The results thread is finally here!
This took forever. Sorry for the delays and thank you for your patience. Thanks to all of you who voted. But most importantly, big thanks to gr8080 for the incredible artwork. I can't wait for everyone to see it!
We got 30 ballots and a total of 231 songs got at least one vote. We used total no of votes and/or total no. of first place votes to break some ties. This will be a top 50 list.
And now, without further ado...
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 14:22 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0PYgvez.jpg
50 DHUO "Walkin'" [96 points, 3 votes]
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
didn't vote in this but i will be following.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Monday, 9 February 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
I didn't vote either, but I'm happy that Walkin' made it. My work is done!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 February 2015 14:25 (nine years ago) link
I'll be back in an hour or so.
FYI, I still don't know how the rollout is going to happen but if I have enough time I'll to 20 today, 20 tomorrow, and 10 on Wednesday… otherwise it'll be 10 per day. Suggestions welcome.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Excited!
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 9 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
YES
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
i also didn't vote, because i didn't want my boring set of references to borify the results. reaaaaaaally looking forward to the results and a kickass playlist at the end.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 9 February 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
i was very happy to see this slip in at #50
― gr8080, Monday, 9 February 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
Yay! Anyone able to provide Youtube links?
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Monday, 9 February 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
DHUO "Walkin'": http://youtu.be/qZXj38K2iFg
― gr8080, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
this song is my own personal john hughes montage soundtrack
― gr8080, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
I can post youtube links but I'm at work and cannot check the audio quality, so it'll be the first result that comes up. I can make sure tomorrow's entries work though.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
BTW, can someone remind me how do I post youtube links without embedding?
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Let's see if this works…
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EazYrYD.jpg
49 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SYSTEM "Dancing Therapy" [97 points, 3 votes]http://youtu.be/wzK5asq0Dz4
Click "Share" beneath the video and copy the youtu.be link it provides.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
Ah, you got it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
It does! :)
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
thanks JF
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Yay results! Yay Dancing Therapy!
― emil.y, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
I haven't heard either of these before, but they're good!
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Monday, 9 February 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
this is going to be the most jamming week ever!
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
On to our first tie...
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:02 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/v8DlPdE.jpg
47 (TIE) GAZEBO "I Like Chopin" [98 points, 3 votes]http://youtu.be/nGJ-FMfXgyQ
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
these pics are gorgeous :)
― nxd, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
Yes, gr80 for president!
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
YES!
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
I've always felt "I Like Chopin" is a little corny but the synth riff in the intro is one of my favorite things ever! In fact, the whole intro on the extended version is kind of amazing.
"Walkin'" is sublime
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
hadn't heard this beforedude sounds like andy belli dig
― nxd, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
oh wow this IMS is fantastic too!
best poll ever
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
a little corny? ha...
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GnaBWQv.jpg
47 (TIE) CLIO "Eyes" [98 points, 3 votes]http://youtu.be/IzBx52Btx_E
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
<3
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
was about to let loose the biggest TOO LOW of all time there before i realised it was Eyes. good track regardless, this is all so aesthetically and aurally pleasing so fr as expected.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
yeah this isn't the Clio I voted for but tbh it's probably the better track
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I voted 'Faces', both are good but the whole is better than the part.
― emil.y, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:42 (nine years ago) link
nah crut, you were right first time.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 16:43 (nine years ago) link
Eyes is an awesome track and only just missed out on my ballot.
I'm not a big fan of Dhuo - Walkin' tbh it's a bit plodding and feels more like bad synthpop than exciting Italo.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
Up next is my favorite track so far…
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1NRPFyC.jpg
46 KEN LASZLO "Hey Hey Guy" [101 points, 3 votes]http://youtu.be/Mz6EijdvyFw
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
I'm off to a meeting now. See you in a couple of hours.
Love for hire...is dangerouse.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
Nothing I voted for has turned up yet but still <3 everything so far. Never really heard the much vaunted new order italo influence but they must have heard Dancing Therapy before making Bizarre Love Triangle.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
'Eyes' is great but yeah I voted for 'Faces' instead.
I remember seeking 'I Like Chopin' out after reading the Pet Shop Boys saying it inspired the sound of 'Rent'.
― Gavin, Leeds, Monday, 9 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
excited for this poll!
never heard this dhuo track before, 'snice - i'm a fan of lower-bpm italo (under the ice, comanchero, etc)
<3 dancing therapy but i didn't vote for it
― donna rouge, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
Spotify playlist (compiled in the UK, so maybe some "territory" issues to contend with): http://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/05H7bAFsbEJdhz6Uc0tVNu - inevitably, this will be far from complete!
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
this is my favorite song title in the poll
― gr8080, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Thank you, mike t-diva!
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QpiBa8q.jpg
45 DOCTOR'S CAT "Watch Out" [105 points, 3 votes]http://youtu.be/hMVW8E5O3uA
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I have a feeling a lot of amazing tunes are going to shafted, but roll on the results!
Watch Out & Dancing Therapy are *super* classic. As are both Clio A-sides (no surprise that they involve the same guy who did the Pineapples record). I prefer the dub/instrumental version of "Hey Hey Guy," though. Walkin' is just alright, and I've never gotten into that Gazebo track.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
'Watch Out' another one of my votes. So good.
― emil.y, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
my introduction to the Dhuo track was on this mix, which is in my top 5 mixes of all time, ive probably played 50 times and have never gotten sick of it (not really italo, natch)
http://tommyboymixes.tumblr.com/post/25014679244/tommyboy-frame-of-mind-mix-tracklist-coati
― gr8080, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
not the doctor's cat i voted for but yeah such a jam
― donna rouge, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
such an awesome riff in "Hey Hey Guy".
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Thanks gr80 for reminding me of that tommyboy mix. if there's a better one-two punch than the closing tracks I'm yet to hear it.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Y5ni4Jd.jpg
43 (TIE) RAGGIO DI LUNA "Comanchero" [105 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/hFMLJnWMnUs
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Becoming more and more apparent that the top 20 is going to exactly mirror my own.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Comanchero is pretty awesome, and also fits in with the slo-mo/cosmic disco scene. The "Special Disco Version" also has some early Freestyle/House vocal cut ups.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KnJ6NAr.jpg
43 (TIE) TRANS-X "Living On Video" [105 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/b9xBAtCsCTQ
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
too low!
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
these tunes have all been awesome so far ("comanchero" is the only one im familiar with)
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 9 February 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Never really heard the much vaunted new order italo influence but they must have heard Dancing Therapy before making Bizarre Love Triangle.
woah, you weren't kidding
― mattresslessness, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I love "Living On Video" even if it seems more Hi-NRG than Italo to me. Have never heard another Tran-X record though.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
amazing music video
― gr8080, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
speaking of amazing music videos...
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/4AmDURG.jpg
41 (TIE) MODERN TALKING "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" [108 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/4kHl4FoK1Ys
ModerTalkingVEVO
― gr8080, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
"Americans will never understand"
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
I Like Chopin is way too low. I've loved that song for a few years but had never heard any other Gazebo songs until I started going through the nominations. I liked the other songs so much I ordered his album. It's great all the way through.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
I think I'll do five more today, and then 15 tomorrow, 10 more on Wednesday, top 10 on Thursday.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I meant 6 more today.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:07 (nine years ago) link
That Modern Talking video still has me in stitches.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
also too low!!
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/4ttp9vb.jpg
41 (TIE) M&G "When I Let You Down" [108 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/5cNia_e7_RU
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
xpost I love the fact that thomas anders' wife was so jealous she made him wear a necklace with her name on it
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
Antonio Banderas & Gordon Ramsey
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
this video is even funnier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5C8AC6V2KQ
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:14 (nine years ago) link
I love that, as far as I can't tell, there's NO guitar in most of these songs, yet Dieter Bohlen is ALWAYS playing guitar. The same goes for a lot of "live" performances/videos from other acts of the time.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Oof, destroy Modern Talking.
On the other hand, M&G's "When I Let You Down / Boogie Tonight" might be one of the best 12" in the genre. The only two songs they recorded. Fred Ventura did a cover of WILYD in 2007, and it's ok.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
the 12" mix of "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" is worth a listen for those skeptical about its placing
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
this one
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
I can fully recommend the full length animated movie about Modern Talking: "Dieter - Der Film". It is batshit insane.
There *is* plenty of faux-Nile Rodgers guitar in You're My Heart You're My Soul though, but it bears no relation to what Dieter or Thomas are doing with their instruments in the videos. But yes, badly synced videos not limited in any way to MT.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
I've got nothing but love for "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" and I'm glad it placed. I might have even voted for "Brother Louie" had it been nominated.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
Back when I was still DJing Italo I always threw in a Modern Talking instrumental somewhere along the line (Cheri Cheri Lady for example has an awesome bassline), always got great response as people invariably recognise the tune but can't identify it without the vocals.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GADSgQ8.jpg
40 IVAN "Fotonovela" [117 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/3XNscCzSL6s
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
^pleasantly surprised that this placed!
that YT is blocked
heres another link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L5YJRtvebE
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 9 February 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link
Great great tune.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
12" version of Fotonovela is ALL TIME. Definitely the best Spanish Italo Disco song ever, if you are keeping track. Best use of strings in an Italo record? May also be the only Italo track with xylophones and accordion (which you can hear more on the 12").
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Absolutely astonished that "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" has had over 44 million YouTube views...
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
Three tracks so far that I have (knowingly) danced to in actual nightclubs in the actual Nineteen Eighties: Gazebo, Trans-X, Modern Talking.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 February 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
up next, the first entry on the list with a 1st place vote...
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Doesn't surprise me at all, AFAIK Modern Talking was the second best selling disco act of all time after Boney M.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
that's a very loose definition of "disco", though
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link
Now I guess, but at the time this was disco to 99% of the population.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
they were immensely successful, no doubt about that
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
something doesn't quite add up for me in "Fotonovela" but it does scream "Classic".
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
I guess "disco" in the eighties was more or less a synonym for "club music".
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
xpost - Perhaps that the xylophone riff doesn't really fit, melodically, with the rest?
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link
I think that't it for me but it's also what makes it great.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:16 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's like that is just one element too many - but it's also the best one!
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
daavid stop dragging this out, got a horrible feeling my first to show will be my number 1 now.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link
I think it's the clashing overtones in the xylo.
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ptDsWnS.jpg
39 LOUI$ "Pink Footpath" [122 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/plXB4MFZSMw
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
And there you go... :(
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
Can only assume this is so low cos most haven't heard it, it's peerless and unique.
yeah, I'm not familiar with this one. Almost jazzy in the first 2 minutes.
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
xps
I was thinking about this during the nominations thread but don't think I ever put it out there: who was the audience for non-crossover Italo releases? Was it mostly nightclubs? How many young people in Italy (or France or Spain) in the 80s have heard e.g. "When I Let You Down" or "Hey Hey Guy"? Were there clubs in the UK playing this? (I guess mike t-diva addressed that one a bit)
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
i think that's a glockenspiel in "Fotonovela" not a xylophone
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
I personally like my Italo to be on the pop side, but I didn't vote anyway.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
I am definitely in the minority who find "Pink Footpath" overrated, but it gets a super amount of love from even non-italo fans.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
xxpost, you are right. The bars in a xylophone are made out of wood. But what's a marimba then? I'm confused.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
The first time I heard Pink Footpath (in an old Aeroplane mix iirc) was one of those moments you just know right away you're hearing a song that will be an all-timer.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
Seandalai: there's an interview here, in which a Venice DJ talks a bit about the perception of Italo in Italy at the time:http://thump.vice.com/words/bottin-and-mike-simonetti-obsess-over-italo-disco
I feel Italo also appealed to record collectors as well as clubbers: so many devoted labels and sublabels, so many strange aliases and one-offs to geek out over.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
oh awesome, thanks!
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Xylophones and marimbas are made out of wood, I believe. Glockenspiel has metal bars. Probably more likely that it's a glockenspiel in Fotonovela, but it looks like a xylophone in the video.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:38 (nine years ago) link
LOL at his example of bad Italo. That really is bad.
― skip, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Interesting interview but both of those guys sound like Italo rockists.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
…especially Bottin.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/mAasX49.jpg
38 VALERIE DORE "Get Closer" [123 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/DkQu9CPrrfw
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
My top 5 dropping like flies all of a sudden
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
way too low but i'm guessing Valerie Dore was sabotaged by people nominating like 10 million of her tracks
― example (crüt), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
maybe 38/39 isn't dropping like flies idk
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
And a quick look at my actual ballot shows I only had this at number 10 so my bad.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
Also agree that "Get Closer" placed too low. The delay on that synth is classic.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
I like how "Get Closer" is pretty much the same song as "The Night" but just as awesome.
I think someone nominating the entire Valerie Dore Lancelot album was amusing. Love the title track from that though.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 9 February 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Yes, they just shifted the chords and tweaked the melody a bit… but the instrumentation is identical.
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
who was the audience for non-crossover Italo releases? Was it mostly nightclubs? How many young people in Italy (or France or Spain) in the 80s have heard e.g. "When I Let You Down" or "Hey Hey Guy"? Were there clubs in the UK playing this? (I guess mike t-diva addressed that one a bit)
I was living in West Berlin in 1983/84, and heard Italo in gay and mixed-gay clubs alongside hi-NRG, as well as on the radio. I doubt it had much traction outside gay cubs in the UK, give or take the odd Ryan Paris crossover hit.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
Get Closer is a good example of a particular type of pop alchemy then, it does something much more with those parts than The Night imo.
― ewar woowar (or something), Monday, 9 February 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tHniMTb.jpg
37 FANCY "Slice Me Nice" [129 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/Nlnoa67MUJU
― daavid, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Maximum dodgy accent points.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
Slice Me Nice is a total classic. The video is properly creepy.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 9 February 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
"Slice Me Nice" was 84, not 85. Another one I used to dance to in public...
― mike t-diva, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
It has been removed from his wiki page but it used to be claimed that Bolero was the longest reigning No.1 single in the history of the Spanish charts. There are lots of videos of the latter day Fancy, looking like Kim Jong Il, turning up at tiny conventions of about a dozen awestruck fans. He still plays big nostalgia events in Russia and Germany.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Monday, 9 February 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
He looks like an even creepier version of Barry Manilow.
