Commodores:Nightshift/A Disco Track Or An Obituary Ballad?

[jamesyirishguy]

I was going through my collection of 80's records the other day
and I noticed that I had 2 80's dance compilation cds featuring the track Nightshift by the Commodores (circa 85). I started listening to it to refresh my memory and began thinking to myself jeez that's pretty morbid. Don't get me wrong I like the track and the Commodores (even without Lionel) and I dig the "in memoriam" message for Marvin et al but surely that's a number better suited to a late late soul play on the radio than a bustling dance floor! I don't know what do you think?
Have any of you guys ever played it as part of a set or ever seen it played to a crowd. And if so what was the reaction like?

[efunk_adelic]

great song.... not sleezy enough to play as a ballad... and not really a good dance track.


I never got around to it.

[K-Bee]

Nightshift is just a great song... period.
Oddle I have it included on quite a few more dance oriented compilations as well. At least somebody must have thought you could dance to it.

[QUINNY]

It was a smoocher NOT a dance record.

The few times I played it, I remember using it as an end of slow set number, to let everybody know that the hip grinding was about to end.

[Videoskooter]

To me it brings memories of the "All night long" (Richie) and "Rhythm of the night" (Debarge) period. A period that I didn't, don't and probably never will enjoy.

Too smooth, too clean and IMHO, no soul. Prefab stuff. Sorry :o

And I DO like the Commodores, especially the ballads. And even as a DJ, I never played it, neither on the radio or in the Disco.

[efunk_adelic]

To me it brings memories of the "All night long" (Richie) and "Rhythm of the night" (Debarge) period. A period that I didn't, don't and probably never will enjoy.

Too smooth, too clean and IMHO, no soul. Prefab stuff. Sorry :o

And I DO like the Commodores, especially the ballads. And even as a DJ, I never played it, neither on the radio or in the Disco.

I just wanted to throw something in. During this period... any R&B played on MTV was a treat. Just another case of segregation. (sp)

[markydefad]

Remember that while the Commodores had a big hit with their Marvin Gaye tribute--- "Nightshift"...

former Commodore Lionel Richie wrote another Marvin Gaye tribute "Missing You" for Miss Ross...one of her very best vocals and her last appearance in the U.S. Pop chart Top 10. :cry: