Radio 2 Top 10 Dance Records Result - Did they get it wrong?

[modz1]

Radio 2 listeners recently voted for the top 10 'Dance' singles of all time. Read more Here
Their top ten in full, is:

1. Billie Jean – Michael Jackson (1983)
2. I Feel Love – Donna Summer (1977)
3. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine – James Brown (1970)
4. Strings Of Life - Rhythim Is Rhythim (1987)
5. Where Love Lives – Alison Limerick (1994)
6. Keep On Movin' – Soul II Soul (1989)
7. Can You Feel It – Fingers Inc. (1988)
8. Big Fun – Inner City (1988)
9. Theme From S-Express – S-Express (1988)
10. Key To My Happiness – The Charades (1966)

Surely to goodness this can't be right.. THE top ten most influential dance records of all time? Personally, I'd have only two of them in there (I Feel Love & Strings of Life).. what's your top ten guys?

[waxxy]

yeah your right mate ..thats typical radio 2 listners who picked those songs sure there classics but not "ohhhhh my god " must have records.
heres my top ten--(in no perticular order because i cant decide)

1/ gat decor -- passion
2/chicane--offshore
3/t99- anastasia
4/dream frequency --euphoria
5/kid unknown-- i am a nightmare walking
6/808 state--pacific state
7/adamski- killer
8/bt-- love,peace and grease
9/shades of rhythm-- sweet senstation
10/future sound of london--papua newguinea

also big shout out too ..

sl2-- djs take control
gto-pure
little louie-- french kiss
praga khan-rave alarm
tricky disco-- tricky
altern 8-brutal8
together -- hardcore uproar
stakker-humanoid
jungle brothers-- ill house you
joey beltram-- energy flash
sterling void-- its alright
love decade-so real

[krykos]

In terms of those who've had the biggest influence on dancehall-based music today, e.g. dance, techno, hip hop, R&B, I think the following are good choices. I can't actually give them an order though:

Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Primal Scream - Slip Inside This House
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Daft Punk - Around The World
New Order - Blue Monday
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea

[modz1]

This is heating up nicely fellas.. let's have some more!!

We may eventually work out the definitive Dance Music Top Ten from this thread.. and maybe send it back to Radio 2 to tell 'em what the experts think!

[waxxy]

its hard modz1 to just pick a top ten theres been so much influential dance music out in the last 30 years.
but i like your idea of contacting radio 2 too tell them there wrong .ill back you up mate if you contact them, i heard jimmy youngs gotta wicked right hook and might not like being told hes picked the wrong top ten dance records lol

[iceHouse Project]

1) 'I Feel Love' Donna Summer (It is the Mutha after all)

Then in No Particular order...

New Order 'Blue Monday'
Deeelite 'Groove Is In The Heart'
The Source Feat... Candi Staton 'You Got The Love'
Alison Limerick 'Where Love Lives'
Staxx 'Joy'
'Everything Starts With An E!' (I can't remember the artist)
Tinman '18 Strings'
Lil' Louis 'French Kiss'

There is more obviously but my brain's gone dead.
(Probably the tunes LOL)

[waxxy]

E-Zee Possee & MC Kinky did everything starts with a e ..heres the video --
YouTube - Everything Starts With An 'E' - E-Zee Possee & MC Kinky

come to think of it whatever happened too mc kinky?i know boy george had something too do with this record ..it was in his way out there faze of the late 80s..early 90s..

[iceHouse Project]

OMG of course.

Didn't she turn up on Erasures ABBA-ESQUE cover EP?
I'm sure she was on Take A Chance On Me she has a real distinctive stylee.

[Grufty]

Surely the fact that it was Radio 2 gives it away a bit, I mean even if this top 10 came out as you'd want it to, they aint gonna publish it that way ...

[strum]

'Scared' by Slacker is my favourite.The mix is beautiful and the arrangement of the edit on YouTube is nigh-on perfection.
I'd love to see Terry Wogan waving his glowstick on E.
Nah..I wouldn't

[Meander]

Liberation- Liberation2
TC1992 Funky Guitar
Hardfloor-Acperience


Have to be in there surely?

I'll try and think of some more...

[kedo]

Originally Posted by Meander

Hardfloor-Acperience

Ahhhh.. 'Acperience'.. the track that launched a hundred imitations.. That was the blueprint for every subsequent Hardfloor remix was it not?

[Meander]

LMAO, yes and I think it became the ethos of a fair percentage of producers too. Get it right and then copy your own work ad infinitum.

I've thought of another;
Fortran 5 "time to dream" (The David Holmes mixes and defo NOT the original lol)

[conor_j]

completely agree with the following

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Daft Punk - Around The World
New Order - Blue Monday
Chicane - Offshore


but unfortuntely my hungover head cant think of anymore right now lol

[EdRyan]

I think for R2's listeners that's right, because of their likely perception of dance music. Dance means anything with a strong beat and vocals. I still think that 'Keep On Moving' and tracks like that are a wierd inclusion, as they are pretty slow..

My top 10)

1) Sasha - Expander Ep
2) Prodigy - You're No Good For Me
3) South St Players - Who Keeps Changing Your Mind
4) Mr Fingers - Can You Feel It (I adore this record)
5) Indeep - Last Night A Dj Saved my life (how many covers of this?)
6) Montana Vs Trumpet Man - It's Trumpet Thing
8) Chicane - Saltwater (they've recently ruined it tho)
9) Nuyorican Soul - Runaway (Armand Van Helden Mix)
10) Todd Terry - Jumpin'