Chicago - Street Player

[1088marce]

cool music yeah!!!

[pkattk]

Awesome single. It's a shame the rest of the album was kinda eh.

[urkhai666]

can any one give me songs/bands that a like this one ??

[johnbrown53160]

I've time traveled to fall "79 again.

[whoknowme9]

Denu



[TheSkales]

oh my god that bassline

[gosaintsgosaints]

Charles Hamilton "Three Pound Bullet" sampled this.

[UBZUKI]

ALL RESPECT AND NUF CREDIT TO THE GROUP CHICAGO...AWESOME TRACK FROM A QUALITY BAND..

[spaceriderfunk]

great!

[BCH19821091]

Of course pitbull samples all his music pitbull is some degerate waste of life cancer on the world without any original thoughts. what more could you expect? Im impressed he has any thoughts at all quite frankly

[scotsmen01]

pitbull just samples way too many music.

[oldhousemuzikk]

PITBULL DON'T TOUCH THIS SONG AGAIN I WILL BURN YOUR NO HAIR HEAD

[mshaffer13]

werk this motherfucker right here!!!!!!!!

[TheSPACECOWBOY68]

Makes u wanna get funky like Funky Deion Sanders in the endzone

[bboychance]

pii-zza pooing thu my mi-i-iind

[odaxelagniaproject]

Funk!

[ryukXsayu27]

What's really wack is that Pitbull didn't sample "Street Player". Listen to "75, Brazil Street" by Nicola Fasano. Pitbull actually SAMPLED A SONG THAT SAMPLED THIS SONG and rapped over it as it was. Can that motherfucker just hire a producer? You could at least mix together your own beat! Talentless hack.

[brianwould]

oo the original of the original lllllll

[TheSkales]

i dont understand why the top comments are often so similar and posted in about the same time? who's first?

[MonkeyZorr]

watch?v=v-ixL062v1w

[777ludovico]

Chicago wonderful!, pitbull is fart

[msmattstella3]

way to steal from pitbull, chicago! frauds!

[postcanada]

@msmattstella3 are you retarded? Steal from pitbull? If stealing in music was a punishable crime, pitbul would be doing 25 to life

[bboysoy]

@msmattstella3 haha! this came wayyyyyyyy before pitbul even thought about music

[mikecox]

@bboysoy even he was born LOL!

[simpson50]

@msmattstella3 so you say chicago steal? EPIC FAIL LOL

[sirobots]

Street sounds swirl into my mind!!

[xsevenz97]

ELECOLDXHOT bought me here! xD /watch?v=F4GofYzUyTs

[xslayersx]

Disco!!!



[GreenRedBlue20]

@raiseup17 These sounds falling thru ma mind.

[mshaffer13]

city lifes the only way!!

[mshaffer13]

original disco!!!

[23Tomary]

True 4 life!

[jonnymilan]

Dee-Lite 90s, Bucketheads 2000s, Pitbull 2010s

[Champiness]

@jonnymilan When did Deee-Lite ever sample this?

[dayne86]

@jonnymilan the Bucketheads song came out in 1995

[SCDJMU]

EVERYBODY, GIVE IT UP FOR EDDY!!

[madg27ny]

wow, carnival was first to borrow this beat, then peetbull. And the original sounds best. This should be on the radio as a tribute. Call your local hip-hop station and make the request to hear this song.

[madg27ny]

@madg27ny did dee-lite also borrow from this?

[tresojos]

@madg27ny haha now you mention it.. quite possible yeah

[tresojos]

@madg27ny bucketheads too

[TennAkeySAINT]

Charles Hamilton brought me here.

[htiek123]

We Lived on this at Paradise Garage!!!!

[scafazzate]

5 FUCKIN YEARS TO FIND THIS FUCKIN SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DeejayGCue]

@scafazzate Shazam :p

[10Tuxedo]

@scafazzate 5? I've been trying for 15...

[deuxpapa]

@10Tuxedo I asked the dj what it was when first heard this in a club ;)

[tehatemachine]

@scafazzate YOU FOUND IT MY FRIEND!!!!

[Tmonie1986]

never forget those endless years..

[MrOkiteki]

ez nem semmi

[r33mote]

this song sticks in your mind.

