Does anybody know the name of the song that Too Funky by George Michael is based on? It’s from the mid 80s, I think.
Check out the video on YouTube:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lTipyA3v9Xk
Go to 1:13. See that wee bleepy bit there? That’s on the original.
What’s the fucking song?
I think there’s a bit in the original where a woman sings:
“Ohhh! It’s just a heartaaaache. I’M GONNA GET CHOO!”
Naw, it’s no Heartache by Pepsi & Shirlie.
Fuck knows but it sounds like the wee bit in this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hsMVEp3XtQQ
That sound was all the rage
Limm..BananaRamma..?
It’s no a song from any band I know. Hardly any singing in, like it was a one off.
Right, this is right off topic but have a swatch at this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5u8b1L9LA
Does anyone think that wee Johnny slipped on a ladies belt all set to have a sherman tank whilst reading a wanking jotter and eating biscuits?
Wee perv
Sound track fae a mid 70′s porno goes lit ” chikka wow..wow..?”
I’m not having it, TJ, I’m not having this going off topic. The song’s been doing my nut in for ages, honestly. Years.
I need this case closed, and I offer the public a Limmy.com DVD treasure hunt as a reward.
Discogs disnae credit any sample or any other composer on that tune, so it’s probably just your brain tricking you into thinking that. 80′s synth pop zeitgeist type deal, know?
Naw, Apollo, that exact tune at that point in the YouTube video is on this original song.
a dinnae ken pal. could it be that instead of it feeling familiar to you because they’ve sampled or replayed something from another song to create the track, this is actually a track that’s been sampled or used for ANOTHER more recent song?
Naw, Poofprick.
Gonnae please believe me, somebody, and work oot this song?
here it is
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJsJCAcRkQ
I thank you
I think it was Shalamar.
whats white & runs down public toilet doors?
george michaels latest release.
I’v nae idea but I was goin to suggest the Track ID thing you get on the Walkman phones, but it would probably just come back with the George Michael song!
Having listened and listened to it, I’m sure Paul Hardcastle done something like it after ni ni ni nineteen….absolutely positive it was him.
Any Hardcastle fans out there? and do I get the DVD for pointing you in the right direction?
FOUND IT!!!
Jocelyn Brown – Somebody’s Else Guy :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NAgxNtbzlw
What do I win?
Body & Soul by Mai Tai, maybe?
or
Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend by|Mel & Kim?
Like someone says, it’s a common synth sound from back in the day, so chances are it’s something similar rather than something exactly the same – they only had a few synths to chose from back then, so a lot of the stuff sounded the same.
Smashy, Ian Beal,
Well done for getting it, or at least that close.
I was racking my brains and the closest I could get was
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FbknGnZXHUk
which although wrong does sound similar to that Hardcastle one, I think.
Fuck maybe it is Jocelyn Brown. My ears are fucked.
Ian Beale is indeed correct, I take you to my previous answer my lord
you’re at it limmy. I bet there is nae such song and you’re getting us tae flap about like cunts tae find fuck all.
Good call, Apollo! The bassline of that song round about the 1:23 mark made me thing of 1999 by Cassius. Think we can get a ‘seven degrees of separation’ out of this?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jSeBalEQrhc
Naw, it’s none of them. The one I’m on about has hardly any singing, only the bit that I mentioned.
I reckon he’s nicked the drums off Color Me Badd
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yO5RVeOd_PY
or is everyone going with the Paul Hardcastle thing?
The original is the Jocelyn Brown, Too Funky takes the synth riff from her song. Anything you’re thinking of Limmy must also be a sample from that original tune, ergo I win (with respect to your original question). Christ knows the tune in your heid, but.
Is it maybe Les Rhythm Digitale?
He uses a lot of those types of synth sounds, and not a lot of vocals!
Naw, Allan, this was actually from the 80s, I’m sure. I think I remember hearing it back then.
Did you hear it in a dream back in the 80s ?
I immediately thought of Somebody Else’s Guy when I listened to it. I had a wee look there for sample sites but canny see much. Maybe someone on here has Too Funky on single and can check the sleeve. Or the Red Hot + Dance album. I have neither. Thank fuck.
Smashy – I thank you – I reckon that it is the number Limmy’s looking for and therefore we claim and share the DVD.
Merry Xmas !
Limmy – want ma address?
You’ve stumped me. I can’t believe its not on the Wikipedia page.
You really should be gay with the shite music you listen tae. And no even just a nornal gay guy who likes a bit of cock every now and then….you should be one of they pure mincer types that’s all loud and bitchy.
ahhhhh there it is bout 1.04 minutes in….
