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Post by BiteUrLip on Jun 11, 2019 6:38:19 GMT
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Bernie Taupin
Piano and vocals: Elton John
Bass: Kenny Passarelli
Drums: Roger Pope
Slide guitar: Davey Johnstone
Electric guitars: Caleb Quaye
Synthesizer: James Newton-Howard
Congas: Ray Cooper
Backing vocals: The Cornerstone Institutional Baptist and Southern California Community Choir
Strings: Gene Page Strings
She slid down to the city limits
Monkey time in fifteen minutes
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Don't let me down
Please stick around
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Strobe light on the funky feet
Soul children in the disco heat
Top dog, top cat
Move that muscle and shake that fat
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Strobe light on the funky feet
The soul children in the disco heat
Top dog, top cat
Move that muscle and shake that fat
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Chicago, L.A.
Every place, every way
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Illinois, Santa Fe
Do what I say
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
Bite your lip, get up, get up and dance
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Post by BiteUrLip on Jun 11, 2019 6:38:36 GMT
My anthem! And the rating is...
5+ stars.
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Post by dougs on Jun 11, 2019 11:05:47 GMT
"Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)" from BLUE MOVES:
"Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)" was the second single from 1976's BLUE MOVES. The album version is more than 6 1/2 minutes long while the remixed and much preferred single version clocks in at just over 3 1/2 minutes. The single version has the guitars and piano higher in the mix and has a greater energy to it, as a result. Elton really liked the song and saw it as a hit single. It did manage to reach #28 in both the US and the UK in early 1977. A 12" single version also appeared. Lots of energy in this song. The full-length album version does become a little repetitive.
"Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)" really comes across like a live rocking song. Elton did play it in 1977 and then again as the show closer on the 21 AT 33 World Tour in 1980 and again in 2004.
I really do like this song.
Rating: 4 1/2 stars
Doug
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Post by rocketman on Jun 12, 2019 13:45:36 GMT
My anthem! And the rating is... 5+ stars. Bite, I never made the connection between your username and this song!  |
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Post by rocketman on Jun 12, 2019 13:54:35 GMT
3.5 stars...the long instrumental outro is interesting, as it builds to the finale. Elton's vocals, a highlight of this album, seem somewhat buried in the mix, perhaps an intended effect. It's also an attempt to finish a sad, somewhat depressing album on a peppy, up note.
Had this song been on Victim Of Love, it might have fit right in. It was a nod to disco, which would dominate the music scene in the late 70's, before meeting its overdue demise right around the time that VOL was released. Elton's timing was poor, with VOL coming out on the back-end of the disco era, but this song was a timely glimpse into what could have been, had Elton decided earlier to get on the disco bandwagon.
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Jun 15, 2019 1:02:22 GMT
It was not at all disco... it just mentions disco in the lyrics. Musically, it's hard rock with loud electric guitars.
I listened to Blue Moves online recently, and it sounded as if the single mix version, but full length (available on 12" single in the UK back then), had replaced the original album mix.
On the remix version, on the 7" and 12" 45s, it starts out loud rock and stays that way. Originally on the album, it started out quieter, percussion heavy, with some instruments cut out or reduced in volume. It goes through a slow, gradual buildup till it reaches full volume, at the point where the strings (!!!!) come in, I think.
I've always loved the 45. It has a nicely weird tinge to it. Almost experimental? Listeners might have been put off by not knowing what kind of song or music this was supposed to be. Bite your lip? What? If that's an expression in the UK, we don't have it in the US...
That other loud 45 with an irresistible, catchy chant at the end, Sat Night's Alright, was clear in what it was about, and what kind of music it was... a metalish biker record about fighting! This starts with solo piano for a few seconds, then sort of sounds hard rock, mentions disco, an orchestra comes in... WTF? Incomprehensible lyrics...
I loved all that. It was just... itself. A brilliant, meaningless 45 that is its own meaning.
Now, it manages to be thrilling and unique despite the words, not because of them. This has to be one where Elton wrote the music first, because why would Bernie sit down and write THOSE words? Those are filler lyrics, stuff you write just so the singer in the band has words to sing and the words don't matter.
Elton should have gone back and told Bernie to take another crack at it. This record deserves real lyrics. Maybe even meaningful ones. Blue Moves ending with this music and killer, insightful lyrics, maybe tying into the album's content somehow, could have been incredible.
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Post by newloneranger on Jun 16, 2019 18:37:45 GMT
I prefer the long version myself, The piano playing at the end is very good
5 stars
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Post by rocketman on Jul 1, 2019 20:36:19 GMT
Commodore, I said it was "a nod to disco", and it wasn't unheard of to include elements of rock in disco songs or vice versa. It's not a full-on disco song, and I wasn't trying to imply that it was, though it may appear that way from how I worded my comment.
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Post by nix on Aug 7, 2019 11:16:26 GMT
2
Don't care about it. It's like jingle on steroids.
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