[10Tuxedo]

@r33mote This song is permanently burned into my brain forever.

[amar1989]

such beautiful music.... no wonder Pitbull sampled this!

[ElConquistadorNo1]

PitBullshit???

[SoundsOfAwesome]

That papapara sound was first used by nicola fasano in brazil 75 street. Then pitbull came and well you know the rest.

[thegreatmuskie]

Can't get enought of this song...like a curse, One of the best disco era song. Fantastic and rich flow, Awesome variety of sound...agains and again in my head, in my car for ever. Great sensation!

[MrMirkomark]

way awesome - i love it

love the way they did their disco thang - reminds me of when i was a kid

[redskull2006]

I thought Chicago was some cheesy arena rock band until I listened to this

[zibasin]

I dreamt one day that all disco songs were as good as this one...

[utahan15]

chicago s disco period, very upbeat!

[megamanx2006]

Ok sing with me: 1,2,3, fuck Pit--bull! Bucketheads' is totally different; they sing, " these sounds fall into my mind," yeah, right wayyyy different..Chicago goes," Street sounds swirling through my miiiiiiiiii-i-i-i-iiind..." awesomeness!!

[ChihuahuaboyDH]

Chicago doing disco! I guess the critics couldn't stomach Chicago recording a dance-type record! Really, I can't understand why "Chicago 13" & "Chicago XIV" sold so poorly? One reason is because James William Guercio was no longer producing the group at this point. They really didn't need David Foster to produce albums filled with sappy ballads to help kill their careers as creative musicians. That actually happened after Terry Kath's death (after "Chicago XI"). "13" & "XIV"weren't bad LPs, NO!

[jules1278]

you feel the most alive when you listen from 4:22. sounds like a carnival is coming up your street as they bring in more and more instruments. AMAZING!! What the hell happened to this kind of music????

[lizard944]

@jules1278 Agree. This is the version with Maynard Ferguson sitting in on lead trumpet and playing the solo. Doesn't get any better than that!

[threelectrorecords]

When was this song made?

[rubicon1983]

@threelectrorecords '79

[Rescher187]

I cant Say how much or how i often i hear diss this sound in my head - any way - i am in the wrong time - Cuz i am a Street Playa ;)

[MrGooie]

Rollin a Blunt to this.

[vrader1]

I was at a clinic last night with Danny Seraphine (original fantastic drummer for 23 years with Chicago), and he told the story and it was a blessing Pitbull sampled part of this song, and they licensed it and he made a bunch of money and everybody wins. Danny co-wrote and got 1/3. This probably in his book "Street Player"...

[WillMega06]

As you see I still stand tall!!

[thebigsanchez]

PEOPLE NEED TO CALM DOWN ABOUT PITBULL......OK HE JACKED AND SAMPLED A PIECE OF THIS GREAT SONG IN ONE OF HIS SONGS AND GUESS WHAT??? PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING IT FOR A LONG TIME!!!!! A BAND CANT COPYRIGHT A SOUND....ONLY THE SONG TITLE AND LYRICS SO I JUST WANTED TO DROP SOME KNOWLEDGE ON U. ALL YOU PPLE WHO ARE STILL STUCK IN THE 80S NEED GROW UP FOR REAL AND FACE THE FACT THAT THE MUSIC AGE IS CHANGING!!!!!! DAMN GROW SOME BALLS!!!!! PLAIN IGNORANT!!!!!!

[ATLJRC]

@thebigsanchez right on dude! no harm in reusing a great beat and turning people on to the originals. this song rocks never knew it was chicago first then the bucketheads then pitbull. great beat

[badlydrawn5868]

@thebigsanchez the problem with pitbull, is that hes shit at making music and hes a shit rapper, he took this amazing song and made it shit. Now look at The Bucketheads, they took this song and made another amazing song out of it, therefore people love them. very simple

[KOS8]

@thebigsanchez first, the copyright contains the sound. that is what the _copy_right is there for: regulate the copying of the sound by others. that is why you have to clear a sample, before you are allowed to publicate it. second, even if music is changing, there still is good and bad music. guess, which one pitbull is doing

[JaboBabo]

@thebigsanchez yeah... but Pitbull sucks at music... I mean literally... he's wack a fuck...

