Pointer Sisters Greatest Hits Poll

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They might have been even better had they hooked up with some Rich Harrison type earlier in their career (instead they got Richard Perry). I can go without hearing "Neutron Dance" and "I'm So Excited" again, but "Dare Me" is a surprisingly vital late single.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
11. Automatic	13
1. Fire	4
3. He's So Shy	4
12. Jump (For My Love)	3
5. Slow Hand	2
16. Dare Me	1
17. Freedom	0
14. Neutron Dance	0
13. I'm So Excited	0
15. Baby, Come And Get It	0
10. If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady	0
9. Heart To Heart	0
8. I Need You	0
7. American Music	0
6. Should I Do It	0
4. Could I Be Dreamin'	0
2. Happiness	0
18. Goldmine	0

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:41 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Julio Afrokeluchie, Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:57 (fifteen years ago)

"Slow Hand" vs "Automatic" for me.

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 02:59 (fifteen years ago)

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

― bad crack (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 July 2009 03:14 (fifteen years ago)

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

― A. Roddick City (jaxon), Thursday, 9 July 2009 04:00 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Stop wishing death on people just for the cool thread titles (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 9 July 2009 05:44 (fifteen years ago)

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

― all we hear is lady o'gaga (donna rouge), Thursday, 9 July 2009 06:16 (fifteen years ago)

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.

― Enchanted (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Thursday, 9 July 2009 06:20 (fifteen years ago)

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

― sciolism, Thursday, 9 July 2009 08:38 (fifteen years ago)

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

For years I thought it was DeBarge!

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 11:27 (fifteen years ago)

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

― us_odd_bunny_lady (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 9 July 2009 13:00 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago)

No "Yes We Can Can" no cred!

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 July 2009 14:45 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

― A. Roddick City (jaxon), Thursday, 9 July 2009 15:48 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Well.

― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

yay!

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

― Dominique, Friday, 24 July 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Nate Carson, Friday, 24 July 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago)

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

Please tell me this is true.

― Nate Carson, Friday, 24 July 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago)

Nate, it is true.

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

― Venga, Friday, 24 July 2009 09:50 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

"Slow Hand" is so perfect.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 03:15 (fourteen years ago)

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

― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

Stellar Hit Parade episode on them today:

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

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 17 June 2023 16:44 (one year ago)

Ooh thanks

― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2023 19:17 (one year ago)

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

― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2023 19:20 (one year ago)

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

― Bee OK, Sunday, 18 June 2023 02:35 (one year ago)

Voted automatic

― calstars, Sunday, 18 June 2023 03:35 (one year ago)

All of my systems are down

― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Sunday, 18 June 2023 04:22 (one year ago)

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

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

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 June 2023 04:33 (one year ago)

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

― serving aunt (stevie), Monday, 19 June 2023 08:29 (one year ago)

^^^ the percussion track is sick

― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 June 2023 09:23 (one year ago)

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

Such a bizarre take

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, 19 June 2023 14:27 (one year ago)

Yeah those are massive.

― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Monday, 19 June 2023 15:14 (one year ago)

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