My silly ass here in Mississippi USA. Hah 😂

My silly ass in Missouri USA 😂

My siily ass in Hamburg Germany. 😀

Here in Miami, Florida living out the theme of this song.

I live in Paris, I am there too my friends

Disco was the European answer to American rock. It was very popular in Italy Britain Sweden Poland and Greece back in 70s and 80s.

@@JohnPap21 in Turkey 70s, 80s there is Anatolian Rock !

Gloria is also a cover from Laura. The original was written and performed in italian language by Umberto Tozzi.

fr had friends doubt me

​@@LightMovies yeah and it sucks

A vero capolovaro !!

Stolen by Laura Branigan lol

@@venturidesign😂😂😂Laura is a cover

@@venturidesign laura is cover lmao this one is way older

@@giovannisantoni6326 Yes I know, Laura stole this song and Gloria.. my comment says "Stolen BY Laura Branigan" she stole this song

What about the recent Lee Cabrera version, and its remixes? There pretty good too.

😂😂😂.😂..b 😂T.t.😂 .n😂g SS g😂 the h

Both sounds are from 1984, nobody made it rain on anyone...both in Laura's and Raf's discography is from 1984...

si ma niente a che vedere con le due versioni degli anni 80@@simonhunter834

No, Laura's version of Self Control will always be in our hearts. It's way better and was way more successful. I can't stand RAF's version. The world came to know Self Control through Laura's version.

Brother do you live under a rock? Im 25 and I grew up on alot of this 80s music come on 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

@@bubblelex5051 Laura Branigan version is more popular thats why

@@Andy-bh8hw May be in the USA, not in Europe

I had to republish the comment due to not showing up on my browser, I am in my 20s and had great taste of music, mostly from the 80s. I was going to listen Laura Branigan's version few years ago until today, I came across with this first. I did listened to Laura's version shortly thereafter and It was ok, but I prefer Raf's version more.

Same!!! This is great - and he co-wrote it - beats Branigan’s cover all to hell. LOL

Because it IS 💯

sono un ragazzo di 19 anni, e ascolto questa musica, posso confermare pur non essendo della vecchia generazione, che queste canzoni sono le migliori

In Brazil, his version is more famous. I remember when I was 6-7 years old, I uused listening to this song in OST of a Brazlian novel.

​@@kokoxiv516000paq1q1

Italo Disco

agreed, it's a luxury to have two versions

monsteringly

@@lightningmcdweeb lol yeah

totally agree..every section is a song within its self - so many beautiful hooks n melodies in one song - epic - masterpiece

@@GeorgePMusic totally agree mate. and happy Christmas ;-)

Si pues recién me entero que la original es de raf y lo bueno que tiene su ritmo y más fuerza al cantarla

No se importa, la versión de Laura es lo mejor.

@@friendlycreature6375 Es cuestion de gustos pero sobre todo de dar el merito al autor sabiendo cual es la original y cual es la versión. Conociendo esto te puede gustar una más que otra. No es lo mismo componer que versionar.

Pues la verdad no la había escuchado con Raff asta qué salió en la película los despiadados y por eso me puse a buscarla y la verdad está hermosa está versión la voz la música me encantó qué yo creo qué la e oido unas 70 beses seguidas y es la original Laura Branigan se la copio y también su versión está suave

algo parecido pasa con la canción " No more "I love you's" "

There's a lot of love for the sound in 2019

some modern synthwave/outrun stuff sounds like this

also check out the labels "Bordello A Parigi" & ""Giallo Disco"

It will! It will return one day.

Trent Wishnowsky-Ward , check out the ‘New Retro Wave’ KZfaq channel

Grandissimo. Anche il tuo avatar, con il mitico Tomas Ravelli o “er monnezza” alias Tomas Millian (RIP), fa capire che ti piacevano quegli anni. Per la cronaca, ho qualche anno in meno ma li ho vissuti anche io (sono del ‘75)

Sono i migliori gli anni 80,pk li amo,anche se ho 9 anni

Mi aggrego … classe 68 .. che belle feste caspita … anni ‘80 i migliori anni della mia vita!!

Anni inarrivabili, sono del '66, siamo fortunati ad averli vissuti!

