Cameo - "Back And Forth"

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aka "the forgetten third single from _Word Up!".

I wil grant that it isn't as catchy as "Word Up!" or as insanely groovelicious as "Candy", but surely this song deserves it's slicy of funky praise?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

This got played A WHOLE LOT in Detroit. It's one of my favorite Cameo songs, which is saying A WHOLE LOT.

― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

always makes me think of Q Tip saying "back and forth like a Cameo song"

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I surely must have this song. *checks*

...and I do. I will play it after this cleansing blast of Motorhead finishes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the synthhandclaps right before the vocals. Mm. You know, this song is almost like some weird mirror image of the Human League's "Keep Feeling Fascination," the way the vocals are working.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it did get a nod in Outkast's "The Whole World" ...

― Gazoo, Friday, 16 January 2004 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

I love how the super-loud "COOH" drum sounds come in intermittently to remind you that this is 1986 and not 1980.

― VanityVEVO (corey), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 19:05 (fifteen years ago)

also a nod in wu-tang's "gravel pit"

― The Reverend, Thursday, 4 November 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

six months pass...

this popped up in a Genius mix today and it made me sooooooooooo happy

― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2eU2CG3WN8

― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 03:18 (fifteen years ago)

AS WE GO

― taking ilxers out with a flurry of butthurt (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 08:09 (fifteen years ago)

possibly controversial funk opinion - cameosis is the best cameo album

― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:38 (fifteen years ago)

I am looking at their discography and wondering why I didn't grab all of those albums while they were all still in print

― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:41 (fifteen years ago)

i know, right? they have so many records i haven't heard just from '79 - '82, there have to be some gems in there.

― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:48 (fifteen years ago)

somewhere in my brother's old stack of vinyl is a copy of Alligator Woman that I have been coveting for 20 years, but it is buried somewhere in either my parents' basement or a storage unit

― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

i think most of these are pretty cheap/attainable on used vinyl, right?

― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:56 (fifteen years ago)

hmm probably

though I'm not sure my turntable still works, lol

― I HAVE ISSUES (DJP), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 13:59 (fifteen years ago)

That video is incredible... Uh Miles Davis is in it, going "What the fuck is this, motherfuckers, now pay me so I can get some blow."

― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

'Knights Of The Soundtable' is pretty good as I remember...Larry Blackmon is up there with Maurice White in my estimations as an arranger and producer...the sound of those records are still astonishing...esp ' Word Up' and 'Candy'...

― sonnyboy, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l78TpOMgq44

^^dopest cameo joint imo

― jho'sh? "ice cr?m" jackson (The Reverend), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 17:01 (fifteen years ago)

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