Do you remember any ?
Yeah, they stretched One Hit for it but it was a staple on MTV2 and a few games and movie trailers.
Popular on MTV Europe back in the day I remember playing it on the jukebox once and a load of Polish girls wondering how I knew it.
Blog 27 - Hey Boy
If a lot of Polish girls found out that I know Izzy and the Black Trees, they'd be wondering how...
Nine Days - "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)"
Michael Jackson - "One More Chance" (2003)
Not really chart hits but popular on TV soundtracks and Adverts.
Koop - Koop Island Blues
Koop - Come with Me
Unsigned band who had three UK top 40 hits without signing a record deal back in 2007. They charted on downloads alone.
As did these guys, Mesh 29. This Coldplay-esque piano ballad, "Over the Barricade", reached #35 in Britain in 2007 on the back of downloads.
The music video wasn't released until 2010, a year after his passing and nearly seven after the song's release.
A surprise UK hit in 2002.
2000: hit in Continental Europe, did nothing in Britain or Ireland. 2008: sampled by a certain Swedish Eurodance artist on a hit song, the video got some decent airplay on British music channels like Starz TV but still the song didn't trouble the charts.
The Sounds, from 2007. I remember this one being played on Nightshift on Channel 6, but it never troubled the charts. 90% odd of the Nightshift playlist never did.
Misfit was played constantly on the satellite music channels during the summer of 2003. She had a minor hit the previous summer called Just A Little Girl:
She released an ill-advised cover of Sheryl Crow's All I Wanna Do in January 2004, after which she was dropped by her record label. It remains her last single to chart in the UK.
"Just a Little Girl" and "Misfit" were still getting TV airplay around the time she released "All I Wanna Do".
She then attempted a comeback around 2008/2009 with this...
Didn't realise she tried a comeback, though it can't have gone far. All I Wanna Do in January 2004 is her last charting single in the UK, and she only had one album that ever made the chart…False Smiles in July 2003.
I only recall two things about that awful All I Wanna Do cover. 1) it was terrible and 2) the lyrics were cleaned up for a younger audience. Sheryl Crow's line of "I like a good beer buzz early in the mornin'" was rewritten as "I like my caffeine buzz early in the morning." Oddly, other lines mentioning beer went unchanged, so the rewrite sounded even more odd.
And how does it compare to Spacedust?
The Spice Girls are so associated with the 1990s that many people forget or don't realize that they were still releasing music in 2000.
"Holler":
"Let Love Lead the Way":
A double A-side that reached #1.
Originally released in the US in 1997 were it reached No.10 it was released as an E.P. over here in 2002. Both the main tracks received airplay on the music channels but didn't really trouble the charts.
Reel Big Fish - Sell Out
Reel Big Fish - Take On Me
Here's one of those massively depressing facts about music - "Take on Me" only reached #1 in the UK when it was covered by these guys...
Fort Minor, a side project of Linkin Park man Mike Shinoda.
And here is "Crawl Back In" by Chester's side project Dead by Sunrise.
The Enemy
#1 album in the UK, are playing Coventry City stadium next summer to mark 20 years of their debut album after initially splitting in 2016. For some reason they were never huge in Ireland although I did get their album.
Did you pick it up by accident like my brother? Went into HMV looking for "that english indie band that begin with E" and was given that instead of Editors who had an album out the same time. In saying that I still have We Live And Die in These Towns on my main playlist.
Nope, I was genuinely a fan of the band! I got that Editors album as well though.
Buffalo G - He Was Really Saying Something (2000). One of the singers was a sister of the B*Witched twins if I recall.
Yep, Naomi. Sister also of Shane from Boyzone and Tara from Fab.
Sarah Connor - Bounce
No, nothing to do with The Terminator, rather the stage name of German singer Sarah Lewe. I recall this being on the radio a lot in the early summer of 2004. Reached number 14 in the UK and number 23 here.
Reaching No.45 here and 26 in the UK in 2009. It originally sampled Weezer's Say It Ain't So but afraid it wouldn't get cleared they reworked a generic version of it in.
Asher Roth - I Love College
Original Weezer sample version (NSFW)
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Closest thing to crazy - Katie Melua (2003).
