I'm posting this more for the 'Bonus Clips' (see below) then anything else, but this popped into my head after I heard two related things the other day - one was a cover of the entire INXS 'Kick' album by Beck's Record Club project (more info here); the other was a edit of 'Like An Eagle' by Dennis Parker on some mix or other I was listening to.
'I'm So Crazy' is essentially a remix of INXS's 'Just Keep Walking' with a thumping beat and samples of the aforementioned 'Like An Eagle'. I believe Par-T-One were Italian and this example of the short-lived 'Punk House' genre is the only single I'm aware of by them.
Bonus Clips: 'Just Keep Walking' was the second single by INXS originally released in 1980. It's always sounded to me like two completely separate songs jammed together - the undistinguished Simple Minds sounding verse and the much more interesting chorus. It's the latter that was wisely remixed for 'I'm So Crazy'...
... Dennis Parker, an interesting story here - he started out as a porn actor under the name of Wade Nichols, made a disco album for the notorious Casablanca Records in 1979 (of which this is the title track) that was masterminded by the guy behind the Village People (Jacques Morali) and went on to a part in the US soap 'The Edge of Night'. He unfortunately took his own life in 1985 after discovering he had AIDS. This is a disco classic, albeit one with truly atrocious lyrics!
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