I Didn't Mean To Turn You On Covers Poll (featuring Robert! Mariah! DJ Colette! and Dino

i like the mariah a LOT but the original packs such a punch. haven't heard the other 2

3!

Robert Palmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YO0WyOGHjU

Mariah Carey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWDaQs1PRRg

DJ Collette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2Wg2e-C_LM

Dino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9kjW6JUz_g

Palmer's is terrific. The guy sure had a flair for electro R&b.

d/l'ed Clues after the recent thread on "Johnny & Mary" and am enjoying it lots (relevant re. Palmer). I'll have to listen to the covers here to make up my mind, though; I only know the original & Palmer's.

There's something very admirable in that Dino video, but it's still the worst one, I think.

I like Robert Palmer's version best too.

i can't imagine liking this better with a guy's voice

xpost: there was a thread on "Johnny & Mary" !!!! going there now!

didn't listen to the Carey version very long, is she just singing over the instrumental of the original?

voted Palmer version, so good

i think so re: Carey

ha it's barely a cover. come down to the Karaoke Shack tonight to hear my groundbreaking cover of the Grease soundtrack.

lol i know. i do like her voice on the song tho

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vote!

This has to be Palmer.

the Palmer version is so dense; it's like liquid encased in concrete.

I didn't like this song when it was new (I heard Palmer's cover before the Cherelle original), but I love it now! I so relate to the lyrics, having been in the situation described a few years ago. I'm fully convinced that being on the receiving end of unrequited love/lust is even more painful than the reverse.

Interesting in that I'm pretty sure the songwriters (Jam & Lewis) intended this for a female singer, yet so many men have covered it. Palmer's is best - just the right amount of funk in the rhythm, and a sultryness to his voice that makes me think he must have felt at least a little turned on despite not wanting to be.

Actually, with slightly beefier beats, I could see myself playing the Dino version out. It's a bit Aeroplane-ish, isn't it?

Palmer's delivery and sense of timing on his version is terrific; his elongates vowels in slightly different places to Cherelle, and there's a touch of male annoyance - at least to my ears.

not feeling Mariah's vocals; all wrong.

discogs reveals that Bernard Edwards produced Palmers version. Makes sense, as its proto-Power Station sounding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyHKL11_tW4&feature=related

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Mariah Carey's cover of "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"
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Do any of you have a copy of this? I really want to get an mp3 of it, because the preview on Amazon sounds amazing, but I can't find it on slsk and it's not on iTunes. (It's on Glitter, the only Mariah album not on iTunes.) I might just order a copy of Glitter used, but if any of you can hook me up, let me know.

It's soooooo good!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:12 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
...by Robert Palmer?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:33 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Yes. That "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On."

I no longer need a copy, I just found it.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:48 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Well hook us up then, fluxbot.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:17 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Okay. But only for a day or two, unless I decide to put it on my blog. I'm not sure if I should. I love it, though. Oh man.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:26 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
...by Robert Palmer?

By Jam and Lewis, philistine.

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:31 (5 years ago) Bookmark

Mariah Carey's cover of "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"

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discogs reveals that Bernard Edwards produced Palmers version. Makes sense, as its proto-Power Station sounding.

― De que estas hablando? (Tannenbaum Schmidt), Thursday, May 6, 2010 5:56 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Tony Thompson and Wally Badarou are on it, too.

I love the Power Station album but it could have used a little more of this finesse.

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PALMER!!

Mike misattributes the lyric to Robert Palmer, but still:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAQMI60Jgc