"Show Me Love," Robin S

[moonshadow]

I heard this on the radio today. A perennial KTU favorite, I always kind of thought of this song as "just one of those 90s Pulse hits" and lumped it as such.

But I really listened to it today. And nothing for nothing, it's quite good house, especially for 1993 standards...I think it's really stood the test of time. Robin S sings her heart out on this, not allowing her voice to be confined to the music itself at all.

The Billboard Hot 100: 5
Top 40 mainsteam: 5
Z100 Top 100 of 1993: 10

[tozion]

I love it. I think I have the album around here somewhere. What an amazing voice! She did covers of Alicia Myers's "I Wanna Thank Ya" and Alton McClain & Destiny's "It Must Be Love" if I recall correctly and they weren't too bad.

[duh5]

I've always liked this song. When it initially came out though, I remember thinking she sounded way too much like Cece Peniston vocally.

[Be Real]

I like it

[tozion]

"Show Me Love" was ranked #41 on Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Dance Songs.

"Show Me Love" was not just one of the biggest house-pop crossovers of the early-'90s club-radio boom, it was also one of the last. At least radio house went out with its face on (that is, before it came back in its more Euro varieties). 1993's "Show Me Love" was as representative as any track of the way house distilled disco's flamboyant, strings-and-all yearning into a minimal thump with skeletal keyboards doing the bulk of melodic support (as defined by Swedish producer Stonebridge's remix). Not that Miss Robin needed it with her post-LaBelle (and, really, post-Peniston) grunts and caterwauling. Her devotion to dance music ran deep—she was willing to get ugly for it.

[Robert J]

Fantastic song. Can't believe it's that old though.

[TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur]

It actually sounds a lot olfer than 13 years to me. I mean, a song like "This Is You Night" be Amber is now 10 () years old. The Robin S. song already sounded really dated by then.

[tozion]

Music video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQrOyQ0QEcc

[irice22]

So weird that Robyn released "Show Me Love" as well.

[backintime]

Not a fan. Too generic.

[AFRO SAMURAI]

Bland.