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
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)
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
I like how a track called "Dirty Talk" has no talking in it.
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
TOO LOW
― 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
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
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