Top Ten Nineties Songs

[guille]

Ay Nano!, "abanico" means fan in English. Locomia was a faaaabulous queer dance group, formed in this gay paradise named Ibiza, an island located by the Mallorca and Menorca islands. They dressed in outrageous costumes that were inspired on some baroque and medieval styles. They had an original choreography accompanied with these gigantic fans... pure lypsinching, I must say. That, made people always think if they were the real performers of those songs.
Anyways, if you have a latino list of your own share it.
Have a Disco Life.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: guille on 2002-07-28 16:45 ]</font>

[nonkel808]

HAAAAAAA, the 90's!

Now those were the days,
a constant revolution of musical styles!
This is how i experienced it!
First there was NEW BEAT!
"a new sound, a new style, a new way of dancing! This is the sound of C! YEAAAHHHH"
It al started over here in Belgium!
Sound of C, Taste of sugar, the maxx: Cocaine, Neon: voices, amnesia: IBIZA ... It started out as an underground thing and caused a real cultural clash overhere! First it was innovating, but in the end everybody started doing a new beat version of an old hit song. Local butchers, pub owners, schoolkids,... Best one was the new beat version of Rocco Granata's MARINA!
But when it got so popular the underground was already moving along with a new sound coming from the UK; RAVE!!!!!! Prodigy, KLF,... and we created an Belgian version of it!
And yes! JAMES BROWN IS DEAD! That was another Belgian tune! Going number one in the charts over here! (and as it seems also around the world) It even had a successor called: JAMES BROWN IS STILL ALIVE! The typical Belgian rave sound was born! Another big tune was: BONZAI! TSAI TSAI TSAI..... BONZAI!
But then rave changed into GABBER. So it all went too hardcore for me at that point!
Then i started discovering TRANCE (yes even some GOA). But again that didn't last long, because it quickely became too commercial for me. It kept repeating itself over and over again (even today, most of those crappy trance songs sound like they were already made 10 years ago.)
So I started listening to detroit techno, intelligent techno. Kenny Larkin, Orbital, Dave Clarke, Dave angel, Model 500, Ken Ishi, FSOL, Aphex twin, Source experience, R&S records (belgiums first real big techno label!), Biosphere, etc...
Aaaaaah, those were the day. as a teenager dancing all night to pumping beats at illegal underground parties.
I still like the music if i wanna go out and go really nuts, but i don't buy techno anymore.
Because all the sudden in the mid-90's there was TRIP HOP!!!!! NINJA TUNE, MO WAX DOPE ON PLASTIC, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, proppelerheads,....
But most off all there was: DJ SHADOW: ENTRODUCING! If I was to choose one record to take with me too an deserted island, it would be this one! It's a milestone, a masterpiece, it's to good for words. I must have heard it a thousand times by now, and i'm still not tired of it!

Well, anyway. From there on my musical taste evolved to Hiphop, funky breakbeat music, funky disco music, Filtered French disco-house, garage house, Drum and bass, ragga, ...
Nowadays i've gotten so openminded musically, that i find it hard to choose when i'm in a recordshop. If only I had the money to buy everything I like.
Ah well, ya can't always get what ya want!

peace,
808

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[superfly]

I LOVED the 90's!!.. Especially from 1990 through 1996. I don't know where to begin.. this will be a long list(sorry, I'm very bored)!


