What an absolutely classic early 90s dance tune. You might remember that Simply Red sampled the percussion for their song Fairground, ruining it.
This evening, I’ve been going through the tracklistings for the Now That’s What I Call Music series of compilation albums, remembering some of my favourite tunes from the early and mid 90s, which was when I first got into music. You can find this song on Now 26, which also included Apache Indian, Haddaway, Culture Beat, and loads more.
This came on in the gym earlier, and reminded me of just how fucking good a tune it is. I was really into Apollo 440 for a year or so, around the time of the Getting High On Your Own Supply album, and although this was earlier it’s of a similar style.
This is one of my favourite Faithless tunes, probably because of the length of the intro, a solid 2:30 before the beat kicks in. It starts off with some acapella opera singing, followed by a gorgeous little piano melody, which just builds and builds until the bassline drops.
The rest of the track is brilliant too, but that intro is enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
Her first baby come out sideways; she didn’t scream or nothin’
Trains, Planes & Automobiles, one of my favourite ever comedies is on E4+1 at the moment.
Randomly, we were talking about this film earlier at work today, saying that it was one of the those true comedies that stood the test of time. We compared it to Shaun Of The Dead, which is probably the 2000s film which will be one of the defining comedies of our era.
I’ve been trying to think of anything else that has made a similar impact in terms of defining a generation, or at least a period of comedies in terms of film-making, and the closest I can get is There’s Something About Mary, which was utter, utter genius,
I was in the gym the other day when a Sash! megamix came one, and it amused me that I still knew all the words and could tell the exact moments when one song mixed into another. I was so into Sash! back in the day, and was one of the few people to own their second album.
This is probably my favourite tune that they did, although Encore Une Fois holds a place in my heart. I just remember the video for this one being really moody, set in a wind tunnel or something, and the song itself being relentlessly danceable.
A joke for those of you who still remember the various subgenres of mid-90s dance music:
Q: Why did the tiger get lost?
A: Because JUNGLE IS MASSIVE!!!
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Londoner, thinking and writing far too much about far too many random things. Wannabe photo-/videographer of my life. More likely to be found propping up a bar somewhere.
