What album was the song "Express Yourself" on?
Express Yourself (N.W.A song)
"Express Yourself" is a song recorded by American hip hop group N.W.A, performed solo by Dr. Dre. The song, off their 1988 album "Straight Outta Compton", samples Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's song of the same name. Unlike most songs on the album and by N.W.A, the song is devoid of profanity. "Express Yourself" was released in 1989 as the album's last single, the album version of the track features rap vocals from Dr. Dre only whereas the 2002 reissue, single edition and video version features small verses from MC Ren and Ice Cube, the writer of the song. The song reached number 26 in the UK in September 1989.
Exile (Gary Numan album)
The US edition of "Exile" included one extra track, a live recording of "Down in the Park", previously released on the double album "Ghost" (1987); Numan, who did not approve its inclusion, presumed that his record label did it to link him to Marilyn Manson and other artists who had recently covered the song. An extended version of "Exile", nearly twice as long as the original, was released in 1998. Numan toured the UK and US in support of the album to largely sell-out crowds, a concert recording from this period called "Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire" (US title "Live in London") eventually being released in 2004.
Tulsa Time
"Tulsa Time" is a song written by Danny Flowers and recorded by American country music artist Don Williams. It was released in October 1978 as the first single from the album "Expressions". It was Williams' eighth number one on the country chart, spending a single week at number one and eleven weeks in the top 40. It was also recorded by Eric Clapton for his 1978 album "Backless" and a live version by Clapton from his album "Just One Night" became a #30 "Billboard" hit in 1980.
Discovering Yourself
Discovering Yourself is an EP from French soprano Emma Shapplin. The songs on the EP were later included on re-issues of Shapplin's album Carmine Meo.
1989 MTV Video Music Awards
Madonna – "Express Yourself" (Director: David Fincher)
Show Yourself
The song comes from the band's seventh studio album, "Emperor of Sand", a concept album which explores heavy themes such as humanity's existence and limited mortality through the scenario of a person being diagnosed with cancer and going through chemotherapy. The song lyrically plays into the same concepts, with lines such as "You're not as safe as far as I can tell, and I can tell /Only you can save yourself/ Soon this will all be a distant memory/ Or could this dream be real at all?" While the band is known for music that is progressive rock and complicated in structure, the song relatively straightforward, with "Rolling Stone" describing the track as "relatively stripped-down, melodic and direct. 'Show Yourself' erupts from a straight-ahead riff layered with spasms of wild guitar from Brent Hinds. The song features a guitar solo by Hinds as well. Stereogum noted that, while the band's first single, "Sultan Curse" contained the atmosphere of their earlier work, "Show Yourself" instead sounded like the "grungy chug-brood more in line with the work that the band has been doing in recent years". Dailor summed up the song as "super-poppy” by Mastodon standards, while still dealing with the same themes of death and sadness".
Express Yourself (album)
The album "Express Yourself" was hailed as "a masterpiece" in the press. "Erik van der Luijt knows his Oscar Peterson, Tommy Flanagan and Bill Evans and used their influences to create an exquisite mixture in which coquetry and adventure go hand-in-hand. At times he even comes close to Flanagan's masterpiece Jazz Poet. Those who know this monument from the piano discography, appreciate that there is hardly a bigger compliment." - Jeroen de Valk, Het Utrechts NieuwsbladAll music composed by Erik van der Luijt
Free Yourself (Experience Unlimited album)
Free Yourself is the debut studio album released in 1977 by the Washington, D.C.-based go-go band Experience Unlimited.
Noisettes
In 2016, The Noisettes cover version of the 1970 R&B hit Express Yourself, was used in a season 3 episode of the TV Series The Flash.
You Enjoy Myself
You Enjoy Myself, commonly abbreviated to "YEM" is a Phish song written by Trey Anastasio. It is the band's most frequently played song, having been featured — as of August 2012 — at about 35% of their 1,566 shows. The song is also one of the oldest in Phish's catalog, having been first performed live on February 3, 1986. Keyboardist Page McConnell revealed on "Nightline" with Ted Koppel that "You Enjoy Myself" was his favorite Phish song.
Exodus (soundtrack)
Other versions were recorded by Eddie Harris, Edith Piaf, Mantovani, Peter Nero, Connie Francis, the 1960s British instrumental band The Eagles, and The Duprees, who sang the theme with lyrics written by Pat Boone. Hard rock guitarist Leslie West performed the song with his earliest band The Vagrants and also in subsequent bands. The band The Skatalites recorded a ska-version of the theme, which was covered by Bad Manners on the 1982 album Forging Ahead. Pianist George Greeley recorded a 10 1/2 minute concert version on his 1961 Warner Bros. album "Popular Piano Concertos of Famous Film Themes." Other artists included piano player Anthony Burger for the Homecoming titled "I Do Believe", a disco version titled "Exo-Disco" by Huey Lewis & the American Express, a remix by techno-crossover pianist Maksim Mrvica, and it has even been used as the sample for the T.I. song "Bankhead". The original version was used as a theme song for professional wrestler Mr. Perfect, and later a takeoff of the original version would become his longtime theme song. Trey Spruance of the Secret Chiefs 3 rescored the theme for "surf band and orchestra" on the album 2004 "Book of Horizons". The Chopsticks (a Hong Kong female duo, made up of Sandra Lang (仙杜拉) and Amina (亞美娜)), covered this as a medley song with "Hava Nagila" on their 1971 album "All of a Sudden". The artist Nina Paley used the entire theme song to satirical effect in her animated short, titled after the lyrics, "This Land is Mine" in 2012, which was worked into her 2018 film "Seder-Masochism". Furthermore, Howard Stern tends to use it for comedic effect when discussing aspects of Jewish life.
Enjoy Yourself (Kylie Minogue album)
Enjoy Yourself is the second studio album by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue, released by PWL on 9 October 1989. In the United States, it was released in 1990 by Geffen Records and was Minogue's last album released in the region until her eighth studio album, "Fever" (2001). The album was produced and written by Stock Aitken Waterman, with the exception of "Tears on My Pillow".
Lay Down Beside Me
Williams later released his own version which was released as the second single from his 1979 album, "Expressions". The single reached No. 3 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in 1979.
Come Go with Me (Exposé song)
In 1985 Exposé had two club hits, "Point of No Return" and "Exposed to Love". Between 1985 and 1986, the three original members of Exposé left the group and were replaced by Jurado, Bruno and Curless. These new members re-recorded vocals on "Point of No Return" and both songs were included on the album. Although "Come Go with Me" was the third single released from "Exposure", the other two songs were familiar to fans of the group and its music.
