1987 was crazy music!!!!!! to bad it will never be like that again. Todays music sucks and there is no such thing as club music... except vintage club. Poor kids
JUP! I am 18 and This music sucks! I like The oldies Where is the Music? We call music of nowadays music? maybe. but this got the thing to call music! like TOTO, CCR, Michael Jackson, Madonna etc. Ariana Grande, Nicki minaj, JB,? whut HELL NO! Radio of today is almost a Club Radio or something.
One of the GREATEST dance classics ever and a GREAT video to boot! The " Indian-girl singer " who comes on and does her bit at about 3:01 is FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!
+abe froman "Purple Heart,...... Saigon,......Purple Heart,..... S..S..S..Saigon. I wasn't really sure what was goin' on. I wasn't really sure what was goin' on."
1987, I was on a school trip to Germany and this was storming up the charts...great days of innocence, youth, potential, fun...all long gone now, sigh.
Rentaghost okish In 1988, I was stationed in Baden Baden, West Germany in a Mechanized Brigade, I wasn't even 19 yet; good times, good music and the overwhelming confidence of youth!
Not being the "grammar police" dude, it's the BAND'S NAME. If you can't get the band's name right, don't post to TH-cam. And if you can't take a bit of constructive criticism, grow a thicker skin. Maybe I should upload some tunes by "The BEETLES" or the "ROLEing Stones" or "ELVISH" and then when someone complains, I'll call them the Grammar Police. Seriously dude. Once again: it's "M.A.R.R.S.". Fix it.
+COCOAPIE But wait, they have an "app" for making music, hahahah. They may have a lot of tech nowadays, but they have no soul, no originality (just look at the thousands of "parodies" of Gangnam Style or Call Me Maybe, or any other popular song, all they do is COPY) and the results show it!!
Agreed Johnny. Old school has more originality and character than most of this new stuff. Now they do have good artists now and no hate towards them,but IMO vinyl is still boss. Peace.
This song never failed to get me on the dance floor at the clubs! I didn't even care if I was just dancing alone! I would put this on my stereo at home and dance to it there too!
When this song was new, I was in the 6th grade and I used to sneak out of bed and watch MTV late at night so I could watch Liquid Television. That's when I first saw this video. This brings back some memories.
Guys guys this was 28 years ago that it was published and at that time I had more girls then I have hair stuck to my head today . We use to dance in a very energy mood not like today .
@Steve, 21st century young people do not dance. Actually they even do not go out, only hang out at each other, sitting on a couch and streaming TH-cam to their tablet, PC, smartphone...whatever.
would that be the film starring Emilo Estafez album ? actually I was a mobile DJ in the 80`s so was exposed to many things and liked a lot of things before I found Metal but found chart/pop stuff pretty lame from about 83 - 87, then I heard Marrs n then Bomb the Bass, house, Rave Music and got into that quick too cos it kicked ass. the rise of the sampler did that and I started making my own electronic music as well as Goth/Metal stuff. I even crossed over the genres in 1999 with one of my bands Soundisciples ( find them on youtube, Amazon etc ) In fact I did that kinda thing going back as far as 1988 but no one was ready for that sorta thing then ( apart from me )
Cheers, I`m still a total Metal Head but got into other stuff as well long before the Prodigy`s 2nd/3rd albums started to expand other Metal Heads horizons, heh heh
+Julian Hill That's a cool thing to say mate, same thing happened to me, I'm 47 now. When big powerful musical changes occurred you just get moved without question. Younger people won't get this as nothing seems to change very much, if at all.
Were I to draw a Venn diagram of my love for science fiction, space exploration, and techno house, this music video would be at the exact geographical center of the union of all three sets.
There are 23 sample songs in this 12" inch U.S mix as opposed to the 26 of the UK version. It is still timeless after nearly 28 years of its original release. :) M|A|R|R|S. M|artin Young, A|lex Ayuli and R|udy Tambala, R|ussel S|mith and Steve Young. I still have two 12" vinyl copies of this AWESOME tune. :)
That is what I always liked about this song...it holds up. The majority of music sounds dated, but you can play this now and if it were the first time a person heard it you could forgive them for thinking it is new.