― Siegbran, Monday, 9 February 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
"bow and arrow" is the other valerie dore song i really like
― brimstead, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:02 (nine years ago) link
Xps, I'd always had the impression that Hey Hey Guy was a fairly canonical Italo hit but I think my perception of a lot of this is skewed by my window on the genre being primarily Eastern European. About 75% of the comments on the YouTube videos of Laszlo's songs are from people with Russian, Polish, etc names. I heard it played over the store radio in a supermarket in Armenia last year and didn't find that surprising. I love the fact that there seems to be an overlapping, but not entirely overlapping, Italo / Eurodance canon between Western and Eastern Europe. The Dutch group Digital Emotion was another that was huge in Russia, having been featured extensively in an episode of the Soviet rip off of Tom and Jerry, but are largely unknown here.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Last one for the day...
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Fancy: "I'm like a cake that wants to be baked"
So classic
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
Well I guess the Italians managed to bundle their vast riches of cheesy dance songs along with the cutting edge automotive technology they sold to the USSR.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:11 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/lg2ZQu1.jpg
36 KATY GRAY "Hold Me Tight" [131 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/O0v_jTHHFKU
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:11 (nine years ago) link
Recap:
50 DHUO "Walkin'" [96 points, 3 votes]49 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SYSTEM "Dancing Therapy" [97 points, 3 votes]47 (TIE) GAZEBO "I Like Chopin" [98 points, 3 votes]47 (TIE) CLIO "Eyes" [98 points, 3 votes]46 KEN LASZLO "Hey Hey Guy" [101 points, 3 votes]45 DOCTOR'S CAT "Watch Out" [105 points, 3 votes]43 (TIE) RAGGIO DI LUNA "Comanchero" [105 points, 4 votes]43 (TIE) TRANS-X "Living On Video" [105 points, 4 votes]41 (TIE) MODERN TALKING "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" [108 points, 4 votes]41 (TIE) M&G "When I Let You Down" [108 points, 4 votes]40 IVAN "Fotonovela" [117 points, 4 votes]39 LOUI$ "Pink Footpath" [122 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]38 VALERIE DORE "Get Closer" [123 points, 4 votes]37 FANCY "Slice Me Nice" [129 points, 4 votes]36 KATY GRAY "Hold Me Tight" [131 points, 4 votes]
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
… 15 more tomorrow
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
I would probably like "Slice Me Nice" more if I hadn't heard "Passion" by The Flirts first, as well as other Bobby O productions. It's alright, but it makes me want to hear "Passion" instead.
"Hold Me Tight" is superb. Amazing production and basically the blueprint you hear on every Sally Shapiro record.
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
"hold me tight" is spectacular, i think i ranked it pretty high
― brimstead, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
"How many young people in Italy (or France or Spain) in the 80s have heard e.g. "When I Let You Down" or "Hey Hey Guy"?"
I have been harangued before by Italians before while playing at an Italo night, "Just play one Italian track".
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 07:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/HansHolbein/moderntalking_zps5c488a56.jpg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 08:39 (nine years ago) link
I've know so little in this poll so far, but quite a lot of it sounds vaguely familiar. Great stuff so far though. I especially like the Clio track.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link
Today we begin with...
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1191Ckd.jpg
35 SABRINA "Boys (Summertime Love)" [134 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/JgBu54wvm1Y
lol! I have mixed feelings about this one.
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
Don't wanna come over all italo rockstars but this beating Get Closer and Pink Footpath is a bit o_O
― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
*Italo rockist obv.
― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
video for this is one of the strangest in pop music history
― gr8080, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
also there are two new-ish covers by euro pop stars, one which filmed a more sfw video in what appears to be the same pool as the original
― gr8080, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
xxpost I agree, this type of stuff is usually right up my alley. But "Boys" sounds like a second rate Bananarama track.
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
The extended version is great. The single version is a little slight.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link
Too low!!! Just kidding! But this is an alltime great dancefloor banger. Extended version is where it's at, rap and all. Check out Via Verdi - Diamond for another thumper from the same producer.
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vVg4cfb.jpg
34 VALERIE DORE "The Night" [137 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/80ssUKt76-c
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Step this way for the extended version of "Boys": http://youtu.be/AiZUdYan430
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
another notable distinction between "The Night" and "Get Closer" is that they have different vocalists (Dora Carofiglio and Monica Stucchi, respectively)
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
wow, thanks for pointing that out.
― skip, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I can't tell the difference.
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Thought "The Night" would be higher given its place in the canon.
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/IZVO94T.jpg
33 CYBER PEOPLE "Void Vision" [139 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/cKjsTlxf80k
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
???
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
oh I have heard this somewhere - it's fine but I don't really see the attraction of instrumental Italo
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
whoa this poll rules
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
'walkin' is my favorite so far of the ones i hadnt heard before
Awesome videogamey banger (re: Cyber People) Very memorable riffage! Great sleeve too.
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000013057139-7hudgd-t500x500.jpg
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
This one's new on me, too. HELL yeah! Every button pressed!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
I like how this poll covers all strands of Italo.
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
Me too! The Cyber People tune "Doctor Faustu's" is pretty good too.
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/I0amk4O.jpg
32 TAFFY "I Love My Radio" [151 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/D_YBLpaLqb8
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
YESSSS. This was around for months before charting in the UK - at which point they altered the lyrics from "midnight radio" to "DJ's radio", as Radio One didn't broadcast at midnight!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
WHOA-OH MY GUY, THE DJ AFTER MIDNIGHT <3333
my second one to place so far
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
that is really damn catchy
― skip, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
Void Vision totally has vocodered vocals though! I love this track, might love the "slow version" b-side on the 12" slightly more, even.
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
Sorry guys. It's really slow today, I've been busy. I think I can only do 10. Anyway...
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ihSHUl8.jpg
31 MACHO "I'm A Man" [154 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/c_wEO4GXj1Q
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Would be my votes one through to twenty in the epics poll.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/qJyOq2Z.jpg
30 RYAN PARIS "Dolce Vita" [155 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/0yoBAZXSN98
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
This one is probably the most popular Italo track that I remember from when I was growing up in Mexico. They played it constantly on the radio.
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
Love 'Dolce Vita', pretty sure it's the only Italo song I've ever heard played on Radio 2.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
Taffy is garbage. Macho is great - Mauro Malavasi was (is?) a genius. Though I didn't actually vote for any of his stuff in this poll, his work on the various JF Petrus-associated disco acts is some of my favourite music ever (e.g. Revanche - Music Man).
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
great countdown so far. love the graphics.
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
I love some of the details of the Ryan Paris track, like the beautifully reverbed synth sound in the main instrumental hook, and the weirdly aggressive instrumental breakdown.
― spacemindy, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m2ohZyw.jpg
28 (TIE) GIORGIO MORODER "The Chase" [158 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/ViN2bRGrBx8
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
I think technically this is called "Chase", not "The Chase". I should have corrected that.
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Loving this poll - thanks daavid!
― calumerio, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
Don't think anything pre-1980 can count as "Italo" for me, I'm not sure it makes sense as a category while disco is still alive and mainstream.
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Love Dolce Vita. Still surprises me it was one of the few Italo hits in the UK.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:19 (nine years ago) link
I consider Italo to be a full part of the disco timeline, it makes perfect sense from a worldwide (non-US) context where disco did not die in 1980, but ended in 1988 (almost overnight) with house.
There's also no real musical reason to exclude "I Feel Love" from an Italo poll apart from the fact that it would be an overwhelming winner (which makes it a perfectly good reason in the context of this poll).
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
I can't remember if I voted for Macho, great track though, + great memories of Chewshabadoo DJing it.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:21 (nine years ago) link
I've been busy this week but the results so far are great! Good poll daavid also loving the retro-futuristic banners, good job!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
You have got to tell me where you're getting the images from.
^^
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
This is a great run...great poll all through! I didn't vote for The Chase, or Boys, or Trans-X for genre-bounding reasons. Ryan Paris is more Radio 2 than dancefloor banger imho, kinda reminds me of synthy midtempo Joe Jackson more than the contemporaries here.
<3 Macho hard
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Moka. You'll have to ask gr8080 about the images. He did all the artwork.
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dA6Dmwl.jpg
28 (TIE) GLAM "More Than Ever" [158 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/x64FSoRCAhI
― daavid, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
it was originally released as "Chase" but has been re-released as "The Chase" a few times as well
http://www.discogs.com/Giorgio-Moroder-Chase/master/224846
not that it matters
― gr8080, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
remind me to comment on the images when we're done (spoiler: i found them on the Internet)
― gr8080, Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Yes! More Than Ever, one of a handful of discoveries in the noms that made my final cut.
― ewar woowar (or something), Tuesday, 10 February 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/U36OlgH.jpg
27 SPACE "Magic Fly" [161 points, 6 votes]http://youtu.be/P_ukfGAd8T4
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
Didn't vote for it as not sufficiently 'Italo' but it is a truly wonderful track.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I love it as much as anything else that will place but not italo... but still, More Than Ever!
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
Last two for today (a tie so might as well post them together):
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:29 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FTkA5hG.jpg
25 (TIE) PINO D'ANGIO "Ma Quale Idea" [163 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/oHLewcdIWlw
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5JJWMkx.jpg
25 (TIE) MAGAZINE 60 "Don Quichotte" [163 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/-otJCqFG1Lk
didn't vote ma quale idea bc it's not really italo imo but i wish I had, it's such a cool jam
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link
50 DHUO "Walkin'" [96 points, 3 votes]49 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SYSTEM "Dancing Therapy" [97 points, 3 votes]47 (TIE) GAZEBO "I Like Chopin" [98 points, 3 votes]47 (TIE) CLIO "Eyes" [98 points, 3 votes]46 KEN LASZLO "Hey Hey Guy" [101 points, 3 votes]45 DOCTOR'S CAT "Watch Out" [105 points, 3 votes]43 (TIE) RAGGIO DI LUNA "Comanchero" [105 points, 4 votes]43 (TIE) TRANS-X "Living On Video" [105 points, 4 votes]41 (TIE) MODERN TALKING "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" [108 points, 4 votes]41 (TIE) M&G "When I Let You Down" [108 points, 4 votes]40 IVAN "Fotonovela" [117 points, 4 votes]39 LOUI$ "Pink Footpath" [122 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]38 VALERIE DORE "Get Closer" [123 points, 4 votes]37 FANCY "Slice Me Nice" [129 points, 4 votes]36 KATY GRAY "Hold Me Tight" [131 points, 4 votes]35 SABRINA "Boys (Summertime Love)" [134 points, 5 votes]34 VALERIE DORE "The Night" [137 points, 5 votes]33 CYBER PEOPLE "Void Vision" [139 points, 5 votes]32 TAFFY "I Love My Radio" [151 points, 5 votes]31 MACHO "I'm A Man" [154 points, 5 votes]30 RYAN PARIS "Dolce Vita" [155 points, 5 votes]28 (TIE) GIORGIO MORODER "The Chase" [158 points, 5 votes]28 (TIE) GLAM "More Than Ever" [158 points, 5 votes]27 SPACE "Magic Fly" [161 points, 6 votes]25 (TIE) PINO D'ANGIO "Ma Quale Idea" [163 points, 5 votes]25 (TIE) MAGAZINE 60 "Don Quichotte" [163 points, 5 votes]
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
as is don quichotte xp
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
xxpost - Agree, "Ma Quale Idea" is the perfect example of Italian disco that's not Italo… but that's of course debatable.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:34 (nine years ago) link
Interestingly enough, Pino D'Angio also produced the trance classic Age Of Love.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
Did not know that. Nice one Pino!
― spacemindy, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
I don't know Italo from Dixieland jazz but I'm digging the thread for gr80's images.
― you make me feel like danzig (WilliamC), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
yowza http://www.discogs.com/Various-80s-Dance-Story-Original-Italo-Hits/release/2714164
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:58 (nine years ago) link
Wow, did not expect More Than Ever to place! Such a cool track, maybe it's not as obscure as I thought. Ma Quale Idea might have the best Italian rapping vocals ever. Although since it's sung in Italian and not English, that sort disqualifies it from being Italo, right? :) The extended mix of "I Love My Radio" is another all-time favorite of mine, have played that vinyl to death. Also really like the Slow Version of Void Vision.
Not a fan of Magazine 60 and Sabrina, but Ryan Paris deserves to be here. I like his follow up single "Fall In Love" too.
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
Turns out the "I Like Chopin" version is not very common. I just assume it was the standard 12 inch version or whatever. Anyway, here it is. Audio quality is kind of bad but the intro (up to around 1:20) is amazing:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x41jim_gazebo-i-like-chopin-maxi-version_music
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
the version I mentioned in an earlier post
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
kinda disappointed that gr8080's graphic for Sabrina didn't contain a nip slip. (just kidding, they're all great!)
― naus, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 07:13 (nine years ago) link
That's the version of "I Like Chopin" that I put on the Spotify playlist. Agree that it's the best version, gorgeous intro.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 09:44 (nine years ago) link
"Don Quichotte" is one of the few later discoveries that I voted for. Wasn't fussed about it on the first listen, adore it now.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 09:50 (nine years ago) link
How on Earth could that Glam track score higher than Clio? Madness. Italo Madness.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 12:37 (nine years ago) link
Love the graphics in this poll, btw.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
More Than Ever my first nom to chart :) Will look into doing a mix of my list when the poll is over.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I like Eye's (and Faces) a hell of a lot, but Glam is the one for me from that team, I am a fan of the trackier end of italo though.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
Bit of a late start today...
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:44 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/v7hPjqJ.jpg
24 RIGHEIRA "Vamos A La Playa" [164 points, 6 votes]http://youtu.be/4yng-EO_IJA
one of my faves
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
LOVE Don Quichotte!
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
xpost- the lyrics are really odd and totally not what you would expect from the general vibe of the song
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
… come to think of it, gr80's image suits kind of perfectly.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Always been more of a "No Tengo Dinero" man myself. "Dinero Scratch" is also cute.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link
^same here. Well, I like both of them equally, I'd say
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/OIhH4Ff.jpg
23 GINNY "Can't Be Serious" [165 points, 5 votes]http://youtu.be/l_NcSUPsrXY
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
not really italo, but one of the greatest recordings of all time
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:23 (nine years ago) link
OTM x2
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
epic
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/SUyOiUY.jpg
22 MATIA BAZAR "Ti Sento" [167 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/NKDHRpmG4rk
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
i've never heard 'more than ever' before! this is really good
didn't vote for righeira (tho i do love it), but had ginny as my #3 and matia as my #4 - it's maybe not strictly italo but i still think 'can't be serious' is the apotheosis of the italo/balearic intersect and 'ti sento' is such OTT high drama, that last long high note she hits right before the end <3
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
agreed that "magic fly" isn't italo, but what genre is it? disco alone doesn't seem adequate
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Can't think of much to say about Ti Sento. if anything it seems a bit buttoned-up compared to the rest of the countdown despite her valiant delivery in the chorus.
