Record World said that "A spirited, uplifting sound is based around a theme which should be reverberating across the country in no time!".

[6] For release as a single and radio airplay, the song was toned down from the original recording, which would have jeopardized it receiving getting radio airplay at the time.

However the sexual overtones may have improved the record's reception at discos, increasing its overall popularity in the charts.

In 1979, singer Pete Burns used the chorus in the song "Black Leather", composed and recorded in the early stages of Dead or Alive (then Nightmares in Wax).

"[34] The magazine's Alan Jones wrote, "Clock get short shrift from critics, though record buyers can't get enough of them.

They will certainly tick up another hit with 'That's the Way (I Like It)', an obvious cover of the old KC & the Sunshine Band track currently doing service as a TV commercial soundtrack.

It stays close to the original, and will provide one of the first big hits of 1998.