When this was released life was so much better. Raves to go to, people to meet, memories to be made. I'm 50 now and I want to go back and do it all over again. I can't be the only one.
Yes, it's a pretty solid track, isn't it? I was just thinking to myself - "This is where it really started. Look, I get it... Blue Monday came first, but this is the true start point..."
70 ? ok where is the problem ^^ you had 20 like me :) i'm 45 and yes like you say : this tune ignite me for sure i remember the first time earin this ...yup my teenage period ! a 1977 boy Grettings from Belgium :)
I told people the same thing. This song is so underrated, saying that it's ahead of this time would be considered an criminally understatement. It was made in 1989 and it's been that great for over 3 decades and still counting.
30+ years old and still sounding futuristic. It was regarded as being more commercial dance-pop at the time for many, because it charted and featured a proper singer (lol) but playing it back today, those 808/909 drums hit as hard as any underground acid-house tune of the time. The piano is killer, as are the vocals. It really can't be faulted.
I have listened to it countless times right from its inception but truly I didn't hear it, today when I listened I finally heard and felt all the elements coming together in unison, it still sounds fresh 3 decades later.
I’m 19 found this track on a vinyl i got from my dad and i cant stop playing this song, it brings a vibe i cant feel from music nowadays. Now i cant cook and clean without it :)
You are great...have a great taste in music...I heard it in 1991 in all shops around London ( loud)....nobody plays any music these days....I loved it and still do!
I sense your feeling nostalgia and you wasn’t around the time majority of us were shaking it to this tune in the clubs you would have liked those days life was simple compared to now
Yeah, our era, right? I'm 47, after some orientation Acid House was a big thing, Baby Ford my hero. This song he was awesome and more on the mainstream side. Then I like Prodigy etc., XL recordings. Then there was WARP. Lfo, RDJ, Ae, that was a revolution. I love to remember good old times. But today is still awesome. Always find new music hypes. Classical music, but e.g. today I love Khruangbin or Ic3peak. At home in many genres. For the IDM heroes, Ae are still solid.
47 male UK, loved this track with my then girlfriend, 2 wives and 5 children later, I shoulda listen to the whole 'solitary brother' message, ha! Best wishes to all the old codgers in this thread :)
I’ll never forget hearing this the first time on TOTP. Adamski’s masterful minimalist soundtrack combined with Seal’s passionate vocals? It was a game changing moment. These few years were such a golden time of artists who would never have been considered for airplay before, and I just bloody glad I’m old enough to say I was there! Soundtrack to a tragically and beautifully misspent youth. Just as we all intended in those days.
First time I heard this it was when I bought the 'Much Music X-Tendamix Dance Mix '92' compilation because I wanted the song "Twilight Zone" by 2 Unlimited (I was 11 years old). lol And I still love this track and blast all the euro music I used to buy in Toronto. Music back then was seriously amazing!! Biggest inspiration to my music I create now a days.
June 2020...Now I'm 46 years old and when I close my eyes, I feel like I was a teenager. Then I open my eyes and look in the mirror... My face has gotten older, but the laughter in my eyes, when I hear the music of that time, is the same that I had as a teenager. I'm too 💯%sure it's YOUR THING! In our hearts we have ALL remained young ♥. A lot of love and hugs to all who read this, send you my like-minded, Mara Rooney from Austria 🇦🇹 🤗 😘 🤗 ♥️ ♥️ ♥️ 🤗 😘 🤗 EDIT: Wow, it's Saturday the 22nd of january 2022 and I am very happy about all your likes and all your kind comments. It's a pity that I can't talk to each and every one of you personally. But I would be very happy if you write me here from time to time how you are currently doing, what you are doing and what music you are listening to. A lot of kisses 😘 and hugs 🤗 for all of you! 😍 😘 Your Mara
I liked this when it was out , I'm now 41 and love it more than ever. 90,s where such carefree , fun time to be alive. Ppl got on at events. Not like these days where ppl are bieng thrown in the face of clubbers on the dance floor. Glad I'm not a teenager these days.
I'm 58 and God I love this song, I'm a 80s person TBH, but the 90s were amazing and awesome. Both 80s and 90s brings me back to the clubs and pub life ❤️❤️❤️
80s and 90s - when You have to be musician, You had to have talent. Even on the pop/dance stage, everybody knew how to sing, play, the had knowledge about music. This was giving QUALITY. Now, money is enough and You can be on every each radio. Even if You have no voice, no music skills, nothing. This why this modern so called music will be quickly forgotten, when 80s, 90s will stay forever.