Elis Paprika
After being denied to release the songs she recorded that May, Elis Paprika entered the studio once more in Guadalajara at Richo Acosta's personal studio, who was then the band’s guitar player, to record new and previously unreleased songs. "Express" was released, produced by Richo Acosta, and licensed to EMI Music México for distribution, in October 2009, being this her first record to officially be promoted since "Give Me Love" in 2006. The first single from "Express" was "Tarde o Temprano" which received excellent reviews and public acceptance.
As "Express" was coming out, a few differences with the rest of her band began to surface.
Express Yourself (N.W.A song)
German metal band Rammstein sampled the intro to "Express Yourself", albeit slower, in their song "Klavier" off their sophomore album Sehnsucht.
Exposé (group)
In March 1987, the new lineup of Exposé released its debut album "Exposure" on Arista Records, led by the pop/dance hit "Come Go with Me" which reached #5 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 chart. During the summer of 1987, a re-recorded version of "Point of No Return" was released, with Jurado now performing lead vocals, and it too topped out at #5 on the US Hot 100. While the initial distribution of "Exposure" to suppliers contained the original 1984 version of that song, subsequent pressings contained the new version. "Let Me Be the One", a mid-tempo R&B song with Bruno on lead vocal, became yet another hit reaching #7 on the US Hot 100 and also garnering significant R&B radio airplay. The group's highest charting hit occurred in February 1988 with the #1 US hit ballad "Seasons Change". Along with that came a Soul Train Award nomination for Best New Artist; television appearances on "American Bandstand", "Solid Gold", "Showtime at the Apollo", and "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers"; and the group was tapped to be the opening act for Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam during its national tour.
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
After a small saxophone interlude, a break-down comes with Madonna singing in a fuller voice, as horns and percussion beats continue. Madonna changes the lyrics at the end to "express himself", and after another repetition of the bridge and the intermediate verse, the chorus comes where she changes the lyrics back to the original title. The song ends with the words "respect yourself" fading out. Set within a simple song structure, "Express Yourself" plays with ambiguity through a subtle control of harmony and the avoidance of diatonic closure. The song appears to be in the key of G major but its actual composition seems to be written in the key of C major. But the first note of the melody, "don't" in B major, implies the G Dorian mode. This is also evident in Madonna's vocal nuance on the words "express yourself", which initially centers on G, before moving down a semitone to E minor, the raised 6th in G Dorian. Per the sheet music published by Alfred Publishing Co. Inc., "Express Yourself" is set in time signature of common time, with a tempo of 120 beats per minute. Madonna's voice range spans from G to C with a chord progression of G–F/G–C–G.
What You Don't Know (Exposé song)
"What You Don't Know" is a 1989 song by the American girl group Exposé. It was written and produced by the group's founder, Lewis Martineé, and appears on Exposé's second album, "What You Don't Know". 
Lead vocals on "What You Don't Know" were performed by Gioia Bruno.
Alexz Johnson
Alexz Johnson could be seen in 2001 during her episode with Disney Channel's "Express Yourself" citing Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Sarah McLachlan as vocal influences. She states: "Women who just write their own music and sing what they feel, it just really inspires me."
Heartbreak Express
Heartbreak Express in the twenty-fifth solo studio album by Dolly Parton. It was released on March 29, 1982, by RCA Records. The album returned Parton to a more fully realized country sound (a process she had begun on the previous year's "9 to 5 and Odd Jobs"), after her late 1970s pop recordings. The album's first single, "Single Women", a slow-tempo honkytonk ballad about a singles bar, was written by "Saturday Night Live" writer Michael O'Donoghue, and had previously appeared in an "SNL" skit in late 1980. The single provided a top ten single for Parton. The title cut also was a top ten hit for her. "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind" (a song Parton had written in the early 1970s but had never "officially" recorded) appeared as a double-A-sided single (along with Parton's rerecording of "I Will Always Love You" from the "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Soundtrack"), and reached #1 on the country charts in August 1982.
Trans-Europe Express (album)
"Trans-Europe Express" charted higher in the United States than Kraftwerk's previous album "Radio-Activity" by peaking at number 117 on the "Billboard" Top LPs & Tapes chart.
"Trans-Europe Express" and "Showroom Dummies" were released as singles from the album. "Trans-Europe Express" charted on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in 1977 where it peaked at number 67. "Trans-Europe Express" began charting in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. The album entered the charts on 6 February 1982, staying in the charts for seven weeks and peaking at number 49. The single for "Showroom Dummies" entered the charts on 20 February 1982, staying on the charts for five weeks and peaking at number 25.
Enrique Iglesias
"Escape" is his biggest commercial success to date. The singles "Escape" and "Don't Turn Off The Lights" became radio staples, faring well and placing highly or topping various charts both in North America and elsewhere. A second edition of the album was released internationally and contained a new version of one of Iglesias's favorite tracks, "Maybe", as well as a duet with Lionel Richie called "To Love a Woman".
Dreamin' (album)
Dreamin' is the second studio album by Liverpool Express, released in early 1978. The album features the band's last UK Top 40 hit, "Dreamin'". Like the previous two singles, "Dreamin'" reached No. 1 in Brazil. This album was released in South America only.
There You Go (Exile song)
"There You Go" is a song recorded by American country music group Exile. It was released in December 1990 as the fourth single from the album "Still Standing". The song reached #32 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by Randy Sharp and Donny Lowery.
Roger Scott Craig
Liverpool Express experienced chart success with "You Are My Love", mentioned by Paul McCartney as one of his favourite love songs, plus "Everyman Must Have A Dream", "Dreamin", "Hold Tight", and "Smile". They toured the UK and Europe supporting Rod Stewart, released more singles, and were successful in South America (they were the first band to play large stadiums in Brazil). They later played at the Royal Gala Performance at the request of Prince Charles, at the Empire Theatre in Liverpool. After three albums, they had no further chart success.
Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue
Your Baby Never Looked Good in Blue is a single by Exposé, released on March 21, 1990. Written by Diane Warren and produced by Lewis Martineé, the song was included on the group's second studio album, "What You Don't Know". Lead vocals on the track were performed by Jeanette Jurado. The song was the fourth single released from "What You Don't Know", and it is a romance-themed ballad sung from the perspective of a person whose lover is rumored to have "found someone new".
