RAF - Self Control (The Original) 12" / STEREO

[losydney]

una delle migliori canzoni degli anni 80...anche se a cantarla e' quel ricchione di raf 8-)

[flocote]

muy bueno el rap final de la canción

[STAFFDuran]

vaya!!! si pues es el primer autor de esta cancion!! esta elegante!! solo que le falto... el fondo de la musica un poco mas fuerte!! por que en cambio de laura branigan segun es cover!! aunque sin dudas mejor hecho que... el de ralf pues... no se han dado cuenta... el sonido... no se como describirlo pero... ese sonido ace que suene mas xvere... ustedes me entienden, aunque por cierto, en aquellos tiempos estas canciones eran lo maximo nunca pasaran de moda, son classicos de recuerdos !! 

[bmmt1981]

Wow1The best song ever1

[THEMOOG2007]

Giancarlo Bigazzi-1940-2012 R.I.P.

[seidimano1]

@THEMOOG2007 Giancarlo THE GENIUS

[StefanR10]

@seidimano1 The comment from THEMOOG was erase.

[TheLazist]

I think this song very well said Soraya

[dsdan83]

i love that 80s rap haha.

[coccolenz]

The original and best version.

[Mystify73]

Eine wunderbare Zeit, als Italien in den 70/80er Jahren noch klasse Filme und Lieder produzierten....!

[MrAndreina1990]

Sempre grande Raf

[SuperDelta000]

Italians Are The Smartest most Futuristic people on planet earth. VIVA ITALIA !!!

[FreewayZone]

Wie schon einige geschrieben habe, der Rap am Schluss ist mega, bin normal kein Fan von solchen Sachen, aber hier hatte es damals echt gepasst wie die Faust auf s Auge

[le0n96]

Love this song and this version.

[olikriszi]

Yes. The rap in the end is very good!!!!!!!!!!

[Chettine]

Agree! Best version, especially the "Rap" in the end.... ;-) ... love it!!

[gghd80]

the best version ;-)



[Jassharley]

thx the upper ...top song ;)

[dolores5049]

i like the song

[Skampo1119]

Does he have lisp?

[MrAndreina1990]

primo a cantare questa canzone

[lomvartus]

anyone who can share the lyrics on the rap part?

[mudri8]

original is the best..tnx alex

[ismaelkhan]

fantastico - exellent stereo sound! my speakers are on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shortloverGAY]

Für jede Party der absolute Knaller!!!!

[MrAndreina1990]

Bella interpretazione!!!

[josevilasanta]

Grazie mille di Portogallo !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obrigado

José

[dsdan83]

stupendo.

grazie mille.

italo disco supremo.

[arzadi11]

who would have thought a simple song played with cheap electronic instruments become such legendary song?

[JeffHL2005]

@arzadi11 not cheap. jupiter 8 cost 7 grand in the day

[arzadi11]

@JeffHL2005 lol... ok, jupiter 8 was $7000, but still cheap ... lol

[JeffHL2005]

@arzadi11 cheap compared to what? a pound of cocaine a rolls royce?? you simply do not know what you are talking about. analog synthesizers retain their classic sound 30 years later and still get sold for more than their initial value. that's why young players still want them.

[arzadi11]

@JeffHL2005 i know what i'm talking about; it's you who doesn't understand what i'm talking about "simply". i don't care how many millions of musicians and people love the electronic instruments,but ever since i got to know them and heard how they sound i have not been able to regard much value for the music produced by the electronic instruments.(pls dont answer me that millions of people like them) but a good music produced by the classic instruments to me it's a way much more valuable music.

[JeffHL2005]

@arzadi11 you are a minority.

[dreamtransmissions]

i love the black gloves, makes me think of Giallo films.

[nfsarne]

great song Brani u suck

[jaka7172]

Christian De Boni.  Borgetho,Lodi

[el69tufi]

This is the ORIGINAL version.

