Saturday Night Forever disappreciation thread!

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Henrik Powers
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#16 Post by Henrik Powers »

Maverick wrote:I agree wholeheartedly. It sucks.
Probably one of there worst!
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#17 Post by giac the lad »

i simply don't agree! i remember the first time i heard it, i thought "wow! what a great track" leaving a good impression at the end of the album! i'm surprised many fans don't like it...

i listened to it for a long time, always dancing! the chorus is catchy and it has a very positive vibe, which can't be find in many of the Boys track! maybe that's what many people here dont like, finding it too cheesy , which is not!

Bilingual was such an Up-beat album!
i'm sure Fundamental will even be better!
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#18 Post by Janet Street-Porter »

Wasn't the production on it a homage to old disco records? I don't mind it actually - it's light and insubstantial but quite a nice way to close Bilingual.
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#19 Post by psb-freak »

I totally disagree. It´s one of the best PSB-songs ever.
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#20 Post by Dog »

Great track. Could have been better produced.
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#21 Post by giac the lad »

is it me or sometimes i can hear with the horns of the chorus something reminiscent of the "loveboat" generic? :lol:
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#22 Post by Young Offender »

Great Track and I love it!
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#23 Post by markus »

It used to be in my Psb top 10 years ago, I thought it should have been the last single from Bilingual. Nowdays it's a struggle to listen trough the whole song...same goes for "Up against it"
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#24 Post by GalataPSB »

Young Offender wrote:Great Track and I love it!
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#25 Post by kdx125 »

In a nutshell, sorry to say this but...............

It's shit!
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#26 Post by Debussy »

I really like it and always have done. It's surprisingly commercial and musically very cleverly written with some rather unique chord changes.
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#27 Post by Lleonard Pler »

I absolutely hate it. They should have ended "Bilingual" with "The boy who couldn't keep his clothes on" instead.
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#28 Post by Rusty »

I like it a lot but it's not my fave track from Bilingual. I always thought the simplicity of it would have made it good single material.
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#29 Post by Syncratic »

It's not that bad. Billingual had worse tunes, 'The Survivors' for instance was pretty terrible, in a US daytime movie kind of way. What I like about Saturday Night Forever is that it retains an ambivalent atmosphere.
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#30 Post by boyjohn »

i love The Survivors, especially the line "If life is worth living it's got to be run as a means of giving not as a race to be won"
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