Tin Tin (4) – Kiss Me
Tracklist
| A | Kiss Me | |
| B | Love's Duet |
Companies, etc.
- Published By – Suspicious Music Ltd.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA Records Ltd.
- Record Company – WEA
- Distributed By – WEA Records Ltd.
- Record Company – Warner Communications
- Lacquer Cut At – Utopia Studios
- Pressed By – WEA Records Pressing Plant, West Drayton
Credits
- Photography By – Sheila Rock
- Producer, Engineer – Bob Lamb
- Written-By – Tin Tin (4)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (A-side label): TIN 1 A
- Matrix / Runout (B-side label): TIN 1 B
- Matrix / Runout (A-side runout): TIN1 A2 F/1 W-L W-2 ƱTOPIA
- Matrix / Runout (B-side runout): TIN1 B1 W-L W-1 ƱTOPIA
Other Versions (5 of 21)
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Kiss Me (Dub Version) (12", 45 RPM) | WEA | TIN 1T, TIN 1 (T) | UK | 1982 | ||
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Kiss Me (7", 45 RPM, Single) | WEA | 24 9976-7 | 1982 | |||
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Kiss Me (7", 45 RPM, Single) | WEA | 249822 | Guatemala | 1982 | ||
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Kiss Me (12", Maxi-Single, 45 RPM, Specialty Pressing) | Sire | 0-29750, 9 29750-0 A | US | 1983 | ||
| Kiss Me (12", Maxi-Single, 45 RPM) | Sire | 92 97500 | Canada | 1983 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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I saw the 12" in a local family owned record shop (Bernard Dean in Scarborough, UK) and as a sucker for anything with 'Dub Version' on it and knowing Bob Lamb produced the first UB40 album, had a listen in one of their listening booths. Nothing like UB40 and not what I knew as 'Dub', but I liked it and bought it anyway! The Kevorkian mix the following year was an unexpected treat.
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There are a bunch of re-recordings of "Kiss Me". The best "hit" version is the 1983 U.S. remix by François Kevorkian. This was a major KROQ hit in 1983, and is still played today on their "ROQ of the 80s" stream. Sire also released a 7" François K. single edit for radio (not yet listed here.) -
If you're keeping up with my reviews, you've probably noticed I put a slight emphasis on innovators and originators. This track falls well within the limits of innovators. It's dark, it's dancy, it's a little goth, most of all, it's good! Now, that's excluding the slightly whiny and somewhat "femmey" vocals, but that was the style du jour in the early to mid 1980s. Any way you slice it, this track was one of the early pioneers of the "techno sound". And thanks to American radio, I never heard it until about 1993, when a local radio program director/DJ from England started playing it regularly. I guess MTV and mainstream radio felt that we were happy enough with Hall and Oates and Def Leppard in 1983 when this track was produced and released. Better late than never, though. When I heard it, I knew immediately it was relevent to the techno underworld. I still like it now and have a 12" single featuring the 1983 and 1985 mixes and would play it at any techno event. Kiss me - and listen to this song.
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