“Tease Me” by Chaka Demus & Pliers

Chaka Demus & Pliers led their fourth album, Tease Me, with its title song as the first single in June 1993, released on Mango, and the Jamaican reggae duo had Sly & Robbie producing; the pair also helped write the lyrics. It's ragga at its sunniest, and the critics bit. Billboard's Larry Flick heard pop-drenched reggae riding hip-shaking staccato beats, loopy horns and playful vocals. James Masterton, in his UK chart column, filed it as a ragga hit from nowhere in the mellow, laid-back dancehall mould of Shabba Ranks, and NME's Ian McCann shrugged at the usual talk of dancing and fun but called it a wonderful record and predicted a hit the size of a planet, if possibly only Pluto.

He was close enough: it cracked the top 20 in six countries or more, going to number three in the UK.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.