C/D: KC & The Sunshine Band

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I think it's a full-on classic. Post-Disco Beat, Intro Synths, Catchy Singable Chorus. Classic up that ass, with kerosine gas.

― voltron 8080, Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

I'll Give It Up.
http://harrywaynecasey.com/kcspacejumpsuit.jpg

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(I love the song though.)

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

the 'best of' (featuring GET DOWN TONIGHT, BOOGIE SHOES, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY, SOUND YOUR FUNKY HORN etc) is aces!

they really were a 'sunshine' band, and who would begrudge them that?

― piscesboy, Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

clizzasic

― PappaWheelie II, Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I swear I was gonna start this thread a few days ago. This is probably their greatest song, unsullied by wedding-reception requests. It's so giddy, propulsive, and unstoppable.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

this song is so so perfect, joyous but a bit sad; there something really yearning in the vocals, like it's hard for the guy to cope without her giving it up. i kind of think he's singing a girl with a drug problem. ("give it up cos i need your love" / "everyone here wants you" unless we are talking orgitasticness than that would suggest she is messing herself up in some way.) i try and play this song in the style of mission of burma's academy fight song.

― jive session (elwisty), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I really liked this song myself when it was big, pretty substantial radio hit in my neck of the woods. Chorus comes to mind readily, I still hear the little tweaks in the delivery he did towards the end of the song...not bad!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

And it charted rather late (1984, no?) for a band considered a disco act.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

fucking weird. i was totally just looking for this song to download on Limewire. thanks, voltron8080!

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

The song kinda precludes FYC a little bit.. especially circa The Raw And The Cooked. (I stress "kinda")

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Totally hear that, and also shades of it in Londonbeat's "I've Been Thinking About You."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

this song never fails to make me happy whenever i hear it. it wasn't the best song from '84, but that's only a reflection of how super-strong '84 was pop-wise and not a reflection of how strong this song is (i.e., in another year it would've been one of that year's best pop hits).

"baby give it up"'s connection to other classic KC songs = its sly, understated intro (leading up to the horn explosion)!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

The Sunshine Band was out of the picture by 1984 - this was a KC solo hit. And to the person who said this song was a little late for a disco act..."Give It Up" was actually a short-lived comeback.

With all that out the way, I always did like this song - those horn charts are like a ripoff of latter-day Earth, Wind & Fire.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 26 August 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

I wrote a song called 'Give It Up'. This one is better.

― Ally C (Ally C), Friday, 26 August 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Can anyone post a yousend it link to this? I NEED IT NOW.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 12 September 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

We need more like this in the world.

― BARMS, Monday, 12 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

"Are You Ready" is also an infectuous solo KC track.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

As is "Sound Your Funky Horn" — even though I think it's one of their earliest singles, I'm not sure they ever topped it.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Someone invent the iPod-to-YouSendIt wifi proxy for working people, and I'll do it.

― donut Get Behind Me Carbon Dioxide (donut), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

c'mon play the game of love

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 September 2010 21:35 (fifteen years ago)

"Please Don't Go" for life.

― cee-oh-tee-tee, Sunday, 19 September 2010 21:44 (fifteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51U9Pif%2BZpL._SS400_.jpg

^^^

4 full albums on 2 cds.

having originally written this lot off due to one overplayed track this has become the soundtrack for last few weeks.

― mark e, Monday, 20 September 2010 08:20 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

love this

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 August 2012 17:14 (thirteen years ago)

me too

― mark e, Sunday, 5 August 2012 18:48 (thirteen years ago)

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C/D: KC & The Sunshine Band - "Give It Up"