Spero che i preti abbiano tenuto le mani loro posto

Anche a me...anni bellissimi,musica top!!!

So do I.

We all do bro

Wrote by a producer named Bigazzi

@@morenaborsotti1436 - RAF is a co-writer. This version is the one Europe got first but not the USA.

I concur. This rocks the party. Props to RAF and Bigazzi, and to Laura for making a sick cover later on

@@lechanneldemysterieuxmante1807 A "sick" cover?!

Laura Brannigan did a way better version

They both slap.

The original version is that of RAF.

This is a very astute assessment of the two versions. Raf’s version has almost a menacing, nihilistic tone. Branigan’s is similarly ominous, but there’s a despair in her voice that betrays some shame in her abandonment. Perhaps the difference lies in the masculine/feminine perspective?

@@neildarling2404 could be. As far as I have found, the lyrics are constant in both versions. With Raf, it could be that since the "night" - I'm treating it as a character here, since it does have metaphorical elements indulging the protagonist ("City light, painted girl", "Wearin' white as you're walkin' / Down the street of my soul", "So I guess I just believe it that tomorrow never comes", "So I make myself believin' that this night will never go", "You take my self, you take my self-control") - is a constant entity, and eventually you have to indulge the night, the male decision making is more inclined towards the inevitable, the whole "if you can't beat them, join them" approach. But with Laura, truth be told, it could be argued that the female is literally using the exact same lyrics, and pointing out not that nihilism but the very uncomfortable submission to these whims, and that it is made worse because Laura - excellent singer that she is - sings it with that nihilism upfront. What I'm getting at is you empathize with Raf, but you relate with Laura. Raf is implicit - which is a European thing if you consider it - whereas Laura's interpretation is exceptionally explicit. Raf is a guy telling his mate he's been wrecked, and you'd imagine it happening in a club or a bar. With Laura, you imagine it being anyone, walking back home, if they're living in sinful districts. Hamburg's Reeperbahn and St. Pauli are examples where people actually do live there, and that's the red district. You can apply both versions of the song there, and they both would be apt. For all intents and purposes, the song is immortal. Lyrically it is dope. And in the hand of a good artist it really is able to leave a mark. Raf did that, so did Laura.

Me too!😀👍

But Laura Brannigan version is way better that's why people forgot this version

this version needs to be in GTA 6

@@GTSN38 What makes Brannigan's cover better? The original version helped to changed music history and the cover is an over produced main stream song that is irrelevant in music history.

@@yikwanwong8267 Laura Brannigan sings better and she's hot , that's what makes it better

@@GTSN38 It's go time, meet me in the Applebee's parking lot.

and then performed "Gente Di Mare" at Eurovision 1987

& ti a mo..& i must say that Laura B. sing it so beatiful👍👌❤🎤..Still RIP Laura B🌹⚘🕯..We lost a good singer frome the 80s..But i hope u r still singing ur good songs in heaven & r still a star🌟 up there..!..

@@tanjaamundsen3673 I love the Italian versions, but her voice is simply amazing. The songs take on a whole new level when she sings them...

Wow, thanks for that info

And he co-wrote the other two Italian Branigan songs

same here in Brazil, except that the day when the original arrived never happened....😄 I discovered that song today. But I definitely prefer the original!

Es correcto, amigo. Acá en México conocimos esta grandiosa canción gracias al cover de Laura Branigan. Sin duda la original es una obra maestra.

Italians do it better

​@@angeldejesuscontreras315Asta hoy veo tu comentario carnalito, un saludo desde Guanatos!

He made other good songs, one in particular i remember lovin is Ti Pretendo. I was little but I loved that song

He did get royalties for the song

becouse he didnt do too many song in this style.. he himself didnt want to do this song in firstplace. He did for the money and ended up with a masterpeace by accident

Likely because Laura Branigan recorded and released a cover of it. He might have had to forfeit any American release of it in the process. There would have been no sense of Branigan recording and releasing a cover of it if his record of it was available at the same time in America to buy as a single.

Iconic!!!

Music of logic and math

"Every song performed by italian artists left their mark in music history"??!! Don't push it....