[holyydiverr]

Not whack as fuck. He's WHACK A FUCK!!!!!!

[postcanada]

@JaboBabo . this is hands down the best post EVER on youtube

[211bill]

Chicago is not in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame yet. WTF!!!

[knup20]

this track sounds really good ! but i'll stay with the bucketheads versioin when i'll have a party! no way pitbull! wof!

[williywasabi]

haha i love how a bunch of people are saying "oh im 27 and this song is great, othher kids these days cant relate blah blah blah. cant we all like great music no matter what age? im 13 yo and i think this song is dope.

[ujota]

@KENPSTOK I´m a young kid and I will have the originals any day at any time

[Djcole10]

these white boys just wanted to the world that they have soul to lol.

and came up with one of the most sampled records in the world.

hats off chicago.

thanks incrediblecHiller for posting this great song.

Nick.

[daveuntold]

banging trax still gets played in the uk now by techno kings robert hood and ben sims.

[EvadonnaMebarak]

MEJOR QUE PITBULL !!!!! 

[knup20]

@EvadonnaMebarak muchisimo mejor ni se comparan !

[EvadonnaMebarak]

@knup20 Obvio! :) jejeje

[andres1980b]

Best intro ever?

[scientrophic]

@KENPSTOK You kidding me? I'm 24 and go nuts whenever a DJ drops this track, like the raw unedited uncompressed unremixed track. I'll go for the raw funk and disco sound straight from the source any day. But there are also people coming out with fresh house music, all kinds for all kinds of tastes, and new styles of club dance, too. Just as raw as it ever was, you just gotta have your ear to the ground. We can't go back, we can only look forward.

[wille87543]

Now this is music..I'm only 22 and other kids my age can't relate..HA!

[Cherrybluetoons]

@wille87543 I can :D I love this music!

[taurus2leo]

Chicago kicks brASS!!!!!!!!!!

[MiGrm9]

@taurus2leo yes, yes they do!

[Quazyqat]

Maynard Ferguson stepped in for this song as a back up player, and plays the trumpet solo. Maynards sound is unmistakeable.

[MiGrm9]

@Quazyqat Maynard is INCREDIBLE! :)

[Quazyqat]

Maynard Ferguson stepped in for this song as a back up player, and plays the trumpet solo.

[Daithi222]

A few years back the owner of this took it down from Youtube. The owner is now said to have passed on. The song re appeared on Youtube the next day. No doubt that it was so funky the owner just couldnt handle it.

[thenassbass]

FUCK PITBULL

[JaboBabo]

@thenassbass amen! he sucks

[capsulef]

I am only a 27 year old and even I think dis is great dese young kids my age jus dont kno

[KLX1410]

Fuck PitBull!

[Maxwell1901]

Wonder what Steve Dahl must have thought when he first heard this record?

[PestoNoodles]

I'm an an engineer at a sandpaper factory and I think this song is great!

[MrJonsanford101]

So...much...groove...

[S3CT1ON]

FUCK

[Anomines]

I lost

[zzman305]

I lost

[Gunnshy357]

Check out the ORIGINAL version by Rufus and Chaka Khan

[ssur55]

@Gunnshy357 This IS the original. It was written by Danny Seraphine, Chicago's drummer at the time.

[CC21560]

If anyone else besides Chicago had released this song, it would have been a hit. What ruined it was that it was so totally different from anything Chicago had done before. That, and Chicago 13 was their worst effort at the time.

[mdoherty9188]

@CC21560 In their defense it was a disco album. Everyone tried doing a disco album in 1979.

[pinz2022]

@mdoherty9188

Yeah, I know they caught all sorts of crap for this album but I think it's pretty damn solid. Only a few tracks could be called "disco" inflected. There were so many other good songs on it.

[ydabom]

@CC21560 I think I'd agree with that. I heard that Chicago went with a new producer for this number or they had the same producer but he told them to "go disco" which they did in true Chicago style, of course, which is awesome but, yeah... probably a lot for Chicago fans at the time to handle.

