#Michael Zager Band

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#Michael Zager Band #Let's all chant

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Your Tumblr background music is this: https://youtu.be/Z-opQYaM5gk

I can dig it. (I should probably watch this movie already too.)

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funny japanese cover of "Let's All Chant" by Michael Zager Band, illustration by Hiroshi Kurogane, the reason there is mahjong comes from a pun with "Chant" which resembles "Chanta"

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Ryuichi Sakamoto was not a man cut out to be a pop star. As a teenager, he liked the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but his abiding passion was New York’s underground avant garde art scene – Joseph Beuys, Fluxus, Andy Warhol – and its accompanying experimental music: he was fond of pointing out to interviewers that he was born the year that John Cage composed 4’33. At university, he studied the work of modern composers Boulez, Stockhausen and Ligeti; he had a particular interest in the challenging electronic compositions of Iannis Xenakis. The first album to bear Sakamoto’s name, 1975’s Disappointment/Hateruma, was a collaboration with percussionist Toshiyuki Tsuchitori that consisted entirely of free improv. If he was going to have a role in the Japanese pop world at all, it was in the background, using his keyboard skills and interest in the fast-developing world of synthesizers to find employment as a session musician.

But a pop star was exactly what Sakamoto became, at least for a time. A 1978 session for singer Haruomi Hosono led to the suggestion that they should form a band with drummer Yukihiro Takahashi. Yellow Magic Orchestra went on to become both the biggest band in Japan – inspiring a degree of paparazzi attention and screaming fervour among fans that Sakamoto seems to have loathed every minute of – and the first Japanese artists to find more than novelty or cult status in the west.

Yellow Magic Orchestra were successful, but they were groundbreaking too. The convenient shorthand was that they were the Japanese Kraftwerk, although in truth, YMO didn’t really sound like Kraftwerk at all. Alongside the synthesizers, they used guitars, bass and acoustic drums. They were more straightforwardly aligned to disco: their debut album even featured an electronic version of the deathless “ooah ooah” whoop from the Michael Zager Band’s Let’s All Chant. You could detect the influence of jazz fusion and, later, the UK’s ongoing ska revival. Like Throbbing Gristle, they appeared fascinated by the kitschy 1950s exotica of Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, which had featured traditional Japanese instruments and quasi-“oriental” melodies; Yellow Magic Orchestra’s biggest international hit was a version of Denny’s 1959 track Firecracker.

Equally, you could see why the Kraftwerk comparison stuck. Both bands shared an obsession with technology – Yellow Magic Orchestra were pioneering in their use of sequencers and samplers and they introduced the world to the sound of the Roland TR-808 drum machine – and a belief that being cutting-edge experimentalists didn’t preclude them from writing fantastic pop songs. The Sakamoto-penned Behind the Mask, from 1979’s Solid State Survivor, was covered by Michael Jackson, ostensibly for inclusion on Thriller, although it was dropped from the final tracklisting; it was eventually turned into a UK hit by, of all people, Eric Clapton.

Both YMO and Kraftwerk were interested in the detournement of Anglo-American pop: just as Kraftwerk borrowed from the Beach Boys on Autobahn, so YMO covered the Beatles’ Day Tripper and Archie Bell and the Drells’ Tighten Up, the latter in cartoonish Japanese accents. They also shared a dry sense of humour, which in Yellow Magic Orchestra’s case usually fixated on western prejudices and fears about east Asians. On the cover of Solid State Survivor, they dressed in red Mao suits, enjoying a drink with an effigy of the late dictator. While the US fretted about an influx of Japanese cars and technology damaging their economy, 1980’s X∞Multiplies featured a series of sketches, one featuring a sinister Japanese businessman signing a contract, another featuring an American who realises his Japanese host can’t understand English and lets rip with a torrent of racist abuse: “The Japanese are pigs, yellow monkeys, they have small cocks and short legs.” As a moral panic erupted over the deleterious and addictive effect of the Taito Corporation’s Space Invaders games, Yellow Magic Orchestra’s records literally sounded like arcade games: their eponymous debut album was packed with interludes featuring their bleeping noises and tinny Game Over death marches.

