Tickety techno to the bone

Continuing my trip back through the 1994 album charts.

19/06/94 : Real Things - 2 Unlimited


Well - let's just say that expectations are not high for this. Yes yes, yes yes yes yes - there are definitely limits to my expectations...

Hmmm. I can see that this has its place - but that place definitely feels to be a big club in the 90s. I cannot, for the live of me, understand why anyone would have ever wanted to buy this and listen to it at home or in their car or wherever. And 57 minutes of it was just waaaaay too much for a November morning in '25, I'm afraid. '94 has done a good job in dishing up albums which are of their time but don't sound dated - it's safe to say that this is not the case here. I did have a good giggle at the album cover though.

We're at #4 in the charts this week on their second week of a ten week run, with it having peaked at NUMBER ONE in its first week (which is just mad) but, pleasingly, it dropped every week on its way down and out. The rest of the top five were The Cranberries, a Deacon Blue best-of, Mariah Carey and Pink Floyd with the highest new entry being The Orb (#6) with an album I've never even heard of. 

Wikipedia tells us it's their third album and their second #1 album here - what were we thinking in the 90s?!? However "unlike their previous album, Ray Slijngaard's raps on the verses were not cut for the UK release" - phew, eh? Amusingly, critically, "the music press were kinder to this album than previous album No Limits!" - and they really were, with NME giving it 8/10. WHAT!?! Commercially, it did very well in Europe getting to #2 in Sweden and #1 in The Netherlands and Hungary - it's sold 1.7 million copies globally. I guess there really is no accounting for tastes.

discogs.com tells us you're going to have to spend three quid to get a decent version but you can spend £30 on a vinyl copy if you really want to. Which I don't - let's just be nice and say that I can understand some people enjoyed some of the tracks, but I don't see that anyone really needed a whole album of it.

12/06/94 - A well put together album
26/06/94 - An interesting miss

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