Tim: I know we’ve had two “ten years ago” posts already this year, so sorry for the lack of originality, but we surely can’t not feature this, arguably the defining song of the Eurotrance genre, which a decade ago entered the UK chart right up at number 1. So sit back, try not to pay too much attention to the weird video that came with it, and enjoy it.
Tim: Vastly better than Bryan Adams’s version of the song, of course, but then cover versions rarely beat the originals, so that’s only to be expected.
Tom: Eh? That doesn’t make sense – the Bryan Adams version is from 1985…
Tim: Oh, God, you haven’t been brainwashed by his lot as well, have you? Look, follow the logic: in a lot of songs, it is entirely possible, from as early on as the first chorus, to see exactly where it’s going, yes? So therefore, by extrapolation, in the land of music it’s entirely possible to predict the future, and thus have a song being covered BEFORE the original was actually written, as happened here. DJ Sammy wrote the brilliant original, and Bryan Adams did a fairly dull cover of it seventeen years earlier. FLAWLESS LOGIC.
Tom: Right.
Tim: Now this has everything a decent dance track should have, and it should rightly be celebrated here and now.
Tom: Yep, there’s a reason that it’s still a standard – and still getting re-edited into new cash-in compilation CDs – ten years later. It’s one of the tracks that can tie most of a generation together: they’ll recognise it even if they don’t know where it’s from.
Tim: It’s also notable for being the song that gave birth to the idea of the Candlelight Remix; whether that’s a good thing or not is debatable, but it didn’t stop Cascada doing the same thing several years later. And actually, I’ve just listened to both of those and it was a brilliant idea, so well done to whoever did that. In fact, well to everybody involved in this, because it’s just brilliant all over.