It's Friday, thank god! And yet another trip back to the 90s is in order, me thinks.
We go to the spring of 1994. Ray & Anita of 2 Unlimited were gearing up for releasing their third (and last to date) studio album, Real Things. I was a huge fan and had been listening to Dutch radio station Radio 538 for days, waiting for the world premiere of their new single. "The Real Thing" did not disappoint!
The song became a Top 5 hit all over Europe and peaked at #6 in the UK. I was 16 years old and finishing high school that spring. My whole class took a trip to celebrate the end of school, going to several European countries that summer. We went to Germany when the album had just been released and I think pretty much everyone in our group picked up either the album or the single - or both! The album, including this Song Of The Day, became the soundtrack of the summer of 1994. My boyfriend just got all three 2 Unlimited albums on vinyl and it's been fun to give them all a spin (although of course we had them all on CD's as well).
Anyways, here it is: the sound of summer 1994!
3 comments:
Ah, good times. Never get tired of this song
At the time it never made such a huge impact on me as their earlier hits (nor as huge an impression as it it did on you, obviously), but it is great to hear this again! And of course, the occasional glimpse of the gorgeous Ray Slijngaard's nipples is always welcome... Jx
Ah yes, Ray has to be the most gorgeous Eurodance-boy ever!
And I must say that this song goes into the category of 90s Eurodance songs that actually age quite well.
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