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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2004 13:48:11 GMT -5
One of the earliest songs of the freestyle genre, and also one of the biggest. It was released from her debut album in 1983.
The Billboard Hot 100: #8
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks: #2
Hot Dance Music/Club Play: #1
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Post by Edf85 on Mar 28, 2004 14:00:23 GMT -5
I love it! I have the CASSETTE of her album.
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Post by HER MINAJesty on Mar 28, 2004 14:37:28 GMT -5
It's probably a 'classic' dance track
Pretty good
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Post by ClassicCase on Mar 28, 2004 15:10:28 GMT -5
That's the jam right there. I have the 12 inch version of it and it was really awesome! Talk about all of those synthesizers!
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Post by mst3k on Mar 28, 2004 15:31:02 GMT -5
That's the jam right there. I have the 12 inch version of it and it was really awesome! Talk about all of those synthesizers! Yeah, I love that version (that's the one with the really weird sounds in the beginning before the "whip" sound, right?). This song was and still is da bomb. :) |
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Post by ClassicCase on Mar 28, 2004 16:34:48 GMT -5
Yeah, I love that version (that's the one with the really weird sounds in the beginning before the "whip" sound, right?). This song was and still is da bomb. :) Yup. That is the one. I remember listening to K104 in Dallas when I was 17 on Saturday nights and there was a DJ by the name of Yooche` (u-shay) (sp?) who does their mixshow live from the club every Saturday night that plays that version. It's still the tightest of that day. |
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Post by prenatt1166 on Mar 28, 2004 23:22:25 GMT -5
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For Week Ending March 3, 1984(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title) 01 01 Michael Jackson - Thriller 02 02 Paul McCartney - So Bad/Pipes Of Peace 03 04 Bette Midler - Beast Of Burden 04 05 Van Halen - Jump 05 15 Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now 06 06 Rockwell/Michael Jackson - Somebody's Watching Me 07 09 Shannon - Let The Music Play08 10 Christine McVie - Got A Hold On Me 09 11 Nena - 99 Luftballons 10 13 Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again LTMP spent a single week at #7, coming in at #57 for the year. www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1984.htmlI purchased this 45 and Madonna's "Holiday" on New Year's Eve 1983. At the time, Shannon was considered to be the next big thing, while Madonna was probably going to be a one-hit wonder. Boy, was that wrong. :)
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Post by Jeff on Mar 29, 2004 8:58:07 GMT -5
I love it, too!  |
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Post by Ezekiel 23:20–21 on May 11, 2005 20:10:02 GMT -5
JAM! I still love this song. It's one of the best 80's songs.
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Post by BillboardBoy on Jul 3, 2006 18:24:15 GMT -5
I've always liked this song.
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Post by billcs on Jul 3, 2006 21:05:54 GMT -5
Even though it's freestyle, it still had a uniquely produced sound. One of my fave dance trax of the 80's.
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Post by A Thug Named Slickback on Jul 3, 2006 21:32:36 GMT -5
Something about this song just seems so bland to me.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 29, 2007 12:22:13 GMT -5
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 29, 2007 12:28:11 GMT -5
I remember watching America's Top 10 with Casey Kasem when the song went Top 10.
I was so shocked because I had never heard it before! Radio stations in Buffalo started playing soon afterward.
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Post by joker on Mar 29, 2007 13:25:42 GMT -5
It's probably a 'classic' dance track Pretty good |
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Post by unicorns on Apr 1, 2007 18:25:57 GMT -5
I love this song! I actually like this more than Holiday.  |
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Post by jaxxalude on Apr 3, 2007 19:37:51 GMT -5
New Order's Peter Hook said in this here little feature for British Dance Music industry publication DMC Update that this is "one of those songs you wish you'd written". Besides that, it's also one of those songs that will never fail on the dancefloor, either 20 years ago, right now or in 20 years to come. Even though its production bears the hallmarks of 1984, something in it just transcends it. In a way, it's what classic songs do: they take you back to the eras they were made, while retaining some sort of timeless element(s) that keep it fresh even after repeated plays. This song also makes me wonder how Urban music would have evolved in subsequent years, hadn't Run-DMC and later Teddy Riley came up with more stripped-down alternatives to the full-on electro vibes of most of the scene during a good chunk of the 80s. Vibes that only came back in the late 90s, when Timbaland, Cash Money and The Neptunes burst into the scene. |
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Post by blue in moonlight on Oct 14, 2008 21:52:19 GMT -5
Dance classic. I adore this song.
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Post by Mic Technique on Oct 15, 2008 0:03:39 GMT -5
TIMELESS JAM. Freestyle, baby!
Such an important record for not only dance music, but pop music alike. Anyone who doesn't find themselves enthralled by this simply isn't human. Sorry.
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Post by Libra on Oct 15, 2008 10:25:48 GMT -5
I actually prefer the radio edit of this song...I once listened to the full version, and I couldn't get into it as much as I could when it was shortened. I feel like all the production in the full version makes it sound too much like a different song.
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Post by lolhey on Sept 18, 2010 11:51:54 GMT -5
Jordin Sparks, phuck you for bastardizing this song.. but anyways this is def. classic. It's just so catchy and one of the first freestyle songs to really make an impact chart wise.
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Post by Soulsista on Sept 18, 2010 15:01:37 GMT -5
CLASSIC freestyle jam!
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Post by CookyMonzta on Oct 14, 2010 19:11:28 GMT -5
Yup. The first lady of freestyle set the clubs on fire with this one. When 1983 was over, 2 songs got everyone's attention, more than any other: This one, and Madonna's "Holiday", although the Art of Noise's "Beat Box" was surely creeping up on them in popularity.
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Post by esoteric76 on Oct 18, 2010 10:02:46 GMT -5
I still hear this track in clubs constantly, whether it's a remix or the original.
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Post by johnnywest on Dec 21, 2014 15:51:27 GMT -5
I remember watching America's Top 10 with Casey Kasem when the song went Top 10. I was so shocked because I had never heard it before! Radio stations in Buffalo started playing soon afterward. Speaking of Casey, I remember on AT10 once when he mentioned the name of the male singer on this song. Don't remember his name though. But it was nice of him to credit that voice that we've all heard dozens of times in the last 30 years. |
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 14, 2016 10:52:39 GMT -5
Can a Mod move this to the 80s thread? Thanks
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Post by God on Jun 9, 2018 10:10:04 GMT -5
My mom used to play this every chance she got when I was growing up and I never once got tired of it. It just might be my favorite song of all time!
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Post by Ling-Ling on Jun 9, 2018 11:09:17 GMT -5
Absolute classic, still sounds so fresh to this day. It's just a cool f**king song, like it has this icy mechanical sheen over it that makes it timeless.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2018 13:33:15 GMT -5
^ totally. it works in so many playlists for so many different crowds, then and now.
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Post by 🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲 on Oct 4, 2018 18:09:16 GMT -5
My favorite!
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