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Utah Saints are a British dance band from Leeds in West Yorkshire. The music is produced by Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt, who are joined on-stage by other musicians whenever the band plays live. Utah Saints were one of the early pioneers of bringing sampling technology into mainstream dance and pop music, and have also gained a certain notoriety for the long gap between releases - their follow-up, Two, came seven years after their debut.

They were described as the first true stadium house band (by Bill Drummond), though their music is difficult to place into one particular genre and they have been compared to Underworld, Fluke, The KLF, and even Ministry or Nine Inch Nails.

They first had chart success with the singles What Can You Do For Me, Something Good and Believe In Me, which they described as their vocal sample trilogy as those singles sampled Gwen Guthrie, Kate Bush and The Human League respectively (What Can You Do For Me also features a sample from Eurythmics). Contrary to one rumour, the band were not sued by Kate Bush over the use of a sample from Bush’s track Cloudbusting in the Utah Saints track Something Good, the sample was legally cleared before use. Utah Saints then moved away from vocal samples with singles such as I Want You and I Still Think Of You (Jez Willis providing original vocals on each).

1	Something Good	300
2	Something Good '08	190
3	Something Good 08	154
4	Something Good (Van She 08 Radio Edit)	124
5	Something Good '08 (Ian Carey Remix)	94
6	Something Good '08 (Warren Clarke Remix)	85
6	Something Good '08 (Radio Edit)	85
8	Something Good 2008	67
9	What Can You Do for Me	66
9	Power to the Beats	66
11	Utah Saints Take on the Theme from Mortal Kombat	50
12	Something Good 08 (Radio Edit)	48
13	Lost Vagueness	45
14	Sick	40
15	Punk Club	36

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joetattie wrote:
last month

Saw them this weekend, absoloutly wicked! played EVERYTHING! shoulda seen the crowd try the running man hahaha

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pakomanIAM wrote:
last month

Lost Vagueness (M6 Bootleg) : wow

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FreqFace wrote:
last month

High Contrast and Warren Clarke remix ftw, I'm not a big fan of the original or the 2008 version.

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Terrasidius wrote:
last month

ffs the 08 remix is SHIT! the original is miles better as evidenced by it having more plays.

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szyszkowski wrote:
July 2008

Power to the people and the beats! Beats, beats, yeah!

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Jay19Jay87 wrote:
July 2008

Catch Utah Saints live in London this summer @ GET LOADED IN THE PARK 2008. 24th August 2008, Clapham Common. Get your tickets now: http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1200408EDABA5140?camefrom=CFC_UK_LOCKNLOAD_MYSPACEB

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djbricksta wrote:
June 2008

Something Good 08 (Ian Carey Remix) is pretty good, got the check the original and high contrast mix

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Boodangy wrote:
June 2008

I highly recommend J. Scott G. & Anthony Ross' Something Gooder Remix here

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Ser3f wrote:
May 2008

It was 92, I remeber it like it was 16 years ago.

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KLINGKONG wrote:
April 2008

Something Good Remixes?! Check my Blog http://exxxslut.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/something-fierce/

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Viper357 wrote:
April 2008

Love the video. Makes me wanna join in the fun! :D

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adam60i wrote:
March 2008

Something good 08 is an awesome track and the video too

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mir93 wrote:
March 2008

JUST KNOW THAT SOMETHING GOOOOD ID GONNA HAPPENN !! lol , fresh trackkkkk . xx

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lozzd wrote:
March 2008

I can't believe this is back. 1991 Man! 1991! I remember it from the first time!

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zmin wrote:
March 2008

high contrast remix of something good is suchh a great tune right on!

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Terrasidius wrote:
March 2008

philistines, i mean the originals so much better.

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room13 wrote:
March 2008

Update: He did play it. Still a happy girlface

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carajaii-xx wrote:
March 2008

something good 08 is tops i luv da vid wid all da welsh ppl init its sik mayte!!

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Tom_Scott wrote:
March 2008

high contrast remix of something good is suchh a great tune

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room13 wrote:
March 2008

High contrast remix for the absolute win. If he plays it this weekend I will be one happy girlface.

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