My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)

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"My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)"
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Single by Dead or Alive
from the album Youthquake
B-side "Big Daddy of the Rhythm" (live)
ReleasedSeptember 1985
Recorded1985
Genre Hi-NRGdance-pop
Length3:13
Label Epic
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Stock Aitken Waterman
Dead or Alive singles chronology
"In Too Deep"
(1985)
"My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)"
(1985)
"Brand New Lover"
(1986)
Music video
"My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" on YouTube

"My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" is a 1985 song by English pop band Dead or Alive. It was the fourth and final single from the band's second studio album Youthquake . It peaked at No. 23 in the United Kingdom, No. 12 in Japan, and became a dance hit in the U.S. The music video depicts lead singer Pete Burns in a leather jacket on the back of a motorcycle, and the band walking down a catwalk.

Contents

Two 7" remixes and two 12" extended remixes of the single were released—the extended version and a unique version with uncredited additional guitar by Matt Aitken as the "American 'Wipe-out'" mix. The song was then remixed a third time for Dead or Alive's compilation album, Rip It Up , released in the fall of 1987. "My Heart Goes Bang" was again remixed and re-recorded for Fragile (2000) and Unbreakable (2001) which were only available on Avex Trax in Japan.

Track listing [1]

UK 7"
No.TitleLength
1."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (7" version)3:10
2."Big Daddy of the Rhythm" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 1985)3:25
US 7"
No.TitleLength
1."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (7" Wipe-out mix‡‡)3:31
2."Cake and Eat It" (fade-in intro)4:44
UK 12"
No.TitleLength
1."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (Extended)7:20
2."Big Daddy of the Rhythm" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 1985)3:25
3."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (7" version)3:10
UK 12" (American 'Wipe-out' mix)
No.TitleLength
1."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (American 'Wipe-out' mix††)6:40
2."Big Daddy of the Rhythm" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 1985)3:25
3."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (instrumental version)4:31
UK 12" Limited Edition
No.TitleLength
1."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (7" version)3:10
2."Big Daddy of the Rhythm" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 1985)3:25
3."Cake and Eat It" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 1985)5:35
4."In Too Deep" (live at the Hammersmith Odeon, July 1985)4:36
US 12" (American 'Wipe-out' mix)
No.TitleLength
1."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (American 'Wipe-out' mix)6:19
2."My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me to the Doctor)" (Extended)7:20

Notes

This is an edit of the original album version.

†† This is the full-length version of the mix exclusive to the UK (instead, on all subsequent collections, the edit version (6:19) is used).

Most of the 7" and limited edition 12" UK releases did not label the mix as the 7" version, hence the incorrect labelling as the "7" US Wipe-out" mix on some online listings. This is backed up by the fact that the same length mix was included on the That's the Way I Like It: The Best of Dead or Alive album, where it was correctly labelled as the 7" version.

‡‡ Exclusive to the U.S.

Chart performance

Chart (1985–1986)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [2] 41
French singles chart32
Irish Singles Chart21
Japanese Singles Chart 12
UK Singles Chart 23
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play 15

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References

  1. Dead Or Alive - My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor), 1985, retrieved 2023-08-09
  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 19701992. St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 85. ISBN   0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid 1983 and 19 June 1988.