Who are "The Beatles" of Dance Music ?

[Fyoog]

Wouldn't they be tiestocles?

That just got me proper rofl'ing, it's been a looooooooong monday!!

[wrong chris]

About the real topicof this thread: Got no idea. I've always been more a Rolling Stones fan

hahahah oh man, i won't touch that with a yard stick. that's just a can of worms waiting to be cracked open. zipping my lips, they're zipped. no commento
:P

[wrong chris]

Since when is it suddenly hip to hate Fatboy Slim? I noticed a HUGE backlash during the last few months. Did I miss anything?

as far as i can remember fatboy slim has always polarized audiences much more than the other big cats. even when he was huge in the "rockafeller skank" days, you either loved him or hated him.

he's the guy who makes fun sometimes silly danceable tunes that don't really make you think or feel too deeply; it's "here for a good time not a long time" music. it's wasted on people who try to over-analyze it, arm chair generals and elitists tend to hate it.

[lethal_pizzle]

Yep, nothing wrong with playing good-time music. He can be hit & miss technically as a DJ as well to be honest, yet he's got the personality and the tunes to compensate...

[Lambox]

That's because one testicle alone isn't enough.

Lol!

Wouldn't they be tiestocles?

Equally lol!

I guess this whole discussion depends on what being the "Beatles" of something means. Do you mean who brings the most screaming girls to shows? If so, Tiesto is the answer (lolz Tiesto should never be the answer).

But in all seriousness... are we talking about influence? Record sales? Household names?

[wrong chris]

^^
i won't put words in anyone's mouth, but personally what i admire most about the beatles is that they have earned a unique balance of critical acclaim with mass appeal. it's really a rare quality for pop acts to not only be ridiculously good, but offer something almost everybody can appreciate. the only current rock band i can think of that has accomplished that kind of career is Radiohead.

that's what i find similar between the beatles and the chemical brothers... chemical brothers stuff is gonna get played in clubs, commercials, music channels, movies, radio,critics love it,young kids appreciate it, old ravers/djs appreciate it and we'll be hearing these songs years from now which is super rare for dance music.

[Jack Bastard]

When the Chemical Brothers started up, they were just a pale imitation of Underworld. And Basement Jaxx were a pale imitation of the Chems.

Sorry but that needs a big IMO. None of them have anything in common past being from the UK. The Dust/Chemical Brothers early stuff was very basic breakbeat, hell, they even started life with their name as a tribute to the real Dust Brothers (producers of my favourite ever Beastie Boys album). They don't even have the same musical points of reference as Underworld. The only thing they have in common is releases on JBO.

As for Basement Jaxx being a pale imitation of the Chemical Brothers, you can tell that's not true by listening to the music; none of the tunes released on Atlantic Jaxx sound anything like any releases by the Chems. They'd also been around under other pseudonyms for years, releasing stuff as early as Underworld and earlier than the Chems.

Atlantic Jaxx was an attempt to do a UK version of the US/Chicago house sound, something they did very successfully. Out of all 3 of the acts mentioned it's only their early stuff I would still play in sets today. By the time that Red Alert and Jump and Shout were out on XL (about 2 years before they re-released and were hits) there was nothing like the Jaxx sound about, they'd even gone beyond the Chicago sound they were trying to emulate originally.

Just listening to any of these 3 artists early stuff should show exactly how wrong your original statement was.

EDIT: Just seen that Psychofrakulator and Karlos have beaten me to these points.

EDIT 2: Shit as he is these days, the first time I heard Everybody Needs a 303 and the a couple of years later the first time I heard You've Come a Long Way Baby I thought they were amazing pop-dance records/albums. Yeah they got rinsed on ads, but the first time I heard those tunes was amazing.

EDIT 3: This topic is a bit daft anyway; there is no act analogous to the Beatles in dance music.

[photojojo]

Do you mean who brings the most screaming girls to shows? If so, Tiesto is the answer (lolz Tiesto should never be the answer).

I hate to keep correcting people in regards to Tiesto, but don't you mean screaming boys?

In regards to the topic:
IMO, no band will ever be the Beatles or Rolling Stones of dance music. It's impossible due to the relative obscurity of the genre. You have your popular bands and DJ's that have stood the test of time and are still around producing such as the Chemical Brothers and Fat Boy Slim (I was only joking a little bit when I said that), but none of them will ever be or do what the originals did.

[lethal_pizzle]

Has anyone mentioned Leftfield - Leftism yet?

[sj03w4t]

I guess the times are just soooo different from the Beatles/stones era. (lol, stone era)
In those days the only music around was rock music (or so I like to pretend, I wasn't yet born though. lol)