La musica si muove appena: The ILM ITALO Poll (Results Thread)

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)…

Fancy is also German.

OK, third then… :)

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...

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)

Maria Magdalena is unbelievable. The call and response in the chorus is so good.

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.

Guessing maybe Pineapples or Baltimora?

Aw man, Baltimora is fun and all but I will be really pissed off if it wins.

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"

Is Spacer Woman in with a shot? Would love to see it do well.

are we going down to #11 today? or #16?

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.

Some sort of structurally fundamental atomic laws would have to break for Spacer Woman not to show up in our top 50. xxp

i put 'tarzan boy' on my ballot (couldn't not) but it's on the lower end

It's gonna be up to 16 today. Top 15 tomorrow.

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?

Arghhh, it's so frustrating not being able to participate in the speculation!

sure, i could take us through #'s 15-11

what do you guys think?

yeah, go ahead!

Can I throw a hint of what's yet to come? It's kind of cryptic and doesn't spoil a lot.

Great, thanks, gr8080! Just really busy today as well.

that's a smooth-sounding track.

I'll post two more and then you can take over.

Actually, I better not say anything. People would figure it out.

I like how a track called "Dirty Talk" has no talking in it.

gr8080, I'll send you the rest of the entries in ready-to-post format in a bit.

Down to #18 and no Kano yet :(

fantastic, thanks xp

sent!

did not know that charlie was maurice cavalieri and giorgio stefani, who were basically i.m.s. and half of firefly.

Down to #18 and no Kano yet :(

― 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.

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

I don't get this, crüt. What do you mean?

http://i.imgur.com/yKLeswY.jpg

17 CASCO "Cybernetic Love" [189 points, 7 votes]
http://youtu.be/c6x5vyWpw-Q

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?

lot of classics in this stretch!

this maclean explosion version of "magic fly" is superior, imo.

agree it's not italo but it's a cool song

oops meant to post mc lane explosion youtube link: http://youtu.be/YpB2asybA7I

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.

Last one from me and then gr8080 will take over for the rest of the day.

http://i.imgur.com/HRglNKu.jpg

16 KANO "Another Life" [194 points, 6 votes]
http://youtu.be/1wVaGo5wSqA

tuuune

Honestly thought Cybernetic Love would be top 10. This isn't the Kano I voted for but glad they've shown up.

15 ‘LECTRIC WORKERS "Robot Is Systematic" [196 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/WEXZc3MWaP0

oops

http://i.imgur.com/aIx0Tj1.jpg

15 ‘LECTRIC WORKERS "Robot Is Systematic" [196 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/WEXZc3MWaP0

TOO LOWWWWWW

GOAT

So many cool songs about robots