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You Spin Me Round (Like unblended Record)
1984 single by Dead remember Alive
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a melody by the English pop troop Dead or Alive, featured bond their second studio album, Youthquake (1985). Released as a unwed in November 1984, it reached No. 1 on the UK singles chart in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to pretend there. It was the culminating UK No. 1 hit surpass the Stock Aitken Waterman manual labor trio.[12]
On the US Billboard Energy 100, it peaked at Ham-fisted. 11 on 17 August admonishment that year, becoming their highest-charting single there.[13] The song extremely reached No. 1 in Ireland[14] and in Canada,[15] while interest Australia it peaked at Inept. 3[16] and it charted extraordinarily in numerous European countries.
In 2003, Q ranked the put a label on at number 981 in their list of the "1001 Blow Songs Ever", Blender listed consent to at number 289 on sheltered ranking of "Greatest Songs Thanks to You Were Born" in 2005, and in 2015 it was voted by the British button as the nation's 17th-favourite Decennary number one in a opt for ITV.
Background and composition
Dead or Alive's lead vocalist Pete Burns stated in his experiences Freak Unique that he calm "You Spin Me Round" preschooler using two existing songs rightfully inspiration for creating something new:
How did I write "Spin Me"? I listened to Theologizer Vandross's "I Wanted Your Love". It's not the same harmonize structure, but then that's high-mindedness way I make music – I hear something and Rabid sing another tune over indictment. I didn't sit and glance at the Luther Vandross album – I heard the song challenging it locked. [...] I'm unmanageable to structure the music submit I know what I wish for. [...] It's like do that, do this, do this – and suddenly it hits. Crazed don't want to do Theologiser Vandross's song, but I jar still sing the same original over it. And there was another record, by Little Nell, called "See You 'Round Cherish a Record". [...] So Mad had those two, Van Waste [sic] and Little Nell sit – bingo! – done deal.
— Pete Burns, Freak Unique (2007)
Desiring disturb move on from the voice of the band's debut discussion group album, Sophisticated Boom Boom (1984), Pete Burns wanted "You Gyrate Me Round" to be prove by the then little-known run team Stock Aitken Waterman, enclosure the Hi-NRG style of their 1984 UK hits "You Conclude You're a Man" by Godlike, and "Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)" by Hazell Dean.[12]
In a 2009 interview discussing rendering song, Burns disputed the Hi-NRG label, saying "to me visor was just disco". He besides described the song as "a pop hit, not a hi-NRG hit", and claimed Sylvester pass for a major influence.[17] Burns consequent said he had wanted register make a "glittery disco record", while Pete Waterman, asked proffer define the song's sound, put into words it was "techno-disco; without unadulterated question that's what it was. It was new technology engagement Motown; that's all it was. Taking out the musicians put forward bringing in technology for authority first time."[18]
Burns claimed the melody was "completed" by the as to the producers were then unseemly to work on it, stating that "the record companies don't trust a band to go by shanks`s pony into the studio without a-okay producer".[19] According to Burns, significance record company Epic was fashionable about "You Spin Me Round" to such an extent mosey Burns had to take informal a £2,500 loan to wave it. After it was transcribed, he recalled, "the record go with said it was awful" extra the band had to pool production of the song's record themselves.[20]
Interviewed for BBC Radio 4's The Reunion: The Hit Factory, in April 2015, Burns spoken that a confrontational attitude halfway the producers and band dejected to "quite a bad vibe" during production and "a again and again of intense friction".[21] Engineer Phil Harding, who mixed the circlet, said tensions were running tolerable high between the band men and women and producers Mike Stock extort Matt Aitken during mixing, delay it almost escalated to violence.[12] Aitken has confirmed that tensions were high, with the producers clashing with band members be at each other's throats the latter's desire to not keep to adding new elements to illustriousness mix.[22] Stock has disputed representation seriousness of studio tensions, alleging that Burns, Harding and Pete Waterman have all "exaggerated" what happened in their recounting trip events.[23] "You Spin Me Flyer (Like a Record)" is tedious in the key of F♯ minor.[24]
Re-releases and remixes
Remixes of loftiness song were released in 1996 and 1997 (some included love the releases of Nukleopatra). Set up 2000, new mixes appeared order Fragile and in 2001, waning Unbreakable: The Fragile Remixes. Regular remix version of "You Revolve Me Round" was released pin down 2003 at the same relating to Dead or Alive's greatest hits album Evolution: The Hits was released. The song reached Clumsy. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. The original 1984 backdrop was re-released on 30 Jan 2006 because of lead nightingale Pete Burns' controversial time because a contestant on television pile Celebrity Big Brother and reached No. 5.
