Pointer Sisters Greatest Hits Poll

'he's so shy' for the modulation at the end of the kybd solo

Gotta be "Fire" (though I'll admit to still loving "Jump").

"Slow Hand" vs "Automatic" for me.

"Automatic," just ahead of "He's So Shy," "Dare Me" and ... I guess the rest of Break Out.

voted automatic. but everytime i hear it, it think dudes are singing it

The absent "Yes We Can Can" might've gotten my vote, but "Automatic" will do nicely enough

automatic is the only song of theirs i can do a not-terrible karaoke rendition of, so that one

I'm sure I haven't heard all of these. Most people know He's So Shy is my fave. Looking at this poll makes me think I should have gotten a greatest hits rather than try to digest their albums one by one. I think I burned out on them a little too fast, but then that's the case with a lot of things I try to get into these days.

Automatic is so fun, have to go listen to it now

voted automatic. but everytime i hear it, it think dudes are singing it

For years I thought it was DeBarge!

"automatic" over "slow hand" and "jump"

btw I don't know why this wasn't a single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdrvJ3G3fzs

No "Yes We Can Can" no cred!

if Don't It Drive You Crazy was on here, i woulda voted that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_FoZ7JG9LY

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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Well.

yay!

even tho the sesame street pinball countdown is truly their best eva

I missed the poll but I am a devout Slow Hand guy.

even tho the sesame street pinball countdown is truly their best eva

Please tell me this is true.

Nate, it is true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Number_Count

"Slow Hand" is so perfect.

I'm more into earlier than later Pointers; I could pretty much listen to "Yes We Can Can" on a loop for half an hour. Also, the unstoppable funk of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atf5NkN3U8g

Stellar Hit Parade episode on them today:

https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2023/06/how-the-pointer-sisters-made-harmonies-exciting

Ooh thanks

Going to steal a Camaro, put this on, and drive real slow down the coast through vice city

I would have probably voted for Fire but I'm So Excited getting zero votes is criminal

Voted automatic

All of my systems are down

Some of their '70s shit is so astoundingly funky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wovz9dKG7JE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b-SNYkkf2M

The 7" mix of that is somehow even more powerful, while being a fair bit shorter. I used to have daydreams of Mark Lanegan covering it in some grimy industrial funk-grunge manner, a la his Bubblegum LP. Feel the gospel apocalypse vibe of the lyric would suit him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl26xPdY3IM

Steppin' is probably my favourite Pointer Sisters album, uneven like many of their best records - I never really want to hear their old timey songs, but How Long (Betcha Got A Chick On The Side) is like some intense Norman Whitfield epic, all slow build and tonnes of space. And Chainey Do is fierce as fuck - that constantly shifting rhythm, that rib-shaking, razor-sharp tribal funk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhmp3J79CNI

Not to mention this sublime Stevie Wonder collab, which has that dreamy, other-worldly vibe of the ballads off Fulfillingness First Finale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd3PZ67dI0Q

This is off the next album, another Stevie collaboration, and in that amazingly sweet Latin funk pocket he was in for a fair chunk of the 70s. The Pointers' band was just ridiculously tight and loose back then, absolutely the match for their vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqqRgq79F-A

^^^ the percussion track is sick

I can go without hearing "Neutron Dance" and "I'm So Excited" again

Such a bizarre take

Yeah those are massive.