The Pointer Sisters - Automatic

[thecarebearhideaway]

A true Classic here! The Pointer Sisters rocked the 80's with all their awesome songs! :-) This is my fav from them besides " Jump". Both of these songs take me back to those awesome skating rink days of the 80's! The anticipation of Friday all night skating and hanging with your best buds and just living life to the fullest. So carefree and alive. Feeling like life would never change from that moment ! Maybe it was the power of youth but I think it was way more. It was the 80's magic! :-)

[phantom2k10]

THERE'S NOTHING BETTER THAN GREAT,CLASSICAL FEEL GOOD MUSIC,ESPECIALLY IN THESE DEPRESSING TIMES WE ARE IN NOW

[tonyzackery]

Real. Good. Music.

[kennethart]

give me 2012 if you still listen to this

[IconoclasticMuch]

Thumbs up if you like pandering!!!

[HanskiL67]

I heard this in the disco in Brighton during a language course

when I was 17 <3

[MsAriesLuvsMJ]

80's decade = BEST

[1axalove]

@MrFrederick8 Good taste- sounds great on the Altecs as well! ; )

[shawnwiggidy]

all of my systems are down...DOWN,DOWN ,DOWN!!!!! I luv the pointer sisters...I'm so glad I was born 1970 because I was able to enjoy all these great 70's and 80's songs...thanks 4 posting...now I have to get them on my iTunes

[fsmorel123]

lol i always thought a man sang this! de barge?

[PumaDown]

@fsmorel123 I thought it was a man too when it first came out in the 80's

[fsmorel123]

@PumaDown hey :) a bedroom rocker covered this and did a great job. i stumbled on it in soundcloud.. type in "freefrench automatic" :) i love it

[AlexQ77]

i remember back in 1984 in baldwin park when i heard it i was about 9 or 10 years old the best memories in my life.....

[geoffk54]

When this first came out I thought that Stevie Wonder had a new song out. The lead vocals sounded like Stevie"s. This is a killer song!

[leedo12]

i remeber this way back, ol skool.

[tall32guy]

And does anyone know who played keyboards/synths on this song?

[tall32guy]

Is this the full-length original album version?

[fsmorel123]

@tall32guy no it's the extended mix :)

[ouzzy01]

C ETAIT L EPOQUE D UNE MUSIQUE JOYEUSE !! MAINTENANT C EST L EPOQUE DE MUSIQUE DE REVOLTE , DE HAINE , DE FRIMEUR !!

[SubSlaveCD]

I love the Pointer Sisters...always did. I was in high school in the early 1980's...I have always loved the Pointer Sisters. R.I.P. June Pointer.

[n809n]

@SubSlaveCD must have been very fun growing up in the 70s and 80s :D

[johnwoa]

@n809n The late 1960's was even more awesome---- especially for psychedelic, underground and progressive rock music. If you are able, check out The Asylum Choir album "Look Inside" from 1968. I still listen to cuts from that album today!

[agapereign]

@n809n It was a BLAST! I was born in 1970.

[Selnitz]

@n809n yes it was still is :)

[Selnitz]

@SubSlaveCD i was in 1st grade when I first heard Im so excited:)

[BallisticSquizzle]

1 person is a big lame poopy face

[MeDsCP]

1 person prefers manual over automatic.

[LajmiKhalil]

DOWN ! DOWN DOWN DOWN !!!

[SOULJATWIN]

I'm 22 80's baby 4 lyfe ol skool these girls can sing

[Sheenkekebesties]

1st verse sounds like men

[DeBellucci]

Thumbs up if you are sick of the music in 2011~~!!

[SubSlaveCD]

@DeBellucci Todays music is absolutely HORRIBLE!!!

[tittyj2020]

@DeBellucci Thumbs up if you're sick of people asking for stupid thumb's up

[borntobewildpascal]

Wellcome To The Malibu Club !!

[YetiSandvichVideos]

Ah yes, Disco.

[m0de]

just amazing

[MrGlitcher25390]

Thumbs up for GTA VICE CITY !!!

[depechegirl101]

@MrGlitcher25390 loved the 80s radio station haha

[only1realmackenzie]

This is actually Stevie Wonders song given to the Pointer Sisters. He taught them to sing this song. Give Stevie his respect. Peace Stevie Wonder

[xxTellTheTruthxx]

love 80's music

[nickelwindow53]

Call me crazy, but this song always sounded like something Culture Club or Duran Duran would have sang in the 80s

[RacerXGTO]

@nickelwindow53 Nope, you're not crazy. My friend though this was Prince.

[nickelwindow53]

@RacerXGTO yep, they dont even sound like females in the song. They voices sound like dudes....Go figure?!!? lol

[hittingnote75]

@nickelwindow53 I used to think this was a Prince song until I heard it on Sirius radio. The display said Pointer sisters.

[hittingnote75]

@nickelwindow53 I used to think this was a Prince song until I heard it on Sirius radio. The display said Pointer sisters. I still like it.

