The Joubert Singers one is fine, the Celestial Choir version makes me want to commit murder. Which I’m pretty sure isn’t the effect they were aiming for.
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I take it the dislike for “the hits” is solely down to hearing them too much?
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Hot Coins remix - is this acceptable?
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For me no. I loathed Promised Land from the off. Just something about it I cannot stand. The Weller version even worse.
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This banal atrocity.takes some beating.
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Cant stand pretty much any vocal/soulful house these days. Wasnt a massive fan ever,tbh, but all that stuff just makes my shit itch. Each to their own, obvs 
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I’m sure it makes it worse but it’s not the main reason. The Night Writers still sounds amazing to my ears despite the same level of exposure.
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Ditto
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As a member of the second wave of clubbers that emerged in the early-mid 90s, too young for '88 and all that, the classics 
obv don’t have quite the same emotional resonance but I think they can still serve a purpose in uniting a floor in knowing recognition - but DJs need to be clever and careful in how they do it. I think there is a place for lesser known remixes eg
It seemed to me however that the cheesy ravey davey DJs settled on a limited pool of vocal house/rave records which got played to death (on Kiss FM and at shameless retro events like Clockwork Orange) to the point where so much “classic house” is unbearable. It’s therefore not always easy disentangling what aged badly from what simply suffered overkill.
*I think Alison Limerick is a good example of something you probably would get into if you were banjaxed on the beach at Salines because the goodwill would carry it through, whereas it would sound shit at some party in a launderette in Dalston.
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Gypsy Woman in every iteration - sampled/edited/covered etc - enough already
Big Fun and Good Life still thrill me - go figure.
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Hard agree on the dub of Tears and usung lesser known weapons
Hard disagree on Limerick. Never again will be too soon*
*never liked it.
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Maybe we should start an acceptable classics thread.
Off the top of my head that i still really like
Nightwriters - as Piers said, just a timeless tingler
T-Coy - Carino (Ross played it at We Out Here last summer and it took the roof off)
DJ Duke - Blow Your Whistle
Stevie V - Dirty Cash
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I thought about the Nightwriters too 
For me, those songs just lack any nuance. Not to go full DJ Sprinkles, but I think I knew, even at the time, pepped up on goofballs, that we weren’t going to make it the promised land or live as one family.
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100% on Gypsy Woman, never understood its popularity, dreadful record.
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Ruined for me in the sum.er of '91 when a a group of girls around our pool in Ibiza played it incessantly for a whole afternoon on their ghettoblaster
I’ve still got a soft spot for Kariya/Let Me Love You For Tonight.
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Big fun is great, such a solid tune that I can hear again and again.
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If you want to hear a DJ bang out the odd classic but still leave you energised Tony 586 is very good at that sort of thing. He played my friend’s party in Brixton around 2007 and there were barely 40 people in the pub but it was a killer set of stuff you knew but weren’t sick of - eg lil louis ‘y u fall’, paul rutherford ‘get real’, annette ‘dream 17’ all expertly mixed
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Thats right, ‘how’ classics are played makes all the difference.
I once heard Morales - the master of dropping a cheesy record - play Kylie Can’t Get You Out Of My Head on the Space terrace a year or 2 after it had been a worldwide #1, so the absolute last thing anyone wanted to hear.
But it was so skilfuly dropped that the place erupted, the bar staff stopped serving and were on the bar dancing, total mayhem.
Its a real skill only attained by the very best DJs imo.
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