Lipps Inc. - "Funkytown"

[BFMR]

i don't know why, this song is one of my favorites still today! it was #1 for 4 weeks in may/June 1980 (slightly less then a year before i was born)

why did you guys think of this?

EDIT: i modified the title to properly reflect what it was called

[FreakyFlyBry]

It was alright. I liked the remake a lot more, though.

[Deleted]

I hate this song.

[jond7699]

For the time period it came out of I would say the song isn't that bad at all.

[Hervard]

I don't like this version very much at all. The remake by Pseudo-Echo (summer, 1987) IMO is much better.

This song must have been a huge seller, for it only got as high as number seven on R&R and didn't stay in the Top Ten very long.

It might have peaked at number two on Cash Box, for Rick Dees included it on his "Number Two Hits Of The 80's" show back in May, 1988. I know that Rick used the Cash Box chart for the first few years of his show before switching over to R&R sometime during 1985.

[BFMR]

The said:

I hate this song.

i REALLLLLLY wish you'd give a reason for that........

[Keith3000]

I guess this song is alright...still has that disco flavor leftover from the '70s. And the group name is pronounced "lipsink" right? Just checking....

Hard to believe this track won Record of the Year though.

[mst3k]

Keith3000 said:

And the group name is pronounced "lipsink" right?

Right... as in "lip synch". I still love this song.

[ExActLy99]

I only like this song when I'm in a party/dance mood, otherwise I can't stand it, it is soooo annoying!!

[prenatt1166]

UU-BRU Radio Playlist
[red]For Week Ending June 7, 1980[/red]

(Rank This Week, Last Week, Artist, Title)

01 03 Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
02 02 Paul McCartney - Coming Up
03 04 Robbie Dupree - Steal Away
04 05 Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious
05 07 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock 'N Roll To Me
06 10 Michael Jackson - She's Out Of My Life
07 01 Gary Numan - Cars
08 08 Ray Parker, Jr & Raydio - Two Places At The Same Time
09 09 Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me
10 06 Linda Ronstadt - Hurt So Bad

"Funkytown" spent a single week at #1.

Lipps, Inc. had the #13 single of 1980
www.keystonehighways.com/uubru1980.html

:)

[reception]

ulij20 wrote
I don't like this version very much at all. The remake by Pseudo-Echo (summer, 1987) IMO is much better.

This appears on my "Greatest Sports Rock And Jams Vol 3" CD.

[Chelsea Press 2]

I kind of liked this one.

[irock]

I like it and the remake. It's one of those songs that defines disco. Like most disco tunes it's grown rather tiresome, but it's still enjoyable once in a while.

[[upsilon]™]

DANCE. CLASSIC. PERIOD. I wasn't even born relatively near the year this came out, but I know that I really like this and that this was a pretty good hit.

And, wow, I never noticed that their name sounds like "lip synch". I've just always pronounced it separately, so I didn't notice it.

[bubblepop15]

rebirthxperience said:

I hate this song.

How dare!

I LOVE this song so much

[areyoureadytojump]

The video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUm6TCbEK0g

[tico]

I also like the remake better.

[joker]

tico said:

I also like the remake better.

[cartman2002]

Funkytown was #1 for 4 weeks on Billboard

[areyoureadytojump]

Bump. I'm doing the all the #1 songs of 1980.

[unicorns]

I used to like it, but now I think it's overplayed crap. :)

[Soulsista]

Also hit #1 Dance. I also liked the remake.

[Agent Yoncé]

Haven't heard this in ages. I used to hear it faithfully growing up on the old school R&B stations.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Still my favorite!! I like the remake as well, but the original will always hold dear to my heart!!!

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

[disman00911]

One of the best disco songs.  Heard this as an 80s flashback on B96, WGCI, and defunct 103.5 Jammin Oldies when I was younger.  I like the original over the 80s remake by Pseudo-Echo but I like that version too.

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

#297 on Billboard's 500 Greatest Pop Songs 

You Know What It Is: The Minneapolis Sound jam that makes moving to another city sound about 10000x more fun than it is in practice, and proof that disco didn’t go the way of the dodo as soon as the calendar turned to 1980.

The Sun Always Shines on T.V.: In one of the few South Park bits that’s still sorta close to as funny as it was when it aired decades earlier, stoner talking towel Towelie (sure) swears he can help the boys break into a military base — but forgets the security code and just uses the pad as a synth to play the addictive main “Funkytown” hook.

Coming Around Again: Aussie rockers Pseudo Echo had a top 10 hit with their “Funkytown” cover in 1987 — though for reasons unknown, they asked to be taken down to “a funky town,” rather than “Funkytown” specifically.