Irene Cara - What a Feelin'

The vocalist's hit 1983 album for Geffen featuring the smash 'Flashdance... What A Feeling' (which topped the charts for six consecutive weeks!), plus the top 40 hits 'Why Me?' (12in Mix) and 'The Dream (Hold On To Your Dream)'.Also features four bonus tracks, 'Breakdance' (Extended Remix), 'The Dream' (Dance Remix) and two mixes of 'Flashdance... What A Feeling' (Extended Remix & Instrumental). 14 tracks in all. 1983 release. Album Description

25 years later, Flashdance and Breakdance remain 2 of the most dance-worthy songs ever

A talented and precocious entertainer (and a very attractive woman), with numerous stage and screen achievements to her credit as well as her musical career, this album by Irene Cara (whose real last name is Escalera), spawned two of the most feel-good hits of 1983 with the appropriately titled "Flashdance (What A Feeling)" and the less successful but no less appealing "Breakdance." Even after 25 years, I would still strongly recommend these for a good party. October 5, 2007

What a Feelin

Excellent invigorating CD. I use it to have "dancing fun" for a workout after I am done with the treadmill. The treadmill is boring, even in front of the TV, but the CD "Rocks!!" September 27, 2007

Why Me?

Where the hell is the 45 version of "Why Me?" Why couldn't the people who released this disc realize that we would want the hit version THAT WE FELL IN LOVE WITH and made the Top 40??!!

Come to think of it: where is a Greatest Hits package for Irene Cara? August 18, 2007

what a feeling oh yes it is

to be honest i justed wanted the song & entended mix of flashdance (what a feeling).again fond memories from the 80"s work it ms.cara give us that feeling again August 10, 2007

Flash That Dance

Irene Cara is one of the rare breeds in early 80's dance music, in the fact that she can really sing. In fact not only could she sing back in the 80's, about two years ago she was on Baby One More Time, a strange little TV show where stars of yesterday would come on and perform one of their old hits plus a hit by a more contemporary artist and then they'd be voted on, on the Irene issue, this girl won - though Juice Newton was a close runner up to me. Anyhoos, this is probably the most famous of Irene's small output - coming out just after the mega hit Flashdance...What A Feelin' from the Flashdance film, this album, obviously named after the hit, also contains her next set of top 40 hits (including two more top tens) "Why Me?", "The Dream (Hold On To Your Dream)" and "Breakdance." With the help of Giorgio Moroder, Irene had her little putter on the dance vibe of the time. All mostly dancey rock pop so popular at the time, What A Feelin' was amazingly enough not a very big hit as an album despite launching four hit singles. The other tracks on the albums include a few of the rocky ballads of the 80's though Irene's smoky vocals and fairly interesting lyrics save these from falling too far into the cheese fest of 1983. The highlight (to me at least) is a little synthy pop song called "Romance '83" and it's the very reason I just had to get my hands on a copy of this remastered CD (it's out of print of course). The song set to a technoish beat tells the story of lady and her man who is "You're busy when I call you up on the telephone/ You're playing those Atari games and I'm all alone/ What I need is Romance '83" the bridge is awesome as she sings, "I look back at a time when the world was so young/ a beautiful ecology/ Satisfied with only the land and the trees/ instead we mass produce machines" blaming the technology of the 80's for ruining love while a robotic voice chants "Input/output/ microprocessor dealy/ VCF/ VCA/ modulation decay", an absolute gas of the past as the technology then is nothing compared to what we deal with everyday. My only real complaint of the CD which contains bonus tracks is the version of "Why Me?" included as the album track isn't really the album or even single version, it's the long dance mix. The ultimate highlight of this rare collection is a song called "Talk Too Much", a driving synthy rock number about our girl trying to get into her man's pants but he's always talking is super exciting, the strange thing is it was only available as a B-side which is odd as it's by far the best album track on here. Also notable is the extra bonus remix tracks that appear here include the title track with a bunch of different lyrics. The original song is still better but it's still interesting.
April 11, 2007

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