I'm only 35, btw, but disco is the new dubstep :D

[TheSPACECOWBOY68]

Makes u wanna break out like Deon Sanders

[Baltimoreman78]

Wanna watch WCCW Pro Wrestling

[rufus317]

@Baltimoreman78 Yes this is where I first this song! ECW totally ripped off World Class! The best wrestling corporation on the earth!

[chiara3019]

best song of 70s

[Prometheus336]

but this is LUPIN THE III (it's the same style)

[concaMakka]

well, 1 thing is sure: this kind of covers made me discover SO much old artists and songs, and 99% of times I forget about the cover once I get the original. As long as this happens, I think covers have got their reason to exist!

[concaMakka]

love 70s, love this one, had no idea Chicago used to made such kind of discomusic!

got to knwo it from the more recent cover by Bucketheads, which is not even comparable to the original :) (like happen most times with covers)

[Kittyslasher69]

Well, 1% of horn samples from this song represent 100% of the Bucketheads song.

I hope more songs are made with 1% sample from original being 100% of the song.

[rotosdemierda2008]

uno de los mejores temas de chicago....I like the 70 s !!!

[MykiMix7]

I love 9 minute long tracks!!! someone bring the 70s back!!! lol

[Kittyslasher69]

The lyrics say "When you fuck up on some big chairs, these sounds fall into my mind."

Thats the message the song tells people about why dancing to music makes them sexually irresponsible which is why some people end up doing other things that fuck up their life when they try to be on the safe side which is why life is a conundrum.

[samuraiedwin]

What are you talking about it's "I'll never forget those aimless years

Street sounds swirling through my mind "

[samuraiedwin]

And hes talking about his life when he was growing up.

[Kittyslasher69]

Well, what do you know, we got another user named Samurai.

[Kittyslasher69]

Yeah but, the title of the bucketheads song which was 100% recycled music, but only sampled 1% of this song used the title "The Bomb (These sounds fall into my mind)" was a mondegreen.

Songs have such mondegreens, that maybe this guy was talking about a gay blowjob with a turd instead of a black man's penis!

[radiofreccia2008]

alguien tiene la tablatura para guitarra de esta rolona??!!

[ourvinylcollection]

THE BUCKETHEADS!!! hahah okay this song (the original) is way awesome.

[BadBoriBoy]

@ourvinylcollection : You wouldn't even know this song if it wasn't for Kenny Dope making it into a world anthem. He wasn't copying the song, he was adding his house mix to get people to dance to it because it's his fucking job. What he did to the this track was BEYOND BRILLIANT!!!

[djjuan84]

This song is nice funky cut,

[patveliz]

EXCELENTE, MARAVILLOSO

[hermanodfeyli]

5/*****

[zzzxxyy]

The last good song Chicago made before they pussied out in the 1980's.

[adiflyguy]

the bucketheads '08 remix samples another set of measures and imo is better than the original. check it if you dont know it.

[Therealanimale]

I have to admit I first heared the horns trough the Bucketheads version (which b.t.w. is an excellent dance record that kept respect for the original and made their own version).

Then I heard this later. The brass in Bucketheads is only 1% of the total amount of brass from this original!

Fantastic production.

[JackOfferson]

Besides, I think Chicago's "Street Player" is a good enough dance song!

I mean, who needs such borderline sexual references in lame hip hop which doesn't sample funk anymore? Chicago made a good enough song that you could get some "booty call" out of!

Besides, rap was an extension to funk in the first place! And I think when The Bucketheads sampled this song; they were honoring its existance; but oddly enough; they didn't market it as a "hip hop" song!

FUCK THE MAINSTREAM!!!

[SamuraiClinton]

I hear ya Jack!

This song is almost as fun to hear as it is to feel a tongue in your mouth when you are having fun with the ladies!

This is why cigarettes are bad!

also, since Marlboro is the most popular brand of cigarettes; when decyphering the first number occured from making Marlboro a phoneword and then repeats of it, you get 666 when you reference the numbers from the tele keypad. And cigarettes are part of satan!

Just say NO to radio; and say YES to YouTube!

YOUTUBE 4 LIFE!!!

[JackOfferson]

I understand your numerology!

There seems that about 404 out of 420 people who think making out is awesome would rather smoke (whether its cigarettes or marijuana).

