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

Speaking of New Order Italo influence, i feel like they maybe nicked some of the melody of Cybernetic Love in something "The Perfect Kiss".. maybe? its so familiar.

oops meant void vision, its not quite there anyway.

<i>I've always been curious to know what's being said in the phone conversation at the beginning of "Hey Hey Guy". Cannot understand, like, 80% of it. Anyone?

― daavid, Friday, February 13, 2015 11:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</i>

- hello?
- hello? (something something)
- oh dear are you at phone
- yeah hey guy, tell me about your manicure
- I love you and feel the groove
- tell me about it, is it true?
- it's true, yes it's true
- love for hire is dangerous
- don't worry baby gold
- everything is same as all
- everything is the same
- oh I love you
- me too
- I love you

Well that's that cleared up.

Seriously though... no 'Melody' by Plustwo? its not just the best italo song in the world. It's the best song in the world.

Biggest surprise omission for me was Silver Pozzoli: "Around My Dream". It went to Number One in South Africa, come on!

xps- Thanks Siegbran. That makes a lot more sense than what I was hearing before.

… even if it still doesn't make much sense, lol

I couldn't edit down enough. I mostly avoided the stuff that I tend to group with "eurodisco" or "spacedisco" or "hi-nrg". Mostly stuff that's been well-covered here but maybe a few others. Pretty heavily in the Mixed Up at the Hague camp.

Amin Peck-Coda
Atmosphere-Swede's Scandal
Azoto-Any Time or Place
BB & Band-All Night Long
BWH-Stop
Bagarre-Lemon Sweet
Bobby Davenport-Time Has Come Today
Brand Image-Are You Loving?
Capricorn-I Need Love
Cariocas-Batida
Charlie-Spacer Woman
Clio-Faces
Cyber People-Void Vision
DF and Pam-On the Beat
Diana Est-Tenax
Doctor's Cat-Gee Wiz
Gaz Nevada-IC Love Affair
International Music System-Dancing Therapy
Jago-I'm Going to Go
Klein + MBO-Dirty Talk
Los Angeles T.F.-Magical Body
M&G-When I Let You Down
Mr. Flagio-Take a Chance
Mr. Master-Dog in the Night
Mya and the Mirror-Hesitation
Pineapples-Come on Closer (second to last song at my wedding!)
Plastic Mode-Baja Imperial
Pluton and the Humanoids-World Invasion
RIS-Love N Music
Some Bizarre-Don't Be Affraid
Sun La Shan-Catch
Thanya-Freedom
Vivien Vee-Remember
Wanexa-The Man from Colours

was out of town when the last results rolled out but thanks daavid and gr80! this was very fun/a trip down memory lane. here's my (kind of boring/canonical) ballot:

Pineapples - Come on Closer
Mr. Flagio - Take A Chance
Ginny - Can't Be Serious
Matia Bazar - Ti Sento
Ris - Love N Music
Taffy - I Love My Radio
Laura Branigan - Self Control
La Bionda - Wanna be your lover
Magazine 60 - Don Quichotte
Doctor's Cat - Feel the Drive
Massara - Margherita
Advance - Take Me To The Top
Charlie - Spacer Woman
Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk
Jo Squillo Eletrix - Avventurieri
Baby's Gang - Disco Maniac
Raggio Di Luna – Comanchero
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
Twins - Face To Face, Heart To Heart
Fun Fun - Happy Station

i've only heard of a dozen of these! i somehow have some v different idea of the italo canon than the rest of ilm does but i'm pleased to have lots to check out. had i voted i would def have voted for plustwo's 'melody' somewhere high. (maybe i'll pretend that i am voting, top 3 off the top of my head of ooh let's say 'hypnotic tango', 'cybernetic love', 'melody')

almost voted for 'melody', such an earworm

http://youtu.be/J66LRFvaNA8 JOIN TOGETHER NOW

I think the problem is there's is at least 2 or three "canons". It was a pretty wide-ranging thing with different periods and angles and appeal to different crowds. The italo that made it through the filter of WBMX and the italo that I-F and the electro crowd like and the big pop hits...similar threads, time period, location etc but different enough to suggest there's a canon. Before Mixed Up in the Hague nobody in america was talking about Spacer Woman and Take a Chance, but Dirty Talk and I'm Ready and I'm Going to Go were what was talked about.

Yeah, the obscure electro/import tracks definitely became a thing much later. The "canon" before Italo became hip could more or less be summarized by these 4 compilations from 1990:
Vol 1
Vol 2
Vol 3
Vol 4

The ZYX Best Of Italo Disco compilations were also pretty instrumental in building it up, i think.