Italo viva

​@@jis87BEyeah

❤ vero ....

🖤

Ciao ☺️

pietro5000pp No, you don't care. Dont take decisions about others, they have a free right to their own opinion!

geen hokjesmens But... Who cares that this is a original one? Everybody here wanted to listen to great music :P

Maybe you can tell me?

pietro5000pp I cared. :/ I like to go back to original versions of songs to see how they began before the later versions that sometimes become more famous.

+pietro5000pp I'm sure people are here yelling and saying that Raf stole the song.. which is wrong. The Original comment is a nice heads up :) I greatly prefer Laura's version to any other one (not that this one is bad) but, that is often the case when the version I hear first is my favorite.

Io ho visuto gli anni 80 e 90 in germania! Anche eran lo tiempo piu bello!! Neue deutsche welle, bellissimos❤

she’s dead..

Ella es de padres italianos

@@rubenmartinez1511Entonces ella le debe toda su carrera y su vida también a los italianos

very true, all of her biggest hits were the work of others which she never ever gave credit to, her other massive hit Gloria was an Umberto Tozzi song. RAF's original would of been a global hit if given the same distribution, I hope he received the royalty cash at least.

@@john1070 Gloria was also stolen from another Italian, all her hits were stolen from others! shameless! RAFS version is the original and the best, he wrote it after all.

They are Italian angels. I’ve been replaying this because I never experienced the original

I mean it is almost exact copy

That’s the original, stop!

Ich weiss es nicht . So kann ich nicht beurteilen . Aber die Version von Laura ist die bessere . Ich meine : Die Stimme. Oder besser gesagt: Die Stimme vom Herzen . Vielleicht ist das nur die Nostalgie .

Laura version was authorized, licensed to her, she knew both the composer and RAF and many other italian artists and she did a very nice work. Laura version is more popular and known cause the song was an hit in the USA and rest of the world, Laura version is in GTA Vice City soundtrack, not a case. 80's at their essence.

This is the original one!!!!

The same can be said of Dolly's "I Will Always Love You" vs. Whitney's version (I like both). Same thing can be said for Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" vs. Johnny Cash's version (Cash's version is superior IMO).

The different mood comes from the record’s producer and the sound they bring to the table.

Bad?? You are crazy.

Well this is more gay! 😂😂😆

@B3ro1080 🤷‍♂️🤔 opinions! I Like both! But more Lauras actually! 😄

I still spin this as a dj, with the 12" rap at the end

Here i am❤

Who was in Berlin in 1984?

È Una canzone eterna. Si ascolterà sempre.

😊

Quando la musica poteva considerarsi tale. Anni in cui l'Italia sapeva fare musica e innovare

​@@sasuke__97eravamo noi i maestri della disco music in Europa e nel mondo.

Meglio dell'originale, quella di Raf

Quanti ricordi!! Ero proprio giovane

"city light painted girls", not "city life, painted girls". Referencing how people look with the city lights illuminating their skin, nothing to do with paint.

Oh, the night is my world City light painted girl In the day nothing matters It's the night time that flatters In the night, no control Through the wall something's breaking Wearing white as you're walkin' Down the street of my soul You take my self, you take my self control You got me livin' only for the night Before the morning comes, the story's told You take my self, you take my self control Another night, another day goes by I never stop myself to wonder why You help me to forget to play my role You take my self, you take my self control I, I live among the creatures of the night I haven't got the will to try and fight Against a new tomorrow So I guess I'll just believe it That tomorrow never comes A safe night (you take my self, you take my self control) I'm living in the forest of my dream (you take my self, you take my self control) I know the night is not as it would seem (you take my self, you take my self control) I must believe in something So I'll make myself believe it (you take my self, you take my self control) This night will never go Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh... Oh, the night is my world City light painted girl In the day nothing matters It's the night time that flatters I, I live among the creatures of the night I haven't got the will to try and fight Against a new tomorrow So I guess I'll just believe it Tomorrow never knows A safe night (you take my self, you take my self control) I'm living in the forest of my dream (you take m yself, you take my self control) I know the night is not as it would seem (you take m yself, you take my self control) I must believe in something So I'll make myself believe it (you take my self, you take my self control) This night will never go Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh Oh-oh-oh... You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) You take my self, you take my self control (oh-oh-oh) Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Giancarlo Bigazzi / Raffaele Riefoli / Stephen Vincent Piccolo Self Control lyrics © Sugarmusic S.p.a., Sugarmusic Edizioni Musicali S R L

Bravo

But you know, slightly misheard lyrics definitely help create later versions of many songs. This is how art and language progress, and endure, through the ages.