This and World in Motion are the sounds of the best summer ever for music, football and fashion! Don't forget James, The Charlatans, Stone Roses, Inspiral carpets...F'kinhell, what a time to be alive and to be young!
I remember listening to the bbc top 40, outside having beers with my mates on a warm sunday evening in May 1990, when Adamski hit No. 1. I bought the 7" single, the next day. I wanted the 12", but could not afford it! I was 16 years old. I still have it in the attic! My son laughs at these records, but money cannot buy good memories of teenage years. I was into dance music big time. Inner City, Nenah Cherry, Blackbox etc was my fix. Good times!
Real clever on-beat / off-beat switch in this hook. In the first bar, the bass notes hit with the bass drum. Then it does a little "shuffle" at the end of the bar and then it's alternating bass drum and bass notes in the second bar. The "shuffle", though, from the on-beat to off-beat is a clever little delay (supported by percussion to help disguise the switch), so you kind of don't notice the switch take place. The on-beat - on the one - gives you impact. The alternating off-beat gives you forward motion, like it's leading you into the next on-beat... on the one. This is actually very much a funk-like rhythm, to exploit the off-beat but come back to be "on the one" - but expressed in an electronic style. That's really "the secret sauce" of this choon, lads.
Just dropping in again in February 2024. It’s still totally awesome! I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love this tune. Seal is magnificent. 😍 this will never be surpassed.
1990 was a great year for dance. This is timeless. Along with mantronix got to have your love which charted early 1990 in uk . Absolute ‘killer’ bass line on both tracks and still are banging today tomorrow next year forever…….
snap - the power beats international - dub be good to me the age of love - the age of love the klf - last train to trancentral xpansions - move your body leftfield - not forgotten meat beat manifesto - radio babylon lfo - lfo deee lite - groove is in the heart black box - strike it up blue pearl - naked in the rain dance 2 trance - we came in peace enigma - sadeness robin s - show me love n joi - anthem the shamen - progen nomad - i wanna give you devotion the orb - little fluffy clouds the justified ancients of mumu - it's grim up north WHAT A YEAR!
The intelligence, the taste, the message... Who will ever say it's just a dance track?.. Wow what an amazing song. Still brings the tears in my eyes. I think these guys nailed some most deep human emotions so this track will be relevant forever.
There is simply no other song in the world, that impressed me more than this one, the first time I heard it. I was literally blown away, and I couldn't stop thinking about it all day long. It felt like being in love.
A timeless rave classic, these producers are the modern day composers as they add and blend layer upon layer of samples both harmonically and seamlessly.
Erm well to give them their dues, the last few years have seen a few existential indie-dance hits get to number 1. 'Prayer in C', 'Are You With Me' and 'I Took A Pill in Ibiza' to name a few. 'Prayer in C' I'd say was pretty nuanced.
Every part of this tune each loop and break etc The production is immaculate The builds are more relevant now than ever...... This was about 20 years ahead of its time...... seals voice is perfect...adamski is on fire!
British House music producer Adamski recorded an instrumental called 'Killer' in 1990 and he decided to look for a singer to front it. The singer he hired was a pre-famous Seal, although he wasn't credited on the single. Seal wrote his own lyrics, and despite the fact that "Killer" doesn't appear in the lyrics and the words make no hint of it either, Adamski decided to retain the original title. Adamski said in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "I met him in a club where he approached me to tell me he was a singer. Just hearing the things he was talking about, I thought he was brilliant, so I became friends with him. He wrote the lyrics to the song and then recorded it in one take." ..Seal blossomed whilst Adamski faded away
Happens a lot in music, particularly with instrumental artists. As for the lyrical thing that also happens a fair bit, sometimes the vocalist will base their lyrics around the title of the song and sometimes they won't. Ghosts'N'Stuff by deadmau5 is another example I can think of where the lyrics have nothing to do with the title due to the instrumentals being made well before the thought of including a vocalist had even occurred.
Truth be known Adamski fried himself on drugs and no label wanted to deal with him shame as he was the best electronic artist at the time setting a standard for likes of Prodigy!
Adamski took too many of the old E's. Fucked his head up but no denying it.... He was a talented producer and that bassline hook is up there with the best electronic or otherwise!
its a great track,i love adamskis music but not ahead of its time ,there were alot more progressive and more underground tracks at the the time ,but this did have a pop feel to it and he was a great live performer ,one of the best at the time i would say.
