In May 2000 guitars were out and turntables were in. Over half of the new entries this month could be considered dance music including the novelty effort from Kevin & Perry from their "Kevin & Perry Go Large" film which was more evidence this was the era of dance music.
It's therefore appropriate that a dance record is the best record this month. It goes to MJ Cole with "Crazy Love", one of the biggest UK garage records from one of the biggest names from the genre.
The other 2 garage records this month also came from big names who are both DJ/MC duos but one is considerably better than the other. DJ Luck & MC Neat had their 2nd Top 40 hit with "Masterblaster 2000" which is decent. Oxide & Neutrino on the other hand brought the start of garage heading in the wrong direction with "Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty)".
Although 2000 was the year of garage we had more records this month from the big dance genre of 1999, trance. There wasn't a bad trance record this month, most getting full marks and a couple getting half. This includes St Etienne teaming up with Paul Van Dyk and scoring their only Top 10 hit with "Tell Me Why (The Riddle)". It came not long after I'd bought their "Too Young To Die" album which was their singles from 1990-95 and I assumed at the time they'd called it a day in 1995.
The dominance of dance music left little room for rap and R&B. There was just one record of each, the rap one being "Vibrant Thing" by Q-Tip which is OK and "Shorty (Got Her Eyes On Me)" by Donnell Jones which is good.
Bucking the trend of guitars being out was Iron Maiden who had a new entry with "Wicker Man". It sounds like it could have just as easily been made in 1983 and the drumming is fast enough for it to get full marks.
Onto the worst record which goes to Britney Spears with "Oops I Did It Again". I remember hearing it for the first time on the Chris Moyles show on Radio 1 and he pointed out how similar it was to "Baby One More Time" to the point he started singing it over the top to illustrate. Both were composed by Max Martin who acknowledged how well it went the first time so figured there was no point in changing the formula and it worked.
Here's a list of the records with the best on top, worst at the bottom and the good ones in green, OK ones in amber and rubbish ones in red (and in no particular order):
Here's a look at the chart:
The same score as December 1999, but we're still yet to know what happened in between.
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