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
"Express Yourself" was released in the United Kingdom on June 3, 1989, and entered the UK Singles Chart at number ten, moving to its peak of number five the next week. "Express Yourself" was the 20th best-selling song of 1989 in the UK, with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) certifying it silver, for shipment of 200,000 copies of the single. According to the Official Charts Company, the song has sold 209,000 copies there. "Express Yourself" was Madonna's sixth number one single on the European Hot 100 Singles chart, reaching the top on July 1, 1989, and staying at number one for three weeks. In Belgium, "Express Yourself" debuted at number 16 on the Ultratop chart on June 10, 1989, and reached a peak of number three. In the Netherlands, "Express Yourself" debuted at number 27 on the Dutch Top 40, and reached a peak of five on July 1, 1989. The song reached a peak of number three in Germany, where it remained for two weeks, before spending a total of 18 weeks on the chart. On the Swiss Singles Chart, "Express Yourself" was one of the highest debuting song on the issued dated June 11, 1989. After seven weeks, the song reached the top of the chart for one week, becoming Madonna's third number-one single there.
I Love the '80s (U.S. TV series)
End Credit Video is Madonna's "Express Yourself"
Show Yourself
"Show Yourself" is a single by American progressive metal band Mastodon, off of their studio album "Emperor of Sand". It peaked at number 4 on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2017, making it their highest charting song to date.
Is It Love You're After
"Is It Love You're After?" is a 1979 song by Rose Royce from the album which was the last album with lead singer Gwen Dickey before she left to embark on a solo career. It was also the band's fourth highest charting single in the UK. The hook/riff of the song was sampled for S'Express' 1988 song Theme From S'Express which reached no. 1 in the US & UK.
Exposure (Exposé album)
Exposure is the debut studio album by American girl group Exposé, released on March 2, 1987. It reached number sixteen on the "Billboard" 200 and number twenty on the R&B albums chart and was certified double platinum by the RIAA in May 1990. The album spawned four top-ten singles on the "Billboard" Hot 100 chart, including "Seasons Change", which topped the chart in February 1988. Other hit singles were the breakthrough hit "Come Go with Me" (number 5 U.S.), a re-recorded version of the song "Point of No Return" (number 5 U.S.) and "Let Me Be the One" (number 7 U.S.). This was the first debut album by a group to feature four top-ten "Billboard" pop hits – a feat Cyndi Lauper achieved as a solo artist with her 1983 album "She's So Unusual".
Euphoria (Enrique Iglesias album)
"Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" was released as the first single from the reissue of the album on 1 November 2010. The track features American rapper Ludacris. The song topped US Hot Dance Club Songs, becoming the Male Artist with the most #1 songs on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart. The song also topped US Radio Songs and US Pop Songs, making the song Enrique's biggest airplay hit in his career. The song was performed for the first time at American Music Awards. It reached number 4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.
Kiss You All Over
"Kiss You All Over" is a 1978 song performed by the group Exile. It was written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn. It was included on the band's album "Mixed Emotions", and it featured Jimmy Stokley and guitarist JP Pennington on lead vocals.
Personal Jukebox (album)
"Personal Jukebox" also contains four singles from Alice's then most recent pop albums "Exit" (1998) and "Charade" (1995), the original versions of "In viaggio sul tuo viso" from "Mezzogiorno sulle Alpi" (1992) and "Visioni" from "Il sole nella pioggia" (1989) licensed from EMI, as well as new interpretations of some of her best-known songs from the 1980s, among them "Chan-son Egocentrique" (a duet with Italian alternative rock band Bluvertigo), "Prospettiva Nevski", "A Cosa Pensano", "Nomadi", "Il vento caldo dell'estate", a technofied take on "Per Elisa" and an orchestral solo version of "I treni di Tozeur".
It's You Again (Exile song)
"It's You Again" is a song recorded by American country music group Exile. It was released in September 1988 as the fourth single from the album "Shelter from the Night". The song reached #21 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song was written by band members J.P. Pennington and Sonny LeMaire.
No Revolution
"No Revolution" is a single by the band The Explosion, released as the second single from their 2004 album "Black Tape" on August 2, 2005. The song was originally recorded for the band's 2000 album "Flash Flash Flash" but was rerecorded for "Black Tape". The music video features the band playing live. The song reached 107st in the UK single album list. The song has been featured in the soundtracks of the "Tony Hawk's Underground" in its original "Flash Flash Flash" version, and "NFL Street 2" and "" in its "Black Tape" version.
Like a Prayer (album)
The title track was released as the lead single on March 3, 1989. The song was acclaimed by critics, and was a commercial success. It became Madonna's seventh number-one single on the United States' Billboard Hot 100, and topped the singles charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom and other countries. "Express Yourself" was released as the second single from the album on May 9, 1989. The song received positive reviews from critics, who applauded the gender equality message of the song and complimented the song for being a hymn to freedom and encouragement to women and all oppressed minorities. Commercially, the song peaked at number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and became Madonna's sixth number-one hit on the European Hot 100 Singles chart. It also reached the top of the singles charts in Canada, Italy and Switzerland, and the top five elsewhere.
"Cherish" was released as the third single on August 1, 1989. After its release, the song received positive feedback from reviewers, who were surprised by the change of content and the lighter image of Madonna's music, unlike her previous singles from "Like a Prayer" which incorporated themes such as religion and sexuality. It was a commercial success, reaching the top-ten of the charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Italy, United Kingdom and the combined European chart. On the "Billboard" Hot 100, "Cherish" became Madonna's 16th consecutive top-five single, setting a record in the history of the chart. Released on October 24, 1989 as the fourth single, "Oh Father" received positive reviews from critics and authors, but commercially was less successful than Madonna's previous singles. In most of the countries where it was released, the song failed to attain top-ten positions, except in Finland and Italy, where it peaked at number six. It ended Madonna's string of 16 consecutive top five singles in the United States.
Use Your Heart
"Use Your Heart" is a song by American R&B trio SWV, released on July 30, 1996 as the second single from their album, "New Beginning" (1996). The song contains a sample of "If It Don't Turn You On (You Oughta Leave It Alone)", performed by B.T. Express, it was written and produced by The Neptunes.
Trans-Europe Express (album)
"Trans-Europe Express" charted at 119 on the American charts and was placed number 30 on the "Village Voice's" 1977 Pazz & Jop critics poll. Two singles were released: "Trans-Europe Express" and "Showroom Dummies". The album has been re-released in several formats and continues to receive acclaim. In 2014, the LA Times called it "the most important pop album of the last 40 years."
Expression (song)
The song became the group's second single to reach the top 40 in the US, peaking at number 28 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 while also topping the Hot Rap Singles chart at number one, becoming their first song to do so. The single was certified gold by the RIAA on February 28, 1990 before reaching platinum status less than three months later on May 25.