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
I can trace a line from "Magic Fly" to Pulstar's "Hypnosis", so it does legitimately feel like the genesis of a certain strain of Italo.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Magic Fly = space disco, obv
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
I love "Ti Sento" but I feel like it's more Italian pop than Italo. Perhaps my perception is influenced by the fact that it's sung in Italian, but it's maybe also that Matia Bazar are the quintessential Italian pop group.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/66ekoft.jpg
21 LA BIONDA "I Wanna Be Your Lover" [177 points, 5 votes]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnrlv_la-bionda-i-wanna-be-your-lover_music
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
These pictures are all so great daavid.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
this song is so fun
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
You'll have to ask gr8080 about the images. He did all the artwork.
― daavid, Tuesday, February 10, 2015 5:48 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, I missed that.
These pictures are all so great gr8080.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
why isn't Magic Fly italo?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I left 'I Wanna Be Your Lover' off my ballot because I felt like it was sure to place without my help and I've spent the last 3 days getting more and more worried it was going to end up at number 51 or something
― i hope heaven is full of music and girls like ennya (soref), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
i voted for it but felt like it was a sure lock. it even has its own ilx thread!
la bionda - "wanna be your lover"
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
maybe I wanna be your lover should have been my number one if I was truly voting from the heart. this rollout is fantastic, lots of great stuff that I have wondered why I didn't vote for as soon as it placed
― ogmor, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
someone once told me I look like the mustachioed La Bionda brother and I feel that has had a big impact on how I relate to their music
― i hope heaven is full of music and girls like ennya (soref), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:04 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:54 AM (9 minutes ago)
french, 70's, more spacey than clubby
def proto-italo
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
god "ti sento" is fantastic
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Yayyyyy La Bionda.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
I will never understand dance music genres
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure at this point that my #1 isn't going to make it.
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:12 (nine years ago) link
how the hell did la bionda not win this in a walk!!! really intrigued to see the top 5 now.
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
thank you kitchen person!
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
My number 5. What a song.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure at this point that my #1 isn't going to make it.― example (crüt), Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:12 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― example (crüt), Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:12 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Funny you should mention that...
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HYHjVw7.jpg
20 EUGENE "Livin' In Your Love" [183 points, 6 votes, 2 first place votes]http://youtu.be/4qugXy4wWMk
:]
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
^1st track with 2 first place votes.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
these images are seriously amazing!
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
what a cool instrumental hook on this track.
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:12 (nine years ago) link
I think it was the "guitar" "solo" at the end that really pushed this to #1 for me
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
Coming up, another of my favorites: a full blown epic monster of a pop song. Also, the second German entry of the list so far (unless I'm missing something)…
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Fancy is also German.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
OK, third then… :)
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/o55qA3s.jpg
19 SANDRA "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" [187 points, 6 votes]http://youtu.be/l1DIV8V_zwQ
yessss
My #4...love the nonsensical drama of it all. Actually my #1 is even more nonsensical and dramatic than this one...
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
20 EUGENE "Livin' In Your Love" [183 points, 6 votes, 2 first place votes]
TOO LOW
(tbh I was starting to worry it might not show up)
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Maria Magdalena is unbelievable. The call and response in the chorus is so good.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
Didn't vote for Eugene or Sandra but very happy to see them place. 20 songs just really wasn't enough.
This is one of the few polls where I have absolutely no idea of what's in with a chance of winning.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Guessing maybe Pineapples or Baltimora?
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Aw man, Baltimora is fun and all but I will be really pissed off if it wins.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
I can understand why people wouldn't vote for "Tarzan Boy," but otoh I can't understand why people wouldn't vote for "Tarzan Boy"
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Is Spacer Woman in with a shot? Would love to see it do well.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link
are we going down to #11 today? or #16?
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
Maria Magdalena is good but the chorus is a liiiiittle close to Self Control.
I never really got into Sandra that much, post Arabesque, but should probably revisit her.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Some sort of structurally fundamental atomic laws would have to break for Spacer Woman not to show up in our top 50. xxp
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link
i put 'tarzan boy' on my ballot (couldn't not) but it's on the lower end
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
It's gonna be up to 16 today. Top 15 tomorrow.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Rq2aq5L.jpg
18 KLEIN & MBO "Dirty Talk" [189 points, 6 votes]http://youtu.be/79Qb1tsoYZg
…unless, gr8080, you wanna take over in about an hour?
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Arghhh, it's so frustrating not being able to participate in the speculation!
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
sure, i could take us through #'s 15-11
what do you guys think?
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
yeah, go ahead!
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Can I throw a hint of what's yet to come? It's kind of cryptic and doesn't spoil a lot.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Great, thanks, gr8080! Just really busy today as well.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
that's a smooth-sounding track.
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
I'll post two more and then you can take over.
Actually, I better not say anything. People would figure it out.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
I like how a track called "Dirty Talk" has no talking in it.
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
gr8080, I'll send you the rest of the entries in ready-to-post format in a bit.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Down to #18 and no Kano yet :(
― naus, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
fantastic, thanks xp
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
sent!
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
did not know that charlie was maurice cavalieri and giorgio stefani, who were basically i.m.s. and half of firefly.
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
― naus
Think he will suffer from split voting. That first album is brilliant but it was very hard to pick just one song from the ones nominated.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I can understand why people wouldn't vote for "Tarzan Boy," but otoh I can't understand why people wouldn't vote for "Tarzan Boy"― example (crüt), Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:26 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― example (crüt), Wednesday, February 11, 2015 8:26 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't get this, crüt. What do you mean?
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yKLeswY.jpg
17 CASCO "Cybernetic Love" [189 points, 7 votes]http://youtu.be/c6x5vyWpw-Q
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
Yay for Sandra, "Maria Magdalena" was the first Italo tune (if you can call it Italo, I did vote for it anyway) I fell in love with when I was 13 or something! In case you didn't know, it was produced and co-written by her (then) husband Michael Cretu, who later on became the guy behind Enigma (of "Sadeness" and "Return to Innocence" fame). Dude had quite a career! I think he's also the keytarist in the video?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
lot of classics in this stretch!
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
this maclean explosion version of "magic fly" is superior, imo.
agree it's not italo but it's a cool song
― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:31 (nine years ago) link
oops meant to post mc lane explosion youtube link: http://youtu.be/YpB2asybA7I
― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
My favourite version of "Magic Fly" is the Tom Moulton mix of Kebekelektrik's cover version, it's more properly disco! The original has always sounded a bit too simplistic in arrangement.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Last one from me and then gr8080 will take over for the rest of the day.
― daavid, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HRglNKu.jpg
16 KANO "Another Life" [194 points, 6 votes]http://youtu.be/1wVaGo5wSqA
tuuune
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 21:54 (nine years ago) link
Honestly thought Cybernetic Love would be top 10. This isn't the Kano I voted for but glad they've shown up.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:13 (nine years ago) link
15 ‘LECTRIC WORKERS "Robot Is Systematic" [196 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/WEXZc3MWaP0
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
oops
http://i.imgur.com/aIx0Tj1.jpg
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:26 (nine years ago) link
TOO LOWWWWWW
― brimstead, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
GOAT
So many cool songs about robots
― skip, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
I agree that it is too low, but so glad to see it here. Absolutely superb track on every level.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
Somehow didn't vote for this but almost out of everything here it's the one you'd imagine would sound an absolute beast out on the floor.
― ewar woowar (or something), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/szd13BQ.jpg
14 PINEAPPLES "Come On Closer" [218 points, 6 votes, 3 first place votes]http://youtu.be/W1ipHeQ3h
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
well if anything that is all-time on the best band name + song title combo front
― mattresslessness, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
Unlike the disco poll where loads of IMO unremarkable records placed highly this poll just keeps delivering one corker after another.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
gr808! Confess, where are you taking these lovely retrofuturist images from?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
Damn, half the people who voted for this placed it at the top of their ballots! Feeling like the chances of seeing my #1 in the countdown have just diminished significantly.
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
So many chooons! I think Matia Bazaar was my #1, maybe not though. Anyways I got really into it in the runup to the poll. I liked how it was bilingual, and, of course, what a great vocal performance.
― spacemindy, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
Moka the amazing thing is gr80 hasn't done any retouching to the images, the palette is accurate to the original work!
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, February 11, 2015 11:09 PM (11 minutes ago)
Yeah, I was dead certain my #1 would make it to the top 50 but now... not so sure.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
I voted for the Clio tracks instead of Pineapples. Love them all! I like how you can pick out the sound/style of some these producers.
Kano is such a classic track. The vocalist (Glen White?) is amazing, and Stefano Pulga was a great songwriter.
― spacemindy, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
I must have listened to "Vamos A La Playa" about 10 times today thanks to this thread. Its about a nuclear bomb! Love ILM polls like this introducing me to genres Im not familiar with. Also those images are incredible, well done.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
'come on closer' was my #1 :D
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link
Woah I was sure Pineapples would be much higher! What is left for the top 10???
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Is there some weirdly orthogonal Italo canon that I've never heard of?
this is not 100% true
i'll link to some truly sublime collections i stole from after we wrap up tomorrow i promise
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dOUgj5S.jpg
13 DOCTOR'S CAT "Feel The Drive" [226 points, 7 votes]http://youtu.be/dCsM1Am7xOM
Still keeping my hopes up for "Hills of Katmandu"... And "Self Control" is a lock for top 5, surely? "Tarzan Boy" and "San Salvador" might also still place, I guess?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
(xpost to Seandalai)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:30 (nine years ago) link
feel like anyone over 30 would get a proustian rush from the opening synth on this track wether they knew what italo was or not
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
also on my ballot - great workout song
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
Great jam. Agreed about the muscle of the opening synth line - amazing! Some may recognize parts of the vocal from LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous.
― spacemindy, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
― tayto fan (Michael B)
You should listen to 'No tengo dinero' by them (Righeira). It was my ringtone for a while and it made everyone chuckle (chorus translates as 'I have no money'). Not as popular as Vamos a la Playa but it's also sublime.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
I have the feeling Bagarre's Lemon Sweet wont make it. The whole Circus album is excellent, if it doesn't place and you guys haven't heard it please do. Dirty Love and Lemon Sweet are so good.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Bagarre are cool but not Italo imo.
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
xpost im familiar with that song, moka! its great indeed. If Righeira are two guys from Turin, why are they singing in Spanish though?
― tayto fan (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Italians generally love the Spanish, from what I've gathered... Like they're some lovable country cousins or something.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
My bad! I recognize a lot of the images and they didn't look altered. Can't wait to see further archives from where you're pulling this stuff, it's all fantastic. Kind of need to know what font that is too, the serifs on the 7s make my toes curl.
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
What would you class Bagarre as if not Italo, seandalai? I mean, I excised things for not being Italo enough, but I don't know what else Bagarre would be...
― emil.y, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
I've seen Bagarre catalogued as italo-disco everywhere but no idea.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
yessss Feel the Drive
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
it's mostly true! i just did some gradient overlays here and there so the white text could pop
i can't look atm but i'm 99% sure it's a font called "Lemon Milk". i'm a little disappointed that i didn't notice the obnoxious way that V's and W's don't snuggle up nice and close with A's until i was almost done with all the images. (is there a term for that?)
― gr8080, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:57 (nine years ago) link
Bagarre is more of a beardo/proto-Balearic sound iirc? Not robotic enough for me...
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link
Just had a look back at my ballot and there are 10 songs where I'll be surprised if they don't make it.
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/P6Swk6t.jpg
12 EASY GOING "Fear" [226 points, 7 votes, 2 first place votes]http://youtu.be/Iq5F1sQkImM
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
9 actually, the 10th I really really want to make it but suspect it isn't as popular as another by the same artist Xp
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
This one I'm not crazy about tbh.
i'm a little disappointed that i didn't notice the obnoxious way that V's and W's don't snuggle up nice and close with A's until i was almost done with all the images. (is there a term for that?)
I believe that term is 'Kerning' – unless you are referring to your dismay, in which case the term is 'Designer OCD'. :D
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
lol thank u
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:10 (nine years ago) link
The lyrics were actually written by La Bionda and Carmelo not by Righeira, but they're also Italian so no idea why the Spanish. The thing I love about those two lyrics is how fun and dumb they appear at first listen but Vamos A La Playa is actually about nuclear destruction and No Tengo Dinero is about post-war class struggle in Italy. The chorus become some sort of ironic joke when you read the verses.
Here's my translation of both:
VAMOS A LA PLAYA
(CHORUS:)Let's go to the beach oh o-o-o-oh (x6)
The bomb has explodedRadiation is roastingand painting everything blue
Let's go to the beach
Everyone with hats onthe radioactive windswere messing up our hair
Let's go to the beachthe sea is clean at lastno more rotten fishbut the water is still fluorescent
NO TENGO DINERO
I have no money ohI have no money no no no no
The modern rich are living in herein the highest place in my cityNurturing themselves with images and relaxI wish I was there
I have no money oh
The new italians are creating in herefearless enthusiasts of ferocious speedNeo-psychic is the syntactic edenI'd rather be somewhere else
I have no money
(the final part is sort of broken spanish and all the lyrics I've seen make no sense but here's what I think they meant:)
Neo-psychicKissed by goddess you areHomeland of those who believe
Neo-psychic
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:11 (nine years ago) link
Simonetti has a great discography between his various disco projects and Goblin. My vote was for Crazy Gang - Every Sunday... which might still have a chance? Also check out Easy Going - Gay Time Latin Lover for a laugh!
― spacemindy, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Amazing song. So happy it made it.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
xpost Righeira = the Scritti Politti of Italo!
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
Oh, thank fuck! My #1.
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:18 (nine years ago) link
the Fear album cover is one of my favorites ever
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
Also, WTF, I had no idea about the nuclear aspect of 'Vamos a la Playa'! Going on my nuclear playlist ASAP.
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
the /Fear/ album cover is one of my favorites ever
OTM
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link
There are quite a few other examples of Italo in Spanish, or at least with some bits in Spanish. Some of them by French acts as well like Magazine 60 and Bandolero.
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link
My own theory is that Spanish as a language was considered 'cool' in '80s Europe. But I really have nothing to back that up.
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
There was a vocal version on the A-side of the UK release. This version doesn't have the introductory giggle, but it's close enough: http://youtu.be/b8crkDgEwGE
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:26 (nine years ago) link
had no idea about the lyrics for Vamos a la Playa! I should have voted it higher...
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
last one for today:
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ObsVpt4.jpg
11 LAURA BRANIGAN "Self Control" [229 points, 7 votes]http://youtu.be/p8-pP4VboBk
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
I wonder what the vote-splitting impact was? (And if Raf is still to come - I doubt it, but you never know)
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
TOO LOW seconded!
