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

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!

gr8080 otm

86 god this poll can go to hell, or alternatively i should have voted.

love the doubling of the piano riffs in the Loose Joints jam - sounds as if the DJ is playing two copies! a work of genius.

85. Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots (1982)
188 points, 5 votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-87214-1195570286_zpsea96d50c.jpeg

http://youtu.be/R6J5ciRpVcA (12" version)
http://youtu.be/W2XhhuM9GZo (music video)

24 Apr Patrice Rushen Forget Me Nots (8) - More wonderfully seductive R&B, quoted by George Michael in "Fastlove" 14 years later as recognition of what he, and perhaps all of us, lost.

― Marcello Carlin, 2. joulukuuta 2002 15:22

agree 100% with the top 2, indeep should be at 3, then situation and forget me nots/freeez, greatest songs of all time

― NI, 10. tammikuuta 2011 13:53

My single contribution is maybe "obvious" to those in the know, but I just heard it for the first time and it's one of those songs I've listened to 5-10 times a day since d/ling it:

Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), 26. elokuuta 2003 17:56

forget me nots

In a genre known for epic basslines and handclaps, "Forget Me Nots" might just have the most epic ones.

yessss

hope that "haven't you heard" turns up as well

also i think its cool that the posts tuomas is quoting have their timestamps in finnish

84. Phreek - Weekend (1978)
189 points, 4 votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-2724253-1298174908_zps10259f14.jpeg

http://youtu.be/bUAjlpgfNIc

Check out 'Weekend' by Phreek, a Patrick Adams production - great disco-punk from a disco-point-of-view...

― Vincent Vern, 15. lokakuuta 2003 13:55

Aha! I figured out something. The Chic records don't really have any percussion other than Tony's trap set. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Right now, I'm listening to "Weekend" by Phreek on the Levan comp. It has bongos and agogo bells going all over the place in between the beats and THAT is what gets me dancing.

― The Reverend, 1. heinäkuuta 2007 23:25

i heartily endorse 'weekend' by phreek.

― haitch, 21. elokuuta 2007 8:45

er, that's meant to be "weekend" by phreek. maybe too obvious, but it's always the first thing that comes into mind when someone says the words "piano" and "breakdown". pisses on every single tasteful weak ass dfa endorsed £145-designer-t-shirt pianodisco track from a very great height

― rio (r1o natsume), 11. helmikuuta 2009 11:46

I prefer the Class Action version of "Weekend" to the original (and voted for it), mainly because Christine Wiltshire's vocals on it are so impressive and powerful. IMO the vocalist on the original doesn't completely manage to sell the female empowerment lyrics, though the groove is obviously undeniable.

ditto

can't argue with any of these, really

Yeah, I prefer the Class Action version too - it sharpens the song up.

(On the other hand, you can't beat a cowbell breakdown.)

Oh, I checked the credits on Discogs.com, and apparently Wiltshire sings on the original "Weekend" too! Well, I guess she just does a better job on the later version.

Phreek was my big discovery on the 2006 Levan comp.

83. Boney M. - Rasputin (1978)
190 points, 5 votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-933613-1255458200_zpsccc638dd.jpeg

http://youtu.be/zL68JAzBZlM (12" version)
http://youtu.be/kvDMlk3kSYg (music video)

The jump from the mock-Cossack "hey-hey-hey" sequence (pissing on the history books and loving every minute of it; it renders most things that could be called plastic folk utterly unnecessary) into the song proper in Boney M's "Rasputin" (radio usually starts after this, therefore removing the only truly classic element of the song).

― Robin Carmody, 10. maaliskuuta 2001 3:00

We are all on crack: the answer = "Rasputin" by Boney M. To hate = to hate life

― mark s, 4. heinäkuuta 2001 3:00

And yes, 'Rasputin' is silly, that's the bleedin' point...jeez, a black guy sporting an afro with a fake beard doing a russian dance isn't exactly Tolstoy, innit? ;)

― Omar, 4. heinäkuuta 2001 3:00

Rasputin not cool? On which planet? The mixing from Nightflight To Venus to the aforementioned greatest single about pre-revolutionary Russia ever made defines dance music. It Began In Moscow.

― Mike Ratford, 26. maaliskuuta 2002 3:00

You really need to hear "Rasputin", at least.

I love the spoken part:

"But when his DRINKING and LUSTING and his HUNGER
FOR POWER became known to MORE and MORE people,
the demands to do something about this OUTRAGEOUS
man became LOUDER and LOUDER."

― Arthur (Arthur), 29. maaliskuuta 2003 7:14