Berlin - "Take My Breath Away"

...oh and I forgot, it's C/D obviously.

I need to listen to it again, but i'm fairly convinced that it's one of those songs that i initially resented and subsequently was indifferent to, but nowadays would appreciate lots.

ok, yeah, is classic. bass sound funny but definitely appealing. youtube comments are putting a hurt on me, as well. jesus.

this is about the top gun song right?
it fucking rules. it's not really a berlin song as much as it is a moroder track sung by the girl what was in berlin, still 100% awesome even though the film has 0% to do with love between a man and a woman

any cover version other than the V/VM treatment is complete rubbish, the V/VM version manages to turn it into some kind of siouxsie vs. alec empire bad makeup + worse lighting terrorfest which can only be dismissed by eldest children skilled in athletics

i love Top Gun <3 and this song

fantastic song!!

woooow YEAAHHHHH İT İS A DEMOLİSH OF WORLD BY UFOS

MELANIE FUCHS I LOVE YOU

Tom looks unable to place himself in her position! WHY?

Superb film , superb song , superb acting but best of all was Kelly's legs - ding dong ;-)

great film, great song !!

very good song and movie

I would like be like maverick ...... with his F-14 TOMCAT!!!!

awesome even though the film has 0% to do with love between a man and a woman

hahaha

woooow YEAAHHHHH İT İS A DEMOLİSH OF WORLD BY UFOS

'nuff said

The bassline is the star in that track, don't you think?

Yeah, it would be so much better for me if it didn't remind me of Top Gun.

Actually, does anybone know any other songs with a similar sounding bass? I can only think of a couple
by "The Knife" ("Marble House" and "Heartbeats" (live)) but nothing else.

^ anybone = anyone

This is one of Giorgio Moroder's greatest 80's jams. Definitely a classic.

And a similar bass sound can be found on Nightshift by The Commodores.

I'll have to rerip their greatest hits to my iPod. I lost it in my iPod disaster when everything got wiped out some months ago.

does anybone know if that bassline practices scientology when it's not going "bowr. bowr bowr bowr. bowr bowr."?

It's "bowr bowr bowr bowr bowr. bowr bowr..."
Sorry :)

I like My Morning Jacket's version (I also like the original)

it just goes bum bum bum bum bum bum you schmucks quit giving europe so much fucking credit

It's "bowr bowr bowr bowr bowr. bowr bowr..."
Sorry :)

hah, i had a feeling someone would contest me on that point

was moroder actually involved, though?

He produced and co-wrote it.

oh, wow. had no idea.

wikipedia ya jackass

well, you must realize that i have better things to do than play around on the internet, for heaven's sake

this reminds me of bad school discos. bad because ladies didn't love uncool james

that was no lady, that was my philistine co-breeder.

I really must play this song at the next office party.

I bet ladies love uncool James now. It's only a matter of time before the benefits of edutainment start to tell.

"Laid" seems to have become a perennial party pleaser by this point; in fact I'm not sure that it ever wasn't.

I love this song. I voted for it in the UK 1986 poll.

During the popularity of "Take My Breath Away" in 86-87, I heard some DJ on the radio say once that it was originally intended for Paul Young to perform. The thought is interesting, and the song does indeed sound like a Paul Young song, with the fretless bass and stuff like that. But I have been able to find anything about it on the Net. Was the DJ just having a lively imagination?

No idea but I'm glad he didn't. Paul Young would have ruined it with his ugly, grainy, Rock-derived howling.

I'm very fond of this song. And I suppose I agree, it is better without Young.

Much like the world in general :)

The song would have been better when sung by Paul Young. Or by any other male singer for that matter :)

I suppose you would have had Sal Solo or Hollywood Beyond sing it.

I really dislike this song. I remember when it came out and somebody I was working with knew the band and drew my attention to it but I didn't like it. I won't deny it's a well-crafted song that deserved its success but I found it cloying, plus I never liked that fretless bass thing.

No doubt you would have hired Andrew Eldritch to "sing" the highly melodic and catchy tune.

It is a boring tune actually. The only interesting thing about it is those Paul Young-like arrangement bits.

what's that Angelo Badalamenti song on the Twin Peaks sdtrk that sounds just like the chorus of this song when it starts out...?

(errr....maybe not. maybe they just share similar bass sounds???)

It's a pop late night radio classic. I love the tempo, it's a beautiful glacial contrast to the fast machinery that's so prominently featured in the movie, and I also like the stylized, drawn out way in which it is sung.

The video with Terri Nunn singing about love, turning/returning and crashed mirrors as she wanders like a specter amidst military aircraft and artifical lighting seems very eerie/ballardian to me.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_AwhGtPjuLeQ/Sa1TvyDxcqI/AAAAAAAAAQU/DQSjNYcpf3U/s320/600px-Berlin_-_Take_My_Breath_Away_Single_Cover.jpg

none more classic than this

Superb film , superb song , superb acting but best of all was Kelly's legs - ding dong ;-)

All about this version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KMA9FJVEws

Vision otm

also on an slow, eerie, mournful, steely 80s tip: "drive" by the cars