STRONGEST EMOTION, THE DISCO EXPLOSION: It's the Grand ILM Disco Poll nomination thread (nomination time ends on Friday, November 1st)

Okay, we're finally gonna poll the most fabulous genre of them all, disco! This thread is for you to nominating disco tunes for the grand poll. But before you start typing, there are some important rules for the nominations! So please read the instructions below...

1) You can nominate up to 20 tracks.

2) The poll is for tracks released between 1972 and 1984 only. This is so that no proto-disco or disco house or stuff like that will be included. However, you can vote for newer remixes, as long as the remixed tune originally came out between 1972 and 1984. So, for example, the new remixes Tom Moulton did for this compilation are valid, even though they were only published in 2012, since the original tunes are from the 70s and early 80s.

3) I've already compiled a big list of important disco tracks, which can be viewed below:

The nomination list

All the stuff that's on list is already included in the poll, so you don't have to nominate any of them. Before you nominate anything, please check it isn't already on the list!

The reasons for compiling the list are to make sure no big tune is omitted from the poll, and to give people the chance to nominate more personal and obscure favourites. I'm gonna be updating the linked list and adding all the new nominations there.

4) The only disco offshoots that should be included in the poll are boogie and Italo, which are very close to "proper" disco anyway. I'm not gonna disqualify any nomination, but I hope you won't nominate stuff like old school rap, electro, new wave, or early house music. They may have been influence by disco, but they're not disco music!

5) Unless otherwise specified, I'm gonna assume your nomination is for the 12 inch version of the tune. If you want to nominate some other version (a remix, an album version, etc), please make it clear in your post.

6) Remixes are treated as separate entries, if they were mixed by someone else than the track's original producer. You can nominate and vote for these kind of remixes separate from the original tune. However, extended versions, 12 inch mixes and other such versions mixed by the track's original producer do not count as separate mixes.

7) The nominations close on Friday, the 1st of November.

Now go on, start diggin' those grooves!

I'm not nearly qualified to vote, but I'm looking forward to the results.

http://i.imgur.com/72MuIq0.gif

I'm sure most ILXors know plenty of good disco tunes, so everyone is qualified to vote.

This song is credited to both The Joubert Singers and Celestial Choir, but they are the same band. It's often miscredited as having been remixed by Larry Levan, but apparently that isn't true, and Levan's names was only added to some bootleg versions of the single to improve sales. There's also a later version of the tune produced by Tony Humphries that has a different, synth-heavy sound.

Had always sort of wondered about this.

Also, YAY!

I've only discovered this track Paulinho Da Costa did with Philip Bailey within the last year, but it took no time at all to become one of my favorite disco tracks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J70a9Hf0Q-Y

"Déjà vu" (1979)

Will be cross-referencing tuomas.doc with my own perseonal list this evening.

stoked

2) The poll is for tracks released between 1972 and 1984 only.

Tough but fair.

1) You can nominate up to 12 tracks.

Diabolical!

ya wtf we need more noms bro

why do you get to nominate 613 tracks & we only get 12 each?

haha

Nah, 12 is a good number.

And if 10 people nom, that will be 120 songs, and so on

i dont think it's a big deal

...

do you realize how many disco tracks there are?

Any indication yet on how many songs go on the ballots?

this isn't the pearl jam ballot poll folx

I probably won't even use all 12 of my allotted noms. Or I might. But I probably won't.

sounds like you really know a lot about disco

I'm going to have to rethink what I nominate and when.

Please for the love of God let ballots be at least 50 slots!

I get by. xp

oh wait

we can only *vote* for 12?

i was confused & thought the 12 was irt nominations ie that Tumoas meant we could only add up to 12 songs to the complete master nom list if we found it wanting

dude i need to vote for 20 *at least*

i am confused

it is 12 noms

still not enuff tho

ok i will leave u to yr pedantry

as you were :)

i nominate

peech boys - don't make me wait (larry levan mix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHF8tXaTIqg

only one nomination after all that carping

lol stfu i'm saving em up

super stoked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5xCsuNqnGc

i nominate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UosgUV3XbQ0

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJvfMH7BxY

and this, which may be a bit jazz-funk i don't know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZTkR3qo2RM

and my favourite chic song, after 'at last i'm free'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjqPmqXy7nc

are all the embeds cool?

YES! Will be voting for that Tamiko Jones jam.

i think it might be in my top 5.

I was considering between the 10 and 15 noms, 12 felt like a nice compromise. But if it looks like there haven't been enough nominations by November 1st, I may consider giving you some extra. But let's see first what people do with those 12 noms.

why do you get to nominate 613 tracks & we only get 12 each?

I get this point, but there are many tunes among those 613 I don't like at all. It's supposed to be a list of my favourites, I simply tried to compile a reasonably comprehensive list of well-known underground and mainstream disco tunes. Like I said, in some earlier polls I've noticed some very obvious choices have been left out altogether because people tend to nominate less known, more personal favourites, so the point of the list is to stop that from happening.

if you're gonna post youtube embeds can you at least type out the names so we can ctrl+F them

No embeds on the thread, please. You can start a separate campaigning thread if you want to post them, or simply post non-embedded links.

Also, please post your nominations as text, not as Youtube links. I don't want to start compiling the noms various links, they should all be written in this thread.

if you're gonna post youtube embeds can you at least type out the names so we can ctrl+F them

This is a good point too. Just write down your nominations, it shouldn't be too much trouble.

Johnny Fever, did you mean to nominate that Paulinho da Costa tune?

Paulinho Da Costa - Déjà vu

1/12

George Benson - Give Me The Night
KC & the Sunshine Band - Keep It Comin' Love
Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus

3/12

here are two noms off the top of my head, seem like some fairly big omissions:

Claudja Berry - Boogie Woogie Dancing Shoes (1978)
La Flavour - Mandolay (1980)

ok ok:

tamiko jones - can't live without your love
john davis & the monster orchestra - love magic
powerline - double journey
chic - i want your love
eddie kendricks - going up in smoke
johnny mathis - it's alright to love me
advance - take me to the top
ashford & simpson - bourgie bourgie

(8/12)

Phreek - Weekend

Or Something, the Advance track is already on the list, so you have 5 noms left.

I'd like to submit a track for debate before formally nominating it: Kiss - I Was Made for Lovin' You

y/n?

Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus

This is a borderline case, but I think the case can be made that fits here. I do hope, though, that anyone who thinks of nominating any tune with rapping really considers whether or not it's disco before posting it here.

Hard to find stuff that's not on the list ... let's see...

Convertion - Let's Do It
Sylvia Love - Instant Love

I've nothing against that Kiss tune. In fact I was kinda hoping that you folks would nominate some rock-disco hybrids that I might've forgotten about, as my knowledge of rock music is weak.

the groove on "Double Dutch Bus" is pretty firmly on the disco end of boogie imo. as is the rapping.

a few more big ones (up to 7 now):
Vicki Sue Robinson - Turn the Beat Around (1976)
Tina Charles - I Love to Love (But My Baby Loves to Dance) (1976)
The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) (1975)
Love Unlimited - High Steppin', Hip Dressin' Fella (You Got It Together) (1979)
Barry White - Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe (1974)

Great list Tuomas. There's not much I want that isn't on there, but:

Rolling Stones - Miss You
Eagles - One Of These Nights
Chic - My Feet Keep Dancing

Do we have to use your nomination list only?

Tuomas's master list + what gets nominated in this thread.

Definitely:
Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
Night Fever - Bee Gees
Get Down Tonight & That's The Way - KC & The Sunshine Band
Can't Get Enough - Barry White

Yep, keeping this to 12 is gonna be tough. I could go 20 easily.

candido - thousand fingered man
francine mcgee - delirium
odyssey - inside out

(10/12)

Jetfan, the Barry White and Vicki Sue Robinson tunes are already on the list.

Passengers - Hot Leather

4/12

candido - thousand fingered man

This tune appears to be from 1970, or is there another version of it?

The Emotions - Best of my Love
Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner
Disco Tex and his Sex-o-lettes - Get Dancin'
Loose Joints - Pop Your Funk

(4/12)

Michael Jackson - Rock With You

4/12

a couple of tunes that never get called Disco but seem to fit:

Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

Also who is Jive Talking credited to? I don't see it on the list.

