"Boogie Nights" was a bigger hit for them (#2 on the pop charts, vs. #7 for this) and "Always and Forever" was their sappy slow-dance ballad everyone seems to know, but I always thought this was their best song. Don't mean to be a shill, but there's a nice 7 1/2 minute version of it on this Rhino compilation... Rhino did a good job (as usual) on a 70's funk/soul series called "Phat Trax", I have a few of 'em. (The version of "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" on there is over 13 minutes long. Funk yeah!)

heatwave is so badass. ive never heard a song by them that didnt rule.

useless trivia: the keyboard player got rich as hell writing music for other people later on, including the song 'thriller'.

Funny thing about Heatwave, there were only two Americans in the band in the oriignal line up. The keyboard and one guitar player were English, the other guitar player was Jamaican, the bass player was Spanish, and the drummer was Czech. And the band was formed in England. Got at all that?

Thank you subby, I've been going crazy trying to remember the name of this band for weeks! I stumbled across this on YouTube one night & couldn't find it again.

All Heatwave trivia courtesy Pop-Up Video.

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Yeah, the keyboard player (Rod Temperton) actually wrote most of Michael Jacksons hits, including Thriller

When they were big, I had no use for them (I was just punk enough to be reactionary.) Now? UNH!

apparently some people confuse real funk with disco-funk.

Holy shiat. I'm a high school sophomore again!

Then - recession.
Now - recession.

Then - on the brink of war with Iran.
Now - on the brink of war with Iran.

Then - big, American vehicles giving way to smaller imports.
Now - big, American vehicles giving way to smaller imports.

Then - OMG! Climate Change!
Now - OMG! Climate Change!

*sigh*

This has nothing on Parliament's "Unfunky UFO," (or any of the countless other better P'Funk compositions) Curtis Mayfly's "Pusherman," Stevie Wonder's "Superstitions" (or Sir Duke) James Brown's "Get Up on the Goodfoot," (or countless others) Sly and the Family Stones "Stand", Betty Davis' "They Say I'm Different," Issac Hayes' "Do Your Thang"... etc. etc.

That is all.

Christian Bale: apparently some people confuse real funk with disco-funk.

funk is funk, just as the P-Funk All Stars are every bit as much funk as James Brown, though they sound nothing alike, so too Heatwave are funk.