Our friends make fun of us, but we still listen to The Pointer Sisters. We can’t help ourselves – they were such a big part of our childhood that we’re really unable to resist. Sure, we love “We’re So Excited”, but 1981’s “Slow Hand” really gets us going. Maybe it’s just willful thinking, or something.
Afternoon Aural: The Pointer Sisters
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el polacko
hey…the pointers had real talent.. something we don’t see much of these days. their later pop-rock ditties didn’t always make the best use of those talents, but their first couple of albums are jazz pop classics. get new friends.
damien
Ah…. budgets.
dickrebel
I grew up on this stuff! I remember listening to WAMO in the burbs of Pittsburgh and dancing around the hi-fi (we were poor, we still had a hi-fi + radio combo the size of a buffet, actually it was our buffet.) I remember adult parties we were drug to with lots of paul mason (I will sell no wine before it’s time) and that other wine that comes in the big green glass jug with a ‘moonshine handle’, replete with drunken relatives, neighbors, and kids doing ouigi-board readings in the attic trying to eachother out. Superbowl parties with Sister Sledge half-times… Mom teaching me to do the disco-flip with her, as in flipping her over my 10 year old back (no kidding, when I go home for visits and there are parties we still do it.) Roller-dancing at the rink to I’m So Excited just before the premere of the MJ Thriller video (yes, the premier of the video was at the skating rink.) Ahh… the memories…
I wish there were some original copies of the Pointer Sister studio recordings to digitize like there were for most of Donno Summer’s stuff. Everything I have been able to buy sounds like it was sung under water.