Ismael, there are a kazillion differen mixes of "Relax", which one do you want to nominate?

candido - thousand fingered man

This tune appears to be from 1970, or is there another version of it?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:04 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p sure there was a version from 1979. if that is the original it's waaaay ahead of it's time.

chaka khan - clouds
chaka khan - fate

(12/12)

wow, blew those quickly.

Tony Rallo - Holdin' On
K.I.D. - Don't Stop

6/12

ok up to 10 now, will probably save the last two in case there's an essential song i forgot about:
Leif Garrett - I Was Made For Dancin' (1978)
Andy Gibb - An Everlasting Love (1978)
Hot Chocolate - So You Win Again (1977)

cor, there aren't half xps - I'll nominate the New York Mix, I reckon that's the clubbiest version

I am disco-ignorant and won't be nominating anything on my own, so I can use my noms for overflow tracks by people who know their stuff and have to stop at 12.

Foxy- Get Off
Foxy- Tena's Song

2/12

maybe the most obvious rock/disco crossover tunes:

Blondie - Atomic
Blondie - Heart of Glass

do I even have to say it...

DISCO STRANGLER

Nadia Cassini- Obsessed
The Flirts- Helpless

4/12

Tuomas, just checked 'thousand finger man' is defo legit, get it in there it's awesome.

do I even have to say it...

DISCO STRANGLER

What's this?

It's the Eagles' shittiest song, as proven by ilm. I think you should nix it, it's sort of disco but really it's beyond the pale.

Bobby O- I Cry for You
Divine- Shake It Up
Divine- I'm So Beautiful

7/12

Barbara Pennington- Tweny Four Hours A Day
Lio- Sage Comme Une Image (Longue Version)

9/12

Sweet Pea Atkinson- Dance Or Die

10/12

Oh man, this is going to be rough. Lot of good stuff included in the initial nominations, but two quick noms

Sylvester - I (Who Have Nothing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5qjnfSyQNw
(hate to split Sylvester votes, but ...)

Dennis Parker - Like An Eagle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN0hlI3zizM

Ctrl-F "Kiss Me Again" not found :/

Dinosaur - "Kiss Me Again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O92UBBaiI4
(at a lab so can't confirm this is the version I'm thinking of, but ...)

Five Gino Soccio noms but not "There's A Woman", ah well.

Token deep cut/curate's egg that people probably haven't come across - Golden Harvest's "I Need Your Love", a pastoral cut that's probably the closest New Zealand got to have a homegrown disco hit, despite being more on the rock side of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsCyolbxbV4

http://open.spotify.com/user/arosner/playlist/3ev5BHoqKXb3MEmLYuJwd1

Spotify playlist in progress - it's collaborative so feel free to chip away at adding tracks.

I'd like to submit a track for debate before formally nominating it: Kiss - I Was Made for Lovin' You

y/n?

Y !

Electric Light Orchestra - Shine a Little Love
Bee Gees - More Than a Woman
Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be Your Everything
Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing
David Shire - Manhattan Skyline

Was just about to nominate More Than A Woman!

Bee Gees - Jive Talkin'
Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You

tantra - hills of kathmandu

1 / 12

sorry,

tantra - hills of katmandu

1 / 12

I don't see Maxine Nightingale's "Right Back Where We Started From" on the list or in this thread. To me, it's very much disco, or at least a precursor. But I don't know--someone else might place it at the pop end of the singer-songwriter genre. When it was on the radio in 1976, it sure felt like early disco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCtk7WiZ_Ys

Baccara - Darling
Pattie Brooks - After Dark
Raffaella Carrà- Male
Cory Daye - Pow Wow
Don Armando's 2nd Avenue Rhumba Band - Deputy of Love
Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You
Maryann Farra & Satin Soul - Never Gonna Leave You
Ferrara - Love Attack
Gilla - Help Help
Grace Jones - That's the Trouble
Madleen Kane - Rough Diamond
Material & Nona Hendryx - Bustin' Out

GAH my nom is in the list. i suck at this but i'm still so excited you guys

xp Maxine Nightingale definitely disco

in honor of this thread I played "Do You Wanna Funk."

War ‎– The World Is A Ghetto (Special Disco Mix)

(1/12)

One of the bleakest Top 40 hits ever...there's a disco mix?!

BEF ft. Bernie Nolan - You Keep Me Hangin' On

11/12

One of the bleakest Top 40 hits ever...there's a disco mix?!

― clemenza, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 3:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doesn't get disco

would like to nominate

two man sound - que tal america

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRrtSMlZ8B0

clemenza: yes! though the only youtube evidence of its existence i can find is the jamie xx essential mix

TUOMAS U ARE A PRINCE FOR DOING THIS

Matt P: I do understand that there are bleak disco songs--their bleakness is part of the song's very fabric (even disguised bleakness, like on "Good Times"). None of which has anything whatsoever to do with "The World Is a Ghetto." I might just as well say you don't get War. (Which I wouldn't, because I don't make it a practice to say such things.)

would also like to nominate

fresh band - come back lover
t connection - at midnight
chilly - for your love

Carly Simon - Why
this is written and produced by Chic and is 983x better than the next best Carly Simon song. only on a soundtrack and then this wondrous 12"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyXLUvB-QHA


Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
probably Arthur Russell's best disco record ever. two versions on either side of a 12". gtr by David Byrne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O92UBBaiI4


Fantastic Four - I Got To Have Your Love
so muscular. ungh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfObnV09jE8


Bobby O - How To Pick Up Girls
top tips from hi-NRG's greatest homophobe whoops 1985 :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwNLHd-HZSc

Chilly - For Your Love and For Your Love Suite
nomming the album version over the 12" here because it's longer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9CujVMoe_g


Loose Joints - Tell You (Today)
Arthur's second best disco record?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-OZokZbaUs


can I rep the entire first side of Cerrone 3 as "Cerrone - Supernature / Sweet Drums / In The Smoke", as an alternative to just Supernature? It's one continuous piece. but not if it's going to lead to vote-splitting, I guess.

if freestyle is allowed, does this cover Lookout Weekend and When I Hear Music by Debbie Deb? should the populace vote on this?

note that Jimmy Ross' First True Love Affair has a Larry Levan mix, which might be the version ppl know. It certainly is for me.

also the Bobby O version of West End Girls is a completely different recording, not a mix, from the hit version. Orlando still controls the original master, not EMI or the PSB.

ARGH sorry I carefully put bbcode links around those so they wouldn't embed, System outthunked me.

btw I'm kinda agnostic on I Was Made For Loving You, but Back In The New York Groove is definitely more disco than that

*sniffs* you could tell me why you think it's so shocking that "the world is a ghetto" has a disco mix instead of getting defensive. xp to clemenza

Because it doesn't even remotely sound like disco--it's like asking why I'd be surprised if someone told me there's a disco remix of, I don't know, "Fire and Rain." I'm not putting it down or anything; I'm intrigued. And if Boney M can turn "Heart of Gold" into disco, then it can be done with anything--that's what disco did, I realize that. It was just instinctive surprise about a song I've loved for a long time, with about three seconds' worth of thought behind it. "Doesn't get disco" struck me as silly.

gentlemen, no fighting in here, this is the disco thread

ok gotcha, sorry.

still a lot of turning up of noses at disco from people who are likely eric burdon fans where i live. ok, one guy.

I'm back on board the Love Train, proceed apace.

damn! this is going to be great

Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need A Change Of Mind
James Brown - It's Too Funky in Here
Tavares - More Than a Woman
Donna Summer - I Love You
Donna Summer - Heaven Knows
Sister Sledge - Thinking of You
Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good
KC & the Sunshine Band - Give It Up
Chic - Everybody Dance
Chic - What About Me
Gap Band - Burn Rubber
Gap Band - Early In the Mornin'

12/12

Also, how is Float On disco?

'everybody dance' is top 5 for me

though it's tempting to vote for only 72-76

This intersection is too perfect to let pass: my favorite scene in my favorite disco movie (Boogie Nights) uses Eric Burdon's "Spill the Wine"--backed up by War! Speaking of which, don't know if Chakachas' "Jungle Fever" counts...maybe too early, or more funk than disco.

hey if it's 72 it's true blue

speaking of which I don't see "Boogie Nights" on the list

I'm never sure at both ends of the timeline: not clear where proto-disco ends and actual disco begins, or where disco stops officially being disco and turns into dance music or whatever other name it goes under at whatever time in the '80s.

