"From a time when music was exciting, the instruments were real, the voice's nothing less than magnificent! Remember Saturday night, the Paradise Garage, your jeans, your sneakers,your friends, the face cloth for the sweat that would ultimately come. Dancing with wild abandon. The memories of nights gone by. This music still holds up even after 20 yrs. We all want more!!!! Please give us more!!!"
HEY, NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT!!!
matrix007 | New York, NY USA | 05/25/2002
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Great collection of dance-cuts. I have volume 1-3, and I'm glad I decided to buy them. With the exception of a couple of songs, all the jams are full-length extended versions. This is what I've been asking for all along. The average person from that era don't want alot of three-minute cuts from back in the day. Hey, we want the whole un-cut versions and this series delivers.Plus, while listening to it, I came across a few long-loved jams that I haven't heard in years (decades, even). For instance, as soon as I heard the song "BRA" by CYMANDE, man, I almost cried. And then there's the vocal-version of the jam, "ALWAYS THERE" by SIDE EFFECT. Man, I was looking for these cuts; in CD-format, for a long time.Hey, if your on a serious quest for great un-cut dance-jams from back in the day; you definitely can't go wrong with "GIVE YOUR BODY UP", it's one of the best series."
Rare Grooves
Disco Buff | Tokyo, Japan | 10/02/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"First of all, this CD is very hard to find now because it's out of print for long even though it's rather popular among collectors like me. You should buy it if you are a real disco music fan and able to find somewhere, I think. Give Your Body Up series includes many rare disco tunes, moreover, in the extended versions in most cases. But this Vol.1 is most recommendable. I like Why Leaves Us Alone and Bad For Me, both of which are exciting up-tempo disco gems and really really hard to find on any CD. The disco version of Free Man is also good."
Oooooh yeah, the way it used to be... it still can be!
Zain Rashid | Irving, TX United States | 05/06/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)
"First, get all 3 volumes, put 'em on your multi-disc cd player, then let these dancefloor gems do their thaaang... Can be played at a bbq on Memorial Day, July 4, Labour Day, etc... or while you're playing Twister (tangled up in a pretzel position while trying to grab that Bacardi & Coke that's waaaay on the other side of the mat ;) whatever... you get the idea. Your cooler friends will scream and shout when their favorite joints get those memories flooding back."