C+C Music Factory vs Snap vs Technotronic

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Diva/"rapper" double teams with white sneakers early 90's BEATDOWN.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Shouldn't you include Soul II Soul as well? Hmmmm....maybe not (did Jazzy B rap?)

Of the three, I'd go wth Technotronic, if only for the sheer silliness factor.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 March 2003 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought about it, but decided they were too "credible". he did rap, though.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

technotronic.

― minna (minna), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god. Possibly my three favourite singles acts when I was 9 years old. I think time has been least kind to Technotronic, but for some reason I think they have to be the pick...

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

But when did you last see the video for "Things That MAke You Go Hmmm..."?

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Technotronic were a bit of a one trick pony though, i would go with Snap! but the stuff they did after 'Exterminate' was bloody awful...and C&C, some good varied stuff but a bit too slick and stylised to really love - DAM tough choice

Jazzy B did rap tho so if we can include Soul II Soul then i'll have them please

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

the Beatmasters used a rapper once or twice (Merlin, Betty Boo) so i wanna throw them in the mix too

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

You were nine when this stuff came out? Jesus, I'm old. I had pretty much just graduated from college. Surreal.

Who remembers "Street Tuff" by Rebel MC?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

remember? I've got the single...

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

technotronic for the TMNT connection obv

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember Rebel MC. Great videos...I was about twelve or thirteen when all this stuff was about, I saw Snap live, Turbo did a beatbox solo for five minutes!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:49 (twenty-three years ago)

shouldn't we also include the next generation, stuff like 'calling mr. vain', Haddaway, Dr. ALban? theya ll had divas and fake raps (at least on the 12" version).
oder?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

2 Unlimited, obviously...

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

No, as they were all pretty rubbish. That TMNT single with Ya Kid K on it was great. Actually, wasn't it credited to Hi-Tek 3 or something?

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 21 March 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Clivilles and Cole all the way, for Pride alone. What a song...

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

What about "Elevate My Mind" by Stereo MC's? Or are they too hip and "credible" for this thread?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

A bit, I think. But not much, it has to be said. Sound judgement, Alex.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Did Pride have a rap verse?

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 March 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

oh and from the same period as the first batch, with faceless divas and awkward rapping, Marky Mark I salute you - "Good Vibrations"

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Snap had "Power"
Technotronic has "Move This"
C+C had "Gonna Make U Sweat" and "Things that Make You Go Hmmmmm...." so they have twice as many hit singles...
but they also didn't have the courage to SHOW that one of the Weather Girls did the vocal hook on "Gonna Make U Sweat" and used some supermodel chick instead. And while I ...um...enjoyed...looking at the supermodel chick, I'm dissappointed they didn't put the Weather Girls in the video.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Hahahahahaha! Damn!
Check out the AMG entry for C+C Music Factory!
The Weather Girl is the ONLY one pictured!
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Snap had about 15 chart hits, if I'm correct? And Technotronic had "Pump Up The Jam"...

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Re: Technotronic.
Ooops. My Bad. (I thought that was one of theirs but wasn't 100% sure.)

Re: Snap!
Well, in Europe, yes. Snap! only had "Power" in the US.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Snap
The Power
Exterminate
Do You See The Light
The Cult Of Snap
Rhythm Is A Dancer
The First The Last (Eternity)
Ooops Up
Welcome To Tomorrow
Mary Had A Little Boy
Colours Of My Love
Rame
Megamix
Rhythm Is A Dancer 2002
Do You See The Light 2002
The Power (with H-Blockx)

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Only the very top one rings any bells for me.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

custos there is no way you haven't heard 'rhythm is a dancer' unless yr ears have been filled with wool for the last decade!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I can only find four chart positions for:
Technotronic
Pump Up The Jam
Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)
Megamix
This Beat Is Technotronic

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Hum a few bars, maybe it'll job my memory.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

No wait. I think it's coming back to me.
At least the chorus is.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Clivilles and Cole gave a speech at my high school. So, Snap, obv.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah. Now that I think about it, that song was on one of those K-Tel-ish "Sound of the Early 90s Psuedo-Techno Dance Dance Dance" comps they used to advertise on tv.
Yeah. Now I know exactly which song yer talking about.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah totally... if you've been inside a gym (or a Long Island nightclub, haha) at all in the last ten years you've heard that song.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a 2002 version of 'Rhythm is a Dancer'?? Anyone heard it?

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Subthread...
Search and Destroy: "Sound of the Early 90s Psuedo-Techno Dance Dance Dance" comps advertised on TV?

TS: Crystal Waters vs Rozalla, FITE!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Da da dee, da da dum...

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

If I had one of those comps I would play it NONSTOP.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Hum a few bars

lift your hands and voices/free your mind and join us/you can feel it in the a-a-air

oh-oh

aaghhhhhh now i have that fucking song stuck in my head!! damn you custos!! damn you brain!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i blame hstencil

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I probably would recognize about 98% of all the truly famous psuedo-techno "club" music of the early 90s by ear (though not by name/ title/artist) because a cow-worker in the next cubicle had her radio set on the Philly's neo-Disco station Q102 all the time all throughout 1991-1993. 8 Hours a day, 5 days a week.
So I'm sure I'd recognize them if I heard them. But I only remember the names of the ones that I saw the video for.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

i blame hstencil
I blame society.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll take Technotronic overall--all their hits still sound pretty good to me--but "Rhythm is a Dancer" is still the best track from this lot. C&C Music Factory are one of the few groups I've ever been embarrassed about liking so much, though "Things That Make You Go..." is all right because there's less glass-cutting diva shrillness and less Freedom Williams. I might agree with the call-out for 2 Unlimited.

