adore "Give It Up."
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
"Give It Up" by a hair over "Boogie Man."
― Du Musst Calamari Werden (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Love the guitar sound on a lot of KC songs... "Keep It Comin' Love" gets my vote for, if nothing else, the bit where the chorus breaks down and KC goes "ohhhh yeaaah."
It's the little things, you know.
― Kent Burt, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Voted for Keep It Comin' Love. The self titled album and Part 3 are both really great albums.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 2 March 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Love "Give It Up". Much better than the somewhat too funky 70s material.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Heard "Please Don't Go" in the supermarket just last week, for the first time in 30 years.
Voted "Sound Your Funky Horn"
― honorary mayor of Malibu, California (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
"That's The Way (I Like It)"
― gravity tractor VS asteroid B612 (m coleman), Thursday, 3 March 2011 11:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"Queen of clubs" mainly for the middle eight, at the (ahem) end.
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 March 2011 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
you'd be a fool to overlook 'boogie shoes' imo
― someone_who_cares_about_hipsters (history mayne), Friday, 4 March 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, haven't decided yet
― Tom D (Tom D.), Friday, 4 March 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Great poll...Long ago, I would've voted "Get Down Tonight" easy; loved that when it was on the radio (I don't think we thought of it as disco at the time--it was just a weird song with a nasal vocal), and I still loved it through punk and beyond. I never heard K.C.'s later hits until long after the fact, though--I'd stopped paying attention to radio by 1980--so I missed "Keep It Comin' Love" and "Please Don't Go." Today I'd vote those two 1-2, then "Get Down Tonight." In the early '90s, a friend and I approached a somewhat portly K.C. at a club show about writing the forward for a book on the '70s. He feigned interest, and we never heard back.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 March 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Very difficult poll for me. Like almost all of these songs, many of them a whole lot. Was tempted to vote with "Queen Of Clubs," just because it's still kind of mysterious to me -- disco before disco existed, almost -- but the one I've always had a special, separate place in my heart for is "Keep It Comin' Love," for being some ultimate bubblegum disco epitome. Going with that.
― xhuxk, Friday, 4 March 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"Keep It Comin' Love" is pretty great. Does anyone else think "Please Don't Go" works? I do.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 March 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
another vote for Keep It Comin' Love. what a fucking great tune
― NI, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Voted "Sound Your Funky Horn" --honorary mayor of Malibu, California (Myonga Vön Bontee)
Love this record -- song for song possibly the best disco record of the 70s. "Sound Your Funky Horn" or "Keep It Coming Love" -- and please let's not sleep on the monumental "That's the Way (I Like It)."
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 13 March 2011 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah totally thought thats the way (i like it) would sweep the board here. really pleased to see KICL getting so much love - where did it get to in the UK charts? and US charts for that matter? i kinda vaguely knew of it before checking out the best of but not as much as TTW(ILI)
got these guys mixed up with kool & gang - the gang's best of was a pretty grim experience, v poor disco in the main. in the K & and a crew stakes, it's all about sunshine
― NI, Monday, 14 March 2011 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
7 KC & The Sunshine Band Queen Of Clubs Aug 1974 17 KC & The Sunshine Band Sound Your Funky Horn Nov 1974 21 KC & The Sunshine Band Get Down Tonight Mar 1975 4 KC & The Sunshine Band That's The Way (I Like It) Aug 1975 34 KC & The Sunshine Band I'm So Crazy ('Bout You) Nov 1975 22 KC & The Sunshine Band Shake Your Booty Jul 1976 31 KC & The Sunshine Band Keep It Comin' Love Dec 1976 34 KC & The Sunshine Band Boogie Shoes May 1978 3 KC & The Sunshine Band Please Don't Go Dec 1979 1 KC & The Sunshine Band Give It Up Jul 1983
― Mark G, Monday, 14 March 2011 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
cheers mark
only got to #31?! thats a crime. and boogie shoes even lower, what in the world
― NI, Monday, 14 March 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Boogie Shoes was the original b-side to "Shake your booty"
― Mark G, Monday, 14 March 2011 13:00 (thirteen years ago) link
went keep it comin'
― history mayne, Monday, 14 March 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I have fond memories of hearing "Give It Up" during pregame warmups at a Pittsburgh Maulers-New Jersey Generals United States Football League game at Three Rivers Stadium on Easter Sunday 1984. So, it edges "Sound Your Funky Horn" and the others, although it's a close call with so many strong cuts.
― Fitzcarraldo, Monday, 14 March 2011 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
shake shake shake and give it up need switching
― NI, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing run. voted Get Down Tonight
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"I'm Your Boogie Man" was robbed. The 1-2 with "Keep It Comin' Love" is fabtastic: last two tracks on the Part 3 album, with KICL released as the follow-up single to IYBM - these songs are twins separated at birth, but the public was right, it was a 1-2 alright: "Boogie Man" hit #1, "Keep" #2.
The low-key guitar/tambourine/piano intro, "one-two-three-...!", the interplay between KC's horny vocals and the horn riffs, the guitar/piano breakdown, the coda: "I'm your boogie man, a-ha" times 4, KC's "hooo!" and how it's answered by the backing singers: there aren't many songs in the world that can make me happier than this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ee3C2m3OXE
(inspired by the bump of the Hues Corporation thread, also: more AVRO's Toppop content)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 29 March 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
Their Billboard chart history is unusual - five number 1s, and a number 2, but none of their other 70s singles in the top 30. The hits weren't in a row, either, they interspersed big hits and some that didn't even chart. It shows to what an extent they lived or died song by song - apparently radio was ignoring the minor songs as well.This compilation contains one song that apparently was never a single: "All I Want", originally from their 1980 Greatest Hits, their attempt at a New Wave/funk crossover ballad, I guess. If I didn't vote for that, I might have chosen "Do You Wanna Go Party".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 19 February 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link