Express Yourself (Charles Wright &amp; the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band song)
The song was produced by Wright.
Expression (song)
The music video is notable for marking the directorial debut of director Millicent Shelton.
"Expression" was re-released in 1992 as the first (and only) single from Salt n Pepa's remix album, "Rapped in Remixes: The Greatest Hits Remixed".
The song peaked at number 23 in Ireland and the United Kingdom, which is higher than the original 1989 release.
1989 MTV Video Music Awards
Madonna – "Express Yourself" (Director of Photography: Mark Plummer)
The Human Expression
A compilation album, "The Human Expression & Other Psychedelic Groups", was released by the same label in 2000 and featured three of their songs (and virtually the same cover), plus additional recordings by several other bands. Though listed as a track unique to this CD, "Your Mind Works in Reverse" is the same song and recording as "Room of Shadows" which appears on some other Human Expression compilations. Whether this song is actually by the band or by Jim Quarles individually is unclear, although the unreleased songs on "Love at Psychedelic Velocity" are credited only to Quarles.
Free Expressions
Free Expressions is a studio album by Jamaican reggae female singer Etana, released on February 8, 2011, under VP Records. "Free Expressions" is 14 new songs that display her unique brand of pop-reggae, soulful voicing and personal lyrics on progressive one drop riddims with rock flavored instrumentation. Etana's debut "The Strong One" (VP1800) garnered multiple hits and established Etana as a fresh new female voice on the international scene. Her sophomore effort will elevate her to an even broader audience with infectious hooks of "I Know You Love Me", "My Name Is" (a remake of the hit by Japanese artist Pushim), "Free" and the first single "Heart Broken".
Bowes Park
Myddleton Road is included in some of the interior and exterior locations in the music video made by Free Seed Films for The Blockheads "Express Yourself" the first single from their 2013 album 'Same Horse Different Jockey'. The album was recorded at the Cowshed Studio in Myddleton Road Bowes Park.
Explode (Nelly Furtado song)
"Explode" is a song written by Canadian singer Nelly Furtado and Gerald Eaton for Furtado's second studio album, "Folklore" (2003). It is produced by Eaton and was released in September 2004 as the fourth single from the album. The single was released in Canada but not the US. The song charted in the top 40 in Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. Furtado said the song "came from a poem I wrote called "Teenage Waste". When you're a teenager, you want to try everything; you're like a little firecracker. Your wiser self is there, somewhere deep down, depending on how young or old your soul is. But it doesn’t always show itself. "Explode" is visceral; it's guttural. That's why part of the song uses terms from Capoeira, the Brazilian martial arts form. It touches on teenage experimentation and bliss and fun, but also on some violence and aggression."
Open Your Heart (Europe song)
"Open Your Heart" is a power ballad released by the Swedish heavy metal band Europe. It was released twice; in 1984 as a single from the album "Wings of Tomorrow", and in 1988 as a single from the album "Out of This World". The music video for the 1988 release was directed by Jean Pellerin and Doug Freel and shot in London, England.
Try It on My Own
The song became the project's third single and was released on February 11, 2003. It received acclaim from critics as well as fans; most of them who named it as the album's highlight. Like "Whatchulookinat" and "One of Those Days" before it, "On My Own" was a modest success, topping the "Billboard" Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart and reaching the top ten on the US Adult Contemporary charts. A music video, directed by David LaChapelle, was released to promote the single. Houston performed "Try It on My Own" on an episode of the television series "Boston Public" ("Chapter 66"), which first aired in May 2003, and on the 2003 "VH1 Divas Duets: An Honors Concert for the VH1 Save the Music Foundation".
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
"Express Yourself" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna, from her fourth studio album "Like a Prayer" (1989). It was released as the second single from the album on May 9, 1989 by Sire Records. The song was included on the greatest hits compilation albums "The Immaculate Collection" (1990), and "Celebration" (2009). "Express Yourself" was the first song that Madonna and producer Stephen Bray collaborated on for "Like a Prayer". Written and produced by them, the song was a tribute to American funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone. The main inspiration behind the song is female empowerment, urging women never to go for second-best and to always express their inner feelings.
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
"Express Yourself" has also influenced numerous music artists. Spice Girls member Melanie C said "Madonna was doing the girl power thing a long time before the Spice Girls... 'Express Yourself' is one of the routines that I know and I used to really like doing that one because it is where she shows her bra and holds her crotch." In 2010, singer Christina Aguilera paid tribute to "Express Yourself" with the music video of her single, "Not Myself Tonight". She commented "One of my favorite videos ever is 'Express Yourself' by Madonna which came across as really strong and empowering which I always try to incorporate through my expression of sexuality... I love the direct reference I made to Madonna with the eye glass moment and the smoke and stairs. I was paying tribute to a very strong woman who has paved the way before." James Montgomery from MTV deemed "Express Yourself" as the primary influence of Aguilera's video with scenes like Aguilera displaying a monocle, standing atop a flight of stairs and crawling across the floor while pouring a black liquid over herself. Similarities were also noted between "Express Yourself" and singer Lady Gaga's 2011 single "Born This Way" both in subject matter and composition. "I certainly think [Gaga] references me a lot in her work," Madonna said in the ABC interview. "And sometimes I think it's amusing and flattering and well-done. When I heard ['Born This Way'] on the radio ... I said, 'that sounds very familiar." Gaga herself addressed the comparisons on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", explaining that she had received an e-mail from Madonna's representatives, who had mentioned their support for "Born This Way". CNN later reported that Madonna's representatives denied of sending any approval. AllMusic also note a "striking similarity" between "Express Yourself" and Kylie Minogue's 1991 single "What Do I Have to Do", writing that "Kylie Minogue has always displayed a strong Madonna influence—something she's readily admitted to in interviews."Credits and personnel adapted from "Like a Prayer" album liner notes.
Exposed (Chanté Moore album)
Following the commercial success of her third studio album "This Moment Is Mine" and first Top 10 single "Chanté's Got a Man", the lead single "Straight Up" was released on March 19, 2000. The song became a commercial success overseas charting at number eleven in the United Kingdom and number twenty-two in France.
Electric Light Orchestra
In 1979, the multi-platinum album "Discovery" was released, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart. Although the biggest hit on the album (and ELO's biggest hit overall) was the rock song "Don't Bring Me Down", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence. "Discovery" also produced the hits "Shine a Little Love", their first and only no. 1 hit from 1972 to the present with any of the 4 major or minor US singles charts on "Radio & Records (R&R)", "Last Train to London", "Confusion" and "The Diary of Horace Wimp". Another song, "Midnight Blue", was released as a single in Southeast Asia. The band recorded promotional videos for all the songs on the album.
