List of excreable solo careers launched via dance hits?

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Craig David
Lisa Stansfield
Seal

who else?

― last post ever (fandango), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I like the 1st 2. My nomination would be Sophie Ellis-Featherstonehaugh.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, the best pop star in the UK is execrable.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

I am exaggerating a bit... "pleasant MOR pop careers launched via vaguely underground dance crossover hits" was I think more what I was aiming at.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone remind me where Dina Carroll came from please... I'm sure she's one.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, she did that cover of carol king's 'it's too late' with quartz.

― danny invincible (michael w.), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

bryan adams, "let me take you dancin'"

― Shelly Winters Death Clip (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link

yazz

― retrogurl, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link

did cold-cut launch lisa stansfield and yazz ?

― retrogurl, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 05:37 (eighteen years ago) link

yes, without the hyphen

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Off-Topic: Speaking of Coldcut, did they ever get over being ashamed of their pop past? I lost count of their mid-90s Ninja Tune interviews that basically went "we're sorry, we made commercially succesful records for a multi-national, and we shan't do it again".

"People Hold On" and "The Only Way Is Up" haven't aged badly at all.

On-topic: DANIEL FUCKING BEDINGFIELD.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The pop records were for indies, it's the third Coldcut LP that put them off major labels and received ideas of commerciality.

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 08:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Mark Hollis.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Shara Nelson.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Coldcut have been playing "People Hold On" out on their new tour so possibly not embarrased anymore.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Whatever did become of Yazz anyway?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Has anybody ever actually used the word "execrable"? I mean spoken it? Ever heard anybody use it? Has it ever been used ANYWHERE other than music reviews? How is it pronounced?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Dido

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Goldfrapp

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Words you have never heared spoken...

Myonga, that's uncanny (check the time. Unless you saw this before 10:40)

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Ooh, "Mark Hollis" and the word "excreable" on the same subject/proposal. a first for ILM?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link

there's still a 'dance element' to goldfrapp tho.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, they're kind of more danceable than tricky's 'pumpkin', no?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

the thread title just says "list of execreable solo careers"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link

You guys, your spelling is excremental.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link

okay: madonna

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Goldfrapp is not a solo act. Also, they rule!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link

anyway all of the people mentioned on this thread have released at least one decent single on their own.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I was thinking of acts who came to success via a "guest" spot on a single.

So no, Madonna really doesn't count.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Kelly Llorenna (sang on N-Trance's 'Set U Free', has since released a handful of bobbins tracks since)

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:26 (eighteen years ago) link

not really successful though so I guess she doesn't count

how about Martine McCutcheon? appeared on Uno Clio's 'Are You Man Enough' before having her own hits, which seem mostly poor except possibly 'On My Radio'.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Which Dido single is the decent one?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Hunter!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

"White Flag"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link

and David's 'What's Your Flava' is better than anything by Usher.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Including the Twix adverts?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

not seen

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I was thinking of acts who came to success via a "guest" spot on a single.
So no, Madonna really doesn't count.

-- fandango (...), March 8th, 2006.

i'm guessing 're-rewind' was on crag's own LP though.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

was it on before it was released by Artful Dodger featuring... though?

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link

The version of "Re-rewind" that appears on Craig David's album is a remake. I'm guessing there was some issue as to ownership of the original.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I was thinking of acts who came to success via a "guest" spot on a single.

So no, Madonna really doesn't count.

didn't madonna sing backup on patrick hernandez's "born to be alive"?

― Shelly Winters Death Clip (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Beddingfield, n. - A pleasant MOR pop career launched via a vaguely underground dance crossover hit.

― baboon2004 (baboon2004), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Sub Sub featuring Melanie Williams - the only example of a rockist career launched via a dance hit?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Doves were hardly launched via "Ain't no love Ain't no use" and a ten year gap though?

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link

more liek five-six years.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link

most of the people listed on this thread are at least semi-good if not really good!

craig david, sophie e-b, dina carroll, shara nelson: am very glad for all their solo careers to have existed. especially dina carroll!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Shara Nelson's 'One Goodbye In Ten' is brillo

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Holy shit, Mark! That's amazing.

― Myonga Von Blownaway (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

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