Song · The Time
“Jungle Love” by The Time
From the album Ice Cream Castle (1984)
“Jungle Love” by The Time appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1984 and 2021. It was first released in 1984 on the album Ice Cream Castle. Its best result is #58 on the KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #112 alternative song of 1984.
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"Jungle Love" is the strut at the center of Ice Cream Castle, the Time's third album, released in 1984, though it was cut back in late March 1983, in the middle of Prince's 1999 tour. This time the band got a real hand in it: Morris Day and Jesse Johnson share the writing credit with Prince, Day handles the lead vocal and the drum machine, a Linn LM-1 he programmed himself, Johnson supplies the guitar, and Prince, who produced and engineered it, covers bass, synthesizer and the rest.
Carried along by the Purple Rain momentum, it reached 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, the Time's second-best pop showing up to then. It has had a long life on stage too: the band played it in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and a 1998 live take turned up on Morris Day's It's About Time in 2004.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 58 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1984 | 106 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 190 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '80s | 909 |
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