It was great when dance videos took you on a surrreal journey of images. Felix' Don't You Want Me is a great example. Now the vids just seem to be half-naked people dancing about. Rubbish.
This song came out when I was 11 and blew my mind - had never heard anything like this before and totally changed the way I thought about music. Still sounds as fresh today.
Brilliant , I remember when this first came out in nightclubs . Sounded awesome then and still sounds awesome nowadays. Ps: 48 yrs old this way and still young.
+rick seifert Haha, me too !! I'm 43 now and was 15 when this came out, in my last year of high school. It just turned dance music on its head and made every other track sound dated. I still meet up with the girl I was seeing back then quite often and she says that this track still reminds her of me !
+Lewis72 Ha ha , awesome mate . I'm in the same boat here as well. It's one of those tracks that people remember with either good or not so good events. This track get cranked at full bore on my stereo in my ute and in the stereo in my work machine . Its just pure classic . Awesomeness and then some.
copyNOTrighted A few of the over 40s at work heard me coming with that track pumping . They've now added it to their music listening list at work on the stereo systems in their earth moving machines. Even our supervisor has it booming every now and again.
Late eighties, MTV. Like everyone says, this song was ahead of it's time. However, this isn't the original MTV version. New lyrics have been added. I had the original 45 RPM. The lyrics were: "Automatic, systematic, world control. Magnetic, genetic to match your soul." Still a cool song and video. Whatever happened to videos? Oh, well. I suppose it's a good thing videos are gone. Could you imagine what the crap they play nowadays would be like as a music (sic) video? Thanks for the post!
42 years old and remember when this came and I started poppin and lockn and spinning on the dance floor. I played for my two boys and showed them how I used to do it. surprisingly I still got it lol
was tryin to tell my son, that skrillex aint nothing new... we had killer bass.. and were sore from breakdancing back in the day.... thanks for showin the proof...
J'ai 53 ans et je redécouvre ce titre Un pur chef-d'œuvre tous simplement !!!! Quand ca passait en boîte de nuit ca déchirait tous sur son passage.... quel époque !!!
I remember being in a club in Philly with a guy who asked me to dance and I thought he was one of those quiet shy types and it turned out he danced everyone on the dance floor, off it. I felt like I had four left feet and wanted to hide as fast as I could. A white guy that could dance. After we dated, I found out that he had no problem dancing on table tops in the clubs. The guy could freakin' dance and he knew it. He looked like the biggest nerd around and that was the furthest from the truth. Remember the nerd you may be looking at just may be the hottest thing in the room. He certainly was. Just not a real nice Main Liner if you Philly people know what I mean. I did not fit into the Debutante environment of the Main Line and I had to hit the road. The people of Devon and their yearly coming out as a Deb and dealing with the Devon Horse people made me want to stick a needle in my eye. One of the nastiest people I ever dated.
LOL! my mom took me to the Devon horse show when I was 8, I've never heard it mentioned since I just read your post - you fit it just fine:-) and I was a deb many years later, out West, it's all a complete joke! but nice to see someone else validate it, ha
I forgot I wrote this. I am in hysterics right now. Congrats on being a debutant. Actually, one of the Debs I met was very nice and gorgeous. You probably know the look, Perfect, innocent beauty. Whereas, I was the the typical street wise Philadelphian at the time. I felt like a fish out of water, I knew I was not part of the wealthy set. Just a hard working blue collar working guys daughter. However, I was raised correctly and knew how to behave accordingly. I loved the carriages at the horse show. Did you know that when the parents divorced their seats at the Devon horse show were always part of the divorce deal? I learned that from that guy I dated. Take care, Deb.
I agree... But, ironically, that's not hip hop, baby. That's go-go, straight-up ripped the fuck right out of Chuck Brown's funkbox, yeah. All love, baby, but that's D.C. for yo ASS. And the same haters in NYC who said go-go was "country bullshit" back in the 80's used to twerk when that beat hit in this track, lol! Hashtag: The world was ready for hip-hop, but only D.C. was ready for go-go, boo.
