Eurodance single" is from 1989. Hmmmm....

("Touch Me" by the 49ers was better anyway)

OMG how did I not notice that Haddaway song on there.

EXCELLENT THREAD

EURODANCE = REVIVAL READY FOR THE 11211

TOY BOX > AQUA

Tarzan & Jane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0aXY2pM2sA
(even if only for "Me Tarzan! Long hair!" at about 2:15)

and The Sailor Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDErgD9YNyc

How on earth did I miss this thread?