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
RAF campioni
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for taking over, gr8080.
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:34 (nine years ago) link
oh-oh-OH
DUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
oh-OH-oh
DURRRRNNNNNNNNNNNN
― donna rouge, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
TOP 10 TOMORROW!
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I voted RAF on this occasion.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
But in mid-84, the Laura B version WAS MY LIFE.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
i like the rapping bit on the RAF version but i first heard and loved LB's
― donna rouge, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
Is Laura Branigan the first US artist from the list so far?
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
My band covered the song this Xmas. It was a bit more ramshackle than either of the other versions, but it was FUN.
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
There was a period where Laura B had the German #1 while RAF had the German #2. They loved that song in Germany.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
i sang it the first time i karaoke'd with LA ILXors
― donna rouge, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
ooooh... I voted for the Raf version. I heard Laura Branigan's first but everything about the Raf version is sonic catnip for me
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
(Same thing happened a few months earlier, with Nino De Angelo "Jenseits Von Eden" (#1) and its English-language counterpart, Masquerade "Guardian Angel" (#2). Nino De Angelo and Laura Branigan eventually became Germany's two best-selling singles of 1984.)
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
There was a period where Laura B had the German #1 while RAF had the German #2. They loved that song in Germany.― mike t-diva, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:40 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dying @ this
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
wow, can't believe how low this is.
― skip, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Only song left on my ballot that I'm confident will show up is Baltimora. As for the rest, è un mistero.
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:59 (nine years ago) link
Feel like Mr Flagio's "Take A Chance" is a sure bet but who knows really
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:05 (nine years ago) link
pumped that RAF will triumph!!!
― spacemindy, Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
p sure "problemes d'amour" will be in the top 10.
― naus, Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:39 (nine years ago) link
take a chance, spacer woman, tarzan boy and problemes seem like locks to me. less certain: happy station? take me to the top? challenger?
― donna rouge, Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:53 (nine years ago) link
Minus Tarzan boy, that's pretty much my ballot!
― naus, Thursday, 12 February 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
happy station definitely
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
― gr8080
This is OTM. The fade-up is essentially as close as it gets for me musically to the suggestion of synaesthesia, that synth tone emerges and it's like I can smell the neon tinted steam. Love this track so hard, and the b-side instrumental isn't just the backing track either, there's this new other texture that comes in during the last two minutes that sounds like helicopter rotor blades cutting through congealed soda pop. VWACKA VWACKA VWACKA VWACKA
Favorite new discovery is Ryan Paris, where has this track been my whole life? Gorgeous melody.
4/20 placed so far, sure to rack up another 3 tomorrow at least, more depending if you all dig the transcendentally silly Hypnotic Tango as much as I do.
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 08:39 (nine years ago) link
^ that's re: 'Feel the Drive'
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 08:42 (nine years ago) link
Could also see How Old Are You?, Disco Band, Only Music Survives, USSR and Masterpiece in a top ten...
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 February 2015 08:47 (nine years ago) link
I will be very sad if Hypnotic Tango doesn't place. Same for Take a Chance (and Spacer Woman, but that's got to make it, surely?).
Also this poll is great, thanks! Lots of things I didn't know in the countdown, which uh maybe means I wasn't really qualified to vote, but I'm enjoying filling in the gaps in my knowledge...
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 12 February 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
I'd say those 3 are definite lock-ins surely?
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 12 February 2015 11:07 (nine years ago) link
I have realistic hopes for Happy Station, Hypnotic Tango, Around My Dream, Take A Chance. Suspect the Lime vote will be fatally split.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 11:14 (nine years ago) link
9 I thought were locks still to show but ill just say that Faces will surely be in there as a a load of us have already said itt that that was the Clio we voted for.
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 11:36 (nine years ago) link
Savage and BWH also potentially still to come I guess?
― Siegbran, Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:19 (nine years ago) link
Hypnotic Tango could be top 3
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
not that i voted as i dont know italo well but fingers crossed that silver pozzoli's "around my dream" turns up
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 12 February 2015 14:01 (nine years ago) link
Here we go. The top ten Italo tracks are...
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/k8LWoZn.jpg
10 KANO "I'm Ready" [251 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/zXmCOlmucBY
MOVE ME DISCO
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
Just adding that I too am looking forward to some art reveals. I do recognize at least one MECO cover detail. Good stuff all over.
― andrew m., Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/J0G7r4J.jpg
9 FUN FUN "Happy Station" [258 points, 8 votes]http://youtu.be/qM9y-eJJ8U4
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
It's no Baila Bolero.
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
Just adding that I too am looking forward to some art reveals. I do recognize at least one MECO cover detail. Good stuff all over.― andrew m., Thursday, February 12, 2015 9:46 AM (3 minutes ago)
― andrew m., Thursday, February 12, 2015 9:46 AM (3 minutes ago)
haha, damn! i was trying to avoid using anything that was originally album-art, that one must have slipped by me
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Excellent Kano choice. I had It's a War in my top ten but I'm fine with this one placing ahead of it.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link
I love the 12" version of Happy Station; I'm not as keen on the Scratch Mix but it def makes for an amazing video
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:59 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Utf6g4X.jpg
8 ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK "Problemes d'Amour" [259 points, 8 votes]http://youtu.be/jMN9_7tPFCY
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
Great tune
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
cant say for sure but this track may have been my introduction to Italo ~10-11 years ago
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
The Scratch mix of Happy Station totally eclipsed the original mix at the time. I doubt that's the "official video", though - it looks like the sort of bonkers staging that the weekly German pop TV show Formel Eins would come up with.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/uRDRUOa.jpg
7 RAF "Self Control" [261 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/1_TQjEn6cpQ
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
:)))
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Woh-oh-oh!
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
biggest or smallest surprise of the rollout right here
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
stay, stay, stay, stay, station!
― skip, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
Whoaaaa double 'Self Control', yeah!
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:50 (1 hour ago)
I concur with this statement.
― emil.y, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if our next entry is the biggest Italo hit of all time, but it certainly felt like it at the time...
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/tESyS5H.jpg
6 BALTIMORA "Tarzan Boy" [265 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/_r0n9Dv6XnY
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
:D
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
the biggest italo hit ever is probably correct, originally knew it from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKx5uT8px8U
(unless you count "i'm ready," whose bassline was used on "whoomp! there it is")
― naus, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
we're lieeving in the open
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
god what a tune
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
oh my god i never made the listerine connection lol
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
tbh the first half of today i can take or leave, really
but the top 5 are all bona-fide essentials imo
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
We should get to that section then. Starting with:
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/2JLl4OV.jpg
5 CLIO "Faces" [343 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote]http://youtu.be/kw3mlykbAfk
what a fantastic multi-layered chorus. Never heard this one before.
― skip, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
(ノ*゚ー゚)ノ
― soref, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
that's a big jump in number of points
― soref, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
fay-ay-sess
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
this was my number one and I was beginning to worry it wouldn't show up, relived that it is well like here
― soref, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
wtf @ that Fun Fun video
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Would happily listen to only these 50 songs on a loop forever, so pleased both Self Controls hit high. Clio and Fun Fun are sooo sooo good.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
How lucky are we that all this is on YouTube? Imagine having to look through hundreds of record bins just to get to hear this top 50, let alone all the other nominees.
― skip, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5AmcXOw.jpg
4 BWH "Stop" [373 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes]http://youtu.be/tNCVeo_icAM
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
yesssssssssssss
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
lol mashups, but my first exposure to this monster jam was this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a687_HfxMZM
used to play it out all the time
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
wtf @ that Fun Fun video― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:42 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― tayto fan (Michael B), Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:42 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wtf indeed! In a good way, though.
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
"Stop" is the greatest! I might prefer "Living Up", but they're both so great
― brimstead, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
Wrong Happy Station for me, that’s the 'scratch version', here’s the original in case you don’t know it: http://youtu.be/28Um3jmQHhI
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/g9yLctJ.jpg
3 MY MINE "Hypnotic Tango" [379 points, 12 votes]http://youtu.be/KLBInZxGA34
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
my favorite italo song
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:38 (nine years ago) link
just this morning a non-ilx colleague of mine posted to facebook about an all-employee meeting at his workplace that the GM insisted on this track being both the intro and outro music for
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
so glad I don't work at a place that requires intro/outro music for meetings
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
i'd be okay with it if the intro/outro music was only selections from this thread
― ciderpress, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
my 77 thread on this subject
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
was wondering if this song really had a chance
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
it was the first track to be nominated iirc
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:02 (nine years ago) link
;)
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
Runner-up...
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/P1GWZ2v.jpg
2 CHARLIE "Spacer Woman" [389 points, 11 votes, 2 first place votes]http://youtu.be/eglu23iGsU0
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
my top 11 songs have already placed. I'm pulling for my #12 though I have serious doubts.
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:12 (nine years ago) link
Come on Topo and Roby!
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
this is the best italo song
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, the tension!
(I love #3 and #2 and they could easily have been my #1 but on that particular day they weren't... will mine be the poll's as well?)
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
Based on the last four it has to be Mr Flagio surely.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
^^ the only one in the top 10 of my ballot that hasn't made it
― naus, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
And the winner is...
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
No surprises!
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
the only track with over 400 points...
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0UrxjL8.jpg
1 MR. FLAGIO "Take A Chance" [457 points, 13 votes, 2 first place votes]http://youtu.be/zDV_dBYp4h0
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
wow
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
no soccio :(
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
worthy winner
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
what a rad poll, thanks daavid and gr80
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Yep. Great poll and beautiful images. Thanks both.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
Awesome tracks, all fifty of em. Great poll thanks for organising! Working on the mix now, will be posted here when its done.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Well done on the poll.
My votes, top first.
Mr. Flagio - Take A ChanceMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoCharlie - Spacer WomanClio - FacesFun Fun - Happy StationGlam - More Than EverAmnesie - TurasKano - I'm readyLama – Love on the RocksFockewulf 190 - GitanoMike Mareen - Dancing In The DarkRaf - Self ControlStrada - It's The MonkeyGhibli - I'm Looking For You (instrumental)N.O.I.A. - The Rule to Survive (Looking for Love)Lectric Workers Featuring Funny Randon - The GardenLime – Babe, We’re Gonna Love ToniteBWH - StopG.Race - On FireBaby's Gang - Disco Maniac
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
My ballot:
Alba Parietti - Only Music SurvivesNatali - Vot KakTat'yana Bulanova - Belaya CheremukhaFancy - Slice Me NiceEddy Huntington - USSRRaf - Self ControlKen Laszlo - Hey Hey GuyDigital Emotion - Go Go Yellow ScreenMatia Bazar - Ti SentoMiko Mission - How Old Are You?Macho - I'm A ManValerie Dore - The NightRaffaella Carra - 1,2,3,4 DancingGazebo - MasterpieceScotch - Disco BandTrans-X - Living On VideoIvan – FotonovelaModern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My SoulSabrina - Boys (Summertime Love)Spagna - Call Me
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
FULL RESULTS
Note: I was lazy and stopped counting the ties after 50. Hope you guys don't mind.
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
thank you daavid and gr8080!
― soref, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
a mix! yes xps
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
good fun, thank you! also thx for images gr80, they looked amazing; looking forward to Siegbran's mix too
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Eugene - Livin' In Your LoveB.W.H. - StopValerie Dore - Get CloserDoctor's Cat - Feel The DriveBaltimora - Tarzan BoyFun Fun - Happy StationMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoClio - FacesCasco - Cybernetic LoveRaf - Self ControlSpace - Magic FlyGino Soccio - RememberGiorgio Moroder - The ChaseModern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My SoulEasy Going - FearTrans-X - Living On VideoElectra ft. Tara Butler - Feels Good (Carrots and Beets)Kano - I Need LoveStefano Pulga - Take Me HigherEddy Huntington - U.S.S.R.
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
195 Savage - Don't Cry Tonight
crying tonight
― mattresslessness, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
aw jeez, I had The Man From Colors and Comet on my ballot, if I'd put each of them a couple of places higher they'd have made it :(
― soref, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
My pleasure! My first ballot poll. I feel like a real ILMer now :)
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
GALLERY OF ALL 50 IMAGES
most of the artwork i used came from this amazing site:
http://50watts.com/filter/space-teriyaki
(be sure to click around to other galleries besides just the 8 there)
as well as this flickr pool:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/1065270@N23/pool/
and one or two might have come from this one, either way its worth a click
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48304527@N05/sets/72157623631798674
thanks daavid for letting me be a part of this, it was lots of fun
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
xps- I'm crying too, mattresslessness
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Thank you Grady! Thanks for your patience as well!
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:00 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Daavido and Gradio!
Eugene - Livin' in Your LovePineapples - Come on CloserTopo and Roby - Under The IceFunky Family - Funky Is OnBaltimora - Tarzan BoyM&G - When I Let You DownTibor Levay - Gipsy BoobieElectra ft. Tara Butler - Feels Good (Carrots and Beets)Kermesse - Mrs MoonG.J. Lunghi - Acapulco NightsRaggio Di Luna – ComancheroCasco - Cybernetic LoveAlexander Robotnick - Problemes d'AmourRaffaella Carra - 1,2,3,4 DancingGazebo - I Like ChopinValerie Dore - The NightLAME' - You've Got the NightSandra - (I'll Never Be) Maria MagdalenaRigheira - Vamos A La PlayaJago - I'm Going To Go
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link
Rinder & Lewis - Willie & The Hand JiveDhuo - Walkin'Barry Mason - Body! Get Your BodyJago - I'm Going To GoElectric Mind - Zwei (Dub)Charlie - Spacer WomanBlackway - New LifeFunky Family - Funky Is OnSunbelt - Spin ItGaz Nevada - I.C. Love AffairGaz Nevada - Special Agent ManBWH – StopElectra ft. Tara Butler - Feels Good (Carrots and Beets)Glam - More Than EverStopp - I'm HungryAnswering Service - Call Me Mr. TelephoneLectric Workers - Robot is SystematicMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceGinny - Can't Be Serious
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
Thanks daavid, this has been great, discovered some amazing songs from the nominations list. Thanks to gr8080 for the images too.
