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

Doesn't fit my definition of disco, but I have loved this track to death for the past 31 years.

That said, this is the first time I've heard this particular Levan remix - it wasn't on the original UK 12" release (which was produced by Levan in the first place). It's not radically different, but it sounds smoother, less stark... a touch more disco, then.

Oh man, wish I could be taking part in this poll but for one reaosn or another (work) i can't.

Must say I do love the 'brand' names on this scene - Tom Moulton, Larry Levan, Nicky Siano, Paradise Garage, etc - and how they've never meant anything to me before but are instantly this mark of quality as well as evocative of a magnificent lost world.

Great to see Just An Illusion up there. Has anyone ever done a 10 minute long edit / remix? That song by Jamie Woon from a couple of years ago gave it more than a passing nod.

hope to see a fair bit of Ze Records. Plaxico OTM, it's how I imagine (or want to imagine) New York sounding like.

I must have told this story somewhere before, but maybe now's a good time to repeat it. My stepmother's third husband was responsible for importing the concept of BPMs/beat-mixing to the UK, via his weekly Disco column in Record Mirror, as a direct result of seeing Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage in 1978. In fact, he was so knocked out that he brought several of his fellow DJs out to NYC shortly afterwards, to witness Levan for themselves.

TBH there seems to be a few different mixes of that tune floating around; the version have (on the Grand 12-Inches 9 comp) sounds a bit starker too, and it lasts for 8.5 minutes. But apparently the 7 minute version is the one that was on the original 12" single.

(xpost to Mike)

Has anyone ever done a 10 minute long edit / remix? That song by Jamie Woon from a couple of years ago gave it more than a passing nod.

Check my post a few posts below the Imagination entry; I linked to an 8 minute remix of the tune... Apparently it was made in France in the 90s, but it's pretty faithful to the original, the drums are a bit harder though.

(He also started telling me about all the gay sex that was going on in dark corners, but my stepmother shut him up - "Michael doesn't need to hear that!" For a libertine, she had quite a prudish streak.)

I must have told this story somewhere before, but maybe now's a good time to repeat it. My stepmother's third husband was responsible for importing the concept of BPMs/beat-mixing to the UK, via his weekly Disco column in Record Mirror, as a direct result of seeing Larry Levan at the Paradise Garage in 1978. In fact, he was so knocked out that he brought several of his fellow DJs out to NYC shortly afterwards, to witness Levan for themselves.

That's a nice story. Having grown up with dance music and DJ mixing always around (I was born in 1979), I sometimes forget these things must've totally blown many people's minds back in the day.

Another "Like An Eagle" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN0hlI3zizM

There's Lindstrom/Terje versions of "Just An Illusion" floating around, as well as the version on Night Dubbing. Sampled by Mariah in the mid-aughts!

Was hoping "Spank" would be higher - always a treat to play out, and I've never understand the problem people have w/the vox.

xxpost thanks tuomas

I didn't vote for Peech Boys because it doesn't feel like disco to me - think of it alongside Let the Music Play - but boy is it great.

The Spotify playlist of the results is behaving all wrong for me. Up top the "including artists" list is right, but not all the songs are showing up in the playlist itself. (incl Kid Creole, Moroder tracks)

That's odd. Could it be a different territories thing? I'm compiling it from the UK. The only omission is Dennis Parker, unless you have the Disco Discharge MP3.

I misspoke about Moroder, but the Dan Hartman, Kid Creole and Jones Girls songs aren't showing for me. So weird! I've looked them up individually on Spotify and all three can be found/aren't grayed out for US users.

Hmm. Album-wise, the Dan Hartman is on Boogie Nights (1999 comp), Kid Creole is on Tropical Gangsters and the Jones Girls is on Philadelphia International Records 12" Singles. Are those albums available in the US?

Ah, I think that's it. Those albums don't come up in searches for me.

OK, I've made the playlist collaborative, so US alternatives can be added.

Very happy to see Like an Eagle make it. It's all about those incredible strings that come in for me.

86.(tie) Tavares - More Than a Woman (1977)
186 points, 5 votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-563667-1368910427-2153_zps15f80bb7.jpeg

http://youtu.be/zXu0MR-_cJw

The Bee Gees' version sounds like a half-hearted demo. I'll take the Tavares, such an underrated group they were.

