Jop Tournament Round 3.2

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Another four fites to take us down to 8 surviving tracks.


[Poll #928476]


The remaining rounds will happen next week, and then at the end of the week we launch the LEAGUE OF POP.

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Re: He tried pretending that our dance was just a dance

[koganbot]

There's a trove of stuff that I'm unaware of too, and I can't say that I've explored the comps. There's probably a whole interplay among electro-funk and freestyle and Miami bass and '80s New York club (what's been retrospectively called "garage"), a lot of which is terra incognito for me. Can't say I know a definitive compilation. I did a list of freestyle tracks on one of these threads a couple of weeks ago. Being a little broader than that, and off the top of my head, I'd say look for a comp with one of the following and it's likely that something else on the comp will be unknown to you (and possibly me) but equally worth hearing (and then when you've spent scads on lots of comps, you can rip and burn your own definitive comp): Soul Sonic Force "Planet Rock" and "Looking for the Perfect Beat," Newcleus "Jam On It," Stacey Lattislaw "Attack of the Name Game," Debbie Deb "When I Hear Music" and "Lookout Weekend" and "There's A Party Goin' On" and "I'm Searchin',"* Exposé "Point Of No Return,"** Sequel "It's Not Too Late," Company B "Fascinated," Cover Girls "Inside Outside" and "Because of You," Sweet Sensation "Take It While It's Hot," Taana Gardner "Work Your Body" and "Heartbeat," Giggles "Hot Spot," Cynthia "Change On Me" and "Endless Nights," Shannon "Give Me Tonight" and "Let The Music Play," L'Trimm "Cars With The Boom" and their entire second album Drop Your Bottom (esp. "Drop That Bottom" and "We Got Our Own Thing")(sorry, this is the only Miami bass represented here; I barely know the genre); Strafe "Set It Off," Judy Torres "Come Into My Arms" and "No Reason To Cry," Lisette Melendez "Together Forever" and "A Day In My Life (Without You)," Noel "Silent Morning," Corina "Temptation," Pajama Party "Over and Over" and "Yo No Sé," Laissez Faire "In Paradise," Sa-Fire "Boy I've Been Told," Stacey Q "Two Of Hearts" and everything on her second album Hard Machine (especially "The Rain" and "Don't Make A Fool Of Yourself"), Will To Power "Dreamin'" and "Say It's Gonna Rain" and "Journey Home," Seduction "Seduction's Theme," Sandee "You're The One," Shana "I Want You," Tina B "I Always Wanted To Be Free," Diana Ross "Swept Away," The Flirts "Voulez Vous," Deborah Allen "Telepathy."

*However, Debbie was overweight and suffered from low self-esteem, and found her sudden fame difficult to cope with. She was crushed when her record company decided not to put her picture on the sleeves of her records and, in a Milli Vanilli-esque move, even hired an "impostor" to perform and pose as Debbie Deb.
--Wikipedia

I'd heard of this, and wondered (without ever finding out) if it was this imposter who was the Debbie Deb who gave the great show I saw in San Francisco in 1988 - though this Deb had a slight tummy roll, so may well have been the original; there's also some question in my mind if the original Deb or the imposter Deb is the voice on "I'm Searchin'" (definitely same voice as the performer I saw, unless she was lip synching, but she didn't seem to be); either way it's good, and if the imposter Deb gave the great show I saw, that's as good a story (and just as good artistically, of course).

**All the members of the original Exposé that recorded "Point Of No Return" quit or were fired by producer Lewis Martinée (Wikipedia says they quit), who later rerecorded the song with a new lineup; the first version hit in clubs and made the dance charts, but it was the second version that hit on top 40; the first version was the 12-inch single and was on the first pressings of the album Exposure but the second one is on the later pressings. The second is the one on the 7-inch I've got. And since I've got an early album pressing, I've got both. I prefer the second.