La musica si muove appena: The ILM ITALO Poll (Results Thread)

LOL at his example of bad Italo. That really is bad.

Interesting interview but both of those guys sound like Italo rockists.

…especially Bottin.

http://i.imgur.com/mAasX49.jpg

38 VALERIE DORE "Get Closer" [123 points, 4 votes]
http://youtu.be/DkQu9CPrrfw

My top 5 dropping like flies all of a sudden

way too low but i'm guessing Valerie Dore was sabotaged by people nominating like 10 million of her tracks

maybe 38/39 isn't dropping like flies idk

And a quick look at my actual ballot shows I only had this at number 10 so my bad.

Also agree that "Get Closer" placed too low. The delay on that synth is classic.

I like how "Get Closer" is pretty much the same song as "The Night" but just as awesome.

I think someone nominating the entire Valerie Dore Lancelot album was amusing. Love the title track from that though.

Yes, they just shifted the chords and tweaked the melody a bit… but the instrumentation is identical.

who was the audience for non-crossover Italo releases? Was it mostly nightclubs? How many young people in Italy (or France or Spain) in the 80s have heard e.g. "When I Let You Down" or "Hey Hey Guy"? Were there clubs in the UK playing this? (I guess mike t-diva addressed that one a bit)

I was living in West Berlin in 1983/84, and heard Italo in gay and mixed-gay clubs alongside hi-NRG, as well as on the radio. I doubt it had much traction outside gay cubs in the UK, give or take the odd Ryan Paris crossover hit.

Get Closer is a good example of a particular type of pop alchemy then, it does something much more with those parts than The Night imo.

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

37 FANCY "Slice Me Nice" [129 points, 4 votes]
http://youtu.be/Nlnoa67MUJU

Maximum dodgy accent points.

Slice Me Nice is a total classic. The video is properly creepy.

"Slice Me Nice" was 84, not 85. Another one I used to dance to in public...

It has been removed from his wiki page but it used to be claimed that Bolero was the longest reigning No.1 single in the history of the Spanish charts. There are lots of videos of the latter day Fancy, looking like Kim Jong Il, turning up at tiny conventions of about a dozen awestruck fans. He still plays big nostalgia events in Russia and Germany.

He looks like an even creepier version of Barry Manilow.

"bow and arrow" is the other valerie dore song i really like

Xps, I'd always had the impression that Hey Hey Guy was a fairly canonical Italo hit but I think my perception of a lot of this is skewed by my window on the genre being primarily Eastern European. About 75% of the comments on the YouTube videos of Laszlo's songs are from people with Russian, Polish, etc names. I heard it played over the store radio in a supermarket in Armenia last year and didn't find that surprising. I love the fact that there seems to be an overlapping, but not entirely overlapping, Italo / Eurodance canon between Western and Eastern Europe. The Dutch group Digital Emotion was another that was huge in Russia, having been featured extensively in an episode of the Soviet rip off of Tom and Jerry, but are largely unknown here.

Last one for the day...

Fancy: "I'm like a cake that wants to be baked"

So classic

Well I guess the Italians managed to bundle their vast riches of cheesy dance songs along with the cutting edge automotive technology they sold to the USSR.

http://i.imgur.com/lg2ZQu1.jpg

36 KATY GRAY "Hold Me Tight" [131 points, 4 votes]
http://youtu.be/O0v_jTHHFKU

Recap:

50 DHUO "Walkin'" [96 points, 3 votes]
49 INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SYSTEM "Dancing Therapy" [97 points, 3 votes]
47 (TIE) GAZEBO "I Like Chopin" [98 points, 3 votes]
47 (TIE) CLIO "Eyes" [98 points, 3 votes]
46 KEN LASZLO "Hey Hey Guy" [101 points, 3 votes]
45 DOCTOR'S CAT "Watch Out" [105 points, 3 votes]
43 (TIE) RAGGIO DI LUNA "Comanchero" [105 points, 4 votes]
43 (TIE) TRANS-X "Living On Video" [105 points, 4 votes]
41 (TIE) MODERN TALKING "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" [108 points, 4 votes]
41 (TIE) M&G "When I Let You Down" [108 points, 4 votes]
40 IVAN "Fotonovela" [117 points, 4 votes]
39 LOUI$ "Pink Footpath" [122 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote]
38 VALERIE DORE "Get Closer" [123 points, 4 votes]
37 FANCY "Slice Me Nice" [129 points, 4 votes]
36 KATY GRAY "Hold Me Tight" [131 points, 4 votes]

… 15 more tomorrow

I would probably like "Slice Me Nice" more if I hadn't heard "Passion" by The Flirts first, as well as other Bobby O productions. It's alright, but it makes me want to hear "Passion" instead.

"Hold Me Tight" is superb. Amazing production and basically the blueprint you hear on every Sally Shapiro record.

"hold me tight" is spectacular, i think i ranked it pretty high

"How many young people in Italy (or France or Spain) in the 80s have heard e.g. "When I Let You Down" or "Hey Hey Guy"?"

I have been harangued before by Italians before while playing at an Italo night, "Just play one Italian track".

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/HansHolbein/moderntalking_zps5c488a56.jpg

I've know so little in this poll so far, but quite a lot of it sounds vaguely familiar. Great stuff so far though. I especially like the Clio track.

Today we begin with...

http://i.imgur.com/1191Ckd.jpg

35 SABRINA "Boys (Summertime Love)" [134 points, 5 votes]
http://youtu.be/JgBu54wvm1Y

lol! I have mixed feelings about this one.

Don't wanna come over all italo rockstars but this beating Get Closer and Pink Footpath is a bit o_O

*Italo rockist obv.

video for this is one of the strangest in pop music history

also there are two new-ish covers by euro pop stars, one which filmed a more sfw video in what appears to be the same pool as the original

xxpost I agree, this type of stuff is usually right up my alley. But "Boys" sounds like a second rate Bananarama track.

The extended version is great. The single version is a little slight.

Too low!!! Just kidding! But this is an alltime great dancefloor banger. Extended version is where it's at, rap and all. Check out Via Verdi - Diamond for another thumper from the same producer.

http://i.imgur.com/vVg4cfb.jpg

34 VALERIE DORE "The Night" [137 points, 5 votes]
http://youtu.be/80ssUKt76-c

Step this way for the extended version of "Boys": http://youtu.be/AiZUdYan430

another notable distinction between "The Night" and "Get Closer" is that they have different vocalists (Dora Carofiglio and Monica Stucchi, respectively)

wow, thanks for pointing that out.

I can't tell the difference.

Thought "The Night" would be higher given its place in the canon.

http://i.imgur.com/IZVO94T.jpg

33 CYBER PEOPLE "Void Vision" [139 points, 5 votes]
http://youtu.be/cKjsTlxf80k

???