Label; Virgin Records UK Catalog#: ICDJ 93. Copyright 1993 owned by Ten Records. Taken from Inner City "Good Life", The CJ Mackintosh & Unity Mixes. DJ 2 x 12 Promo. Genre; House
i was 9 when i heard this on the radio changed my life forever i learned what house music was ,it was running through my body never knew anything like it before now im 41 and still love this
Nothing compares to the first five or six years of house music. Nothing comes remotely close, it was the absolute zenith of dance music and a time so pure and unadulterated, free of horrible beer sponsors and beefed up wankers giving it large. Everyone was clued up, had choice taste and knew the score. It'll never happen again, that's for sure.
Sometimes I worry about the fact, that there are people who think, they're not fitting the scene because of their age. A lot of very influencing DJs and Producers are above 70 years now. House is universal and House has always been the essence of 70s Funk and Disco.
I'm an 80s chick, and 90s house music was totally awesome in NYC. Does anyone remember Kung Fu in the 80's every Saturday afternoon. It was Soul Train, then Kung Fu. Good times that will never be repeated.
I remember! Me and my pops used to watch on channel 5 at 3pm every Saturday! When we saw that Shaw Brothers logo, we knew it was gonna be some good ish!
Same man. I'm 17 and I can't get enough of these 80s/90s house songs. Makes me wanna party in a club in that era, but sadly- I was born way after. At least I can enjoy this shit nowadays, thanks RU-vid.
I've been at it for 26 years, and Inner City live in DETROIT for Movement/DEMF 2010, Good Life, is still the best moment ever out of thousands of best moments!!!
June 21st, 2024 here on Eastern Pennsylvania. I miss those days/nights of the 1990's, some beautiful memories of a time when the world was at my fingertips and my whole life was ahead of me. I'm gonna be 52, and my life is nothing like I dreamt it would be, but I'm so grateful for the friendships I had at the time. Boy, what I would do differently, had I known, back then, what i know now. My mom was right, but it's too late to tell her that now. Sorry for getting kinda dark, thus music truly transports me back to when I had my parents, friends left and right, nice cars, money, and my health... 40 years later, all that is gone, and I'm only alive cuz I have a pacemaker and defibrillator unit implanted in my chest, and tons of regrets. If I could turn back time. 🫤😢
I'm a 90s baby, but it's beautiful to see the comments of people of older generations reminiscing about their club days to these beautiful tunes. I hope to one day experience a party w/out phones and just genuine human connection. House music has the power to do it. House music for life. 😍😍
+David Smith First heard this when I moved to Philadelphia in the late 80s and I could not get enough. I begged the Dj to play it every night I went. Good memories
Imagine hearing this drop in the club on a good night out. No wonder historians call '88 the second summer of love. Of course it was tough living under Reagan and Thatcher, but at least there was music that made you remember that life isn't all that bad.
