"Jump (For My Love)" completes me.

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I just want to say that I have recently rediscovered this 1983 song by the magnificant Pointer Sisters and I love life. Literally every home video taken of me from the age of five to the age of ten includes a clip of me dancing my BALLS off to this song. Is there anyone else out there who has the same passionate love for this brilliant piece of music? Are there other songs you just ROCKED OUT to in your childhood? Oh god. they don't make em like this anymore.

if you want more, if you want more, more, MOOOOOOORE.

― rockaction (rockaction), Monday, 28 February 2005 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oddly enough I just heard the Girls Aloud version the other day. And quite good it is too. The original's a treat and the Pointer Sisters should be more canonical than they are (not that they're not, it's just, you know, more please).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I was more partial to "Neutron Dance" as far as Pointer Sisters songs went when I was a kid.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm So Excited" was sorta the pinnacle of their early eighties period but then again that's the point, it was just part of a longer career -- and a pretty badass one at that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Donald Trump SNL skit that uses this song is pretty classic.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 28 February 2005 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.virgin.net/movies/galleries/lovegallery/pix/09_main.jpg

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 28 February 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck the Pointer Sister! Van Halen, DUDE!

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 28 February 2005 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

disco duck and macho man by the village people

― phunktion, Monday, 28 February 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck Van Halen! The Aztec Camera "Jump" cover, DUDE!

― Hanna (Hanna), Monday, 28 February 2005 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all about "Automatic" for me.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i claim to be the only living person who really prefers the Girls ALoud cover - i think it's tremendous. their other covers suck, but their Jump is springy good energy happy stuff

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

But the scouse one make my heart black with rage.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i know a few people who prefer the GA version. i think i might too.

― pete b. (pete b.), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

HURRAH!

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 28 February 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

me three

― coco, Monday, 28 February 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Better beats on that cover, it really has to be agreed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 February 2005 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Better beats, but isn't the electro-riff missing from GA?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Monday, 28 February 2005 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally heard "Dare Me", which got sampled in a couple of big house tunes last year, and my God, does it rock.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

JoB OTM -- it's all about AUTOMATIC.

Your camera looks through me
With its x-ray vision
My legs too weak to stand

I go from sadness
To exhilartion
Like a robot at your command

All I can manage to push from my lips is a string of absurdities
Every word I intended to speak winds up locked in the circuitry

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i prefer irene cara's "romance '83"

Staring at the images on my TV set
switching channels, haven't found the
right station yet
What I need is Romance '83

I try to fix the tuning on my radio
Getting up I trip over the remote control
What I need is Romance '83

I thought that love and kindness were
the things we all need
A bit of sensitivity
Just living life simple was the thing to
believe in
I don't really know really know anymore
Sharing all the human feelings deep inside
Instead we hide behind machines
I really wonder if there can ever be a
place for a little
A little bit of Romance '83

Input, output, microprocessor delay
VCI, VCA, modulation for decay
DIN sync into control
The invert mode for stereo
Set mode channels two selectors
Audio schematic vectors

Your busy when I call you up on the telephone
You're playing those Atari games and
I'm here alone
What I need is Romance '83

Sometimes it makes me think if I can
ever be free
Life is no longer a challenge and there's
no mystery
What I need is Romance '83

I look back on a time when the world
was so young
A beautiful ecology
A flowing river and a bright beautiful
sun was enough
Now I don't really know anymore
Satisfied with only the land and the trees
Instead we mass-produce machines
I really wonder if there can ever be a
place for a little
A little bit of Romance '83

What I need is Romance '84

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

although "nothing but flowers" is good too

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

OPO: Eighties Pop Songs That Depict A Technological Dystopia.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i was thinkin' that if the next ilmixor theme was "my computer" i'd use "romance '83."

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Slightly weird that this should come up now, cos I rediscovered the Pointer Sisters recently too. I bought the Break Out LP a few weeks ago in the Notting Hill exchange. It was sealed, never played, and cost me 50p! The first three tracks are ALL amazing. I've listened to the first side lots, but haven't got around to turning it over yet.

It made me happy enough that I even took a picture of it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimd/3589807/

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

If Prince had given "Nasty Girl" to them instead of Vanity 6, we'd have the '80s Supremes (or is that Bananarama?)

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

My G-d, I was just about to start a Pointer Sisters thread meself! (Don't think there's been before, if memory serves.) My faves are "Slow Hand" (for easy touch) and "Automatic" (for heated rush.) And I just discovered that that one lyric in "Automatic" is actually "stream of absurdities" and not "string of obscenities" (which I like better!)

My own personal rockout songs between age 5-10 were probably "Ballroom Blitz", "Family Affair", "Yo-yo" (Osmonds), "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", "Popcorn" (Hot Butter) and "Just Like Me" (Raiders.) Oh, and "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" from an ancient Disney record. Much of my musical taste defined by those six.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

automatic is great. An old band I was in covered it. Fantastic rush of energy.

― wordyrappington (wordyrappington), Monday, 28 February 2005 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck Aztec Camera! Loverboy's "Jump"! Loverboy!

And I'd like to musicologically point out that PS's "Jump" and VH's "Jump" feature the same chords in their keyboard riffs, just in a different order.

PS=I IV V I over a I
VH=V I IV V over a I

Are these universal signifiers of jumping?

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 28 February 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gocontinental.com/photos3/mara_o.jpg

Ta Mara and The Seen: "Everybody Dance."

Absolute Godhead.

The album is long since out of print, alas.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Monday, 28 February 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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