Do you remember any ?
Nice one. For some reason though, whoever put that video on YouTube did it with the video in reverse but the audio the right way round.
that was from 1998 if i remember rightly.
i remember this well, atlantic 252 used to play it at the time.
not sure it got played on radio here outside atlantic apart from the dance pirates but can't remember.
presumably the likes of kiss, vibe and galaxy played it on the UK side.
started life as an actual mashup of the 2 tracks and then it was re-recoreded and changed a little for the commercial release.
Had to ...
The late 90s and early 00s kind of tie in with each other.
Talking about bootlegs, there was this tune sampling dido's bit from Eminem's Stan, never got cleared so there was a (vastly) inferior version with original vocals/ lyrics released.
Airheadz - Stanley (Stanley's in a Trance mix)
Was everywhere around late 2005, haven't heard in years.
"World Hold On", the follow up to that song.
Mero - "It Must Be Love", originally due for release in the summer of 1999 but was delayed to early 2000. It peaked at #33 in the UK but I think had it been released sooner, it could well have been top 20 at least.
And this, Derek McDonald's solo single, was also a UK #33 hit.
Summer 2000
Goldfrapp - Lovely Head. May 2000. Debut single from the album Felt Mountain. Follow-up album Black Cherry provided radio hit Strict Machine, and third album Supernature gave them two UK top 10s, including their biggest hit Ooh La La, which I think is in an ad for something.
Late 2005, became popular after it was used on that advert with the coloured balls bouncing down the street.
And here's the original...
Released in 2002 with the JG cover the following year.
Seeing mentions of someone called Fred Again has reminded me of Irish band Fred, they had two songs getting a fair bit of airplay around 2008/9.
Freefaller were a McFly/Busted-type band who didn't last very long. This is "Do This, Do That".
And the follow-up, "Good Enough for You".
They also covered Green Day's "Basket Case".
But they removed the line about being stoned.
That is a bloody awful Greenday cover. They also changed the whore to a woman.
In a similar vain to Freefaller, here are The Noise Next Door.
TNND, Freefaller, The Faders and The Lovebites all tried to emulate the Busted/McFly sound and from what I remember none of them had a top 10 hit.
I remember The Faders alright. Their track Look At Me Now was never actually released but somehow made it to the West Coast of Ireland!
Interesting!
I would post Corkonian singer Carol Anthony's cover of "Brass in Pocket" here but I can't find it anywhere online.
21 Demands (Kodaline) - "Give Me a Minute"
They went on to be MUCH bigger than whoever actually won You're a Star that year.
Still sounded like whore to me...! 1:00 in.
The whore is male in the original, as the Billie Joe Armstrong is bisexual.
That cover has a female whore.
I would assume Ollie (Freefaller's singer) is straight, apparently he had a crush on Leilani Dowding and "put his foot right in it" upon meeting her.
I like the song "Basket Case" and never noticed that the whore is a man, I assumed the lyrics were "WHO said my life's a bore" but upon looking them up it appears I am wrong.
Ah ok, I understand now. I didn't know he was bi! I thought that people thought he was gay and he wasn't. And I've just looked up the lyrics:
I went to a whore, he said my life's a boreSo quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down
I went to a whore, he said my life's a bore
So quit my whining 'cause it's bringing her down
I didn't realise he sang "he". And then throws a "her" in too. Every day's a schoolday! Thanks for enlightening me.
Kings of Leon are not exactly a band people forget about. But this song deserves to have the cobwebs blown off it regularly by radio stations. CHAAAAAArmer from 2007, oh no!
Saints and Sinners - Paddy Casey.
So the way I have it reckoned is, he is cheating on his girlfriend with a male hooker?
Irish band The Radio with "Whatever Gets You Through Today"
This song was used in the first season of Grey's Anatomy.
Another fun fact: one of the members, Mark Dennehy, was in Republic of Loose!
I have utterly no idea, unless he's either mixing up the whore's gender on purpose or talking about two whores.
