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

But in mid-84, the Laura B version WAS MY LIFE.

i like the rapping bit on the RAF version but i first heard and loved LB's

Is Laura Branigan the first US artist from the list so far?

My band covered the song this Xmas. It was a bit more ramshackle than either of the other versions, but it was FUN.

There was a period where Laura B had the German #1 while RAF had the German #2. They loved that song in Germany.

i sang it the first time i karaoke'd with LA ILXors

ooooh... I voted for the Raf version. I heard Laura Branigan's first but everything about the Raf version is sonic catnip for me

(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.)

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

dying @ this

wow, can't believe how low this is.

Only song left on my ballot that I'm confident will show up is Baltimora. As for the rest, è un mistero.

Feel like Mr Flagio's "Take A Chance" is a sure bet but who knows really

pumped that RAF will triumph!!!

p sure "problemes d'amour" will be in the top 10.

take a chance, spacer woman, tarzan boy and problemes seem like locks to me. less certain: happy station? take me to the top? challenger?

Minus Tarzan boy, that's pretty much my ballot!

happy station definitely

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.

^ that's re: 'Feel the Drive'

Could also see How Old Are You?, Disco Band, Only Music Survives, USSR and Masterpiece in a top ten...

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...

I'd say those 3 are definite lock-ins surely?

I have realistic hopes for Happy Station, Hypnotic Tango, Around My Dream, Take A Chance. Suspect the Lime vote will be fatally split.

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.

Savage and BWH also potentially still to come I guess?

Hypnotic Tango could be top 3

not that i voted as i dont know italo well but fingers crossed that silver pozzoli's "around my dream" turns up

Here we go. The top ten Italo tracks are...

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

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.

http://i.imgur.com/J0G7r4J.jpg

9 FUN FUN "Happy Station" [258 points, 8 votes]
http://youtu.be/qM9y-eJJ8U4

It's no Baila Bolero.

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)

haha, damn! i was trying to avoid using anything that was originally album-art, that one must have slipped by me

Excellent Kano choice. I had It's a War in my top ten but I'm fine with this one placing ahead of it.

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

http://i.imgur.com/Utf6g4X.jpg

8 ALEXANDER ROBOTNICK "Problemes d'Amour" [259 points, 8 votes]
http://youtu.be/jMN9_7tPFCY

Great tune

cant say for sure but this track may have been my introduction to Italo ~10-11 years ago

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.

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

7 RAF "Self Control" [261 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/1_TQjEn6cpQ

:)))

Woh-oh-oh!

biggest or smallest surprise of the rollout right here

stay, stay, stay, stay, station!

Whoaaaa double 'Self Control', yeah!

It's no Baila Bolero.

― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 12 February 2015 15:50 (1 hour ago)

I concur with this statement.

Not sure if our next entry is the biggest Italo hit of all time, but it certainly felt like it at the time...

http://i.imgur.com/tESyS5H.jpg

6 BALTIMORA "Tarzan Boy" [265 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/_r0n9Dv6XnY

:D

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")