"more funk than disco"

I'm having second thoughts about The Gap Band because of this. only, if it's discoish and recorded in the early 80's it should count. right?

don't care much for the funk / disco divide personally, why do genres have to split up. gap band should totally be included!

i mean that stuff was played on the same floors? i think. i was born in 1982

The early eighties nexus of R&B and disco produced stunning moments (Gap Band, Chaka Khan, EW&F's last big hits, "Let It Whip").

the timeline is highly debatable iirc.

xp yeah those later ew&f tunes are so great

maybe i'll nominate 'trans europe express'

Excellent early collection of disco hits put out by K-Tel's poorer cousin, Ronco, in 1978 (my copy's called Disco Gold):

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1769596-1242199382.jpeg

Only 12 noms makes me sad.

1. Gaynor, Gloria - Honey Bee
http://youtu.be/ohwftj6mMSw

2. Kelly, Roberta - Zodiacs
http://youtu.be/HwPKz8WfbWk
http://youtu.be/r5ifMhBldI4 (longer)

3. Love Unlimited - I Did It For Love
http://youtu.be/sHwm4Ku8CMI

4. Biddu Orchestra - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon
http://youtu.be/HWZnur5toSg

5 McCrae, George - You Can Have It All
http://youtu.be/rvwpKjGkDYs

6. McCrae, George - Rock Your Baby
http://youtu.be/arxhW1RgDDo

7. Love and Kisses - Thank God It's Friday
http://youtu.be/wLGciG2a1I8

8. Nightlife Unlimited - Dance, Freak and Boogie
http://youtu.be/TeXAcmrv_GQ

9. Ritchie Family - Put Your Feet To The Beat
http://youtu.be/xxgRUFfVjsA
http://youtu.be/Kc8-qaeXFAc

10. Moroder, Giorgio - From Here To Eternity
http://youtu.be/PfAu8vqAHxc

11. Digital Emotion - Get Up, Action
http://youtu.be/o5ZA4TK1IhE

12. Digital Emotion - Go Go Yellow Screen
http://youtu.be/6T4QuAK7oCE

...there's more fun Digital Emotion stuff, and a really obvious Diana Ross song no one has nommed yet.

If I could, I would nom everything on my disco Spotify playlist, but here are my top 12 not yet nominated:

Garcons - French Boy
Risco Connection - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now (Version)
Bill Brandon - Fell In Love While Dancing
Demis Roussos - L.O.V.E. Got a Hold On Me
Edwin Birdsong - Cola Bottle Baby
Sesso Matto - Sessomatto (Jim Stuard Disco Mix)
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Thelma Houston - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Melba Moore - You Stepped Into My Life
Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious
Archie Bell and the Drells - Strategy
Carol Douglas - Midnight Love Affair

Had to cut Cookie Monster :(

Not sure about the mix-specific nominations, really - the Larry Levan mix is probably my third-favourite version of Inner Life's "Ain't No Mountain...", but nominating other mixes would only lead to vote-splitting so I'm not inclined to do that either.

I'm gonna do some Australian noms bcz most of my noms are already covered. Please check these out, there's some tasty hot jams in here

Jo Jo Zep - Taxi Mary
http://youtu.be/0wFyP7_feq4

Fox (Noosha Fox) - Single Bed
http://youtu.be/QCSskYeg3Eo

Dark Tan - Island in the Sun (12" Remix)
http://youtu.be/Bz1hdiAKv_o

Christie Allen - Goosebumps
http://youtu.be/-gulnmE-_Tc

Renee Geyer - Say I Love You
http://youtu.be/LJb1Kt1OTRo

Marcia Hines - Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees
http://youtu.be/Fe7iLGg-vaY

Marcia Hines - You
http://youtu.be/APhCL25-ArY

(7/12)

Single Bed's my nostalgia favorite but Taxi Mary still kills me

A Canadian nomination then. (I won't vote for it, and don't even care for it much):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haZCnt_SVgM

I may have more of a think later but for now I'll offer a Canadian nomination too:

Voggue - Dancin' the Night Away
http://youtu.be/y_S3GZvSNmk

Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie
The Hues Corporation - Rock the Boat
The Miracles - Love Machine (Part 1)
Jigsaw - Sky High
Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting
Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots - Disco Duck
Commodores - Brick House
Alicia Bridges - I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round)

(9/12)

Do disco people regard "Jungle People" as disco? Its my favoritest either way for sure but I'm a mocker and cant speak on disco with any authority.

Jungle Boogie!

Magazine 60 - "Don Quichotte"
Dee D. Jackson - "Automatic Lover"
Belle Epoque - "Black Is Black"
Belle Epoque - "Miss Broadway"
William Devaughn - "Be Thankful for What You Got"
French Kiss - "Panic"
4 Be 2s - "One of the Lads"
Sylvia Striplin - "Give Me Your Love"
Sylvia Striplin - "You Can't Turn Me Away"
Hipnosis - "End Title (Blade Runner)"
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Fire"
Perry Haines - "What's Funk"

sub French kiss for Jamaica Girls - "Rock the Beat"

loose change - straight from the heart
the emotions - i don't wanna lose your love
labelle - what can i do for you?
vera - take me to the bridge
dexter wansel - life on mars
village people - fire island
gary kriss - rio de janeiro (john morales mix)
teddy pendergrass - the more i get (john morales mix)
little beaver - concrete jungle
john tropea - living in the jungle
crown heights affair - dancin
caroline crawford - i'll be here for you

12 / 12

worried that 12 per really isn't enough

List-making is tedious. Be grateful.

Don't tell me what to be bitch

Be a marshmallow.

Mint flavored.

Be a ceramic umbrella stand.

Be a white colored pencil.

Be a dirty gum wall tire.

Be a youtube comment.

Be a flagged post.

Be a disco nomination.

Be a mcquern.

Tuomas if we're still seeing a lot of missing goodies a day or two before the noms are due can we just open up the floodgates?

Fancy - Slice Me Nice
Earth and Fire - Weekend
Vijay Benedict - I Am A Disco Dancer
Arabesque - In The Heat Of A Disco Night
Lucio Battisti - Ancora Tu
Boney M - Gotta Go Home

6/12

note that Jimmy Ross' First True Love Affair has a Larry Levan mix, which might be the version ppl know. It certainly is for me.

This is indeed the version that is supposed to be on the list, so I added "Larry Levan Mix" to the track title.

also the Bobby O version of West End Girls is a completely different recording, not a mix, from the hit version. Orlando still controls the original master, not EMI or the PSB.

Thanks for the info, I changed the note to reflect this.

"more funk than disco"

I'm having second thoughts about The Gap Band because of this. only, if it's discoish and recorded in the early 80's it should count. right?

― g simmel, 16. lokakuuta 2013 2:34 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't originally add "Burn Rubber" and "Early in the Mornin'" (and "You Dropped a Bomb on Me") on the list exactly because I felt they're funk rather than disco. But I added those two tracks now since you nominated them, though you can still cancel that nomination, if you want to?

I'm regretting that I blew through most of my nominations so quickly last night (though I love everything I nominated), I keep thinking of other tracks that should be on the list. I was planning to wait a bit and see if other people nominated some of the tracks I wanted to free up more spaces for my other choices, but I got over excited ;_;

Hello, here are some disco noms:

1) HighWire - Linda Carr & the Love Squad
2) Blue Monday - New Order
3) Get Dancing (pts 1&2) - Disco Tex and his Sex-O-Lettes
4) Disco Stomp - Hamilton Bohannon
5) DyNoMite - Tony Camillo / Bazuka
6) Strewberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson
7) Swing Yr Daddy - Jim Gilstrap
8) From Here to Eternity - Giorgio Moroder
9) Kristallo - Kraftwerk
10) Use it up / Wear it out - Odyssey
11) Queen of Clubs - KC & Sunshine Band
12) Superstition - Stevie Wonder

I think that about covers it..

This might be overkill, and maybe it should be after this poll so as not to steal it's thunder, but at some stage I'd love a thread dedicated to stuff that falls just outside the 1972-84 restrictions, there are so many great tracks that I checked that came out in 1985!

