Saulaac

Hey gandhara, I remember you were on the soul/funk rapper's clavinet thread a while back.

Was wondering, do you listen to Jamiroquai? They seemed to start off really soul/funky around 1993 and then went progressively more dance-y. Songs like “(Don't) Give Hate a Chance” (2005) are nice.

Also, what are your favourite house tracks from the mid-90s? I remember teh UK's Ministry of Sound played some bangers then like De 'Lacy Hideaway, Gypsy Woman..

gandhara

hey Saulaac how's it going? Have we ever chatted on here in the past? I don't come on here much anymore, just from time to time if I see a topic that interests me. Jamiroquai is fine, not my cup of tea but I liked their 90's stuff. They might be a little too tame for me lol. De 'Lacy Hideaway sounds more like what I'd like. '95 was about the tail end of the oldschool House sound before it morphed into new sounds I don't care for.

But I have some Euro House lists up on Discogs I created like 5 years ago..My Italian House one has over 500 different records from '88 to '96. I don't know where I found the time to catalogue all that!

https://www.discogs.com/lists/The-Be...88-1996/265413

I have a smaller British House one, but I like a lot more of these records than just 40..

https://www.discogs.com/lists/The-Be...88-1995/298581

And I like House music from several other places just didn't make any lists of them....But as you can see my preference is mostly the early 90's, but you'll still find a few from the middle of the decade.

What are some of your favorite House bangers?

gandhara

Now I'm trying to think of some House tunes from the early 90's that get soooo overplayed that even I can't stand them anymore... like Groove Is In The Heart by Delight (?)!! Nope can't do that one no more!! :P

But I still love me some Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic!! Overplayed for a reason, that ****s still Jammin' lol

What else, oh yeah...2 Unlimited...overplayed to death... Twilight Zone and No Limit both suck!!

JEABOI

Almost all the songs I listen to lol. This is a bad habit of mine but it hurt the most with Passionfruit.

Saulaac

Cheers gandhara, will defo listen to your playlists! You Italian Stallion.

Dunno why but I remember your post and interest in soul/funk and I think I have a weird obsession (medical condition) with trying to identify tunes: https://www.musicbanter.com/soul-fun...ml#post2213258

Can't really remember my favourites. They're were many good ones. I have a soft spot for Moloko's "Bring it back" which was very chill funky.

Mr. Vain was overplayed a lot on UK radio and it was quite sh*te from the start.

gandhara

Mr. Vain!! I used to love that one

But that's when I was like 12, Eurodance was big everywhere in the mid 90's! Some of it was great but a lot of it was trash. Culture Beat wasn't too bad, check out their earlier stuff as it's proper House. Mr. Vain was just copying off of "Rhythm Is A Dancer" by Snap and "More & More" by Captain Hollywood..

Real McCoy was overplayed as hell in roller skating joints and I'm sure Mr. Vain was part of that rotation! But I can't listen to either of those now! lol

TheBig3

Maybe the worst lyrics of any song I've ever heard

TheBig3

It's the business model. It's used to juice listeners who are in the car for a non-consecutive 3 hours a day. Then sponsorships.

Janszoon

I had to look this one up because I had never heard of it. Just watched the video and I thought it was a pretty ok pop song, not amazing but reasonably catchy. Is this something that was overplayed somewhere?

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