I Can't Wait (Nu Shooz song)
"I Can't Wait" is a song by American group Nu Shooz, originally recorded in late 1984 and featured on the band's second album "Tha's Right" the following year. The song was remixed by Dutch DJ and producer Peter Slaghuis: this remixed version is the one that appears on the 1986 album "Poolside". In the United States, the remixed version of the song reached No. 1 on "Billboard"'s Hot Dance Club Play chart in late March 1986, remaining atop the chart for two weeks. Soon afterwards, the song appeared on  the Hot 100 chart, where it climbed to No. 3 in mid-June of that year, and remained in the top 40 for 15 weeks and it reached #2 on the R&B/Soul singles chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart. The single returned to the U.S. charts in 2015, where it peaked at number 17 on the "Billboard" Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart. The song's American chart run coincided with that of a Stevie Nicks song also titled "I Can't Wait". Background. Instrumentalist John Smith would try to write  songs in batches of ten, and have two a week ready for rehearsals back in the early 1980s in Portland, Oregon. He bought a new Teac-3440 4-track recorder in 1983, and "I Can't Wait" was one of the first songs he recorded on it. He scribbled out the lyrics in fifteen minutes as the band was loading up gear to go to rehearse it, and his wife, singer Valerie Day, approved. Critical reception. John Leland's writeup in a "Spin" magazine column wrote about the single, saying: "You can listen to this record as many times as you  want and still not have any strong impressions that human beings actually made it. In other words, it's the perfect disco record." Music video. The music video was directed by Jim Blashfield. It contains animations and has a hint of the very surreal. The plot has Valerie Day singing the song sitting at a desk, repairing a coffeepot, while tools and other oddities pass into the frame and out again. Her dog sits nearby, wearing sunglasses.