Yep, I did. Then the tape would get messed up. You'd have to take it out and roll it back up with your finger through the hole or just get a new tape and re-record it from the radio...LOL...The good ol' days!!!
I'm a musician myself grew up in the 80's......Kool and the Gang were not my type of music at the time this song came out BUT I still to this day remember where I was when I heard this song for the first time !....Never heard it much after that day either but it made a BIG impression on me...Right now is probably the 3rd or 4th time in my life I've heard this song since that day but I've caught myself humming the chorus ...Well a part of the chorus because I never heard it enough to know the words ....For the last 30 some years now....An absolutely UNDERRATED song .....I haven't been playing music for a while now and have been thinking about putting a little jam band project together and if /when I do I'm going to insist on covering this song ...I'm sure it's been done many many times by hundreds of bands and singers but I'm SHOCKED no notable artists have covered this and made it into a hit again...The original is classic and it's also a song that has crazy potential for a super POWERFUL remake as well !....Just an AMAZING song all around !
I sure am! And I'm just got done listening to Summer Madness. Now my time machine went from ' 74 to '84. Next thing I m going to in the 90s. Where they sample the great Kool and the gang
Somehow, this jewel from Kool & the Gang had retreated far into the memory box of my brain for decades...but, it just got awakened while I was watching the first 10-15 minutes of the Netflix movie "Leave the World Behind"! I stopped the movie & jumped onto RU-vid, so I could listen to it again...& that heavy bass line just rocks my world!! ...sooooo GOOD! 🤩👍😄
@@cyrilm9023: I always knew what the song was about....I think everybody's probably run into that issue, at one time or another, during their lifetime. It's interesting, tho, towards the end of the video...the scary guys in black robes & masks...hidden meanings? I'd love to know the 'back story'! 🙄👍🤔
I was in Sam’s Club minding my own business and this came on via the store radio. I had forgotten about this song and how great it is. The Best song ever. The 80’s were the best music era ever!
Isn't that dancer the most graceful dancer you ever saw. She's so gorgeous! I saw them twice at Municipal Auditorium in Nashville Tenn. in the 80's. Kool & The Gang brought the house down. We love you guys, we miss you alot. Thank You Very Much guys! 👉❤👈
One of the most underrated groups of all time. They had 16 top 40 hits in the 80's which tied a record with another amazing band, Journey. That right there would tell you how awesome they were.
Their songs have survived over 30 years now and are playing at every celebration. So much talent in that band. We are lucky to have witness and grow up with them. Also, great message and warning.
the more i stumble across this song the more i see how it didnt make it as big as some of there others but god damn this has one of the best bass ive heard it really surprises me that this wasnt as big as say get down on it or celebrations
I Had Forgotten About This Song Until I Just Heard It In The Movie Leave The World Behind. So Here I Am Checking It Out Again After All These Years Reliving The Past. Love This Song Mislead
Awesome song but it crosses so many genres other than rock. It could also be called funk, R&B, pop, early hip hop, I even hear a little disco in there. And yes, rock. Good music is good music no matter what genre.
This is my favorite song by them! I recently saw them play at the Hollywood Bowl and they were absolutely incredible, on fire, lit and amazing! The quality of their musicianship is outstanding and they are just as good today as when they were on the charts. Outstanding show!
I forgot about this song until I just heard in a movie. I used to love it and still think it is one of K&TG best songs. I totally rocked out to this when I was 14. All the words came back to despite not hearing in for like 40 years. 😊
PoPPa WooDie that's an ignorant statement. any musical form of expression deserves a degree of respect. MAYBE you just don't know music as intimately as I do.
Kool and gang rocked it. I really think their songs put everyone to shame back in the days, and now. All the different riffs and vocals , the depths of the groove. Nothing touches it. Even in 2022.
Saw these guys in concert at the Tropicana last weekend in Vegas - still sounds just as good as they did 30 years ago !! Great group of guys ...keep on singing !! :-)
R.I.P. Woody Sparrow, Ricky West, Charles Smith, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Clifford Adams, Otha Nash, Ronald Bell(Khalis Bayyan), Dennis DT Thomas and George "Funky" Brown, May you all rest in peace🙏
Back in 1985 I met this pretty UCLA student at a sorority party when I took a recruiting trip there. Memorable night dancing with her. Long story short, she wrote me telling me every time she heard this song it reminded her of the fun we had that nite.
