Feels Good Explained

Feels Good
Cover:Tony Toni Tone Feels Good.PNG
Type:single
Artist:Tony! Toni! Toné!
Album:The Revival
Released:June 15, 1990
Recorded:1989
Genre:New jack swing[1]
Length:4:58
Label:Wing
Producer:Tony! Toni! Toné!
Prev Title:The Blues
Prev Year:1990
Next Title:It Never Rains (In Southern California)
Next Year:1990

"Feels Good" is a number-one R&B single by Tony! Toni! Toné! featuring a rap verse by Mopreme Shakur. The hit song spent two weeks at number one on the U.S. R&B chart. It was also their first top-ten hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number nine.[2] "Feels Good" also peaked at number three on the dance charts.[3]

Sampling

The song samples Think (About It). Two turntables were used in the process. One which plays the break in reverse and can be heard in the left ear. The other plays the break normally and can be heard in the right ear.

Track listings

US cassette single

US 12" single

Side 1:

  1. Feels Good [Edit] 4:31
  2. Feels Good [LP Version] 4:53
  3. Feels Good [12" Party Mix] 8:27

Side 2:

  1. Feels Good [Extended Version] 6:56

US Maxi-CD

  1. Feels Good [Radio Version] 4:33
  2. Feels Good [LP Version] 4:56
  3. Feels Good [12" Party Mix] 8:30
  4. Feels Good [Extended Mix] 6:56

Canada 12" Promo

Charts

Year-end charts

Other media

The chorus of the song can be heard at the end of a 2011 Ford Edge commercial. The song was also heard and used in Rick and Mortys season 2 episode "Look Who's Purging Now," as well as in the Doogie Howser, M.D. season 2 episode "Dances with Wanda," a late 1990 episode of the US daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives, in the 2007 movie Trick 'r Treat and in the 2023 movie The Burial.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Brian . Josephs . The 25 Best New Jack Swing Songs . July 20, 2012 . . July 26, 2016.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 584.
  3. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 261.
  4. 283.
  5. Web site: End of Year Charts 1991. Recorded Music NZ. December 3, 2017.