George Aaron - Just For YouTangui - Amour CombatClio - EyesSandra - (I’ll Never Be) Maria MagdalenaGary Low - I Want YouRyan Paris - Dolce VitaThe Voyagers - Distant PlanetGazebo - I Like ChopinFinzy Kontini - Cha Cha ChaGlam - More Than EverJonathan Gable – Central ParkCube - Concert BoyPineapples - Come on CloserKano - Another LifeEugene - Livin' in Your LoveGrant Miller – Colder Than IceStefano Pulga - Take Me HigherLaura Branigan - Self ControlLusstt - Pillow TalkFancy - Lady of Ice
Er yeah I just realised I put the wrong Clio song on my ballot... Ah well, they're both great anyway.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
YES @ Faces and Stop placing so high. Only discovered Faces last year when I was youtubing italo in the bath and seriously, the moment when the chorus lifts off I was literally crying with joy. Thanks gr80 and daavid and yeah I could listen exclusively to this stuff forever.
Loui$ - Pink FootpathGinny - Can't Be SeriousGaz Nevada - Special Agent ManFun Fun - Baila BoleroClio - FacesBWH - StopBoytronic - BryllyantRaf - Self ControlMike Mareen - Dancing In The DarkValerie Dore - Get CloserCasco - Cybernetic LoveGlam - More Than EverAlexander Robotnick - Problemes d'AmourJago - I'm Going To GoKano - Its A WarMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceChaplin Band - Il VelieroFunky Family - Funky Is OnGino Soccio - RememberBlackway - New Life
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
Thanks so much for organizing and the great images!
I went a bit (a lot) cheesy with my #1, "Vampires" by Radiorama. These picks were much classier ;)
― skip, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
http://50watts.com/filter/space-teriyakihttps://www.flickr.com/photos/48304527@N05/sets/72157623631798674-- gr8080
whoa awesome
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
My unsubmitted ballot (I originally planned to vote but by the time I had a chance to write a ballot, it was too late. I knew too much):
Lucia - MarineroBandolero - Paris LatinoClio - FacesKen Laszlo - Hey Hey GuyFinzy Kontini - Cha Cha ChaSandra - (I'll Never Be) Maria MagdalenaValerie Dore - The NightLaura Branigan - Self ControlRigheira - No Tengo DineroIvan - FotonovelaSavage - Don't Cry TonightMatia Bazaar - Ti SentoBaltimora - Tarzan BoyDesireless - Voyage VoyageMagazine 60 - Don QuichotteMike Rogers - Just A StoryRigheira - Vamos A La PlayaMoses - We JustEddy - Huntington USSRValerie Dore - Get Closer
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
such integrity!
― gr8080, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I don't know if you've already noticed but, technically, "Self Control" is the song with the highest number of points.
― daavid, Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
that Fun Fun video has been a favorite of donna rouge + I for like many many years
― Jennifer 8.-( (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
also "Faces" prob woulda been my #1 if I voted; so beautiful!
the chorus makes me SO SO HAPPY
That's a great top 10. Good job everyone! Specially daavid and gr8080
Also thanks for this gr8080!:
GALLERY OF ALL 50 IMAGESmost of the artwork i used came from this amazing site:http://50watts.com/filter/space-teriyaki(be sure to click around to other galleries besides just the 8 there)as well as this flickr pool:https://www.flickr.com/groups/1065270@N23/pool/and one or two might have come from this one, either way its worth a clickhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/48304527@N05/sets/72157623631798674thanks daavid for letting me be a part of this, it was lots of fun― gr8080,
― gr8080,
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 12 February 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
so many dope songs!! what a joyful celebration. :)
ballot:Matia Bazar - Ti SientoMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceKaty Gray - Hold Me TightMr Master - A Dog In the Night Clio - FacesTorrevado - Living In The ShuttleStefano Pulga - Take Me HigherFellini – PassengerClio - EyesCrazy Gang - Every SundayRaggio Di Luna – ComancheroNeon – My Blues Is YouKano - Another LifeSabrina – Boys (Summertime Love)Via Verdi – DiamondCyber People - Void VisionIvan – FotonovelaRaf - Self ControlXalan – I Only Move For Money/Solo Me Muevo Por DineroBWH - Stop
― spacemindy, Thursday, 12 February 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
My ballot:Twins - Not The Loving KindMagazine 60 - Don QuichotteFun Fun - Happy StationKano - Another LifeMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoTaffy - I Love My RadioBoytronic - YouSilver Pozzoli - Around My DreamP. Lion - Happy ChildrenLime - GuiltyKlein & MBO - Dirty TalkRyan Paris - Dolce VitaTwins - Face To Face, Heart To HeartTrans-X - Living On VideoKano - Queen Of WitchesFun Fun - Color My LoveRaf - Self ControlLime - Angel EyesGazebo - MasterpieceFancy - Slice Me Nice
These just missed the final cut:Lime – Babe, We’re Gonna Love ToniteModern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My SoulJoe Yellow - Lover To LoverMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceRigheira - No Tengo DineroLime - On The Grid (Re-mix Dub)Video - Somebody
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:45 (nine years ago) link
Easy Going - FearLaura Branigan - Self ControlCube - Concert BoyDoctor's Cat - Watch OutLa Bionda - Wanna be your loverTwins - Face To Face, Heart To HeartTantra - Hills of KatmanduJock Hattle - Crazy FamilyMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoInternational Music System - Dancing TherapyClio - FacesSpace - Magic FlySandwizz - Do You Want A Sandwich?Gay Cat Park - I Am a VocoderRigheira - Vamos A La PlayaLos Angeles T.F. - Magical BodyTaffy - I Love My RadioLectric Workers - Robot is SystematicRoni Griffith - Love is the DrugBaby's Gang - Happy Song
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 13 February 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
Mine is probably a bit rubbish in comparison to most of you guys, but:
Easy Going - FearLectric Workers - Robot is SystematicLaura Branigan - Self ControlDee D. Jackson - Automatic LoverClio - FacesLa Bionda - Wanna be your loverDoctor's Cat - Watch OutMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoDroids - The ForceBagarre - LemonsweetPassengers - He's Speedy Like GonzalesInternational Music System - Dancing TherapySandwizz - Do You Want A Sandwich?Fun Fun - Baila BoleroKano - I'm readyCasco - Cybernetic LoveEugene - Livin' in Your LoveDigital Emotion - Go Go Yellow ScreenLaserdance - Cosmo TronRaggio Di Luna – Comanchero
― emil.y, Friday, 13 February 2015 02:53 (nine years ago) link
my ballot
Lectric Workers - Robot is SystematicMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceBWH - Livin' UpBWH - StopTrophy - Slow FlightMya & The Mirror - HesitationKaty Gray - Hold Me TightDharma - Plastic DollGiorgio Moroder - The ChaseCyber People - Void VisionDecadance - On And OnNemesy - TouchWanexa - The Man From ColorsMr Master - A Dog In The NightAlter Ego - Just Like a StarRaf - Self ControlKano - I'm readyKano - Now Baby NowKlapto - Queen of the NightTrilogy - Not Love
― brimstead, Friday, 13 February 2015 04:13 (nine years ago) link
oh man i can't wait to dig through all these, just started my journey into italo recently..
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Friday, 13 February 2015 06:23 (nine years ago) link
This poll was nothing short of the best party so far this year!
BWH - StopMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceCharlie - Spacer WomanDoctor's Cat - Feel the DriveAmin-Peck - CodaSun La Shan - CatchNaif Orchestra - Check Out FiveMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoPassengers - He's Speedy Like GonzalesMagazine 60 - Don QuichotteMya & The Mirror - HesitationWanexa - The Man From Colors Trans-X - Living On VideoInternational Music System - NonlineHipnosis - End Title (Blade Runner Theme)Gaz Nevada - I.C. Love AffairAlexander Robotnick - Problemes d'AmourM&G - When I Let You DownStopp - I'm HungryBaltimora - Tarzan Boy
― Portugal minus Pedro Foster Cage (Spectrist), Friday, 13 February 2015 07:01 (nine years ago) link
loved this poll & love seeing everyone's lists, here's mine:
BWH - StopAnswering Service - Call Me Mr. TelephoneElectric Mind - Zwei (Dub)Tantra - Macumba SuiteGlam - More Than EverClio - FacesLa Bionda - Wanna be your loverMassara - MargheritaTullio de Piscopo - Stop Bajon (Club Mix)Dhuo - Walkin'Doctor's Cat - Feel the DriveGinny - Can't Be SeriousPino D'Angio - Ma Quale IdeaGaz Nevada - I.C. Love AffairRyan Paris - Dolce VitaLusstt - Pillow TalkTrophy - Slow FlightLoui$ - Pink FootpathPlustwo - Stop FantasyValerie Dore - Get Closer
― ogmor, Friday, 13 February 2015 09:03 (nine years ago) link
Very nice, I'm not super versed into Italo, so there's a lot of new and cool stuff for me in this poll. Here's my ballot:
1. Tantra - Hills of Katmandu2. Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord3. Laura Branigan - Self Control4. Chaplin Band - Il Veliero5. Fast Radio - Under My Thumb6. Tullio de Piscopo - Stop Bajon (Club Mix)7. Erotic Drum Band - Horn-y8. Sandra - (I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena9. Sunbelt - Spin It10. Moses - We Just11. Kat Mandu - Hooked on Voices12. Macho - I'm A Man13. Baltimora - Tarzan Boy14. Automat - Automat15. Limahl/Girogio Moroder - Never Ending Story16. Alisha - All Night Passion17. Azoto - San Salvador18. Lime - Guilty19. Easy Going - Fear20. Kebekelektrik - War Dance
I was a bit disappointed that "Hills of Katmandu" didn't make it, to me it's the greatest cosmic disco epic of all time, Italo or otherwise. I guess the popularity of Tantra has been hurt by Unidisc's stupidly restrictive licensing policy, for a long time their material was hard to find on CD... But their whole output was finally reissued in 2013 as 2CD comp by Harmless, I thought that would've made them more popular, they certainly deserve it!
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 February 2015 10:02 (nine years ago) link
Hey Daavid, I looked at the results table, and I see you have Immortals' "The Ultimate Warlord" listed there twice, at #55 and at #179 (the second time it's listed as just "Ultimate Warlord"). And it looks like the votes were split between those two entires, if you combine them it would have 122 points, so it should've made it to the #40 spot in the countdown.
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 February 2015 10:11 (nine years ago) link
Hopefully you can correct this and Grady can find some cool graphic for the tune. :) It's definitely worth it.
― Tuomas, Friday, 13 February 2015 10:13 (nine years ago) link
Guys, I know I didn't vote in this, but not one vote for Plustwo's 'Melody' is surely a glaring error??
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Friday, 13 February 2015 10:14 (nine years ago) link
dhuo reacting to this turn of events
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qk5sY67bjiA/TZTq_ZatfpI/AAAAAAAADX0/ttRGt8BeVOg/s1600/Dhuo+-+Walkin%2527.jpg
xp
― soref, Friday, 13 February 2015 10:21 (nine years ago) link
My ballot:1. Sly & Hunter - No More Vision2. Sabrina - Boys (Summertime Love)3. Blue Russell - I Wanna Fly Away4. Venise - Playboy5. Mike Rogers - Just A Story6. Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul7. Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy8. East Wall - Eyes Of Glass9. Baltimora - Tarzan Boy10. Righeira - Vamos A La Playa11. Fellini – Passenger12. Savage - Only You13. Laserdance - Power Run14. Fockewulf 190 - Gitano15. Lucia - Marinero16. Valerie Dore - The Night17. Diux - Comet18. Sandra - (I’ll Never Be) Maria Magdalena19. Laura Branigan - Self Control20. BWH - Stop
― Siegbran, Friday, 13 February 2015 10:23 (nine years ago) link
dhuo more like d'oh!
― example (crüt), Friday, 13 February 2015 12:53 (nine years ago) link
Aww man! Thanks for spotting that, Tuomas. There was so much enthusiasm abou Dhuo placing... How about we make this a top 51 list and not bump them.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
I'm including Dhuo in the mix fwiw.
― Siegbran, Friday, 13 February 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/5esHSGV.jpg
40 THE IMMORTALS "The Ultimate Warlord" [122 points, 4 votes]http://youtu.be/19X-g5jHRzI
― gr8080, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
incredible song fwiw
this is kind of funny tbh, when daavid sent me the final results he left it up to me to decide whether we'd do a top 40 or top 50. since i nominated and championed Dhuo i opted to go for a top 50 lol
― gr8080, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
the phrase 'slice me nice' has been haunting me for the past couple days
― ciderpress, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
I'm like a cake that wants to be baked, i'm like a pie made for hungry guys.
My body's burning like a flame that's blue. It's time for action, baby, cut me in two.
How could you not be haunted?
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Friday, 13 February 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
Thanks for taking care of that, gr8080.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
the phrase 'slice me nice' has been haunting me for the past couple days― ciderpress, Friday, February 13, 2015 3:24 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ciderpress, Friday, February 13, 2015 3:24 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Same here! What it is about it? ..eerie.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
Totally missed this, how come nobody told me about it? How did Gaz Nevada not make the list?
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
I've fixed the spreadsheet as well.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
i voted 2 gaz nevada tracks!!!!!!
― gr8080, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
dan i wouldnt mind seeing your hypothetical top 20
― gr8080, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
Gaz Nevada didn't make it to the top 50, but they still had a couple of tracks on the full list. Their highest placing was 69.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
I can do it when I'm back home in front of the computer at some point.
Surprised Dirty Talk didn't score higher.
Also surprised about comment upthread about not hearing the italo influence on New Order. From the euro-disco/moroder synth basslines of Everything's Gone Green and Temptation, to the admitted influence of Dirty Talk on Blue Monday...
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
I'll post this again: FULL RESULTS
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
I had a Gaz Nevada track (special agent man) top 3, really surprised he didn't show up at all.
― ewar woowar (or something), Friday, 13 February 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Xp that was me with the New Order comment, I dunno it's just never been as explicit as, say, PS and not more than several other 80s synth pop bands. I can obv hear its there but the comment was more a Wow I can really hear it re Dancing Therapy and Bizarre Love Triangle.
― ewar woowar (or something), Friday, 13 February 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
The Gaz Nevada vote was more or less split between tracks
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
IC Love Affair makes my top 5. Maybe top 2.
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 February 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
Enough to propel it into top 50 territory. Should've voted, dan.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Nobody told me about this thread. I generally only look at threads I've already bookmarked unless I'm really bored in which case I'll check out recently updated threads and never noticed this. In any case I've always depended on people contacting me or otherwise posting "hey why hasn't Dan Selzer posted on this thread?" in which case I find it when I'm searching for my name!
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 February 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Most of my favorites didn't make it, who cares.
Sorry you couldn't be bothered to look at new threads.
― brimstead, Friday, 13 February 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
Here's my complete ballot:
Baltimora - "Tarzan Boy"
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Friday, 13 February 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
haha, yes! Do you seriously not like any other Italo track, DJP, or just overwhelmingly like that one above others?