― s woods, Friday, 21 March 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The 2002 remake of Rhythm Is A Dancer is crap. Produced by CJ Stone, so not surprisingly it's the most cliched and boring Teutonic poptrance imaginable. Do You See The Light 2002 however is a whole lot better, Italo-style trance-ish leads with an huge fat disco beat underneath.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 March 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, Siegbran. I never pictured you as a dance music afficianato. I always thought you were ILx's on-call dark metal specialist.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Please tell me there are affinities between dark metal and "Rhythm is a Dancer," someone. I mean, I imagine this is so, but I really couldn't say for sure.

― s woods, Friday, 21 March 2003 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

siegbran can be BOTH our resident metal specialist and a resident dance music aficionado! further proof that he roXoRs (siegbran in yr expert opinion should i go see amon amarth and deicide play? they are coming to brooklyn and i am psyched!!)

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Although I haven't heard any of these songs after their heyday, I suspect Technotronic's 'Move this' is the best of the lot. Though i don't remember any cheez rap on it, so maybe it doesn't qualify, oder?
'Rhythm' was great when it came out but that keyboard riff would probably sounds awful if I heard it now

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Please tell me there are affinities between dark metal and "Rhythm is a Dancer," someone. I mean, I imagine this is so, but I really couldn't say for sure.
Um, well...
In a club tune, the diva exhorts the crowd to "Dance Dance Dance!"
In a dark metal tune, the cookie-monster-voiced vocalist commands his enemies to "Die Die Die!"
Somewhere theres a connection, but like a fusion of rap and country, nobody has really exploited the similarity yet.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Somewhere theres a connection, but like a fusion of rap and country, nobody has really exploited the similarity yet

Er, Kid Rock to thread!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 March 2003 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah. There's one part per million of C&W in Kid Rock. He's more of a 10% Korn + 40% Motley Crue + 40% Third Base + 10% Ted Nugent.

Maybe some "I'm the Man"-era Anthrax in there somewhere as well.
Just 'cuz he's a redneck don't make him Country (and vice versa.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

But anyhow...what would a Club+Death Metal fusion sound like?
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp200/p253/p2533412u80.jpg
This?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Club + Death Metal could also equal 808 State's 'Cubik'

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Club + Death Metal = Panacea's _Low Profile Darkness_

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:43 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

Technotronic haved more hits, pump up the jam, get up, this beat is technotronic, rockin over the beat, move that body , megamix, move it to the rhythm, pump up the jam 96 and like this!! Also "The Mariachi" was in Mexico NO1!!! Peace 2 all Technotronic/Ya Kid K fans in the world!!!

― triamaster, Thursday, 28 August 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread of all threads started on my *birthday*. When I was turning 21 and reflecting on a life of singing hits by these three acts through my pre-teens. I'll take Technotronic because I just love their hits a little bit more than the others in a 'narrowly close' sorta way.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 28 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

snap are more hardcore. 'exterminate' still raises the hairs on the back my neck. a now 24 classic. technotronic were more poppy and silly. c+c music factory didnt really inpinge on me in any way.
and why was noone talking more about culture beat here? they were the blueprint for all generic dutch (?! i dont know where they are from) bands! did they do anything else apart from mr vain?

also, a bit earlier, but urban cookie collective! yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 28 August 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

eight years pass...

I was gonna complain "Why isn't Black Box in this contest" but I guess they didn't have a rapper, and actually they didn't have a Diva, either, did they, they just sampled divas off old records (and didn't pay them, if memory serves?) But I totally think of them in the same box, played at the same clubs, danced to around the same period in my life.

Man, I loved this shit so much.

― White Chocolate Cheesecake, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:47 (fourteen years ago)

I bought the C+C Music Factory album in 1990 and made it through the whole thing exactly once

― ffun. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:50 (fourteen years ago)

the best track on the first C+C Music Factory album is "?"

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:22 (fourteen years ago)

If you don't like "Just a Touch of Love," I think you need just a touch of love.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:23 (fourteen years ago)

C+C used to be fun, but hearing them now makes me sad because my ex is Freedom Williams' niece. So I'm just waiting for those bummersome associations to fade from my brain so the fun can return.

Soooooo...Technotronic!

― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:24 (fourteen years ago)

that is an excellent humblebrag

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:29 (fourteen years ago)

Ha. Except there's basically nothing to brag about. I never met him or anything, seeing as how she's more or less estranged from that side of her family. If I were to humblebrag properly, it'd be something about how hard it is to cope with this burdensome facility with words I inherited from Noah Webster or sumpthin.

― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:36 (fourteen years ago)

(I don't have much, Dan. Let me cling to these little things.)

― Soggy Cheeseburgers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 15:37 (fourteen years ago)

Heard "The Power" in the car yesterday so I of course went around the rest of day endlessly repeating "I'M the lyrical Jesse James"

― andrew m., Tuesday, 20 March 2012 17:02 (fourteen years ago)

If you don't like "Just a Touch of Love," I think you need just a touch of love.

― Eric H., Tuesday, March 20, 2012 11:23 AM

^^^^ this, yet the single flopped on the pop chart.

The remix of "Here We Go" on MTV Party To Go 2 (one of the nineties best comps) is phenom.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 20:15 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

First C+C album is blowing my mind today.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 20 July 2013 16:52 (twelve years ago)

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