So Solid Pop-Eye 12/8/01

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A welcome return for Pop-Eye and a triumphant return for So Solid. The best UK number one since when? When "Ante Up" first came out did anyone honestly expect ever to see it at number seven? (Message to Pinefox: So Solid are pop music for youngsters - you wouldn't like them, we know.)

― Greg, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have lost ability to write English in language. TOP OF NEW ANSWERS PLEASE.

― Greg, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh. My. God. Greg, I agree. Love the more jagged edge of UK garage and the video for this is stupendously futuristic. I actually made a real effort to listen to chart today so I could be home DANCING ON MY BED when the record was on. May actually have to watch TOTP this week as So Solid has 30 members and it's really freaking out the BBC as to how they're going to get all of them on stage!

Hmm, I wonder if SSC will be seen as C21 Soul II Soul. We'll have to wait 'til October to find out. Those not living in Britain: seek this record out like a trained bloodhound...

― suzy, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wanna give a shout to Suzy, looking fine. Ohhhh myyy!

So Solid took probably half their "members" on when they "nearly charted" with "Oh No (Sentimental Things)"[1]. I don't see why it's so hard getting that many people on stage anyway. Don't the BBC have people to deal with that kind of thing?

[1] They had too many remixes and new songs on the CDs (and 12"s) to be eligible and thus missed out on, I think, number 4 or so.

― Greg, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wow. I've played "21 Seconds" at least 20 times since hearing the chart, and literally can't stop playing it. Incredible. Top 10 entry of "One Minute Man" equally GRATE. And, no, I never thought I'd see "Ante Up" in the Top 10.

For ILM circle to truly remain unbroken, however, the Pinefox must rise to the bate.

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So Solid Crew - I believe I heard the single whilst half asleep at about 6:30 Sunday morning, so any opinion I might have isn't valid.
Robbie Williams - You all know how much I hate him by now, so I'll just say: if anyone out there bought that single, I sneer at you.
OPM - My mum has been singing 'Heaven Is A Halfpipe" for ages now, and if she like it it's classic.
Destiny's Child - See that 'Bootylicious'? That's about me, that is. Keep your hands off the merchandise!

― DG, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm going to be the (possibly surprising) dissenter here, and say that i actually don't like 21 seconds at all. i enjoyed oh no, but i find the new one rather lacklustre.

― gareth, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree with Gareth that "21 Seconds" is neither as good as "Oh No" nor "Up Middle Finger". It's still GRATE though, and getting to number one makes it classic anyway.

― Tim, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My judgement is that this chart is another abomination.

― the pinefox, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the MCing in "21 Seconds" is better than "Oh No". I like the way it doesn't have a verse/chorus/verse structure but a verse/verse/ verse/chorus/verse/chorus/verse/verse/shall we have another chorus now?/verse structure. Romeo's verse is an absolute classic - spending about 18 seconds banging on about how he wants 29 seconds instead of 21 then finishing off with "two multiplied by ten, plus one - Romeo done". The music isn't as good as "Oh No" because it's too sub-bassy - you can't really hear it through your average stereo. The best So Solid moments so far? The Oxide remix of "Oh No" and the track with 2Jedi ("2Jedi? They sound like they red-eye!"). The worst: "Dilemma". Sorry, Reynolds, but it's just boring.

― Greg, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinefox, I think you're becoming a parody of yourself. That's pretty deep, dude.

― Clarke B., Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

was this so solid's first number one?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

First and only, unless you're counting Oxide & Neutrino who got to number one a couple of months prior.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

And what became of all of them, anyway? Did they get forgotten when the scene shifted over to grime? I'm from Canada, so all my UKG / 2-Step / Grime / etc information, is, like, 4th-hand...

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 28 February 2005 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard some white label of theirs on 1Xtra the other week which had them moaning at not being giving their due and at how people should stop being such haters. Business as usual, from what I could make out, except they aren't really popular any more.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 28 February 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

there last album was kind of good. just plain ukhh, but very well produced. "colder" is worth checking out. i think megaman wants to push so solid kids as his grime act, two of them featured on a southside soldiers song recently.

― scg, Monday, 28 February 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a rumour that Lisa Maffia is going to be on The Games (UK reality TV series wherein Z-list slebs do a number of Olympic-lite sports) this year. Harvey was on it last year (I think he won, actually). I don't know where the others are.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Megaman has been formally charged with the murder of Colin Scarlett and will face trial on 5th September 2005.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the first so solid album is still a tour de force and their mix 'fuck it' great proto-grime *spit spit*

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck It is utterly superb, yes.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I just prefer the first O&N album to the first So Solid album, though the "They Don't Know" remix with Ms Dynamite may just be the aesthetic pinnacle of the proto-grime movement.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 28 February 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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