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Take it easy brimstead, I don't take it too seriously.
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
Just let me know next time.
I've always been curious to know what's being said in the phone conversation at the beginning of "Hey Hey Guy". Cannot understand, like, 80% of it. Anyone?
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
xpost- odd/bad luck that you missed this one, dan. It's been going on for about two months.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
option B really, although I'm not well-versed in Italo so you could argue option A by virtue of genre ignorance
― "Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Friday, 13 February 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
You should have a listen to the playlist. You may find some gems in there.
― daavid, Friday, 13 February 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
Revisiting some of the tracks I left off my ballot..."Take a Chance" still doesn't do much for me but "Stop" is all-time and I should have voted for it...
― ⊤ℝolliℵg M∃th H∑a∂ (seandalai), Friday, 13 February 2015 22:56 (nine years ago) link
Enjoyed this rollout immensely, discovered so many gems.
new to me stuf that really stood out: Cyber People- Void Vision, Lui$ - Pink footpath, CASCO "Cybernetic Love"
my ballot:
Kano - I'm readyBWH - StopDoctor's Cat - Feel the DriveMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceKano - Another LifeAlexander Robotnick - Problemes d'AmourCharlie - Spacer WomanGiorgio Moroder - The ChaseCerrone - SupernatureMethusalem - ZombieMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoImmortals - The Ultimate WarlordClio - EyesKasso - WalkmanSpace - Magic FlyKlein & MBO - The MBO ThemeKano - Its A WarCasco - Cybernetic LovePink Project - B ProjectVictor - Go On Do ItHelen - WitchPineapples - Come on CloserBig Ben Tribe - Tarzan Loves the Summer NightsLoui$ - Pink FootpathDharma - Plastic DollBWH - Livin' UpCapricorn - I Need LoveGaz Nevada - I.C. Love AffairNeon - Skydiver
― dsb, Friday, 13 February 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of New Order Italo influence, i feel like they maybe nicked some of the melody of Cybernetic Love in something "The Perfect Kiss".. maybe? its so familiar.
― dsb, Friday, 13 February 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
oops meant void vision, its not quite there anyway.
― dsb, Friday, 13 February 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
<i>I've always been curious to know what's being said in the phone conversation at the beginning of "Hey Hey Guy". Cannot understand, like, 80% of it. Anyone?
― daavid, Friday, February 13, 2015 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</i>
- hello?- hello? (something something)- oh dear are you at phone- yeah hey guy, tell me about your manicure- I love you and feel the groove- tell me about it, is it true?- it's true, yes it's true- love for hire is dangerous- don't worry baby gold- everything is same as all- everything is the same- oh I love you- me too- I love you
― Siegbran, Saturday, 14 February 2015 08:44 (nine years ago) link
Well that's that cleared up.
― ewar woowar (or something), Saturday, 14 February 2015 10:17 (nine years ago) link
Seriously though... no 'Melody' by Plustwo? its not just the best italo song in the world. It's the best song in the world.
― oi listen mate, shut up (dog latin), Saturday, 14 February 2015 10:27 (nine years ago) link
Biggest surprise omission for me was Silver Pozzoli: "Around My Dream". It went to Number One in South Africa, come on!
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 14 February 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link
xps- Thanks Siegbran. That makes a lot more sense than what I was hearing before.
― daavid, Saturday, 14 February 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
… even if it still doesn't make much sense, lol
― daavid, Saturday, 14 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
I couldn't edit down enough. I mostly avoided the stuff that I tend to group with "eurodisco" or "spacedisco" or "hi-nrg". Mostly stuff that's been well-covered here but maybe a few others. Pretty heavily in the Mixed Up at the Hague camp.
Amin Peck-CodaAtmosphere-Swede's ScandalAzoto-Any Time or PlaceBB & Band-All Night LongBWH-StopBagarre-Lemon SweetBobby Davenport-Time Has Come TodayBrand Image-Are You Loving?Capricorn-I Need LoveCariocas-BatidaCharlie-Spacer WomanClio-FacesCyber People-Void VisionDF and Pam-On the BeatDiana Est-TenaxDoctor's Cat-Gee WizGaz Nevada-IC Love AffairInternational Music System-Dancing TherapyJago-I'm Going to GoKlein + MBO-Dirty TalkLos Angeles T.F.-Magical BodyM&G-When I Let You DownMr. Flagio-Take a ChanceMr. Master-Dog in the NightMya and the Mirror-HesitationPineapples-Come on Closer (second to last song at my wedding!)Plastic Mode-Baja ImperialPluton and the Humanoids-World InvasionRIS-Love N MusicSome Bizarre-Don't Be AffraidSun La Shan-CatchThanya-FreedomVivien Vee-RememberWanexa-The Man from Colours
― dan selzer, Sunday, 15 February 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
was out of town when the last results rolled out but thanks daavid and gr80! this was very fun/a trip down memory lane. here's my (kind of boring/canonical) ballot:
Pineapples - Come on CloserMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceGinny - Can't Be SeriousMatia Bazar - Ti SentoRis - Love N MusicTaffy - I Love My RadioLaura Branigan - Self ControlLa Bionda - Wanna be your loverMagazine 60 - Don QuichotteDoctor's Cat - Feel the DriveMassara - MargheritaAdvance - Take Me To The TopCharlie - Spacer WomanKlein & MBO - Dirty TalkJo Squillo Eletrix - AvventurieriBaby's Gang - Disco ManiacRaggio Di Luna – ComancheroBaltimora - Tarzan BoyTwins - Face To Face, Heart To HeartFun Fun - Happy Station
― donna rouge, Monday, 16 February 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
i've only heard of a dozen of these! i somehow have some v different idea of the italo canon than the rest of ilm does but i'm pleased to have lots to check out. had i voted i would def have voted for plustwo's 'melody' somewhere high. (maybe i'll pretend that i am voting, top 3 off the top of my head of ooh let's say 'hypnotic tango', 'cybernetic love', 'melody')
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Monday, 16 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
almost voted for 'melody', such an earworm
― donna rouge, Monday, 16 February 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/J66LRFvaNA8 JOIN TOGETHER NOW
― ciderpress, Monday, 16 February 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link
I think the problem is there's is at least 2 or three "canons". It was a pretty wide-ranging thing with different periods and angles and appeal to different crowds. The italo that made it through the filter of WBMX and the italo that I-F and the electro crowd like and the big pop hits...similar threads, time period, location etc but different enough to suggest there's a canon. Before Mixed Up in the Hague nobody in america was talking about Spacer Woman and Take a Chance, but Dirty Talk and I'm Ready and I'm Going to Go were what was talked about.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the obscure electro/import tracks definitely became a thing much later. The "canon" before Italo became hip could more or less be summarized by these 4 compilations from 1990:Vol 1Vol 2Vol 3Vol 4
― Siegbran, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 08:31 (nine years ago) link
The ZYX Best Of Italo Disco compilations were also pretty instrumental in building it up, i think.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 08:35 (nine years ago) link
Even those canons were different than the club cannon. The stuff that was either licensed to the US, released on US labels or otherwise made it through, my first awareness of italo prior to I-F was an american/chicago/detroit take. Like Fuzz Dance on Sire, NY labels like Emergency and Importe/12 creating a an american version of italo, then in the mid 80s the stuff that stuck w/ the chicago and detroit djs, often, especially later, only the instrumentals.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
My ballot:Pineapples - Come on CloserAlexander Robotnick - Problemes d'AmourMr. Flagio - Take A ChanceInternational Music System - Dancing TherapyCharlie - Spacer WomanMy Mine - Hypnotic TangoNeon - SkydiverLoui$ - Pink FootpathAmin Peck - Girl on MeCrazy Gang - Every SundayAutomat - AutomatDecadance - On And OnBWH - StopScotch - Take Me UpJo Squillo Eletrix - Avventurieri Big Ben Tribe - Tarzan Loves the Summer NightsImmortals - The Ultimate WarlordPeter Richard - Walking in the NeonRigheira - Vamos A La PlayaPino D'Angio - Ma Quale Idea
Would have definitely voted for Azoto - Anytime or Place, if it were nominated. Also, kinda can't believe Amin Peck - Anxiety wasn't nominated, and the overall un-love for Gary Low is a bit disappointing. "I Want You" and "You Are a Danger" feel like certified classics.
On a self-promotional note, I made this "mix" in 2005: http://thesearepowerfulhours.com/italoph.html
If y'all are unfamiliar with the concept of a "power hour," it's basically an organized drinking activity where everyone drinks a shot of beer every minute for an hour, and in this case, specifically, drink a shot of beer everytime the song changes. A real 1 hour immersion into my thoughts regarding Italo Disco from way back when. Enjoy!
― thethese, Friday, 20 February 2015 06:12 (nine years ago) link
Also, really surprised about Neon - Skydiver not placing at all. Assuming a lot of us kind of "grew up" on CBS Top 100s, in a series of all-time commentaries, I-F's proclamation that that track "was not recorded, it was LAID DOWN" would resonate a bit more.
― thethese, Friday, 20 February 2015 06:33 (nine years ago) link
it was on my ballot at one point but i had to cut it :(
― brimstead, Friday, 20 February 2015 06:41 (nine years ago) link
Listening to the songs one by one, I actually never heard of real proper italo disco, only heard it has a distant influence. This is the real deal. What a great thread, so many great songs. Thanks guys.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 21 February 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
the vocal on "Pink Footpath" reminds me ofhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnPPnd_6U8
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 06:51 (eight years ago) link
i scored a copy of "feel the drive" that i found hiding in a record store's hip hop 12" section... came back to the same shop 2 weeks later and they had a copy with the PICTURE SLEEVE (for only a few bucks more than what i paid for one w/ the generic sleeve) and i cursed myself for buying it too soon
http://i.imgur.com/gATwpJJ.jpg
― all my hatians if u play they make u (gr8080), Tuesday, 12 May 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Two copies is the answer.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfabF7nK9Y
― gr8080, Monday, 27 July 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
the bside is cool too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0iLp6BHtCc
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
i got this over the weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkuxJn48ps
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 10:50 (eight years ago) link
I've started doing a monthly Italo radio show: https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:24 (eight years ago) link
NY based italo fans, I'm djing for the first time in ages this thursday, lots of italo will surely be played, probably Plastic Mode included:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1459721574347423/
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
this one is weird but i kinda love it - HE'S JUST A YOOO-YOOO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pa1Hv6AYT0
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 28 July 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Top tune.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 30 July 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
In the last version of our Mirage radio show I decided to take a late 90s techno approach to Italo (with a bit of other disco) and play about 15 tunes in about half an hour from about 55 minutes in. https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/mirage-radio-6th-august-the-one-where-matt-did-89-80-in-30-minutes/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 13:20 (eight years ago) link
Song ID help... what is at minute 13 in this mix? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_CD6LE36Ec
― skip, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
'Yeti' by Radiorama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2uRvt5WJZo
― soref, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:28 (eight years ago) link
thanks a lot
― skip, Monday, 31 August 2015 18:29 (eight years ago) link
And I'm an idiot, the track listing is on the video.
This wasn't nominated, but I am just discovering it, and it's so awesome.
De-De-Mo - ''Cause I need you, 'cause I love you''
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK8mjXG3r1U
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 12 September 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
Very fine tune ^ Like the video too.
Here’s the latest Mirage radio show we did. Mainly italo with a sprinkling of other pieces, some of the tracks sound a bit distorted for the first half an hour because of a dodgy deck which we managed to change over after some faffing around. https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/mirage-radio-03-sept-falling-in-love-with-this-crazy-family/
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 13 September 2015 10:13 (eight years ago) link
http://boilerroom.tv/session/fiat-imports-live-panel/
― dan selzer, Thursday, 8 October 2015 04:40 (eight years ago) link
obsessed with the synth hook on this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H2bflLx3tk
― lute bro (brimstead), Sunday, 13 December 2015 05:00 (eight years ago) link
(Radio Movie - "Search")
Lovely track. Like the breakdown in the middle a lot.
This is a recent discovery for me, Talko - Psyko Flash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fqx0vaku1Q
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 13 December 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
Wow! Don't know that one but I've been playing this one for years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjgPtf3lmM
Talko was probably first
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 01:09 (eight years ago) link
I’d not heard that one before, nice track too, a bit of a daytime vibe to it. I wonder how we could find out who was first.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 19 December 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
i really underrated "another life"... what a song.
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 07:03 (eight years ago) link
Great contrast in the vocal style from other italo.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
'Pagaia' by Tony Esposito - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9k81cvWsA
This just popped up in my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify. I dunno if this is exactly the right place for it as it lacks a lot of the common elements that you might expect from Italo Disco but it's 80s and it's Italian and goddamn! it's SO FUCKING GOOD and I needed to post it somewhere
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 28 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
I just discovered this and it's amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhSJ1KLd3k
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Friday, 1 January 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure I put that one in my top 5.
― skip, Monday, 4 January 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Some of these records are insanely expensive on discogs. You know there are all sorts of people with collections full of this stuff who think it's junk that nobody would ever want...
― skip, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
this is what prompted the previous comment: http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2428673?ev=rb http://www.discogs.com/Babys-Gang-Challenger/release/203601
― skip, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
The thing I still keep finding after 3 years of seriously buying italo is that among all the expensive records I can still discover gems for a couple of pounds.
Here's the last show HP Sorcery and I recorded live on 1 Brighton FM https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/radio-mirage-3rd-december-where-is-your-harbour/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
I wonder if he means just the one?
TIBOR LEVAY - Gipsy Boobiehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQzomx4fNoQ
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
really wish i'd nominated and/or voted for this, such an earworm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NiWCV-Kw4
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
My latest discovery, Parsifal - Carillon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJH0KJdLtls
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
Nice one
― skip, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, great track!
― daavid, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
that's a reliable favorite
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
New to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wVMC6Bytw
― skip, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Amazing find, skip!
― daavid, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
Nice track.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
There is tons of good stuff on that guy's youtube page. Someone had to listen to all 50 I Love Disco Diamonds discs...
― skip, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFQXhAYZng
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
Another song called Carillon.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCgxqPWyY4
― skip, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
Spacey extended Italian Disco cut that's hitting me hard lately. It's proto-italo like Black Devil Disco Club is, I guess.
Cento - Photochrome Pt.1 & Pt.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooQdxCPFSl0
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 10 July 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
Lovely.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link
this is from 1986 and super corny but I love it
Luca Coveri - Do It Againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhMBjUXbs0
― example (crüt), Friday, 27 January 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL756WTn7oU
― example (crüt), Friday, 27 January 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
looked this thread up cause livin' in your love came up on shuffle today and it outro is the greatest thing ever.
happy to find out a bunch of new shit had been posted since i last looked, do it again is great!