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5NAgxNtbzlw
Its all a fucking sham. Limmy you’re just trying to cover up that you enjoy listening to Georgios.
Dear Mr Beala, feel free to have it all to yourself, and a Merry Christmas to you!
Ok ok this is doing my tits in now. It kind rings a bell , but they were lost years.
Could it be this?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCEAsrpwOA&eurl=http://mixhistory.mixfreaks.nl/Liebrand/mini2001.html
Oh was it fuck that one , sounded promising for a bit but then it got shite.
Limmy its the jocelyn brown thing with the riff sped up a bit and probably using a different synth patch in their snazzy nord or similar.
Trust me, im a doctor….
T.J. Hooker
December 8th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Right, this is right off topic but have a swatch at this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lP5u8b1L9LA
Does anyone think that wee Johnny slipped on a ladies belt all set to have a sherman tank whilst reading a wanking jotter and eating biscuits?
Wee perv
HEY T.J….
What the fuck did you type in to the search box tae find that video?? Yes of course he was gonnae huv a sherman… ALL boys that age do.
As for Limmy’s quest… difficult to discern any tune there at all. To a sophisticated ear like mine it just sounds like white noise. You should try some Beethoven or Mozart.
This suggestion is prolly a mile off but what the fuck: Lips Inc – Funky Town
I was trying to type for a while. Gave up. Do deaf people slur their signing?
That could end up a fuck up in the chippy. Ask for a poke of chips and actually ask for a shag of their maw. Bloody nose and not understand why.
What is a drunken signing rammy like? I’m freakin’ by the way.
Original comment only works if the fryer is deaf.
he sampled his own song ‘ I want your sex’ from ’87. they changed the key and speeded it up but its this,
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5j_85FJ5s
at 2.19
Have you tried looking it up on The-Breaks.com
It is a database of samples, although usually only for rap/dance tunes. Alternatively check with my main man Robb ‘The Ribkage’ Steven. If he doesn’t know, no one will.
“This video is not available in your country. ”
What gives, Limmy?
I’ve got it!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mpHLEm9-0bg
I sat for an hour or two last night on http://www.everyhit.com, and went through the UK top 40 for every month from 1980 to 1989, and I copied and pasted the name of any song I didn’t recognise into YouTube to see what the song was.
Nothing.
I got the missus to track ID it last night, just that bit, it just brought up the george michael song. Sure you’re not on ecto’s?
Shug! Noooooo!
That song really gives the heebie jeebies.
Scatman.
Jobby sex. Fuckin deviant.
Limmy: “I sat for an hour or two last night on http://www.everyhit.com, and went through the UK top 40 for every month from 1980 to 1989, and I copied and pasted the name of any song I didn’t recognise into YouTube to see what the song was.”
Fucksake, I spent last night watching Irish soap operas and clearing my shower cubicle of pubes, and I still had a cooler night than you.
Right Limmy, I’m pretty sure I’ve found it this time. This better be it -
Jenny Burton – Bad Habits (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-20O9KSIjwY
Do I win this time?
Aye, but now I have knowledge of the charts that will make me even better at answering Ken Bruce’s question “In what year were these singles in the UK top ten…”. Not that there’s much room for improvement.
It’s quite like that, Apollo, but this one I’m on about has hardly any singing in it.
I don’t think I’ll ever fucking find it. Ever. Unless I actually sing it.
Yer aff yer hied. It’s got the bleeping bit and the “it’s choo” thing your on about. Maybe there’s an more instrumental version. Or mibbe you’re at it.
Go on then, sing it back, sing it back…..
You could sing it at the Christmas do. Does anyone know if The Social does karaoke?
6:30pm, Friday 19th December 2008.
I’m going to make it my mission to find out what this fucking song is.
Roach, you missed this.
>Del
>December 8th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
>
>Ladies and gentlemen, the Facebook event “Limmy.com Xmas Do – Blogging in the flesh”, >has been canceled due to lack of interest.
>
>For Sale: Large tray of sausage rolls and buffet pies.
No Del, I saw that, but as you’ve mentioned before, I’m supposed to be organising it, not you.
Fuckin’ hell, forget about George Michael’s careless Wispa, has anyone heard Basshunter’s Christmas song?
It’s written for Easy Lionel.
thelastpoundnote
“Shug! Noooooo!
That song really gives the heebie jeebies.
Scatman.
Jobby sex. Fuckin deviant.”
Am intae it.
On another note, i have a mate who can do the scatman perfectly.
i’ve got it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXfHLUlZf4
Nevermind this nonsense…. who’s all going to Alien War in the arches?
