Kim Wilde - Turn it On

[@alexbalchin1145]

This is one of many songs from the 80s that make my entire body turn in to one big goosebump! Sadly…..and I do literally mean sadly, this sexy, nostalgic feel good vibe music is no longer produced. Todays music is samey, plain and boring…..too many singers making money from other peoples songs. If I had the choice to win the lottery or go back to the 80s I would throw that ticket away. Just so I could be around again when music like this is produced.

[@theglavine]

I'd do anything to go back to the 80s and be fully aware how great Kimmy was. I did not really become even a nominal fan until You Come which I was over the moon about. Never bought an album until I got the Greatest Hits 15 years ago. Now after getting the Pop Don't Stop 2 cd comp and listening for 6 months and having a friend send me Deluxe Editions of her 6 80s albums, I'm a massive fan. Her first album is in my player and I cannot take it out. Reggae, Gary Numan style synth, soul, new wave & even a ska tune on there. She had great musicality, a great voice and stunning beauty. Should've been the biggest female star in the world, not just the biggest one in the UK in the 80s.

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@theglavine She IS the biggest female star EVER and remains so, proving it again with her "Here Come The Aliens" long-awaited album after too long doing nothing, but other people's shit or Christmas sappiness which she did bother to go inside a recording studio. Hell I'd go back to the 80s, but I change it dramatically. Slagdonna would not be given a shag-in and would be bottled on the street and killed before that old whore got her fanny anywhere near a music exec. I'd also get rid of Sting, Collins, Weller, Dexys, Madness and other things scumming up the decade and dumb novelty records, stop c/rap before it could go no further and kill S/A/W at the outset. Even more pressing, I would utterly redesign Kim's strategy and her stupid labels. There would be tonnes of singles and releases off EVERY album, especially the absolute best ones ("Select", "Catch As Catch Can", "Teases & Dares", "Another Step", "Come Out And Play", "Close", "Here Come The Aliens" etc.) and none of those Ace B-sides would suffer as they be double-A's with the A-side or singles in their own right. And why the hell 'Turn It On' should be put on a soundtrack yet not even made a single anywhere is typical of what her labels do to her idiots and she and her brother, let them! I love how you're named on here after a dude from one of the best groups EVER, It's great you've turned into a fan out of nowhere. The 80s albums are the best representative of her at her most shining, diverse, refreshing and brilliant, she seriously knocks limbs of all the other 80s males and females that everyone bangs on about but are utterly ordinary and boring when not downright dreadful and pointless (hear that, slagdonna?). All I'd say is that her "Pop Don't Stop" is a brutal exercise in ruining great songs-almost everything on it has been shorn to within a minute of its life. Sometimes the song's utterly revamped for the worse too (i.e. 'Rage To Love', 'Birthday'). This is unforgivable for a singer whose songs are short anyway; sometimes I take the song called 12" over the album edit just to get a bit more freedom of leeway. Jesus, your average Eurythmics and Depeche Mode and Level 42 song is at least 5 minutes and THAT'S often just a "single edit" so I shudder to think of the album one, not that I'd want their albums anyway. The 1st remasters of Kim's 80s albums are not great AT ALL-if you check out the deluxe ones from 2 years ago, you'll see it's the first time EVER that ALL the fading songs from the debut (and virtually all from the following 2 RAK albums) are allowed to fade to their EXACT second as in the master tapes from 1981, instead of losing up to 6 seconds a song and THAT'S unforgivable to do to someone this great who's too often short songs state that every second counts. It's a song not a matinee for God's sake! You're a good analyser of music-and it is true that many sides are represented on the debut album, but the mini-movie disaster-laden teen-movie drama excitement of "Select", the multi-angled soundscapes and lyrical finesse of "Catch As Catch Can", the widescreen futurism and aggression of "Teases & Dares", the differing reaches of all the B-sides & the intricate balance of stadium rock alongside the world music/Motown/Jazz/Soul/Piano ballad approach of the softer songs on Side 2 of "Another Step". Then there's the other albums that fill up the other decades, and one from 1998 we're still hoping may be released!

[@CharlottevonTunk]

in Australia it's was an love affair from Kim wilde she was everywhere in posters, countdown and etc. mum and dad love Kim wilde and when i was 5 (PS now I'm 20 years old and i still listen to her all the time and i wish we would have a comeback album and collab with Madonna fingers crossed)) i heard kids in America i was like wow this is catchy and cheesy and i love it

[@iainsutherland1113]

As a young lad in the mid-80’s this lady was like something from another world !!! She is so beautiful and this song IMO is her best, it’s bizarre that it’s not widely known. I LOVE IT 🤗

[@kyachdistent1301]

Only cos it's a continuing mystery the human race is so stupid. Most of her stuff isn't widely known and how stupid's that, the rule seems to be, the more wonderful is, the less anyone known nor rhapsodies about it, yet we're all happy to know the rather dullsville and anthemically and intelligently chorus-challenged 'Kids In America'-like it's the only Holy Grail of KW!

[@johnpauljp857]

I wasn't alone then.

