Gonna Make You Sweat

C+C Music Factory | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GMVHQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MiniDisc  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,231 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

2. Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll

3. Things That Make You Go Hmmm....

4. Just a Touch of Love (Everyday)

5. A Groove of Love (What's This Word Called Love?)

6. Live Happy

7. Oooh Baby

8. Let's Get Funkee

9. Givin' It to You

10. Bang That Beat

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BRINGS BACK SOME EARLY '90S MEMORIES!, January 23, 2002

By 

J. Johnson "capricornrising1" (CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Gonna Make You Sweat (Audio CD)

Remember C+C Music Factory?
Well,if you don't,I'll do a quick little refresher.Robert Clivalles and the late David Cole were the hottest producing team in late '80s dance music.Janet Jackson,Natalie Cole,Fleetwood Mac,among others got remixes from them and in 1990,they produced a hit album for the long-gone(and long out-of-print) girl group Seduction(remember "Two To Make It Right"-that was them!).Around that time,the two decided to become a peforming unit with two of their discoveries(an attractive Liberian girl named Zelma Davis and a Brooklyn-born rapper named
Freedom Williams).

Since the two producers(Clivelles & Cole) weren't proper singers or dancers,they recriuted Davis to sing and Freedom to rap.

OK,you got everything now? Good.

C+C Music Factory released their debut,"Gonna Make You Sweat" in
1990 and the album and C+C were huge.
Now,I bet,everyone has heard the ubiqtious title track before
or the percolating spunk of "Things That Make You Go Hmm" but there's more here that well..."makes you sweat".

The "Gonna Make You Sweat"-sound-a-like "Here We Go(Let's Rock & Roll)" was a Top 5 hit in '91 and boy,does it get you moving!
If I was an excerise instructor,this song would be played non-stop during our workouts! The reggae-tinged "Ooh Baby" is another winner.On this cut,we hear the vocals of,get this,David Cole.The beat on "Ooh Baby" is a slighty slowed down house tempo but still makes you move.This should've been a single,if you ask me.

As you probably can tell,I really miss the '90s(especially the
early-to-mid) and C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat"
brings back several memories of the period.
So,almost 11 years later,what happened to C+C Music Factory?

Well,unfortanly David Cole passed away in 1995(R.I.P.) while Robert C. still actively produces(he produced Aretha Franklin's
1993 club hit "A Deeper Love").As far as I know,Zelma is M.I.A.
and so is Freedom(speaking of Freedom,he released a self-titled
solo album on Columbia in 1993).
WOW...C+C were hot back in the day and they were better than the other faceless Euro-dance acts that coughed up some pop hits in the early 9-0s(Snap!,Technotronic,The K.L.F.,Black Box,etc.).

But whatever C+C's former members are up to now,"Gonna Make You Sweat" is going to make you do just that-SWEAT!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everybody dance now! Hot dance album to this day!, June 15, 2006

By 

Preston (nc) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gonna Make You Sweat (Audio CD)

C+C Music Factory had a hot dance album when it came out in 1990! Most of those songs from that album I still love to this day. Freedom Williams' raps rock hard on all the numbers. And while they apologized to Martha Wash in later years for not crediting her in the songs, she sounds dynamite on the ones she sang on here! David Cole and Robet Clivilles' music playing on the album with their rapid paced keyboard playing and rhythms are just superb on all the tracks. Gonna Make You Sweat, Things that Make You Go Hmmm, Here We Go (which is kind of similar to Sweat), Just A Touch of Love, and that long ambient 9-minute
song in the middle are strong standouts. Keep in mind that dance music was hugely popular in late 1990 and early 1991 and this really represented that time well before everybody shifted to slower, calmer songs. They performed in later years at some clubs worldwide, but not with the relentless peak of back then.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A watershed release that is a real classic gem for all times!, May 27, 2006

By 

Distant Voyageur "Nicholas Computer" (Io) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gonna Make You Sweat (Audio CD)

The closing months of the 1980s and the early 1990s I think were among the greatest watershed years in the history of techno-dance music. Wildly popular in Chicago at the time, I have fond memories of these songs when I was seven and/or eight years old when these were new. Now at the ripe old age of 23, I still love these songs from this era. "Gonna Make You Sweat" captures among the most glorious of this phenomenal era in music history.

C+C Music Factory have sadly been somewhat tainted with accusations of the singer in the music videos of their hit singles featuring the women singers actually lipsinching as the actual singer who sang that piercing vocal of "EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!!!!" at the beginning of the title track was none other than Marsha Wash!