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 6 February 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link
the amount of italo i listen to is limited (which apparently means i only have like five hours of italo in my library), but here's one i like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWxEcNTmBU
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 6 February 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Did I ever post this? Majestic mid-tempo wonder that showed up again on my ipod this week. (Vocal version is nowhere as good.)
Nathaly Marion - Jennifer Planisphere (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2lfUbS6Ug
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:50 (seven years ago) link
New one on me. Very nice instrumental! Vocal is a totally different arrangement isn't it.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
Another cool one:
Sahara Band - Habibi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG8L4omZSUI
The instrumental is actually Italo Disco Samba (!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCCPToDXdY
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link
Love that, and sounds like that is that a Casio RZ-1 as used by Steve Poindexter?
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 08:15 (seven years ago) link
Gill, do you have a good rip of that A-side?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 April 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
is that a Casio RZ-1?
Not a Casio RZ-1 (I used to have one of those). That machine didn't come out until about 1986 and this says 1983 on the label. It sounds to me like an Oberheim, either a DX or DMX.
― dubmill, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Thanks Dubmill! Should have done some basic research first :)
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 7 April 2017 12:09 (seven years ago) link
How lucky are we that all this is on YouTube?
In the US maybe, half of these aren't available in the UK.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 April 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
agh i hate trying to learn anything from discogs, they know all about the sick cvlt italo jams but see if you can navigate the site to find out what they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfN6_cuvuo
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
'Never Dreaming Man' is certainly up there with the best of the mangled English titles!
My current Italo crush, might be too late for some people, but it’s got so much energy, and who wouldn’t be charmed by the whoa-oo-oh-ooo bits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-C4Oz4_1U
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 June 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link
It’s also on our most recent radio show: https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/04-june-17-mirage-classix/
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 June 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
nice one!
― skip, Saturday, 24 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
Making my way through the I Love Disco Diamonds series...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlqC4-Ih-So
― skip, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, love that one.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
Found by accident, but I love it:
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
On I Love Disco Diamonds volume 16...
― skip, Monday, 5 February 2018 07:11 (six years ago) link
A big fave this one. Those synth animal roars are all time.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
been loving this one all summer - there's an english-language version as well (titled 'break up') but i like the italian better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2SlDrLYG8M
― donna rouge, Friday, 9 August 2019 04:08 (four years ago) link
Dang my ballot would be very different today.. here's a list of italo songs, these are all extremely solid
Aax Donnell & Eric Malone - Golden CageAl, Puccy & Claude - I Think... (Dance Version)Anthony's Games - Silent SmilesArt Fine - Dark SilenceBrand Image - Are You Loving?Brian Dalmini - Can You Tell MeClio - Faces (thank you poll)Firme D'Autore - All My LifeFockewulf 190 - Body HeatFred Ventura - The Years (Go By)Glam - More Than Ever (thank you poll)Image - Hot StuffKlapto - Queen Of The NightLama - Love On The RocksLame' - You've Got The NightLarry Paul Emmett - Evita (the contemporaneous Coco Bill cover is really good too)Loui$ - Pink Footpath (thank you poll)Lowell - No MatterMagic Sound - To HaldinMark Tower - You Aren't Fall In LoveMaskio - Dear Sir...Nemesy - 24 HoursPaul Paul - Burn On The FlamesRadio Movie - SearchRiccardo Cioni - Darkness InsideRiccardo Cioni - FogSensitive - Driving (OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME)Simon Bennett - My Sweet DreamThe Clean Hands Group - Shake It OnThe Creatures - Believe In YourselfTony Moore D.J. - TonightTorcida - Gaba Gaba (Let's Give It Up)Video Club - Lost TimeWell's Fargo - Ascoli Sei Grande
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
Good list! Lots to check out.
Here's one I'm enjoying atm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akFVJIwdIkw
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
Lame' - You've Got The Night
This is the only one I've heard! It is of course amazing. Will check out the rest
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
it's pretty amazing how deep you can go and keep finding great songs.
― skip, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
“the years go by” is truly amazing. songs about the wasting of one’s life tend to kind of stay in that “bummed out” mode throughout (citation needed), but Fred unleashes a mega power boost with a massive chorus of hope and inspiration. So good.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
damn, i am going to have to go through that list when i get the time. only ones i know of those are youtube megahit "faces" and nemesy - the nemesy album is pretty much the only good italo _lp_ i know of
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Sensitive’s “Driving” sounds to me, not an Italo expert, like the halfway point between Shannon’s “Give Me Tonight” and Noel’s “Silent Morning”, which chronologically it sooooort of is.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
so so good“golden cage” isn’t Italo actually, it’s like bumrocks style r&b or something
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
here, have a youtube playlist
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 October 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
ah, i missed that you posted a playlist and have been looking these up manually! but it also means i got to find this great video for "you aren't fall in love"... i'm amazed and so happy that so many of these performances have been saved - the video for "a dog in the night" by mr. master is also really good...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xFnGvn2cFE
― Spironolactone T. Agnew (rushomancy), Sunday, 20 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
Nice! I dont think I put any “video” videos on that playlist. I’d love to see a video for “silent smiles”, Antonio Biolcati’s vocal performance is so damn majestic and he looks like such a hunky dramatic swashbuckler on his discogs photo
― brimstead, Sunday, 20 October 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
The Ram Band version of “Silent Smiles” is amazing too. Not sure which came first.
― brimstead, Monday, 21 October 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the playlist, plenty of great ones I’d not heard before.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 8 November 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
Some new discoveries for me from the Lost Italo/Euro Disco series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4JC-HV0uSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucgMP3oZBak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGGGP-Dz0IE
― skip, Friday, 22 November 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
^^been *loving* that novecento track lately, that chorus is such a belter. was pleased to realize that it's the same vocalist who sings "the night" AND "call me mr. telephone"!
also very much obsessed with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5xbcnaE9H0
― donna rouge, Monday, 2 March 2020 01:14 (four years ago) link
Not new to me, but they came up on shuffle, and I forgot how much they rock:
Gladiators - Quo Vadiz (fave lyric in the chorus: "We're the heroes / We are begging to fight")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsVnTqmDBec
Gag - P.T. Dance (pretty sure I've been caught singing "He's Italian, little baby / Why you dance like penguin tiger?")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldZw6wRxE0o
Re: Novecento - "Splendid Moment Together" is another great track with a wailer of a chorus
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 01:08 (four years ago) link
Very nice choices, I don't think I had heard either of those YouTube's, although I love Gags Flyin' Bolero which is such an incredibly atmospheric track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnb_9YgMN0Y
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 06:50 (four years ago) link
I feel the inspiration for “Flying Bolero” is the Kébekélektrik cover of “Bolero”—Gag’s version hints at the melody but never gives in. Cool A side though, yet another great one hit Italo wonder. I agree with the post above that this genre has seemingly no end of obscurities that turn out to be interesting*, especially if you factor in all the other strands of synth-dance that was happening around it. *high tolerance of cheese/kitsch often necessary
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
The Hysteric mix on last week's Beats In Space is full-on italo, many on the slower/dreamier side: https://beatsinspace.net/playlists/1044/
I definitely slept on the almost-balearic vibes of M Like Moon – Sunlight, what a great track. Feels like I've heard it before in some other context, but can't place it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpj7W5MgsoU
Also liked the slow mix of Diavolo and Fantasy's "Let’s Go For It"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARkA89zwAUE
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
Also, I do like the 2 new Ryan Paris/Sally Shapiro tracks (posted on the SS thread)
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 01:28 (three years ago) link
I have always wanted to try my own mix rather than just stringing together tracks on a CD and finally got around to making one... you gain some new respect for DJs who do this kind of thing live!
On soundcloud for the time being: https://soundcloud.com/user-429906735/babys-first-italo-mix
― skip, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
sounds good so far!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 23 June 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Nice work Skip. Agree with you about mixing italo live with the more variable structures (and tones). After initially learning DJing with (mostly) very linear house and techno tracks, learning to DJ earlier genres like italo were songs are valued as much as danceability, it definitely upped my DJ game. As a DJ who does not enjoy pre-preparing my set, my ability to think on my feet in the mix improved a lot.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 09:26 (three years ago) link
Man I wish I could dance to these tracks in a club again… maybe next year…
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
The lyrics for Attack - Can’t Stop are hilariously clumsy. I love it.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 5 July 2020 10:43 (three years ago) link
Thanks Chew. One more, which is going to be all for now because Soundcloud has a 180 minute limit ;)
https://soundcloud.com/user-429906735/slow-motion-italo-discomix
― skip, Monday, 6 July 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
Now that I'm listening to one of the mixes on soundcloud it sounds like garbage because of the bitrate... feel free to message if you want the full bitrate file.
― skip, Monday, 6 July 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
because I'm in a Modern Talking state of mind:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm12K2IVow4Modern Talking • Do You Wanna
a lot can be (and has been) said about their ESL lyrics, but I thinkI hear your heartbeat, heartbeat, heartbeatBegging me for moreOh, I need to hear that questionLike a dancer needs the flooris pretty great
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 08:56 (three years ago) link
A new favorite for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeVCFdcNFw4
― skip, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6SZQOeJVYw
― skip, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 16:49 (three years ago) link
have lately been loving this my mine track that's not 'hypnotic tango':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqM2VFvMlWw
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
love the susanne
new to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6T25SrEXXA
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
whoah my mine track is great
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
cool song and creepy cover art!
My Mine Zorro is a good one.
― skip, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
also digging this later valerie dore single (the last one under that name i think?) - could see it working in a balearic set
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-EyG26nTU
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
A little nonplussed at first but what an awesome guitar at the end.
― skip, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
is this the only Italo Christmas song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNWkKSA-GU
― timber euros (seandalai), Sunday, 20 December 2020 01:38 (three years ago) link
I DJ’d a few italo favourites among some other sonically related tracks recently on a video stream, here’s the watch again if people fancy a listen: https://www.timeline-music.co.uk/matthew-balaam-interleave-it-028-dec-2020/
Raggio Di Luna - CommancheroThe Real Deal - Salesman (Over-dub)Riccardo Cioni and DJ Full Time Band - Fog (Extended Mix)Azoto - Exalt ExaltTalko - Psyko FlashSalta and Roma - Doing ItDario Dell‘Aere - Eagles in the Night“Q” - The Voice of “Q”Gaz Nevada - I.C. Love Affair (Chinese Version)Fockewulf 190 - Body HeatEvelyn Barry - Take It As A Game (Instrumental)Kash in the East - KamaleioSandwizz - Hey Chicas! Hey Chicos! (Do You Wanna Sandwich) (Sandwich Flip)Tommy Walker III - Weak NeckDe-De-Mo - 'Cause I Need You 'Cause I Love You (Midnight Version)Ghibli - I’m Looking For You (Instrumental)Spellbound - ABCDEFGHIJLK.O.V.E., I Love You BabyTrans-X - Living on VideoMario Moretti - Danger In Deep SpaceMonarchy - The Phoenix Alive (Disco Bloodbath's Dalston Dub)Expansives - Life With YouCristina - Things Fall Apart
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 2 January 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
Nice. Some all-time faves in there.
― emil.y, Saturday, 2 January 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Thanks Emily, hope things are good with you.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 2 January 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
Awesome
― brimstead, Saturday, 2 January 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
awesome rare track (by a german producer, apparently?): Pat - Back to My Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSq8Qs6bhqk
― donna rouge, Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
Perfect
― Joses Chrust (map), Saturday, 6 February 2021 01:04 (three years ago) link
Apologies if this has already been posted in the thread but this mix is still up and downloadable. I honestly can't remember how I found this but I've been listening to it for years. Nostalgia for sunny mid 80s summers, even though I never (knowingly) heard any of these tracks at the time.https://soundcloud.com/neonjohnmusic/neon-vol-3-intermezzo-tranquilo
― Alternative Ulsterbus, Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
Pat - nice cheesy cut there.
Made a new mix, enjoy for the time being - Soundcloud doesn't have much storage space so it will probably disappear at some point. https://soundcloud.com/user-429906735/midnight-italo-madness-vol-3-underground
This was a new one to me, cool ~100 BPM track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsjhpOmvTUc
― skip, Sunday, 7 February 2021 01:57 (three years ago) link
Yeah I love that cover.. first heard it on this groovy bootleg : https://www.discogs.com/Various-Cosmic-Dancer-Voyage-One/release/480755
― brimstead, Sunday, 7 February 2021 04:52 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZds6oz8C54
― skip, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
repressed on Dark Entries.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
Recently went digging through a friends discogs and bought some holy grails to me but in the process discovered a bunch of other tracks that were new to me, and in most cases too expensive to actually buy but found a few on itunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJGI4IYrqYw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5LUnpl9UQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzcYG4yasKE
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
nice! that sahara band one is ace
this one's been on heavy rotation lately - evidently getting a reissue some time this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBWgC5e7dS4
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 18:40 (three years ago) link
some real choice cuts on this mix. also now i want limoncello
https://soundcloud.com/welcometorimini/lymoon17-suonodilimone
― donna rouge, Thursday, 6 May 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
Diving into what could be the most amazingly uncool genre ever created https://t.co/Fn7MFnW6DT— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) May 7, 2021
― groovypanda, Friday, 7 May 2021 07:32 (two years ago) link
I was bummed he only hit me up for the top tracks at the end and I wasn’t interviewed for the article! Same thing happened a few years later when FIAT sponsored a boiler room Italo night. I was added at the end to a panel that included Josh from Dark Entries, Justin Strauss and Charlie Grappone from Vinylmania records. They had already booked the DJ lineup, I had to “offer” my services and Boiler room said “well we could put you on in the hour after the doors open but before the broadcast starts, from 9 to 10 and we can only pay you $300 but I assume you wouldn’t want that”. I was like uh, that sounds ok. I started DJing to a huge empty room as people started filing in and by 9:45 had a full room of people dancing. At 10 I handed it over to Cheon and his Honey Soundsystem pals and the broadcast started. The other DJ’s that night were Jacques Renault, Juan Maclean and Nancy Whang and Disclosure. While talking to Josh and Jacques they both said something like “we’re gonna play Italo mixed with other stuff, who wants to hear just Italo?” And I was like if there’s ever a night to just play Italo this is it!
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 May 2021 10:24 (two years ago) link
Sorry Classixx, not Disclosure. The panel is online if you want to watch it. Jacques also made an Italo mix for it that was great.
