"Dance Electric" is an expert El Lay simulation of Numan-noid cybernetics at least three years after the fashion; it's my favorite album track.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 02:39 (four years ago) link
The four top fives are so omnipresent that I forget "I Need You" and "Baby Come and Get It" sandwiched them (and flopped).
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
"i need you" is absolutely gorgeous and may even be my favorite of all the singles. i know so much of the appeal of this album's tracks is in the squiggly synth trills and arpeggiators and other technological magic, but the understated approach to that one in particular (and to a lesser extent "easy persuasion"), more akin to their former hit "slow hand" but far from out of place on this record, really hits the spot for me: mellow but danceable, somber and pleading but with a twinkle of measured optimism resting on the shimmering bell tones. this is all before you even get to their vocal performances, which, oh my god. i want to go outside on a cool summer night and listen to it forever.
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 04:29 (four years ago) link
meanwhile it makes total sense to me that "baby come and get it" underperformed
― dyl, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 04:30 (four years ago) link
Automatic, full stop. For all the automation and production, such an emotional tune
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 05:29 (four years ago) link
Quick vote for Automatic too, but, WOW they were special for a fair few. More great songs than most, for sure.
― mr.raffles, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
when i was 10: Jump
from my 20s and forever more: Automatic
Automatic is kind of the ultimate "bridge" song tempo-wise for a DJ
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:11 (four years ago) link
Ruth Pointer's android voice figuring out how to sing, "All I can manage to push from my lips/Is a stream of absurdities."
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
looking forward to revisiting this, especially that stacked opening trio. i remember preferring contact as an album though
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
"Dare Me" is a jam imo
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
So many greats. Jump by a nose
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
ahhh fuck I forgot Neutron Dance was on this! that was my favourite song for a looong time
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
it is kind of the ultimate closing-credits-of-an-Eddie-Murphy-movie song
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Funny how "I'm So Excited" and "Neutron Dance" got stapled onto the album after movie appearances ("I'm So Excited" had already been a mid-level hit in 1982-1983).
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
As good as I think Automatic is, I have the opposite feeling for “neutron dance” and “hump” and “excited” all of which I never need to hear again
― calstars, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
This was basically my favorite album ever for a year or so when I was tyke.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
when I was dyke
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
I expect "Automatic" to run away with it and deservedly, but my heart's With "Jump" or "I Need You" or "Dance Electric" or "Baby Come and Get It."
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Gotta be "Baby Come and Get It".
― War in I Rock (I M Losted), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 20:33 (four years ago) link
When this came out I was overwhelmed by the amount of hits that kept coming out.
But this has to be "Automatic".
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 20:38 (four years ago) link
Jellybean 12" mix if you've never heard it, got a lot of play in some freestyle sets I'd put together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPrdUJahLVo
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
That C7sus4->C7sus->Cmaj dry clipped funk guitar riff is so good. I hate strats but they're so good for stuff like that.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
all of my systems are downdown down down
― andrew m., Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:39 (four years ago) link
I have the opposite feeling for “neutron dance” and “hump” and “excited”
i am so pathetic for laughing at this typo
― dyl, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:56 (four years ago) link
“So shy” will always be their pinnacle imho but “automatic” is a close second
― calstars, Thursday, 27 June 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
i should have made the poll 'second-favorite song on Pointer Sisters - Break Out after "Automatic"'
― dyl, Thursday, 27 June 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
lol probably!
"slow hand" the pinnacle imho
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 June 2019 10:53 (four years ago) link
"Neutron Dance" got stapled onto the album after movie appearances
"neutron dance" is on both versions of break out alfred
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:37 (four years ago) link
your camera looks through mewith its x-ray vision
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:40 (four years ago) link
"automatic" is a great lyric imo
Ask A Former Touring Drummer For The Pointer Sisters
By October of '84, "Neutron Dance" had hit number three, and things were getting seriously crazy. Every night, we'd hit the stage and be standing there in front of 1,500 wild, screaming fans. I remember this one show in Detroit, we were playing the Fox Theater, and it was so loud, I couldn't even hear Anita when she said, "Let's hit it, boys," which is the band's cue to launch into the "I'm So Excited"/"Jump (For My Love)" encore set. And it didn't let up for the entire 90 minutes we'd be out there. Man, it was insane.
― enochroot, Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, June 27, 2019
my bad -- I was thinking of "I'm So Excited," also on So Excited!.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:47 (four years ago) link
"jump" is such an incredible song i can't believe i'm not voting for it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:50 (four years ago) link
I put in a vote for it because I want a strong second-place showing for it.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 June 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
I love how in Thriller's wake these star albums became hit machines: Suddenly, Colour by Numbers, Eliminator, An Innocent Man.
We should poll those mini-Thrillers imo.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:15 (four years ago) link
such a massive album, so many great jams, but the syncopation of the melody's rhythm in "jump" has been slaying me dead for decades, so "jump" it is
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:24 (four years ago) link
when that chorus hits, it's magic
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
Also, as I'm sure I've said four times on ILX already, probably my favorite middle 8 of any pop song.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 June 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
no way to control it, my vote is totally automatic
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
or maybe it's totally neutron dance
― old cloud yells at man (voodoo chili), Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:50 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 30 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Voted Automatic because it’s my personal fave but have very fun memories of going to a Marshall’s store and seeing the ladies in the lingerie section start singing and get way into Jump when it came on the loudspeakers. Jump! For my love!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 30 June 2019 00:24 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 1 July 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
lol
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 July 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
no way to control it
omg i didn't realize it would be that much of a landslide
poor "neutron dance"
― dyl, Monday, 1 July 2019 06:00 (four years ago) link
As a kid, when Automatic was current, I thought she was singing "a stream of obscenities". Which seemed pretty edgy to me.
― Vast Halo, Monday, 1 July 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
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― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
was looking around for pictures of them in roller skates. i remember reading somewhere that they used to perform in '40s / '50s attire and go on stage in skates ? like a band was opening for them at the whiskey a-go go and it was in a memoir but i can't recall who it was and there don't appear to be any pictures of them in roller skates. but i did find this.
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
I don’t get itWhat makes these boobs Pointer sisters boobs?
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
i mean
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
c'mon are you serious