Early 90's were great for music, the record companies were lost and had no idea where things were heading, not knowing what to clone and all this great fusion of rock techno industrial psychedelic came about.
lewis72 Next time I'll have a lawyer type up my comment, yes, late 80's 90's were a great time for musical creativity. New wave was dying, hair bands were not the best of alternatives for many and voila, scenes started to fuse a bit.
xMusicx I guess when you're 15 to 18 or so, you remember EAXACTLY when things happen. This was Autumn of my last year at High School. TBH, I'd be the same with tracks from 1998 to 2004 or so, or even later. Furthermore, in '87 there did seem to be a massive breathrough in sample-based dance records that set the trend for years later.
lewis72 Heh, there was to much music for me back then to sit about and remember the exact date, or maybe to many drinks at clubs. Same thing caught my ear though, using samples like Industrial bands was not that common, neither was such a good dance groove, it was a welcome change for me at least.
Frightening !! I was 15 when this was released and it just made every other dance track obsolete overnight. I was in my last year at school and everyone was talking about saying " What HAVE we just heard ?? It's unreal ! "
I once asked a question about if today's music had an influence on kids, and I got a whole lot of mixed answers, which just leaves me with more questions. The music of back then was of far better quality(this song being one such example) and kids were way more respectful than they are now and to me, that's one reason that more kids now these days are more disrespectful, is that they have worse music, but this is mainly conjecture and guesswork on my part, but feel free to ring in on this if you wish.
Yes it was 1987 this track first came out, I am from Australia and bought it first time I heard it at a music store, thought it was legendary so much so I got two copies!
First time I had a ear full of this I was at a firepower shoot. Some one had it on a boom box. Every time I hear it I think of MG34. Just sick that way.
I remember this as the stand out track of Greatest hits of 1987, I re-winded ?(Apparently rewinded is a spelling mistake.) and listened to this tune so much. It was special at the time and it still stands up today.
wow throwback to the 80's I used to cruise Miami Beach on the weekends pumping 4x12"woofers 6mids and 8 tweeters trunk full of amplifiers and extra batteries to keep music jamming all night !! damn good old days I miss
I have a CD with a bunch of different mixes of this. Does that make me old? It does surprise me that this has 8 million views, and that there are so many younger people who like it. Strange that M.A.R.R.S. didn't do anything else that was noteworthy.
1987 was crazy music!!!!!! to bad it will never be like that again. Todays music sucks and there is no such thing as club music... except vintage club. Poor kids
Ohhhhhhh what about the Twerking ? lol
I wouldn't say that I remember hearing pump up the volume and new things were gonna change but todays deep/bass house is just as inventive :)
but what i miss the most with house music ... is the Lyrics ! there arn´t any
Ok Cool !
JUP! I am 18 and This music sucks! I like The oldies Where is the Music? We call music of nowadays music? maybe. but this got the thing to call music! like TOTO, CCR, Michael Jackson, Madonna etc. Ariana Grande, Nicki minaj, JB,? whut HELL NO! Radio of today is almost a Club Radio or something.
this dance track brings back a lot of discoing memories
Am 17 and I love these old school songs thanks to my parents!
Still listening to this in 2015! Thanks for this!
ben c'est toute ma jeunesse et c'est toujours aussi super
first heard this in pompey, clothes shop was blasting it out, 16 I was love it
One of the GREATEST dance classics ever and a GREAT video to boot!
The " Indian-girl singer " who comes on and does her bit at about 3:01 is FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!
I rewiev this video every month. It's very usefull and for me and for my children
15 when this come out still a classic to me
Una buena rola d esos tiempos maravillosos
There's a version that's at least 7 minutes long. The dj's at clubs and house parties would always play it.
Still dancing in 2022
This was ahead of its time!
This video scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
This video and "19" by Paul Hardcastle
+abe froman "Purple Heart,...... Saigon,......Purple Heart,.....
S..S..S..Saigon. I wasn't really sure what was goin' on. I wasn't really sure what was goin' on."
Reminds me of 1987.
Still sounds rad in 2014 and into 2015
remember this as an kid
It's like you have to be or become capable of having a focus without the missing target...
La mia gioventù... In una nota discoteca di Milano in corso Como
Everytime i hear the beginning i see Kim Basinger doing her little dance!