Joint Venture - Master Blaster
Sounds of Blackness - The Pressure
Blunted Dummies - House For All
Smooth Touch - House Of Love
Roach Motel - Movin' On
Boris Dlugoshch - Keep Pushin'
Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
Kristine W - Feel What You Want
Barbra Tucker - I Get Lifted
Pal Joey - Earth People Dance & Partytime
X-Press-2 - Muzik-X-Press & London X-Press
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar
Ultra Nate - Free
Dj Duke - Blow Your Whistle
49'ers - Touch Me & Don't You Love Me
The Fog - Been A Long Time
Shawn Christopher - Don't Lose The Magic
Doug Lazy - Let The Rythem Pump
Size 9 - I Am Ready
Ruffneck - Everybody Be Somebody
Snatch - Let Me Love You Boy
Tamperer featuring Maya - Feel It
Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling
Kathy Brown - Turn Me Out
Liberty City - Some Lovin'
DSK - What Would We Do(If They Took Our Love Away)
Dajae - U Got Me Up
Dave Clark - Wisdom To The Wise
Club 69 - Unique(Is What You Are)
Aphrohead - In The Dark We Live
Black Sciene Orchestra - New Jersey Deep
Dj Funk - Ho's In This House
Dj Pierre - Atom Bomb
E.G Fullalove - Didn't I Know(Divas To The Dance Floor)
Ethyl Meatplow - Queenie
Goodmen - Give It Up
Hope - Tree Frog
Full Intention - I Love America
Dj EFX - Is It Like My Dildoe
Cajmere - Brighter Days
New Order - Regret
U2 - Lemon
Bel Biv Devoe - I Thought It Was Me & Poison
Hardrive - Deep Inside
Lectroluv- Dream Drums
Loletta Haloway - Rollers
Planet Soul - Set You Free
Nu Yorican Soul - The Nervous Track
Masters At Work - Voices In My Mind
Carl Craig - Throw
Todd Terry - Keep On Jumpin'
Underground Sound Of Lisbon - So Get Up
Black Box - Strike It Up & I Don't Know Anybody Else & Everybody Everybody
Adventures of Stevie V - Dirty Cash
Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman & 100%
Ce Ce Peniston - Finally
Ru Paul - Supermodel
Sunday School - House Is A Feeling
Captin Hollywood Project - More and More
Cathy Denis - C'mon And Get My Love & Just Another Dream
Robin S - Show Me Love
Everything But The Girl - Missing
Whitney Houston - Queen Of The Night
Jane Child - Don't Want To Fall In Love
Kariya - Let Me Love You For Tonight
Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam - Let The Beat Hit 'Em
Digital Underground - The Humpty Dance & Doowutchyalike
Dee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Pet Shop Boys - Can You Forgive Her
Quad City Dj's - Come On and Ride It
Rapination - Love Me The Right Way
Seduction - (It Takes Two)Two To Make It Right
Sunscreem - Love You More
TLC - Baby Baby
Seal - Crazy
Tara Kemp - Piece Of My Heart & Hold You Tight
Zhane - Hey Mr DJ
Jomanda - Got A Love For You & Make My Body Rock
Jade - Don't Walk Away
Sade - Diamonds And Pearls(there was a GREAT dance rimix of this song I can't find it anywhere :sad: )
LWS - Gosp
Dj Duke - Throw Your Hands(In The Air)
Kiwi Dream - Y?(It's Over For Me)
Junior Vasquez - X
Romanthony - In The Mix
Ride Commitee w/ Roxy - Get Huh
Livin' Joy - Dreamer
Junior Vasquez - Get Your Hands Off My Man
Toni Toni Tone - Let's Get Down
Junior Vasquez - Drop A House
Dr Alban - It's My Life
Corina - Temptation
Groovestyle - Freedom Train
Electronic - Getting Away With It
Kim Sims - Too Blind To See It
David Morales - Higher
Shai - The Place Where You Belong(another dance remix I can't find)
Black Sheep - This Or That & Stobelight Honey
Lisette Melendez - Together Forever
Frankie Knuckles - The Whistle Song
Vanessa Williams - Running Back To You
Nikki French - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Soul System - It's Gonna Be A Lovely Day
SWV - Right Here
Opus III - It's A Fine Day <<<<might be my #1 favorite of the 90's




And sooooo many more.. I can't remember anymore right now! :grin:

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[Nano]

Guille: sadly most Latin disco I don't like, seems like copies to me. Wouldn't be fair for me to start a topic with my opinion... So I decline the honor.
In the nineties the Latin pop rhytms (cumbia, vallenato, cuarteto, merengue) came to be very popular in Buenos Aires, and still are (much more time in TV for cumbia than rock). But I don't like cumbia at all, it's too simple and cheap for me.
I however appreciate cuarteto artists like La Mona Jiménez, or people like Juan Luis Guerra, Rubén Blades, etc. but I really don't own their records, I think that says all.
But I do like tango, candombe, bossa...