@@carolinegunn2578 , wrong. Adamski is a play on Adam's name, he was a solo artist and this WAS a collaboration with Seal. I had the 45" in 1990 and it clearly stated ADAMSKI featuring SEAL on the sleeve. It is indelibly marked on my brain as it was number one when I had my first baby.
Wow, ich muss sagen, dieses Lied ist immer noch eins meiner top ten. Unglaublich aber einfach genial. Auch die Version von George Michael gefällt mir sehr gut. Thank you very much for this wonderful song!
An absolute masterpiece.They'll be playing this on RU-vid and radio stations around the world for the next 100 years and beyond.Mark my words : ) November 20th 2023.
M6/M61/M62/M63/M66 driving - well passenger - in other people's cars... Those Londoners just had to deal with one: The M25. Music and times. BEST! M55 occasionally! They were good.
Its 3am the air is thick with smoke golden scans and strobes the rooms boiling and your peaking hard ,the bass is pulverising you into oblivion your young your beautiful and theres a tribal feeling of euphoria. Its 1990 and im 18
U just left out my reebok princess boots now called workout glowing up under the fleresentlight n the fact that it was so good there that even if we did notice we didn't care getting everyone's sweat dripping on us from the ceiling 😅😅😂🤣...OMG happy times ❤
Still a great song! Back then (and still now) I was and am a sucker for any kind of electronic music (any genre as well) and this one was and still is one of my favourites.
🙋Muito show!!!Esta música, foi composta pelo Seal e, lançada em 1991 mas, parece que não chegou aqui no Brasil!!😮 Curtindo muito!!🎧😁😎✌️✌️🇧🇷 Obrigado, RU-vid!!!
Me too! Im 54, and I thought the 80s were great! But this track from the 90s was a classic. I wish I could go back to my youth. People say thats not being grown up and mature, but I dont see it that way. It can honestly say it was the happiest Ive ever been 😊
It just may be that we were that age at the absolute best time to be that age. The world, our relationships and interactions with others were so peaceful then. I will never understand the constant need for conflict nowadays and I've had as much as I can take. We all have a snapping point.
La escuche hace 30 años, Sigue con la misma fuerza, con un subidon de energia positiva cada vez. Por otro lado, me invade la nostàlgia de una época pasada maravillosa e irrepetible.
Can't believe this song is 30 years old! And this was number one song the day i was born! :D This is my jam from now on, a pity i discover this just now! Thanks quarantine!! :/
Drago mi je što još ima onih koji se sječaju vremena u kojem se cijenilo sve što je sa stilom , originalnošču i magično ljepo . Samo sječanje na takve pjesme nas dovode do boljitka u kvaliteti života .
Was honored to be in the tiny tea tent at glastonbury in the early 90s, listening to some dude quietly jamming away on the guitar, low and behold it was Adamski.. Amazing!
Seals voice and this track, it's just wonderful. All credit to Adamski tho, he picked the perfect singer and this made Seals career. A 360 degree winner.
Adamski and Seal - lethal combination of music, important message, voice and creative genius. I adore this track and admire these two talented individuals. The message , sadly, is still relevant today and I am not sure on how far we have progressed. The track has a personal and almost pleading aspect to how we treat those in our society who are not white and it really resonates. Creativity at its best and just amazing music. Seal became a favourite in our house after this as well ( I was 14 when it came out) and bowled over by the fact people coukd create music like this.
The song that brought SEAL to the attention of the public, I remember MTV played this a lot at the time in the UK and for some reason Seal's spinning head was a bit unsettling to me when I first saw this video. The sound oscillation behind him reminded me of a mad scientist's lab too!
Had this song on my mind for so long. I knew I’d found it one day and without even looking for it anymore that’s when I find it. Life’s full of beautiful surprise keep the faith ❤
Remember seeing this on the itv chart show on Saturday lunchtime with my brother and laughing at seals spinning head, good memories and an awesome track
This song was on heavy rotation at a club I went to in 1990 . For about 6 months the club packed at weekends, no such thing as social distancing back then😃
Played this banger to my 3 year old and she loved it! Always feel sorry for the Daddy Chester at 2:23. Such a cool guy, had a lovely chat with him at the homeless shelter I was working in one xmas years ago. Was a huge Seal fan but was sad to hear how Seal and Adamski cut him out of the equation when he was away touring, only to get back and find the track he worked on had blown up to find he was left out of the deal. !
