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 (sixteen years ago) link
Whats the story with the two versions coming out practically at the same time?
― baaderonixx, Friday, 4 April 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
"I!"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 9 November 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Love this song.
― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
rules
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Classic
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
yes.
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
"Gloria" also rules btw.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
in the daynothing mattersit's the night... time that matters
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
I like the line that goes "I!"
― saint dominic's p4k review (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
yes!
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, November 8, 2008 7:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
― leave me alone, i was only zinging (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Quite so.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
ha
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
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")
― lol is not enough (blank), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I love this song. I'm quite gratified to see that I'm not on my own.
― Death To False Camp (Doran), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Assholes otm btw - this video is kinda wild.
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Oh damn I think I just got to the part where they introduce the creatures of the night! O_O
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
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,
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, I can actually see that working out ok.
― lol is not enough (blank), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Some bright horn blasts wouldn't hurt
Well, that's what Ricky Martin finally realized last year.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
you're making me forget to play my role
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
I think about that lineall the time
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
like, it's sexy...BUT SHOULD IT BE???
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
I HAVEN'T GOT THE WILL TO STAND AND
fight
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
I want to do this at karaoke but I know it would be a DISASTER
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
I want to do a karaoke reenactment of the video
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
suggested Italian orgy karaoke night
― does Red Stripe work like poppers? (Abbbottt), Monday, 23 April 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9cYcRotufU
go to :30
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 23 April 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
Clipse reinterpreted the song in their 'Counseling':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfo-nz05dM4
― kokokeho, Monday, 23 April 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, that hockey thing!
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
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
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 23 April 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link