Great 90's tracks, well my favourite's gotta be the infamous
'Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar'. Many a night at under-18's were spent bopping away to this track (back when 'Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard Box' was considered the height of coolness). The original was fantastic, and the Three'n one mix from '98 still mixes in well with anything made today. That people are still making new mixes of it in 2005 (although I have to say, I'm not fond of most modern versions) shows the brilliance of the original.
i also remember the summer and autumn of 1996 (the year i left high school - seems so distant now!) the song 'wannabe' must have been played at least a couple of times an hour during primetime drivetime slots.
As performed by the Spice Girls, Wannabe was a great song (by mid-90's standards anyway, even if it sound cheesy now). Unfortunately, every amateur singing group in the land never quite seemed to understand that the line is:
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really really really wanna zigazig-ha.
and NOT
I wanna huh!, I wanna huh!, I wanna huh!, I wanna huh!, I wanna really really really wanna zigazig ahhhh!
THAT, and not Scary's vocal talents, is why no one could ever make it sound the same as the Spice Girls.
i seem to remember when the spice girls first appered, they didn't have the cheesey images which most of us will fondly remember them for - i seem to remember at the time, they were pretty groundbreaking.
I don't think they're as bad as they are remembered now. Unfortunately loud fast cute ditties like Wannabe were going out of fashion fast at the time they started, as pop music started to get a bit more mature in the second half of the 90's. And it's not like the Spice Girls didn't keep up - their music did slow down a bit as time went on. In any case, at least they actually wrote their own material; which puts them head and shoulders present day girl bands like Girls Aloud who do nothing but release covers of other people's work (oh how I remember the look on my flatmate's face this year when I broke the news that 'Jump' was not a spectacular new composition from GA, but actually a cover of a dodgy Pointer Sisters track from the early 80's!).
Set adrift on memory bliss, by P.M Dawn