Tag: 1989

March 10, 2020

Fine Young Cannibals – Good Thing (UK 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1988

“Good Thing” is a song recorded by Fine Young Cannibals, the second single from their album from 1989, The Raw & the Cooked. The song was their second and most recent U.S. #1, topping the Billboard Hot 100 on 8 July 1989. It also peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song made its first appearance in Tin Men (1987). Fine Young Cannibals portrayed a nightclub band in the movie, performing this song and three others (including the single’s b-side “Social Security”). The film is set in Baltimore in 1963, and the song’s retro-soul style is consistent with that setting.

Jools Holland played piano on the track, noting that it was “one of the biggest selling records I’ve ever played on”.

SIDE A:
Good Thing (Nothing Like The Single Mix) 4:38

SIDE B:
Good Thing (7″ Mix) 3:33
Good Thing (Nothing Like The Single Mix – Instrumental) 4:38

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1989	Good Thing	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#1
1989	Good Thing	U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary	#12
1989	Good Thing	U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	#2
1989	Good Thing	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#20

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: London Records ‎– LONX 218, London Records ‎– 886 531-1
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: Apr 1989
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style: Breakbeat, Pop Rock, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Design [Sleeve Design] – Martin Jenkins (5)
Producer – Cox*, Steele*, Gift*
Written-By – Steele*, Gift*

NOTES:
“GOOD THING” is taken from the LP “THE RAW & THE COOKED”
Made In England

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Cartridge: Ortofon 2M
Stylus: Ortofon 2M Bronze
Isolation: Auralex Acoustics ISO-Tone Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro-Ject Acryl-It platter
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
DAC/Phono Pre-amp: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

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Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
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FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

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February 13, 2020

Taylor Dayne – With Every Beat Of My Heart (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1989

“With Every Beat of My Heart” is a song recorded by American singer Taylor Dayne for her second studio album Can’t Fight Fate (1989). Written by Tommy Faragher, Lotti Golden and Arthur Baker, and produced by Ric Wake, the song was released on October 10, 1989, by Arista Records as the lead single from Can’t Fight Fate.

“With Every Beat of My Heart” became Dayne’s fifth consecutive top-ten single in the United States, reaching number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1989. It also peaked at number five in Canada and number 53 in the United Kingdom.

“With Every Beat of My Heart” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 61. It reached the top-five in its ninth week on the Billboard issue dated December 16, 1989. It remained at its peak position for four weeks and spent 18 weeks on the chart. It also reached the top-ten on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. On the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1990, the single ranked at number 48.

SIDE A:
With Every Beat Of My Heart (Make It Rock Remix) 7:04
With Every Beat Of My Heart (Mental Dub) 9:36

SIDE B:
With Every Beat Of My Heart (Palpitashun Remix) 7:10
With Every Beat Of My Heart (Extended Radio Remix) 6:33

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1989	With Every Beat Of My Heart	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#5
1989	With Every Beat Of My Heart	U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary	#22
1989	With Every Beat Of My Heart	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#8

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Arista ‎– AD1-9896, Arista ‎– ADI-9896
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Arranged By [Backing Vocals], Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Billy T. Scott
Arranged By [Trumpets], Trumpet – Jerry Hey
Arranged By, Keyboards – Rich Tancredi
Arranged By, Producer, Producer [Additional] – Ric Wake
Backing Vocals [Background Vocals] – Gloria Weems, Jamillah Muhammad*, Ricky Nelson*
Design – Susan Mendola
Drums – Joe Franco
Engineer [Recording And Mix] – Bob Cadway
Engineer [Remix] – Mario “Not Rude” Rodriguez*
Lacquer Cut By – gc*
Management – Champion Entertainment Organization, Inc.
Photography By – Wayne Maser
Producer [Additional], Remix – Richie Jones
Saxophone [Sax Solo] – Joel Peskin
Trumpet – Bill Reichenbach (2), Gary Grant
Written-By – A. Baker*, L. Golden*, T. Faragher*

NOTES:
Taken From The Forthcoming Album “Can’t Fight Fate”.
Printed in U.S.A.

