SOS Band - Classic or dud?

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Is the SOS Band or the band responsible for such hits as "take your time", "just be good to me" or "the finest" classic or dud?

― Startrekman, Friday, 31 December 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic, being that "Take Your Time" was later sampled in the also classic "Strobelite Honey" by Black Sheep.

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 31 December 2004 05:37 (nineteen years ago) link

"Take Your Time" and "Just Be Good To Me" are both classics. Can't say I'm wildly familiar with them otherwise.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 December 2004 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i always meant to get more into 'em. the singles are excellent.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 31 December 2004 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Absolutely classic. One of the lushest sounding of the 80's R&B groups.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 31 December 2004 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Absolute classic - greatest song = No Lies 12", greatest moment = the WTF is going on with EQ breakdown moment 2/3rds of the way through the song.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 31 December 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic when Jam & Lewis produced (hit singles except for "Take Yr Time"), not a dud but just ok when they didn't. Best album IMO is Sands of Time w/ "the Finest" and "Even When You Sleep." Mary Davis = shiver-inducing voice. Singles or the budget Best of SOS Band are probably your best investment.
If you like this 80s techno-soul, try the UK group Loose Ends next.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Friday, 31 December 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Hangin' On A String IS better than the SOS songs for me, and you could well argue that Beats International and Richard X/Kelis render their big hits irrelevant now too. dud by consequence!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Friday, 31 December 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

SOS Band had a few great hits and did not harm whatsoever, but I think the Pointer Sisters are grossly overlooked in comparison... (sorry for soapboxing on such an innocent thread.)

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 31 December 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

specifically mid to late 70s Pointer Sisters. (I wouldn't be upset if I never heard "I'm So Excited" ever again in my life. "Automatic" on the other hand...)

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 31 December 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Nah, The Finest > Finest Dreams. Better drum programming + longer (and uses it's length) which in a close call situation like this is important.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Saturday, 1 January 2005 03:44 (nineteen years ago) link

i like big bouncing boobies

― music critic, Saturday, 1 January 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I have very good memories of S.O.S. Band, but haven't heard them in a bazillion years. I bought two singles and an album, eons ago.

― Bimble..., Saturday, 1 January 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

side one of Just The Way You Like It is my fave R&B of the 80's

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

sos, in dutch, is slang for cocaine

they dont have anything to do with that right?

― Rizz (Rizz), Saturday, 1 January 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I doubt it.. I think it's after the term for "emergency/help needed", although you never know.

― donut christ (donut), Sunday, 2 January 2005 03:00 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

Fred Wesley played and did horn arrangements for SOS Band. [bio]

For similar stuff (more synths than horns, though), the Mastercuts Classic 80s Groove collections are nice. [here] and.. there's a Volume 2 somewhere as well.

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 3 October 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I have officially flipped over about 6 or 7 songs from this band. Some I remember from way back when and some I don't. Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, take a bow.

"Tell Me If You Still Care" (I can't get this out of my head)
"For Your Love"
"Even When You Sleep"
"No One's Gonna Love You" (in truth, this is my absolute fave out of all of them but don't tell anyone)
"Just The Way You Like It" (I'm certain I had the 7" single)
"Just Be Good To Me" (ditto)

― Bimble, Sunday, 2 September 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Also "For Your Love" has a really badass bass line.

― Bimble, Sunday, 2 September 2007 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Good time for this thread to be revived - just yesterday I was driving myself nuts trying to remember who did "Take Your Time". (Shalamar? Gap Band?) I never did remember correctly.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 3 September 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

The ideal Saturday morning band.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 June 2012 12:59 (eleven years ago) link

Funny you say that Alfred cuz I woke up today and put on Alexander O'Neal's "Hearsay" first thing! Wanted to hear that Flyte Tyme sound first thing.

― Pacific Rinko (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link

Obv. should've had my coffee "first thing" in order to avoid the repetition : )

― Pacific Rinko (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

Hearsay is like top ten all-time for me.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 June 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link

love this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz8MmY_55uA

― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Saturday, 16 June 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

two years pass...

the whole "on the rise" LP is pretty smokin

― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 22 September 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link

three years pass...

https://soundcloud.com/onra/high-hopes-ft-reggie-b

Dope rework by Onra of “high hopes”

― calstars, Friday, 16 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

Early stuff no longer on Spotify? And I assume other streaming services? :( So sad, was a staple of my high school years, and the YouTube versions don't sound as good.

― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Thursday, 30 April 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link

All their albums are there on my (Dutch) Spotify - they weren’t the previous times I checked, so I’m going to have myself a nice little S.O.S. weekend, girl!

― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 1 May 2020 08:49 (three years ago) link

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