Ah yes...a golden year for music. The month I started high school. Feels like yesterday. Thank you for this upload 👍 That Smurf thing....yes that's something else. Did Clock ever have original songs? Let Loose are looking to come back. I fancied the drummer! Still hot now. 'Hot & Wet' sounds a bit....risque. Olive would score big success with that song a year later. You can see a post summer holiday boost with the club tracks, especially for September. A fair few one hit wonders with Deep Blue Something, Donna Lewis. Brian Kennedy, the last Irish top 10 at Eurovision along with Jedward. 'You're Gorgeous' is about grooming not about asking someone out!!! 'Neighbourhood' I remember taking the Mickey out of a lad in my class who's Mum was called Patricia as that name was mentioned in the song 😂 This is a good bunch of songs. Thanks Francis for this 👍 My favourites are the underrated 'Escaping' by Dina Caroll. A beautiful power ballad with ethnic influences. Well deserved top 3. Skunk Anasie's excellent 'All I Want'. Skin never gets the right credit. Celine's excellent version of 'Its All Coming Back To Me Now'. The catchy and summery 'Lovefool' by The Cardigans from the excellent 'Romeo and Juliet' movie. Blackstreet's classic 'No Diggity'. Of course my top fave and one of the first groups I fell for (after Guns N Roses), the excellent 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spices. Throw in great songs from Suede, Kula Shaker, Def Leppard, No Doubt, Olive and East17 / Gabrielle, Toni Braxton. This is a group of death Francis! Excellent upload as always ❤️
Quite an exciting time back then, I was within my final few months of high school and there was a lot of great rock and indie stuff in the charts here. When was the last time you could say that about the top 40? One To Another by The Charlatans should have been No.1, excellent song.
I used to be of the opinion that the 1997 release of Oasis's Be Here Now album marked the end of Britpop but I am starting to see that it happened a year earlier, in the summer of 1996, when the Spice Girls arrived on the scene.
@jackdubz4247 I'd say it was roundabout the time of Be Here Now, because after that came, a lot of the Britpop bands (except Blur, who wisely changed direction that same year) were starting to suffer commercially, and then suddenly the attention was drawn towards Robbie Williams as well as manufactured pop and cheesy European stuff like Steps, Aqua, Vengaboys, B*Witched...etc which I thought was just awful. Hell, I'd even go as far as to say that Pulp's 1998 album "This Is Hardcore" represented the death of Britpop, especially in the lyrics of the song "Party Hard" - "Now the party's over, will you come home to me?"
@@Tohereknowswhen what you say might be true, but far worse had happened since then over the decades. the charts today are far more boring and mediocre than 1998 when the rule on 4 track EPs was brought in to favour releases from manufactured pop acts because they couldn't get into the top 20 let alone the top 10 or top 5; and indie and rock was the dominant force in the charts. even in 1999 when some of these bands released new albums pop still dominated, but that pop was not as vanilla as what you hear in the charts today.
I think she still is the only Croatian to make the charts. Even with Eurovision (we don't really vote for Croatia and they don't do that well in the contest), none of their entries have made the charts. Shame as Nina Badric would have been marketable here in the 90s and 00s with her soul sound. Another first was Bally Sagoo (who's from my home city of Brum) as the first ever Punjabi language song.
@@QFBPLRI know she moved to the Netherlands had a career there (Dutch ex bf and some Dutchies I speak to told me). I'm guessing this was before Yugoslavia broke up?
A few that I remember, a bunch more I don't. A lot of guitar pop. And the Spice Girls. I sometimes amuse myself by matchng up other dates. In October 1996 Taylor Swift was six years old.
1996... the year of covers, noise and derivative reproductions with synthesizers and noise of styles from previous decades. Blah. Western Pop Music died in 1985.