I used to love going to that years ago… its back in the arches till March 2009
Limmy: “I sat for an hour or two last night on http://www.everyhit.com, and went through the UK top 40 for every month from 1980 to 1989, and I copied and pasted the name of any song I didn’t recognise into YouTube to see what the song was.”
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I sat for an hour or two last night on the Internet too. There’s a shit load of porn out there and as we all know, it disnae download itsel’
U sure u werent just on a terrible fuck off trip when you ‘heard’ this lol? ma guess is if u looked through EVERY song in the charts frm the 80′s, a trip was most likely man!
Limmy,
When I’m not busy in my hectic life bumming men in public toilets, I like to trawl through 80′s pop music and lift loops for my chart hits. In this case I wandered down the Paul Hardcastle route and therefore Ian Beale and Smashy are on the button. I’m off now to meet Pepsi for lunch then I’m going to watch the football tonight with my friend Gianni, I don’t have much money, I hope they let me take Gianni up the boys gate!.
Love you, bye XX
is it possible that the song your thinking of uses a sample from the george michael song, rather than the other way about?
Anything’s possible noo, Stef, cos I’m losing my mind.
But I’m fairly sure it was from the 80s, and came before Fast Love.
have you tried a thing called “shazam” play the tune and dial 2580 on your phone and hold it to the speaker and it should text you back the name (hopefully)
Ali-Jazz – it will just come back saying Too Funky by George Michael
Ali, hold it to what speaker?
You were listen tae the music?
Whit are yae sum sort of Poofter?
I hid ma dick oot in ma hand as soon as the first super model came doon the catwalk.
Ahh how I long for that mid to late 90′s ecxess.
he sampled his own song. im telling you. av got an ear for music. he sampled wan fae the 80′s.
Hi Limmy,
Long shot, but if you’re really desparate to know, see if you can pick up a copy of whichever George Michael album it is, and see who is credited for the song – if it’s a direct sample there should be some sort of credit and you might recognise the name from that.
Maybe you heard a karaoke version and that’s why there wasn’t much singing…?
I tried shazam using the app on my iPhone, just says the obvious. Ill ask a dj I know and get his opinion.
Dude, your video is not available in my country but didn’t Donna Summer and Kim Wilde both sing about ‘heartache’ in the 80′s ..? Tenuous I know (and that’s hard to spell)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HDqQs02Vq68
Harri the dj at the sub club said that was used in a million songs in the 80′s.
Maybe Rodger Troutman?
Kaney, that’s not it, but it sounds a lot like it, and about 2:14 in it sounds almost identical. If only it had the wee singing bit. The wee singing bit sounds dead like the singing bit in the first few seconds of Heartache by Pepsi & Shirlie:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lraPRTvR03k
The only singing in the whole song sounds like this:
“Oh! It’s just a heartache… I’m gonna get yoooou!”
I’m fucking dying to find this song.
Plus it sounds a bit like the chorus to History, by Mai Tai, which somebody mentioned. Pretty much no singing in the entire song bar that bit. And I think there’s some bird talking seductively at some point before the chorus, saying something about “tonight”.
how about this, Wally Badarou/Chief Inspector http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HDqQs02Vq68
You got this yet?
Jocelyn Brown sang Somebody Else’s Guy and I’m Gonna Get You – do you think it’s something that sampled both of them?
Maybe a Jive Bunny, Jocelyn Brown Mega Mix?
It’s no that, Harri, but it’s dead like it. Donnie, it’s none of them.
I think I’m going to have to get a mic oot and put together a wee makeshift version of it.
This is doing mah nut in.
Cannae get any work done.
think it must of been a dream limmy! nice wild goose chase!
Digging that Wally Badarou tune the noo.
How about this :
Bizarre Inc. – I’m Gonna Get You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A16g3tuL2lY
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rDJsJCAcRkQ
Paul Hardcastle ‘Don’t waste my time’ featuring Carol Kenyon.
Doesn’t have that synthy bit but the rest of it is very similar.
Limmy, Harri is the resident DJ at the sub club for the last 20 year, im sure if you post a make-shift copy he’ll identify it.
kaney
“Limmy, Harri is the resident DJ at the sub club for the last 20 year”
Don’t teach your granny to suck eggs.
Body & Soul by Mai Tai, maybe?
or
Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend by|Mel & Kim?
Like someone says, it's a common synth sound from back in the day, so chances are it's something similar rather than something exactly the same – they only had a few synths to chose from back then, so a lot of the stuff sounded the same.