i really underrated "another life"... what a song.
― lute bro (brimstead), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 07:03 (eight years ago) link
Great contrast in the vocal style from other italo.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 20:08 (eight years ago) link
'Pagaia' by Tony Esposito - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9k81cvWsA
This just popped up in my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify. I dunno if this is exactly the right place for it as it lacks a lot of the common elements that you might expect from Italo Disco but it's 80s and it's Italian and goddamn! it's SO FUCKING GOOD and I needed to post it somewhere
― Windsor Davies, Monday, 28 December 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
I just discovered this and it's amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhSJ1KLd3k
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Friday, 1 January 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure I put that one in my top 5.
― skip, Monday, 4 January 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
Some of these records are insanely expensive on discogs. You know there are all sorts of people with collections full of this stuff who think it's junk that nobody would ever want...
― skip, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
this is what prompted the previous comment: http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2428673?ev=rb http://www.discogs.com/Babys-Gang-Challenger/release/203601
― skip, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
The thing I still keep finding after 3 years of seriously buying italo is that among all the expensive records I can still discover gems for a couple of pounds.
Here's the last show HP Sorcery and I recorded live on 1 Brighton FM https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/radio-mirage-3rd-december-where-is-your-harbour/
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
I wonder if he means just the one?
TIBOR LEVAY - Gipsy Boobiehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQzomx4fNoQ
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
really wish i'd nominated and/or voted for this, such an earworm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9NiWCV-Kw4
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
My latest discovery, Parsifal - Carillon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJH0KJdLtls
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
Nice one
― skip, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, great track!
― daavid, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 02:24 (seven years ago) link
that's a reliable favorite
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 03:59 (seven years ago) link
New to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wVMC6Bytw
― skip, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Amazing find, skip!
― daavid, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 05:22 (seven years ago) link
Nice track.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
There is tons of good stuff on that guy's youtube page. Someone had to listen to all 50 I Love Disco Diamonds discs...
― skip, Tuesday, 17 May 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFQXhAYZng
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 00:00 (seven years ago) link
Another song called Carillon.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKCgxqPWyY4
― skip, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
Spacey extended Italian Disco cut that's hitting me hard lately. It's proto-italo like Black Devil Disco Club is, I guess.
Cento - Photochrome Pt.1 & Pt.2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooQdxCPFSl0
― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 10 July 2016 03:26 (seven years ago) link
Lovely.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link
this is from 1986 and super corny but I love it
Luca Coveri - Do It Againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhMBjUXbs0
― example (crüt), Friday, 27 January 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL756WTn7oU
― example (crüt), Friday, 27 January 2017 06:04 (seven years ago) link
looked this thread up cause livin' in your love came up on shuffle today and it outro is the greatest thing ever.
happy to find out a bunch of new shit had been posted since i last looked, do it again is great!
― Will (kruezer2), Monday, 6 February 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link
the amount of italo i listen to is limited (which apparently means i only have like five hours of italo in my library), but here's one i like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kWxEcNTmBU
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Monday, 6 February 2017 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Did I ever post this? Majestic mid-tempo wonder that showed up again on my ipod this week. (Vocal version is nowhere as good.)
Nathaly Marion - Jennifer Planisphere (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2lfUbS6Ug
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 03:50 (seven years ago) link
New one on me. Very nice instrumental! Vocal is a totally different arrangement isn't it.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
Another cool one:
Sahara Band - Habibi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG8L4omZSUI
The instrumental is actually Italo Disco Samba (!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGCCPToDXdY
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link
Love that, and sounds like that is that a Casio RZ-1 as used by Steve Poindexter?
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 08:15 (seven years ago) link
Gill, do you have a good rip of that A-side?
― dan selzer, Thursday, 6 April 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
is that a Casio RZ-1?
Not a Casio RZ-1 (I used to have one of those). That machine didn't come out until about 1986 and this says 1983 on the label. It sounds to me like an Oberheim, either a DX or DMX.
― dubmill, Thursday, 6 April 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Thanks Dubmill! Should have done some basic research first :)
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 7 April 2017 12:09 (seven years ago) link
How lucky are we that all this is on YouTube?
In the US maybe, half of these aren't available in the UK.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 April 2017 12:43 (seven years ago) link
agh i hate trying to learn anything from discogs, they know all about the sick cvlt italo jams but see if you can navigate the site to find out what they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGfN6_cuvuo
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Saturday, 20 May 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
'Never Dreaming Man' is certainly up there with the best of the mangled English titles!
My current Italo crush, might be too late for some people, but it’s got so much energy, and who wouldn’t be charmed by the whoa-oo-oh-ooo bits?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI-C4Oz4_1U
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 June 2017 08:52 (six years ago) link
It’s also on our most recent radio show: https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/04-june-17-mirage-classix/
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 24 June 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
nice one!
― skip, Saturday, 24 June 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
Making my way through the I Love Disco Diamonds series...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlqC4-Ih-So
― skip, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
Oh yeah, love that one.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link
Found by accident, but I love it:
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 4 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
On I Love Disco Diamonds volume 16...
― skip, Monday, 5 February 2018 07:11 (six years ago) link
A big fave this one. Those synth animal roars are all time.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 5 February 2018 16:39 (six years ago) link
been loving this one all summer - there's an english-language version as well (titled 'break up') but i like the italian better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2SlDrLYG8M
― donna rouge, Friday, 9 August 2019 04:08 (four years ago) link
Dang my ballot would be very different today.. here's a list of italo songs, these are all extremely solid
Aax Donnell & Eric Malone - Golden CageAl, Puccy & Claude - I Think... (Dance Version)Anthony's Games - Silent SmilesArt Fine - Dark SilenceBrand Image - Are You Loving?Brian Dalmini - Can You Tell MeClio - Faces (thank you poll)Firme D'Autore - All My LifeFockewulf 190 - Body HeatFred Ventura - The Years (Go By)Glam - More Than Ever (thank you poll)Image - Hot StuffKlapto - Queen Of The NightLama - Love On The RocksLame' - You've Got The NightLarry Paul Emmett - Evita (the contemporaneous Coco Bill cover is really good too)Loui$ - Pink Footpath (thank you poll)Lowell - No MatterMagic Sound - To HaldinMark Tower - You Aren't Fall In LoveMaskio - Dear Sir...Nemesy - 24 HoursPaul Paul - Burn On The FlamesRadio Movie - SearchRiccardo Cioni - Darkness InsideRiccardo Cioni - FogSensitive - Driving (OMG THIS IS THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME)Simon Bennett - My Sweet DreamThe Clean Hands Group - Shake It OnThe Creatures - Believe In YourselfTony Moore D.J. - TonightTorcida - Gaba Gaba (Let's Give It Up)Video Club - Lost TimeWell's Fargo - Ascoli Sei Grande
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
Good list! Lots to check out.
Here's one I'm enjoying atm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akFVJIwdIkw
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
Lame' - You've Got The Night
This is the only one I've heard! It is of course amazing. Will check out the rest
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
it's pretty amazing how deep you can go and keep finding great songs.
― skip, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
“the years go by” is truly amazing. songs about the wasting of one’s life tend to kind of stay in that “bummed out” mode throughout (citation needed), but Fred unleashes a mega power boost with a massive chorus of hope and inspiration. So good.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link