Ah yes...a golden year for music. The month I started high school. Feels like yesterday. Thank you for this upload 👍 That Smurf thing....yes that's something else. Did Clock ever have original songs? Let Loose are looking to come back. I fancied the drummer! Still hot now. 'Hot & Wet' sounds a bit....risque. Olive would score big success with that song a year later. You can see a post summer holiday boost with the club tracks, especially for September. A fair few one hit wonders with Deep Blue Something, Donna Lewis. Brian Kennedy, the last Irish top 10 at Eurovision along with Jedward. 'You're Gorgeous' is about grooming not about asking someone out!!! 'Neighbourhood' I remember taking the Mickey out of a lad in my class who's Mum was called Patricia as that name was mentioned in the song 😂
This is a good bunch of songs. Thanks Francis for this 👍 My favourites are the underrated 'Escaping' by Dina Caroll. A beautiful power ballad with ethnic influences. Well deserved top 3. Skunk Anasie's excellent 'All I Want'. Skin never gets the right credit. Celine's excellent version of 'Its All Coming Back To Me Now'. The catchy and summery 'Lovefool' by The Cardigans from the excellent 'Romeo and Juliet' movie. Blackstreet's classic 'No Diggity'. Of course my top fave and one of the first groups I fell for (after Guns N Roses), the excellent 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spices. Throw in great songs from Suede, Kula Shaker, Def Leppard, No Doubt, Olive and East17 / Gabrielle, Toni Braxton. This is a group of death Francis! Excellent upload as always ❤️
Totally forgot about Duke "so in love with you".. The remix was quite a hit in Italy
Quite an exciting time back then, I was within my final few months of high school and there was a lot of great rock and indie stuff in the charts here. When was the last time you could say that about the top 40? One To Another by The Charlatans should have been No.1, excellent song.
I see Spice Girls, I click faster than you can say CLICK lol
Justice for La Bouche!
Another fantastic job Francis. I am going to start looking for those obscure electronic hits.
Fall 1996: when Britpop and Club Tracks ruled the world.
barely any club tracks charting high
Siempre odiaré el britpop, pero me encantaba mucho el eurodance, el triphop y el pop Sueco de los 90's
I used to be of the opinion that the 1997 release of Oasis's Be Here Now album marked the end of Britpop but I am starting to see that it happened a year earlier, in the summer of 1996, when the Spice Girls arrived on the scene.
@jackdubz4247 I'd say it was roundabout the time of Be Here Now, because after that came, a lot of the Britpop bands (except Blur, who wisely changed direction that same year) were starting to suffer commercially, and then suddenly the attention was drawn towards Robbie Williams as well as manufactured pop and cheesy European stuff like Steps, Aqua, Vengaboys, B*Witched...etc which I thought was just awful. Hell, I'd even go as far as to say that Pulp's 1998 album "This Is Hardcore" represented the death of Britpop, especially in the lyrics of the song "Party Hard" - "Now the party's over, will you come home to me?"
@@Tohereknowswhen what you say might be true, but far worse had happened since then over the decades. the charts today are far more boring and mediocre than 1998 when the rule on 4 track EPs was brought in to favour releases from manufactured pop acts because they couldn't get into the top 20 let alone the top 10 or top 5; and indie and rock was the dominant force in the charts. even in 1999 when some of these bands released new albums pop still dominated, but that pop was not as vanilla as what you hear in the charts today.
Love your videos, they take me back to a good place 😊. But why only top 50 for the 90s ones and not top 75.
Because most of bottom songs of UK charts in the 90s are obscure dance tracks. And it's a lot of work too ;)
I think Tatjana must have been the first and only Croatian to have a U.K. top 40 hit
I think she still is the only Croatian to make the charts. Even with Eurovision (we don't really vote for Croatia and they don't do that well in the contest), none of their entries have made the charts. Shame as Nina Badric would have been marketable here in the 90s and 00s with her soul sound.
Another first was Bally Sagoo (who's from my home city of Brum) as the first ever Punjabi language song.
*Yugoslavia
@@QFBPLRI know she moved to the Netherlands had a career there (Dutch ex bf and some Dutchies I speak to told me). I'm guessing this was before Yugoslavia broke up?
Good year memories 👍
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A few that I remember, a bunch more I don't. A lot of guitar pop. And the Spice Girls.
I sometimes amuse myself by matchng up other dates. In October 1996 Taylor Swift was six years old.
Mr p aerospace yet again ❤
Some pretty girls in these videos!
1996... the year of covers, noise and derivative reproductions with synthesizers and noise of styles from previous decades. Blah. Western Pop Music died in 1985.
Exactly, friend. With a few honourable exceptions, these songs are the reason I had lost interest by then. Too much dance and indie crap.
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