Here's the tunes I was enjoying 20 years ago:
2Pac ft Elton John - Ghetto Gospel
When 2Pac died in 1996 he only had 2 Top 40 hits to his name. The was Top 40 hit number 17 for him and saw him finally top the charts. It was Top 40 hit number 67 for Elton John though he didn't have an awful lot to do with it as his appearance came via a sample.
Dancing DJs vs Roxette - Fading Like A Flower
Like Elton John on "Ghetto Gospel" Roxette didn't have an awful lot to do with this record other than get sampled. The difference is that they've sampled pretty much the entire record.
99% of the time records like this are dreadful but this is part of the 1% that's great to listen to.
Goldfrapp - Ooh La La
Goldfrapp had been around a few years at this point and were popular but it was this record that really took them into the big time. To me this was something new and different and gave me optimism for the future of music.
Frankie J - Obsession (No Es Amor)
This record threw me at the time. It had only been a few months since 3rd Wish had done the same song and that too had featured Baby Bash on it like this one does.
The question was which one came first? Turns out it was neither, they were both covers.
Transplants - Gangstas & Thugs
By this point we knew the sort of formula to expect from a Transplants record, a sort of punk meets drum & bass with a bit of rapping thrown in. It's a formula that worked and the band more or less existed because of it.
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