“Let's Go All The Way” by Sly Fox

"Let's Go All the Way" is the single that made Sly Fox's name, released in 1985 off the American new wave duo's debut album of the same title, and it crept up on people: a sleeper that needed another year to crack the top 10, in America and Britain alike. Gary "Mudbone" Cooper wrote the words and music.

It opens on a chant run through a synthesizer, looping over a nagging buzz, until the drums and a synth riff kick in and Cooper and Michael Camacho arrive in harmony, tossing in deadpan affirmations along the way. The title, repeated in the chorus, often gets heard as a come-on, which is a misreading. Original MTV veejay Martha Quinn counted it among the funkiest songs ever. Nothing the pair released later lived up to it, and they sometimes get filed as a one-hit wonder.

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