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Post by Hervard on Jul 15, 2004 13:54:50 GMT -5
Definitely one of the most bizarre songs I've ever heard. The synthesizer used in the song (known as a "moog") makes a lot of blips, supposedly supposed to represent popcorn popping in time to the music. I heard it on Sunny 101.5's "Lunchtime 70s" yesterday and I was like, "Whoa, I'd almost forgotten about this song!"
Any of you ever heard this odd song? I think it went Top Ten in the spring or summer of 1972.
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Post by mst3k on Jul 15, 2004 14:13:12 GMT -5
Extremely odd, goofy instrumental.
Apparently their followup single "Lobster Tail" never charted. ;)
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Post by iceman on Jul 15, 2004 14:26:48 GMT -5
Funny song. Not too long ago I heard a techno remix of this.
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Post by stevie nice on Jul 15, 2004 22:55:37 GMT -5
I think the guy named Aphex Twin does a remix of this. This is too annoying for me.
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Post by reception on Jul 16, 2004 14:01:50 GMT -5
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Post by ClassicCase on Jul 16, 2004 14:14:50 GMT -5
Strange, bizarre, lots of keyboard and moog activity. Makes you think of the movie theatres that served them.
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Post by johnnywest on Jul 18, 2004 8:16:12 GMT -5
Love it!  I have it on a 70's compilation CD. The first time I heard it was on the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 in the summer of 1996. He did a really great instrumental montage. Can't remember if it was for "Mission: Impossible" or "Children." Anyway, some of the other songs in that montage were: Frankenstein Miami Vice Exorcist The Stripper Star Wars Rick said, "Remember 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter? I don't." |
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Post by BillboardBoy on Aug 2, 2004 16:47:46 GMT -5
Kinda reminds me of the summer of 1998. I was working at an Italian restaurant and this was one of the songs on the Muzak that got played a lot. :)
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Post by Hervard on Aug 2, 2004 17:13:14 GMT -5
Love it! I have it on a 70's compilation CD. The first time I heard it was on the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 in the summer of 1996. He did a really great instrumental montage. Can't remember if it was for "Mission: Impossible" or "Children." Anyway, some of the other songs in that montage were: Frankenstein Miami Vice Exorcist The Stripper Star Wars Rick said, "Remember 'Popcorn' by Hot Butter? I don't." LOL, I remember that! It was so funny, because I had heard that song on Windy 100 (WNND in Chicago) Saturday night oldies show a few months before. I always thought this was a theme for a radio show or something; I had no idea it was a real song, let alone one that charted in the Top Ten! |
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Post by JOJO SIWA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME on May 22, 2005 4:38:46 GMT -5
Interesting song. When I was in 2nd grade, occasionally for P.E., we did all these dances, and one of the dances we had to do was to this song. It was a complete, repetitive, line dancing routine. Gosh, if I ever had to do that again!
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Post by BillboardBoy on May 22, 2005 10:43:57 GMT -5
I'm hoping this song will turn up on AT10 in the near future. It may just happen if instrumetal songs are featured in the spotlight. There have been a lot of obscure songs played this year.
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 5, 2006 22:36:08 GMT -5
Heard this again recently. Great song!
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Post by 620 Soul Train on Nov 6, 2006 20:54:04 GMT -5
I heard this for the first time on AT40 (the Flashback) that they play on XM radio. It was top ten in 1972.
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Post by cartman2002 on May 5, 2007 0:29:55 GMT -5
Popcorn reached #9 on the Hot 100 in 1972
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Post by shocker on May 6, 2007 2:13:19 GMT -5
I heard that "Popcorn" was the 1st all-synthesized song to chart in the top 10. It was really ahead of its time.
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Post by jaxxalude on May 7, 2007 5:55:35 GMT -5
Absolute classic! Even before Kraftwerk, this was probably the first example of how electronic music could reach a wide audience and not lose one bit of edge for that. This and Walter Carlos's soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange ended up being more influential and door-opening than they ever thought possible.
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 8, 2007 15:53:34 GMT -5
Casey Kasem on AT40 once got the title and song reversed mentioned.
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Post by johnnywest on Nov 18, 2014 20:13:51 GMT -5
This song makes me laugh.
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Post by Harx on May 7, 2017 3:58:23 GMT -5
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I didn't know that this is obscure. I've known this since I was a kid, I thought that this and Axel F were two most famous instrumental songs ever. I also used to confuse these two songs a lot.
Also I didn't know this song was actually a cover lmao
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Post by ♛ The Manticore ☯ on Mar 23, 2020 21:52:09 GMT -5
Not sure how I feel about this. It's not something I will add to my library or playlist. But seeing that video with the dancing gives me laughs. I think this was in a scene in a movie that I can't recall. It's the one that has Michael Fassbender (Young Magneto from X-Men) in it.
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Post by disman00911 on May 25, 2021 11:29:10 GMT -5
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