Inner City (band)
| Inner City | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Detroit, Michigan, United States |
| Genres | House, techno, Detroit techno, Detroit house |
| Years active | 1987–1993; 1998–present |
| Labels | Virgin/Atlantic Records Virgin/EMI Records Columbia/SME Records Ten Records (United Kingdom) |
| Members | Kevin Saunderson Paris Grey Ann Saunderson Tommy Onyx |
| Past members | Static Revenger |
| Notable instruments | |
| Roland TR-909 | |
Inner City is an American house and techno group that formed in Detroit, Michigan, in 1987. The group is composed of the record producer and composer Kevin Saunderson and the Chicago, Illinois native Paris Grey. Saunderson is renowned as one of the Belleville Three—along with Juan Atkins and Derrick May—high school friends who later originated the Detroit techno sound.
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Musical career
Inner City topped dance charts in America and the UK eight times, hit the Top 40 in the UK Singles Chart nine times,[1] and sold around six million records.[citation needed] The group is best known for its early dancefloor-pop music crossover tracks "Big Fun" (UK #8, US Dance #1) and "Good Life" (UK #4, US Dance #1). Other hits include "Do You Love What You Feel" (UK #16, US Dance #1) and "Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin'" (UK #12, US Dance #8). The music videos to these songs received significant airplay throughout the world. Later work introduced a hybrid of techno, jazz and swing beats with a more soulful sound in the vein of downtempo British groups such as Soul II Soul and Massive Attack.[citation needed] The group recorded three albums for Virgin/EMI Records and one single for Columbia/SME Records.
Discography
Albums
| Year | Album | UK [1] |
US | AUS [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Paradise (renamed Big Fun in the U.S.) | 3 | 162 | 38 |
| 1990 | Paradise Remixed | 17 | — | — |
| 1990 | Fire | — | — | — |
| 1992 | Praise | 52 | — | — |
| 1993 | Testament ’93 | 33 | — | — |
| 2003 | Good Life—the Best of Inner City | — | — | — |
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
Album | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
US [3] |
US Dance [3] |
AUS [4] |
AUT [5] |
GER | IRE [6] |
NED [7] |
NZ [8] |
SUI [9] |
||||
| 1988 | "Big Fun" | 8 | — | 1 | 57 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 3 | — | 4 | Paradise | |
| "Good Life" | 4 | 73 | 1 | 52 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | |||
| 1989 | "Ain't Nobody Better" | 10 | — | 1 | 67 | — | 21 | 24 | 26 | 40 | 9 | ||
| "Do You Love What You Feel" | 16 | — | 1 | 76 | — | — | 22 | — | — | — | |||
| "Whatcha Gonna Do with My Lovin'" | 12 | 76 | 8 | 86 | — | — | 24 | 12 | — | — | Big Fun | ||
| 1990 | "(That Man) He's All Mine" | 42 | — | 15 | 143 | — | — | — | — | — | — | Fire | |
| 1991 | "Till We Meet Again" | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Let It Reign" | 51 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 40 | — | — | Praise | ||
| 1992 | "Pennies from Heaven" | 24 | — | 1 | 122 | — | — | — | 51 | — | — | ||
| "Follow Your Heart" | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Hallelujah '92" | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Praise" | 59 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Till We Meet Again" (remix) | 55 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1993 | "Back Together Again" | 49 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Singles only | |
| 1994 | "Do Ya" | 44 | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Share My Life" | 62 | — | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1995 | "Ahnonghay" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Your Love" | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| 1996 | "Do Me Right" | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1999 | "Good Life (Buena Vida)" PIAS re-recording) | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 73 | 48 | — | ||
| 2000 | "Good Love" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2001 | "Pump It Up Dub" (with E-Dancer) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2004 | "Say Something" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | "Future" (as Kevin Saunderson featuring Inner City) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2014 | "Bad Girl" (as Kevin Saunderson featuring Inner City) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
See also
- List of number-one dance hits (United States)
- List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
References
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- ↑ Australian (ARIA) peak chart positions:
- All peaks before 1990: Provided by ARIA through reply to chart inquiry, received 17 January 2014. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- Top 100 peaks from 1990 onwards: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Peaks for 'That Man (He's All Mine)' and 'Pennies From Heaven' outside the top 100: provided by ARIA through reply to chart inquiry, received 5 June 2015. Retrieved 13 June, 2015.
- ↑ Austrian peaks
- ↑ Search for Irish peaks
- ↑ Dutch peaks
- ↑ New Zealand peaks
- ↑ Swiss peaks
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with unsourced statements from February 2011
- Musical groups from Detroit, Michigan
- American house music groups
- American dance music groups
- American techno music groups
- Virgin Records artists
- Columbia Records artists
- Electronic music duos
- 1987 establishments in Michigan
- Musical groups established in 1987
