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
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 (twelve years ago) link
Whoever that guy is, I think I love him.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, looks like he died this January... :( RIP, mister songwriter.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, man. RIP.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Monday, 23 April 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
I wish I could've celebrated this guy's life more while he was actually alive.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 23 April 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
fucklaura branigan singing the word "self" is like the 8th wonder of the world.
― windjammer voyage (blank), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
"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)
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
Harold Faltermeyer worked on the Branigan version.
― timellison, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
i just got clocked by a couple of snare drums from this song, motherfuckers beware
― windjammer voyage (blank), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
And Celso Valli on the RAF version.
Also the 'Eyes Wide Shut orgy' video was directed by William Friedkin FYIBTW.
― Gonk Steady Crew (Noel Emits), Friday, 20 April 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
i got huge old (loud!) klipsch speakers for the store and i couldn't wait to crank this song on them. massively massive.
― scott seward, Friday, 20 April 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
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
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nw-V5eEeAk
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:33 (six years ago) link
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
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 20 April 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
Wearing white as you’re walking down the street of my soul
― the article don, Friday, 20 April 2018 18:36 (six years ago) link
Wow, that hockey thing!
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Monday, April 23, 2012 11:11 AM (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Very prescient!
(Just saw the self control video for the first time and wow, love it. Also her version of "Power Of Love" is quite raw.)
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
This song rules, such a formative part of my childhood radio listening years.
BTW:
Harold Faltermeyer worked on the Branigan version
My pal and I were joking the other day about this period in pop music when you know certain cats (talented/genius or not!) were getting a lot of work because they were literally the only ones that could program, let alone that owned, whatever brand new synth was in vogue. Like, Harold Faltermeyer, Jan Hammer, Herbie Hancock, Thomas Dolby ...
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
that greg guy that covered "behind the mask"
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
love this song like family
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
xpost Oh shit! Yeah, Gregory Phillinganes.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 July 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
One of the best songs of all time. Half of the lyrics have been quoted here already, but damn: “I must believe in something / so I'll make myself believe it / this night will never go”. Cue Röyksopp & Robyn’s “Do It Again”.As mentioned upthread, the extended version of the Raf original features what must have been one of the earliest examples of Euro rap: “keep shaking, money making / to the beat that’s so heartbreaking”. Indeed.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
(and don’t get me started on Jack White (né Horst Nußbaum). What a career trajectory! From playing professional football/soccer (for PSV Eindhoven!) in the 60s to giving German Schlager a much needed kick up its butt in the early 70s, injecting it with some glam, pop and pure joy (for people like Tony Marshall and my beloved Jürgen Marcus), to producing these Laura Branigan hits as well as “As The Rain Begins To Fall” in the 80s, to (according to German Wikipedia at least) being instrumental in making Daddy Yankee’s “Gasolina” the first international reggaeton hit fifteen years ago.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:15 (four years ago) link
Through the years I have found more and more that I prefer the Raf oruginal.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
For some reason I've heard this song 3 times on the radio in the past month and I love it again. Also, it has the most extraordinary 80's video I've ever seen.
― akm, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
Am amazed how nobody on this thread has mentioned that Pulp ripped this song off wholesale for the equally awesome Disco 2000.
Wally Badarou too.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Love this hard banging 80's sound (up there with Kim Wilde's 'Keep me hanging on')
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
xp Ned mentioned it in the RIP thread
Classic song obv.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Pulp certainly did rip off a Laura Branigan song for "Disco 2000" - but it was "Gloria", not "Self Control".
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 17 July 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
I love "Gloria" and "Self Control". What other songs get this vibe? "You Keep Me Hanging On" is a great one. I'd add Donna Summer's "Protection" and Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For a Hero" from a few years later. Other suggestions?
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 18 July 2019 10:28 (four years ago) link
Tell It To My Heart?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 18 July 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
"Gloria," there seem to be a lot of aerobic '80s songs that fit that vibe. "Self Control" is darker and more mysterious. So vibe-wise, along with the usual Italo disco suspects, there's stuff like, I dunno, "Send Me an Angel," by Real Life, maybe?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
I don’t know the usual Italo suspects!
― L'assie (Euler), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
Stuff like this, I guess:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcwYp0musC8
Also, this one (not Italo) is very "Self Control:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMPR6Ujop4k
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:31 (four years ago) link
You can also look for stuff by Scotch and Kano, I guess, among other Italian disco suspects. Other people here know that stuff better than I do.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:34 (four years ago) link
I think 'Don't Pretend to Know' by Tapps kind of fits?
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
hmm, I dont really agree with most of these suggestions. What I dig about Self Control is the hard rock/quasi-goth sound spruced up by 80s electro. There's a relentlessness to it that makes it super badass. I dont think Visage or Taylor Dayne have that hard sinister vibe.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 18 July 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
Hazel O'Connor, Eighth Day?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:13 (four years ago) link
(a bit less rock, a bit more goth - see also Drowning in Berlin)
― The Pingularity (ledge), Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGVZOLV9SPo
― Funky Isolations (jed_), Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim CarnesSunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
― enochroot, Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
Sandra - In The Heat Of The Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4kHR5SNB5Q
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Thursday, 18 July 2019 13:49 (four years ago) link
How about Matia Bazar’s *Ti-Sento*?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4JwenFloWk
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 18 July 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
Sandra is a good suggestion (although clearly not as great as Self Control).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 18 July 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
How about Caroline Loeb "C'est la ouate"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oyrsite2Ck
...and perhaps Gina X "No GDM"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUUlaXETebI
...Off "Electrica Salsa"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK6wglhklKg
...Propaganda "P.Machinery"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=660ZCEhvbnw
...and Eighth Wonder "I'm Not Scared":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PYqUHfTMA
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 18 July 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link