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February 3, 2020

Underworld – Thrash (Australia 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1989

“Thrash” is an Australia only single released by
UK electronic music act Underworld formed by Rick Smith and Karl Hyde in 1987 after their former band Freur disbanded. The single was taken from the band’s second album titled “Change The Weather”. This 12″ seems to be pretty hard to come by these days so I am happy to add it to my Totally Obscure 80s series.

SIDE A:
Thrash (Dance Pass) 6:21

SIDE B:
Thrash (Extasy Pass) 5:49

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Sire ‎– 0-21443
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: Australia
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Producer [Additional] – E. Kupper*, Mark Kamins
Producer, Mixed By – Dave Sussman*, Mark Kamins
Written-By – Alfie Thomas, Karl Hyde, Rick Smith

NOTES:
Original version appears on the Sire/Warner Bros. LP “CHANGE THE WEATHER”
Exclusive Australian release.

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January 2, 2020

Duran Duran – Burning The Ground (US 12″)

BURNING THE GROUND EXCLUSIVE 1989

Originally posted November 5, 2014

“Burning The Ground” is the 20th single by Duran Duran, released in December 1989. It was created as a stand-alone single to promote the compilation album Decade: Greatest Hits but didn’t appear on the album itself. However, its music video was included on the band’s audiovisual compilation Greatest, released in 1999 (VHS) and 2003 (DVD). The song is essentially a megamix of Duran Duran’s history, featuring tidbits of all of the band’s hits of the previous ten years.

Instrumental elements of “Save A Prayer”, “Hungry Like the Wolf”, “Rio”, “The Reflex” and “The Wild Boys”, including the camera flash sound from “Girls on Film”, form the core of the first part of the song, while the “chorus” is built up of alternating chants of “Girls!” (from “Girls on Film”) and “Boys!” (from “The Wild Boys”). The nonsense syllables from several songs, such as the “noh-noh” bits from “Notorious”, the “bop bop bop” from “Skin Trade” and the “tana nana” and the “fle fle fle fle flex” from “The Reflex”, were also incorporated. Elements from “A View To A Kill”, “Notorious”, “I Don’t Want Your Love” and later singles are gradually woven into the mix. Segments of the song are marked by signature phrases taken from other songs: first, “Can you hear me now?” (“Planet Earth”); later, “I tell you, somebody’s fooling around” (“The Reflex”) and “The rhythm is the power” (“I Don’t Want Your Love”). The title derives from a “Hungry Like the Wolf” lyric.

The song also used several sound samples from the film Barbarella, from which the band took their name: “Barbarella?” “Mr. President!” “Your Mission, find Durand Durand!” “Just a minute, I’ll slip something on!”

The remix was created by producer John Jones, with assistance from Dee Long and engineer Chris Potter, in an upstairs room at Olympic Studios in Barnes while Duran Duran was downstairs recording new material for the album Liberty, to be released the following year.

The b-side was another megamix, this one more instrumental in nature, called “Decadance”. The song uses the “why” bits of “The Reflex”, the “no, no” from “Notorious”, “wild” from “The Wild Boys”, the chorus from “All She Wants Is”, the solo from “Save a Prayer” mixed with “Rio”, and a little bit of “Skin Trade”, as well as some of the suggestive screams from “Hungry Like the Wolf”.

The single debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart on February 10, 1990. After spending six weeks on the survey “Burning The Ground” peaked at #23. The single also charted in the U.K. #31 and Italy #17.

SIDE A:
Burning The Ground 4:00
Mixed By – Christopher Marc Potter
Other [Created By] – Duran Duran
Producer – John Jones , John Taylor , Nick Rhodes , Simon Le Bon , Sterling Campell*
Samples – Dee Long

SIDE B:
Decadance (Extended Mix) 7:56
Producer, Mixed By – Ben Chapman , Raine Shine

Decadance 3:30
Producer, Mixed By – Ben Chapman , Raine Shine

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1990	Burning The Ground	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play	#23

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Capitol Records – V-15546
Format: Vinyl, 12″, Single, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic, Pop, Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop

CREDITS:
Artwork By [Sleeve Design] – Abrahams Pants

NOTES:
All tracks sampled from the album “DECADE”
B-side produced and mixed at Pacific & Ezee Studios.

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