"Self Control" by Laura Branigan

in the day
nothing matters
it's the night... time that matters

Inspired by this thread, I wanted to hear this song, so I went to Youtube and watched the video, which I'd never seen, and damn it's as unclassifiably eerie and sexy as the song.

Yeah-- impossible not to play Townshend-windmill-air-guitar when the WHOA OH OH (BWANNNGGGG) WHOA OH OH (BWANNNGGGG) part comes in.

Song never fails to make me feel completely insane in a good way.

I like the line that goes "I!"

I am going to have this song in my head all gd day now.

AHHHHHHHHHH.

I like the line that goes "I!"

yes!

"I!"

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, November 8, 2008 7:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

Quite so.

ha

There is an episode of Miami Vice (1st season?) where a band at a party does a cover of this (along with "some guys have all the luck")

I love this song. I'm quite gratified to see that I'm not on my own.

"I!"

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, November 8, 2008 7:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:59 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

Killing me.

Assholes otm btw - this video is kinda wild.

Oh damn I think I just got to the part where they introduce the creatures of the night! O_O

ok I must hear this:

The song has become one of the defining pop songs of the 1980s, with a number of remakes recorded each year. Notable covers include Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin in 1993,

Huh, I can actually see that working out ok.

Some bright horn blasts wouldn't hurt

Well, that's what Ricky Martin finally realized last year.

you're making me forget to play my role

I think about that line
all the time

like, it's sexy...BUT SHOULD IT BE???

I HAVEN'T GOT THE WILL TO STAND AND

fight

I want to do this at karaoke but I know it would be a DISASTER

I want to do a karaoke reenactment of the video

suggested Italian orgy karaoke night

This is one of these songs that I heard maybe once or twice as a little kid and then walked around with it stuck in my head for years after. I only learnt who it was by a couple of years ago, but what a cracker!

just listened to the raf version... wtf there's some eurobros rappin' on this thing!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9cYcRotufU

go to :30

Clipse reinterpreted the song in their 'Counseling':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfo-nz05dM4

Wow, that hockey thing!

SC rules as I see I stated during the last revive.

What was it with LB covering Ialian pop songs? A couple weeks ago I couldn't stop listening to the original Gloria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWSLwkYa6k&feature=fvsr

Wow his performance posture is really something! It's like ectomorphic joe cocker or something!

I can't even tell you how much I love everything about that dude. His spiffy little outfit, the jewlery, his moves - perfect.

What was it with LB covering Ialian pop songs? A couple weeks ago I couldn't stop listening to the original Gloria:

IIRC the same guy who wrote Gloria also wrote Self Control, which would explain why Branigan recorded it, as she'd already had one hit with the guy's song.

Whoever that guy is, I think I love him.

According to Wikipedia he's called Giancarlo Bigazzi, though he's only a co-writer of both "Gloria" and "Self Control". But I assume he's the reason Branigan chose to record the latter song.

Oh, looks like he died this January... :( RIP, mister songwriter.

Aw, man. RIP.

I want to do this at karaoke but I know it would be a DISASTER

hah this is one of my karaoke standards

Apparently he also wrote Boney M's "Take the Heat Off Me", which is a cool song as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3DURSz_20s

I wish I could've celebrated this guy's life more while he was actually alive.

fucklaura branigan singing the word "self" is like the 8th wonder of the world.

"I!"

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, November 8, 2008 7:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:59 PM (4 hours ago)

Harold Faltermeyer worked on the Branigan version.

i just got clocked by a couple of snare drums from this song, motherfuckers beware

Harold Faltermeyer worked on the Branigan version.

And Celso Valli on the RAF version.

Also the 'Eyes Wide Shut orgy' video was directed by William Friedkin FYIBTW.

i got huge old (loud!) klipsch speakers for the store and i couldn't wait to crank this song on them. massively massive.

I was sure it was this thread where I talked about the fact that Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut has the exact same plot and a lot of the same shots as the Self Control video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miGUnKWcYeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nw-V5eEeAk

let's try that again ^ that isn't the full video, it's a video/live mash up thing.

here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av03KxdoO0k