[@enjo4020]

I remember this is the 2nd album after "KIM WILDE" that was released in the US. "SELECT" and "CATCH AS CATCH CAN" weren't released here. And I was desperate to fine those albums, but couldn't. I finally asked a friend to bring me back one of those albums when she visited Europe in the late 80's. She found "SELECT" in a record store in France, and I was over the moon. Remember, this is all before the internet.

[@CharlottevonTunk]

wow that's amazing i love Kim wilde and i got the pop don't stop greatest hits huge fan from Australia (Kim wilde was huge in Australia)

[@ykm4818]

Wusstet Ihr dass Kim Wilde s B-sides allesamt höchsterforgreich waren/sind?! Genauso gut wie ihre Singles. So verdammt viele B-sides und alle mehr als gut! Für heute alleine habe ich etwa mehr als 180 B-sides-Songs aufgezählt. Hammer!!!!

[@j_go.]

It's nightfall To Akina, just like every love song. 😊 We used to play these songs endlessly. They made us think of that person we loved and dreamed of. The songs ended with a sense of uncertainty about the future. We wondered how our lives would play out. These songs were about our fears as much as hope and heart.

[@AdamDawson3]

I love Turn It On and it was this song that made me buy the Deluxe Edition of Kim's 1984 album Teases & Dares.

[@kyachdistent1301]

Yes, and the proper version of 'Lovers On A Beach' and 'Putty In Your Hands' on all on CD for first time. Now we expect an even more expanded version.

[@tomaszominski2148]

Really crazy about this track. Great game of synths and powerful vocal of Kim.

[@kyachdistent1301]

A perfect marriage of 2 perfect things-and the main reason Kim is always head and shoulders above even the so-called best, and those who are really great-but not as great as her.

[@thegildedagemadonnabe]

I've looked for this song everywhere and can't find it, not even the album and it's not even on all her compilation CDs. Definitely one of her best, it's beautiful, sexy, amazing, just everything I keep this video on loop. 🥰

[@theglavine]

It was used in the movie Weird Science. It's on the 2 CD Deluxe Edition of her album 'Teases & Dares'.

[@pamela8329]

It is also listed on John Hughes' 2022 box set release, a mix-tape of songs from his films.

[@CharlottevonTunk]

Kim wilde is one of the kind 80s pop artist and she is influence, inspired and admire of her work (even her producer creative partner brother Ricky as well)

[@kevindahlenburg2528]

Just watched Weird Science and her song was in the movie. Love it!

[@cgh7337]

Love 1980s songs this.

[@bluelight775]

Gary Wyatt and Lisa driving to the Bar #WeirdScience

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

this is such a great song. I've seen weird science dozens of times, this must have been buried in the background as I don't remember hearing it

[@pamela8329]

I love John Hughes.♥️

[@Dave-zi9sf]

Weird science

[@maverick29180]

Magnifique ❤️ j'adore la chanson et le film 🤘🏼

[@JoannMiller.]

this song was on weird science playing while Lisa was driving the car.

[@kyachdistent1301]

And one of the few times anyone in America plays anything decent in the car. And it should have been on everywhere like all her stuff.

[@thelastnotary]

@@kyachdistent1301 we were lost baby we wrong so turn it on

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@thelastnotary Yay!😁😁🤗🤗

[@thelastnotary]

@@kyachdistent1301 💖

[@kyachdistent1301]

@@thelastnotary 🤗🤗🥰🥰

[@VincentVolpe]

The outfit/hair is strikingly similar to Jena from Conan the Destroyer

[@elvisproenca1307]

Perfeitooo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@lautarogarcia4342]

Estupenda!

[@dondownriver3464]

She sure can sing

[@thelastnotary]

Banger

[@THEQueeferSutherland]

So underrated because it got buried in the Weird Science soundtrack, it should've been its own single.

[@kyachdistent1301]

It is if you ask me, I treat it as such, and many others given scant release, like 'Shangri-La' as a flexi, 'Falling Out' as first ever song recorded, 'Take Me Tonight' following 'View', 'Ego', 'Stay Awhile' as Kim's 1983 fave and featured on the following year retrospective, 'House Of Salome' and 'She Hasn't Got Time For You' and 'Bitter Is Better' released everywhere. Same with this one, and for other things that followed but her labels have always done her down. Other artists get 100 releases off their shit and constant double A-sides, that;'s why we'd have to do it ourselves. It's like with 80s partys or just music celebration. It's almost there's nothing to play, despite her prolific nature, especially in the 80s. Because she would/should've had so much more. It's amazing she holds the record for most successful/charted 80s female as she barely gets the amount others do off the same amount of albums. No level playing field, yet she still beats them. Even more so when all her songs are so much better than even the better people than usual type.

[@georgelee9099]

baby turn it on

[@jeffclark6988]

Wheres the Van Halen and the Ratt??😣

[@Solodolo84]

Gimme the keys!!!!

[@Tranquillado]

Every damn night?!

[@Solodolo84]

@@Tranquillado 😭😭😭😭

[@sacredcoww]

@@Tranquillado on the TELEPHONE

[@Solodolo84]

@@sacredcoww and he hung up on her!!!!

[@krzysztofradomski9373]

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