Do you remember any ?
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.
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.
I put "sounds a bit like a Motown tune" twice by mistake. Too late to edit it now...
I've posted the Apollo 440 tune in the 90s forum.
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.
I actually heard this on the radio only last week!
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.
Kyla - "Do You Mind?"
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.
"Bus W@nkers!"
The Cure - "The End of the World"
Here is that very song:
Jamelia - See It In A Boy’s Eyes
After a break from music to have a baby, Birmingham-born Jamelia finished recording her second album in early 2003. The lead single from that album performed poorly, but the release of the second single Superstar in the autumn of 2003 sent her career soaring. The album, called Thank You, was released in October 2003, but the success of Superstar did not translate to album sales and it limped into the album charts at number 66. In an effort to boost sales, the album was re-released in March 2004 with two new tracks. See It In A Boy’s Eyes was one of them, and it was released in July 2004 as the album’s fourth single. Co-written by Chris Martin from Coldplay, who also provided backing vocals, the single reached number 5 in the UK and number 11 here. This was on the radio a lot at the time of its release, I remember it well (2004 was only about eight years ago, right?).
Another Chris Martin composition, he thought it suited Embrace better...
Simon Climie also co-wrote Stephen Gately's debut solo single "New Beginning".
I remember this Joy Division cover getting a lot of play on Phantom around 2007/2008.
Wookie - "Battle"
UK garage track that was compared to "Bohemian Rhapsody" according to Wookie himself!
Nope, I didn't know Mariah covered Def Lep, either.
Mousse T - "Is It Cos I'm Cool?"
The Bangles - Something That You Said
No, I haven't posted this to the 00s forum in error, The Bangles had a UK top 40 single in the 21st century. The group behind massive 80s hits such as Walk Like an Egyptian, Manic Monday and Eternal Flame disbanded in 1989 due to disagreements and friction, mainly around Susannah Hoffs being promoted as the leader of the group. They reformed nine years later, and in 2003 released Doll Domination, their first album of new material since 1988. Something That You Said was the lead single from the album, and it received some airplay on the satellite music channels and on the radio here. However, it didn't do so well in the charts, reaching number 38 in the UK in March 2003 and failing to chart here. Subsequent singles and the albums both performed poorly, with the followup single I Will Take Care of You charting at number 79 in the UK, their last UK chart credit.
That is interesting. Despite the fact that Susannah Hoffs was the main lead vocalist on most (but not all) of their hit singles, she in fact shared lead vocal duties with fellow founding members the Peterson sisters (Vicki and Debbie) and increasingly after their first album bassist Michael Steele (real name Susan Thomas). You will see this if you look at the album credits or their whole body of singles. Famously, three members shared lead vocals on Walk Like an Egyptian. This quartet was the classic line up, which reunited for this single and album in 2003. Two years later Michael Steele left. Their most recent album release in 2011 was down to the original three founding members. Eventually in 2018 the original bassist Annette Zilinskas reunited with these three in The Bangles. She had been around in their early years, including as The Bangs when they released their first single, but left in 1983 to be replaced by Michael Steele.
Here we have a clash of late 90s/early 00s British popular music titans of sorts, garage production
duo Wideboys and All Saint Shaznay Lewis. This is "Daddy O".
Sad news the other week that frontman Joe Murphy had passed away.
Sad news the other week about their frontman Joe Murphy passing away.
Appleton - Fantasy
As a single featuring Shaznay Lewis was posted above, let’s stay on the theme of All Saints solo efforts. Though, technically, not a “solo” effort, instead it’s a duo formed by two members of All Saints, the Appleton sisters, Natalie and Nicole. Probably the two members of the group who attracted the most attention, particularly Nicole, whose relationships with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher ensured frequent appearances on tabloid front pages. The duo launched their post-All Saints career with this track, which reached number 2 in the UK and number 15 here in September 2002. I remember it seemed to be on the radio constantly in the late summer of that year. Another top 5 single followed, as well as an album Everything Eventually. The title track from the album stalled at number 38, and the Appletons never had another UK chart credit in their own name.
Michel Gondry directed the video.
Michel Gondry also had a No.4 in France.
"Outrageous", the Britney Spears hit that never was. Heard it on the radio a fair bit in 2004. Probably wouldn't get played now due to a certain Robert Sylvester.
Melanie Blatt & The Artful Dodger - "Twentyfourseven". This was a bit of a departure from the latter's garage sound.
Interestingly, this was included on the All Saints 2001 Greatest Hits album, the only solo effort to make it onto that album (admittedly, it was only solo effort released by the time the album came out.) As that single was with the Artful Dodger, her bona fide solo debut is this from 2003…Do Me Wrong, which reached number 18 on the UK charts, and she was dropped by her record company shortly afterwards. I think I can vaguely remember it coming out.
Mel appeared on the BBC's Girlbands Forever documentary last year. I didn't watch it, but she apparently came across rather unpleasant and very bitter.
