"Rilly Groovy" is a 1993 song by Beautiful People. Released as the second single from their 1993 album '' If 60's Were 90's'', the song reached #3 on the

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chart.

Background

The song was written by group leader Du Kane and Luke Baldry with the programming done by Baldry at Kane's mother's house in

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. Like the rest of Rilly Groovy's parent album '' If 60's Were 90's'', the song extensively samples the works of

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; Rilly Groovy samples guitar from " Wild Thing", "Up the Road" and " Bleeding Heart", and bass guitar and spoken words from ''

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''. The sample used for the guitar solo, like the others on the album, was a multitrack solo; although the group had permission to raid

's archive and indeed did do for the song's solo, most of the album's samples were taken from CD to show how much could be done. However, Rilly Groovy's solo posed an extra challenge as the drumming used in the source solo was non- metronomic, with

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starting at about 100 bpm and rising to 140bpm; Baldry's response was to cut it into about 20 different chunks each on the left and right, reorder them, and then replay them across the beat.

Music video

A music video was produced for the song. It was shot at the now-defunct Fungus Mungus in

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, although since many of the samples were originally taken from ''

'', so too was their corresponding video.

Chart performance

Rilly Groovy charted at No. 3 in the US ''

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chart; on the back of this, ''If 60's Was 90's'' was re-released and peaked at No. 74 on the UK Singles Chart, and No. 5 on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

References

{{Beautiful People 1993 singles 1993 songs Beautiful People (band) songs