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
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