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Hit And Run Lover
"Hit and Run Lover" is the first song on '' Fragile'', their seventh studio album from the band Dead or Alive. Like their 1990 album '' Fan the Flame (Part 1)'', it was released only in Japan, where the band were very popular. The song peaked at No. 2 on the Japanese charts. A remix A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The o ... of the song was included on '' Unbreakable: The Fragile Remixes'' (2001). Chart performance References * {{authority control 2000 songs 2000 singles Dead or Alive (band) songs Avex Trax singles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Or Alive (band)
Dead or Alive were an English Pop music, pop band that released seven studio albums from 1984 to 2000. The band formed in 1980 in Liverpool and found success in the mid-1980s, releasing seven singles that made the UK top 40 and three albums on the UK top 30. At the peak of their success, the lineup consisted of Pete Burns (vocals), Steve Coy (drums), Mike Percy (bass) and Tim Lever (keyboards), with the core pair of Burns and Coy writing and producing for the remainder of the band's career. Two of the band's singles reached the U.S. top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100: "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (No. 11 in August 1985) and "Brand New Lover" (No. 15 in March 1987). "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" peaked at number one for two weeks in 1985 in the UK, then charted again in 2006 following Burns' appearance on the television reality show ''Big Brother (UK)#Celebrity Big Brother, Celebrity Big Brother'' and on Stranger Things (season 4), sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fragile (Dead Or Alive Album)
''Fragile'' is a Remix album released by British band Dead or Alive in 2000. The album was originally only released in Japan by independent record company Avex Trax. With thirteen tracks, the album contains some new material as well as re-recordings and remixes of past songs. Also included is a remake of U2's song "Even Better Than the Real Thing", which had previously appeared on a U2 tribute album. The album remained an exclusive in Japan until the worldwide release of the ''Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI'' compilation in 2016. In 2001 Dead or Alive also released a remix album, ''Unbreakable'', containing further remixes of songs from ''Fragile''. Track listing #" Hit and Run Lover" – 4:42 #"Turn Around & Count 2 Ten" – 5:17 * #"Something in My House" – 4:01 * #"Even Better Than the Real Thing 2000" – 3:07 #"I Paralyze" – 5:55 #"Isn't It a Pity?" – 4:45 #"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" – 6:05 * #"Just What I Always Wanted" – 5:16 #"My Heart Goes Bang" – 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Music
Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement. In terms of performance, the major categories are live dance music and recorded dance music. While there exist attestations of the combination of dance and music in ancient times (for example Ancient Greek vases sometimes show dancers accompanied by musicians), the earliest Western dance music that we can still reproduce with a degree of certainty are old fashioned dances. In the Baroque period, the major dance styles were noble court dances (see Baroque dance). In the classical music era, the minuet was frequently used as a third movement, although in this context it would not accompany any dancing. The waltz also arose later in the classical era. Both remained part of the romantic music period, which also saw the rise of various other nationalistic dance forms like the barcarolle, mazurka, ecossaise, ballade and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disco Music
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric piano, synthesizers, and electric rhythm guitars. Disco started as a mixture of music from venues popular with Italian Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans and Black Americans "'Broadly speaking, the typical New York discothèque DJ is young (between 18 and 30) and Italian,' journalist Vince Lettie declared in 1975. ..Remarkably, almost all of the important early DJs were of Italian extraction .. Italian Americans have played a significant role in America's dance music culture .. While Italian Americans mostly from Brooklyn largely created disco from scratch .." in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction by the 1960s counterculture to both the dominance of rock music and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Coy
