L'ho beccata in discoteca con lo sguardo da serpente: The ILM ITALO Poll (Voting Thread)

Let's keep this simple...

1) Pick up to twenty tracks from the nominations list.
2) Order them top to bottom (highest to lowest ranked; no numbers).
3) Send your ballot to totalpop (AT) gmail dot com.

Scoring will be as follows: 1:40, 2:39, …, 20:21.

Deadline is when the year 2014 ends everywhere in the world (i.e. December 31st, 23:59).

The nominations list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_5DqljJtLlYieT_hntAFl6b1xJ8dRJHlh7NAWbAR4SI/edit?usp=sharing

Please fill your ballot by copying and pasting from the nominations list without changing anything. There may still be errors and/or omissions in the list. Please let me know if you spot any.

This is also a campaigning thread but please no embedded youtubes.

That is all. :)

Nadia Cassini doing 'Too Late' on a TV show, I think this is my favourite italo related live performance video I have seen

http://youtu.be/HxyqjApz6E0

her shirt looks kinda like the puffy shirt from Seinfeld

Love it!

probably too ballad-y to make many ballots, but god damn y'all this song is a beaut:

Dhuo - Walkin'

TV performance: http://youtu.be/shU4slu6rcw
Studio: http://youtu.be/qZXj38K2iFg

unheralded (and not on spotify) dancefloor monster:

Barry Mason - Body! Get Your Body http://youtu.be/fjJOcSqh6hg

both 'lectric workers tracks appear twice (lines 1 & 2 as well as lines 48 & 49)

Fixed! Thanks, gr8080. Don't know how they got there but they were replacing two other nominated tracks.

I've got another italo mix I can put online tomorrow.

looks like line #179 is a duplicate of line #135 with the artist/title flip-flopped

That Barry Mason track is great. Also not on spotify and odds-on to be my number one is

Loui$ - pink footpath

http://youtu.be/plXB4MFZSMw

very nice track.

almost done with the YouTube playlist

so far this is my favorite new discovery:

Blackway - New Life

http://youtu.be/hi73wlMaJOE

wonderfully odd and groovy track

^^^same here, that is making a late bid for my 20. My list is gonna have a lot from the Casco stable I think.

Ok not a lot maybe 2 or 3 but fuck were they good.

looks like line #179 is a duplicate of line #135 with the artist/title flip-flopped

― gr8080, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fixed. Thanks!

well, here it is, all 314 songs in an alphabetical playlist:

ILM ITALO NOMS PLAYLIST

the only song that does not appear to be on youtube is:

The Voyagers - Distant Planet

and here's a copy of the nominations with youtube URLs

ILM ITALO Poll Nominations - YOUTUBE

When this is over would anyone be interested in joining me on another thread of great tracks which weren’t nominated? Been thinking of a few tonight.

Thanks for compiling that, Grady! Thoug I noticed the video you put on the list of "Automat" by Automat has only the first part of the tune. I meant to nominate the full 3-part, 16 minute track. Here's a Youtube link for the full version:

http://youtu.be/27X2XQMQQg4

I'm really torn by the process of deciding what is and isn't Italo here I must admit. Like 'stop bajon' is one of my favourite tracks ever but I can't vote for it in this poll but on the other hand I have Boytronic 'Bryllyant' and Gino Soccio 'remember' in my final 20 atm when both are p ropey by definition.

Stop Bajon has too many real musical instruments

There's enough gold in the nom list for me to be brutally conservative with my ballot

That's the way I'm leaning.

I would Chewshabadoo. Maybe we could just use the other (nomination) thread?

Yeah, there is way too much amazing stuff to choose from with all the nominations!

-I can't believe I forgot to nominate "Give me the night" by Facts & Fiction. Much more deserving than, say, "Ruff Mix" by Wonder Dog...

-Here's a "live" video of "Disco King" by Carrara. Very convincing sax solo at 2:30, followed by a sax toss to the wings... http://youtu.be/eRLOtavjM7s

-"Lady Fantasy" seems to be the most popular track by Max Him, but I like "Melanie" much better. Vocals are so... emphatic. Awesome scream at 4:10.

