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Music video. "Pump Up the Volume" on YouTube. " Pump Up the Volume " is the only single by British recording act M|A|R|R|S. Recorded and released in 1987, it was a number-one hit in many countries and is regarded as a significant milestone in the development of British house music [1] and music sampling. The song derives its title directly from ...
English. Box office. $11.5 million (United States) [1] Pump Up the Volume is a 1990 American coming-of-age teen drama film written and directed by Allan Moyle. The film stars Christian Slater, Scott Paulin, Ellen Greene, and Samantha Mathis.
Todd Rigione. Pump Up the Volume (Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to Allan Moyle 's 1990 drama film Pump Up the Volume. It was released on August 14, 1990 through MCA Records. The album peaked at number 50 on the US Billboard 200 chart. Professional ratings.
"Pump Up the Volume" was released on 4th & B'way/Island Records in the US. [1] Because of legal issues, some of the samples used in the original UK release of the song were removed and replaced in the US release. It was nominated for the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance, but lost out to "Close-Up" by David Sanborn.
The lines "Pump up the volume" and "Def with the record" are sampled from Eric B. & Rakim's own song "I Know You Got Soul", also from Paid in Full. [2] Other sample sources present in the remix include an anonymous James Brown, Don Pardo, the Peech Boys and the Salsoul Orchestra. "Paid In Full" is believed to be the first hip hop record to ...
It parodied sample-laden tracks of the era, such as Bomb The Bass's "Beat Dis" and M/A/R/R/S's "Pump Up the Volume", which had been a No. 1 hit single in the UK the previous year. [7] The success of "Pump Up the Bitter" gave Star Turn on 45 (Pints) an appearance on BBC Television's Top of the Pops. [8] Various subsequent releases were not big ...
The band had an international hit in 1987 with "Pump Up the Volume", a collaboration with A.R. Kane under the name MARRS. [1] The song was notable for being constructed almost entirely from samples of other records, a novelty for a popular record at that time, though Colourbox themselves had been using sampling extensively since their 1983 mini ...
"Everybody Knows" has been widely used in television and film. Allan Moyle's 1990 film Pump Up the Volume features the song prominently. A favorite of protagonist Mark Hunter (Christian Slater, as the operator of an FM pirate radio station), Cohen's song is played from an on-screen phonograph several times during Mark's clandestine broadcasts.