Songs That Changed Music: Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm - with Stephen Lipson
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What songs do you think changed music? Share below
I'm so glad Slave to The Rhythm got picked!
What about Straight Outta Compton? It's the foundation for a whole genre of rap music
@@LucasOliveira-pv9ir marvellous idea!!
Yes with owner of a lonely heart
While we're at it , Slave To Love b.Brian ferry/Virginia plain b.Roxy music or really any of it.
Cheers.. great stuff!
Terry Jacks: "Seasons in the Sun" . Based on a french song by Jacques Brel. The history is really interesting.
This song started my 37 year career in music. As a music student we had a field trip to Sarm East studios. They showed us the control room and explained the SSL. Then they pinned ten wide eyed students to the back wall of the control room with a track they'd just finished mixing. It was Slave To The Rhythm. An amazing experience and a total epiphany. I'd never heard anything so good, so loud and with such incredible clarity. I now knew what I wanted to do as a career. When college finished I wore a hole in a brand new pair of shoes taking my resume and knocking on every recording studio door in London. I got a job as a tape op in a small studio in Chiswick that had a Fairlight III. 37 years later I'm still working in music in Los Angeles. Thank you so much for this video! I know this record inside and backwards and this video is a big deal for me. You Rock!
Wow!!! That’s absolutely amazing! It must have been an incredible experience! Thanks ever so much for sharing
It is an incredible song, amazing production and so well mixed! Hugely influential to so many of us!
So jealous of this story!
You rock doing what you wanted, awesome.
‘Slave To The Rhythm’ is an absolute masterpiece!
Yes! It is! Thanks ever so much!
It’s absolute garbage
Fabulous song from a visually stunning Grace .
@@trevorbayers2175Well obviously your ears were made in China. 🙄
I still listen to this track (and the album) regularly, without sounding like an old fart, the industry doesn't seem to want this kind of complexity and beautifully layered music anymore. What an incredible group to have crafted this track.
Thanks ever so much!
In my opinion (for what it’s worth) one of the best produced records of all time. It still sends shivers down my spine when I hear it!
100% Not only that but the title of the track nails that feeling
The Beatles Helter skelter
Agreed 100% Simon! Absolute masterpiece on all levels
@@leefchapman absolutely
Without pro tools - from todays view , unbelievable
This song still sounds fresh in 2022, almost 40 years later.
Agreed 100%!
Jesus is it really that long ago?
I'm only just starting to appreciate it !
After her first 3 disco albums, the production on all of Grace's records (the Compass Point recordings with Sly and Robbie in particular) is absolute top tier.
@@adamblue2980 I'll have to take a listen. I didn't know she wored with Sly & Robbie.
@@adamblue2980 agreed, the Sly and Robbie stuff really set her up for this! its also incredible
Glastonbury 1987 on the Wednesday evening before the festival. I was standing on the hill facing the Pyramid Stage when they sound checked the PA system with Slave to the Rhythm. It was one of the most awesome audio moments of my life. Like listening to the biggest hi-fi on earth. The sound filled the entire valley. Unforgettable.
I am from Washington, D.C. where Go-Go has its roots. The music had a tremendous influence on my playing. Groove and meter are absolutely supreme in this musical style. I remember hearing this song for the first time and was totally knocked off my feet by the production and orchestration. This song remained my personal national anthem for years. It was and has remained one of my top favorite tracks of all time even after almost 40 years. The song in 2022 continues to have a sound just as fresh as it was in 1985.
Bravo to Grace and all the crew who created this masterpiece!
I am forever A Slave to the Rhythm.
I saw in a documentary where they used Go-Go musicians to get the beat
Literally a timeless track. Endlessly modern, classical, funky...just incredible.
I think so too!
Wow.. I'm an 80s baby from the Caribbean and this is all news to me. I was actually conceived in Jamaica but born in St.Lucia, so I feel extra embarrassed cuz I tell people I'm Jamaican sometimes.
Grace Jones is the sh*t
Sak a fet?