All u "young" posters:this group was the bomb!!From their 70"s hits to this in'85..they rocked souled &were tight ***This is a 4ever "80's" song,standing oh so tall 29 years later!!!!!
Its a shame it took a movie to remind people of a song, i used to play this song so much i would lock up the cassette from reminding this song over and over music will never be like this again, but i still play this on all my Playlists ❤
Pepp5150 Greed and control of innovation through art and sound declared in 1998 by the government admistration at that time. And factor in the dawn of the information age through internet. American innovation through art and music has been on a decline and will no longer exist in this new era. Human beings when they create ideas through innovation cannot sustain the works because control of others and profit. Most Radio stations are robotic and controlled by one corporation. There are artist today in music but will never be on par with artist and songwriters of yesterday that were able to profit off their art without freedom to take songs for free. The ones who were born before 1985 lived when music was untouched and valued...I was born in 78 and remember the influence of my fathers records and mixed tapes. Goodtimes of days long gone🙄.
Money became the primary driving factor, well I guess it always was, but it became far too important to those companies, so commercial McDonalds music became the Status-Quo (pardon the pun..) and over-rode artist input. There are loads of talented artists around but they are not breaking through in many cases. Same thing in the movie industry in most cases. Mass-produced stuff that has low dialogue, lots of action to sell in China etc. and other non-primary English speaking nations... just commercial B.S. and once again, little director input for plot quality / devices etc.
At work I heard this on Walmart radio. I’m 32 and I’m in love with it, the guitar and his singing killed me lol. I recently started listening to 80’s Metal/Rock. I believe the 80’s was one of the more prominent decades of music as a whole.
mark voorhees: I’m a woman and I have to agree with you. I always thought men where wolves in sheep’s clothes. Women can be the biggest masters of decent. I didn’t find this out till my 40s when a coworker showed her sneaky side. I hope that men realize that all women do not behave this way. At least not me.
I came here tonight just to re-live those wonderful 80s days. Whenever I get down I get on the reminiscing train and go back to a simpler time. I wonder if younger people believe us when we tell'em how awesome the 1980s were?
That was a good one Jose. Made me smile on a Wednesday AM. All aboard the 80s train! Back to a much better time, when up was up, America kicked ass, there was optimism in the air, and music was better. So much better. No frickin' cell phones or damn internet. ( I do understand the irony of that statement).
Such a smooth song. These early/mid 80s funk rock, or whatever you wanna call them, songs are such underrated gems. Not normally the kind of stuff I listen to, but this song, Tonight, and Fresh are all legit tunes.
Cool song and cool/funny to see not only the Michael Jackson influence on the video but also the whole Indiana Jones vibe! "Temple of Doom" came out this same year ('84), and boy they were rockin it!
Yes the wohooo part is def Michael Jackson influenced. As they have admitted in an interview that Somebody Watching Me...Rockwell + Michael Jackson influenced them to write this music.
And here we have, boys and girls, what's called MUSIC. It roamed the Earth long ago, as beautiful as anything humanity had seen, when melody and rhythm moved people's inner souls in joyful, uplifting harmony. Then came a giant feces asteroid called "gangsta rap", obliterating the concept of music being harmonious food for the soul, replacing it with non-singers merely speaking childish dialogue into a microphone about ghetto life, money and "hoes" for pretentious punks to feel like little bad-asses.
Amazing how so much of M.J.s music and video influences inspired the look and style of other artists' work in the 80s. Even with Kool and the Gang's "Misled". I always loved this jam. :-)
*****, You're right, Damian, M.J did open a lot of doors for a lot of artists, his music, as well as Kool & The Gang's and a whole list of others, will transcend the test of time!!!! I really miss the 80's music, it added a lot of happiness to the heart and made a person's soul just sore with happiness also :)
+Damian Christopher Michael is one of the pioneers of the Video age. He was one of the first to use "concept" videos over "performance" videos and it made the MTV era so great.
+thomascampr Dude Michael is an amalgam of various different styles. Yes he took influence from Bob Fosse but from others as well, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, Astaire, Fosse, break dancers too.....there are too many influences to cite MJ taking major influence from just one. Still his style was his own and did influence a lot of people.
This song was on the radio everyday in 1985 my aunts loved this song I was 13 back then and in 6th grade I remember my aunts dancing to this song it was really cool this song was HUGE in 1985