Король спиздевший песню...ну или Король пиздежа ......

Il migliore ❤️

Summer '84 for me too. A seven year-old kid on vacation in Italy, this song always brings me back.

Because u prefer this, me too 💝😉

Because u have good aesthetics

It was never released in America. Likely Raf opted for just having Laura Branigan cover it rather than have an American major record label pass on it or having some independent record label in America give him a paltry fee for it.

@@RocStarr913 Probable. LB had already covered a song (Gloria by Umberto Tozzi) that had in common with Self Control the same author (Giancarlo Bigazzi). So they already knew her. They must have thought it was easier to monetize this way.

I saw this on Spotify’s Italo Disco’s playlist and the title made me think of Laura Branigan’s somg which I didn’t even know was a cover

Jared Goolsby amen to that brother

You lost control in Guatemala! Me in Nicaragua nights! Love you guys

DAMN! Those Mayan women are BEAUTIFUL! LUCKY!!! 👍✊🐙

Jared you lucky bastard

Jared Goolsby hmm I prefer latinas of European heritage but to each his own!

Perche' RAF ha fatto questa canzone in inglese invece d'italiano?

​@@folgore1Ciao, perché all'epoca funzionavano molto di più, commercialmente, le canzoni in inglese, soprattutto agli esordi! Lo spiegò pure Raf in un'intervista negli anni '90 🙌

​@@folgore1molti italiani tra attori e cantanti usavano adottare nomi, stili e repertori in lingua inglese o francese in quegli anni, in Italia erano cool!

@@neverquit2470 ​ @mariomasala._ Interesessante! Durante visite in Italia, ho sempre notato che gli italiani erano sempre aperto a cose straniere e anche diverse frase in inglese.

@@folgore1 🤗

Via Verdi too

Novecento

I guess it depends where you're from - loved Canadian 80's music as well as the German Neue Deutsche Welle :) but great song here

@@MartinaDeir check out Mr Flagio ( take a chance) ...and you’ll see what a mean xx

no

If you want to bring back Italian disco, you know who to call...Giorgio Moroder!

@@jaguilar300 he 82. he ain’t be makin no music soon 😆

@@jessihawkins9116 Why not? As far as I can tell, Giorgio's still actively composing music. John Williams is 90 and still scoring movie soundtracks. He did ALL 9 Star Wars movies through 2019 and other current ones, guest conducts orchestras, and cuts a few albums too. 🙂

@@jaguilar300 he to old bruh time to move on. get with today music their plenty smart musician now.

I dont think so, i think both artist are good, only are a differet versions, greetings.

Laura Brannigan kicks this fruitcakes ass

me too

What cover?

@@sacredgeometry this is not her song, its Raf-self control

This version sucks

@@chriskimmel7252 both are good

Of course he did a good job - he wrote the song!

This is the original song . The Song was written by an italian autore Mr. BIGAZZI. Any other versions are covers

Capolavoro assoluto

TassieLorenzo none. it's Italo Disco

@@ugoriccio642 it has elements of both

Salam Bro 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

Gamer Boy • 1999 years ago alaikom salam 😉

@@mertnebicakal442 Bro We Need This Song To Next GTA 6, Enough Done With Laura

☝️

here! :-)

shawnTL its better than all today

Here!

me

Buongiorno meravigliosa bellissima come prima

indeed is the famous italian song from 1983,the italian renassaince of the 80's(the end 70's for us italian was very harsh,the 80's mainly a paradise..)

Bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏

@@cruzboitnott75 sorry bat absolutely no

I'm looking for the version featured in the Knight Rider episode 'Halloween Knight', neither Raf or Laura Branigan (instrumentals sound closer to the latter). So frustrating!

y entonces? and so?