stardust - the music sound better with you video - what are the names of the fake pop bands

guitar sample is from Chaka Khan's 'Fate'

Well, that's a good start, thanks very much! But I think that whatever I'm looking for must be something else that sampled that.

Okay, I give up, this song is still amazing.

Late last month, the band’s members returned to the studio to work on a remastering of the track ahead of its 20th anniversary digital release, marking the first time it will be available on streaming platforms. Talking to Billboard in Paris after the remastering session, Braxe and Diamond admitted to feeling a little uneasy about Stardust’s return to the studio (Bangalter, best known as one half of Daft Punk, declined to be interviewed for this piece).

“You don’t know how it’s going to go,” says Diamond. “It’s a special work to do so I was a bit anxious.”

“I was a bit anxious too,” adds Braxe, “but a month ago I had a listen to the song and I felt like, ‘Wow, it sounds a bit old now.’ It sounds good, but compared to today it sounds a bit old, and I thought it’s a good thing to try and update it." Nothing too crazy, though: “We did some very subtle compression, it sounds a bit like on the original 12-inch.”

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8459696/stardust-music-sounds-better-with-you-interview-remaster

That track is now 20 yrs. old? OMG

In the UK we had a show imaginatively titled "The Chart Show" which was the greatest music show ever made - better than Top Of The Pops or Jools Holland. It played music videos instead of live (or, "live") performances and instead of a presenter it just used graphics to cut between videos, based on a Play/Pause/Fast Forward interface. It was great - rock fans might care about the authenticity of performance but as a pop fan I prefer the spectacle and imagination of a promo video. The show seemed to pick songs at random to play in full so watching it you'd be exposed to lots of strange and now-forgotten music by lower-tier acts. It wasn't all great but it had a really big influence on my own tastes, and given this was the mid-90s not a lot of people (me included) had access to cable TV and channels like The Box so it was really the only chance you got to see music videos. If at ten years old you could have convinced me I'd have a device in my pocket that lets me see music videos at any time, I'd have had to assume I was making Bill Gates money.

When the show was cancelled in 1998 to be replaced by another TOTP ripoff, this song still didn't have a video. So the producers of the show played the song and showed archival footage of the different graphics and displays the show had used over the years. Then when the video came out it was actually based around a chart rundown which felt deliberate, even though it clearly wouldn't have been. So for me "Music Sounds Better With You" has become a song about how music is presented and packaged and how the artifice of pop performance can enhance a good single, and its nostalgic "love might bring us back to together" hint of memory grows stronger for me the older I get and the more The Chart Show feels like a relic. I really love it as a song and I really love it as a memento of my first experiences with being a fan and consuming pop.

I mean it's just a banger too isn't it

Boxed otm that pick up by koze is a lot like this track

Great long post