― dan selzer, Friday, 7 May 2021 10:26 (two years ago) link
Oh dear! I dearly love mixing italo with all sorts of stuff and love the change of energy you can get juxtaposing with other stuff, but you are right there is a time and a place and there’s real pleasure in hearing a 100% set. The cynic in me might see it as an easy cop-out, because purely playing a set of pure italo with the sometimes difficult non-standard intros and infinite possibilities of clashing notes can take a lot of knowledge or planning.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 8 May 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
It's 3 AM on a Saturday night, and I have stumbled upon this sleek Greek Italo-ish track, which begins with the lines "I feel a burger inside me me me me / I feel a jazzburger in my brain brain brain " and it's earnest, beautiful, even sexy, and the LP cover is ridiculous and hints it's a soundtrack to something called Jazzburger so what am I going to do? I had to tell someone about it.
Loukas Thanos - Jazzburgerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn1uawSuUec
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 15 August 2021 07:12 (two years ago) link
What‘s not to love.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 15 August 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
that cover art is amazing
― donna rouge, Sunday, 15 August 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
incredible
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 15 August 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
Hell yes
― skip, Sunday, 15 August 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
sick song! 1984, i guess! https://www.discogs.com/Loukas-Thanos-Jazzburger/release/2195376
I feel a burger inside me I feel a jazzburger in my brainI feel my skin eruptingsomething's running (?) in my headsomething is collapsing down mei feel like i'm coming (?) again
we're searchingwe're movingwe're flyingthrough the ecstasy
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 August 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
It sounds timeless, because Jazzburgers are evergreen. Can’t imagine what it was supposed to soundtrack. There are a number of italo style records, that, perhaps because of the English translation, have strange sexual imagery, and this may be one of them.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 15 August 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
beautiful chorus on this one:
colors - lonely night (technicolor version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKOHcFDx7U
― donna rouge, Saturday, 9 October 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
^^ always been my favorite mix of that track
I'm super into "Fire Lady" by Christal lately. Vocal is very nice, but might prefer the instrumental because I want that extra-groovy/deep chorus riff to just repeat forever.
Instrumentalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaFS41wjz0
Vocalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz-J3zJVqZ8
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 10 October 2021 02:24 (two years ago) link
Definitely the instrumental. The vocals on the chorus aren’t nearly as good as on the verses, it’s crying out for a dub mix. (But then I almost always prefer instrumental italo unless it’s something like Righeira.)Thanks for the thread bump tho, I was recently searching for the most active italo threads but missed this one. Seems like it’s basically the default rolling italo thread. And now I have an excuse to devote my day to italo. I’m currently smitten with the Donato Dozzy edit of Space Operator that I linked in the italo POX thread but maybe it’s too cosmic for some dance floors.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 10 October 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
The deeper I go into Italo, the more I appreciate the vocals and the questionable/ridiculous lyrics. Sometimes I listen to to the instrumental side of a record first and try to guess what will be sung over the backing track, and when the vocals end up being super weird or high-pitched it’s very satisfying. Take “Hold Me” by Squires or “Golden Queen” by A.Avenue, for instance. The vocals totally disrupt any of the hipster cool of the backing track, like an obnoxious party crasher. I would totally do an italo listening thread if we had enough people and interest in it. Could also include ‘80s eurodisco (from Spain, Sweden, French, Belgium, and Germany etc) as there is a lot of overlap in sound and style there.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 10 October 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
Personally I’d rapidly lose interest if the subject was broadened to all eurodisco. It seems like from other recent activity around here, there might be more interest in the overlap between italo, US boogie disco and possibly some post-disco (although that could be more my own pet subgenre).
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 10 October 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
I actually like those vocals on Hold Me. I see what you mean tho, they are a bit ridiculously kitschy.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 10 October 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
I mean, one could just open things up to all ‘80s dance music then. Hi-NRG and eurodisco aren’t too far from italo (See “Love Spy” or “Right by the moon”) yet seem to have always been less in vogue. Kind of feel they are both still ripe for some rediscovery beyond Patrick Cowley and Bobby Orlando. Whereas Boogie is usually more classy so it brings in plenty of people who like R&B, funk, soul, and disco, as well your regular record nerds/cratediggers. It’s almost too well-done most of the time to sit alongside Italo’s cheese, but they are definitely some records that blur the line. A lot of Full Time records stuff comes to mind.
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 10 October 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
no please give me more eurodisco!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d7SJPWzuDw
― brimstead, Sunday, 10 October 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
Love it (That’s “Nathalie Letertre - Reveur” in case the video becomes lost to time)
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 11 October 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
Squires Hold Me vox are awesome!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 15:10 (two years ago) link
Beautiful track!
I’ve long ago went passed the wormhole of preferring instrumental, tracky, italo into almost always preferring vocal versions, and exapanding out into hi-nrg, eurodisco and almost anything else not considered “tasteful” among 80s dance music.
Not in the same league perhaps, but the Nathalie Letertre track reminded me of this tucked away French synth-pop track I dig.
Bibi Flash - Voyagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=243g89oTatY
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
i definitely have a high tolerance for cheesy/weird italo vocal styles, although i guess i can see on a dance floor how they might be off-puttinganother great bibi flash track is “vie privée” - i mixed it into “the pleasure principle” at a DJ night once and it worked beautifully imhohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEHPAJn-Xo
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
<3 chews and donna
I feel I have heard "Voyage" before somewhere, digging it.
Also liking Logo's swift-and-spacey "Bossa Nova 'till the end" right now, although I was pretty sold on the title alone. I don't know if it was because of P-Lion, but I enjoy how much saxophone shows up in italo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tJY4-7RThs
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 13 October 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
nice French posts! Reminds me of Jennifer Planisphere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd1k5DCYemA
which is a good outro for Patrizia Pellegrino's Automaticamore...
― skip, Thursday, 14 October 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
I like the vocal for Jennifer planisphere, and the mid tempo instrumental version (posted up thread) is one of my ALL TIME favorites. Sort of like an italo take on “Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence” (aside from the actual italo take on MCMR by Clock on Five).
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 15 October 2021 01:21 (two years ago) link
Moscu_ion (amazingly prolific italo/eurodisco youtuber) either deleted their youtube account or had it terminated. A bummer! They were responsible for a lot of videos on this thread (they all now show as unavailable). I was in the middle of attempting to listen to all 5,000 songs they had posted, and was finding a lot of gems.
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 15 January 2022 04:31 (two years ago) link
whoa, truly a bummer! heard a lot of great stuff thanks to that account :(
― donna rouge, Saturday, 15 January 2022 15:42 (two years ago) link
a "hi-nrg" mix I made a few weeks ago for a radio show, with much italo and italo-adjacent sounds. Arguably more "italo" than "hi-nrg" but who's counting?
https://soundcloud.com/the-magic-message/009-magic-message-radio-dan-selzer-womr-921-wfmr-913?fbclid=IwAR3Gs4TSPHALkZWUCktQuKhQN09rUQ45dqDhhIrw62CTqcTFkUTyqC-TFFw
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
xxpost: https://www.discogs.com/user/moscuionica/collection?header=17,000+ (mostly italo?) in the collection of discogs user moscuionica (aka Moscu ION) maybe this can help you continue your dive, Michael?
― Paul, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 02:59 (two years ago) link
Two awesome posts 😎
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
I need to dig out that Data track you start the mix with, I sued to play that a lot when I discovered it. An underrated gem.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
thanks. Yeah they've got a few gems, and the b-side of that single is great too. A-O (No Bungalow), which I have an italo version of as well and played on the Lot a few weeks back. A fair amount of italo in here: https://soundcloud.com/thelotradio/superimpositions-special-guest-dan-selzer-the-lot-radio-12-20-2021
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 16:03 (two years ago) link
On my second listen to the mix now. What’s the track around 7:30ish? I’ve heard CC:Disco play it before and couldn’t work out what it was then either.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 27 January 2022 11:35 (two years ago) link
Ashaye - Electricity.
Complete tracklist:
1. Data - Living Inside Me2. Vicious Pink - Cccan’t You See3. Ashaye - Electricity4. Peppermint - Light a Light (US Mix)5. Klein and M.B.O. - Keep In touch (Dub)6. Tapps - My Forbidden Lover7. Shy Rose - I Cry For You8. Gotcha - You’re Wrong9. Hotline - Guilty10. New York Models - Love on Video11. Jock Hattle - Yes No Family12. Los Angeles TF - Everlasting Fever13. Amanda Lear - Love Your Body14. Ramming Speed - When You Walk in the Room (Instrumental American mix)15. Azul Y Negro - La Noche16. Rofo - Flashlight on a Disconight17. Lauren Grey - Putting the Night on Hold18. Vera - Baby Won’t You Dance With Me19. Charlene Davis - Aggression20. Lime - Babe, We’re Gonna Love Tonite21. Phyllis Nelson - Don’t Stop the Train
― dan selzer, Thursday, 27 January 2022 13:39 (two years ago) link
Man, Ashaye really covered some ground in his not especially extensive discography. 'Fantasy' on Strictly Rythym is a pretty good house tune but 'Dreaming (Jungle Mix)' is like one of the holy grails of UK streetsoul, amazing song. And his first release was the closest he ever got to a hit and that was a medley of Michael Jackson songs - mercurial guy.
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 27 January 2022 13:48 (two years ago) link
only noticed when playing this time that it was written/produced by Andy Sojka from Atmosfear, of Dancing in Outer Space and Motivation UK Jazz Funk fame.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 27 January 2022 13:58 (two years ago) link
Sojka was also a key figure in UK streetsoul, all that stuff on Elite. And was involved with Level 42s early stuff as well iirc
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 27 January 2022 14:06 (two years ago) link
Interesting that he'd dabble in hi-nrg. The big UK figure I think of in hi-nrg is Ian Levine, who came out of the Northern Soul scene. He's behind the Ramming Speed on my mix, which is the instrumental of a cover version of the Searchers classic.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 27 January 2022 14:10 (two years ago) link
I’ve played that Ramming Speed track quite a bit, an evergreen bargain bin staple in record shops round here.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 27 January 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
I dug out Everlasting Fever on Friday and gave it a spin at our mainly italo-focussed night after being reminded how good it was on your mix.
Also played on Friday by another DJ was this one I don‘t recall being aware of before, but I am currently addicted to:
Bryvan Stage - Wayout!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBsiC9K-ZSI
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 31 January 2022 10:24 (two years ago) link
new to me track i heard a DJ play at an italo night tonight, so killerJerry Moon - Over and Overhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlqPntfyxEk
― donna rouge, Saturday, 25 June 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
^That's awesome.
I heard this for the first time earlier this year, probably the most beautiful italo track I've ever heard (doesn't seem to be mentioned in this thread):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUQ34YWT38
― J. Sam, Saturday, 25 June 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
Over and Over is great...kills me when even the repressing are 25 dollars plus.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
another nicolosi family banger:Angie Care - Your Mindhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grzsNOJAgq4
― donna rouge, Friday, 8 July 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
Great memories of one of my DJ partners playing this down the years, such a beautiful heartbreaker.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
Heard this one on a Hysteric mix recently and it really caught my ear.
Alfredo E. Muschietti – Winner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCGqeU0JRsU
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
Also been enjoying this one I had overlooked previously involving some of the people behind Mr Flagio.
Art of Love - Looking Through The Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-wWhSVhzDM
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 10 November 2022 21:31 (one year ago) link
love both of those!
another big weepy number:
Alyne - Over the Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG3nLpZUukw
― donna rouge, Sunday, 13 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
Very nice.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
a vinyl IG account i follow posted this today, remembered that i was fully obsessed with this one earlier this year. arguably closer to hi-NRG/new wave than italo proper but a banger all the sameCube - Concert Boyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF_z1CsYJCY
― donna rouge, Thursday, 15 December 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Concert boy b/w Building on Land is a great single, both sides. I remember the Cube album being decent too!
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 15 December 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
I wasn't familiar with Cube until I DJ'd an empty saturday at the record store Superior Elevation followed by Jexopolis who played them.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
when i was 14 i had a friend who kept trying to make me listen to cube, but i never did because i was dumb :(
have liked what i've heard subsequently though - they sound pretty similar to new musik i think?
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 15 December 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
not Italo whatsoever, but this was the new wave band that Paul Griffiths was in before Cube, 10CC-esque nerdy power pop, pretty cool i think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdHvNS9YEZgStadium Dogs - Easybeat (1978)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
and getting back to Italo business, he also played guitar on this amazingness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4OHBQ-CHlsJo Squillo & Kaos - Dammi Pace (Esplosioni d'Amore) (1984)
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
I first heard "Concert Boy" in 2020 and it quickly became my Lockdown-Summer-Bike-Ride-Earbuds jam
― gr8080, Thursday, 15 December 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Concert Boy is a total total hammer and I am now reminded I need to get it into my collection. I didn’t know the connection with Jo Squillo - the LP that track is on is pretty great.
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 16 December 2022 00:30 (one year ago) link
Didnt know Concert Boy, it's very Stacrk Club.
― dan selzer, Friday, 16 December 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
hi grady :-)
― c u (crüt), Friday, 16 December 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
This Cube track is great too, as featured on Matthew Burgess & Jolyon Green's Originals comp for Claremont 56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCnefDUDkY
― groovypanda, Monday, 19 December 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
I usually don't find much charm in many modern remixes of italo classics, but this version hits the spot:
Kano - IT'S A WAR (Purple Disco Machine & Lorenz Rhode Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88xb25fmtdg
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 29 December 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
these two claudio corradini tracks just got reissued by dark entries, orig. copies of each go for $100+ on discogs so i'm very glad of it. both killer, esp. love the alex molo track:
Garland - Heartbeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T6OeqVKpqA
Alex Molo - Look at Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8-EvEFb6CA
― donna rouge, Saturday, 18 February 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_D98RLPOI0
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
i got 7/10 :)
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
I got 6. Of the 4 I didn’t, 2 I should’ve.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
yeah two of them i absolutely knew and have heard but couldn’t remember the artist or title. #9 was totally new to me. still the highest score i’ve ever gotten on a Blind Test video lol
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
Got 7.5, but was hoping for a 9 at least. It’s back to Italo school for me. Number 9 was new to me too.
In other news, I’ve been a bit obsessed with this one the last couple of weeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JGj22dK794
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 17 March 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
love how there’s two italo tracks named “take me to the top” that are totally different but both excellent
― donna rouge, Friday, 17 March 2023 22:07 (one year ago) link
posting here because it didn't go viral on my facebook page. Italoke. Italo Karaoke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOXilW4uDl8
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 03:29 (four months ago) link
Good luck nailing the sound of the vocals!
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 November 2023 22:00 (four months ago) link