http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tydoi5f8ek4
cannot stop listening to this song, absolutely love it. the ben liebrand mix is the one to get but the radio edit is great too. hercules & love affair covered it at their gig in manchester last week. by far the best moment of the set - the one point where they ditched the clumsy dancing and just melted into it, the one point where it felt like they didn't need antony. nomi and kim singing the lines back and forth, just stunning to watch. oddly enough nomi has a slight look of the fox the fox guy, facially.
not got much of a question about it, just putting it out there but if anyone has any more info about fox the fox then i'd love to know as there's barely anything online. and if anyone can recommend other similar 80s disco songs to this then that'd be grand. ('come on closer' by pineapples has a similar feel too)
― NI, Monday, 2 June 2008 12:51 (seventeen years ago)
That's cool about the H&LA cover. I'd love to see them live.
And I totally love this track. Picked up the 12" a few months ago. It's got that great italo/boogie feel, maybe a bit like "Changes" by Imagination. But "Precious Little Diamond" has a melancholy vibe that's different. And ESL lyrics are always a plus in my book ("You're my cry of wonder?" wha?).
― Romeo Jones, Monday, 2 June 2008 16:12 (seventeen years ago)
i went through a phase a few months ago of listening to this song every day. so beautiful. i was totally gonna suggest Imagination. they're my new current crush. also a lil more electro, but freeez is pretty great and has that similar british funk falsetto
― jaxon, Monday, 2 June 2008 18:15 (seventeen years ago)
holy shit, wld love to hear the hercules & love affair cover! probably the closest thing to an classic italo 12" I've turned up in a NZ dollar bin, so I play it out all the time.
― etc, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 01:37 (seventeen years ago)
I went through phase last year where I listened to PLD a whole lot. A few years ago, I compiled a CD full of songs that sampled it (M. Mayer and Lifelike are the big ones, but I believe there are three or four more).
"Flirting and Showing" is another good one by Fox by Fox.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 03:04 (seventeen years ago)
Huh, hadn't heard anything other than Mayer's "Amanda" - what else is there, Michael?
Watched a (different) video to it last night w/flatmate, ended up watching heaps of videos by FANCY after detouring through "Fotonovela".
― etc, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)
Didn't Cirez D/Eric Prydz sample this as well?
Great song. Would love to hear the H&LA cover.
― jng, Thursday, 5 June 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)
finally just found this 12" the other day. so in love.
what other songs have sampled this?
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Friday, 20 March 2009 21:29 (sixteen years ago)
thought this thread was bigger :-/
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Friday, 20 March 2009 21:30 (sixteen years ago)
we talked about it somewhere else bcuz i pointed out to you that it was used for 'amanda' & i havent posted in this thread at all
― @diplo DUB STEP!! GET DA FUCK UP!!! (deej), Friday, 20 March 2009 21:43 (sixteen years ago)
Hercules and Love Affair
― just sayin, Friday, 20 March 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)
"Amanda" is great, as it takes my favorite part of the song and loop it to bits. I would've loved to hear Nomi and Kim murder Sylhoutte's verse.
― RU/SH (Spinspin Sugah), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 01:40 (fourteen years ago)
I regret having missed earlier iterations of this thread.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 July 2011 17:37 (fourteen years ago)
I would also suggest this video clip of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MteEdKHaTg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 July 2011 17:38 (fourteen years ago)