The Parade: Terrorize the Dancefloor
This has to be one of the best flop songs out there. Released (briefly) on the 26th June 2000, it completely bombed despite being infuriatingly catchy and bouncy and upbeat and all the things I like best about pop music.
One of the reasons for its failure, though, may be the video which – whilst being, to my mind, quite stylish arty and sophisticated – doesn’t quite gel with the dance track. But hey.
Here for your aural and visual pleasure (or not) are “The Parade” with “Terrorize the Dancefloor”.
The promo notes on my CD single are by turns gloriously faux-intellectual, silly, and also tragically overoptimistic:
The Parade are James, Ben, Dom and Barney with guest chanteuse Krissie adopting a Nico-esque role. James and Barney are brothers, while the others met at school and formed a series of bizarrely named bands before settling on The Parade. Based in rural Oxfordshire, the Parade spent their early career being banned from every rehearsal studio in the area before finally finding a home in a disused grain barn.
Signing first a publishing deal with Deceptive and then a record deal with a reinvigorated Silvertone, the Parade combine indie credentials with essentially pop songcraft. It is this which makes them slightly perplexing but at the same time profoundly loveable. And it is this which makes ‘Terrorise the Dancefloor’ the first great pop song of the summer.
To which, all I can say is this: The lead singer? Oh you so would, wouldn’t you?
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it didnt flop, its release was pulled due to the band splitting up prior to the release date, I think its criminal it hasnt got a full release, or even covered, I imagine mcfly ft kylie, tasty thought, do you agree?
Really? What a shame. It had hit written all over it.
Interesting collaboration idea there though.
Although on every site on the web, everyone says it wasn’t released, it in fact was, and was pulled off the shelves of my local HMV seconds after i paid for it at approx 10am on the release day.
When i saw the guy with the pile being taken behind the counter i asked him, and he said something about N-sync’s record company put in a copyright claim on the single but to this day i dont know why 🙁