-Den Harrow - "To Meet Me" is better than his more popular tracks IMO, and the lyrics are hilariously baffling ("I have a tweedy suit and pointy shoes / my hat is not on straight / oh baby nothing to do"; "Inside my pants today there beats a heart"). The way he moves and bares his teeth in this live video of "A Taste of Love"... Oh my god... http://youtu.be/hSIjuUONwTE. After a few singles they changed the singer behind the scenes... "Future Brain", the other nominated track, is a lot weaker.

-Thanks for compiling the youtube list!

"Ruff Mix" by Wonder Dog...

my other new favorite discovery!

Thanks for putting those playlists together, gr8080!

Re: "Ruff Mix":

I've known this track for a few years. What I didn't know until today is that a young Simon Cowell dressed up as Wonder Dog to promote the single in the UK (see http://youtu.be/iw0yfiRz9zY)

Thanks for compiling that, Grady! Thoug I noticed the video you put on the list of "Automat" by Automat has only the first part of the tune. I meant to nominate the full 3-part, 16 minute track. Here's a Youtube link for the full version:

http://youtu.be/27X2XQMQQg4

― Tuomas, Tuesday, December 16, 2014 3:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fixed!

making my way through the playlist, slowly. keep campaigning! i love most of the songs people have repped for in this thread, including wonder dog.

let me give a push to a few personal favs:

silver pozzoli - around my dream - is pretty perfect, and would be my pick for a song with which to introduce someone to italo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62gvnYqjPDw

pino d'angio - ma quale idea (the eponymous thread track) - is such a nice combination of sleazy, sly, and smooth. love it a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHLewcdIWlw

hipnosis - pulstar - lacks the cheese appeal that i enjoy in italo. it's actually downright classy, imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsFEIPvHkTo

ugh, sorry for the embeds. i hate them too, but haven't posted here in a while so i forgot how these things work.

Here's hoping the presence of two "Self Control"s (Raf & Laura Branigan) won't split the votes to badly for this amazing song. The Branigan is okay but the original is just astoundingly good. How surprising it was to hear it for the first time... It's a great track on its own, but the weird touches in it work so well too: the way the female vocals take over briefly; just as it seems to be coming to an end, the bass guitar takes over and it seems to morph into a different song; then one rapper comes in, I hadn't expected that; then a second, another surprise. But it all fits together perfectly.

I suspect this track doesn't need much campaigning to place well, though.

I could watch Righeira dancing all day http://youtu.be/qCVQpcY1au4

Had always thought I preferred the more strident Laura Branigan version but am coming around to the RAF version after choosing to get behind it in this. Hoping everyone who votes for the song votes for RAF.

I voted for the Laura Branigan version; her "Self-Control" has a huge sentimental value for me, being a favourite of my teenage years. Also, the RAF guys is not a very good singer and has a rather bland voice, which you could never say about Branigan. Maybe the arrangement is more interesting in that version, but I'd say Branigan's performance makes her version better.

I dunno I think the bottom line is we should get behind the Italian original rather than the non - Italian cover.

another longshot i'm gonna rep for:

Rinder & Lewis - Willie And The Hand Jive

http://youtu.be/A9oTAzmHSWs

dudes probably never set foot anywhere near Italy but that bass/synth/choir recipe cooks up one spicy meat-a-ball imo

I'm afraid I prefer the Branigan, too, and probably won't have room to vote for both. Nowhere near submitting my ballot yet, though, so you all have time to lobby at me.

Italo christmas medley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvdedvxDAxI

Also, my Italo mix is now up again and both streamable and downloadable from here

love that mix!

I love the Branigan more than life, it's a good song by itself but her vocals just ratchet it up to pure ecstasy. Especially when her voice sort of cracks as she sings "you take me self control", it sends shivers up my spine. RAF version is really good too, though, but not as powerful.

Definitely want to campaign for Hugh Bullen's "Alisand," which has got an early Pet Shop Boys vibe in the verse (chugging keyboards/spoken word-ish rap), although the breezy high-pitched chorus is totally italo. Great punchy synth production too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKogFDC-Mk4

If there's a groundswell of support for the Laura Branigan then who am I to piss in the wind. It's all time for me and I'd choose it over RAF to take to a desert island In a heartbeat. Just surprised so many would go for it over that in an Italo poll.

I'd never seen the video for Fun Fun's "Happy Station" until just now. What the actual....? http://youtu.be/qM9y-eJJ8U4

I definitely get that the Branigan seems less "Italo" - that would probably be my only reason for taking Raf over it, and possibly reason enough. But everyone else seems fine w/ it being here, so...