[bhanujan1000]

i love this cute song

[geento21]

I remember that RAF sang that hit a few monthes before Laura Branigan... I Was There and I loved it... Always pleasant te ear..

[fredtheking350]

I think this is the better version. Laura´s version is ok, but i love ITALODISCO

[originalRamDee]

big thx

this one ´s history

[thenshekissedme]

Yes! this is the ORIGINAL version!!

[NoizyWun]

wow, this is dope! i had no idea that Laura's was a cover.

[bhanujan1000]

nice nice nice

[MegaGivenchy]

laura = 1984 +raff = 1984 two songs in 1 year in top ten.....8)).....but laura a few days earlyer-thats the story

[TheTracnt]

@MegaGivenchy Raf's version is the ORIGINAL. Laura did nothing but covers, and she sure liked to get her stuff from Italy (e.g. "Gloria" and "Ti Amo", both by Umberto Tozzi, and Self Control of course).

[mr5973]

@TheTracnt

Or from a few kilometers nore north: her song "Deep In The Dark" is a cover from FALCO's "Der Kommissar".

Falco's hit song seems to have been very popular during the early 1980s as the same song was also covered by After The Fire and got to #3 on the US Billboards

[Sebitalo55]

Muy Bueno esta version !!! Sebinight Montenegro (Facebook) Raza Italo Disco ♫♪♫♪♫♪

[Killerdillerboy]

YES this is indeed the Original version made by this lovely artist...Stolen by Branigans label and never really creditted RAFF for making her a millionaire back then!! Great song and great memories...

[livyluvsmrcan]

Picked this version up in a record shop in Andorra while on holiday in 1986. Best version in my mind, love the rap at the end.

[hennaG2]

I remember this being the original version. I was on holiday in France with my family in the summer of 1984 when my sister bought the 7" single in a supermarket. One or two years later Laura Branigan had a hit with the same song so I knew that it was a cover.

[mavmab]

Very beautiful song.



[rohanmarkjay]

Yeah the Italians made some top dance/disco music in the Late 1970s and 1980s along with the Americans. This track is a good example.

[Giova6035]

Look i dont know who to believe, Yes Raffaele you are great with this beautiful song, ....Self Control...................it is awesome and Brilliant, i Like Laura's version also, but whoever is the original artist, he or she deserves respect who owns the rights of this song

[djmusicjac]

beautiful very beautiful synthpop with italo influences

[northeastbusrail]

4 people have no self control :p

[1fedeNapoli]

castel volturno 84 la dedico alla mia famiglia e a quelli che ricordano un qualsiasi momento con questa splendida canzone. la mattina alle 7.00 eravamo gia' in spiaggia,tanica d'acqua di 5 litri spezzatno e puparulill verd vino bianco co percoca obbligatorio e la tenda attorno all'ombrellone bei ricordi

[seidimano1]

@1fedeNapoli Se sei sopravvissuto a tutto quello che ti sei mangiato sulla spiaggia con un caldo soffocante sei veramente piu' duro di SUPERMAN

[vkgroupa]

I was on holidays in Italy in 1984 and heard this song there by Raff for the first time. I came back to Australia and then heard Laura Branighan's copy months later. I have a preference to Raff's version probably because I heard his version first.

[buckygatto]

@Tickyrette It was sure more famous in America but not in Italy!laura Branigan has never been loved much in italy because there was no point for us italians to get crazy for songs which we already listened to and loved only a few years or ,in this case,few months before,by our grat italian singers...Americans to tend to copy foreign hits and made its public to believe they're americans...same thing is happening now with cinema..

[Sodiumreactor]

@buckygatto If this guy is an Italian singer then why the hell is he singing in English?

[buckygatto]

@Sodiumreactor Why not,is it forbidden by law? Never heard of italian disco?And why does Miss Branigan had to sing italian songs?Haven't you got your own song writers in America?Come on,that was a stupid question..