Alright all you homeboys in the Bronx.......this ones for you!
He said he would only make 1 track...what a legacy...
Luv it, classic!
This is the first techno I ever heard in my life. It was on Much Music a lot in those days. Cool footage!
Never actually got the idea to the video of this
80's venezuela el guri
MARRS 1987 Uk
sempre attuale.
youri gagarine vs neil armstrong or u.r.s.s vs u.s.a story of eighties
et votre tele
Im here because Pulttibois :D
1987, I was on a school trip to Germany and this was storming up the charts...great days of innocence, youth, potential, fun...all long gone now, sigh.
Rentaghost okish In 1988, I was stationed in Baden Baden, West Germany in a Mechanized Brigade, I wasn't even 19 yet; good times, good music and the overwhelming confidence of youth!
+Rentaghost okish 1987, I was just on a trip!
Not being the "grammar police" dude, it's the BAND'S NAME. If you can't get the band's name right, don't post to TH-cam. And if you can't take a bit of constructive criticism, grow a thicker skin. Maybe I should upload some tunes by "The BEETLES" or the "ROLEing Stones" or "ELVISH" and then when someone complains, I'll call them the Grammar Police. Seriously dude.
Once again: it's "M.A.R.R.S.". Fix it.
I don't usually agree with "grammar nazis" but in this case you have a valid point. Elvish indeed lol.
Who gives a f--k???
Jay.C.Fotografie
Elegantly put, you trogdolitic doofus.
Wouldn't this be a case for the orthography ombudsman? It's not really a grammar error.
marc80s
sorry, it's trogloditic
These children aren't ready for this.
You can't scratch pressing play, swiping your finger
+COCOAPIE But wait, they have an "app" for making music, hahahah. They may have a lot of tech nowadays, but they have no soul, no originality (just look at the thousands of "parodies" of Gangnam Style or Call Me Maybe, or any other popular song, all they do is COPY) and the results show it!!
How true,technology is killing them
+COCOAPIE DJ Nucleus approves this message...salute
+BasqueNYC It's not that they're dying because of technology; It's because they are overly dependent on technology.
If this music don't make you want to get down nd boogie....then you are DEAD.
89
Masterpiece! The crap we have now is shameful!!
R Ma EMD is crap for the most part, only Martin Solveig and Scooter have any talent.
Agreed Johnny. Old school has more originality and character than most of this new stuff. Now they do have good artists now and no hate towards them,but IMO vinyl is still boss. Peace.
R Ma pull up your pants
R Ma Yo Daddy.:)
R Ma lol.Let me have some coffee,I'll think of something.:)
This song never failed to get me on the dance floor at the clubs! I didn't even care if I was just dancing alone! I would put this on my stereo at home and dance to it there too!
When this song was new, I was in the 6th grade and I used to sneak out of bed and watch MTV late at night so I could watch Liquid Television. That's when I first saw this video. This brings back some memories.
11 million views and nobody noticed M.A.R.R.S. is misisng an R... ;)
ha ha did you read all 3900 comments to show the people of the world how observant you are?
lewnsylad Haha, no I did not. It was the first thing I saw when looking at this vid. What did you see?
A chocolate bar.
11 million views and no one cares we're here for music :P
PUMP UP THE VOLUME!
This was the record which changed the style of music back in 1987
Probably not
Well it sucks
Fuck yeah!!
You could argue jack your body by Steve silk Hurley did more
+AR V you suck
Guys guys this was 28 years ago that it was published and at that time I had more girls then I have hair stuck to my head today . We use to dance in a very energy mood not like today .
@Steve,
21st century young people do not dance. Actually they even do not go out, only hang out at each other, sitting on a couch and streaming TH-cam to their tablet, PC, smartphone...whatever.
Well no shit, they aren't old enough to be allowed into bars yet.