@@zeusapollo8688 Mwen La
Madam butterfly by Malcolm McLaren was a year before and Peter Gabriel’s sledgehammer was a year after, I liked that part of the eighties, exotic sounding funky dance music
There was a phase of incredibly well-arranged pop music in the mid 80s that managed to retain a lightness of touch without being simplistic and dull - Slave to the Rhythm being the perfect example.
Agreed 100%!
you can thank Trevor Horn for that
Grace Jones is nothing short of an Amazonian Goddess! There has never been anyone with a combination of her style and attitude and probably never will be. Oh yeah, she's also a fantastic singer!
And strikes a momentous figure every time, with due elegance and iconoclasm. A full package, really
The whole package. She had swag galore
I'll always remember her as Strange ( Stron-zhae) in that Eddie Murphy film....."Zis is ze essonce of sex!!"😆
YES! HUGE fan of Grace Jones!
@@DM-ei6oo my only disagreement is in the tense you use. I would say 'has', rather than 'had'. Grace Jones remains a force of fucking nature. She is magnificent.
One of the best records ever made! I can't get enough of it. It's a shame that it did not get a Grammy.
Very well said Jason!
I just recently found out, that many of my favorite tracks from the 80's - when I was a teenager - were produced/composed by Trevor Horn. Like this track, or Yes' "Owner Of A Lonely Heart" or Art Of Noise's "Moments In Love".
Me, too!
Indeed - Trevor’s SARM studio in west London, where Steve Lipson worked, produced a significant amount of the backdrop of the 80’s. You’d be surprised and suitably impressed if you saw the whole ‘catalog’ !
Same. Serious a-ha moment for me. I only knew Trevor Horn from The Art of Noise (or so I thought). Video Killed The Radio Star, Owner of A Lonely Heart... I never connected the dots until now. Wow.
Plus- FGTH, Art of Noise and Propaganda!!
Check out his other production peaks: ABC's entire Lexicon of Love album especially "Poison Arrow" and "The Look of Love". Malcolm McLaren's breakthrough "Buffalo Gals", the first track to combine turntable scratching with Fairlight trickery. Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome album, especially the title track. And later on, Seal's tracks.
Although after hearing this I need to check out the engineers and co-producers on those tracks. If Trevor Horn is god, Stephen Lipson is at least Apollo. Red Bull Music Academy has a long interview in which Trevor Horn talks about them at length, and gives credit to Stephen Lipson, Anne Dudley on string arrangements, and many more. A massive nexus of talent.
An absolute fu*king masterpiece. This is the tune that inspired IMHO the Triphop, Lounge and Folktronica scene. It's so versatile, this is music in an immortal sense it will never sound dated. It even has that James Bond movie vibe to it. I salute everyone involved with this.
This track epitomises '80s production to me, and it still sounds huge and fresh. Great video, thanks Warren!
Agreed! Thanks ever so much!
@@Producelikeapro agreed - this is a masterpiece - I loooooove this record (12" version) - thank you so much for your efforts Warren
agreed....screams 80's
This and the full version of Welcome To The Pleasuredome. Same team obviously so its not surprising :D
It REALLY stood apart from much of the pop of the era, trapped as they were in the Quincy Jones styling so many other acts were built on:)
It’s funny, I always loved this album but pre-internet, I just assumed that the drums were programmed and the orchestrations were Synclavier or Fairlight. Thanks, Warren for bringing this gem to light.
So true!
Thanks ever so much Jon!
@@leefchapman you rock!
Same here Jon!
Know what you mean. Not sure how you'd programme those drum fills mind. But then again, they're clever chaps with good equipment, who knows what they're capable of?
More Stephen Lipson! Amazing to get his insight into this. What a treasure.
Still waiting on some Kraftwerk!
Andrew Scheps has a long interview with him on UA-cam. Over three hours.
kraftwerk, ja!
I love Lipson’s work with Public Image Ltd.
About 15 years ago, I was gifted with attending to Ms Jones while she flew from my place to L.A.
She was a LOVELY person, offered me to go rollerblading which I turned down out of shyness.
