Get On Your POLL: Gloria Estefan Greatest Hits

Her fast ones are actually pretty good eighties dance pop.

― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Conga"! I love to sing the chorus (and the horn punches too). The verses are great too. I don't really know anything in the second half of the list, though. Am I missing something worth hearing?

― Euler, Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

Well, she starts to suck more consistently.

One of my best friends and I agreed a couple of days ago, after remarking that I heard "Can't Stay Away From You" at the supermarket, that her early ballads have the virtue of being straightforward and not employing wasted notes.

― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

I like "Words Get In The Way" a lot. The early songs remind me of Florida, in a good way for once.

― Euler, Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

Si Voy a Perderte

― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

No Oye?

― Mark G, Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

Betcha say that to all the boys.

― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ai, Ai I

― who's always getting head from the commissioner (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 April 2010 13:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

No "Live For Loving You"!? :(

― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

Impossible to vote for anything but "Rhythm"

― Trip Maker, Thursday, 22 April 2010 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

One time I was in the check-out line at the grocery store and "1, 2, 3" was on. The cashier was totally grooving out, dancing, and singing along but making up new numbers for the chorus, like "four, a thousand, twelve, six, come on baby say you love me, twenty, eleven, forty-five!" And then laughing really hard after doing it. He embarrassed the hell out of the lady he was ringing up. It was the best.

― kissogram powers (Abbott), Thursday, 22 April 2010 18:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

love her

i used to rly like "everlasting love"

― la senora (surm), Thursday, 22 April 2010 21:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

Voting "Dr. Beat."

Best ballad: "Can't Stay Away From You."

Best charting single not up there: probably "Falling In Love (Uh Oh)", then "Oye Mi Canto (Hear My Voice)"

― xhuxk, Thursday, 22 April 2010 21:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Friday, 30 April 2010 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

Single-wise, she never got better than "Dr. Beat". Later albums were better than the debut, but "Dr. Beat" is still a fantastic single.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I always forget how singular "Dr. Beat" is.

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm not going to play the "authentic Latin music card," because I don't really believe in it and don't hate all pop obviously, plus it's a really dumb card to be handling in reference to Gloria Estefan, but my favorite song is her traditionalist "Mi Tierra." None of these hits have ever meant anything to me.

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

My parents are the experts in "traditional" Cuban music, but these Estefan skeptics all say she does herself and the tradition proud on that album.

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I don't think she has a great voice for that type of music, but it still manages to be a good album. It doesn't hurt that she was album to pull together a who's who of Cuban musicians to back her on it.

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

Anyhow, I didn't really know every one of these by title, and I've always kind of liked "1, 2, 3" without knowing it was her (and actually haven't though of this song for a long long while), so that one.

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

The Wikipedia entry is actually pretty funny:

"1-2-3" (sometimes listed as "1, 2, 3") is the title of a popular song by Gloria Estefan and her former band, Miami Sound Machine. It was written by Estefan and former band member Enrique "Kiki" Garcia and appears on the album, Let It Loose.

Released as the fifth and final single from their multi-platinum album Let It Loose in the summer of 1988, "1-2-3" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the band's seventh Top 10 hit.[1] In addition, the song became their fourth #1 hit on the Billboard adult contemporary chart.[2] On the Billboard R&B chart, "1-2-3" peaked at 54.[2] The single was essentially the same as the album version of the song, only it was slightly remixed to add more horns to the music.

By the time "1-2-3" was released a single in 1988, the song's co-writer Kiki Garcia had acrimoniously departed Miami Sound Machine. Garcia was quoted describing the situation in the band: "There is no Miami Sound Machine. There is Gloria and Emilio telling a bunch of hired musicians what to do."[2]

The lyrics of "1-2-3" detail the singer's desire to have a shy suitor approach her.

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 May 2010 02:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's mindblowing to remember how popular they were for a long while.

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 May 2010 03:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

Parts of "1,2,3" kind of make me think of "Lovergirl" by Teena Marie (another case where I never knew who did that song before). I can't remember but I think I may have hated this song at some point, but somewhere along the line I got to like it.

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 May 2010 03:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

(When I'm actually consuming pop music like a normal person, listening to the radio or picking up on what's around me, I don't actually know what anything is or who it's by.)

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 1 May 2010 03:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

"Turn the Beat Around" 3:52 1

waht

― cool and remote like dancing girls (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

I guess I forgot to vote.

― will live out his days in gloomy batchelorhood (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 May 2010 23:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

Betcha say that to all the girls

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 August 2010 02:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

Dr Beat could be Sheila E almost.

― piscesx, Monday, 30 August 2010 04:05 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Turn the Beat Around" 3:52 1

waht

her version's not bad, it was just kinda what's the point? at the time. 'anything for you' i like as much as a lot of the more uptempo cuts. 80's was a good time for loving the one you were with (or 'stuck' with).

― Mr. or Ms. Narc-on-the-couch (tremendoid), Monday, 30 August 2010 06:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

I don't like this, which makes me curious if some of you will (Alfred?):

― On the Heat Release of Burning Karaoke Music Compartments (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 1 November 2011 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

One time I was in the check-out line at the grocery store and "1, 2, 3" was on. The cashier was totally grooving out, dancing, and singing along but making up new numbers for the chorus, like "four, a thousand, twelve, six, come on baby say you love me, twenty, eleven, forty-five!" And then laughing really hard after doing it. He embarrassed the hell out of the lady he was ringing up. It was the best.

― kissogram powers (Abbott), Thursday, 22 April 2010

<3 <3 <3

― bentelec, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

This one caught me offguard. I hadn't heard it in more than twenty years.

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

No votes for "Here We Are" ;_;

― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 03:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

One time I was in the check-out line at the grocery store and "1, 2, 3" was on. The cashier was totally grooving out, dancing, and singing along but making up new numbers for the chorus, like "four, a thousand, twelve, six, come on baby say you love me, twenty, eleven, forty-five!" And then laughing really hard after doing it. He embarrassed the hell out of the lady he was ringing up. It was the best.

― kissogram powers (Abbott), Thursday, 22 April 2010

<3 <3 <3

― bentelec, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:00 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3 <3 <3

― how's life, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:35 (8 months ago) Permalink

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 01:56 (4 months ago) Permalink

So they had EIGHT albums before Eyes of Innocence? 0_O

― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:52 (4 months ago) Permalink