I was just talking to a coworker about music I won't play at work because it might be too much, he asked for an example, of course I thought of Eye Opener 😂 man, I got goosebumps hearing it again tho
i was a 15y/o kid with a set of soundlab dlp1 belt drives got this on my 1st trip record shopping, all my mates thought i was so cool lol 6 months later i got offered a battered set of technics 1200s with technics mixer all in cases for £300 and never looked backor asked where they came from lol
Kids these days wouldn't know where to start to get 5000 plus people in a field together in the middle of nowhere with 2 hours notice and no directions, no mobiles, no social media. Back when a culture meant something.
Cannot listen to this without jumping about like a raj whilst crying my eyes out. Remember taping happy hardcore off of the radio at 2 in the morning. Total nostalgia. Also reminds me of Friday night disco at the ice rink , thinking back was was a seriously hostile environment. Almost every rough area in Edinburgh all packed into 1 building. Kind of miss it 😂
If RU-vid was invented over a decade ago, this tune would've had millions of views by now. This was the ultimate happy hardcore anthem back when it was still all good and cheesy!
@tehyoshi 10 years ago If RU-vid was invented over a decade ago, this tune would've had millions of views by now. This was the ultimate happy hardcore anthem back when it was still all good and cheesy! Kudos to the decade old comment :D
Awww...I remember being a kid out at a desert party somewhere in Arizona in 97 and doing the happy hardcore kick and as this song came on one of the first times i had ever heard it, the sun peaked over the mountains in the distance and I just couldn't stop dancing hard and smiling...
Brother, I didnt even know you americans knew of our hardcore, never mind being ravers yourselves! 😁😁😁 Our happy hardcore family is global brother. Peace love and unity from northern england, on this glorious bright sunny March morning!✌🏻✌🏻
@@NiSiochainGanSaoirse Us Americans ain’t all that bad haha There is a small but very solid community out here. Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Atlanta......I’m blessed to be apart of the LA scene! We do it a bit different compared to you guys across the pond.....it’s all kandi and phat pants out here haha But throw on any number of classic tunes and we’ll sing and dance to them with the best of’em. Much love brother! 3344 happy happy hardcore!
I hope you’re account is still active because I know exactly what and who you’re talking about! I used to know Dez and the other DJs in the Akron scene, and also the U4x crew that threw the “Funky Charms” parties. I played at a couple of the later ones. I miss The parties at the Eagles Nest and Club Europa back in the day.
I was probably at every Seattle rave in 03 and 04, and this song played at every single one. That was also back when I could dance to the beat for the entirety of the song. Good times.
Happy hardcore was easily the best rave music to dance to. The highs and lows, made it unique in rave music, and unlike all the other versions of rave music. By far the best dance music, humans have come up with. The highs and lows, are excellent for dancing all night. I will always miss it, ie the 90s, and always regret i never died raving in late 90's. The strobe lights and music, and energies, of peoples. Even though i cannot the people part, humans create energies at such things, and your all sharing the experience. Happy hardcore, was like the classical music of our times. The highs and lows, made dancing to it, the best experience. All other rave types of music, are very monotonous, and all about the same rhythm, while happy hardcore, rose to highs, then to lows, and made dancing to it, far more a human experience. As things like techno, although its good as its fast, can be too boring, as its always got one pace.
@@marcp3788 I'm still torn to this day. I think for me it depends on where it's being played, if it's at home then Jungle or DnB, at an all nighter it's a different story. I agree with the cheese but for me that was what helped the vibe at events. Like Andy says HH always felt like a shared experience. I loved going to raves and spent many hours in DnB and Jungle rooms but unless someone was dropping an anthem it always felt like an individual experience. The HH rooms the vibe was more like a party, strangers just asking how you were (granted pilled up and off their faces) but those last couple of hours of all nighters in HH rooms for me made the night. Knowing you'd have a big name dropping anthem after anthem and everyone there was on the crest of the wave, something special.
Jungle and drum and bass had some bangers. But at a rave there was no comparison, jungle, it was moody as fuck, where with hardcore the atmosphere was electric, everyone was smiling, you could talk to anyone. 93-95 were the best years, after that they both went downhill to me. Hardcore got too cheesy and jungle too moody.