To this day I keep regretting not having said yes.
37 years after that top end is everything what is right, the vocals sit in the mix like a kitty in a couch
Haha very well said!
Oh wow this was a great, great video! As a kid, I found Grace Jones to be pretty scary (especially so in the video for this song), but as an adult, I came to really appreciate her artistry. She’s like the female Bowie in a lot of ways.
My fiancé and I saw her live back a few years back when she headlined Afropunk in London and she was an absolute BOSS. She did the hula hoops things there too! My fiancé’s claim to fame now is that she was touched by Jones as she passed by the front row and brushed her hands through the crowd!
Thanks again for the amazing content, man. 👍🏿😊
A fiancé is the male part of an engaged couple. Perhaps you had a fiancée.
Hey, I feel you. I use to think she was a bit weirdly scary too. This video and even some of her cover graphics. I appreciated her more as years went by, and then when she was cast in the movie Boomerang, I found her to be really quite appealing.
So generous of Stephen to do the breakdown. So insightful to the process, I love how irreverent he is. Hang on, Lovejoy is on it!!!???
Yes! It was fantastic to have him do this with us!
@@Producelikeapro I have a question Warren, according to your wiki page you worked with singer James Blunt , was that for a song or a full album and what song or album was it?
In my opinion, this is those of the greatest songs and productions ever recorded.
Agreed 100%! Absolute masterpiece
@@Producelikeapro 👍
@@DavidMorley thanks!
Chiming in here. I had the same visceral response as the gentleman presenting this to us: The killer groove was the hardest hitting one I had heard unto, probably is to this day! Absolutely phenomenal piece and fantastic walkthrough and breakdown of its genesis! Thanks so much!
I always thought this song was so sophisticated and elegant, a masterpiece that blew me away and gave images of summer in the Mediterranean.
The composition and arrangement was in my mind perfect and timeless to this day.
Very well said!
Carl Lewis, the olympic athlete, had the same haircut as Grace Jones in 1984.
He named her as the inspiration for it.
Agree. One of the most criminally underrated records of my 60 year old life. Absolutely a peak moment of creativity and innovation and one of the most important records of the 80s.
We can talk all day about thei importance of Trevor Horn but THIS was and remains his greatest musical achievement.
There never will be another. A unique moment in time never to be repeated.
Oy! I was a lad in 1985 working in a record shop when I bought that record!! I'm 55 now and Still listen to that album regularly!!!! Well done! BTW Born in Washington D.C. Yes GoGo!!
As a 13 year old when this album came out, it blew me away! 38 years later it's still a captivating listen! One of my all time favorites! 👌
As a 16 year old in '85 I thought this song was so ahead of its time. Avante Garde ! The song, the video and the album cover and of course Grace herself. Amazing work by the engineers to put this together. Always associate this song with going to the South of France as part of a family holiday. Still gives me goose pimples when I listen to this. I also heard a version with Ian McShane introducing Grace Jones before the song kicks in.
The best live version of this, is her hoola hooping to it at the Queens jubilee celebration outside Buckingham Palace!👏🏻🇬🇧
Yes! I talked about that at the end of the video! Amazing!
I'm not her biggest fan, I'll admit but I really feel Grace Jones was a piece of art herself.
This tune was unbelievably awesome but the visuals in the music video were cutting edge.
...and THAT CHORUS!
Defo ahead of her time
I walked in to Cutler's Records in October 1985, and a friend of mine who worked there had just taken the first copy of that album out of the box and put it on the store turntable. I heard the first two bars and said: "Bob, I'll take that one, please..." Fabulous album from beginning to end.
This is my favorite track of all time, because it has it all; a thundering drumtrack, a funky bass-line, a haunting guitar, a complete classic orchestra and of course the unforgettable voice of Grace Jones. I carry this song in my heart wherever I go. Thanks a million!
Close. You omitted the PING sound, the thrUMMM upward keyboard whoosh, _multiple_ haunting guitars, a dozen motifs and riffs, the glockenspiel, the portentous Ian Shane narration... Check out remixes like Droopus' Rough Slave Mix and DJ Friction's Rmx.
