Shannon's "Give me the night"

I love this song, so this should be fun -

I think it's safe to say that all the synth sounds except the orchestra hits, some vocal sounds, and bells toward the end are analog, but it's all very compressed with heavy reverb into that glossy-80's wall of sound. Actually, the bells toward the end sound like an early digital synth, maybe a Roland D-50. The heavily filtered/reverbed chirpy sound at the intro might just be a Roland JX3P or MKS-30. In fact, there's another stab sound with a heavy chorus that also resembles the MKS/AlphaJuno/JX era of Roland. Just about everything is polyphonic at some point. I couldn't tell you about the bass, it's pretty ordinary-sounding, though it sounds as if it might be a polyphonic synth in unison mode. The drums are clearly digital, heavily compressed, and blasted through the standard pop-freestyle reverb along with everything else. I'm almost positive it's an Oberheim DMX, but that might be an 808 rimshot in there, too. Obviously the "give me tonight" solo is an early sampler.

Basically, if you're looking for these kinds of sounds, think MKS-30, MKS-50, Alpha Juno-1 or 2, maybe Juno 106. I love the built-in chorus/ensemble effects on these, and this song makes great use of them. It must have been quite a feat of engineering to get all these sounds smashed together.

You can get the acapella of this on iTunes I noticed. It was brought to my attention how great this track this by frenchbloke's mix of it with Justus Koehncke's 'Was Ist Musik' on his 'Back With A Big Fuck You' mix.

The great thing about growing up in Miami in the mid '80s is that you heard this song and its facsimilies ALL THE TIME.

Shannon's "Give me the night" tr808 and roland jx3p

thanks

izzat you, startrekman?

wait why would anyone ever mention this song in the same breath as "Waiting For Tonight" or "Jenny From The Block"?

did u know waiting for tonight is a cover

oh I didn't!