Bends, I would have nominated at least two of yours myself!

Godammit. I'm going to hold on to my final nomination until right up to the deadline, I think.

Right, now I have read the noms list, and there's 4.

So, I add instead "The Crunge" RAH band, um, cad I hab "Death Disco" Public Image Limited?

Failing that: "Higher Ground" Stevie Wonder - he seems a bit underlisted so far.

Oh, and if "I want More" Can isn't a disco classic, them, um, newspaper.

Cristina - La Poupee Qui Fait Non
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby
Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy

9/12

Mark G, I'm not sure if you're joking here? I specifically said in the initial post that this thread should be for disco only, not electro or new wave etc, and a lot of the stuff you nominated is exactly that. (And most of the proper disco tunes you have on your list have already been nominated.) I mean, if you really, really think Can or Public Image Limited or Kraftwerk fit this poll, okay, I'll add those tunes, but I'd urge you to reconsider.

A lot?

I'd give you 9 from the original list, and maybe not PIL, but I'd argue that Can one is very disco.

(back me up someone..)

Oh yeah, BLue Monday I guess...

Swap that one for Shack-Up A Certain Ratio, or something.

Maybe you could just compose a new nomination list? Now I'm not sure what should be substituted with what...

if i didn't nominate plus two 'melody' cos i didn't think it was disco enough then you're not getting 'shack up' or 'death disco' or 'blue monday' ffs.

mmm, but that was your choice.

Anyways, Tuomas, you pick from my noms whichever you think qualifies, I don't mind at all.

~Here, have some dinner:

1) HighWire - Linda Carr & the Love Squad
2) Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder
5) DyNoMite - Tony Camillo / Bazuka
6) Strewberry Letter 23 - The Brothers Johnson
7) Swing Yr Daddy - Jim Gilstrap
8) From Here to Eternity - Giorgio Moroder
11) Queen of Clubs - KC & Sunshine Band
12) Superstition - Stevie Wonder

i didn't want to use up any more of my nominations so soon, but it's driving me crazy that nobody's said it yet:

Diana Ross - Upside Down (1980)

Thanks for the new nomination list, Mark. "From Here to Eternity" was already nommed though, so you still have 5 left.

Those who are narrowing down their Chic Org production, please consider I Like Love by Norma Jean Wright.

I'm OK with missing five, I saw a bunch of what my potential replacements would have been in yr nom list.

i didn't want to use up any more of my nominations so soon, but it's driving me crazy that nobody's said it yet:

Diana Ross - Upside Down (1980)

― chilli, 16. lokakuuta 2013 14:14 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ooh, I knew I forgot something! This one of those obvious tunes that should've been on the list to begin with, so you don't have to spend your nomination for it.

Sammy Gordon - Making Love

The same goes for these tunes:

KC & The Sunshine Band - That's the Way (I Like It)
KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
Blondie - Heart of Glass
Heatwave - Boogie Nights
Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie
Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster

The people who who nominated these, you get extra nominations, because you shouldn't have needed to nom these tunes, they should've been on my list to begin with.

(xpost)

If you spot any other disco single that was a top 5 hit in the USA or UK, but it isn't on the list yet, just let me know. I'll add those to the list automatically, you don't have to spend your nomination on them.

I think almost everyone knows "Superstition," for example, is not disco and won't put it on their ballots, but I'd just allow the nomination anyway.

Are all of these titles being added to the google .xls Tuomas?

What about "Disco Duck"?

Oh it's there already, sorry!

Are all of these titles being added to the google .xls Tuomas?

Yeah, I keep adding them, but not all have been added yet. At the moment I'm processing Bamcquern noms, those and everything after them haven't been included to the list yet.

Since I nommed "Boogie Nights" I get one back, feel like someone has to mention this one:

Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even

I think almost everyone knows "Superstition," for example, is not disco and won't put it on their ballots, but I'd just allow the nomination anyway.

Yeah, I don't think it's disco either, but I'm gonna add it because Mark nominated it... But the "automatic addition" rule I stated above only applies to proper disco singles that were top 5 hits, not to borderline cases. They still need to be nominated by individual posters.

Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love
(originally written for Elvis!?)
was a UK no.1 and is most definitely disco

Does 'Free' by Deniece Williams count as disco? (UK number 1)

Too bad the 1984 cutoff date excludes most of the best italo disco tracks, such as
Laserdance - Humanoid Invasion (1986)
Koto - Visitors (1985)
Sabrina - Boys (1987)
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy (1985)

There's gonna be a separate Italo poll later on, I think? I didn't want to exclude Italo from this altogether, but the focus should be on "classic" disco.

Does 'Free' by Deniece Williams count as disco? (UK number 1)

I'm listening to this now, and it doesn't sound like disco to me. You could easily imagine it's a Minnie Riperton tune or something.

Yeah, some R&B from '76 to '80 was just "disco-era R&B."

Right, I'm up for this, my nominations will have to wait till I get home and listen to some tracks to refresh my memory

So, does "disco" mean "except for the final 30 mins where it's snog tunes?

Well, I'm sure sleaze/morning music is in, but that might not be what you're thinking of.

I'm pretty sure these 12 fit the 1984 cutoff:
Venise - Playboy
Q - The Voice Of Q
Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy
Valerie Dore - The Night
Azoto - Exalt, Exalt
Fun Fun - Colour My Love
Blue Russell - I Wanna Fly Away
Scotch - Penguins Invasion
Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul
Fockewulf 190 - Gitano
Savage - Only You
Sly & Hunter - No More Vision

Italo disco seems criminally underrepresented in the noms so far, i thought the tunes below are pretty canonical?
B.W.H. - Stop
My Mine - Hypnotic Tango
Miko Mission - How Old Are You?
Bolero - I Wish
Klein & MBO - Dirty Talk
Dyva - Clap Again
Clio - Eyes
Black Devil Disco Club - One To Choose
La Bionda - Wanna Be Your Lover
Valerie Dore - Get Closer
Cyber People - Polaris
Trans-X - Living On Video
Crazy Gang - Challenger
Hipnosis - Astrodance
Cyber People - Void Vision
Charlie - Spacer Woman
'Lectric Workers - Robot Is Systematic

Change - The Glow of Love

Ah crap Sly & Hunter is 1988. Replace with Hypnotic Tango then.

There's gonna be a separate Italo poll later on, I think? I didn't want to exclude Italo from this altogether, but the focus should be on "classic" disco.

Tuomas remove the Gap Band singles then and add Do I Do (the only Stevie single that should be eligible imo) and Never Too Much (an obvious pick surely?)

I'm not nominating it officially, but I'd also characterize "Another Star" as pretty disco-ish. (Got a rave review in The Disco Files.)

I'm regretting that I blew through most of my nominations so quickly last night (though I love everything I nominated), I keep thinking of other tracks that should be on the list. I was planning to wait a bit and see if other people nominated some of the tracks I wanted to free up more spaces for my other choices, but I got over excited ;_;

― Many guys will try to get your attention by giving a manly stare (bends), Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:22 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ there are sooo many disco tracks. once you through in italo...

There's gonna be a separate Italo poll later on, I think? I didn't want to exclude Italo from this altogether, but the focus should be on "classic" disco.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 5:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok, this is probably a good idea. although "classic" is context-specific...

throw

i think every return to disco brings back a new text which is a function of what's current and valued now and an intersection of time, place and people then. and everything in between i guess.

like now there are a million flavors of disco depending on who's doing the collecting, focusing on what clubs/scenes, and all of them were happening sort of concurrently. sorry for *thoughts on disco*

Young & Company - I Like (What You're Doing To Me)
Skyy - First Time Around
Aural Exciters - Emile (Night Rate)
Cloud One - Spaced Out

4/12

Rhythm Heritage - Theme from "S.W.A.T."

i think in that sense PiL or Can aren't off the map imo, they were danced to at parties and clubs in that era, which i think that phenomenon along with general time and place parameters make more sense as primary divisions, not "sound" which gets arbitrary very quickly. you can police a certain sound as "classic," which is a loaded term, or point to the radio format or to specific clubs/scenes but there are always countercurrents, although obviously the influence ran both ways and nothing happened in a vacuum.

I've been thinking about how a track like "Wheel Me Out" by Material fits into this. That track (plus everything else on that Dance Ze Beat comp) was hugely influential to me, maybe the first record I bought because I heard/ danced to it in a club. Is that rock-gone-disco? New wave?