I've got no beef with people saying "Poison Arrow" (ABC), "Buffalo Gals" (Malcolm McLaren, "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (Yes), or "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" is Trevor Horn's greatest achievement, but "Slave to the Rhythm" is at least their equal. And it's great to see Stephen Lipson getting more credit.
"What do you get if you combine 2 years of studio time, the best musicians in the world, two insanely-talented producers and £800,000? The most expensive, and IMO the best produced single of all time, and surely - another 80s masterpiece." -- Bruce Forest (Drupus?) on Facebook.
The music video and visuals by Grace's husband for this was equally a masterpiece
Unforgettable work from JP Goude. Feels like it influenced Philipe Decoufle's triumph with New Order's True Faith vid.
Just a bunch of snippets from his tv adverts and they're all brilliant
A monumental masterpiece. So complex, so sophisticated, so incredibly good, and still sounds fresh after almost forty years.
@5:00 this is classic Go-Go beat. I grew up in DC with that exact backbeat groove. I played with many of the local groups in the late 80s.
Salute to my big brother in music Juju House for representing our gogo culture and laying the foundation down in one of the most greatest songs ever 🥁
Marvellous!
It’s perfection. I think it’s THE high watermark of production - more so after watching this. And Lovejoy is on it! This channel is just immense, thanks for the love and work you clearly put into it
Agreed 100%! Thanks ever so much for your support!
I grew up in DC listening to Go-Go music. This song was LIFE CHANGING for me and the entire DMV area!!!
I was just sixteen,...clubbing in Ghent (Belgium) in this incredible little New Wave club called " The Fash".... Packed with punters dressed in stylish Yamamoto black sporting crazy laquered hairdo's and heavy eyeliner. And then this song came up... and i was floored with how beautifully perfect and theatrical this track worked with this freaky crowd. I will never forget this moment and i still get goosebumps hearing Miss Jones incredible voice on it.
I consider this song to be so sonically correct, that I even used Slave To The Rhythm as my reference track, to tune all front of house PA's we were using during the 80's and 90's. An absolute masterpiece. This video and the songs breakdown was fascinating to watch, thank you!
One of the greatest recordings ever made. Thank you! More Trevor Horn related please!
More Trevor Horn required @producelikeapro
Hell yes!
I've always rated this track has being one of the greatest rhythm tracks 've ever heard.
Thanks Antonio!
@@63Baggies agreed 100%!
Boston's More Than a Feeling and Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill are just two serious productions that impacted many musicians and producers. As far as Slave to the Rhythm, that was a fun deep dive thanks to Mr. Lipson recollections, great job!
Yes, the whole of Hounds Of Love was very influential
This really is the best episode yet Warren.....Go-Go beat? You just blew my mind, but there it is clear as day! There really should be MUCH more Go-Go in the world.
T H I S👍
Said!
For GoGo, look for tracks by Washington band Troublefunk from the 1980s. One the best live bands I ever saw! E.g. Drop the Bomb
@@eyeboyd Still Smokin' , had that on 12" also chekc out a superb track by Kindness - Thats Alright - Done with Trouble Funk as well
We're about to bring Go-Go full circle ❤
I remember when I was young and beautiful, and hearing this in a large club was like being bathed in glory. People were lifted to their best selves as they threw themselves joyfully, luxuriantly, seductively into the rhythm. How many countless people fell in love (or lust) on the dancefloor to this song!Thanks gentlemen in the booth and thank you Ms. Jones! I am forever a slave to the rhythm.
I’ve not heard the album, but have always loved the single - it was perfect for Grace. Enjoyed this, thank you.
Yes, amazing song!
wow, you just gotta hear that album!
@@JohnOShaughnessy Loved the single, but I remember hearing the album when it came out and thought I'd been utterly conned, same track remixed several times. I haven't heard it since, so I will dig it out of my collection and try listening with an open mind and a more mature set of ears.
