Talk:Pump Up the Volume (song)

It may have been the only single by M/A/R/R/S but the people involved were essentially the same ones that were in the band Colourbox, who did have other singles - in fact, there is actually a "best of" complilation by them "The best of Colourbox 82/87" which includes Pump up the Volume! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.71.124.125 (talk) 08:02, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Title
Shouldn't the title be Pump Up the Volume, or Pump Up The Volume? --Phant 06:35, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

M|A|R|R|S Achronym
I understand that the name came from Martin, Alex, Rudi, Russel & Steve. Alex & Rudi being the A & R in A R Kane.

LewisR 23:01, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Details about sample of arabic singing in the remix version
I believe the details given here are wrong: Ofra Haza's 'Im Nin'alu was sampled in Coldcut's remix of Eric B. & Rakim's track "Paid in full", but not this one. Does anyone know where the sample was really taken from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.179.64.66 (talk) 12:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * According to MTV News MARRS sampled it from "Paid in Full."  I ought to add this source to the article - Foetusized (talk) 12:34, 20 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Another source ( http://www.mymeanmagpie.com/blog.php?itemid=2060 ) claims the voice to be too DEEP to be Ofra's: Ofra Haza "Im Nin´alu" from Yemenite Songs, 1986 (LP)—NONE. The rumour was that this song was incredibly sped up, so much so that it is unrecognizable in the remixes. But after slowing it down, it's clearly too deep to be her voice and the words are entirely different (as far as I can tell). Sounds plausible to me. -andy 92.229.173.224 (talk) 16:20, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

samples used
I just ran across this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdJREvWlIWc

That sounds like a faster version of the opening sample. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.196.153.73 (talk) 23:57, 18 February 2012 (UTC)


 * If M|A|R|R|S had sampled it from somewhere for inclusion in "Pump Up The Volume" in 1987, then it would be important to put in the article. But for Way Out West to have used a sample of "Pump Up The Volume" in 2009 isn't particularly noteworthy! —mjb (talk) 06:29, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Table suggestions
The sample table still needs some work. We are referring to "Original UK Version" in one column, but we seem to have conflated the actual ~5:07 original with the ~6:25 remix. There should be two columns. The remix has the Lovebug Starski/Wolfman Jack sample near the beginning. The original does not, and it has some samples not accounted for, like Fab 5 Freddy's vocoded "this" "stuff" and "fresh" between 1:26 and 1:39. There are also a James Brown(?) "ow" at 2:23 (after the "watch me"s and right before "do it"). And the original has a unique guitar part which might be sampled.

And apparently only the original records have the "Roadblock" sample in the 5:07 mix; the 5:07 "original" mix appearing on later releases does not have the sample. This isn't really explained by the table. —mjb (talk) 14:05, 8 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Although there's a footnote saying that "The 12" remix was branded as the song's original version in the U.S.", it wasn't really. The US 12" is clearly based on the UK remix, but there are so many samples either straight-out missing or substituted with obvious remakes (or new to the US version, e.g. "Mars needs women") that it ought to be considered a different version. - Walnuts go kapow (talk) 11:54, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

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charts
I don't see anywhere where this song was even in the end of year billboard hot 100 singles of 87 or 88, let alone #10 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.56.22.26 (talk) 07:53, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
 * You are correct about that. I was surprised to see that it wasn't one of the 100 top-ranked pop singles of the year, but indeed it wasn't. However, Billboard did rank it as the #1 Dance Club Play Single, the #4 Dance Sales 12-Inch Single, #10 Hot Crossover Single, and #85 Black Single of 1988 (in the year-end rankings published Dec. 24, 1988). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:12, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

What about Bill Wither's recognition?
It was his back beat ("Lovely Day") that provided the groove for this single, as well as Milli Vanilli's "Girl You Know it's True", PM Dawn's " Adrift on Memory Bliss" and others. MPA (talk) 01:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Gil Scott-Heron quote?
The article mentions that the song includes a line sampled from "Mean Machine" by D.ST and Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, "Automatic, push-button, remote control; synthetic, genetics, command your soul." It also says that "the U.S. version of the song contains a slightly different rhyme recorded specially for the release by UK rapper E-mix." E-mix's line sounds like "Rhythmatic, systematic, world control; magnetic, genetic, demands your soul." However, I seem to remember hearing substantially the same words used by E-mix in a song by Gil Scott-Heron, or if not him a similar artist from the same era (circa 1970). Can anyone identify whether E-mix got his line from Gil Scott-Heron, and whether "Mean Machine" was influenced by Scott-Heron as well? --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:15, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I think I figured it out. It wasn't Gil Scott-Heron, it was The Last Poets, who originally recorded "Mean Machine"; Nuriddin's version with D.ST was a later remake of it. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:37, 28 April 2021 (UTC)