The thing about this record is, I am not sure if it was my dads. We had a lot of funk music in our house, but I simply cannot imagine my dad listening to this.
Nonetheless, it was in our collection and I listened to it over and over again. The song is basically a repetitive beat with the hook "Rollercoaster of love". It's a pretty simple song, and as a teen who was discovering this music in my parent's basement it was kind of revolutionary for me. I began to realize that music wasn't about taste it was about what you personally liked and didn't like.
The guitar and horns in this song are particularly fun. I frequently find my self making horn noises from this song when I'm cooking or idling away.
There is a rumor that in the song someone was being murdered in the studio and the sound engineer caught it in the background. However this was just an urban legend:
Diamond Williams explains:
"There is a part in the song where there's a breakdown. It's guitars and it's right before the second verse and Billy Beck does one of those inhaling-type screeches like Minnie Riperton did to reach her high note or Mariah Carey does to go octaves above. The DJ made this crack and it swept the country. People were asking us, "Did you kill this girl in the studio?" The band took a vow of silence because you sell more records that way."