unlikely AOR/dance tunes

[thomas hooked]

laidback: whitehorse
steve miller band: macho city
cat stevens:dog a donut
paul mcartney: temporary secretary
eddie grant: timewarp
doctor john: jetset

it seems that between the mid seventies and mid eighties a whole host of people took time out of letting their careers stagnate in AOR horribleness to record an effects heavy electro/disco tinged wigout. thinking of making a mixtape. anymore to add to the list. any chris de burgh proto house tunes?

[V Knid esq]

Also by Macca: 'My Secret Friend'

was Laidback a AOR act? That song is amazing!

[V Knid esq]

Oh, not quite an AOR artist, but the last good song Stevie Wonder recorded before going to pot was 'Race Babbling', which is insane proto-house.

[tsr_tomas]

paul mcartney: temporary secretary

haha, this tune is so funny :)
wounder if drugs and digging frank zappa had anything to do with this tune.

[thomas hooked]

Laidback did the magnificent "driving" (in a chris rhea sort of way)album "Hole in the Sky" feat the marvelous "Baker man"

[V Knid esq]

Talking of which - I'm never a fan of dodgy 80s tunes being played in the name of 'Balearic', but I have discovered I've got a weakness for 'Fool If You Think It's Over' by Chris Rea :( :( :(

[Orang Utan]

Can I mention the words Phil and Collins without getting flamed?

[V Knid esq]

No.

(secretly I do like 'In The Air Tonight', actually - eek!)

[Lady E]

laidback are awesome.

the drums on in the air tonight are pretty fucking incredible, much as i hate collins.

my boyfriend is an expert on just this area of music thomas hooked i will ask him

[thomas hooked]

Herb Albert- Beyond

[cut out]

steve miller band - 'abracadabra'

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bill wyman - 'je suis un rock star'... ??? maybe too calypso...

[V Knid esq]

Vangelis - 'Let It Happen' and 'I Dig You'

[thomas hooked]

wow. i've just tracked down "secret Friend" stunning tip-off V Knid. Understand Max Tundra's Mccartney fetish a bit better now.

only trouble is, its going for about £50.00 on ebay.

[nickywalsh]

Adam ant - wutang remix.

[thomas hooked]

now nicky. nicky, nicky nicky, nicky. i think we all know that was a mobb deep remix. the wu tang did tenpole tudor's "sword of a thousand men"

[nickywalsh]

wutang and mobb deep - eye for an eye with nas off mobb deeps second album. thats good tune. We in this togetgher son your beef is mine.

[thomas hooked]

have you heard tha nastradoomus bootleg? is all special herbs stuff but it kind of works.

[nickywalsh]

yeah i heard it. i thought it was good. Im to the new Aphex acid. Thats good..

[thomas hooked]

haven't heard anything new from him in a while. mind you unless he's done a fleetwood mac cover this thread don't wanna know about it

[content]

i know it isnt dance but george harrison made that weird electronic album in the 70's. and he made that soundtrack with all sitar music

[Sheridan]

what does AOR stand for?

[thomas hooked]

Adult Orientated Rock

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
Adult Orientated Rock

you mean porno rock? :D

[thomas hooked]

cocaine impotence car-radio rock

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
laidback: whitehorse

I think this is a record I have been looking for for a while.
is this one where the dude sings 'ride the whithorse'?
is this the name of the record or just the song?

[thomas hooked]

if you wanna ride,
don't ride the white horse.
if you wanna be rich,
you've gotta be a bitch
(repeat)

that the one?

[Sheridan]

yeah that's it! I couldn't remember all the lyrics.
whats the name of the record? I was doing a search on gemm.com but I couldn't find anything that matched.

[thomas hooked]

er............... there's definately a clue or two dotted around this thread if you're sharpeyed scout.

[Sheridan]

I figured it was called whitehorse, but wasn't sure if it was maybe on a record of a different name.

[V Knid esq]

Originally posted by content
i know it isnt dance but george harrison made that weird electronic album in the 70's. and he made that soundtrack with all sitar music

The soundtrack was for a film called 'Wonderwall'. Never heard the electronic stuff - do you know what it's called?

[V Knid esq]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
wow. i've just tracked down "secret Friend" stunning tip-off V Knid. Understand Max Tundra's Mccartney fetish a bit better now.

only trouble is, its going for about £50.00 on ebay.

I'm pretty sure it was re-released recently (like within the last year or so) on the b-side of 'Temporary Secretary', which is also weirdy electronic disco, with re-edits by Terry Farley or someone like that...

[thomas hooked]

is that the radioslave edit? there were only 500 and it lacks the simplicity of the original

[nickywalsh]

I like the unreleased b-side by ice cube. my skin is my sin, remixed by enya

[walkerbelm]

'coming up' by paul is good also in a funk way. not electronic though

looking for clues by robert palmer

rough and ready by karel fialka(the guy who did hey matthew)

ive done a sid chip remix of TOTOs africa

[thomas hooked]

and where might i find said sid file?
nice site btw.

[thomas hooked]

did joe jackson ever do anything else as good as "Steppin' Out"?

[thomas hooked]

this mix gets it so right:
http://www.mixoftheweek.com/mixes/motw243.html

[Orang Utan]

Excellent - they haven't updated that site for a while.

I am currently grooving to Tony Christie's Amarillo

[walkerbelm]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
and where might i find said sid file?
nice site btw.

thanks for the site feedback...will update soon-ish

the africa remix isnt actually in sid format...its a bit of a cheat really...i used REFX quadrasid and some samples of various sid drum sounds. Ill upload it somewhere in the next few days and lput the link up here. I warn you though, its absolutely awful.

[Yer_Maw]

@thomas hooked: that mix is amazing

[wheezer]

For ya'll soulseek fans out there, check out user PappaWheelie, he's got a huge collection of obscure stuff in this area (and beyond), I chatted him up once as he uses his own filenaming convention and has apparently been hunting this stuff down online for some time now.

[phonudja]

ehm. too late

[thomas hooked]

Originally posted by Yer_Maw

@thomas hooked: that mix is amazing
great isn't it, giorgio, tom tom club a lovely dub track, a carpenters track that could have come from madlibs collection and a load of weird scando-pop. awesome

[thomas hooked]

dont know what else he did but Will Powers- Adventures in Success is a good one

[d l]

Originally posted by Sheridan


I think this is a record I have been looking for for a while.
is this one where the dude sings 'ride the whithorse'?
is this the name of the record or just the song?


its on the b-side of Sunshine Reggae -12" and 7"