Tracks
Side A
- 11985Body to Body3:56D major
- 21985Primitive Love4:42D major
- 31985Dutch Top 40: peak position 17 in week 45 of 1986, 5 weeks in the chartWords Get In the Way3:26A minor
- 41985Dutch Top 40: peak position 2 in week 23 of 1986, 11 weeks in the chartBad Boy3:56D♯ major
- 51985Dutch Top 40: peak position 27 in week 34 of 1986, 4 weeks in the chartFalling In Love (Uh-Oh)3:53D major
Side B
- 11985Dutch Top 40: peak position 3 in week 14 of 1986, 10 weeks in the chartConga!4:14E major
- 21985Mucho Money4:42D♯ minor
- 31985You Made a Fool of Me2:54D♯ major
- 41985Movies2:57E major
- 51985Surrender Paradise4:46D minor
Source of the Dutch Top 40 entries: top40.nl
Sound of Primitive Love
Primitive Love sounds more acoustic than the shelves on average, at a tempo around 125 bpm.
Quietest track: You Made a Fool of Me · most energetic: Movies
Across 10 tracks on the shelves. The mark and the small number: the average of the whole collection.
Timeline of the line-up
The 14 members of Miami Sound Machine around the time of Primitive Love, with the years they belonged to the group. This is the band line-up around that time, not necessarily who is heard on the album. The thin line is this album and the red lines are the entries in the Dutch Top 40. Point at a line for more. A linked name has its own page.
Emilio Estefan, Jr.
Enrique Garcia
Gloria Estefan
Victor López
Rafael Padilla
Ed Calle
Randall Barlow19751980198519901995200020052010201520202025Member of the groupAlbumDutch Top 40Still a member
Frequently asked questions
When was Primitive Love by Miami Sound Machine released?
Primitive Love came out in 1985.
How many tracks are on Primitive Love?
Primitive Love has ten tracks, 40 minutes in total, spread over two vinyl sides.
Which tracks from Primitive Love made the Dutch Top 40?
Four tracks from this album reached the Dutch Top 40: Words Get In the Way, Bad Boy, Falling In Love (Uh-Oh) and Conga! The highest was Bad Boy, at number 2 in week 23 of 1986.
Which category is Primitive Love in?
Primitive Love is filed under studio albums. On the home page, sorted by category, the album sits on that shelf, among the other albums by Miami Sound Machine.
Who was in Miami Sound Machine when Primitive Love came out?
In 1985, Miami Sound Machine consisted of Emilio Estefan, Jr., Enrique Garcia, Gloria Estefan, Juan Marcos Avila, Wesley B. Wright, Luis Perez, Victor López, Betty Cortez and six others. That is the line-up of the group in that year, not necessarily who is heard on the album. A linked name has a page of its own.
What do the percentages for the sound of Primitive Love mean?
They come from an acoustic analysis of the recordings as they are on Spotify: per track a score from 0 to 100 for energy, danceability, mood and acoustic, plus the tempo and the key. They are the outcome of a model, not a measurement of the music itself; 93% acoustic means the model is fairly sure that mostly acoustic instruments are heard. The sound of the album is the average of its tracks, each track counting equally, and the comparison is with the average of all analysed tracks in the collection.
How do you play Primitive Love?
With the round Spotify button after each track, or the whole album at once via the play button next to the cover. The music plays in the player at the bottom of the page and keeps going while you browse on. This needs one-time consent for Spotify.
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