I thought the definition of "Italo" was in this poll was based on sound, not geography, so I had no problem voting for Branigan. There were definitely things on the list that sound less Italo than her "Self Control".

TEAM RAF

Voted! I stuck to a conservative definition of Italo, to the point of excluding what is by far my favourite song on the nominations list and one of my favourite songs of all time ("Speedy Like Gonzales"). Looking forward to the results now.

Oh, and everyone should vote for Livin' in your Love.

Oh nononono, how could you not vote for 'Speedy'? Gah.

Italo is a feeling.

Nethertheless, RAF

Oops, I thought it was 30, not 20. And I've only made it halfway through the youtube playlist, but maybe that's OK, as to cut it down to 20 I'll probably remove everything I hadn't heard before listening to the playlist...

*sweats*

Can I still vote? I want to direct my attention towards this nominee (can I do campaigning over here?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfEIEUELyDs

Given that i wont have much time for tallying until next week, ill be flexible with the deadline but please try to vote today.

Ok I'll be sending my vote in the following hour. Ty.

Working on mine now, in by midnight 4 shure

Sent. That was easy.

Still ~12hrs before midnight here in Honolulu. I'll be able to hear lots more of these tunes before then :)

I dig that track Bagarre track, Moka

Given that i wont have much time for tallying until next week, ill be flexible with the deadline but please try to vote today.

― daavid, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 10:02 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eoy rollout is the last two weeks of January, might be a good idea to do Italo results either before or after that

agree-- maybe 1/14 - 1/16 next week?

uhhh i can't english

xp

all in the spirit of the poll!

I'll make sure not to overlap with the EOY results.

voted!

Sssssent. Now not looking at it in case of regrets. Expecting to wake in a cold sweat at 4am remembering something important. (IMPORTANT)

Thanks daavid! And thanks gr80 for awesome playlist action too.

Ahhhh, just running my list through to make sure it's all C&P'd from the noms list, then about ready to send.

Done. Kind of feeling the same way as spacecadet right now.

Ho votato!

I'm not too worried about having forgotten something because I know these poll results will be quality regardless.

OK I sent my ballot. Whittling it down was brutal.

can't believe i forgot to nominate "stop" by valery arrington: http://youtu.be/VoMwkwEiJUc

ergh.. allington

Voted. Thanks daavid. Geez those last five cuts from the ballot were murder.

OK, I was busy the last two nights – any chance I can get this in this evening?

That Plustwo - Stop Fantasy track is my find out of that list. And completely unobtainable.

OK, voting period is officially over. I'm counting 29 ballots. Well done everyone!

I'll be honest, at this point it looks like results won't happen until the EOY poll results are over. Sorry, I'm just too busy with work.

I have most of the nominated songs, I can probably throw together a ~2h mix of the 50 top tracks within a few days of the rollout.

That would be awesome! Thanks, Siegbran.

Reminds me I need to listen to the mix upthread. Where do you live Siegbran - do you DJ out?

I live in Switzerland. I used to dj now and then but never really seriously, now it's just the occasional house party. The two Italo mixes are still online at http://caedite-eos.eu .

this is gonna be so awesome

Just going to be cheeky and mention the italo night I play at in Brighton. Next one in a few days time... https://www.facebook.com/events/874343962585197/?fref=ts

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t31.0-8/10828013_10154980555415201_8760684370449682342_o.jpg

Not cheeky at all, in my opinion. Fully thread-pertinent.

Cheers!

Siegbran, if you ever find yourself in Brighton I’m sure we could fit you in to play. Is there some way of downloading those mixes by the way?

I only have them streaming at the website for now but I sent you a link.

I'm sharing it on slsk too.

chewshabadoo i would go out of my way to play at your Italo night. You can take my word for it I'm an unbelievable dj, of course.

Well, send us a mix :)

so stoked for this

Will voting be reopened for a few days? Imagine there could be a couple more ballots from ppl that weren't very active around the holidays.

Bump

Hi there. Voting is closed. Results will be in Feb 9.

… I mean, you guys all voted, right?

Thinking about it now, my ballot was mostly earlier, spacey Italo at the top and later, poppier stuff behind that. Interested to see how everybody else voted.

update: daavid has sent me the final results-- see you monday!

Woo!

Andale!

dope

doppio dope

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