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

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

so many others

xxxp yes, those were my predictions for the top 2. now I think sylvester will take it

Just in case it wasn't clear, my comments are re 'I want your love' and the expected number 1, not 'disco duck'.

Disco inferno can fuck off imo

shame about Disco Inferno. was it the first disco song everyone (the critics even) agreed on? I always got that impression

Someone start a ballots thread when we have the (mighty) real answer!

― Ramnaresh Samhain (ShariVari), Wednesday, December 18, 2013 1:44 PM (15 minutes ago)

Predicting Sylvester finally shows up as the #1? I'll buy it.

I can't believe some of the songs that have missed out. Probably about 40 of list hasn't placed.

Will be happy if Sylvester takes it but would even happier if it's with Don't Stop instead of Might Real.

1. Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (1978)
879 points, 20 votes, two 1st place votes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/31c6ab6d-8b22-47d3-8cbe-d17831ec27c7_zps122ed64f.jpg

http://youtu.be/y_p-gacgSns (music video)
http://youtu.be/t6vok4q11kE (12" version)

I was introduced to this masterpeice via VH1 in the late nineties on a special about Studio 54. They showed the video in its entirety and my eyes were glued to the TV trying to figure out what gender Sylvester was and at the same time I was mesmerized by how that beat was commanding me to dance. I was about 12 at the time.

Disco is cool.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), 13. toukokuuta 2005 7:21

I think the question actually is: is there anyone who doesn't find this to be a classic? I think even non-disco fans would cite it as a highlight of the genre.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), 13. toukokuuta 2005 7:24

OH MY GOD okay everyone stop what you're doing and HUNT DOWN a copy of the video to Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" THIS INSTANT. You will thank me profusely.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), 14. tammikuuta 2004 3:24

TThere was a paper on Sylvester at EMP. Apparently he didn't actually like this song much, meant it for a B-Side, thought the disco treatment was inappropriate for a song intended as a gospel/soul number... NEVER LISTEN TO ARTISTS!!! ahem. Anyway the paper also told a moving story of his collaboration with Patrick Cowley just before the latter died and his late conversion to thinking the disco he made was good after all.

― Tom (Groke), 13. toukokuuta 2005 11:36

always play 'you make me feel mighty real' by sylvester.

― haitch, 31. joulukuuta 2007 12:04

This is classic all the way. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly an enemy of humanity.

― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), 18. heinäkuuta 2010 11:14

this is going to be the first dance at my wedding

― moonship journey to baja, 3. helmikuuta 2008 4:42

Fair enough

Cool.

i didn't see this coming at all! so happy you guys

This genre, my god.

Wooo!

Thanks for such a great poll Tuomas.

nice!!

My #1!

first time it's happened

Yup. How could we have a disco poll without Sylvester in it? Glad he made it to #1

A hundred points clear too. So happy about this.

*pops champagne*

Top 3 pulled this out of the inferno imo

Don't think I actually voted for it, but works for me. Thanks for taking the time to do it, Tuomas!

FWIW, I had two Sylvester tracks in my ballot (I Need Somebody To Love Tonight & I (Who Have Nothing)), but I'm glad his biggest hit topped this list. SF reprazent.

Rose Royce! Where are Rose Royce?