Wow, the separated drum/percussion tracks sound brilliant, especially at 6.24
The first part of orchestral arrangement he played brings to mind the end of ‘left to my own devices’ by Pet Shop Boys
Never knew JJ Belle had played on this. Know him from his work on Behaviour
Richard Niles arranged that too.
Team was nearly the same.
I used to DJ at this tiny martini bar on Saturdays, and I would open up my set with this track every time.
And speaking about Ju-Ju House playing on that track, I'm originally from DC and I can tell you that go-go is a religion there. E.U., Rare Essence, and Trouble Funk all played at my high school back in the 80s.
My uncle “Lil’ Beats” of Redds & The Boys played on “STTR”. It still rocks to this day. Great interview Thank you to all involved
That song sounds great enough to have been used for dialing in p.a. eq‘s on huge systems for decades. That says quite something.
haha yep we did that too, was our reference disc :)
Oh my, always the go to to reference for the latest Hi Fi acquisition,have had some quite subliminal audio moments with this album ,specially in the 80s. Very inspirational to my audio engineering quest.Big benchmark album for Audio.
Agreed! Absolutely fantastic song and Producton
The Thrill Of It All by Roxy Music. I can not imagine anybody from punk to New Romantics existing without this song. It's influence is in Adam Ant and Duran Duran. That intro followed by a roar of sound. By the way, thank you for featuring Slave to the Rhythm. It is a brilliant single and album with an artist I feel never gets enough credit for her talent and artistry. Love this series.
Slave to the Rhythm was 1985, years after Adam Ant hit big in 1980 and Duran Duran in 1981.
The first time I heard this song, t'was the long-play version...... I was stunned !!!!
It still has that stun-power today !!!!
RIP J J Belle dude was an amazing guitarist who’s talent is sadly missed 👊🏿
Song production, the video + Grace, what a fantastic combination. One of the standout tracks of the 1980s. Agree, it hasn't aged at all.
I'm late to the party, but I can say this. What a gift it was having Stephen Lipson break it all down, and give us insight into the song and production of Slave to the Rhythm. The song is simply classic. Alright, I dare anyone to tell me that it isn't one S-E-X-Y masterpiece!
Grace Jones is incredible. Still.
I've seen her live at least twice in the last 15 years.
Legendary.
Goddess is not too strong.
Grace Jones also did that little stint on one of my favorite albums "Arcadia- So the Red Rose". Man I LOVE that album! David Gilmoure's guitar playing, Mr Le' bon...Love it!.
Nice fact. I own all Duran and offshoots. Gotta check that out.
Election Day & The Flame. Same year as Slave to the Rhythm too!
@@julianmbrown Yep that was a nice one.
Imo, So Red the Rose is the greatest "Duran Duran" album. It's one of those 80s albums that has always remained in play for me since its release.
@@HadrianRex Keep Me In The Dark is an oft over-looked gem I find. Love the keys & guitars on that track. Carlos Alomar plays on that I think.
I remember being so proud of the musicians from my city’s go-go scene being showcased on such a big international stage. The album itself is one of my Dessert Island Discs. I’d have to have it!!!
My dad worked at a very posh stereo store and this was always his goto record to show off a system to someone.
He said it was the most perfect track of music ever made.
Even if it is from the 80's, it is an timeless production. Lot's of good memories 😀
Every time MTV played a Grace Jones tune the kids and I would nose up to the TV. The right stuff at the right time in the right place. It was great.
Thanks ever so much for sharing! I really appreciate it
The best song ever written, performed by the best possible artist for this song, just pure beauty and perfection
Fascinating....love this song takes me back to the 80s...
What an incredible thing to hear Stephen's breakdown...... wow!
Simply a masterpiece. Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, were influenced by this song on the New Edition 'Heartbreak' album.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
A friend saw Grace Jones in concert in the 8o's in LA. Her stage presence was unique - being a model probably helped, as well as those Armani suits she wore.
We used to calibrate our big Studio monitors in the mid/late 80s with this song, and "Muscles". And then it was a pleasure to play it REALLY LOUD.