By the end of 1979 ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody/tribute song on the Randy Newman album "Born Again", titled "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band". During 1979 Jeff Lynne also turned down an invitation for ELO to headline the August 1979 Knebworth Festival concerts. That allowed Led Zeppelin the chance to headline instead. In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film "Xanadu", with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John. The movie performed poorly at the box office, but the soundtrack did exceptionally well, eventually going double platinum. The album spawned hit singles from both Newton-John ("Magic", a #1 hit in the United States, and "Suddenly" with Cliff Richard) and ELO ("I'm Alive", which went gold, "All Over the World" and "Don't Walk Away"). The title track, performed by both Newton-John and ELO, is ELO's only song to top the singles chart in the United Kingdom. More than a quarter of a century later, "Xanadu", a Broadway musical, based on the film, opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews. It received 4 Tony Award nominations. The musical received its UK premiere in London in October 2015. Casey Kasem called The Electric Light Orchestra a "7-man supergroup" and "amazing" for hitting The Top 40 a remarkable 6 times in a one-year period from August 1979 to August 1980 before playing "All Over the World" at #23
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
"Express Yourself" received mainly positive reviews from critics. J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of "" called the song a "funky dance anthem" and reacted positively to its message of a "female call-to-arms in communication and self-respect." Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" observed that Madonna repudiated the philosophy of her previous single "Material Girl" (1985) in "Express Yourself", which he described as "a 30-year-old's view of life unshadowed by rebellion and lingering lapsed Catholic pain." In another article from the same newspaper, Carn James declared it as one of her most exuberant songs. Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Freya Jarman-Ivens, authors of "Madonna's Drowned Worlds", complimented the lyrics of the song, and added that it apparently espouses "gender fluidity as a road to gender equality." In his book "Madonna As Postmodern Myth", journalist Georges Claude Guilbert described "Express Yourself" as a hymn to freedom, "an encouragement for all women and all oppressed minorities to resist, to express their ideas and their strength faced with tyranny."
Express (B. T. Express song)
"Express" is a 1974 song by B. T. Express. It made #4 on the US Pop Chart, #1 on the US R&B Chart, #1 on the US Dance Chart and #34 on the UK Singles Chart and a remix of it made #67 in the UK in 1994.
Express Yourself (album)
Express Yourself is a 2004 (see 2004 in music) album featuring a jazz trio, led by the Dutch jazz pianist and composer Erik van der Luijt.
Come Go with Me (Exposé song)
"Come Go with Me" is a song by American girl group Exposé from their debut studio album "Exposure" (1987). Composed and produced by Lewis A. Martineé, the song was released in January 1987 as the third single from "Exposure". The groups' second lineup recorded "Come Go with Me", with Jeanette Jurado singing lead vocals, and Gioia Bruno and Ann Curless singing backup. Some vocals from the original lineup of Exposé remain in the released track.
Grow Some Funk of Your Own
"Grow Some Funk of Your Own" is a song by Elton John. It was released as a single in 1976 and comes from his album "Rock of the Westies". It shared its A-side status with "I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford)". The song is considered to be one of John's heavier rock songs. The song went to #14 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, but in Britain broke a five-year run of successful singles by failing to reach the Top 50 despite extensive radio play.
Express Yourself (N.W.A song)
Labrinth released his own rendition of the song in 2012.
Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
"Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)" is the second single released from Styx's "The Grand Illusion" (1977) album. On the "Billboard" Hot 100 pop chart in the U.S., the single peaked at number 29. It also hit #20 on the Canada RPM Top Singles chart the week of May 6th 1978.
Starlight Express
Singles
Release Yourself
Release Yourself is second album by Graham Central Station, released in 1974. The cover photograph was taken at Old Saint Hilary's Church, Tiburon, California.
All songs written by Larry Graham except where indicated
The album peaked at number twenty-two on the Billboard Top Soul Albums in 1974.
You Enjoy Myself
The song was featured on Phish's first album "Junta", although a shorter, a cappella version appeared on their 1986 self-titled debut commonly known as "The White Tape". "You Enjoy Myself" is a staple of the group's popular live performances, and while the version that appears on "Junta" is under ten minutes long, live versions (especially after 1995) have regularly exceeded 25 minutes in length. The longest live version of the song to date, performed on October 31, 1995 during the band's Halloween show in Rosemont, IL, clocks in at over 40 minutes. The show was officially released as "Live Phish Volume 14".
Check Yo Self
The song is featured on Ice Cube's "Bootlegs & B-Sides" album and was later released on his "Greatest Hits" album. The clean version of "Check Yo Self (The Message Remix)" can be found in the video game, "", playing on the West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos and in the soundtrack of the movie "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay". A new recording, based on the original version of the song, featuring Chuck D was featured in the 2010 film "Due Date". In January 2010, Snoop Dogg released a cover version of the song. Guitarist Wayne Krantz included an instrumental version of the song (based on the "message remix" version) on his 2012 album "Howie 61".
Express (Dina Carroll song)
"Express" is a 1993 song by UK artist Dina Carroll. The record is her fifth single from her album "So Close". The song was a notable success in Europe, peaking at #12 in the UK charts.
Expression (song)
"Expression" is the lead single released from Salt-n-Pepa's third album, "Blacks' Magic". The song was both written and produced by member Cheryl "Salt" James.
She's My Ex
"She's My Ex" was released through Cruz Records in 1989 as a 10-inch and 12-inch single, cassette single, and CD single. Ilisa Katz provided the cover photograph, while Alvarez and Reynolds drew the illustrations for the back cover. Live recordings of "She's My Ex" were later released on All's live albums "Trailblazer" (1990) and "Live Plus One" (2001), the latter sung by Reynolds' successor Chad Price. The studio versions of "She's My Ex" and "Crazy?" were later remixed by Stevenson, Egerton, and Jason Livermore for All's best-of compilation album "All" (1999).
Exile (American band)
In 1977, the band released the single "Try it On" on Atco Records, and it became a minor hit. The following year, Mike Chapman, an Australian who had established himself as a record producer in the UK, came to the United States in search of an experienced group who wrote their own material. Chapman heard an Exile demo and went to their next concert. Chapman evidently enjoyed what he saw. He and Exile decided to collaborate and together they produced the "Mixed Emotions" album on Warner/Curb Records. The first single release from that album was Kiss You All Over. The single reached Billboard's Top 40 on 5 August 1978. It remained on the chart for seventeen weeks and was No. 1 for four weeks in September. It was a best-seller for six months.