[alex2009j]

@Sodiumreactor People in the world are accustomed to listen music in english and a record of a mediocre american/ english singer come out all over the world, in the 80s many italian and german artists sing in english for to enter in the chart of foreign countries and to earn so much money

[Redscum1]

@Sodiumreactor

Can you sell records in Italien lyrics?

[Sodiumreactor]

@Redscum1 In Italy? Yeah I imagine you should be able to. 

[FreewayZone]

Der Hammer die 12inch Version, speziell der Rap am Schluss, richtig geil gemacht, nicht wie der Dreck da heute im "Uh uh yeah" Stil m. Mercedeskette um den Hals *würg*, also hier in d. LongVersion fand ich es wesentlich besser als die L. Braningan Version, die aber soweit ich das noch in Erinnerung habe erfolgreicher war bzw. z.B. in Deutschland länger auf Platz1 der damaligen Top75 stand als der Italiener Raff, hach Kinners, beamt mich zurück in die geilste Zeit aller Zeiten :D *seuuuufz :(((*

[dudo101]

@Tickyrette

Yes i do !! :)

[dudo101]

@Tickyrette

Yes, Brannigans Version was produced by Jack White and arranged by Harold Faltermeyer !

[dudo101]

@Tickyrette

Sorry, Laura was never married to Jack White. Her husband was Jerry Kruteck a Lawyer from New York who died in 1996

[willibaldvongluck]

If you'd told me this was a cover of Laura Brannigan's (original) I 'd believe you! Not nearly as catchy or atmospheric as hers....

[vivibeats]

nur Wer RAFF auf TAPE hatte war cool...

geile Musik...geile Zeit

geile Stimme...

[Jamestheboob]

This song so fucking amazing, whoever sings it <3

[krs306]

have a look @ " mahogany self control " this is the best iv heard, an it's by Sunday Girl, she is awesome on this song, and a wee darlin 8-)

[mvpmvp1000]

j adorrrrrr

[bahibbek3000]

this version is so nice his voice is sooo hotttttttt like him

[Dimpflbruder]

This is the original one that's right and much better I think. The same with in the army now from staus quo the original one is from bolland and bolland.

[Dimpflbruder]

This is the original one that's right and much better I think.

[saberovsky]

Always tought it was the other way round? this is really good, but Laura's (R.I.P) was better, musically too...however it's still good!!!

[love1970ish]

I love this song Self Control in my most beautiful time in my life year 1984.

[lllraverslll]

@sandrodream1 unfortunately sometime a song has to be sold with well i hate to say it (sex).

still love the originals and laura.Just how this world operates these days.

[MAGNESism]

no, no this is the original. Laura branigan the future.

[TheFishegg]

I listened to this song in the 90's at clubs in Guatemala city, I was working for the U.S government (still do) I was dancing with Danish and Russian hotties who thought I was just some skinny punk kid...little did they know...I wonder where those girls are now? ...No one could ever understand what that is like...EVER!

[alanfecu]

no sabia , por youtube me estoy enterando de bastantes sorpresas, se me cayo laura !! . Raf

[Billbill80s]

Interesting to hear the original. Hats off to Italy...

I really do like Laura's voice though. I had no idea it was not her song.

[darlienchen]

viel viel besser als laura branigan

[alanfecu]

esperen esperen... osea esta es la version original ?? y laura se copio ??? y tambien gloria ??

[seidimano1]

@alanfecu Si claro de verdad que no lo sabias?

Esta fue la primer cancion de Raf la ecribio' muy jovencito

[sharo8760]

This really is better than Branigan's... But I still like the Infernal one the best.

[seidimano1]

Bravissimo Raf con questa canzone mi hai fatto divertire un sacco evviva la musica Italiana la migliore del mondo anche se in questo caso cantata in Inglese

[Mickysmusicprogect]

The one and only RAF...

[Artistisch]

That's pretty funny - more comments about Laura's version is better, but just three thumbs down.

[heyroz27]

This is the italdisco version.

