Do you remember any ?
21 Demands (Kodaline) - "Give Me a Minute"
They went on to be MUCH bigger than whoever actually won You're a Star that year.
I would post Corkonian singer Carol Anthony's cover of "Brass in Pocket" here but I can't find it anywhere online.
Interesting!
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!
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.
That is a bloody awful Greenday cover. They also changed the whore to a woman.
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.
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.
And here's the original...
Released in 2002 with the JG cover the following year.
Late 2005, became popular after it was used on that advert with the coloured balls bouncing down the street.
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.
Summer 2000
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.
"World Hold On", the follow up to that song.
Was everywhere around late 2005, haven't heard in years.
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)
The late 90s and early 00s kind of tie in with each other.
Had to ...
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.
that was from 1998 if i remember rightly.
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.
Absolutely. And the following week, when the Manics were down at No 4, poor Donell was still at No 2, only this time Born to Make You Happy by Britney Spears was in at Number 1. A lot of songs peak at Number 2, but you're in exceptionally bad luck if your stuck at Number 2 behind two or more different Number 1s.
Donell Jones never had another Top 10 hit, I believe. That was it.
Mylo - "Destroy Rock & Roll" (2005 Music Video)
I remember this one getting decent screen time on Channel 6's "Nightshift" all those years ago.
Modjo/Brandy & Monica mash-up that peaked at #10 in the UK mere months after "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" was a UK hit. Nope, I don't remember it either!
Manic Street Preachers also had this song on the radio, it got played a lot, had forgotten when but apparently Spring 2007.
Great song.
It held Donell Jones' "U Know What's Up" off the top spot which I think would otherwise have been a surefire number one.
Manic Street Preachers - The Masses against the Classes
An extremely forgotten 00s song, or maybe not, because it probably wasn't remembered very much to begin with. Fresh from their triumphant Millennium Stadium gig on New Year's Eve, 1999, this got released and deleted on the same day, meaning the shelves wouldn't be restocked with it; once it was gone, it was gone. It didn't appear on any albums either. It entered the UK Singles Chart at Number 1, knocking Westlife off the top of the charts and becoming the first new Number One of the new millennium, and the second of the band's two Number Ones. Never got much airplay apart from chart shows. Reached Number 7 in Ireland.
I remember this one from City Channel.
Emy - "FML"
Around August 2006, it was the Weird Al parody appearing in my YouTube feed that reminded me of it.
Great post.
