Donna Summer: Search and Destroy?

Aw, man. Flights of angels, etc...

OH SHIT. And to think I was excited to see this thread get revived. That's awful. I was just talking to my brother this weekend about how hers is (was...) one of my favorite voices ever. And I just realized I was singing "This Time I Know It's For Real" this morning!!! I guess it is for real this time... ;_;

WTF, why? That was outta nowhere. What a shame. I know she's retained a huge cult following as disco "died" and came back again many times over, but she's still vastly underappreciated in the culture at large. R.I.P.

blasting "state of independence" right now, so odd and so totally uplifting all at once

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NEE-OHGThw

Such an astonishing latter day single for her.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

:(

everyone quit dying

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B05ekks0RqY

very sad

RIP

I thought this was just a regular thread revive until I looked at Google News just now. RIP.

this is hitting me harder than MCA for some reason. damn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ArZEFwRsY

RIP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18109654

my #1 dancefloor moment ever was at a club in Barcelona on my honeymoon, Jarvis Cocker was DJing and put on "I Feel Love," it sounded amazing and people went nuts. RIP Donna you made great music.

this is hitting me harder than MCA for some reason. damn

Celeb deaths rarely hit me at a gut level, but yeah, this is one of the exceptions.

This is the part of the thread where I observe once again that we're entering the stage where major artist deaths are going to be coming at a pretty fast clip.

:(

RIP :(

Celeb deaths rarely hit me at a gut level, but yeah, this is one of the exceptions.

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:50 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This, exactly.

RIP

i'm speechless, one of my first loves when it came to discovering music.

RIP

Ooh it's so good, it's so good
It's so good, it's so good
It's so good

Ooh I'm in love, I'm in love,
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love

Ooh I feel love, I feel love
I feel love, I feel love
I feel love

I feel love
I feel love
I feel love

Ooh fall and free, fall and free
Fall and free, fall and free
Fall and free

Ooh you and me, you and me
You and me, you and me
You and me

Ooh I feel love, I feel love
I feel love, I feel love
I feel love

I feel love
I feel love
I feel love
I feel love

i think my first-ever 7th-grade dance was to a Donna Summer record.

this is so sad....

My first introduction to Donna Summer was in 1979 by way of this Australian commercial for "Four n Twenty" meat pies :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDwYRzq9LY4

My first introduction to Donna Summer was Freaks of the Industry lol

My first was probably "Beverly Hills Cop" or "Ghostbusters."

Damned infants

I still held out hope that she'd record a good album. 2008's Crayons came surprisingly close.

This is a really sad one. She was one of the people that made me really obsessed with disco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8fVx-uytBw

God damn. I was always a fan. I was surprised on recent listen how good this stuff has held up.

Shit. Been listening to I Feel Love and Love To Love You Baby loads this year. What else is good by her? I guess Moroder stuff is mostly what I'm after.

TBH, two of my very favorites from her aren't even Moroder tracks -- "State of Independence" and "This Time I Know It's For Real"

Really glad I took the chance and saw her on her Crayons tour. Never got the album itself though. Worth it?

Shit. Been listening to I Feel Love and Love To Love You Baby loads this year. What else is good by her? I guess Moroder stuff is mostly what I'm after.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy)

Once Upon a Time is her masterpiece. A Love Trilogy and I Remember Yesterday are great too.

Oh and Bad Girls is a great album too. The track I just posted is the last song on the album. One of the best songs they did together.

"Heaven Knows" is a favorite of mine.

"Blue Monday" was partly born out of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn4ljQjARA8

I Remember Yesterday is a good 'un. I'm fond of The Wanderer too.

Donna Summer ... dead? Impossible.

I don't even know how to react. I'm crushed.

heard this in the car today, ambushed by unexpected sadness. she was too young! RIP

Spinning Love To Love You Baby now, sounds fucking fantastic. RIP

And FUCK CANCER, SERIOUSLY.

Rather obscure ballad that means a lot to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCObD-pSz1I

<3 Someday I'll make that my song.

OMG, no. Donna's was THE voice of my preadolescence/early adolescence, plus I thought she was the hottest thing on two legs. A crush I maintained intermittently even when I had to pretend that disco sucked in order not to get beat up. And "I Feel Love" remains the greatest single ever

RIP, queen of disco

wow "i do believe i fell in love"

And FUCK CANCER, SERIOUSLY.

^^^
THIS

wow "i do believe i fell in love"

― yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge)

Indeed. She did her best work with Moroder-Bellotte but her talent was such that she can carve this ballad on her own (she wrote it herself).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlb4naMWnpU

A mighty fine remembrance from Chris Molanphy

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/05/donna_summer_obituary.php

RIP :'(

ugggh no. no one minute silence, just 16 minute arpeggio.