[nickelwindow53]

@hittingnote75 yeah it does give you prince vibes!

[bignate523]

@hittingnote75 yeah i thought it was Debarge for the longest lol

[oodatinku]

these ladies were awesome! love it!

[hotrodindalou]

While even prince himself formed Vanity 6 it was this album that took his musical sensibilites and coupled it with great tunes, melodies, and powerful voices and created the girl album that even he was unable to produce

[GruelingAverage22]

vice city malibu song ;)

[packardcaribien]

I had no idea the singers were SISTERS, when I heard this......

Brothers maybe....

[TheGAgal28]

Omgosh I love this song! The Pointer Sister's just rocked!

[mescalero8]

SUPERRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shrikechan]

I love her voice

[renewd]

So light and breezy

[iloveirwinxxx]

yes for vice city ;)

[hobhot]

love it

memory :(

[MrYorkyporky]

There soo sexy!

[arhuxtable]

I visualize the Jeffersons actress Isabel Sanford singing this. She's sound like this. May she continue to RIP.

[panther0567]

It's not that today's music is crap... there's a lot of talented musicians out there right now, it's just that they aren't as popular as Justine Beaver or Crap$ha

[elle45purple]

The 80's was the renaissance period for music.

[Truer22]

im loving these pics. nice job!!

[Gaznugget]

It's so ironic... The 80's and 70's are the best decades for music in history. That's a fact. Yet although the 80's had the best music, it is those people born in the 80's that are responsible for today's crap music. The 80s borns take credit for the decade just because they were born then, yet in reality they should get credit for post-2000 music only.

[jackfrost365]

@Gaznugget Its the 90's borns you should be worried about and 90's had good music too with SWV, En vogue, Tony Toni Tone, etc.

[Gaznugget]

@jackfrost365

Yes both the 80s and 90s borns are responsible for today's rot (crap music). The 60s borns made the 80s, the 70s borns made the 90s.

The 80s borns made the 2000-2009 decade and the 90s borns (Justin Bieber) are making this 2020-2019 decade. So it is the 80s borns AND the 90s borns that have created shitty music.

[purestoned88]

@Gaznugget and oh yeah.... the pointer sisters [2 of them were born in the 40s] and 1 of them in the 50s.......

[Gaznugget]

@purestoned88

Yes, so really it was the people born pre 1980 that created the great music of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. People born in 1980 would probably have their first song at least by 2000, and that's when music really went downhill.

[purestoned88]

@Gaznugget yup i mean once you started hearing what the singers/rappers/rockstars in the 2000s were saying it didnt make any sense and everyone who enjoyed the 90s 80s 70s and 60s were like what happened

[purestoned88]

@Gaznugget i mean i can agree about the 80s it beats the 90s just by a bit but the 70s idk it was good but compare 2pac to the sugarhill gang

[halatono7]

Love this song

[curtis8516]

Gta Vice City - The Malibu Club !!!!

[djmajiktuch82]

DUUUUDE! THIS IS THE EXTENDED 12"....THIS IS SIIIIIIC!!! YEEEEAAAAH

[paulandj]

damn babygirl wit da afro and buckteeth sexy as a muhfucka y dey dont make em like dat no mo

[Prettytoes29]

R.I.P June Pointer. Love this song! Thanks for sharing!

[spoon479]

here's the trick.. click to tubifier.com to download this song from utube.

[ChocolateAndMaxiPads]

GTA....LOL!!!!

[MissRobyn86]

Love these girls! xoxo :)

[Raysinside2100]

Awe yea... This song reminds me of the good old days with my girlfriend and we are still together and happy I love you baby

[zaragala15312]

awesome song

reminds me of the better days

[overweigthlover]

this is my song...i love them

[Only4Ganja]

this song is stuck in my head! catchy tune and lyrics!

[raylo76]

I have simply to say that I am glad they recorded this song.

They've always been great, and I thought their time to shine was way overdue - this album brought what them the major recognition should have already been there. This album was so different from their previous efforts, and they'd been known to be able to cover several genres...I for one am so glad that they recorded this in the midst of it. I will never tire of this song - even love the backing vocals as much as I do the lead

[MrTonedeff]

this is a great synth funk tune penned by brock walsh and mark goldenberg.the sisters sound so sassy and sexy! i heard it first in 84' and i bought the 12" single and the B side was nightline which appears on randy crawfords 1983 album of the same name! the Breakout album also very good,produced by richard perry!

[shanzei23]

When i heard this song.on a very rare radio station i thought who was it.some dude or his band nope amazing these ladies.its such a rare tune i hav not heard in along long time Legends. should of been a massive worldwide hit it has mean passion.mean sound u can do anything 2 perfect

[mcneal78]

I'd heard this song for years, but never knew WHO it was!

[fbaylor]

Bring back the 80's playa's! This song is wicked and the lyrics are actually bad ass!

