...AND THE BEAT GOES ON! The GRAND ILM DISCO POLL results are revealed!

I FEEEL LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
I FEEEL LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE

3 fewer points and it would've missed the top 3, even.

That exchange in the quotes is ILX's high-water mark

How would it have done if the Patrick cowley votes were merged?

Delighted by Thelma and Machine. I can't think of another disco lyric as audacious as There But for the Grace of God - a harsh morality tale about snobbery, overparenting and white (well, Latino) flight. And I like every version of Don't Leave Me This Way - Bluenotes, Thelma, Communards, the lot. A monster of a tune.

How would it have done if the Patrick cowley votes were merged?

an example of menergy

Ismael, you are wrong. Totally deserved to win.

Yeah, I know

But now, my #1 might win instead :)

(many xposts: thanks Merdeyeux - yes I was indeed thinking of the '93 Sure is Pure disaster)

How would it have done if the Patrick cowley votes were merged?

This wouldn't have been a fair comparison, because some people voted for both versions, so had the votes been merged, "I Feel Love" would've had an advantage compared to songs with only one version on the list.

never forget:

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e128/ilxalbums/howtomakeifeellove.jpg

If you combine the two versions, I Feel Love gets 1067 points, 23 votes and four number one votes so keeping them separate has certainly made it more interesting.

oh lol tuomas already did the honors

xp

More interesting yet more rong also xp

come on come on

lol @ graphic

2. Chic - I Want Your Love (1978)
769 points, 17 votes, one 1st place vote.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-592559-1323112869_zps50b17adc.jpeg

http://youtu.be/6wPYHVWT8RY

"I Want Your Love"

for the chuckin!

― mr.raffles, 16. elokuuta 2012 23:16

"I Want Your Love" is my favourite song ever but I like the 12" version with the extended strings/brass section best. The "how really bad your love I neeeeeeed" harmony that leads into it is fucking mind blowing.

― Eugene Sander-Rygar (MPx4A), 10. syyskuuta 2009 19:57

favourite bit in it, the bassline when it goes "badada bum bum, badada bam bam".

― amarillo fat (jim), 10. syyskuuta 2009 20:13

if rev is actually interested in dancing to chic, he might listen to 'i want your love' and check out the degree to which yr actually dancing to the (quite active) bassline rather than the 4/4 groove...

― deej, 1. heinäkuuta 2007 22:45 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I could burrow down into the burning, roiling groove in "I Want Your Love" forever. It almost makes me want to fuck up my life on purpose just to tap into that undercurrent of desperation. The sixteenth-note strings then brass figure a few minutes in is just rococo enough, then it strips down completely to the rawest but cleanest ur-funk guitar ever. Just amazing.

― Clarke, 3. helmikuuta 2008 20:25

Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards were the Beatles of Disco music .

Nothing touches I Want Your Love.

Nothing.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), 22. lokakuuta 2004 7:26

Ahhhh, so close! This is the perfect song and my no.1

Difficult to argue with as a top-20-er, and I voted for it, but #2???

i have no clue what's going to be number 1.

This was my #2. So there.

let this groove

sink in your shoes

That bassline. If the no.1 is as I think it is then that's a surprise but all the more worthy for that.

I want your love got a boost in the late 90s when moodyman sampled it for I can't kick this feeling when it hits and then another huge boost when todd terje's edit borrowed some of moodyman's repetitions. the track has been huge since the terje edit and terje is huge on ILM ergo this placement, i think.

whats going to be number 1???

1. The Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited (1982)
795 points, 15 votes, five 1st place votes.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Pointer_Sisters_I

I guess there's no point in keeping up the suspense anymore...

♪♫ Her name was Lola ♪♫

;)

1. Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots - Disco Duck (1976)
772 points, 27 votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-919078-1172781035_zpscd596ad3.jpeg

http://youtu.be/tsAn4IC0wSo

Alright well I'm off to snort some coke and listen to "Disco Duck."

― Andy K, 30. toukokuuta 2002 3:00

Anyhow, a quick listen to the horns in "Disco Duck" yields the surprising information that somebody's been listening rather carefully to their Tower of Power collection.

― John Darnielle, 4. kesäkuuta 2002 3:00

I'm beginning to think "Disco Duck" was the perfect #1 afterall.

― Curt (cgould), 21. marraskuuta 2002 2:56

Let us all bow our heads as we contemplate "Disco Duck."

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), 26. helmikuuta 2004 19:19

Also, "Disco Duck." Even though that one came out when I was seven, even at an early age, I appreciated the classics...

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), 26. tammikuuta 2006 18:56

You guys have no taste and no heart!!! The only hesitation possible is between Rick Dees and Andrea True... Disco Duck, you have my vote!!!

― Snowballing, 31. heinäkuuta 2008 13:44

hell yeah son

Someone start a ballots thread when we have the (mighty) real answer!

But seriously, don't leave us in suspense too long, Tuomas. I need to go home.

I want to believe, I want to believe.

Gtf in! Was worried it wasn't gonna make it. The number 1 can be only one now can't it? One of my clubbing life highlights was Derrick may dropping it in the middle of a hard techno set. Best be right now...

Sorry about that, seems I miscounted the votes slightly in Disco Duck's favour. Real #1 coming up soon.

loool at the disco duck quotes

Oof, this would work so well in a techno set

wtf tuomas. i have no idea what it's going to be so if he's disappeared then i'll be on tenterhooks forever.

the fake #1, oldest trick in the book.

Is it right that neither Disco Inferno nor Mighty Real has been posted so far?

Boogie Wonderland

LOL

so many others

xxxp yes, those were my predictions for the top 2. now I think sylvester will take it

Just in case it wasn't clear, my comments are re 'I want your love' and the expected number 1, not 'disco duck'.

Disco inferno can fuck off imo

shame about Disco Inferno. was it the first disco song everyone (the critics even) agreed on? I always got that impression

Someone start a ballots thread when we have the (mighty) real answer!

― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Wednesday, December 18, 2013 1:44 PM (15 minutes ago)

Predicting Sylvester finally shows up as the #1? I'll buy it.

I can't believe some of the songs that have missed out. Probably about 40 of list hasn't placed.

Will be happy if Sylvester takes it but would even happier if it's with Don't Stop instead of Might Real.