History Repeating [CD-single]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
The Propellerheads, Bath, England's own big beat purveyors & remixing extraordinaires, issued this 1997 single on the Wall of Sound label. Features three exclusive remixes of the track, which is based on the Shirley Bassey track 'Finders Keepers Song'. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

History Repeating, Music, Propellerheads, Big Beat, Club/Dance, Dance Music, Electronica, Funky Breaks, Pop, Trip-Hop

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Dame Bassey Stays In Tune

Pure excitement...

A Classic

Worth repeating

History Repeating
Propellerheads
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Big Beat | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
Broadway & Vocalists | Imports | Stores | Music
Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
Pop | Imports | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B000007W7E
Release Date: 1998-12-01

History Repeating [Knee Length Mix]
History Repeating [Ankle Length Mix]
History Repeating [Hip Length Mix]

Album Details

The Propellerheads, Bath, England's own big beat purveyors & remixing extraordinaires, issued this 1997 single on the Wall of Sound label. Features three exclusive remixes of the track, which is based on the Shirley Bassey track 'Finders Keepers Song'.

Customer Reviews:

Dame Bassey Stays In Tune.......2003-06-27

When Shirley Bassey, at the age of 60, was approached by the Propellerheads to do "History Repeating", she initially turned them down and suggested that they give the song to Tina Turner. However they insisted that the song was written and arranged for her, and Bassey finally agreed to record it. The results of this dancible Propellerheads/Bassey jazz hit, is a whole new legion of Gay fans and youth in general. The song became part of the soundtrack for the movie "There's Something About Mary", and was also used in a Jaguer commercial, helping to re-introduced Bassey's voice to a lot of Americans who are to young to remember "Goldfinger". "History Repeating" can also be found on Shirley Bassey's "Greatest Hits" CD. You can see the making of the music video for "History Repeating" on Shirley Bassey's concert DVD "Divas Are Forever". The music video itself is no longer available. Hopefully it will be re-released someday.

Pure excitement..........2002-01-04

The UK's Propellerheads take Shirley Bassey's awesome voice and make it the centrepiece of one of the most distinctive & exciting club tracks you'll ever hear: clever mixing and an insidious backbeat that fully exploit the power of the 60's diva's delivery to catapult her straight into the late 90's. Want to dance?... then look no further!

A Classic.......2001-09-05

Even if there is only 3 mixes on this cd single, it's simply the best SONG the Propellerheads have managed to create. Bassey, of course, sells it like her life depends on it, et voila! Instant Classic! Play it for any age group: 3 generations of my family have grooved to it.

Worth repeating.......2000-06-15

I heard this song more than a year ago in a college dance show and became obsessed with finding it. Then I learned that it was included on the 'There's Something About Mary' soundtrack but I wasn't interested in buying the entire CD for one song, so I can't tell you how excited I am to see that it's available as an import. Best enjoyed in your car at full blast, with the windows down!

Making History by Repeating It

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Yawwwwwnnnn...

Making History by Repeating It
Stilettos
Manufacturer: Stardumb
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Garage Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0006GAOZY
Release Date: 2004-09-01

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No Time to Waste
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Rachael
You're So Rock 'N' Roll
I Want You
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You Want It
Wanna Wanna
Combat Zone
Nothing to Show For
What to Do With My Time
Grandmother Is a Total Stranger (Since She Caught Her Nose in the ...)

Customer Reviews:

Yawwwwwnnnn..........2005-12-14

The Stilettos utilize a more bare-knuckled approach toward their craft than Stardumb stablemates like The Apers, Backwood Creatures, and The Groovie Ghoulies, falling squarely on the punk side of the pop/punk fence. Like pirahnas in a feeding frenzy, razor sharp and hopefully glory bound, they chew up the scenery from one end of "Making History By Repeating It" to the other.

Unfortunately (and I never thought I'd ever say this), louder and faster doesn't always mean better. These guys have so thoroughly stripped away all of the pleasantries which make for good punk, things like momentum and melody, that it often veers dangerously close to the loudest post-MRI headache on God's green earth.

Granted I'm a good 25 years past The Stilettos' intended target market, but this is all so - I don't know - uniformly dreary and one dimensional (yet competently played - seems like a contradiction, doesn't it?). "I Want You" is basically the chorus of Peter Frampton's "Show Me The Way" relentlessly bludgeoned into submission with nary a sniff of irony. In "What To Do With My Time," front man Ned Harris actually monotones "I wanna rock, I wanna roll/I need a woman to satisfy my soul." Ouch!

Most of the songs here are built around overtrampled, meat-and-potatoes riffs straight out of the Punk Rock 101 songbook which careen haphazardly around the room looking for a hard edge to bounce off of or a corner to back you into, haranguing you into a screaming fit. In other words, you've heard this entire album a million times before - braying, harsh poverty punk which lacks mobility, unlikely to advance and get a job. I thought Stardumb knew better...

You've been warned.

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