Talk:Bomb the Bass

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Say a little prayer/Beat Dis

Say a little prayer
Hello, original stub writer returning! I made a big mistake - "say a little prayer" was indeed a hit for Aretha Franklin, but the song was written by Burt Bacharach. So its incorrect to call it "Aretha Franklin's..".

Also, I see that someone has quoted everyhit.com in fixing the peak chart position of Beat Dis as being #2 but I'm quite sure that it was #1 on the UK Network Charts.
 * The full trajectory, according to polyhex.com's chart runs database was 5-{2}-2-3-8-23-39-51-64-82R(2)-90. BillyH 10:27, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Musician vs. Group
Does BtB fit under both categories? I personally feel like it should be kept a band, as it is Simenon's moniker, and he is the actual musician.  mxdxcxnx T C 01:04, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

New mix
It is mentioned in passing that there was a new mix ("However, in November 2006, news leaked through the Bomb The Bass homepage on Myspace that a new album had been recorded, and was about to be mixed."). I'm going to confirm this for anybody who wants to add the information once they check it out. Album is called "12 Inch 80s Dance", song is "Beat Dis (extended mix)". Highly recommend this album Ben Rogers 22:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Merge from Tim Simenon
The Tim Simenon article was recently proposed for deletion as a duplicate of this article. I deprodded it as it is not totally duplicating this article although there is clearly a lot of overlap. I think a merge from Tim Simenon to this article would be the best approach, with Tim Simenon redirecting here. Any views?--Michig (talk) 12:54, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Response to above
Hi, I was the one that suggested merging BTB with Tim Simenon. I was also the one that's done the extensive rewrites on both. I suggested the merge because practically all of the info on the Tim Simenon page is the same as the Bomb the Bass one; and to keep updating both seems like it's diluting what could be great information in one single place. I've already copied across what I think is the best stuff from the TS page and put it into the Bomb the Bass one - so essentially the merge has already been done.

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Merge with Tim Simenon?
I think this article and Tim Simenon should be merged. I'm unsure as to where they should be merged to, here or Tim Simenon's article, but they definitely should be. Thoughts...? Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 08:31, 13 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think that there is much duplication between the two articles, and a merge seems appropriate. I favour into Bomb the Bass, if only because that was the name/styling used on the hit records, as per ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums"></ref


 * Incidentally, it is almost twenty years since they (he) were in the UK Top 10 !


 * Derek R Bullamore (talk) 22:25, 19 December 2010 (UTC)


 * No I would suggest they are kept seperate, Mtaylor848 (talk) 18:17, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Um, OK - why would you suggest they are kept separate? Dylanfromthenorth (talk) 20:06, 26 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Because Tim was an actual person rather than just an alias. He had a prolific production career separate from his solo work. Should have been kept separate. -Reticuli 50.5.74.135 (talk) 00:50, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Wrong link in Discography
Back to Light (!K7 / Electric Tones, 2010) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.194.40.201 (talk) 17:06, 27 July 2016 (UTC)

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No mention of 'Clear'
Has this article been edited recently as I'm sure BTB's 1995 album Clear the first one they done with Island Records/4th and Broadway used to be mentioned on here? It surely deserves a section as not only did it's singles 'Bug Powder Dust' and to a lesser extent 'Darkheart' '1 to 1 Religion' and 'Sandcastles' do reasonably well in the UK/Europe in 1994-95 Tim collaborated with the likes of Justin Warfield, Will Self, Sinead O'Connor, Spikey Tee, Carlton and Bernard Fowler on this project too. It also signified a change in style and sound too from the high tempo Hip Hop beats of Tim's earlier work to a more mature 'Trip Hop' based sound that he'd incorporate into the work he did later on with other artists like Gavin Friday and Depeche Mode.

Expanding the sections?
Would it be good to expand some of the sections in the main entry? For example there's no mention of 'Don't Make Me Wait', 'Say A Little Prayer' or the subsequent album 'Into The Dragon' from BTB's 1988 period and likewise later singles from 'Unknown Territory' like 'The Air You Breathe' and remixed 'Keep Giving Me Love' aren't there either. Also there's no mention of the collaboration with Martin Gore on the track 'Milakia' from 'Back to Light' either nor most of the singles which were also released from that album too.

I know sometimes Wikipedia entries can go overboard with things but BTB's earlier and initial career was much more than simply 'Beat Dis' in my opinion.

Neneh Cherry/'Buffalo Stance' & other collaborations
Would a section about Tim's collaborations after his initial success in '88 be worth putting together? I know she's a distinctive artist in her own right but Neneh Cherry's 'Buffalo Stance' was produced by Tim, has a 'Bomb the Bass Rock this Place!' reference in it and was a monster hit in the UK/Europe in 1988-89 too. Also around this period Tim did produce for other artists some of which weren't quite as successful as what he did with Neneh Cherry but did lead to his production work on Seal's hit 'Crazy' in 1990 and kept him out the public eye in 1989-90 until he regrouped the BTB project for what would become 1991's 'Unknown Territory'. Does this deserve mentioning?

Nation 12
Again does Tim's work alongside John Foxx as 'Nation 12' in 1990 deserve a section? Again this was fairly successful within the Dance/Electronic music scene in the UK/Europe in 1990 before Tim returned to his work with BTB.

History subsection headings
I hope I'm not just being po-faced, but this article's subsection headings in the History section seem excessively stylised to me, and thus out-of-kilter with equivalents in most other musical artist articles I've seen on Wiki. Bluntly, they read like chapter headings in a self-penned memoir or similar piece of self-promotion. If the style guide permits this then fine, but I just found it weird and incongruous. 87.75.113.64 (talk) 12:40, 13 September 2021 (UTC)