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
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)
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
this is not 100% true
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
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