How can people say men don’t have feeling. Just a short verse but the lyrics are so powerful!!! Currently on my “I must hear it a few times a day” list!!!
That sample and version of this tune eluded me for years. I eventually came across a very old promo video of a now long since closed local dance club, that had it playing during the video.
I used to spin Happy Hardcore back in my early twenties. This track ranks among my favs. "Set Free" and "Shooting Star" are a couple of undeniable classics too.
'7' is my lucky number in Poker, - and along with the love of this bangin happy hardcore track,- You deserve your 100th LIKE in 7 years, so here it is from Moi!! x \●/ ❤
Brisk was definitely a niche D.J, much like Mark E.G or Mickey Finn. They played familiar music, no doubt, but they also found a style c9mpletely of their own and smashed it with their individual styles. Brisk was the ultimate pilling D.J though
Brisk is the true pioneer of idgaf hardcore obliteration..his mc..Sharkey learned from the best, some of Sharkeys early sets really remind you of how much Brisk influenced his style...then he went BONKERS and the rest is history
Your a young wize raver! I was raving when this song came out!lol, Maybe with your mom and i knew this song was something special and new. This song got me pregnantand i was so happy at that time and 9 months later "happy hardcore" rave music was born, i cried many tears of joy! Raver4life
I was Raving and Djing with absolute stompers like this Dance Floor Destroyer bk in the 90s. God i miss them days now, 37 now family etc, ahh how life has changed. Still got my copy tho in my cherished vinyl collection stored away. You know your stuff if you're young and know that these tunes are absolutely Timeless!!!
I totally agree, this is THE happy hardcore tune. I did get tired of happy hardcore after a while back in the days though, but this tune will stay one of my favorites forever.
What a truly magnificent tune this really is. probably one of my favorite rave tunes of all time. every time a listen to it just makes is wana get twisted clean up fkn magical lad
Used to have this as my ringtone when you had to key it in on the old Nokia's! Kids these days have NFI what we went thru to survive, yet we got to experience this era first hand as the payoff. I'd do it all again in a heartbeat!
I went to helter skelter deca dance back in 97 there was about twenty of us and force and styles played this and we all lost are minds and danced so hard just smiling
Ah man these lyrics! 😍 She's like, "see all the love in me, I got enough forever", as if she's some kind of Archon of reality with infinite energy to give. "Don't be afraid, take all you need from me, and we'll be strong together". She's tellin' you it's okay to tap into her infinite energy supply, and let's be as one forever. Epic!
hullabaloo? i really wish i could have been part of the hullabaloo/goodfellaz era, but i'm proud to say i'll be part of the nocturnal commissions era. timmy and george put on events that match or maybe even top the events anabolic frollic was putting on
ChrisHunter12345 Yeah, my second party was a Hullabaloo...first one was an E-Mail party at the Big-Bop (RiP). Back then it was mostly Hulla, E-Mail, Phryl, Liquid Adrenalin, Destiny, Syrous, etc... Around 2000/2001-ish 'raves' were alll over the newspapers after a couple people died (the first at WEMF '99) and the city wanted to shut them down..so since that period parties and the whole scene have gone up and down like a roller-coaster. Nowadays they seem to be mostly smaller club-type events that end at 3 other than the promise parties which are really good, although for me it's a twice or so times a year thing for me :P. Man, parties were big back then, and went to like 8 in the morning :D
James Helliwell The party scene over here was really good at one point. I've had wet-dreams about going to parties in London, the scene down there looks absolutely amazing! Is it really like it looks on the screen?
POINTED AT YO TEMPLE WITH THE INTENT TO KILL My god, so many rave memories and childhood growing up with this genre / nightcore. I will never stop loving happy-hardcore or the older style of trance, it's simply magical to me.
back in the rave days I used to say, if and when I die I want my friends to play eyeopener and shoot me out of a canon into the ocean, ha ha. I think i still do.
Hope you will wait a long and happy time untill this grand finale! Some lad! Eyeopener is classic to me i even danced on this arrow mat with my pal drinking Remoff, cardio done! haha
I remember the first time I heard this at a party. I was wondering how the hell to dance to it. I wasn't sure, so I just jumped up and down with everyone else. Good times.
