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Forgotten 00s radio hits

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    Both are vastly inferior to "Heart Go Boom" by Apollo 440. Prefer the Norwegian one though, sounds a bit like a Motown tune, it sounds a bit like a Motown tune.

    Post edited by its_steve116 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭supereurope


    Shakira - Underneath Your Clothes

    It feels odd posting a former number 1 here, but I'm honestly struggling to remember the last time I heard this song on the radio, or even as part of any conversation about Shakira and her hits (I'm sure someone will shortly comment that it's played every night on the "Late Night Love" show on their local radio station.) Already a bit star in Latin America, Shakira burst into the scene over here in early 2002 with Whenever Wherever. This was the followup, released in the summer of 2002, reaching number 3 in the UK and topping the charts here. Bigger hits followed for Shakira later in the decade, including two number 1s, Hips Don't Lie and Beautiful Liar (both collaborations with other artists.) In more recent years, she's been more in the news because of her tax issues and her long relationship with the Spanish and former Man United footballer Gerard Piqué (now ended.) She also seems to be a bit of a fixture at World Cup ceremonies, appearing at the 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2026 tournaments.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    I put "sounds a bit like a Motown tune" twice by mistake. Too late to edit it now...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭its_steve116


    I've posted the Apollo 440 tune in the 90s forum.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭supereurope


    Madonna - Love Profusion

    After spending much of the 90s obsessed with the raunchy stuff, 1998 saw Madonna return to form with the brilliant Ray of Light album. The year 2000 saw the release of the not-as-brilliant-but-still-very good album Music, and in 2005, she released the excellent Confessions on a Dance Floor. In between the Music and Confessions, there was another album, 2003's American Life. Not as well-received as the other three albums mentioned, and now rather forgotten, it probably suffered from being released during the second Iraq war (the video for the lead single had to be heavily edited and toned-down). Love Profusion was the fourth and final single from that album, released in December 2003. It reached number 11 in the UK and number 22 here. It was used in a perfume ad around the same time, though perhaps by late 2003 the days of songs from ads reaching number 1 had passed.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭cms88


    I actually heard this on the radio only last week!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭supereurope


    it does occasionally pop up, not too often though. I think I saw it on one of the satellite music channels a few months ago.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,995 ✭✭✭its_steve116




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭supereurope


    Mish Mash - Speechless

    From the early spring of 2006. Admittedly, I can't remember hearing it on the radio very much, but it had frequent rotation on the satellite music channels and in clubs, and it made the UK top 20, so I feel it earns its place here. Mish Mash were a duo comprising of DJs Oscar Fullone and Kasper Winding, who teamed up with Danish singer Louise Norby (known as Lois) for this track. It reached number 16 in the UK but only peaked at number 45 here, and it was the group's only UK and Ireland chart credit. I think this would have done a lot better had it been released a few years later.



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