[HustleBaby]

Here's more:

Do Tha Brown - 2 LIVE CREW
So Anxious - GINUWINE
My Love is Your Love - WHITNEY HOUSTON
Scrubs/Creep - TLC
Nobody's Supposed to Be Here - DEBORAH COX

*DELIGHTFUL*

[guille]

Ah! Belgium. How can a little country like Belgium be so influential in dance music, since the disco days? Patrick Hernandez, Technotronic, Laura Fabian, etc. they all came from there.
Nano querido, Latin Music is just a name for hundreds of variations and genres in music that our continent has graciouslly given to the world. Cumbias is just one drop in the sea. I guess that's one of the problems with countries like Argentina. They need to look more to Latin America and less to Europe.
By the way everybody is saying that we need another ranking of disco songs... please guys we already have one. We need a list for eighties and nineties dance songs. That's just a suggestion, now I don't want anybody to trip on me.
Have a Disco Life.

[Nano]

On 2002-07-22 23:53, guille wrote:

Nano querido, Latin Music is just a name for hundreds of variations and genres in music that our continent has graciouslly given to the world. Cumbias is just one drop in the sea. I guess that's one of the problems with countries like Argentina. They need to look more to Latin America and less to Europe.

You have a point on that. Specially with the "porteños" (Buenos Aires people). It's one of the problems of being still second or third-generation of European inmigrants (Italy and Spain in most usual cases, as it's mine).
Since the mid-Nineties, you can't go to any party or dance club (except the rave-kind) without hearing cumbia at some extent. And the ladies love it! But I'm old-fashioned. Still crave for disco-oriented songs... And believe me, Argentine cumbieros are far below par with their Caribbean counterparts!

[guille]

There has to be a special mention to Depeche Mode. The nineties proved that this group got better and better through the years: "Enjoy the Silence", "It's no good", "I Feel You", etc.
Faithless and BT are also some of the most influential ensembles in today's dance music.
Nobody wants to undermine the importance of Disco Music and the music from the seventies, but we cannot say that the nineties was a poor musical decade. I think the nineties revealed that Disco Music is still alive and it has a lot to say for many years to come.
Have a Disco Life.

[DeepBeat]

Here's my addition to the 90's list which could go on forever of course...

everything done by Blaze
a lot of the Basement Jaxx stuff
a lot of Joey Negro's stuff
the Electribe 101 album a nd a few forgotten singles like:
Ghetto Heaven by Family Stand
Hippichick by Soho
Gett Off by Prince (the Steve "Silk" Hurley mix)
Hold On by En Vogue
Since Day One by Teena Marie (produced by Jazzy B of Soul II Soul)
Professional Widow by Tori Amos (the Armand Van Helden mix)
Big Time Sensuality by Bjork

and tons more...

[PhyllisHyman]

So many to chose from but 10 that spring to mind (in no particular order):
1 Don't lose the magic - Shawn Christopher
2 Another sleepless night - Shawn Christopher
3 Where love lives - Alison Limerick
4 My piece of heaven - Ten City
5 How can I love you more - M People
6 Caught in the middle - Juliet Roberts
7 Your loving arms - Billie Ray Martin
8 And I loved you - Satoshi Tomiie
9 Left to my own devices - Pet Shop Boys
10 Deeper love - C&C Music Factory

[BrunoRepublic]

On 2002-07-31 08:36, PhyllisHyman wrote:

9 Left to my own devices - Pet Shop Boys

But that one's from the 80s!

[PhyllisHyman]

I really thought it was later than '90. However it does mean I can pick another one.
9 Hideaway - De'lacy

[jim]

Why don't you submit these tunes for the big 500?

[PhyllisHyman]

Well although they're dance I'm not sure if they could be called "disco" although that's what influenced them.
Bernie: Define "disco" and save all the arguments!

[Bernie]

On 2002-07-31 16:36, PhyllisHyman wrote:
Well although they're dance I'm not sure if they could be called "disco" although that's what influenced them.
Bernie: Define "disco" and save all the arguments!

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