Dead or Alive were an English pop band that released seven studio albums from 1984 to 2000. The band formed in 1980 in Liverpool and found success in the mid-1980s, releasing seven singles that made the UK top 40 and three albums on the UK top 30. At the peak of their success, the lineup consisted of Pete Burns (vocals), Steve Coy (drums), Mike Percy (bass) and Tim Lever (keyboards), with the core pair of Burns and Coy writing and producing for the remainder of the band's career. Two of the band's singles reached the U.S. top 20 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100: "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (No. 11 in August 1985) and " Brand New Lover" (No. 15 in March 1987). "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" peaked at number one for two weeks in 1985 in the UK, then charted again in 2006 following Burns' appearance on the television reality show '' Celebrity Big Brother'' and on season 4 of ''Stranger Things''. It also became the first of two singles to top the ''Billboard'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex Drive (Dead Or Alive Song)
"Sex Drive" is a song by British band Dead or Alive from their 1995 album ''Nukleopatra''. The single was a minor hit in Australia, where it peaked at number 52 in March 1997. The song was originally released by Glam in 1994, with the lead singer of Dead or Alive, Pete Burns, as a guest vocalist, but it was re-recorded and remixed for the group's album ''Nukleopatra''. Track listing CD single Japan 1995 # "Sex Drive" - 6:39 # "Rebel Rebel" - 4:18 Australia 1997 # "Sex Drive" (Radio Edit) – 4:22 # "Sex Drive" (Sugar Pumpers Radio Extended Mix) – 5:55 # "Sex Drive" (Album Version) – 5:13 # "What I Want" – 5:25 CD maxi Australia # "Sex Drive" (Peewee's Radio Mix) – 4:09 # "Sex Drive" (Peewee's Extended Remix) – 9:35 # "Sex Drive" (Sugar Pumpers Radio Extended Mix) – 5:54 # "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by English pop band Dead or Alive, featured on their second album, '' Youthquake'' (1985). Released as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Spin Me Round (2003 Version)
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a song by English pop band Dead or Alive, featured on their second album, '' Youthquake'' (1985). Released as a single in November 1984, it reached No. 1 in the UK in March 1985, taking 17 weeks to get there. It was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. On the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100, it peaked at No. 11 on 17 August of that year. In 2003, '' Q'' ranked the song at number 981 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever", '' Blender'' listed it at number 289 on its ranking of "Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" in 2005 and in 2015, it was voted by the British public as the nation's 17th favourite 1980s number-one in a poll for ITV. Background and composition Dead or Alive's vocalist Pete Burns stated in his autobiography that he composed "You Spin Me Round" by using two existing songs as inspiration for creating something new: Desiring to move on from the sound of the band's first album, ''Soph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fan The Flame (Part 1)
''Fan the Flame (Part 1)'' is the fifth studio album from dance music band Dead or Alive and was released in 1990. Epic Records released ''Fan the Flame (Part 1)'' in Japan only. The album remained an exclusive in this territory until the worldwide release of the ''Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI'' compilation box set in 2016. The album was a slight change in the band's musical style towards more melancholic lyrics and refined vocals from Burns. The background vocals on "Total Stranger" were performed by British pop band Londonbeat and the London Community Gospel Choir provided backing vocals for "Unhappy Birthday". The song "My Love's On The Line" was also recorded for the album and performed live in 1990 but went unreleased. In 2020 the master tape was discovered in Steve Coy's personal collection and the track released on the ''Invincible'' reissue set the next year. A follow-up album, '' Fan the Flame (Part 2)'', also began recording in 1990 but was abandoned until posthumou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remix
A remix (or reorchestration) is a piece of media which has been altered or contorted from its original state by adding, removing, or changing pieces of the item. A song, piece of artwork, book, video, poem, or photograph can all be remixes. The only characteristic of a remix is that it appropriates and changes other materials to create something new. Most commonly, remixes are a subset of audio mixing in music and song recordings. Songs may be remixed for a large variety of reasons: * to adapt or revise a song for radio or nightclub play * to create a stereo or surround sound version of a song where none was previously available * to improve the fidelity of an older song for which the original master has been lost or degraded * to alter a song to suit a specific music genre or radio format * to use some of the original song's materials in a new context, allowing the original song to reach a different audience * to alter a song for artistic purposes * to provide additional version ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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