Donna Summer: Search and Destroy?

Thanks for posting! I really appreciate it. I get pretty lonely in my Donna love. Just don't really know anyone who's as into her 70's stuff as much as I am. That said, I've kindof gotten away from her of late.

I must really suck because everyone on ILM loves Donna Summer and I just don't get it..

No, haha don't worry it's just me and a few other dudes who barely post here.

Donna Summer in the 70's is probably my favourite pop star ever. Right with Bimble on the love for love trilogy and four seasons of love. Dig the way they dropped the monolith followed by other stuff routine they'd done for love to love you baby and four seasons of love for that record and made all these mid length songs that were too long to be singles without serious editing but not quite monolithical (is that a word?!) either.

I'd rank the albums as.

Once upon a time - Perfect pop record for me, love every song. The shifts from happy disco classics to those downtrodden dirty songs like 'Now I need you' and 'Working the midnight shift' is just great.

A love trilogy - Obviously the main thing with this record is 'Try me, I know we can make it', but the other songs on here are great too, which was the letdown with love to love you baby, where everything else kind of felt like an afterthought.

Four seasons of love - Again, every track on here is just great, maybe the height of Moroder working on her overall albums in terms of production, I reckon.

I remember yesterday - I feel love is a top 10 song ever for me, the rest was kind of a letdown considering what I was expecting from the album with that song on it, but it's still mostly pretty hot.

Love to love you baby - Title track is porn for the ears, the rest of it feels like leftovers from something else they were trying before they came across the winning formula and didn't have time to make more stuff like it.

Bad Girls - Love the disco stuff on this one, some great pop songs. Hate, hate hate the ballads.

Haven't heard 'Lady of the night' and have no real desire to, kind of assume it's like love to love you baby minus the title track.

The Wanderer and Donna Summer deserve some time too; they're no more uneven than the seventies stuff.

"Heaven Knows" is great.

the 17 minute version of "Try Me I Know we Can Make It' is EPIC dizco goddness

I had a dream I was on a library computer and the woman next to me was listening to "Heaven Knows" (with earphones, but I could hear it) and I must have been making up words for the song, since I don't really know all the words. There was something about if you try to find a reason to leave me, I know you can find one. But anyway, I wanted to dance. Also, in the dream I suddenly remembered one of the early simple salsa moves I learned which, in real life, I have forgotten about. And what was I doing posting about this song out of the blue (I think I might have heard it on the radio somewhere in that case) about a year ago?

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/08/did_herman_cain_know_he_was_qu.html

Donna Summer song in Pokemon movie seen by rightwing politician? weird

Herman Cain went on, grasping the podium in front of him desperately, "I want to be the very best. Like no one ever was. To catch your votes. Is my real test," his eyes bulge outward, crazed and broken, "to earn them is my cause."

"Voters work hard for their money," Cain continued. "So you better treat them right."

;_;

Wait hold on

http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/17/donna-summer-dead-last-dance/

I kinda want to punch a hole through a window now.

wtf with all these deaths this year

so bummed

no way

RIP. totally totally sucks :(

damn, RIP

what the fuck man?!? UGH!!

R.I.P. Donna :(

jesus christ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AztWseIdU

it sucks that whenever I see a thread like this bumped my first instinct is this :(

:(

17-minute Love to Love You is so all-time awesome, such a groundbreaking recording

ugh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewAbi2Q5AYs

:(

I don't think an artist's death has bummed me out quite as much as this since Robert Altman.

WOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7r83-y3j2A

Any source other than TMZ?

Nooooooo. She was amazing. Even my disco-skeptic dad liked her, I remember the gatefold LP of The Wanderer we had around the house.

Dim all the lights. R.I.P.

just picked up the new philly/tom moulton 4cd boxset and was rejoicing in the widescreen 70s disco groove when i saw this thread revived.

:(

fuck cancer.

r.i.p

Universal Music has tweeted it, and she has an association with them so seems official.

oh no

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEV7TrhkZUk

oh fuck me that's sad

<3 you, lady. RIP.

;_;

only just discovered this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvtAVBF8x8M

dang, local girl too

She made a pile of amazing records, <3 you Donna forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjf78OLSrw

holy shit, i had no idea she was sick

this really really sucks :(

Rocking the 15 minute Patrick Cowley megamix of "I Feel Love" as I type. So great.

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

Side Two of Once Upon a Time.

now THIS one really gets to me. fuck.

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.