Maxi Priest " close to you" classic or dud?

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opinions?

Startrekman, Wednesday, 2 March 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

nngggg

hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

I loved this song when it came out. Haven't heard it in years, but suspect I still would love it. The interplay between the spoken bits and the plaintive chorus = k-lassik.

edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

Verse = classic.
Chorus = dud.

Verse has got a pretty sweet groove - it kind of lollops along, slightly behind the beat.

Chorus has cringing Soul II Soul-style string stabs, which make it sound like Maxi's in the shower with Janet Leigh.

Huey (Huey), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

which makes sense, M-Pree wrote the song from the perspective of Norman Bates.

Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Oh man I had the CD single, I still love it. Played with Beats International's Dub Be Good to Me on repeat.

nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Also, the seamless way the chorus goes back into the verse is brilliant.

edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

ha, weird that there's a thread about this song

heard it tonight, thought it was sade for like 3 seconds, eventually found out what it was via google

anyway, classic -- at least at night when driving slowly w/ the windows down

J0rdan S., Sunday, 31 July 2011 03:30 (fourteen years ago)

Ha, saw this revive and figured it'd be about his son Marvin Priest's "Own This Club", which has been inescapable lately; up there with "Party Rock Anthem" in relentlessness. Might just be Aus/NZ saturation at the moment, though - paging Tim F?

etc, Sunday, 31 July 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)

TS 'Close To You' vs 'Housecall'

blueski, Sunday, 31 July 2011 10:53 (fourteen years ago)

the verse of this song is grebt, the chorus too, but that verse is hypnotic.

it's funny how different the stuff he did about a decade later sounded.

Neanderthal, Sunday, 31 July 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

Weird, I had this song in my head a couple days ago.

This was one of the first singles I loved after I got into music (i.e., started purposefully listening to the radio and following artists) in mid-1990.

jaymc, Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:27 (fourteen years ago)

I like this more now than I did then -- man, was it overplayed.

I'm fond of the hit Roberta Flack duet from the next year, "Set the Night to Music."

The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 July 2011 14:28 (fourteen years ago)

ten years pass...

this was the ultimate beach t00n in the early 90s.

the only other song I remember of his was that Shaggy collab "that kind of girl" which sucked.

We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 July 2022 19:55 (three years ago)

here's him doing the song a mere 4 years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QWMDVpxMg

We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 July 2022 19:56 (three years ago)

the synths kinda don't work in this rendition

We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 July 2022 19:56 (three years ago)

I remember liking “Groovin’ In The Midnight” back in ‘92:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dECcsB4Suck

big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 22 July 2022 20:38 (three years ago)

that's smooth!

We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 July 2022 20:45 (three years ago)


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