Ach, that was by Was Not Was, sorry. Although "Bustin' Out" by Material too.

Was gonna say...

i feel like all of that new york stuff definitely fits... rock was played at dance clubs from the start iirc and as the whole thing happened rock, especially in new york, responded to the general beat it was rubbing shoulders with. i do feel like new wave was a little bit different, like it was sort of "next generation" of dance after hoarier disco hits. kind of similar to house in that respect, like the whiter version of house, just to be polemic.

but i'm not as familiar with new wave tbh, i'm sure it was very intermixed too

race war

they were danced to at parties and clubs in that era, which i think that phenomenon along with general time and place parameters make more sense as primary divisions, not "sound" which gets arbitrary very quickly. you can police a certain sound as "classic," which is a loaded term

By classic I meant mostly the "classic disco era", i.e. the time when disco music was the most popular form of dance music... It was a response to Siegbran's comment that too many Italo tunes came after 1984. Though I do think there is also a "proper" disco sound, and as far as we're trying to define disco as a genre and not a scene (and I do think we should think of it as a genre here, because the scene is long gone, and trying to define which songs were part of it and which weren't seems like an impossible task), we do have to think about the specifics of the sound too.

I feel that "proper" disco of the "classic" era always maintained some sort of a connection to soul and funk, even with Euro artists like Boney M or Baccara, but at some point some disco offshoots (like some types of Italo) went so far away from that connection that I feel they're not disco anymore. (And this isn't to say the "proper" disco is better or worse, it's merely a matter of genre definition.) Take songs like "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" or Sabrina's "Boys": it's true they wouldn't exist without disco, but I don't here any soul or fun roots in them, to me they are synth pop or dance pop, not disco anymore.

i agree with you t, i find this stuff fun to talk about.

at least re: the years. you have to make a division somewhere if you're measuring something and that's a workable one to make with disco, i think. connection to funk/soul on the other hand i think is a bit harder to pin down.

By classic I meant mostly the "classic disco era", i.e. the time when disco music was the most popular form of dance music...

When was that though? And where was that? I'm just curious.

(xpost) Yeah, I think it's fun to talk about too. The Was (Not Was) song is something I danced to in clubs in '81, often segued between more "proper" disco sounds, yet the rock guitar, processed trumpet and non-sequitur lyrics ("I'm a former scientist, now on wheels") seem to derive from Talking Heads, not classic disco. I'm certainly voting for it if it's eligible.

If you spot any other disco single that was a top 5 hit in the USA or UK, but it isn't on the list yet, just let me know. I'll add those to the list automatically, you don't have to spend your nomination on them.

Can't Give You Anything (But My Love) by The Stylistics was no.1 in the UK.

Had been considering nominating "Wheel Me Out" actually, but yeah, it's awfully avant as far as disco goes.

As I started jotting down contenders, I realized many of them were from 1981, which iirc was the year that I started paying attention to more dance music, via its infiltration into "rock discos," Minneapolis sound, etc. It would be a much shorter list if I kept my choices to, say, 1979 and prior.

I noticed some more people have nominated stuff that was already on the list. Besides the ones I've already mentioned, these three get extra noms too:

The Late Great: 1 extra nomination ("At Midnight" already nominated.)

Sic: 1 extra nomination ("Kiss Me Again" already nominated.)

Siegbran: 2 extra nominations ("Hey Hey Guy" and "The Night" already nominated.)

Commodores - Machine Gun
Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin'
First Choice - Armed and Extremely Dangerous
Little Beaver - Party Down
Roy Ayers - Running Away
Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce
Barry White - Never Gonna Give You Up
George McCrae - I Get Lifted
Fatback Band - Do the Bus Stop
Chuck Brown & Soul Searchers - Bustin' Loose
Donna Summer - Sunset People
Don Downing - Lonely Days, Lonely Nights

Didn't check, but some of these must have been Top 5 hits.

By classic I meant mostly the "classic disco era", i.e. the time when disco music was the most popular form of dance music...

When was that though? And where was that?

I'm trying to think of more rock/disco hybrids ... did Roxy Music ever have a disco phase? Nile is quite open about using them for the whole Chic aesthetic.

"Angel Eyes" was their disco phase

"Love Is The Drug" certainly got played, and cuts from Flesh and Blood.

xpost!

One of my fave (little-remembered?) rock disco songs was "Slowdown" by John Miles. one of the first 12 inch singles I owned.

78-88 for "classic disco era" seems a bit unintuitive...the Loft started in 1970, "Rock the Boat" was #1 in 1974, Disco Demolition Night was 1979, by the 80s disco dancing was no longer mainstream and the dance music that was being produced had for the most part lost the "classic" sound (and the budget) of the songs that everyone associates with "disco" music.

nomination:

double exposure - my love is free

And the "classic sound" went from the massed strings of Cerrone, to the James Brown-inspired funk of KC and the Sunshine Band to Moroder electronica. And by the early 80s, those artists were being spun alongside "I Want Candy" by Bow Wow Wow. (xpost)

This thread has me listening to twelve inches by Jimmy 'Bo' Horne on youtube today, so big ups for that!

Crown Heights Affair - Dreaming a Dream
Rondo Veneziano - La Serenissima

2/12

I'm finding it surprisingly hard to think of more rock/disco hybrids. The whole UK punk scene didn't have the chops for disco; insofar as they did move in that direction, it mostly came out as skittery post-punk. The pre-punk acts were mostly killed off or stayed in their rock niches. Other than The Stones, the ones who floated above - Bowie, McCartney, Zep - didn't really go there as such, though they might have taken funk on board.

I suspect there might be more in the US, but the whole strain of macho and/or authentic rock types are what I know and they didn't really touch it either I don't think - I'm thinking Springsteen, Neil Young - and I can't think of acts outside that tradition. No doubt there are some, but I'm not seeing it. As for US punk, I've only got Blondie.

Azoto - Any Time or Place

Was 'Goodnight Tonight' McCartney's disco moment?

Ismael, if you don't know The Doll's "Listen To The Silence," it's one of my favorite UK postpunk/disco tracks, 1979.

I didn't know that, thanks. Getting a bit of a Visage feel from the verses, but there's no place for New Romantic stuff in this poll imo.

Agreed, I'm just off topic and listening to lots of different disco today!

xp doobie brothers, rod stewart, the aforementioned war, boz scaggs. but yeah, 'disco sucks' and the classic rock format at the time (77-80) seem pretty solidly on the side of feeding off of anti-gay anti-black sentiment (to neil's credit he did do trans way later, which doesn't remotely sound like disco but takes some cues i think, he was always sort of on his own wavelength anyway). going more underground w/ new wave, talking heads, devo, blondie, madonna, and post-punk, which i feel like embraced the energy of disco but had a more self-reflexive relationship with the radio format, and it's more of an influence. big, broad strokes here obv. xp to ismael

I'd never heard of Boz Scaggs a few months ago, now I see his name everywhere

Ismael: I always heard Bowie's "Fame" as a version of disco.

not to mention 'let's dance'

(Especially appearing in 1975, when the definition of disco is still a bit more amorphous than two or three years later.)

oh well your example is good then

Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of Beethoven

I wrote about this on some other thread--would be interested in hearing from someone else who was around and listening to the radio in the mid-late '70s--but I don't think rock people hating disco was nearly as automatic as generally described. I was a rock guy in high school: Neil Young, Aerosmith, metal, art-rock, etc. Went to rock concerts, never set foot in a disco. (Too young anyway.) But I was still aware of the hits of the day, and I in no way hated disco music. (A few years later, I was much more snobbish as a punk fan making fun of new wave.) I loved a lot of the hits then, still do. I just started my ballot, and was able to jot down almost 20 songs right away. That almost never happens with me with these polls--maybe three or four times. Usually I have to scramble to get to 10.

The ugly backlash was definitely real, but I don't think it was close to ubiquitous.

There are still a lot of major, prime-disco era hit records conspicuously absent from this massive list. But I've used up my 12 nominations, so should I just be quiet?

Big hits can still be suggested for addition nomination-free.

With that in mind I was going to recommend Copacabana (extended version) by Barry Manilow but it apparently only peaked at no.8 on original release. Not sure whether its subsequent ubiquity would still qualify it.

