BLAME IT ON THE BOOGIE

Clock

It’s late one night in a 1970s-style theme pub and after meeting each other for the first time, the members of Clock and N-Trance are getting on famously. Like the famous war-wounds sequence in Lethal Weapon 3, the two parties are reeling off lists of seventies and eighties songs they’ve pounced on like crazed bunnies until N-Trance win with their trump card (Paradise City). Then suddenly, one of them mentions Blame It On The Boogie. Both sides check their back catalogue only to find neither has covered it. A coin is tossed to decide who will do it and that, my friends, is how Clock recorded this song.

CHRISTMAS WITH BABYFACE

Babyface (album)

And you thought he was a cartoon burglar who rode around in a pram. Shame on you. Actually he’s a famed American music producer who just lurves R&B, so-much-so that he’s re-recorded some Chrimble classics R&B-style. His voice suggests that he’s a great producer, but the whole thing moves around smoother than Leslie Phillips at a Tupperware party and you can’t ask for more than that, can you? However, there’s a time and place for this sort of thing and it’s called December.

THE SILENCE

Mike Koglin

Enjoy The Silence, as it’s properly called, was a stunningly huge hit for the Mighty Mode back in 1990 and deservedly so as it’s only the best song ever written. However, although it came on three 12-inches and three CDs, only a couple of mixes came anywhere realistically close to being dancey, which is a bit of a downer really as the song deserved better. Well, it might’ve taken eight years and somebody else to re-record it, but by God it got there in the end. I have no idea who Mike Koglin is but respect is most certainly due. Enjoy.