Kids these days don't know good music
I beg to differ, pop music is terrible but the underground is thriving. Just a different sound :)
The tune that singlehandedly ended my existance a a Metal Head purist and got my into sampling and various forms of more Electronic stuff
would that be the film starring Emilo Estafez album ? actually I was a mobile DJ in the 80`s so was exposed to many things and liked a lot of things before I found Metal but found chart/pop stuff pretty lame from about 83 - 87, then I heard Marrs n then Bomb the Bass, house, Rave Music and got into that quick too cos it kicked ass. the rise of the sampler did that and I started making my own electronic music as well as Goth/Metal stuff. I even crossed over the genres in 1999 with one of my bands Soundisciples ( find them on youtube, Amazon etc ) In fact I did that kinda thing going back as far as 1988 but no one was ready for that sorta thing then ( apart from me )
+Julian Hill Wonderful development :-D
Cheers, I`m still a total Metal Head but got into other stuff as well long before the Prodigy`s 2nd/3rd albums started to expand other Metal Heads horizons, heh heh
+Julian Hill Both are great, but totally different.
+Julian Hill That's a cool thing to say mate, same thing happened to me, I'm 47 now. When big powerful musical changes occurred you just get moved without question. Younger people won't get this as nothing seems to change very much, if at all.
Were I to draw a Venn diagram of my love for science fiction, space exploration, and techno house, this music video would be at the exact geographical center of the union of all three sets.
good man, great house, great music, great commentary !!!
+Herbert Miller Great insight - nice one.
This is the ultimate 1980's ;)
sorry about this 😄
+Ayhan BAŞEREN When MTV played music videos.
entrega nuestra copa BASEREN.
Precisely, 1987.
Did more for Nasa than all the millions spent on PR LOL!
I don't care I still love this song to this day!!! my grand daughter even dances to it now!!
There are 23 sample songs in this 12" inch U.S mix as opposed to the 26 of the UK version. It is still timeless after nearly 28 years of its original release. :) M|A|R|R|S. M|artin Young, A|lex Ayuli and R|udy Tambala, R|ussel S|mith and Steve Young. I still have two 12" vinyl copies of this AWESOME tune. :)
That is what I always liked about this song...it holds up. The majority of music sounds dated, but you can play this now and if it were the first time a person heard it you could forgive them for thinking it is new.
thegreatbungholio21 No offense, but all music "holds up" to me. It never sounds dated.
The group who did this was called *M.A.R.R.S*
Brothers and sisters!
Pump up the volume
Pump that beat!
I remember this back in '87...loved roller skating to this with lights flashing!!! Yes I am a white boy and was nerdy in those days!!!!
It was great when dance videos took you on a surrreal journey of images.
Felix' Don't You Want Me is a great example.
Now the vids just seem to be half-naked people dancing about. Rubbish.
Still to this day, this is teh shizzle!!!!
I danced to this jam back in '88 at the nightclubs in "Nawlns' (New Orleans, LA)....dawlin
"That's right, dude, this gotta be the greatest record of the year"
See, I always knew science was sexy.
You are right
Lol xD
true
still bad ass song.. it has good beat 💘 this song since way back... .....
This song came out when I was 11 and blew my mind - had never heard anything like this before and totally changed the way I thought about music. Still sounds as fresh today.
Oooloooooooo9
Brilliant , I remember when this first came out in nightclubs . Sounded awesome then and still sounds awesome nowadays. Ps: 48 yrs old this way and still young.
+rick seifert
Haha, me too !!
I'm 43 now and was 15 when this came out, in my last year of high school. It just turned dance music on its head and made every other track sound dated.
I still meet up with the girl I was seeing back then quite often and she says that this track still reminds her of me !
+Lewis72 Ha ha , awesome mate . I'm in the same boat here as well. It's one of those tracks that people remember with either good or not so good events. This track get cranked at full bore on my stereo in my ute and in the stereo in my work machine . Its just pure classic . Awesomeness and then some.
+rick seifert lol in 44 and feel the same
copyNOTrighted A few of the over 40s at work heard me coming with that track pumping . They've now added it to their music listening list at work on the stereo systems in their earth moving machines. Even our supervisor has it booming every now and again.
rick seifert
These over-40s do not have it already ??
Kim Bassinger in "My stepmother is an alien" brought me here.