I get a kick out of hearing my 11yr old son, singing along to tracks that he first heard through me as he plays his xbox with a soundtrack made from my collection. Sometimes when he plays something new that I haven't heard, I can hear a sample, a certain riff or something in it, then I'll say to him play that again mate. Then we'll find the original tracks that were sampled in his new discovery and he loves it. I'm 53 now, and when younger, practically lived at The Ministry. I enjoyed dancing onstage for Silver Bullet, Salt n' Pepa, Hijack (on their small UK tour promoting The Horns of Jericho) and Overlord X. I partied and hung with Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot from Curiosity Killed the Cat just as the band broke through, and nearly played a role in their video for Down to Earth. Alas, work commitments decreed otherwise. Had heated dance-offs with Terence Trent-D'arby on the dance-floor at the Wag (gawd, he was as conceited as he was talented and good looking, lol) and watched the filming of Bowies 'Blue Jean' video there. Gotten rotten drunk with Mark Hollis in my local pub at the time, just outside Great Whelnetham called The Eagle, and managed to *not* talk about his band because I'd heard that had pissed him off before when fans plagued him when he's having a quiet pint. Was a sad day not long ago when Mark passed away far too young. Almost suffered the wrath of about 600 black guys outside the entrance to The Academy (Brixton) at a Public Enemy gig in '92 when someone threw a tin of something (like soup) from behind me and my mate. The tin hit a couple of people near the front, one of them suffering a nasty cut on the back of his head. Everyone swivelled round and stared straight at us two thinking it was us. Shitting ourselves we frantically gesticulated that it was from behind us as a surly looking mob of Public Enemy fans headed our way. Did not help that I was 6ft 6inches, slim, pale and white wearing a Troop tracksuit. Thank fuck the security guys on the doors were stood on raised platforms to oversee the crowd and saw what really happened, realised two white guys were blamed and were gonna' get properly turned over, and thankfully put it out on their tanoy system. I used to rave when Ratpack weren't shit, Grooverider and Swan E had just started doing events and parties together and I had an almost out of body experience at Sunrise in '89 because everything aligned and it changed how I viewed music from that night onwards (it was the Sunrise that spawned all that bollocks in The Sun about drug-fuelled teenagers which eventually culminated in the UK Government attempting to make rave culture illegal with a law that banned public performance of music “wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”). Born in '68, I was fortunate to be a teenager during the 80's, and in my twenties for the 90's. Music back then was different with many youngsters either mods, skinheads, suedeheads, punks, goths, heavies, psychobillies, b-boys, etc. British youth sub-culture was varied and intense. The advent of edm changed everything, along with the necessary advancement of synthesisers becoming available. MTV launched in '87, transforming music through the exciting new medium of video. Hip-hop exploded in the mid-90's and permanently altered the music industry forever. All this experience and damned brilliant times brought with it a vast catalogue of music, of many genres. I'm no expert by anyone's imagination, but being exposed to various styles of music enables me to listen to something new that uses samples from old tracks that were originally from my youth. It's fun and my son and I enjoy finding the original tracks. Good Life was one of those tracks that just 'got' you. Great to dance to and it hit like a bomb, along with the album Paradise.
Man, what a great summary life during a time I wish that I had seen. Sounds like you've lived the life dude and lovely that you can share your music with your boy.
I love this song remind me of the club the powerhouse in Birmingham back in the day you could dance to this everyone I knew loved it and I still do to this day
@@danieloliver4558 Cheers Daniel, appreciate your comment. But tbh, there were many ordinary people like me who could dance well and just loved music. Believe me, I only barely touched upon the 'olden days', as my son calls it, lol. I lived in Paris for a two years and somehow ended up modelling for a young JPG, and Kashin Sato. Which led me to meeting and dancing with Princess Caroline of Monaco... just before her security lifted me off the ground and escorted me away...! Sheesh, getting all maudlin and sentimental now... 🙂 Thanks again fella. Take care. ✌️
Anything and or everything good in life comes with this vibe, the memories of yesteryear come flooding back in an instance. Peace ✌️ love ❤️ and unity 🤝 to all listening in Nov twenty two 🌞🙏❤️🇬🇧❤️🙏
Omg! Dancing until the mornings in Amsterdam. Preparing with Friends with make up and clothes was just exciting as the night itself. Every friday and saturday night. What a privilege knowing these days with this music. I can die in peace. 😉😊. Sorry for the youth nowadays worldwide. Enjoying yourself with Friends and music is punishable now. Feel so sad for them. Youth is only once in a lifetime and very short. Hope you all have time enough being young in freedom. It is too important.
Yasss...freshly moved to San Francisco in '93, just beginning to explore club life, and hearing this JAM at a queer club and thinking, "YEAH. THIS IS WHAT A GOOD LIFE FEELS LIKE." Happy nostalgia...
This jam throws me back to the 80's, me and my fine ass girl friend (now my gorgeous wife) cruzing down Lake Shore Drive on my white convertible Buick Riv playing The Good Life!!!