Expression (album)
Expression is an album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Apart from the title track, the rest of the album was recorded at about the same time as "Interstellar Space". "Expression" was released in September 1967, after Coltrane's unexpected death; this was the first posthumous release of a Coltrane recording.
"Recorded on February 15 1967 (#2); March 7 1967 (#1, 3, 5), and unknown (#4)."
Missy Elliott production discography
Fantasia Barrino – "Free Yourself"
Straight Outta Compton
The album's most controversial track, "Fuck tha Police", was partly responsible for the fame of N.W.A as the "World's Most Dangerous Group", and it did not appear on the censored version of the album. The song "Gangsta Gangsta" talks about the danger and violence in South Central and Compton. "Express Yourself" speaks of the ideas of free expression and the constraints placed on performers by radio censorship. Every N.W.A member except DJ Yella recorded a solo song. MC Ren made his solo performance on two songs; "If It Ain't Ruff" and "Quiet on tha Set". Dr. Dre, who mostly produced rather than performed, did a solo effort on the single "Express Yourself". Ice Cube performed on "I Ain't tha 1". Eazy-E's only solo recording was a remix of the song "8 Ball", which appeared on N.W.A's previous album "N.W.A. and the Posse". The only guests on the album were Ruthless Records ghostwriter the D.O.C., who appeared on "Parental Discretion Iz Advised", rhyming the intro, and founding N.W.A member Arabian Prince, who contributed minor vocals on "Something 2 Dance 2".
Styl-Plus
"Imagine That" is the lead single from their official debut Album, "Expressions". It has also been a massive chart topper, and has been used in numerous shows, including the pioneer edition of "Big Brother Nigeria".
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
She also performed a disco-styled version of the song during The Girlie Show World Tour in 1993. The stage was decked in Mylar curtains and glittering disco balls. The performance began with a distorted voice claiming "I'm gonna take you to a place you've never been before". Afterwards, Madonna descended from the ceiling on a giant disco ball, wearing a blond afro wig, 1970's style halters and royal blue bell-bottom pants. Then her two back-up dancers appeared on the stage and the three women started singing the song together. The end of the performance was connected to the next song, "Deeper and Deeper". According to Guilbert, Madonna was inspired by actress Marlene Dietrich in the 1932 film "Blonde Venus" for the performance. It was included on "" home video release, recorded on November 19, 1993, at Sydney, Australia. "Express Yourself" was included in the military segment of the Re-Invention World Tour in 2004, with the opening line altered to "Come on boys!". She and her dancers were dressed in military gear and performed a rifle choreography, with Madonna acting as a sergeant. As Drew Sterwald from "News Press" noted, the song in its military version was talking about both personal love, as well as patriotic love. Jon Pareles of "The New York Times" commented that the song was contravened as cynical, when Madonna sang the line, "What you need is a big, strong hand/To lift you to your higher ground", and raised a rifle above her head. Author Dirk Timmerman pointed out that "in the context of the show, with [war-induced] performances like 'American Life' and 'Imagine', it added to the anti-war message of the tour." In 2008, during the Sticky & Sweet Tour, she performed "Express Yourself" as the request song in some of her shows, including the show at Madison Square Garden in New York.
In 2012, she performed an excerpt of the song at the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show with Cee Lo Green and a large marching band. That same year, "Express Yourself" was included on The MDNA Tour where it was given a majorette theme and was the opening song of the show's second segment titled "Prophecy", where a mix of joyful songs that "bring people together" were performed. Madonna appeared onstage and sang the song dressed in a white majorette uniform with ruby-red stripes and knee-high white boots designed by Miu Miu and twirled a baton; her female back-up dancers wore similar costumes in red .
Halfway through the song, Madonna sang the chorus of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way", as the chord progression and melody of "Born This Way" was heavily compared to that of "Express Yourself" upon its release, many speculated that Madonna was "dissing" Gaga and the song. Towards the end of the performance Madonna also sang the chorus of her own song "She's Not Me" from her eleventh studio album "Hard Candy" (2008). Critics were positive towards the performance, Melissa Ruggieri from "Access Atlanta" felt that by singing the chorus of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" while performing "Express Yourself", Madonna was "proving how it swipes the same melody line, then twisted the knife in that perfectly Madonna way by adding the chorus of her own 'She's Not Me'". The performance was included in the live album "MDNA World Tour" released on September 6, 2013 but the "Born This Way" sample was not credited in the album's liner notes.
Treat Myself
The lead single from the album, titled "No Excuses", was released on March 1, 2018. It is a pop song with country influences, described as a sexism-blasting empowerment anthem. The song debuted at number 46 on the US "Billboard" Hot 100. On May 10, 2018, "Let You Be Right" a Nu-disco song, was released as the second single from the album, followed by "Can't Dance" a day later.
Exposé (group)
The third album was not as commercially successful as their previous two, but it still achieved gold status, and several singles fared better on the adult-contemporary charts. The group, however, did manage to crack the U.S. Top 40 pop chart with "I Wish the Phone Would Ring" and "I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me", a top-ten pop single which also reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart. Subsequent releases "As Long as I Can Dream" and "In Walked Love" featured Curless in the lead-vocal spotlight. A final, club-marketed single in 1995 saw the release of the group's first remake. "I Specialize in Love" featured Curless and Jurado on lead with Moneymaker supporting lead vocals toward the song's conclusion. The original version was performed by Sharon Brown and was a top ten hit on the "Billboard" Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1982. Among the group's television appearances during this period include "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Les Brown Show", and the Brazilian actress-singer children's show "Xuxa".
Toni Braxton
The DJ Frank E produced song "Yesterday" premiered on September 11, 2009 and features Trey Songz. It was released as the lead single from her sixth studio album "Pulse". "Yesterday" peaked at No. 12 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart making it her highest chart performance since her 2000 single "Just Be a Man About It", which peaked at No. 6. The single has been released worldwide on May 3, 2010. In the UK, "Yesterday" became Braxton's first hit single since the release of "Hit the Freeway", peaking at No. 50 on the UK Singles Chart and at No. 17 on the UK R&B Singles Chart. The song also became a moderate hit in Europe, peaking at No. 20 on the German Singles Chart, at No. 17 on the Swiss Singles Chart and charting at No. 50 on the European Hot 100.