Fainting goats brought me here
Late eighties, MTV. Like everyone says, this song was ahead of it's time. However, this isn't the original MTV version. New lyrics have been added. I had the original 45 RPM. The lyrics were: "Automatic, systematic, world control. Magnetic, genetic to match your soul." Still a cool song and video. Whatever happened to videos? Oh, well. I suppose it's a good thing videos are gone. Could you imagine what the crap they play nowadays would be like as a music (sic) video? Thanks for the post!
Just bought the 12" on vinyl. God it's as good as ever. That beat break with the cowbell is everything!
was number one for like...ever
+Carl Barter Five weeks in 1987
Dance music all night long!!! beginning steps to techno music
I remember standing in front of the Tv as a kid and absolutely glued by the sound and visuals. My legs started moving and the rest is history.
BAM
Does anyone know what year this came out?
1987
HeWhoThinks Thank you sir!
+Kimberli Hart in a good year ;-) the best year's like to go back in time
+Kimberli Hart senior year.
+Kimberli Hart 1988
42 years old and remember when this came and I started poppin and lockn and spinning on the dance floor. I played for my two boys and showed them how I used to do it. surprisingly I still got it lol
You're an awesome dad lol!
THis is the very first piece of music I ever bought on my own. Got the single on Vinyl.
If I'm not mistaken this is an American Psycho /Brett Easton Ellis memory.
+Martin Hyizna Why can't we get a reservation at Dorsia's ?
+Ralf Horris I could've got us a table.
Yep. When Patrick and Timothy did coke in the bathroom.
with a dash of pink floyds the wall thrown in
killer profile pic bro
1988:house music,garage house,acid house-1989-hip house
was tryin to tell my son, that skrillex aint nothing new... we had killer bass.. and were sore from breakdancing back in the day.... thanks for showin the proof...
I crank this SOB up and I'm 79. I'm pumped.
Haven't heard this for decades and suddenly popped in my head and I came here. And I was there in 1988!
It's M.A.R.R.S.
Everyone report to the dance floor ASP !!!!!!!!!
Hell yeah the 70's, 80's and 90's!!!
Anybody got a bottle of cough syrup? :)
Good one.... LOl
mekkora alapzene volt anno, sose felejtem el az tuti
this song is so important to music. This came out in FUCKIN 1988, how modern does it sound though? So ahead of its time and influential.
J'ai 53 ans et je redécouvre ce titre Un pur chef-d'œuvre tous simplement !!!!
Quand ca passait en boîte de nuit ca déchirait tous sur son passage.... quel époque !!!
Let's see Paul Allen's card....
I remember being in a club in Philly with a guy who asked me to dance and I thought he was one of those quiet shy types and it turned out he danced everyone on the dance floor, off it. I felt like I had four left feet and wanted to hide as fast as I could. A white guy that could dance. After we dated, I found out that he had no problem dancing on table tops in the clubs. The guy could freakin' dance and he knew it. He looked like the biggest nerd around and that was the furthest from the truth. Remember the nerd you may be looking at just may be the hottest thing in the room. He certainly was. Just not a real nice Main Liner if you Philly people know what I mean. I did not fit into the Debutante environment of the Main Line and I had to hit the road. The people of Devon and their yearly coming out as a Deb and dealing with the Devon Horse people made me want to stick a needle in my eye. One of the nastiest people I ever dated.
Sounds like the storyline in Pump It by Icy Blu to me. :)
LOL! my mom took me to the Devon horse show when I was 8, I've never heard it mentioned since I just read your post - you fit it just fine:-) and I was a deb many years later, out West, it's all a complete joke! but nice to see someone else validate it, ha
I forgot I wrote this. I am in hysterics right now. Congrats on being a debutant. Actually, one of the Debs I met was very nice and gorgeous. You probably know the look, Perfect, innocent beauty. Whereas, I was the the typical street wise Philadelphian at the time. I felt like a fish out of water, I knew I was not part of the wealthy set. Just a hard working blue collar working guys daughter. However, I was raised correctly and knew how to behave accordingly. I loved the carriages at the horse show. Did you know that when the parents divorced their seats at the Devon horse show were always part of the divorce deal? I learned that from that guy I dated. Take care, Deb.
Timeless classic.