I'd no idea it was Ian McShane (and I'm a fan of both the song and him). Thank you Mr H for this and the recent Steve Lipson interview. Very interesting stuff.
Everything Horn touched turned to gold back then. He is responsible for some of the most lavish production I’ve ever heard… but not to the point of being self indulgent. It’s all honey for the ears. I especially love his work with Propaganda… along with everything he’s ever done with Anne Dudley.
Stephen Lipson produced Propaganda’s ‘A Secret Wish’ album on ZTT not Trevor Horn.
Horn was too busy working with Frankie Goes To Hollywood at the time.
@@RaymondinJapan It was produced by Lipson under the supervision of Horn.
@@e-conrecords4665 So, just as I said, not produced by Trevor Horn.
I grew up near DC where Go-Go originated and is the sound of DC. Hearing that looped rhythm is pure Go-Go. 2/4 beat, multiple drummers playing different rhythms and those drummers are LOCKED IN tight. They are the pocket!
For me this song is symphony of the celebration of the life, you fell the force of it.
I've wondered for years how those amazing "ahhhh" sounds were made. I assumed it was a Fairlight/ Synclavier layered pad etc. So it was Tessa Niles' backing vocals multitracked. Such an interesting video thanks!
Thanks ever so much for watching
Trevor Horne was a big part of the first Seal album. Any track from that one is worth digging into.
Dear Warren, thank you for this video! I love the fact that Grace Jones is getting some of the credit she so richly deserves. Another song that I believe changed music and which deserves a video as well, is "Anyone Who Had A Heart" by Burt Bacharach. It was originally sung by Dionne Warwick in 1963. Although her version did well, it was the version by Cilla Black that deserves a video by itself. Why?
Cilla Black´s version of this song made it go to number one in Britain, making it the top selling single by any female artist during the 1960s. Black´s singing was also different. This song made her a pioneer in British music because she sang in her own voice. Until that time (the early 1960s), British female singers were expected to sound American and/ or middle class. Cilla Black was from a working-class background who sang in her own accent and she was unashamed to be British and Northern.
Cilla Black was part of a group of people - which included The Beatles - who made is "cool" to be Northern and working-class for the first time in pop history. Before Adele, or Kate Bush, or Alison Moyet, or even Dusty Springfield, there was Cilla Black. 😀
Warren, what a beaut. One of my all-time favourite songs. Funnily enough I played it L.O.U.D. in the studio last week 3 times in a row, utterly transfixed, listening again too all the magical moments in this track. I called my wife in to explain it all and she was also fascinated. And imagine my delight top come across this video! Thanks for sharing and also to Steve Lipson too.
For me this song is one of my all time favorites of any genre out there. The lyrics, vocals, and production stand shoulder to shoulder with songs like Donna Summer's I Feel Love. What sets this above the rest is Grace's vocals, and the lyrics speak of the Club Life like no other because as she says it in the tile and lyrics, we're all slaves to the rhythm.
Great choice, an amazing album too. I read that Trevor Horn really enjoyed working with Grace Jones. I also really liked her cover version of 'Walking in the rain' by Flash and the Pan.
Vanda and Young sure have an interesting legacy. Pull Up to The Bumper was another banger from Nightclubbing.
@@paulsmith3057 They sure do. Angus Young's big brother
The Easybeats!
1985, I was sitting inside a car of a friend which had one of the first really good sound systems on board and this song totally blew me away. It was the huge, huge sound, the waves, the "blingblings" and "tzztzzztzzzz" so spherical and roomy which impressed me like nothing before. A few days later I was humming, singing and describing the track to a guy in a local record store, which obviously worked - I got the 45 maxi version which I own until today.
Such a great, great track, still makes me goose bumps after 37 years!
For me this track marked an important, if unpleasant, time in my life. I always felt this track was special in some way. I was 23 in 1985. I will be 60 this year. I had no appreciation of how much talent and technical expertise had gone into the production. I still get a thrill when I listen to it. For me it doesn’t sound dated but fresh and perfect.
Much as I admire Grace Jones I still find her a bit scary, but what a talented artist!!!