Express (album)
In 2001, the album was remastered and expanded to include two single remixes and several contemporaneous B-sides, including a cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam". Two short experimental pieces that had been found on the studio tape masters labelled as "B Side #1" and "B Side #2" were also added. "Ball of Confusion" was released before "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven", but since the USA mix could not be fit on the reissue of that album, it was appended to the "Express" reissue.
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
"Express Yourself" is an upbeat dance-pop song that features instrumentation from brass, hand claps and drum beats, while the chorus is backed by the sound of saxophone and percussion. The lyrics talk about rejecting material pleasures and only accepting the best for oneself; subtexts are employed throughout the song. "Express Yourself" received positive reviews from critics, who applauded the gender equality message of the song and complimented the song for being a hymn to freedom and encouragement to women and all oppressed minorities. Commercially, the song peaked at number two on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and became Madonna's sixth number-one hit on the European Hot 100 Singles chart. It also reached the top of the singles charts in Canada, Italy and Switzerland, and the top five elsewhere.
Les Emmerson
Emmerson started his solo career while still a member of Five Man Electrical band. His first solo hit "Control Of Me" was released in late 1972, and peaked at #5 in early 1973. Follow-up single "Cry Your Eyes Out" reached a peak of #18 on "RPM Weekly's" Top Singles chart in September 1973. Emmerson released two more charting solo singles in 1974 and '75 while still with the Five Man Electrical Band, but his only release after the band broke up was the non-charting single "Borderline" in 1977. No other material was released by Emmerson until 2007, when "The Sound City Sessions" appeared. This album consisted of material recorded in 1976 and '77, including "Borderline", and remains Emmerson's only solo album; his other solo singles have never been released on LP or CD.
Hide Your Heart (song)
Kiss' version of "Hide Your Heart" is the third of four versions released in 1989. The first version was by Molly Hatchet on their album "Lightning Strikes Twice", released on September 6. The second version was by former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, featured on his fourth studio album "Trouble Walkin'" which was released only four days before Kiss' "Hot in the Shade". The last version of the song was by Robin Beck, released on November 9 on her album "Trouble Or Nothin"'. A music video was filmed on top of the Hotel Royale in Los Angeles. The song wasn't a big success on radio, charting its highest number 59 in the United Kingdom and reaching number 22 on the U.S. album rock charts. It was however a very popular music video on MTV. Paul Stanley performed the song during his 2006 solo tour in support of his album "Live to Win" and appears on his live album/DVD "One Live Kiss". It is currently being played on the band's 40th anniversary tour
"Hide Your Heart" appears on following Kiss albums:
Theme from S-Express
"Theme from S-Express" is an acid house song by British dance music band S'Express, from their debut studio album, "Original Soundtrack". It peaked at No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in April 1988 for two weeks.
Express Yourself (N.W.A song)
Between the Rancid releases of "...And Out Come the Wolves" and "Life Won't Wait" from 1995 to 1998, Tim Armstrong recorded a version of "Express Yourself" with the band The Silencers on the Life Won't Wait Demos. The first half of the demo consists of Rancid demos and the second half consists of The Silencers demos. Stretch Arm Strong also recorded a version of "Express Yourself" for "Engage."
Music censorship
Some listeners have expressed dissatisfaction over the editing of songs for radio airplay, arguing that it compromises the artistic integrity of the original song, and encourage listeners to seek out alternative platforms that are not subject to such censorship, such as digital streaming. At the same time, edits are considered a necessary concession to receive the radio airplay that can influence a song's overall performance. N.W.A.'s debut album "Straight Outta Compton" (which had attracted controversy for its song "Fuck tha Police") contains a song entitled "Express Yourself", which criticizes radio censorship of music as inhibiting free expression, and also criticizes other rappers for releasing inoffensive songs without profanity in order to receive radio airplay. Despite its themes, "Express Yourself" is the only song on the album to not contain profanities.
Extreme (band)
The band had accumulated several original songs by the time A&R director Bryan Huttenhower signed them to A&M Records in 1987 (which was soon sold to PolyGram) in 1988. The band recorded their self-titled debut album which was issued in March 1989. The first single was "Kid Ego", a song that Cherone would later admit made him cringe. The final track on the album, "Play With Me", was used as the "mall chase" song in the film "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure".
Electric Kiss
Tamar Hermann from "Billboard" described "Electric Kiss" as a song with "thumping beats and funky synths [that] propel the single's melody, laying out a tempo-jumping playground for Exo's vocals and raps as the track builds into its propulsive chorus". The song was released on January 31 with the album.
Waiting to Exhale (soundtrack)
The album's fifth single, "Let It Flow" by Toni Braxton, was released as a two-sided single with "You're Makin' Me High" from Braxton's second album, "Secrets", in May 1996. The double-A side single debuted at number seven on the Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B Singles chart, the issue dated June 8, 1996, becoming her highest-debuting single. It eventually topped the Hot 100 chart for a week, and the Hot R&B Singles chart for two weeks, which was her first number one single on both charts. Due to its staying power on the Hot R&B Singles chart, it was the #1 R&B Single on the 1996's "Billboard" year-end charts. The single sold over 1,500,000 copies in the United States and was certified Platinum by the RIAA on July 17, 1996. Just as soon as the soundtrack was released, the song received critical acclaim, being chosen as one of the best tracks on the album by critics. Stephen Holden, the music critic of the "New York Times", called it "small pop coup" and added "Braxton snaps out the words with a choked intensity, her dark, grainy contralto conveying a potent mixture of fury and sensuality."
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
At the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards, "Express Yourself" was nominated in the categories of Best Female Video, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Direction and Best Art Direction, winning the last three categories. "Billboard" also honored the video as the Best Music Video of the year, at their Music Video Awards for 1989. The music video of "Express Yourself" is ranked at number one on Slant Magazine's "100 Greatest Music Videos". It is also placed at number ten on both "Rolling Stone"'s "The 100 Top Music Videos" and MTV's "100 Greatest Videos Ever Made", as well as number three on MuchMusic's list of "Top 100 Videos of The Century". David Dale from "The Sydney Morning Herald" listed it as one of the Most Influential Videos of All Time, at number 18. "Time" magazine listed it at number eight on their countdown of The 30-All Time Best Music Videos.
The Expression
In 2006, The Expression's two original albums were digitally remastered and released on CD by independent record label, What It Is Records, which was established by the band's former bass player, Stephen Manassah. The re-released version of "Conscience" included three additional tracks from the 1984 London recordings. That was followed in 2007 by an album, "Rare & Un-Released", a compilation of previously unreleased live/demo material, with a bonus DVD which featured all five of the band's music videos, including "With Closed Eyes". The albums were distributed in the United States and Europe by Almacantar Records.