[mapboy78]

You can't get more 80s than this

[highamsparkee]

tuneeeeeeee>>>>>

[hach75]

I've been going through music from different era's like the 70's and 80's and a bit of the 90's and I keep wondering...what the hell happened to music? It used to be pleasant to listen to music, you didn't have to keep changing the radio station to find a decent song for th entire family to listen to back then. The music these days is just fucking awful. If someone doesn't fix it soon I'm afraid we're going to have to say R.I.P. to music.

[HearTheVoiceOfReason]

@hach75 It's so sad, but so true...

[Madme43]

@hach75 Oh to bloody true mate you got crap like the head bangin shit kids of today play

[tanrat7]

@hach75 thats so true about what happened to music

[dpark3333]

@hach75 Can the whole family read your post?

[elgamer98]

@hach75 you are a genius dude I also think the same thing

[nicksillver]

@hach75 Thats not true at all. More like the radio just isn't playing good music! Have a look around and try new stuff out!

I was in a club watching Carl Craig this weekend and he played this... the place went mad!!

[cdubbleyoo]

@hach75

1) As there is less revenue and less competition in radio, there will be less variety. Stations are all genre-based, so there eclecticism is further diminished - the 5 independent stations in your city that used to compete with each other were bought out by one company and replaced by computers that rotate the same 20 songs all day when they're not running morning and afternoon syndicated talk shows....and you probably lost 2 stations.

2) You see the irony in your comment, right? ;-)

[Geeljasjes]

@hach75

The reason why todays music sounds shite, is because technology has made it too easy for people to run loops and synths through a bunch of effects and burn it onto disk.

In The 70's and 80's one had to put a lot more effort into a production, because most stuff still had to be done manually. Even though I love synths and drummachines, as used in this track, they have also become accessible to people with no talent, who utilise the AUTOMATIC functions of synths to get quick results.

[iv0luti0n]

@Geeljasjes

Well hold on, the real reason is that music studios are worried about losing profits, especially in the wake of piracy and loss of revenue. So they hire producers and sign artists like Lady Gaga, Rihanna who produce 'safe' commercialized music that sells well. There's not real effort into putting good music out there; the studios care much more about the money now. No 'bedroom' producer who can suddenly afford drum machines and synths is making the music on the radio.

[Geeljasjes]

@iv0luti0n

Well, here in Europe being a bedroom producer seems to be your only ticket.

Armin van Buuren, DJ Tiesto, even Junkie XL.

You have a valid point though.

I was more refering to the manual labour that had to be done in the old days because of technology.

You couldn't stuff up a part and so musicians were forced to play really well. Now the computer can correct all your errors, so you don't have to be a good live player anymore. The creases are ironed out that way as well.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

@hach75

same thing here

i was born in 91 and tasted the sweet elixir of the 90's when 2005 came i decided to never turn on the radio it was just horrible.so i went back to 90's music searching and i found techno it wasn't great but then i found trance and house which was amazing and from house i went to deep house etc. after a couple of year i was very interested in house so i went to its roots and found something amazing the 70's and 80's i never ever imagined it to be amazing i just love it.

[turborabbit1114]

@hach75 I suspect its rose colored glasses.

[fratsdomino]

@hach75

or RIP to radio

[KINGSWIMMERdotcom]

@hach75

Fucking spot on mate...it needs sorting...go...do it...

[gokuisard]

@hach75 I already have said RIP to popular music. Its only undergroung stuff like MGMT, Empire of the Sun and Late of the Pier that excite me today :(

[rupertshean]

@hach75 wrong. radio is crap.music is still great. i love this old stuff like nothing else, but you need to search in different places than radio. there is some fantastic new music being created right now... nowadays you have so many artists also looking back and re-creating that retro 80's sound you just have to search for it. here are some examples: Tensnake- Coma cat. Metro Area- Miura. Maceo Plex- Your Style (Original Mix).....enjoy

[strIctlyUndergr0und]

@hach75 Its just less accessible these days. You have to look deeper man, its still there.

[Alia89119]

@strIctlyUndergr0und There was a time when you didn't have to "look deeper". You simply turned on the radio and it was there. I don't want to have to search for good music today. It's simply too scarce. I'm gonna stick to playing my old school mixes instead.

[ldylkr]

@hach75 It's called RAP. lol Just a joke.

[monikamoon1]

@hach75

it got screwed after 2006

[roblivious540]

wicked tune :D

[mjn76]

I love the lyrics.

[clarkcrazed]

this song reminds me of the 80s in summer

[tromostovje]

this song came out came out in november 1983(!) not 1984

[ryanjuH]

I remember this on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

[SamWil500]

This song came out in November of 1984 and was featured on the Break Out album. In October of 2002, it was featured on the action video game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

[US13100]

fabulous song..

One of my very favorite from the great Pointer Sisters.

[mohebio]

great!!!

[farbenfrohfarbenfroh]

Fantastic remix ! THX

[VirtuaCory]

Awesome song

[1923Turkiye1923]

pointer sisters 4 ever:D

[Flositoo]

Nice