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

Wonder how many #1 votes didn't even make the list.

It's excellent (I voted for it) but nowhere but ILM would it chart so high.

Made it into the top 5 for S1ant's list of top 100 dance songs.

3. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (1977)
705 points, 15 votes, two 1st place votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/R-1407106-1255085975_zpse581784e.jpeg

http://youtu.be/H7r83-y3j2A

OH shit. OH GOD> OH god!!! This has got to be one of the main musical achievements of mankind.

― Sister Reed (Bimble), 21. tammikuuta 2009 10:22

To me, "I Feel Love" still sounds like the future of music.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), 27. huhtikuuta 2005 22:05

I am currently researching the production of "I feel love" by Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder. I already emailed the master himself, and he was kind enough to send me a weird graphic, but that is not very instructive.

I am particularily interested in the delay effect that he uses to "double" the synth riff, and the other means with which he creates "metrical dissonances", e.g. the echo effects. I wonder how they were produced and I am interested in all other production info or trivia.

― Tilman Baumgaertel (mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net), 21. syyskuuta 2006 17:25

He sent you a weird graphic? Can we see it?!?

― Am I Re-elected Yet? (Dada), 21. syyskuuta 2006 17:28

Here you go:

Explains everything, doesnt it?

This is his email reply:

"Dear Mr. Tilman
this is the only way i can help you

http://www.thing.de/tilman/i%20feel%20love.jpg

saluti
Giorgio Moroder"

T.

― Tilman Baumgaertel (mail at tilmanbaumgaertel.net), 21. syyskuuta 2006 18:41

yeah, graphic seems to say everything (or, I'd say he delayed the synth line by an amount of time equaling one 16th note, and placed that delay in the opposite channel as the original...hence, synth line sounds like a pattern of 16th notes instead of just 8th notes...pic is much simpler!)

― Dominique (dleone), 21. syyskuuta 2006 19:15

Love Saves the Day has a part where they talk with Moroder about this. He gives an anecdote that Donna Summer was dancing to it in a club, probably next to a speaker that was carrying the right channel, and came back to Moroder saying "You know, something is wrong with this recording!" Moroder told her "I know what's wrong." "(the record) did well all the same."

― grady (grady), 21. syyskuuta 2006 19:48

i feel love is one of my all time favourite records ever. i blame my sister. she played it rather a lot when it came out.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), 21. syyskuuta 2006 19:25

Swear to G-d, man: I strap on the headphones, cue up "I Feel Love" and damned if it doesn't sound like the best music EVAH!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), 20. lokakuuta 2004 10:12

"I Feel Love" is the most popular disco record ever made because it's the one that's been ripped off the most (i.e. by every single trance track in existence) (yes I'm being overgeneralist have fun poking holes in my arguments!)

― M Matos (M Matos), 26. helmikuuta 2003 3:10

I sort of agree with Frank Kogan's post about not being able to identify what it is about Diana Ross's voice you like. With Donna its all there, and its evident, and it lends incredible depth to a song such as "I feel love" which in someone else's hands would have been..less amazing, somehow.

― hobart paving, 19. toukokuuta 2007 13:58

my #1 dancefloor moment ever was at a club in Barcelona on my honeymoon, Jarvis Cocker was DJing and put on "I Feel Love," it sounded amazing and people went nuts. RIP Donna you made great music.

― dmr, 17. toukokuuta 2012 20:49

Very deservedly. This list likely climaxed at #6 for me.

xp WHOA!!

Yowza yowza yowza

Yes! I was hoping this wouldn't win. I do like it and it is important and amazing and all, but it leaves me a bit cold and there are a lot of other records I like but couldn't vote for anyway. Plus Love To Love You Baby is her actual best record imo.

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