Does anyone remember Whigfield?

dublincc2 · 01-07-2023 7:02pm #1

I was over in my wife’s parents house watching Top of the Pops 1994 on TV the other night with my father in-law they had Whigfield on with the song Saturday Night.

I had a very big thing for her back in the day and I was saying to my father in-law I had a poster in my bedroom I had a very big thing for her in the mid 90s where did the days go.

Galwayguy35 · 01-07-2023 7:07pm

No idea what she looked like but i remember the song it was belted out every weekend in the nightclubs at the time.

zell12 · 01-07-2023 7:09pm

It was No 1 for yonks. It is still catchy.

1994 was a nice year for music (not Whigfield)

magicbastarder · 01-07-2023 7:09pm

if you're in your 40s it's hard to not remember her.

odyssey06 · 01-07-2023 7:12pm

Saturday Night de da de da da da da dum.

TOTP replays brings back a lot of memories.

silliussoddius · 01-07-2023 7:12pm

Is it just me or does the synth riff in Saturday Night remind you of the synth riff in Duchess by the Stranglers?

01-07-2023 7:14pm

I seen her in the mid nighties in Crystals in Leicester City. Ropey performance, but i too had a poster of her!

BrianD3 · 01-07-2023 7:30pm

As well as that song, I remember her from Eurotrash when she was asked what she needed for true happiness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RagRdQSrEho

dublincc2 · 01-07-2023 7:59pm

Also Boyzone with ‘Love me for a Reason let the reason be DRUGS’ as I liked to call it was on, my God where has the time gone.

mockler007 · 01-07-2023 8:01pm

She was some tasty Danish pastry

anewme · 01-07-2023 8:56pm

You think that’s bad…I’m watching Now 80’s which is some obscure TV channel and it’s 1989. They are all minor hits and I know every single word of every song.

If I had it all again, I’d do it all differently, but thats life.

odyssey06 · 01-07-2023 8:58pm

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You lucky b*****d

If you want to hear obscure 80s tracks you missed first time round check out ABC to XTC on RTE gold.

The Helpful Engineer · 01-07-2023 10:22pm

I watched that Top of the Pops 1994 episode the other night as well. It was good fun seeing & hearing all the old songs again, but it was also amazing how bad the picture quality was back then.

odyssey06 · 01-07-2023 10:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120793648#Comment_120793648

The look and clothes of the audience as much as the music takes me right back to the era. I remember people who dressed like that girl or guy.

Sgt Hartman · 02-07-2023 8:11am

Whigfield is still on the go, she was performing at Biggest Disco outdoor festival on 24th of June.

Saturday Night was a bit of a cheesy tune. I much preferred her lesser known follow up hit Think of You

https://youtu.be/QFeR33I0HPs

Dreamweapon · 02-07-2023 10:19am

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Spanish Bombs by The Clash always come to mind for me.

zell12 · 02-07-2023 10:33am

🎵 I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes..

Archeron · 02-07-2023 6:02pm

Once you hear the duck, you cant hear anything but the duck

Hangdogroad · 03-07-2023 5:16am

Yes, hate that song.

odyssey06 · 03-07-2023 7:26am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120797817#Comment_120797817

But now in a retro I like remembering hating that song kind of way???

:)

Hangdogroad · 03-07-2023 8:11am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120797986#Comment_120797986

Nah, didn't like it then either.

03-07-2023 5:59pm

There's a brilliant three song sequence on CD1 of Now 29 that goes like this

Saturday Night - Another Night - Rhythm Of The Night

iamstop · 04-07-2023 1:32pm

I used to like watching the video for Saturday Night. She was hot, cute hair and had her shoulders out with the towel on. How I'd pray the towel would fall.

More recently my about 5 years ago, my (female) roommate at the time was into that song. I think it's cos she used to go to one of the gay clubs and it was on regular rotation there.

JupiterKid · 04-07-2023 2:50pm

It’s a horrible earworm from my college years and that Summer and Autumn of ‘94 you could not go out anywhere in terms of clubs/dance venues where this wasn’t playing. I love good ‘90s dance music but this is not in that category in my books.

Much as I fondly remember the 1990s as the decade of my coming of age and the great music that was around, there was also an awful lot of complete rubbish on the airwaves too such as aforementioned one-hit wonder Whigfield, Ace of Base, Mr. Blobby, Lighthouse People, Boyzone, etc.