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Well, it's another record that's making its second visit to chart here, but the gap's been a little longer than for Goldie, since 'Don't You Want Me' was of course the Christmas Number One 14 years earlier. By the mid-90s, the League were on another label and enjoying their most successful run of singles in ages, so inevitable their former record company cashed in with a Greatest Hits album and re-release of the most famous track on it, as was still the fashion in those days. In an apparent attempt to attract a younger audience, the lead track on the single was aSnap remix, and the disc also included the similar mix by Red Jerry (who I freely admit I'd never heard of) that appears here. It's only listed as such inside the booklet though, so woe betide anyone who bought the album and expected to get the original.
I really do mean that. As I mentioned in passing when referring to the Farm version, I don't actually like the original version of this record at all, but I'll spare you the full rant here. One thing I will give it credit for, though, it that it's pretty much in time with itself, whereas neither of these remixes seems to stay in sync properly. It's tempting to suspect that neither of them put a lot of time or effort into it. What they've ended up with is something that will please neither fans nor haters of the original; even that chart position belies a pretty short run, only three weeks in the entire Top 75.
Oh, and I've spent two days trying to remember which instrumental trance hit that intro reminds me of, but it's not exactly an easy thing to check. Anyone else know?
Also appearing on: Now 1, 8, 13, 30, 31
Available on: Greatest Hits [includes the Snap mix]
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