I love "don't cry, it's only the rhythm". It's a great stereo effect demo.
This legendary groove is so hot! It still holds up today. When you think of the epitome of a R&B arrangement British-style this is it.
The Horns!🔥The musicians are so tight and bring depth to the groove.
The other sound elements make it a very unique piece.
Grace Jones’s phrasing range is crazy fun and flirty! STTR is still in my personal top 20 songs of all time.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💛🎶👏🏽
The fact that you captured the truth of the beat...ALL DC'S OWN GOGO.......THIS SONG CATIPULT JUJU AND SHORTY TIM TO HEIGHTS UKNOWN.....YESSSSSSSSS GOGO BABYYYYYYYY
When I saw the video on TV I was hypnotized and the music! It made a big impression on me forever as a young kid.
Yeah, my favourite "producer" song, especially the extended version! The one to test hifi systems. Thanks for the great infos!
Indeed Blood Mix was interesting for the first instrumental part which let your hear the production magic.
My exact sentiments when I fIrst heard this track back in 1985.
So polished , but atmospherically on point
Thanks ever so much Craig!
Total game changer and like you say a actual production masterpiece Warren..Stephen and Trevor’s ability to just pick the perfect sound or performance for the song is what just puts them on a different level to everyone else. Thanks for another great video.
One of my favourite songs of all time. It's just pure joy and also magic ♥️ Thank you for this 🙏
Yes!! I love his song and the concept album built around it. I loved this immediately when it first came out! This was a great example of the versatility of digital recording. Thank you, Warren!!
Love this series - keep up the great work. Suggestion for a song that changed music "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
YES
Whiiiite lines
What a fantastic video analysis of one of my all time fave tracks! What can I add to all you and Stephen say here? Ok I bought the 12" single of Slave in 85, followed by the album which is also incredible. In 2016 I bought the now hard to find remastered 'Black' CD version which sounds like nothing I have ever heard before! Those who say the humble CD is dead need to listen to this amazing and rare re mastered version. Back in the 80's when I worked in HiFi retail we would often use Slave and sections of the album as our go to audio test records. Slave brings out the very best in audio equipment like nothing else and is a serious work out for quality components. For me the whole track is as you say a masterpiece in every sense, from its opening themes to the epic closing section with the orchestrations. I introduced my son to Slave when he was in his mid 20's and as a guitarist himself he too 'got' exactly why I have always been so obsessed with it! Through high end equipment and better still using high end headphones it never dates and always blows me away. One of the finest pieces of recorded work from the 80's by miles! Thank you so much for this fantastic video!! Lastly to the Lady Gaga fans out there, Grace was doing what she does decades before her!
Always loved this track. I knew right off the bat the high production value that went
into the layers on layers of rhythm tracks.
I was the studio drummer for T.K. Records in Miami when I first heard this track,
and knew right away that the track was built starting from the drummers chops, and bass player.
Thanx 4 sharing how it was made.
Harold Smiley Davis
I was obsessed with this album when it came out. Freaking brilliant start to finish. I also love what Trevor Horn did with Propaganda and Seal.
With Propaganda, Trevor Horn was too busy with FGTH at that time, and so production duties for A Secret Wish was passed to the very same Steve Lipson in this video.
The WHOLE concept album (original version,) is fan-TAS-tique, still a favorite of mine.
Agreed 100% masterpiece
The 4 chords at the intro and chorus are the stuff of heaven itself ...truly amazing even after all these years !
'spranging away' - what a great description for the guitar rhythm :)
Thanks for the last two videos featuring Steve, he’s clearly able to get the best out of those he works with, and I’d love a bit of insight into the technical side of his work with Propaganda on A Secret Wish. It completely changed my tastes due to its perceived complexity.
Yeah
Propaganda's album absolutely!
Grace Jones always had the talent to find other talent. Her latest album Hurricane is my go to album for testing hifi systems
I'm guessing that you don't have it on vinyl. That goes for a lot of money.
Stephen says: "I like that noise" ... awesome
Haha thanks