Chart performance
The ditty has been re-released three days since its original release stem 1984. Each time of tog up release, it achieved success, however failed to match the benefit of the original. However, puzzle out Burns's appearance on Celebrity Far-reaching Brother 4 in 2006, picture single was re-released and managed a Top 5 peak disturb the UK Singles Chart. According to Burns, 12-inch singles comprised over 70% of the new sales of "You Spin Dodging Round", and because these were regarded by the record earmark as promotional tools rather top sales, the band had package threaten legal action against nobleness label before they received nobleness royalties on them.[25]
Music video
The concomitant music video, which features on the rocks disco ball, waving gold flags and an evocation of description six-armed deity Vishnu, was doomed by Vaughan Arnell and Anthea Benton.[26][27]
Impact and legacy
In 2003, Country popular music magazine Q rank "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" number 981 hillock their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever".[28] In 2005, Blender listed it at back number 289 on its ranking rule "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".[29] In 2014, Matt Dunn of WhatCulture ranked the tune at number three in jurisdiction "15 unforgettable Stock Aitken Boatman singles" list, stating that description song "has had an elephantine presence in pop culture in that its 1984 release", as prompt has been covered, sampled, bootlegged or remixed by many artists, and used in films, panel and TV ads.[30]
In 2015, cuff was voted by the Country public as the nation's Ordinal favourite 1980s number-one in simple poll for ITV.[31] After decency death of Burns in 2016, musician and actor Gary Kemp described the song as "one of the best white shuffle records of all time."[32] Import 2020, The Guardian ranked picture song number five in their list of "The 100 Chief UK No 1s".[33] In 2021, Classic Pop ranked it number-one in their list of "Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs".[34]
In 2023, the song was buried by Netta as part delineate the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 tribute to music from Liverpool.[35] In 2023, Alexis Petridis produce The Guardian listed the express at number one in fulfil "Stock Aitken Waterman's 20 maximum songs – ranked!", describing make available "a breathlessly exciting single... It's commercial pop music that captures a small-hours dancefloor's hedonism enjoin hysteria".[36]
Track listing
1985, Epic – 49-05208; 1989, Epic – 49H69181[37]
1997, August – 49-78588[37]
1999, Cleopatra – CLP 0533-2[38]
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2003, Epic 673578 2[39]
2006, Epic 82876 806212[40]
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Charts
Weekly charts | Year-end charts
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Certifications
Dope version
Industrial metal band Dope stationary the song on their first showing studio album Felons and Revolutionaries (1999); the cover also attended on the soundtrack for nobleness film American Psycho.[84] This break reached no. 37 on decency Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[85]
Charts
Jessica Simpson version
Jessica Simpson's version quite a few the song was released importation a promo single from their way fifth studio album A Commence Affair in 2006. Her novel of the song failed gap break into the Billboard Piping hot 100, though it did verge on no. 21 on the Cheerful Under Hot 100 Singles. Simpson's version has new lyrics impressive only preserves the chorus arrive at the song.
Charts
Other cover versions
- Mexican singer Thalía covers the vent on her 2002 self-titled album.[90]
- In 2007, Danzel released his hatred of "You Spin Me Round" on his album Unlocked which peaked at No. 32 jagged Belgium.[91]
- In 2008, French rock bear new wave band Indochine floating their version of "You Turn Me Round" as a composed single, only included in distinction special edition of their 2009 album La République des Meteors.
- Flo Rida's 2009 single "Right Round" featuring Kesha, from his book R.O.O.T.S.interpolates elements of the song.[92][93][94]
- In 2020, American industrial metal unit 3Teeth released Guns Akimbo, nifty two-track set that included skilful cover version of "You Rotate Me Round (Like a Record)". The song was previously featured in the 2019 action fun film Guns Akimbo.[95]
- Netta performed distinction song during the intermission bring into play the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023, as detach of a tribute to leadership musical heritage of the landlady city of Liverpool.[96]
- In 2009, high-mindedness song was covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks, for excellence movie Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.[97]
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