[alex2009j]

@heyroz27 No, This is the original version - Laura just covered it

[seavoyagerful]

@alex2009j oh eu adoro descobrir as versoes originais, mesmo q nem sempre elas sejam melhores q os covers

[MegaLatexxx]

@alex2009j you sir, are correct.

[lllraverslll]

@alex2009j jup this is the original loved this before laura made me love it all over again

[LostHisMarbles]

@alex2009j This song wasnt "covered" by Laura Branigan. If I'm not mistaken it was written for Laura Branigan. She sang it first. Ref helped write the song and sang it after she did in the same year.

[dariotten]

@heyroz27

darling.. this is the original version ^_^

[j4Rose]

This is a pretty terrible version.

[989ghibly]

@j4Rose idiot this is the original version

[steffenz110]

this groove and synthies sound totally fantastic

[pauli0910]

tak tuto pesnicku uplne zboznujem :))

[Elektronenladung]

lallo funk6504

it´s true

the original song become to selled

[Elektronenladung]

hello funk6504!

it´s truth - it was a cover

Laura Brranigan had buying all rights.

[corrosion22000]

Who made the rap-part?

[mattesfrank]

Hi folks! Who did the rap parts in this version? A hungarian friend of mine says, it was also Rafaele, I think it was a rapper (or maybe two)! Who did the rap? Do you have any idea? IF it was someone else than Rafaele, WHO was it?

Thanks folks!

[luca455]

I like laura's version better :(

[funk6504]

Laura's song is a cover.

[hcvang]

@funk6504 and it's a hell of a lot better...

this guy should stick to writing for other people.

[moran68]

great track

[marcvuja7]

Kako smo se nekada "njihali" uz ovo ...samo kad se sjetim ; kako te godine prolaze, pa, to nije za povjerovati !!

[shayandima]

Better than Laura Branigan:)

[slizedis]

@shayandima

Yes. And, I believe he has composed that song!

[tschaiar]

@shayandima

yes this song is much better than laura's

[bbtbob]

80 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Markhiel]

Seee¡¡ no hay nada mejor que la vesion original

[Chettine]

Love Love Love that song!!!

Treasured my 12" back then and even up to now! Even the B-Side is one of my all time favourites...

[johnstearne]

One of the better songs of the 80's disco era.Miami vice/grand auto anyone?

[Justin110488]

I love Raf! Infernal also did an awesome cover of Self Control.

[mvalvee]

One of the greatest Italodisco tracks of all times! I still remember the very first time I heard this: I visited my friend (it was spring ´84) and he played this song from his brand new Finnish vinyl collection called Let´s dance. I loved that oh oh- start, but then came something great: that "guitar" sound! It hit me immediately! *****

[BrunoApple94]

Anyone have the FULL text?? PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE :(

[yowee1234]

love it.

[ellemarta]

one the best song from raf ...!!!! from Melton Mowbray to S. maria c.v. ricordo degli anni 80 ciao ragazzi........!!!!!

[MarcoGDaz]

!!!!! Che serate !!!!!

un'atmosfera unica.

[SvensonC]

The 12" version is a great tune.

I love the 80s. :)

[uncledub]

both laura's and this version is awesome, but i have to say this is a bit better. that rap in the end is just too funny.

[slctrinjoc]

as melhores estão nos anos 80's!!!

[akubi0151]

This song is"thouth' Self Control ! & Self Control song for "RAF' is your song!

No thanks "LURA'

[SuperDIVINE69]

SUPER!!!!!

[funkye]

where can i find the bass tabs of the solo? pleaaaase....

[afonsomario]

Excelente! 5+5*

Parabéns!

[kierke11]

great hit of the wonderful 1984!!

[Fraggy1972]

still great stuff !!!

[yvo36]

I love this song sooo much!!!

[Masuuruhiito]

Amazing!! Thank you so much for posting such a great original.

[baimedun]

Fantástico!!!