And, like Kraftwerk, Yellow Magic Orchestra proved vastly influential – or rather, it took the rest of the world a little while to catch up: there was something telling about the fact that Solid State Survivor wasn’t released in the UK until 1982, at the height of the synth-pop wave that YMO had presaged. By then, their music had found its way into the collections of DJs and producers in New York’s burgeoning hip-hop scene – they were apparently astonished when the audience on Soul Train began breakdancing when they performed Computer Games – although it was a track from one of the solo albums Sakamoto had begun releasing concurrent with his career in YMO that had the biggest long-term impact. Riot in Lagos, from 1980’s B-2 Unit, had been recorded in London with reggae producer Dennis Bovell, and was apparently inspired by the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti. It remains an astonishingly timeless and effervescent piece of electronica: if you didn’t know it and were told it was released last month, rather than 42 years ago, you’d believe it. Abstract but funky, it cast a considerable shadow over dance music: it was big club hit on release, helped shape the sound of electro and turned the head of hip-hop producers including Kurtis Mantronik. Drum n’ bass producers Foul Play sampled it, and you can hear its influence in the music of 90s electronic luminaries Aphex Twin and Autechre.

Yellow Magic Orchestra split in 1983. If Sakamoto had left it at that and returned to modern classical music, he would already have earned himself a place among the era’s greatest pop innovators. But with the release of Nagisa Ōshima’s film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, in which he also starred, he began a career as a soundtrack composer that clearly suited his temperament far better than the Beatlemania-like scenes Yellow Magic Orchestra had provoked at home. It would lead him to work with Bernardo Bertolucci, Pedro Almodóvar, Brian De Palma and Oliver Stone, among others, and be showered with awards, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

But the vocal version of Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence’s haunting main theme, retitled Forbidden Colours, also cemented a partnership with former Japan vocalist David Sylvian that had begun with the 1982 single Bamboo Houses/Bamboo Music. Along with Can’s Holger Czukay and experimental trumpeter Jon Hassell, he became part of Sylvian’s repertory company for a series of extraordinary albums that attempted to reimagine 80s pop in a more expansive, exploratory and pensive way.

They seemed to reflect Sakamoto’s own position within pop after Yellow Magic Orchestra. Sakamoto’s solo albums largely contained music that existed at one remove from whatever else was happening, in a space where he could follow his own path. On 1989’s Beauty and 1991’s Heartbeat, it sometimes seemed as if he was constructing his own brand of the exotica that had entranced YMO, blending eastern, western and African influences together, assembling eclectic and improbable guest lists that, on Beauty alone, included Youssou N’Dour, Robbie Robertson, Robert Wyatt, Brian Wilson and Prince protege Jill Jones.

It wasn’t as if Ryuichi Sakamoto needed to be at the centre of pop culture in person: thanks to sampling, the centre of pop culture was never that far from his music. In recent years, it’s been borrowed by the Weeknd, Justice, Burial, the Beastie Boys, Jennifer Lopez, Brandy and Freddie Gibbs.

In the late 70s, the other members of Yellow Magic Orchestra had called him the Professor, a jokey nickname that contrasted Sakamoto’s intellectual bearing with his unwanted role as the group’s main heart-throb. It was a title Sakamoto seemed to grow into more and more in his later years: recording minimalist albums with German artist Alva Noto, providing ambient scores for art installations, releasing live orchestral and solo piano recordings of his compositions. There are clips of Yellow Magic Orchestra in the 2017 documentary Coda, which showed Sakamoto returning to work following a diagnosis of throat cancer, but it’s still hard to square the young pop star who stares imperiously down from his apartment wall in a portrait by Andy Warhol with the man in his late 60s, learnedly discussing classical organ chorales, the purity of the sounds he recorded during a trip to the North Pole and whether a piano going out of tune represented “matter struggling to return to a natural state”.

The album Coda depicted him working on, async, was released in 2017. It combined Bach-inspired piano pieces with monumental drones, distorted synthesisers and ambient field recordings. The artists who lined up to remix its tracks came from the leftfield cutting-edge of electronic music: if you wanted evidence of how widespread Ryuichi Sakamoto’s influence was, the fact that his work was clearly an inspiration for the likes of Arca and Oneohtrix Point Never and had been sampled by Jennifer Lopez on a US No 1 single seems a reasonable place to start. Contemplating his mortality in 2017, Sakamoto said he wanted to make “music I won’t be ashamed to leave behind – meaningful work”. By any metric, he already had.

