Wham! – Club Fantastic Megamix

The instrumental remix of A Ray of Sunshine isn't the most instrumental mix I've ever heard. There's quite a wealth of vocals here.

There really isn't any verses sung though, but the chorus is repeated quite a few times.

Listening to this megamix, or half the first Wham! album for that matter, one really can't help but wonder whether or not George Michael got caught up in the whole Saturday Night Fever frenzy that gripped the world in the late 70s. And you need not just listen to his early work. Throughout his entire career, if he wasn't penning distinctly personal numbers, he was letting it rip with tracks that hark back to the days of the uninhibited Funk and Disco of the late 70s. You have to admit, this talented and occasionally brilliant songwriter was born with a black gene or two. Back to the megamix at hand, it's comprised of three tracks from the Fantastic! album, interestingly none of which made it as singles and rightly so as they were not consistent with the image the duo was then famous for (associations with the dole, leather jackets and skanky chics). No, these tracks here - "A Ray of Sunshine", "Come On" and "Love Machine" - are nothing but out and out disco, borrowing heavily from acts like The Gap Band and Earth, Wind & Fire, yet fused with Michael's unmistakable blue-eyed impetus. "Love Machine", in particular, is virtually identical to the Supermax original. The tracks are littered with infectious bass lines, hot horns and of course, Michael's already commendable vocals. The three songs are seamlessly edited together and the vibe continues non-stop for eight minutes and forty seconds. Make no mistake, this is early Wham! at its best, yet without the pretentious pokes at "trying" to be cool...

For those of you into trivia, this megamix was in fact frowned upon Michael and the rest of the group and they even made public their contempt for it.