Anyway, I think we should pun cigarette as 666garette since it is a satanic thing to smoke!

That hidden occurence of 3 sixes as a phoneword may mean something. I have heard that cigarettes were deemed to be sexy decades ago, and guys asked for girls numbers; so with this phonewording; you may be on to something!!!

SAY NO TO CIGS

[SamuraiClinton]

And your reference to 404 could refer to low availability of will for women to make out with just any guy, since it is an analogy to the rampant internet error the number refers to; also your reference to 420 may refer to how ignorant those people are about the superiority of making out!

Even if the statistics are less accurate with that numerology, it still gives an idea on how fucked up the world can be with bullshit!

WHOS WITH ME?

[daftblac]

great song - chicago are all white guys lol

[pokerguy17]

Yeah, they're white, does that matter?

[SamuraiClinton]

Do it doesn't!

LOOK YALL: I am a honkie who breakdances to funk (which is mostly black people's music).

It is one thing when a white guy tries out black person culture; but when white people make funk it is anti-racism.

and anti-racism in music might slash racism in this world by 69%.

And racism has increased by 105% from racial segregation. But it only decreased 4.5% during the civil rights movmement!

Integration YES, segregation NO!!!!

[Bazz0]

lol, those statistics are well funny mate! peace

[Kittyslasher69]

Yeah well, when a heap of vital resources are at stake; it is no joking matter!!!

Because the reason why people are racist is because sometimes a black man's penis will be mistaken for turd; all because of the coloring and the shape of the penis.

And speaking of penises; they are the tool that sexually irresponsible people use after they take music and dancing the wrong way. And when Samurai rambles on about dancing to music; he makes a point!

Just say NO to racism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[211bill]

@daftblac So was Wild Cherry.

[lizard944]

...With the late, great Maynard Ferguson sitting in with the horn section!! Unforgettable

[JimmyxG]

soo s|ex yeaaa love it

[jhonatanbar]

yeah!

[quiktymevideo]

That's some good classic disco/funk.

[Kittyslasher69]

Made by such great niggaz from ze hood!!!

[adiflyguy]

Even if you slightly like this song, check out "The Bomb" by The Bucketheads.

Great use of Chicago for a mid 90's dance song.

[Kittyslasher69]

Well, Street Player is somewhat of a "dance track" too!

[dannii22]

Good Music :D

[SHOGUNX8]

yo this is like the coolest sample EVA !!!!!!

[theminority5]

it is, so addicting haha

[123paco2008]

I like to dance with this song!

[Alettasuperstar]

I love this song! *____*

[alkh3myst]

Everything after 4:30 is one of the most prized club classics. People who participated in the "Disco Sucks" movement are often surprised how good this song sounds. That's because any of style of music only "sucks" to non-musicians. To a musician, the only thing that sucks is poor execution, of which there were many examples in disco. Incomprable Airto's absolutely KILLER percussion, and great musicianship by the band, make this a great piece of music, irrespective of any narrow-minded "style".

[praevius]

I love the horns on this one - especially since they're very 'tight', well played and the melodies use more bars than you'd expect in a run of the mill disco track.

[alkh3myst]

"Run of the mill"??? Please see my comment above.

[praevius]

I wasn't referring to this track. Thought that was obvious.

[manlyman111]

ahh yeah buckethead

[pekoe]

Yep I remember this song on Club MTV!!

[SamuraiClinton]

I think it is intriguing that the song "Street Player" is actually the basis for the Bucketheads' song "The Bomb".

And I think it just sucks ass that most listeners of music that samples other recordings don't give a shit about the similarities to the past.

Because I am Will Smith fan who is a simultaneous listener of funk! Seeing that hip hop was an extension to funk in the first place. The Bomb song however is a techno song that recycles Street Player in its entirety.

[Jayfive276]

Techno? House.

The sample credit for 'Street Player' is listed on the sleeve of 'The Bomb'

And it doesnt sample the whole song 'in its entirely', just one loop.

[SamuraiClinton]

Actually, I meant to say, the song "The Bomb", in its entirety contains some loops of Street Player.

Also, Techno is so subjective, that my mind bleeds it with House music.

[scarecrovv]

whats the house version of this song, they made it a while back