The ugly backlash was definitely real, but I don't think it was close to ubiquitous.

― clemenza, Wednesday, October 16, 2013 3:19 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so grateful the homophobic backlash wasn't "close to ubiquitous," whatever that means, as proven by your very broadminded personal anecdata.

it was a huge deal and about as close to ubiquitous as you can get in the record industry barring mccarthy hearings.

the billboard top 100s go from like 75% disco/dance to, what, 10%? 5%? in three years

1979

1 Knack My Sharona
2 Donna Summer Bad Girls
3 Chic Le Freak
4 Rod Stewart Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
5 Peaches and Herb Reunited
6 Gloria Gaynor I Will Survive
7 Donna Summer Hot Stuff
8 Village People Y.M.C.A.
9 Anita Ward Ring My Bell
10 Robert John Sad Eyes
11 Bee Gees Too Much Heaven
12 Donna Summer MacArthur Park
13 Dr. Hook When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
14 David Naughton Makin' It
15 Pointer Sisters Fire
16 Bee Gees Tragedy
17 Olivia Newton-John A Little More Love
18 Blondie Heart Of Glass
19 Doobie Brothers What A Fool Believes
20 Chic Good Times
21 Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond You Don't Bring Me Flowers
22 Amii Stewart Knock On Wood
23 Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman Stumblin' In
24 Maxine Nightingale Lead Me On
25 Jacksons Shake Your Body
26 Melissa Manchester Don't Cry Out Loud
27 Supertramp The Logical Song
28 Billy Joel My Life
29 Randy Vanwarmer Just When I Needed You Most
30 Raydio You Can't Change That
31 Peaches and Herb Shake Your Groove Thing
32 Dionne Warwick I'll Never Love This Way Again
33 Bee Gees Love You Inside Out
34 Cheap Trick I Want You To Want Me
35 Barbra Streisand The Main Event (Fight)
36 Elton John Mama Can't Buy You Love
37 Leif Garrett I Was Made For Dancin'
38 Earth, Wind and Fire After The Love Has Gone
39 Donna Summer and Brooklyn Dreams Heaven Knows
40 Kenny Rogers The Gambler
41 Nicolette Larson Lotta Love
42 Little River Band Lady
43 Bonnie Pointer Heaven Must Have Sent You
44 Toto Hold The Line
45 Sister Sledge He's The Greatest Dancer
46 Dr. Hook Sharing The Night Together
47 Kenny Rogers She Believes In Me
48 Village People In The Navy
49 Frank Mills Music Box Dancer
50 Charlie Daniels Band The Devil Went Down To Georgia
51 John Stewart Gold

1980

1 Blondie Call Me
2 Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall
3 Olivia Newton-John Magic
4 Michael Jackson Rock With You
5 Captain and Tennille Do That To Me One More Time
6 Queen Crazy Little Thing Called Love
7 Paul McCartney Coming Up
8 Lipps, Inc. Funkytown
9 Billy Joel It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
10 Bette Midler The Rose
11 Rupert Holmes Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
12 Gary Numan Cars
13 Smokey Robinson Cruisin'
14 Spinners Working My Way Back To You-Forgive Me Girl
15 Air Supply Lost In Love
16 Elton John Little Jeannie
17 Cristopher Cross Ride Like The Wind
18 Diana Ross Upside Down
19 K.C. and The Sunshine Band Please Don't Go
20 Styx Babe
21 Billy Preston and Syreeta With You I'm Born Again
22 Manhattans Shining Star
23 Commodores Still
24 Teri De Sario With K.C. Yes, I'm Ready
25 Dr. Hook Sexy Eyes
26 Robbie Dupree Steal Away
27 Ambrosia Biggest Part Of Me
28 Kenny Loggins This Is It
29 Spinners Cupid/I've Loved You For A Long Time
30 Jermaine Jackson Let's Get Serious
31 Kenny Rogers and Kim Carnes Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer
32 Christopher Cross Sailing
33 Dan Fogelberg Longer
34 Kenny Rogers Coward Of The County
35 Kool and The Gang Ladies Night
36 Kool and The Gang Too Hot
37 S.O.S. Band Take Your Time
38 Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
39 Kim Carnes More Love
40 M Pop Muzik
41 Pretenders Brass In Pocket
42 Ray, Goodman and Brown Special Lady
43 Stevie Wonder Send One Your Love
44 Shalamar The Second Time Around
45 Cliff Richard We Don't Talk Anymore
46 Brothers Johnson Stomp
47 Eagles Heartache Tonight
48 Rocky Burnette Tired Of Toein' The Line
49 Dr. Hook Better Love Next Time
50 Rupert Holmes Him

1981

1 Kim Carnes Bette Davis Eyes
2 Diana Ross and Lionel Richie Endless Love
3 Kenny Rogers Lady
4 John Lennon (Just Like) Starting Over
5 Rick Springfield Jessie's Girl
6 Kool and The Gang Celebration
7 Daryl Hall and John Oates Kiss On My List
8 Eddie Rabbitt I Love A Rainy Night
9 Dolly Parton 9 To 5
10 REO Speedwagon Keep On Loving You
11 Joey Scarbury Theme From "Greatest American Hero"
12 Sheena Easton Morning Train (Nine To Five)
13 Smokey Robinson Being With You
14 Juice Newton Queen Of Hearts
15 Blondie Rapture
16 Ray Parker jr. and Raydio A Woman Needs Love
17 Blondie The Tide Is High
18 Grover Washington jr. Just The Two Of Us
19 Pointer Sisters Slow Hand
20 Climax Blues Band I Love You
21 John Lennon Woman
22 A Taste Of Honey Sukiyaki
23 ABBA The Winner Takes It All
24 Stars On 45 Medley
25 Juice Newton Angel Of The Morning
26 Neil Diamond Love On The Rocks
27 Air Supply Every Woman In The World
28 Air Supply The One That You Love
29 Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb Guilty
30 Styx The Best Of Times
31 Oak Ridge Boys Elvira
32 REO Speedwagon Take It On The Run
33 Ronnie Milsap No Gettin' Over Me
34 Gino Vannelli Living Outside Myself
35 Barbra Streisand Woman In Love
36 Manhattan Transfer Boy From New York City
37 Foreigner Urgent
38 Rod Stewart Passion
39 Commodores Lady (You Bring Me Up)
40 Don Mclean Crying
41 Marty Balin Hearts
42 Diana Ross It's My Turn
43 Daryl Hall and John Oates You Make My Dreams
44 Kenny Rogers I Don't Need You
45 Champaign How 'Bout Us
46 Pat Benatar Hit Me With Your Best Shot
47 Greg Kihn Band The Breakup Song
48 Alan Parsons Project Time
49 Bruce Springsteen Hungry Heart
50 Franke and The Knockouts Sweetheart

Jesus...I appreciate that, as someone born in 1982, you've got this all figured out. I wrote about my own connection to disco as someone who, you know, was actually alive at the time, and very much paying attention. Apologies if I didn't express the scope of the backlash in a way that satisfies you.

Do me a favour, Matt--simply don't respond to anything I post. They're not meant for you, and I'm not especially interested in hearing what you have to say. Just bypass my posts altogether. Thanks.

ok precious

I would not hesitate to say "Copacabana" should be a given. It was ubiquitous even back in '78. And these are all major in my book:

Bionic Boogie - Risky Changes
C.J & Company - Devil's Gun
Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite
Celi Bee & the Buzzy Bunch - Superman
Carol Douglas - Doctor's Orders
France Joli - Come to Me
Penny McLean - Lady Bump
Ritchie Family - Brazil
Salsoul Orchestra - Tangerine
Silver Convention - Get Up and Boogie (That's Right)

actually no, i will try to respond to your posts if they're bullshit xp

Forget Claudja Barry--born in Jamaica, but she grew up in Toronto.

"Forgot," I mean...she should be remembered!

