best new entry on the UK singles chart top 75, week commencing 25/07/99

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
SCRITTI POLITTI - TINSELTOWN TO THE BOOGIEDOWN (#46) 9
PET SHOP BOYS - I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WANT BUT I CAN GIVE IT ANYMORE (#15) 6
ALICE DEEJAY - BETTER OFF ALONE (#4) 5
MADNESS - LOVESTRUCK (#10) 3
SMASH MOUTH - ALL STAR (#24) 2
MASTERS AT WORK FT INDIA - TO BE IN LOVE (#23) 2
FIVE - IF YA GETTIN' DOWN (#2) 1
ALANIS MORISSETTE - SO PURE (#38) 1
FREDDY FRESH - WHAT IS IT (#63) 1
JAMES - I KNOW WHAT I'M HERE FOR (#22) 1
ELVIS COSTELLO - SHE (#19) 1
SHABOOM - SWEET SENSATION (#64) 0
SIGNUM FT SCOTT MAC (#66) 0
TYRESE - NOBODY ELSE (#59) 0
CLOCK - SUNSHINE DAY (#58) 0
PACIFICA - LOST IN THE TRANSLATION (#54) 0
DEBORAH COX - IT'S OVER NOW (#49) 0
JAMELIA - I DO (#36) 0
R KELLY - DID YOU EVER THINK (#20) 0
3 JAYS - FEELING IT TOO (#17) 0
RED VENOM - LET'S GET IT ON (#72) 0


Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Friday, 26 July 2024 08:30 (ten months ago)

There are four tracks here that appeared pre-emptively (by a week) on CD2 Now 43 - Better Off Alone, Lovestruck, I Know What I'm Here For and To Be in Love. Which are my four favourites, along with If Ya Gettin' Down and Tinseltown to the Boogiedown.

-If Ya Gettin' Down is just kinda high quality Five in stomp mode, if you like that sort of thing, which I do. It's their career equivalent to a Tiger Feet or something. I appreciate it isn't as good as Tiger Feet.

-Better Off Alone works especially well as a 12", unlike say "Synth & Strings" or "The Launch". Not the best pop-trance crossover of 99 although it is probably the one that points closest to the Clubland-style euro-trance that came along in 2002

-Lovestruck? The rest of Wonderful is more interesting but I guess it's the obvious lead single. "The Sun and the Rain"-esque chorus I love. I do prefer Southside Spinners though.

-I Don't Know What You Want - Superior cut off the parent album, not least because of Morales. Where "Being Boiled" was a relatively gentle glance towards deep house this is more full on.

-I Know What I'm Here For kinda reminds me of SFA, in the fidgety bassline and the vocoder after the second chorus. The main melody is almost a jig right? Great album too

-To Be in Love is perfectly fine second drawer MAW, though their dub mix is superior to the radio cut. It wasn't long before an especially jazz-funky feel came over their pop remixes, see especially Aaliyah and Spice Girls

-Tinseltown to the Boogiedown was I think the first I heard of Mos Def, when it appeared on some Q compilation I picked up at a charity shop or bootsale in the 00s. It's all about when Green comes in on the chorus. With that voice of his.

There are others there I enjoy but yeah

you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 26 July 2024 10:27 (ten months ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeJNq6d3-c

This one isn't on spotify. Interpolates Heart of Glass by Blondie. Apparently they were a duo and one of them (not the one in the video) was the son/nephew of the two brothers from Middle of the Road. Discogs says the other guy's name was 'Donald McDonald' but a there's a comment under the video left by the account of a band called Spooner which says he was called Dudley and later recorded an album with Spooner called 'Warm Brown Tones'

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Friday, 26 July 2024 15:22 (ten months ago)

I forgot to include the song title for the Signum ft Scott Mac track - it's 'Coming On Strong'

Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Friday, 26 July 2024 15:29 (ten months ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 1 August 2024 00:01 (ten months ago)

Strangely, this is “All Star”

Jersey Devil Vance (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 August 2024 00:02 (ten months ago)

The Scritti Politti song is all time, but i do love both the Five and Pet Shop Boys songs also.

Tim F, Thursday, 1 August 2024 00:12 (ten months ago)

Five's Greatest Hits is one of those albums I sometimes put on when I don't know what else to listen to. It's pretty excellent.

you can see me from westbury white horse, Thursday, 1 August 2024 00:56 (ten months ago)

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

System, Friday, 2 August 2024 00:01 (nine months ago)

obv

Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2024 05:55 (nine months ago)

missed this but I would have voted for Deborah Cox, just because that "you've been cheating and telling me lies" chorus feels like a key part of the early noughties bassline/niche continuum after being sampled a million times

boxedjoy, Friday, 2 August 2024 06:42 (nine months ago)


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