(both get a dud demerit for rhyming "myself" with "itself," though.)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), 14. syyskuuta 2005 8:06

It should be noted, however, that Tavares PWNED the Bee Gees on "More Than a Woman."

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), 20. huhtikuuta 2005 16:04

Tavares - More Than A Woman

probably my favorite thing related to the Bee Gees not called "Night Fever"

― gospodin simmel, 25. huhtikuuta 2012 20:44

WilliamC, the version of "Vertigo/Relight" which you added is a later instrumental remix.

Dang. That's the only one that comes up in a search.

That's such a lovely, elegant track. That and "Open Sesame" were the only two from the SNF soundtrack I even remotely considered.

Also, just an observation and not (as yet) a slam, but this list is a great deal more mainstream than I was expecting this early in the game. Then again, I guess disco WAS mainstream for a good run of years, so that's not a big surprise.

I recently expressed a stronger sentiment ("gospodin simmel" was my first nick here): "sometimes I feel like the Tavares version of More than a Woman is one of my favorite songs ever. the Bee Gees original pales in comparison imo"

which Eric H followed with: "Totally; the Tavares one is transcendent. The Bee Gees is karaoke time."

I stand by that 100 percent.

People are obviously forgetting the classic 911 version of this, perhaps the definitive version for me.

wonder why the Bee Gees version of If I Can't Have You isn't on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack? it's on a B side from the era iirc.

Yikes - because of the way I did my ballot, I never reached the Tavs' version, but I placed the Gees' ^high^. I may have cost this one a good twenty places.

wonder why the Bee Gees version of If I Can't Have You isn't on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack? it's on a B side from the era iirc

Wikipedia says it was originally meant to be - and Yvonne Elliman was supposed to sing "How Deep Is Your Love," but Robert Stigwood decided to switch that up.

I have never heard "Like An Eagle" before. Wow, really great!

OMG at that Jimmy Bo Horne record cover.

― Tim F, Thursday, December 5, 2013 5:05 PM (Yesterday)

the LP cover is great as well

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

xp hats off to Robert Stigwood then! smart dude. Bee Gees version (even though it pales next to Elliman's) woulda been huge mind.

i hope Disco Tex And The Sex O Lets 'Get Dancin' shows up.

"Spank" is my big discovery thus far. It reminds me of Exodus "Together Forever", with its dinky little piano figure.

there is a great betty botox edit of it out there that is not on youtube

great poll so far

86.(tie) Loose Joints - Tell You (Today) (1983)
186 poins, 5 votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-84945-1152220701_zpsb3580520.jpeg

http://youtu.be/u-OZokZbaUs

Just now, hearing Loose Joints' "Tell You (Today)" slip from a held- in-check groove into the most tenderly thrilled dancepop moment I've heard in....oh, *weeks*.

― Tom, 22. toukokuuta 2001 3:00

Order all the alcohol that I can in one round, down it all as fast as possible, the listen to Tell You Today by Loose Joints on my Headphones.

After the second or third round I'd ask Baby Spice to join me in the lavatory. I would then proceed to tell Nicky from MSP that the only Welsh cultural export that was worth half a shit was Dylan Thomas, and that he wasn't even in a real rock and roll band because nobody in America ever gave a shit about Manic Street Preachers.

After the fifth round I would go into business class and start yelling at the stewards and passengers, telling them that "I AM REM" and if anybody tried to stop me I would then tell them not to fuck with me, because I am in fact, a Viking.

After all of that happened, I would probably wander back to my seat in first class, put on my headphones and pass out to Here Come The Warm Jets by Brian Eno.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), 20. huhtikuuta 2003 22:23

Unspeakably awesome brass section I am listening to right now: Loose Joints, "Tell You Today".

― Robin Carmody, 29. toukokuuta 2001 3:00

LOL farty trombones.

Not caught up from yesterday, but there was some damn fine stuff there.

Any interest in me compiling these into a youtube playlist as we go, so at the end people have them all in one place?

totally forgot about this one

so good

Any interest in me compiling these into a youtube playlist as we go, so at the end people have them all in one place?

― emil.y, Friday, 6 December 2013 12:36 (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that would be much appreciated as i am stealth listening to these at work

looooove this track

tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you tell you

the vocals are so chill

i kind of used to really resent this track for having such an epic buildup for what was a kind of wimpy payoff chorus, but i've come to terms with it

Oh, this is GOOD. Another discovery!