Even those canons were different than the club cannon. The stuff that was either licensed to the US, released on US labels or otherwise made it through, my first awareness of italo prior to I-F was an american/chicago/detroit take. Like Fuzz Dance on Sire, NY labels like Emergency and Importe/12 creating a an american version of italo, then in the mid 80s the stuff that stuck w/ the chicago and detroit djs, often, especially later, only the instrumentals.

My ballot:
Pineapples - Come on Closer
Alexander Robotnick - Problemes d'Amour
Mr. Flagio - Take A Chance
International Music System - Dancing Therapy
Charlie - Spacer Woman
My Mine - Hypnotic Tango
Neon - Skydiver
Loui$ - Pink Footpath
Amin Peck - Girl on Me
Crazy Gang - Every Sunday
Automat - Automat
Decadance - On And On
BWH - Stop
Scotch - Take Me Up
Jo Squillo Eletrix - Avventurieri ‎
Big Ben Tribe - Tarzan Loves the Summer Nights
Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord
Peter Richard - Walking in the Neon
Righeira - Vamos A La Playa
Pino D'Angio - Ma Quale Idea

Would have definitely voted for Azoto - Anytime or Place, if it were nominated. Also, kinda can't believe Amin Peck - Anxiety wasn't nominated, and the overall un-love for Gary Low is a bit disappointing. "I Want You" and "You Are a Danger" feel like certified classics.

On a self-promotional note, I made this "mix" in 2005: http://thesearepowerfulhours.com/italoph.html

If y'all are unfamiliar with the concept of a "power hour," it's basically an organized drinking activity where everyone drinks a shot of beer every minute for an hour, and in this case, specifically, drink a shot of beer everytime the song changes. A real 1 hour immersion into my thoughts regarding Italo Disco from way back when. Enjoy!

Also, really surprised about Neon - Skydiver not placing at all. Assuming a lot of us kind of "grew up" on CBS Top 100s, in a series of all-time commentaries, I-F's proclamation that that track "was not recorded, it was LAID DOWN" would resonate a bit more.

it was on my ballot at one point but i had to cut it :(

Listening to the songs one by one, I actually never heard of real proper italo disco, only heard it has a distant influence. This is the real deal. What a great thread, so many great songs. Thanks guys.

the vocal on "Pink Footpath" reminds me of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZnPPnd_6U8

i scored a copy of "feel the drive" that i found hiding in a record store's hip hop 12" section... came back to the same shop 2 weeks later and they had a copy with the PICTURE SLEEVE (for only a few bucks more than what i paid for one w/ the generic sleeve) and i cursed myself for buying it too soon

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

Two copies is the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQfabF7nK9Y

the bside is cool too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0iLp6BHtCc

i got this over the weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObkuxJn48ps

I've started doing a monthly Italo radio show: https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/

NY based italo fans, I'm djing for the first time in ages this thursday, lots of italo will surely be played, probably Plastic Mode included:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1459721574347423/

this one is weird but i kinda love it - HE'S JUST A YOOO-YOOO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pa1Hv6AYT0

Top tune.

In the last version of our Mirage radio show I decided to take a late 90s techno approach to Italo (with a bit of other disco) and play about 15 tunes in about half an hour from about 55 minutes in. https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/mirage-radio-6th-august-the-one-where-matt-did-89-80-in-30-minutes/

Song ID help... what is at minute 13 in this mix? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_CD6LE36Ec

'Yeti' by Radiorama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2uRvt5WJZo

thanks a lot

And I'm an idiot, the track listing is on the video.

This wasn't nominated, but I am just discovering it, and it's so awesome.

De-De-Mo - ''Cause I need you, 'cause I love you''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK8mjXG3r1U

Very fine tune ^ Like the video too.

Here’s the latest Mirage radio show we did. Mainly italo with a sprinkling of other pieces, some of the tracks sound a bit distorted for the first half an hour because of a dodgy deck which we managed to change over after some faffing around. https://www.mixcloud.com/MirageRadio/mirage-radio-03-sept-falling-in-love-with-this-crazy-family/

http://boilerroom.tv/session/fiat-imports-live-panel/

obsessed with the synth hook on this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H2bflLx3tk

(Radio Movie - "Search")

Lovely track. Like the breakdown in the middle a lot.

This is a recent discovery for me, Talko - Psyko Flash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fqx0vaku1Q

Wow! Don't know that one but I've been playing this one for years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rjgPtf3lmM

Talko was probably first

I’d not heard that one before, nice track too, a bit of a daytime vibe to it. I wonder how we could find out who was first.

i really underrated "another life"... what a song.

Great contrast in the vocal style from other italo.

'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

I just discovered this and it's amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhSJ1KLd3k

pretty sure I put that one in my top 5.

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...