Reply With QuoteCan't say I ever cared for this one. I think it would've been quite obscure had it not been performed by Her Cherness.
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I have this horrible internal debate about whether this is truly an excellent disco song or just tack-o-riffic. The gay side of my brain loves it (the subject matter, the long breakdown, the LP cover...the "Cher & Other Fantasies" dance routine...the Esty production...so much to love) but the real "disco head" asks "Yes, but is funky"? Such are the ramblings in my head...hee hee. So, I thought I'd solicit opinion.
My final comment is this. I will stand by this tune as quality disco. It's tight, soraing and sexy. And the breakdown/fade out are both stellar.
Now...talk amongst yourselves.
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Can't say I ever cared for this one. I think it would've been quite obscure had it not been performed by Her Cherness.
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I've said be fore that at the time it came out, it was a very ordinary disco song compared to others at the time. Ironically it has stood the test of time better than some of those song back then to my ears :D
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I think there was a thread about this song a month or so ago. You might want to look for it if you want more opinions. Personally, I think the song is great. It's at least my most favourite Cher tune. The instrumentation of course is top notch, with I believe James Gadson on drums and Melvin Wah Wah Ragin on guitar, to name a couple of the more well known players. Plus the tune itself is just very well written, with a great melody.
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It's a guilty pleasure song. One that most people won't admit they like. Whether it's because it's Cher singing it or because it's disco. All though I agree that it's Cher singing the song that has probably kept it around.
Bob Esty worked with a lot of people who's songs did not stand the test of time. D. C. LaRue comes to mind as one.
But compare it to "The Main Event" by Barbara Streisand. I like that song but it is not heard today.
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This song does not withstand the test of time for me. It sounds too dated, and the sound quality for me isn't there. I much prefer Hell On Wheels. Has anyone seen the video, with Sylvester in drag on skates???????
Too camp!
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Re: Cher's "Take Me Home" Classic or Fromage?
This is one of my favorite disco songs, and definitely one of the few songs by Cher that I actually like.
If by describing it as "dated" you're referring to the instruments used, arrangements or lyrics, then Yes, I agree, but that doesn't make it a bad song.:icon_biggrin: It was a great arrangement and production, IMO when it came out and it still is, Tight production, vocal attitude, great energy, I put it in the same catagory as "Ain't nothing Gonna Keep Me" - Teri Desario or any France Joli Song.
A great traveling tune, made to be blasted out of car stereo speakers while doing 80 down the interstate highway....:icon_biggrin:
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I also love TAKE ME HOME.
Don't know if it's because it is on CASABLANCA or BOB ESTY's production or because I've always liked Cher's voice but I still like it today.
My only bother was that it was so mellow...as opposed to the other stuff that surfaced around the same time.
But it's only a detail... I just listened to the CHER - THE CASABLANCA YEARS CD recently and love the 2 Cds combined...
KRIS
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hated it then, absolutely love it now! the arrangement is flawless and the vocals build in intensity as the song progresses, she might be singing the same thing over and over, but her inflection and emotion changes as the song progresses.
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I loved it then and I love it now. I even heard it in a bar last week here in Manchester, being part of a mixed CD that featured many other songs (including Angel In My Pocket by Change) and it shined. I always loved the breakdown in it and the Hot Tracks mix made even more of it.
toto
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Which bar in Manchester was playing such fab music toto?:icon_eek: Let me know & I shall be going soon!
...ya gotta beat the street......
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I am not a CHER fan. I don't even like her singing voice, but I like TAKE ME HOME. It is a good disco record. Not a pop masterpiece, just a plain good record.
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Hey Tony!
Was that the great 2 disc Larry Levan Live at the Paradise 1979 cd? I *love* that album--one of the few mixed disco cds (by DJs) that I love.
Kdavid said :
"My only bother was that it was so mellow...as opposed to the other stuff that surfaced around the same time.
But it's only a detail... I just listened to the CHER - THE CASABLANCA YEARS CD recently and love the 2 Cds combined..."
Check out the 12" version thaty's on the 4 disc Casablanca Years collection. They speeded it up a notch (which usually I hate as it causes that minnie mouse effect but with Cher you can't honestly tell) and added more bass and it just gives it *that* much more ennergy--I'm so used to it that now the original always soudns slightly dull to me.
(I'm sure the 12" is on other compilations too)
I am a big Cher fan though I think her disco albums aren't quite as good as they should be--very rushe3d albeit a lot of fun. but Take me Home is definetly her disco era highlight (it and IMHO the Moroder song from Foxes, Bad Love) -- there's a reason she still does it live and it goes over so well--the song just has IMHO aged wonderfully--working both as a fun song and as a perfect encapsulation of the disco era and mores. And Bob Esty's arrangement/production once again shows what an underated talent he is (It's no big secret that most of sides 1, 2 and 4 of Donna's Once Upon a Time as well as Last Dance were produced by Esty with Moroder just overseeing things) . Michelle Aller co wrote most of ht eCher tracks--I always wondered why she never had a solo career--did she? It's her gorgeous voice you hear on the 80s Cerrone track Call Me Tonight
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Wait. You're seriously suggesting that a disco song can't be both?! :icon_cry:
I love "Take Me Home." Okay, I wish the music and arrangement were a little less "smooth." The whole production -- especially the extended mix -- could have been a bit "fiercer" in some way. But the subject matter, Cher's voice, and the vocal build-up make it work for me.
This is my story -- I ain't ashamed to tell it:
I was hungry, and tired, and looking for love...
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For me a big part of the appeal is how smooth Esty's production is...
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To me it is truly a classic in that it was Cher's first disco hit, and accentuates and confirms her versatility and her later expanded dance roots.
The song is a "true" disco tune for it's time (1978?) with the strings, percussion, light horns, etc. It purveyed the innocence and the atmosphere of that particular era when disco reigned supreme. Also, Cher was one of those artists that "jumped on the disco bandwagon," during that time and era, she was yes a rocker/popper/whatever and like many other artists, had to cash in.
But I liked the song, and the album "back in the day." It was slow, soothing, innocent, and truly shined the disco light of that particular time.
Garry
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It was early 1979 (virtually all of Cher's disco output was in 1979 except I guess Bad Love was early 80)--although it does have more of a 77-8 sound
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Thanks Eric for correcting me; I was alive and well during that era and so much was going on, it's hard to remember sometimes what record came out in what year! But it does have a 77-78 feel to it, and I think you're right, 1979, but I'll bet you, she was in the studio in 1978 "laying the vocals."
Garry
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