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
As Madonna considered her alternatives, producers Patrick Leonard and Stephen Bray had individually began to tinker with various instrumental tracks and musical ideas to present to her for consideration. "Express Yourself" was the first song that Madonna and Bray collaborated on for "Like a Prayer", co-written and co-produced as a tribute to American funk and soul band Sly and the Family Stone. The main inspiration behind the song is female empowerment, urging women never to "go for second-best" and to put their love "to the test". Author Mick St. Michael quoted Madonna saying:
Tracks (Liverpool Express album)
Tracks is the debut studio album by Liverpool Express, released in June 1976. It features two of the band's most memorable songs, "You Are My Love" and "Every Man Must Have a Dream," both of which were UK Top 20 hits and #1 in Brazil. Other notable hit singles were "Hold Tight" and "Smile."
Express Yourself (Labrinth song)
Labrinth premiered the song live during the results show of the fourth live-semi final of the sixth series of "Britain's Got Talent", on 9 May 2012. Maxumi Magazine commented that the track demonstrates "Labrinth's Kanye West like ability to make cracking use of samples that pay homage to their originators whilst forming the basis for inventive new tunes". Don Diablo remixed the single, due to be released as part of the digital EP, but he later revealed via his SoundCloud that the remix missed the deadline and therefore was not included on the iTunes package. This song is featured in a Windows 8 commercial.
Escape-ism
"Escape-ism" is a funk song by James Brown. It was Brown's first release on his own label, People Records. It charted #6 R&B and #25 Pop as a two-part single in 1971. Both parts also appeared on the album "Hot Pants" in 1971, with the previously unreleased nineteen-minute unedited take of the track appearing on the album's 1992 CD re-release. According to Robert Christgau the song was "supposedly cut to kill time until Bobby Byrd arrived" at the studio.
Generation Ex (album)
Generation Ex, stylized as GENERATION EX, is the second studio album by Japanese boy band Generations from Exile Tribe, released on February 18, 2015. The album contains three previously released singles — "Never Let You Go", "Always With You", and "Sing It Loud"— all of which achieved positions within the top three on the Oricon weekly singles chart.
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
Michelle Gibson and Deborah Townsend Meem, authors of "Femme/Butch", commended the video for showing a shift in power between the sexes, declaring that "Madonna assertively claimed all possible gender space like Marlene Dietrich." Professor Carol Vernallis noted in her book, "Experiencing Music Video" that the diffused light around Madonna in the video was adopted to mimic the diffusion of sound and make the borders around Madonna appear soft, and her body spread outwards. In the book "The 1980s", authors Bob Batchelor and Scott Stoddart called "Express Yourself" as one of Madonna's most challenging videos. They noted the video for its "exploitation" of the male body and sexualizing them as an object of desire. The authors also added that the video "was a colorful homage to the term gaze, but Madonna is the bearer of it—not men." Batchelor explained that the scenes of Madonna performing alone in her room and atop the stairs suggested that she was the object of the gaze, however it seemed to them that she was mocking the movement of the men below. "She controls the mind of the men below, with a form of siren's song of female empowerment, signalling that the men do move in unison to her song", Stoddart concluded. Elizabeth Edwards, one of the authors of "Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader", explained that the shot of Madonna crawling on the floor, while another image of hers watches from a nearby sofa, illustrated the mutation that Madonna's image was undergoing. According to her, Madonna was acting out self-consciousness by "watching herself". She concluded by saying, "'Express Yourself' gives its viewers a whole new series of image references to traditional American gendered and sexual icons—male and female—and a whole new level of irony." Shari Benstock and Suzanne Ferriss, authors of "On Fashion", deconstructed the video for its display of the artificiality of images of gender. Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine reviewed the video in 2003, and commented that the video "is the embodiment of 'queer chic', a bombastic masterpiece that heralds Madonna's uncanny ability to use her consumer-driven image to code her feminist politics."
Excel (band)
A few months later a new drummer joined Excel: Greg Saenz. Excel participated in the compilation "Welcome to Venice" (released by Suicidal Records) which includes three of their songs. In the next few months they recorded three demos:"Sonic Decapitation" in February 1985, "Personal Onslaught" June 9 and "Refuse to Quit" in January 1986. In 1987 they participated in the tape "" which included their song ""Insecurity""; also recorded on their first studio album, "Split Image" (recorded by Suicidal Records and released by Caroline Records), released in July the same year. Excel had performed live in L.A. in recent years, but the June 16 of 1987 they gave their first official concert in the "Fender's Grand Ballroom" of Long Beach, California, and a second time March 18 of 1988 to promote their new album. Later that year, they edited their first single, a cover of the song "Message in a bottle" originally released by The Police in the album Regatta de Blanc in September 1979. In early 1989, Excel recorded another single, ""Blaze some Hate"", to promote their second studio album: "The Joke's on You", released June 20 of 1989 by Caroline Records. In march the band made a show at the "Chuck Landis Country Club" in USA, California and the "Palasades Theater" in San Diego(with the band B'LAST!). In November, Excel made their first tour, which was made in Netherlands in the cities of: Sneek, Heemskerk, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, Goes and Den Bosch.
Express Yourself (Madonna song)
"Express Yourself" has been performed on four of Madonna's world tours, and has been covered by the female leads of the Fox TV show "Glee", who performed the song in the episode titled "The Power of Madonna". The song and the video are noted for their freedom expression and feminist aspects, and its postmodern nature entranced academics, by resisting definition. It has also left its mark on the work of subsequent pop acts, including the Spice Girls, Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga.
Superfly Guy
Superfly Guy is a song by British dance music act S'Express on their album "Original Soundtrack". It was released as a single and reached number 5 on the UK singles charts in 1988.
Liverpool Express
Liverpool Express (also known as L.E.X.), are a British pop rock band formed in 1975. They are best known for songs such as "You Are My Love" (which Paul McCartney once declared one of his favourite songs), "Every Man Must Have A Dream", and for charting several hits.
Eruption (instrumental)
"Eruption" is an instrumental rock guitar solo performed by Eddie Van Halen. It is widely considered one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. It segues into "You Really Got Me" on the album "Van Halen", and the two songs are usually played together by radio stations. The song was also released as the b-side to the "Runnin' with the Devil" single.
Express Yourself (Charles Wright &amp; the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band song)
The single was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 1971, losing to The Delfonics song "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" and ranked #57 on "Billboard's" Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970.