Don Henley proved ROXOR by SCIENCE Shockah!

*wipes off scum from thrown vegetables*

So Tim and Jess, picked up this month's Deuce Magazine? Todd Edwards cover story!

As opposed to can Sammy be stopped (the answer is NO), the better question is: what song should be done next?

Also, I may be drunk but perhaps he could apply the "power of TRANCE" to Sammy Davis Jr's "The Candyman"!

::insert drumroll here::

Safri Duo ft Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom
RPS - The Unforgiven
Jan Wayne - Because The Night
Jan Wayne - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Novaspace - Time After Time
Groove Coverage - Moonlight Shadow
Resource - I Just Died In Your Arms
Avancada - Money For Nothing
Moonwalker - Such A Shame
Lazard - 4 O' Clock In The Morning
Aurora - Ordinary World
CK & Supreme Dream Team - Dreamer
Aquagen - Hard To Say I'm Sorry
WIP - I Won't Let You Down
Marc et Claude - I Need Your Loving
Marc et Claude - Loving You

Teeny, you are nuts. But you are brave.

Same trajectory as Sunglasses At Night and Missy Queen's Gonna Die, really...

Let me rephrase that - it's amazing. A complete transformation of the Sammy fromagefest into dark, brooding, pulsating dub/tech/progressive, with one of the coolest basslines ever (think Doom's Night through a lowpass filter). It even redeems the somewhat dodgy singing. Best Humate track ever!

1. Heaven [Extended Mix] performed by DJ Sammy & Yanou / Do
2. Here Comes the Rain Again [Club Mix] performed by Akyra / Maria Rubia
3. True Love Never Dies [Original Mix] performed by Flip & Fill / Kelly Llorenna
4. Careless Whisper performed by Collage
5. Seperate Ways performed by Dee Robert
6. Tainted Love performed by Hi-Speed
7. Always on My Mind [DJ Quicksilver Mix] performed by DJ Quicksilver / Base Unique
8. I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight performed by Resource
9. Don't You Want Me performed by Goldfinger / Paul Mahos / Kim Sozzi
10. Time After Time [Extended Version] performed by Novaspace
11. The Sun Always Shines on TV [Club Remix] performed by Mario Lopez
12. I Would Die 4 U [Edit] performed by Here And Now Boys
13. Talking in Your Sleep performed by 1AM
14. China Girl [Original Mix Edit] performed by Moogue
15. Total Eclipse of the Heart [Club Mix] performed by Jan Wayne Meets Lena
16. Into the Groove performed by Blackjack

When I first came upon this thread (which of course inspired this purchase) I figured the original vocals were incorporated, was a little disspointed that this isn't the case (except for the Europe track, which vocals so much better couched in a dance tune than in it's previous synthrock incarnation.)

(yes. with the caveat: "i think.")

Aaarrghh...another one of those "bootlegs butchered by rerecording the track & vocals to avoid lawsuits" like the Madhouse songs. The original vinyl of Rank 1 vs Kylie Minogue Airwave vs True Love Never Dies was brilliant (and for the enthusiasts, widely available on the p2p networks), nobody ever spinned that 'legalized' Flip & Fill version.

China Girl [Original Mix Edit] performed by Moogue

Hold on, this has the original Bowie vocals, hasn't it? Or was the original vinyl of this a bootleg too?

I'm pretty sure the vocals on this have been re-recorded, though they do a pretty good job w/ the "soundalikes" on a lot of these tracks. For example, the "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is a dead ringer for Bonnie Tyler, but there is 1% of an accent in there (German, I would guess.)

(I love how "Total Eclipse" is designated as the "Club Mix" -- is there another kind?)

Well, there's the non-vocal Dub Mix too...I've got no idea why you'd want to spin that, really.

So wait -- was "Heaven" relased w/ Bryan Adams' vocals? How about "Boys of Summer" & Henley?

AFAIK, neither. But the first time I saw that China Girl vinyl it was a white label, titled "David Bowie - China Girl 2001". I've never really paid attention to the later versions when it was officially released as a Moogue tune, but I always assumed it still had the original Bowie vocals. Ah well, more trivia to fill those inactive brain cells with.

Those I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight and Such A Shame tunes were definitely around as bootlegs first. And there have been tons of whitelabels sampling Once In A Lifetime over the years.

What's intersting about these tracks is they all sound like they could have been done in the late '80s -- this style of remixing, while a bit more crude, was in vogue at that time, was it not? I'm thinking of Madonna's You Can Dance collection, pluse all those Bruce Springsteen 12-inch singles, the Arthur Baker stuff. Is this supposed to the be the '80s hits inna '80s style?

He was pals with Nick Bracegirdle (Chicane) too. Remember Don't Give Up?

I heard that as well, at first I thought it was the VH-1 mix or something. ;-) Bryan Adams as the secret rock god of past and present? Ally may be onto something!

i'm not sure how many people still unironically adore this phenomenon, but count me among them. novaspace's cover of masquerade's "guardian angel" hit the spot today.

I can get behind the feeling behind “end of the innocence”, I just object to DH expressing it

dj's heaven is one of my favorite songs on the planet, i started a thread about sammy at some point not knowing this one existed!

boys of summer -- i definitely prefer the original, which is also one of the greatest masterworks ever and has its own thread :)

love dj sammy's version

obvs me too. that whole album is pure bliss lol.