1:47-1:56 the freshest bit of pure hip hop EVER!
I agree... But, ironically, that's not hip hop, baby. That's go-go, straight-up ripped the fuck right out of Chuck Brown's funkbox, yeah. All love, baby, but that's D.C. for yo ASS. And the same haters in NYC who said go-go was "country bullshit" back in the 80's used to twerk when that beat hit in this track, lol! Hashtag: The world was ready for hip-hop, but only D.C. was ready for go-go, boo.
That few seconds of beat shaped my preference of future music. It's been ingrained in my memory ever since. @2:43 Continues the perfection
@@mangaas that's a sample from Holy Ghost by the Bar Kays, the whole song is a banger.
Early 90's were great for music, the record companies were lost and had no idea where things were heading, not knowing what to clone and all this great fusion of rock techno industrial psychedelic came about.
This is 80s ;)
xMusicx
This was September 1987.
lewis72 Next time I'll have a lawyer type up my comment, yes, late 80's 90's were a great time for musical creativity. New wave was dying, hair bands were not the best of alternatives for many and voila, scenes started to fuse a bit.
xMusicx
I guess when you're 15 to 18 or so, you remember EAXACTLY when things happen. This was Autumn of my last year at High School.
TBH, I'd be the same with tracks from 1998 to 2004 or so, or even later.
Furthermore, in '87 there did seem to be a massive breathrough in sample-based dance records that set the trend for years later.
lewis72
Heh, there was to much music for me back then to sit about and remember the exact date, or maybe to many drinks at clubs. Same thing caught my ear though, using samples like Industrial bands was not that common, neither was such a good dance groove, it was a welcome change for me at least.
That moment when you realize that you came here because your dad played this song because he loves the 80's
Frightening !!
I was 15 when this was released and it just made every other dance track obsolete overnight.
I was in my last year at school and everyone was talking about saying " What HAVE we just heard ?? It's unreal ! "
your what
Goodness gracious! This was the song I listened to endlessly on my small little walkman...feeling so 'cool'...... What a generation we lived in!
WOW!!!!! Haven't heard this since the 80's on cfny fm. OMG this does bring some memories from back then.
I once asked a question about if today's music had an influence on kids, and I got a whole lot of mixed answers, which just leaves me with more questions. The music of back then was of far better quality(this song being one such example) and kids were way more respectful than they are now and to me, that's one reason that more kids now these days are more disrespectful, is that they have worse music, but this is mainly conjecture and guesswork on my part, but feel free to ring in on this if you wish.
Xchange Hotel - Sydney...... fucking awesome times...... 1987
This is the song that introduced me to house music back in the 80s. What a great time in my life that was.
Yes it was 1987 this track first came out, I am from Australia and bought it first time I heard it at a music store, thought it was legendary so much so I got two copies!
straight old school classic in the 80's breakdancing to this as a kid bringing cardboards home in my mom's basement
the "Brothers and Sistas" sample: Is that from an MLK or Malcolm X speech? I know Public Enemy has used it before....
The Soul Children-i don't know what this world is coming to. Check it out it'll blow you away
First time I had a ear full of this I was at a firepower shoot. Some one had it on a boom box. Every time I hear it I think of MG34. Just sick that way.
sounds more like a1990 song then what it was in 1987 ?
MASTER PIECE FROM THE. 80'S. 😀😊😎👏🏃🚶
This was back when the US had an active space program.
Can´t help it, I´m waving my head up and down!
I remember this as the stand out track of Greatest hits of 1987, I re-winded ?(Apparently rewinded is a spelling mistake.) and listened to this tune so much.
It was special at the time and it still stands up today.
Rewound. :) And oh man, does it ever stand up today.
Doh. Of course. Rewound.
:-)
wow throwback to the 80's I used to cruise Miami Beach on the weekends pumping 4x12"woofers 6mids and 8 tweeters trunk full of amplifiers and extra batteries to keep music jamming all night !! damn good old days I miss
I have a CD with a bunch of different mixes of this. Does that make me old? It does surprise me that this has 8 million views, and that there are so many younger people who like it. Strange that M.A.R.R.S. didn't do anything else that was noteworthy.