― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 20:18 (8 years ago) Permalink
― davidsim (davidsim), Monday, 28 February 2005 20:28 (8 years ago) Permalink
It makes Rick Springfield's video for "Human Touch" look like Stanley Kubrick.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:07 (8 years ago) Permalink
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:10 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:11 (8 years ago) Permalink
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:21 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:23 (8 years ago) Permalink
― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:24 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:27 (8 years ago) Permalink
they're about equal.
― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:44 (8 years ago) Permalink
― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:45 (8 years ago) Permalink
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:51 (8 years ago) Permalink
If memory serves she was a "Page 3" girl.
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:51 (8 years ago) Permalink
"NO MORE FUN AND GAMES OF THE MOIND!"
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 21:57 (8 years ago) Permalink
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:04 (8 years ago) Permalink
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 28 February 2005 22:05 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 00:10 (8 years ago) Permalink
Eyes Wide Shut was such a disappointing film.
Samantha Fox!? Ha ha. Puhleez.
I've been having these random thoughts about Pat Benatar lately, though. Have no idea why. Man I used to really love the Precious Time album. Haven't heard that in eons. Her husband was such a fabulous guitarist. Can't remember his name just now. Whoops sorry, this is a Branigan thread. Continue...
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 02:20 (8 years ago) Permalink
All this talk and no video?
― Eazy, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
Pre-YouTube days.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
Original Italo version.
― Eazy, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
Kind of middling until the bass solo four minutes in.
― Eazy, Thursday, 3 April 2008 04:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
I only knew the two singles from childhood (was totally into them). Now I have both records and need to play them...
― Nate Carson, Thursday, 3 April 2008 08:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
Whats the story with the two versions coming out practically at the same time?
― baaderonixx, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Raf one was released in 1984 and was only an underground hit. Then Laura Branigan came along and recorded an inferior cover version. Which became a worldwide hit because she was American and not Italian.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 April 2008 23:38 (5 years ago) Permalink
i'd forgotten just how freaky the video for this song was -- mid 80s AIDS paranoia in full bloom?!?
― Eisbaer, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
Then Laura Branigan came along and recorded an inferior cover version...
Look, I'm as big a champion of Italo Disco as anyone, but sometimes the more popular version of a song is the better one.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 6 April 2008 21:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
The Raf one was released in 1984 and was only an underground hit.
Hardly "underground", Geir: the Raf version entered the German singles charts at the same time as the Laura Branigan version, and sat at #2 while Laura was at #1. ("Self Control" was the biggest selling single in Germany that year, incidentally.) The Raf version did well in Italy, as well.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 7 April 2008 11:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
Whereas the Branigan version ("Good single that" - D Winton) was all we got.
Although Jonathan King had a UK hit with "Gloria" three years before LB.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 7 April 2008 12:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
In 99 out of 100 cases, the original is always better than any cover version. Braningan's version sounded less European, more American, and it would have been better if the world hit was the Raf version instead.
Italo Disco was quite huge in those two markets, but struggled to crack the UK and US market in particular.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 7 April 2008 13:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
"I!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 November 2008 01:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
I loved this song as a kid but since this thread earlier this year, I started Djing this song in Portland constantly and it always gets a great reaction. There are some pretty young metal kids here in town that now have this as their profile song on Myspace. Branigan lives!
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 9 November 2008 01:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
GOOD GOD, this song is immortal. It has taken up residence in my skull permanently, it would seem.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love this song.
― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
rules
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Classic
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes.
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Gloria" also rules btw.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love both versions, but the Branigan wins for her better vocals and the 808/synth swell intro — and having the "ohohoh"s enter in the middle of the song makes it seem more epic
― corey, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
in the daynothing mattersit's the night... time that matters
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like the line that goes "I!"
― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am going to have this song in my head all gd day now.
AHHHHHHHHHH.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes!
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
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― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Quite so.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
suggested Italian orgy karaoke night
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
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!
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Monday, 23 April 2012 11:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
just listened to the raf version... wtf there's some eurobros rappin' on this thing!!
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 23 April 2012 11:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
go to :30
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 23 April 2012 11:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Clipse reinterpreted the song in their 'Counseling':
― kokokeho, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, that hockey thing!
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
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:
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow his performance posture is really something! It's like ectomorphic joe cocker or something!
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't even tell you how much I love everything about that dude. His spiffy little outfit, the jewlery, his moves - perfect.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 23 April 2012 16:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whoever that guy is, I think I love him.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, looks like he died this January... :( RIP, mister songwriter.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aw, man. RIP.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want to do this at karaoke but I know it would be a DISASTER
hah this is one of my karaoke standards
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Apparently he also wrote Boney M's "Take the Heat Off Me", which is a cool song as well:
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wish I could've celebrated this guy's life more while he was actually alive.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 April 2012 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
fucklaura branigan singing the word "self" is like the 8th wonder of the world.
― windjammer voyage (blank), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:59 PM (4 hours ago)
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Harold Faltermeyer worked on the Branigan version.
― timellison, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just got clocked by a couple of snare drums from this song, motherfuckers beware
― windjammer voyage (blank), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:35 (1 year ago) Permalink