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Today’s compilation:

Ultimate Disco 1999 Disco / Post-Disco / Hi-NRG / Disco-Funk / Funk

Boy, do I have an absolutely goated disco compilation for you all today. This jam-packed 1999 release from EMI's French division may start off as what basically amounts to 'baby's first disco comp,' with some of the genre's biggest and most overplayed hits, like "Y.M.C.A.," "I Will Survive," "Hot Stuff," and "That's the Way I Like it," but after the first seven or so tracks, the enormous hits start to appear less and less frequently, and instead we get a slew of bangers that were much more successful in Europe than they were in the States 😊.

In fact, there's a whole current of terrific songs on here that didn't amount to much in the US at all, but managed to become top-fivers in a bunch of European countries, like Shalamar's funky 1982 post-disco bop, "A Night to Remember," which didn't make the US top-40, but was #5 in the UK. And Odyssey's "Going Back to My Roots," UK group Imagination's "Just an Illusion," and San Francisco gay district fixture Boys Town Gang's cover of Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" are all songs that *both* didn't make Billboard's Hot 100 and also weren't top-ten hits on its corresponding Dance chart either! There's some fantastic relative obscurities here, folks!

Some other great tunes on here: The Whispers' "And the Beat Goes On," which was famously sampled by Will Smith for his 1998 hit, "Miami," and then three of my all-time favorite disco hits: Amii Stewart's 1979 cover of Eddie Floyd's "Knock on Wood," which always manages to pop into my head when there's a thunderstorm approaching ⛈; one-hit wonder Patrick Hernandez' "Born to Be Alive," which has been in my head on-and-off now for the past couple of months; and George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby," a song that was one of disco's earliest hits and one that I also think is one of the greatest songs ever recorded. Plus, it was also one of the first songs to ever use a drum machine too. So, a really Earth-shattering and game-changing tune in multiple ways right there.

God, I love comps like these from other countries so darn much. You think you know your disco hits and then you discover so many more that didn't make it to your neck of the woods. A really stunning disco collection here.

P.S.: Hip hop's first ever hit, "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang, is on here too. It's both one of the greatest and most important songs ever made, but what you might not know is that it's also a complete and utter fraud. I wrote about it extensively a while back if you'd like to know the whole story behind it 😁.

Highlights:

Village People - "Y.M.C.A." Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive" Kool & the Gang - "Ladies Night" Anita Ward - "Ring My Bell" Donna Summer - "Hot Stuff" Patrick Hernandez - "Born to Be Alive" KC and the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way I Like It" The Whispers - "And the Beat Goes On" Shalamar - "A Night to Remember" Michael Zager Band - "Let's All Chant" Odyssey - "Going Back to My Roots" The Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper's Delight" Imagination - "Just an Illusion" George McCrae - "Rock Your Baby" Amii Stewart - "Knock on Wood" Boys Town Gang - "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" Tina Charles - "I Love to Love" Lyn Collins - "Think (About It)" Cerrone - "Supernature"

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Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (Milky Way Remix)

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Whitney Houston had precision control of her voice and a power that seemed to require no effort. In 1977, at age 14, she became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band's single "Life's a Party". While still in high school, she sang backup for Chaka Khan and Lou Rawls and modeled for fashion magazines. Her debut album, Whitney Houston (1985), yielded three number one singles. 💜🎵 #womenshistorymonth

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Elder music list

Ikkoku (1093) Let's all chant (Michael Zager Band)

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Let's All Chant by The Michael Zager Band Custom Mix Backing Track

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Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (Moreno J Remix)

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Music History Today: April 29, 2023

April 29, 1978: The Michael Zager Band entered the top 40 section of Billboard's Hot 100 with "Let's All Chant." It was based on an idea initially suggested by former A&M Records head of A&R Jerry Love after he visited clubs in New York and saw people endlessly chanting "Ooh-ah, Ooh-ah." Although Zager was first embarrassed when Love asked him to write a song using these chants, he accepted the proposal and later co-wrote "Let's All Chant" with Alvin Fields. The disco tune peaked at 36.

