Stock Aitken Waterman - Roadblock

[TheMattgfc1893]

this a classic shame about the rest

[keithfrmcov]

I was good friends of Pete until he moved away from near where I lived and I got married.

[MsSupaSinga36]

Another cool catchy 80s track !

[rngwrldngnr]

Thumbs up if you got sent here by "Square Root of Minus Garfield".

[Rockvoxxx]

It blows my mind that they did THIS but the bread and butter of their sound is the synthy, Rick Astley, Kylie,Banarama thing. which i also always liked but WOW lol

[PrAnG2000]

@Rockvoxxx

You gotta remember that Pete Waterman was a soulhead. In an interview years back he stated that his favourite singer was Marvin Gaye.

[fanofprotopic]

@PrAnG2000 that IS kinda surprising....I wouldn't use words like "funky" or "soulful" to describe the SAW sound, though they've made more hits than anyone can count.

[00rr1]

These fools had the cheek to stop MAARS using a seven second sample in pump up the volume yet how many samples are in this track , they even used a stolen bassline for rick ashleys never gonna give u up they messed up sampling and messed up music,so there!

[00rr1]

These fools had the cheek to stop MAARS using a seven second sample im pump up the volume yet how many samples are in this track , they even used a stolen bassline for rick ashleys never gonna give u up they messed up sampling and messed up music,so there!

[PaulyStClar]

@00rr1 You're trolling right? You do realise they wrote Rick Astley's songs - so it's note really stealing is it?

[Applemask]

@PaulyStClar The bassline on Never Gonna Give You Up was sampled from a contemporary house track by Colonel Abrams.

[irvinejump]

@Applemask I was under the impression that it was a sequenced bassline for "Never gonna give you up", but the similarities between the basslines of "Never gonna give you up" and Colonel Abram's "trapped" are remarkable.

Especially since Waterman bagged sampling other people's music (read HIS music) in a music magazine at the time. Which is odd, since roadblock has samples from other people's music as well...

[ddchalmers]

Duh! Search 'Facebook Roadblock'

[peteselwin]

Great video too. Haven't come across the remix of this for a while - with samples from Hustlers Convention.

[markymark4565]

The posters who said that this was a track released in the mid-80s on "mysterious" white label as "rare groove" and something of a practical joke on hip DJs are exactly right. I know. I was there. I was a DJ at the time. Still, it wasn't a bad track - fun.

At the time, every DJ was trying to outdo each other by digging out obscure 70s "urban classics". So-called tastemakers hated being made to look like the tin earred idiots they are by what they saw as the impossibly commercial sellouts SAW.

[micellooo]

TRINITY / OFFLINE / BASE 80s Funk Zeiten in HAMBURG

und Lights ELMSHORN (Mi Fr Sa + So:-)

[Liberal1969]

It's fun to see Mike, Matt and Pete in the video.

[duncanrs]

these fookers should be shot for the damage they did to music

[Vlaco84]

@TheNightIsYours....bullshit you're talking. SAW didn't invent house music at all. House is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s/early 1980s. Ever heard of acts like Kraftwerk?

[666Alester]

This Stock Aitken Waterman - Roadblock - prodction is sooo gay, I have no words to describe the gayness of this production!!!

[666Alester]

that's why even americans don't like Hollywood anymore... it is degenerated homofilia what is shown here...

[seanr456]

Interesting that the stuff they put out under their own name sounds so markedly different than their trademark sound for their other acts. That is, the sleek, polished, Europop sound. This is more akin to American hip-hop with a Euro twist to it.

[JustLocal]

@seanr456 There is what you like to do and what makes money....

There is a big list and I just name a few; MFSB jazz goes funk, George Benson jazz goes pop. Motown goes white ;-)

[mrssleaze]

NOW AVAILABLE TO BUY WORLDWIDE ON I-TUNES 

[perkydoo]

I love this video!  "Got to be funky! "

[rufus317]

I have not heard this since like 1986-87.

[treguard1982]

Used to love this on vinyl

[robsonlyon]

Procuro este som desde os anos 80, waleu a pena esperar, curti muito lá no XI Paulista em Poa, du karalho.

[robsonlyon]

Procuro este som desde os anos 80, achei, antes tarde do que nunca, rsrs, dukaralho, marcou uma época pra mim lá no 11 Paulista em Poa, waleu a pena esperar.

[pilsmart5]

I viewed this video because apparently they tried to sue the people that made 'pump up the volume' because it was so much like their track, this is nothing like pump up the volume, its a song about a road block which is nowhere near as good as pump up the volume

[nathanbloke]

This tune was a response to all the "Rare Groove" that was coming out, I mean, being rediscovered in the late '80's. IIRC, they released this on white label with "SAW" as the artist, incognito, and every rare groove snob loved it, as it seemed so obscure that noone knew anything about it.

[littlenige]

People talk trash about this lot but who can deny their ability to write and produce great pop tunes? Brilliant.

[ProjectFlashlight612]

@littlenige I can deny it. Apart from Roadblock, their output was complete garbage.

[JulesLt71]

@ProjectFlashlight612 I remember the story was it was released as a fake US import at first, as a bit of a joke on hip DJs (i.e. that record you've been playing for months - it's Stock Aitken and Waterman).

[MrKnopf]

Way to funky, way to "jazzy"... I guess they just wanted to proof that SAW's aible to do other stuff than their signature productions, but I don't really like it. It's not comparable to the producing genius shown in ,,When You Come Back To Me" (Jason Donovan), for example.

[MsSupaSinga36]

Never knew StockAitken & Waterman produced this (although I admit I was a fan of their other music back in the 80s). Cool tune...

[colstyhatty1]

TUNAGE!!!!!!

[jellevaneerd]

somebody an idea where i can find the tabs?

[Loshpot]

I think this tune was just a product of all the left overs from making tracks with Kylie and Jason and Sonia and Rick.

[miniporter2000]

i dont know but it made them rich and famous so it was a good idea to be honest

[VALlewellyn]

choon!

[Ruffgo]

Maybe I am being a bit harsh.. it was 1989 and I still like this song.

[Ruffgo]

The later version featured rap from "Einstein", which was a minor hit in Australia.

The origin of the 'ooh ooh's' from Kyie's BTDYK was from Kylie asking SAW to write her a song like a Cathy Dennis hit from 1990.

Roadblock is supposed to be a 'legendary' song for SAW, but sometimes I think its all a bit exagerated. It's interesting, nice story behind it, (read Pete's or Matt's autorbiography's) but could easily be a Nicki French B-side

[CITYGROUPTV]

i remember this song back i think in 88 or 89 damn im getting old!

[nobbynobbynoob]

Love SAW. Classic! This could be the true root of the "oh-oh-oh" in Kylie's "Better the Devil..."?

[navybrasil]

There is a cover version of this song somewhere from 1990's with kinda Jamaican rap. Does anybody know?

[bacsizsolt]

Great song!

[kevinpep1000]

dit nummer is echt funky

[kevinpep1000]

cool

[terawattz]

just uploaded my 7 of this

[berniebaer69bb]

geiles teil zum mixen

[raftinthomas]

tanks a lot for that video. still remembering the time, when I saw the video the first time in a disco. tvs in discos was a new- great thing that time :D

imho the only good s-a-w song.

[weazle273]

one of my lovest 80tis tune!!this rocks for ever

[stumpfpeter]

Old Skool!!!