Irene Cara - Fame

nomination:

chemise - she can't love you

^ That's on there already

Clemenza, I was conflicted about disco in the late 70s. I listened to a lot of soul and funk music throughout the 70s and resented how disco had pushed many of my favorites off the radio ( i.e. Aretha, Curtis, Philly Intl.) or had forced artists I loved into a style that I felt didn't suit them (Spinners and many others). But I was still going to the dance clubs every weekend and the power of something like Mighty Real or I Want Your Love was undeniable. Most of my friends at the time rejected disco uncategorically, but their thinking was eventually turned around by bands like Talking Heads and Blondie eating away at that prejudice. Plus the fact that beyond the simple racism the anti-disco movement seemed so profoundly stoopid and incoherent. I mean, Chic's "Good Times" vs. DOA's "Disco Sucks". Which side are you on?

I don't really remember any kind of a backlash at my own high school, but I graduated in '79, before Steve Dahl and all that. (My high school was also small-town and as white as could be--the backlash maybe just passed us by.) As I've mentioned before, I think movies are tied in with how much I liked certain songs, Looking for Mr. Goodbar especially (also SNF, of course, and "Good Times" in North Dallas Forty).

Looking for Mr. Goodbar especially

which had Donna Summer's "Try Me, I Know We Can Make It" - maybe add this to the list too

Change - Miracles
Pleasure - Glide
Chic - Rebels Are We
Tatsuro Yamashita - Love Talking
Chicago - Street Player

5/12

i see i get back two votes for:

Kool & The Gang - Jungle Boogie
Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster

so now i have five open slots.

should have also gotten credit for "Disco Duck." will not vote for it.

Did anyone mention "Here comes the night" Beach Boys? Or "Enough is enough" Streisand/Summer?

ρεμπετις, "Running Away" was already on the list (under "Roy Ayers Ubiquity", so you get one more nomination.

should have also gotten credit for "Disco Duck." will not vote for it.

Sure, you get one more nomination for that.

The nomination list should now be up to date. If you notice something missing from there, let me know

done

I'm going to have to vote for:

Amanda Lear - Fashion Pack

10/12

78-88 for "classic disco era" seems a bit unintuitive...the Loft started in 1970, "Rock the Boat" was #1 in 1974, Disco Demolition Night was 1979, by the 80s disco dancing was no longer mainstream

I am aware that (also back then) there were always disco purists who dismissed synths and drum machines and thought the only authentic disco music was American and black.

I would have said 1975-1979, but I'm no expert

Lowdown is a top 5 Billboard hit (one that everyone will vote for) so it needs to be on the list

Lowdown by who?

Wire, obv

Boz Skaggs

I find it kinda interesting that so far no one (AFAIK) has nominated any of those 00s "disco edits" of old tunes, even though the rules would allow that. Weren't they quite popular among ILXors a few years ago?

uh, no?

(tbqh, I don't know what sort of thing you mean)

like AOR Disco? They can be excellent but are plainly not what this poll is about

even though the rules would allow that

you said legit remixes of disco songs, not people making bootlegs out of any genre of song inna disco stylee

the world of disco edits is way beyond the scope of the poll, and the line between edit, remix, and sampling is too blurry to deal with. it would be completely overwhelming to try to consider them in comparison to the classic disco tracks and they should be evaluated on different terms, imo.

Okay. TBH, I'm not that familiar with the whole disco edit scene. I thought people would complain if they couldn't be nominated, that was the biggest reason I came up with the "post 1984 remixes are valid" rule (that, and to allow those awesome new Tom Moulton mixes to be included).

I'm guessing that "extended version" (not a special remix, just a longer version than what appeared on an album or what got played on the radio) is a given with many of these songs? I've got short versions of "I Feel Love," "Good Times," and others, and also much longer versions. The longer versions are of course much better. One case where it really makes a difference for me is in comparing the (fairly long) original of the O'Jays' "I Love Music" to the three-minutes-longer version found on Philadelphia Classics. I came to the song via the latter, which is epic in a way the original isn't.

Yeah, like I said the in the initial post, the assumption is with that every track nominated we're talking about the 12″/extended version, unless otherwise specified. With some tracks though (such as Tantra's "The Hills of Katmandu", Montana's "Dance Fantasy", and several tracks produced by Boris Midney), I included the album version, since it was longer. The 12″ version of "The Hills of Katmandu" is only 6 minutes, while the album version lasts for epic 16 minutes. I'm assuming that when it comes to disco, most people prefer the longer edits, though anyone is free to disagree with me on that.

There are a few short edits I actually prefer, but wouldn't go against the grain on in the form of voting -- "Love Hangover" for one.

Which will be top 10 for me either way.

Oops--missed the clarification in the intro. (You just reminded me that I need to drop something from my list to make room for "Love Hangover.")

With The O'Jays, I also made the (possibly) controversial decision of including a couple of tracks (Back Stabbers, Love Train) as the new Tom Moulton remixes, instead of the original versions. The original versions of those came out before the 12 inch single era, and they only last 3 minutes, so they feel more like proto-disco soul than proper disco to me. Whereas the new Tom Moulton mixes, even though they're from this decade, are very tastefully done and don't differ sonically from other Philly International mixes Moulton actually did in the 1970s, so they feel more like "proper" disco tunes to me. But if someone thinks the original 3 minute versions should be in the poll too, feel free to nominate them.

Tuomas - just collect votes for any version, and include a note in the results for which ones were specified? Might be easier.

(Although after-the-fact ones shouldn't count for that.)

Also, since it doesn't look there's gonna be the deluge of nominations I feared for, I'm gonna extend the number of nominations to 20. So feel free to nominate more tunes; if you're already used your 12, you get 8 more.

Tuomas - just collect votes for any version, and include a note in the results for which ones were specified? Might be easier.

Yeah, like I said in the initial post, I'm gonna do this with tunes where the extended version was mixed by the same producer(s) as the short versions. But it is my opinion that remixes by outside mixers (including Tom Moulton) are and should be treated as separate entities, so you'll have to vote for them separately.

I agree with sic here...if I vote for "Love Train" I'm thinking of the classic version - I haven't even heard the Moulton mix. But if Tuomas votes for "Love Train" he's thinking of the remix. Obviously we both think "Love Train" is awesome.

With The O'Jays, I also made the (possibly) controversial decision of including a couple of tracks (Back Stabbers, Love Train) as the new Tom Moulton remixes, instead of the original versions.

Sorry, I made a mistake here: the Tom Moulton "Love Train" mix is actually from the 1977, as it was included on Philadelphia Classics. The "Back Stabbers" mix is a new one.

So there are still two version of "Love Train": the original 3 minute track from 1973, and the 6 minute Moulton remix from 1977. I'd assume a lot of people are more familiar with the Moulton mix? But feel free to nominate the original 3 minute version too, if you want it in.

OK, I've let enough people handle taking care of favorites for me. Returning the favor. Here are my first dozen. Saving the other 8 for the stuff I know I'm forgetting (still going to give the P&P catalog a good listen again to see what needs to for sure get nominated).

Roy Ayers, "Chicago"
Linda Clifford, "You Are, You Are"
Norman Connors, "Once I've Been There"
D Train, "Keep On"
Earth, Wind & Fire, "Can't Let Go"
Empress, "Dyin' To Be Dancin'"
Phillis Hyman, "You Know How To Love Me" [why is "Loving You - Losing You" nominated?]
Cheryl Lynn, "Star Love"
Alicia Myers, "I Want To Thank You"
Sharon Ridley, "Changin"
Patrice Rushen, "Haven't You Heard"
War, "Galaxy"

salsoul orchestra - ooh i love it (love break)

13/20

xp There isn't that much incentive to nominate extra mixes - I'd rather have *some* version of a song I love in the rollout than have two versions miss out due to vote splitting. Though I don't know where that leaves Cowley megamixes and such - obv they're very different, but are people going to vote for two "I Feel Love"s?

Anyway, some more nominations;

New York Community Choir - I'll Keep My Light In My Window (Disco Mix)
Jackson 5 - Forever Came Today
Chocolat's - Kings of Clubs
Lamont Dozier - Going Back To My Roots
TJM - I Don't Need No Music

(17/20)

why is "Loving You - Losing You" nominated?

because it is spectacular

Yeah, but it's a ballad. Of course, I may end up nominating Sister Sledge's "One More Time," so pay me no heed.

I know this isn't the official "campaigning" thread either, but I want to draw extra special attention toward "You Are, You Are." Written/produced by Curtis Mayfield (who later did his own only microscopically inferior version), this song never fails to make me fully ecstatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfcIgtZoYmo

would really love to see 9 to 5 up there. best crossover eveeer. along with Baby I'm Burning and Potential New boyfriend.

my number one though? probably My Feet Keep Dancing

but are people going to vote for two "I Feel Love"s?

