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Subject: Can anybody help me?
I'm looking for a certain type of late 70s to mid 80s type of funk/synth pop music. A bit difficult to describe but I have some examples . . .
Roses - Haywoode
Honeythief - Hipsway
Let's hear it for the boy - Deniece Williams
Jump - Pointer Sisters
All help appreciated. :)
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Let's hear it for the boys - I love it!
Check anything by the Tubes Group and Utopia (Todd Rundgren)
Jump- Van Halen
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"Right on Track" by the Breakfast Club comes to mind.
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How about Jody Whatley Looking for a New Love
-- Tenderness by ?
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"Freeway of Love" - Aretha Franklin
"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell (maybe a bit too slow for you?)
"Whip It" or "Girl You Want" - Devo
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OOH, I just thought of another:
"Burn Rubber" by the Dazz Band
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I think I know what you're talking about. Try these! ;D
Dancing In The Sheets - Shalamar
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - Gap Band
Get Down On It - Kool & The Gang
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Give It Up - KC & The Sunshine Band
No Parking On The Dance Floor - Midnight Star
The Other Woman -Ray Parker, Jr.
We Connect - Stacey Q
Let The Music Play - Shannon
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OOH, I just thought of another:
"Burn Rubber" by the Dazz Band
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You mean The Gap Band? Dazz Band sang Let It Whip! :D
Howard
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I think I know what you're talking about. Try these! ;D
Dancing In The Sheets - Shalamar
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - Gap Band
Get Down On It - Kool & The Gang
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Give It Up - KC & The Sunshine Band
No Parking On The Dance Floor - Midnight Star
The Other Woman -Ray Parker, Jr.
We Connect - Stacey Q
Let The Music Play - Shannon
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Thanks for these, Stingr22. I love 'Somebody's watching me' by Rockwell, 'Give it up' by KC and the Sunshine band and 'Let the music play' by Shannon. It's similar to the kind of thing I had in mind - I'll check your other songs out too.
Another group that comes to mind is Debarge - especially hits like 'Rhythm of the night' and 'Who's Johnny?' That kind of electric drum beat and stuff. Cyndi Lauper has the same kind of synthesized sound.
Thanks for everybody's help. I hope I've jogged more memories. :)
Subject: Re: Can anybody help me?
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"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell (maybe a bit too slow for you?)
"Whip It" or "Girl You Want" - Devo
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Tainted love is a great song, mrgazpacho and Whip it by Devo has an early 80s style that is quite good - but a bit repetitive.
Anybody know any US songs that Britain has no idea about? One example I can give is Eddie Money's 'Take me home tonight'. I found it by accident and I think it's a cracking song!
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Bobby, glad to help! Thanks for the suggestion. I'm going to have to make me a CD of that kind of stuff. Brings back alot of memories!
As far as some songs that may have been big in the U.S., but not in the U.K., here are a few that I would guess probably never caught on the other side of the pond. These would be the same sound and feel of "Take Me Home Tonight."
When You Close Your Eyes - Night Ranger
Goodbye - Night Ranger
Ain't Even Done With The Night - John Mellencamp
Cherry Bomb - John Mellencamp
I'm Alright - Kenny Loggins
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
After The Fall - Journey
Stone In Love - Journey
She's Tight - Cheap Trick
Can't Stop Fallin' Into Love - Cheap Trick
Two Sides Of Love - Sammy Hagar
Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy - Sammy Hagar
One In A Million - The Romantics
Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics
The Boys Of Summer - Don Henley
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
The Big Crash - Eddie Money
I Wanna Go Back - Eddie Money
Actually most songs by these guys would probably fit the bill!
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lets see.......how about "Climaxx" {whiz kid or meeting in da ladies room?}
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I'm looking for a certain type of late 70s to mid 80s type of funk/synth pop music. A bit difficult to describe but I have some examples . . .
Roses - Haywoode
Honeythief - Hipsway
Let's hear it for the boy - Deniece Williams
Jump - Pointer Sisters
All help appreciated. :)
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what you are really looking for is a group "CLIMAXX"...I got a meeting in da ladies room...or whiz kid!!!!!!!!! now thas what yer ya-ya needs...........................tee-out
Quoting:
I'm looking for a certain type of late 70s to mid 80s type of funk/synth pop music. A bit difficult to describe but I have some examples . . .
Roses - Haywoode
Honeythief - Hipsway
Let's hear it for the boy - Deniece Williams
Jump - Pointer Sisters
All help appreciated. :)
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The only "Tenderness" I know of from the '80s was by General Public, but that's ska derivative.
Whatever became of Eddie Money anyway? Forgot he was something of a star in the late '70s--early '80s. Couldn't have helped he didn't have much of a face for MTV.
I think Shannon, "Let the Music Play" was one of the best dance tracks of the '80s.
In the '80s it seems like most dance, soul, and R&B tracks were using similar kinds of synth tracks. It was an instant hit-maker. How else could a song as dumb as Rick James' "Party
All the Time" (sung by Eddie Murphy) hit number one?
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Ooh ooh!
"We Built This City" by Starship! ;D
"Neutron Dance" by the Pointer Sisters
"Spanish Eddie" by Laura Branigan
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Thought of a couple more...
Don't Want To Fall In Love - Jane Child
What Have You Done For Me Lately? - Janet Jackson
Nasty Boys - Janet Jackson
Oh Sheila - Ready For The World
Crush On You - The Jets
My Pergoative - Bobby Brown
Lovergirl - Teena Marie
Jungle Love - The Time
Don't Hang Up - Vanity 6
The Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
When Doves Cry - Prince
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Don't know if these were suggested or not, but Sugar Walls by Sheena Easton and Girlfriend by Pebbles.
You know I think we all could keep going and going. ;)
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Quoting:You know I think we all could keep going and going. ;)
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I hope so because this is wonderful, You all have given me lots of songs that virtually pin-point what I'm looking for and would never have heard of otherwise (Spanish Eddie is brilliant).
The Jets 'Crush on you' is the kind of thing I'm looking at as well - Thank you all :D.
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Hold Me by Menudo
Word Up by Cameo
Electric Youth by Debbie Gibson
Cool it Now by New Edition
Tonight by Kool and the Gang
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Hold Me by Menudo
Word Up by Cameo
Electric Youth by Debbie Gibson
Cool it Now by New Edition
Tonight by ??
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All the others are ok, but oooh, why would you suggest that ANYONE listen to Menudo? ;)
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Well Menudo sort of had a synth/Jets type feel to the music. But Hold Me is the only one I can remember being really huge in the US. :)
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For Funk try Cameo and Parliment Funkidelic, Lakeside, The Ohio Players, Rick James, The SOS Band, Issac Hayes, just to name a few.
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I'm looking for a certain type of late 70s to mid 80s type of funk/synth pop music. A bit difficult to describe but I have some examples . . .
Roses - Haywoode
Honeythief - Hipsway
Let's hear it for the boy - Deniece Williams
Jump - Pointer Sisters
All help appreciated. :)
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