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Top Songs of 1978 - Hits of 1978

Top Songs of 1978 - Hits of 1978 Top Songs of 1978 including: ABBA - Take A Chance On Me, Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife, Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing, Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven, Billy Joel – Honesty, Blondie - Heart Of Glass and many more! Subscribe to our channel to see more of our content! 1. ABBA - Take A Chance On Me 2. Albert Hammond - Espinita 3. Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife 4. Andrea Jürgens - Und dabei liebe ich Euch beide 5. Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing 6. Antonello Venditti - Sotto Il Segno Dei Pesci 7. As Frenéticas - Perigosa 8. Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven 9. Billy Joel - Honesty 10. Billy Joel - My Life 11. Blondie - Heart Of Glass 12. Blondie - One Way Or Another 13. Bob Marley - Is This Love 14. Bob Seger - Old Time Rock And Roll 15. Boney M. - Rasputin 16. Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon 17. Boston - Don't Look Back 18. Camilo Sesto - El Amor De Mi Vida 19. Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman 20. Cheap Trick - Surrender 21. Cherry Laine - Catch The Cat 22. Chic - Le Freak 23. Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro - Stumblin' In 24. Claude François - Alexandrie Alexandra 25. Clout - Substitute 26. Daniel Magal - Cara de gitana 27. Darts - Come Back My Love 28. Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing 29. Donna Summer - Last Dance 30. Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman 31. Earth, Wind & Fire - September 32. Elsa Baeza - Credo 33. Elvis Costello - Pump It Up 34. Frankie Valli - Grease 35. Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street 36. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 37. Izhar Cohen & Alpha Beta - A-Ba-Ni-Bi 38. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - Summer Nights 39. John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John - You're The One That I Want 40. Johnny Hallyday - J'ai oublié de vivre 41. Journey - Wheel In The Sky 42. Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 43. Kraftwerk - Das Model 44. La Bionda - One For You, One For Me 45. Leif Garrett - I Was Made For Dancing 46. Linda de Suza - Um Português 47. Luv' - You're The Greatest Lover 48. Marco Paulo - Canção proibida 49. Meat Loaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light 50. Meat Loaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad 51. Michel Sardou - En Chantant 52. Miguel Bosé - Anna 53. Mirelle Mathieu - Santa Maria De La Mer 54. Olivia Newton-John - Hopelessly Devoted To You 55. Patti Smith - Because The Night 56. Patty Pravo - Pensiero Stupendo 57. Paulo Alexandre - Verde Vinho 58. Plastic Bertrand - Ça Plane Pour Moi 59. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now 60. Rino Gaetano - Gianna 61. Roberto Carlos - Força Estranha 62. Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? 63. Smokie - Mexican Girl 64. Sniff 'n' The Tears - Driver's Seat 65. Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen 66. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) 67. The Jacksons - Blame It On the Boogie 68. The Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant 69. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You 70. The Police - Roxanne 71. The Police - So Lonely 72. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated 73. The Rolling Stones - Miss You 74. The Who - Who Are You 75. Toto - Hold The Line 76. Umberto Tozzi - Tu 77. Vader Abraham - Das Lied Der Schlümpfe 78. Van Halen - You Really Got Me 79. Village People - Macho Man 80. Village People - YMCA Related Searches: Greatest Hits of 1978, Best Jukebox 1978 Playlist, Late 1978 Non Stop , Top 1978 Non Stop, Mix 1978 Compilation, Best 1978 List, Late 1978 UK, Best 1978 Playlist, Best 1978 Non Stop, Best 1978 Video, Greatest 1978 Non Stop, Mix 1978 Playlist, Best Jukebox 1978 List, List of 1978 Mix, Top 1978 USA, Best Songs of 1978, Top Music 1978, Hits of 1978 Relate Hashtags: #songsof1978 #hits1978 #songs1978 #listof1978mix #hits1978 #bestsongs1978 #classic1978playlist #greatest1978nonstop #best1978list #best1978video #top1978mix #greatest1978video #mix1978playlist #top1978nonstop #mix1978compilation This Youtube channel does not receive any advertising income, we are very grateful for any Paypal donation, no matter how small, to continue making videos about the history of music. Link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HEHMNQ4E3T3ML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nICJ_HTba1Y

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The Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (1978)

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Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (12" Version) (Slayd5000)

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Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant (Official Music Video)

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