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The worlds cutest song and video: Swing Out Sister, Break Out. All you others say Hell Yea!!  |
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Reply #1 posted 10/14/21 8:51am
paisleypark4 

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Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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Reply #2 posted 10/14/21 9:12am
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I've only watched the video about ten times just this week. lol All you others say Hell Yea!!  |
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Reply #3 posted 10/14/21 9:27am
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2freaky4church1 said:
I've only watched the video about ten times just this week. lol
When situations never change Tomorrow looks unsure Don't leave your destiny to chance What are you waiting for The time has come to make your break Breakout
Don't stop to ask And now you've found a break to make it last You've got to find a way Say what you want to say Breakout...
Even the lyrics just fit the music so well. Also, that moderation in the end of the chorus is just heavenly.
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Reply #4 posted 10/14/21 10:28am
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"Breakout" was such a fun song then and it still is now. It hit #1 on the US Adult Contemporary chart.
"Am I The Same Girl" is just as fun. Even Martha Stewart used it for a while for her then-new show post-prison stint. It also hit #1 on the same chart.
Both songs would be their only two #1 songs, and the latter was the last time they even hit the top 20 with anything. They continued to release music but failed to ever chart.
There's something about some of these EuroPop groups. They have that one (or two) really popular catchy songs, and the rest is just trash. EuroPop has always had a different vibe and feel to it. It never hits in the US the same. Robbie Williams is a great example. The two big songs here, "Rock DJ" and (very minimally) "Let Me Entertain You." He's huge in the UK, but I can't listen to his other music. It's just horrible. I wanted to like him, but it's shit music.
Not saying Swing Out Sister is shit. But not saying they've done anything attention worthy outside of these two songs either.
"Breakout" is a stone-cold bop, though. "  don’t really care so much what people say about me because it is a reflection of who they r." |
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Reply #5 posted 10/16/21 7:27pm
TonyVanDam 
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I know Swing Out Sister had a better career in Japan & England. But hot damn it, Break Out is still one of my top 10 favorite songs from one hit [in the USA] wonders.
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Reply #6 posted 10/18/21 8:42pm
hardwork 
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You people saying they were one hit wonders must not have lived in NYC in 1988 because "Surrender" was also a fairly big hit, albeit probably only on black radio. I fucking adore the shit out of that record - classy sophisticated adult black jazz/pop that never even thinks - not for one second - about looking down on its audience. |
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Reply #7 posted 10/18/21 8:46pm
hardwork 
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Here it be:
https://youtu.be/pQJ_ysAqWug |
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Reply #8 posted 10/18/21 8:50pm
hardwork 
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"Surrender" is a 1987 single released by British pop act Swing Out Sister from their debut album, It's Better to Travel. It was issued as the follow-up to the successful single, "Breakout". The song peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1987 and logged four weeks in the top ten.[1]
Over a year after its initial release, remixes of "Surrender" reached the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, peaking at #22 in May 1988.[2]
The song features a trumpet solo performed by John Thirkell and features Drewery laughing at the beginning of the song.
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Reply #9 posted 10/19/21 9:23am
Cinny 
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"Surrender" was the next single after "Break Out" in succession from the same album, It's Better To Travel. But have you heard "Waiting Game" from the succeeding album, Kaleidoscope World? |
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Reply #10 posted 10/19/21 8:43pm
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"Twilight World" is my jam!  "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing." - Socrates |
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Reply #11 posted 10/29/21 6:17am
TonyVanDam 
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hardwork said:
You people saying they were one hit wonders must not have lived in NYC in 1988 because "Surrender" was also a fairly big hit, albeit probably only on black radio. I fucking adore the shit out of that record - classy sophisticated adult black jazz/pop that never even thinks - not for one second - about looking down on its audience.
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I was still living in New Orleans in 1988. And THAT^ song was never played on any of the FM radio stations. |
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Reply #12 posted 10/29/21 7:57am
Cinny 
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TonyVanDam said:
hardwork said:
You people saying they were one hit wonders must not have lived in NYC in 1988 because "Surrender" was also a fairly big hit, albeit probably only on black radio. I fucking adore the shit out of that record - classy sophisticated adult black jazz/pop that never even thinks - not for one second - about looking down on its audience.
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I was still living in New Orleans in 1988. And THAT^ song was never played on any of the FM radio stations.
Yeah, here neither, but the group was popular with club deejays and they had good enough music videos.
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