🤩🥰😍We had Great times. Friday and Saturday Nights LIVE! Even through the social woes of drugs and gun violence in that crack era. This music took you away, if not for kust a little while. BUT WE'D BE TIRED AS HELL by the time the music ended on a extended super mix...1500 hours of non-stop dancing 'cause you can out dance anyone....lol
Isn't it awesome how you can hear a song and then remember exactly where you were and what you were doing!!?? For me, this is one of those. 1988/1989. I was 18 year's old and serving in the USAF in England!! The home of great Dance/Electronic/House/Techno Music. OMG those were the day's!! 🔊🕺🔊💃🔊 I play this song regularly today when I want to be transported back in time to a better world. 🙏🏻💓✌🏼💛✌🏼💙
This mix of Goodlife was the very first House track I ever heard. I was 14 and I was immediately in love with House. It's my all time favorite track and this mix especially... A friend had mixed it back and forth with this other great piano house tune...
I remember buying the album paradise on cassette, as lad of 16 years old way back in 1989. How times change. Still feel like a teen deep down! This Album seriously needs a remaster and expanded version!
Always thought it was neat how the old Sega games sampled and were inspired from this great era of House, Pop and other Electronic music. I immediately got Streets of Rage 2 vibes listening to this.
I first heard this version of this tune on Centreforce 883 a few years ago, I had to know what version of 'Good Life' this was. This is the best version!!
"it's still better than half the stuff on the radio in 2020." Half? More like the vast majority, general music is trash nowadays ESPECIALLY compared to this golden sound.
Simply can’t never resist to this. Everytime same story. I’m here on the couch with my hands up and my head is moving without control. Pure magic this is
Partied in the 90's to all the most delicious house music, drum n bass, jungle, ragga, Aotearoa Roots, gangsta rap - all in Wellington, NZ - clubs like Willys Wine Bar, La Luna, Tatou, Sandwiches, Zebos, The Globe, all the Shed's on the wharf - daaaam i was lucky!!!!! This takes me right back there to those ecstasy fuelled nights and days and nights and days and nights!!!!!!!
I just realized that this was sampled by Britney Spears for Up n' Down..... I knew I'd heard that baseline before. I love finding the originals and appreciate them more.
We all know that this beautiful. Song was in the 90's. We got to amid if we had a good. Life back then let's be honest. About the years and people. We lost because they had back. A good life with us..
There's something so upliftingly otherworldly about this. It takes my soul to another plane. I miss the days where I was transported by superb music to a feel good place.
What fanstaric tune.......yep i was there when this brilliant Inner City track came into the charts i brought the 7in and the 12in such an uplifting tune and i will always LOVE IT NUFF SAID
The perfect house record. This remix is my favourite. It will never grow old, always be a reference, always draw a tear to my eyes when I drop it. This is house in its purest form. Thank you Kevin Saunderson: you're a visionary.
This song is beyond beyond and this is the Best of the best mix .....truly about the best house music song from the day and just imagine.. these people Are beautifully British!
@@sylvialupehernandez9154 In fact, GOOD LIFE was released in 1988 shortly after BIG FUN. The album (PARADISE, in the UK, and BIG FUN, in the USA) was released in 1989.
Hearing this now after 40 years of everything that's followed I am reminded of how influencial this joint was. I was part of the generation that danced to it when it was new. And like I said when you've heard dance music evolve the way it has you begin to hear songs within songs and how one influenced the other. When I listen to it now I immediately hear the beginning of Vogue, and all through the it I hear Vogue and the obvious influence Good Life had on Madonna. First she'd have been dancing to it in the NYC dance clubs of the early 80's, and this was used by the Queens at the Balls to Vogue too. Madonnas genius ways of bringing a sound, style, or just small piece of something that was underground into a completely new and unique sound while making the small piece of the underground sound a full blown mainstream sound. What's genius is in 1989/90 we had no idea that that was the case. Now I'm just speculating but knowing how she was so heavily influenced by that early synth house techno hip hop beat I'd bet money I'm right.
