Maniac 2000

Catari Jaguar

*Woop woop woo!* Any fans? I laugh my ass off whenever I hear it, been 6 years n I still remember every tacky word. I loved it. Innocent days... Club Life in Greystones, with the green lasers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1Axk8moLk

Uggy uggy uggy! OI OI OI!

Ruu_Old

I feel so old, can't believe he came to the club I used to go to and the worst of it, I went!

Catari Jaguar

I went to see him. £6 a ticket.. Single was recorded in Cricket in Clontarf, my friend used to brag about having being there when it was made. So cool!

Scraggs

I was out the other night with some people only a few years younger than me, the DJ played it, most of the crowd went wild and my mates didn't know it. I felt really old!

county

what a bad tune,i just know thats going to be in my head all day tomorrow

il gatto

It was a bad remix of a bad song, rerecorded by a bad D.J. with stupid M.C.ing and a bunch of kids doing rugby chants. Hideous. Still turns my stomach when I hear it.

tuxy

Lil Kitten wrote:

th the green lasers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1Axk8moLk

I love the comments on that link.

petes

I just got shivers up the back of my neck looking/listening to that link. Mad stuff altogether.

lemon_of_old

But surely it's so bad it's bloody brilliant!

shane86

Lil Kitten wrote:

I went to see him. £6 a ticket.. Single was recorded in Cricket in Clontarf, my friend used to brag about having being there when it was made. So cool!

History in the making, Im envious.

Scraggs wrote:

I was out the other night with some people only a few years younger than me, the DJ played it, most of the crowd went wild and my mates didn't know it. I felt really old!

Im the biggest music snob yil meet (if you ever in some dive in town that decides to end the night with cheese like the theme song from Theres Something About Mary or ****e from 80s musicals like Grease, Im the drunk at the end shouting "wanker!" at the DJ and booing repeatedtly*), but nevertheless Maniac is a ****ing classic. 6 years and 20- something age group on, if it gets a spin when Im on the lash Ill dance till I collapse. I think it pretty much is the preserve of the under 24s though.

And what about N Trance Set You Free? "In a stayyyte, of ecsstasssyyy" *cue the crowd shouting "yups yups yups!"* Good times


*: Students night? They should all be shot Appaling taste

il gatto

Yes. Students. Grubby little tramps with no taste in anything. Especially clothes. But ESPECIALLY music. (A la Sideshow Bob)

Catari Jaguar

Yea, I hate that cheesy sh1t, in Barcode it's La Bamba, Build me up Buttercup and euggghhh... I Would Walk 500 Miles! Fukn hate that! I'm like "Play some Faithless/ Prodigy/ Chemical Bros you lousy f**k...!!!" I like it when they play No Limits though.

I love Maniac, reminds me of being 16 and dancing like a mad loon in sweaty clubs full of knack kids... Good times... I wish they'd play it now still, but I'd be of the 5% of 20 somethings that remember it! *sigh*

Remember it was number 1 on Top 30 Hits for like a 10 weeks and another 11 in the charts. "Total sales in Ireland are unknown, but IRMA rate it as the fourth highest selling song since data began in 1962!" I didn't buy it though..

o1s1n

N Trance Set You Free is actually a pretty classic song...Maniac? Hated it then.. projectile vomit when i hear it now. I cant see how anyone would ever associate that song with something positive. ah each to their own i guess :eek:

Catari Jaguar

N Trance is bent

il gatto

Lil Kitten wrote:

N Trance is bent

A witty reposte.:D

o1s1n

Lil Kitten wrote:

N Trance is bent

I wouldnt have expected anything more from a Maniac2000 fan :P

rugbug86

I love when they play the 90's compilation in barcode, does make me feel very old tho.

LOVE maniac. Was also there for the recording.

Just something about it. Not my "normal" type of music, just some cheese-arific songs really make me dance cos it reminds me of simpler times when i was younger and on scout camp!!

ferdi

a quality tune so it is, anyone who slags the maniacs gets a loaf, wha!

Jimoslimos

Ugh no *shudder*!:eek: Used to work in a club where this was always played at the end of the night by one particular DJ.

Maniac = Crazy frog for my generation.

r3nu4l

Oh Dear, is this really Retro...? Seems like only yesterday...

/fade to images of awkward spotty youth doing the dancefloor sidestep to get close to pretty dancing girl who in turn does dancefloor sidestep to beefy older boyfriend who in turn does dancefloor tapdance on spotty youth's head...those were the days

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Great song tbh, but Retro? WTF? How the hell is 2000 retro?

used to go the Deep disco in Stillorgan and this was played, before it was a single. The had the 'Miss Maniac' dancing competition. Thems were the days alright.

Catari Jaguar

"Retro is a term used to describe the culture of the past" - Wikipedia


"“Retro” suggests a half ironic, half longing consideration of the recent past. It has been called an “unsentimental nostalgia”"

Maniac makes me wish I was 16 again, though I cringe when I hear it, I still love it...


And it is a defining song in many peoples memories of teenagedom. When it comes on and a whole generation of new teenagers have no idea what it is, I feel old, at the grand age of 22! :eek:

sturgo

Worst MC-ing I've ever heard, worst lyrics, & an overall embaressment.

Mossy Monk

it is a load of ****

N-Trance - Set You Free, now that's a ditty you can get on down to

marshmallow

Ah you can't go wrong with Maniac, was played the other night and everyone went mental.

Think my bro was at the recording.. Just up the road from me..

Dudess

2000 is too recent to be classed as retro.

Maniac 2000 is an atrocity. I haven't said that because I'm a music snob - I like loads of tacky shíte - but because it has no merits whatsoever - not even cheesy merits. It's not even possible to like it in a tongue-in-cheek way. That's how bad it is.

But as for the original Maniac from the Flashdance soundtrack? Now THERE'S a choon...

Big Tone

2000 is not retro, however if you were to mention 2000 AD the comic book now that would be retro, or even Michael Sembello with the original and still the best version of Maniac from 1983.