I'm definitely gonna vote for both; possibly also for the two "Love is the Message"s and the two "Hills of Katmandu"s, if I can make them all fit in my ballot.

My Feet Keep Dancing is sensational. I had been planning to limit how much Chic I vote for, but that'd be dishonest. In that spirit:

Chic - Soup For One
Led Zeppelin - Trampled Underfoot

IF TRAMPLED GETS IN, I'M RENOMINATING DEATH DISCO!!

How big will the ballot be?

Ha xp - it's the Earl's Court live version of Trampled Underfoot btw. I don't know that I'd like to be in a discotheque where it was playing, but someone on here once convinced me it was disco so I'm giving it the nod.

Okay, I listened to that, and I really don't think it should be nominated. There are already some kinda questionable tunes on the list, and I don't really want to open the floodgates for all sorts of not-really-disco. Please try to restrict your nominations to stuff that actually fits in the genre we're polling here.

Yeah fair enough. Great performance though.

Some nominations:

Vicky D - This Beat Is Mine
Sinnamon - Thanks To You
Linda Clifford - Runaway Love
MFSB - Mysteries of the World
Arthur Adams - You Got The Floor
Unlimited Touch - Searching To Find The One
Aurra - Nasty Disposition
Shalamar - Take That To The Bank
Slave - Dreamin'
Skyy - Here's to You
GQ - Make My Dream A Reality

11/20

15/20:

Donald Byrd & 105th Street NYC – Love Has Come Around
Casco – Cybernetic Love
Cloud One – Disco Juice
Double Exposure – Ten Percent (Walter Gibbons Mix)
Gibson Brothers – Oh What a Life
Kano – Now Baby Now
Kano – Another Life
Mandré – Solar Flight (Opus 1)
Number One Ensemble – Flor de Coca
O’Jays – Now That We Found Love
Pineapples & Douglas Roop – Come on Closer
Diana Ross – My Old Piano
Silver Convention – Get Up and Boogie
Sister Sledge – Pretty Baby
Nick Straker Band – Straight Ahead

surely the different versions of eg. 'i feel love' should be counted as one and the same? i don't want to have to use up one of my 50 on what's basically the same song but a different length just to account for vote splitting.

chaz jankel - glad to know you 14/20

johnny hammond - los conquistadores chocolates

15/20

Parvati Khan - Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja
Goombay Dance Band - Eldorado

12/20

Patrick Cowley version of "I Feel Love" is not imo so markedly different as to merit a second slot on my ballot.

exactly a vote for one 'i feel love' is a vote for all 'i feel love's. make it so tuomas!

I kind of want all mixes combined too - except the I Feel Loves, which should be counted separately

Whatever gives us a surprise #1.

Count the IFL mixes separately, surprise #1 != IFL.

contrarian xp

preferring one version of 'i feel love' over the other does nothing more than reveal a history of narcotic use imo.

i don't want to have to use up one of my 50 on what's basically the same song but a different length just to account for vote splitting.

Have you actually heard the Patrick Cowley remix? Anyway, no one's forcing you to vote for remix, I'm sure the original I Feel Love will get plenty of votes anyway, with or without vote splitting.

Basically, I think a disco poll if anything is where the art of remixing should be appreciated - these guys started the whole thing! If you think that, say, mixes by Tom Moulton are just the same song at different length, I kinda feel you don't get what makes a disco song work.

Phill & The Friends – This Man
Klein & MBO – Dirty Talk
Tulio De Piscopo – Stop Bajon (Primavera)
Arpadys – Monkey Star
Pluton & Humanoids – World Invaders
Charlie – Spacer Woman
James White & The Blacks – Contort Yourself
Connie Case – Get Down
Cappuccino – El Bailara Conmigo (Hell Dance With Me)
Ish - Don't Stop
Mr. Flagio – Take A Chance

Have you actually heard the Patrick Cowley remix?

how dare you? the real question is have i heard the original version.

Connie Case might be from 86, maybe too pro to house or electro to count?

and if in doubt always go with the moulton mix. jeez, no need for insults flying around.

xp

"Stop Bajon" is already on the list. Or do you want to nominate the shorter album/7" version?

Opps sorry, then add The Zebras ‎– Paradise Garage

gwen guthrie - seventh heaven (larry levan remix)

16/20

Grand Tour - Flight From Versailles

13/20

My inner wedding DJ is telling me that I'm In The Mood For Dancing by The Nolans should be on the list on the grounds that it is the greatest single yet produced by the Republic of Ireland it was a top 3 hit in the UK.

Coati Mundi - Que Pasa Que Pasa & Me No Pop I
Ashford & Simpson - Stay Free
Stevie Wonder - Another Star
Sylvester - I Need Somebody to Love Tonight
Gino Soccio - There's a Woman
The Temptations - Law of the Land
Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz
Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before
Michael Jackson - Working Day and Night
Shalamar - Make That Move
Alec Costandinos - Romeo & Juliet
Chic - My Forbidden Lover
Blackbyrds - Rock Creek Park
Eddie Kendricks - Date with the Rain
Ripple - The Beat Goes On and On
Isley Brothers - Get Into Something
Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up
Smokey Robinson - Theme From Big Time
18/20

Spotify playlist is pretty much up-to-date.
http://open.spotify.com/user/arosner/playlist/3ev5BHoqKXb3MEmLYuJwd1

Sweet. (Replaced the '93 version of "A Little Bit of Jazz" with the original.)

ecstasy, passion and pain - touch and go 12" (one of the first tom moulton extended edits, if not the first)

1/20

most of my faves have already been nom'd.

Oh yeah, I expect there are definitely some re-recorded versions that snuck in there through Spotify's mis-labeling. Feel free to replace.

Wow, thanks for the Spotify list! Hadn't realised that all the Prelude comps are now up there.

I don't want to see the vote get split up too much, but really, there should be as much Prelude in the nominations as possible.

Ari, as far as I know, "Get into Something" is from 1969, so it's not valid. (I wouldn't call it disco either, it's one of the funkiest soul tunes I've ever heard.)

Oh, good catch! I first heard that track on this comp, so must've had it filed away in my head as mid-70s.

My inner wedding DJ is telling me that I'm In The Mood For Dancing by The Nolans should be on the list

I will happily use my 12th vote for this if it being a UK top 3 hit does not qualify it.

I'm considering a nomination for 'Sexy Music' as well, now we have eight more spaces to play with.

this one was a number one hit, should probably be included:
The Sylvers - Boogie Fever (1976)

and this one a number five:
David Naughton - Makin' It

now blowing through the rest of my nominations:
Boney M. - Ma Baker (1977)
Stephanie Mills - Never Knew Love Like This Before (1980)
Imagination - Flashback (1981)
Carl Carlton - Everlasting Love (1973)
The Richie Family - The Best Disco In Town (1976)
Sylvester - Don't Stop (1982)
Tina Charles - Dance Little Lady Dance (1976)
Fantastique - Mama Told Me (1981)
Bisquit - Roller Boogie (1980)
Divine - You Think You're A Man (1984)

Here are all of Billboard's Dance/Disco #1s since they started the chart in 1974--maybe someone will spot something that's been overlooked.

http://www.disco-disco.com/disco/billboard.shtml

The Village People were like the Beatles of 1977: they spent seven weeks at #1 with "(all cuts)."

(I see now they did the same thing with Donna Summer--more than once--and a couple of other people, too.)

I see now that 20 noms are allowed... I made 12 before and I nommed "Rock Your Baby" which was a #1 hit, so I am taking that slot back... SO I am going on the assumption that I now have 9 more slots to deal with... And thus I use four of them here:

12. Bay City Rollers - You Made Me Believe In Magic
http://youtu.be/95-NtJAJfbw

(That was Top 10 in the US, and went to #2 here in Canada...but I guess it still costs me a slot, yes?)

13. Sparks - When I'm With You
http://youtu.be/XTe5aClA3QE

14. Patsy Gallant - Sugar Daddy
In English: http://youtu.be/5q1HL1SYlUs
En français: http://youtu.be/y_s8omko70s

15. Valverde Brothers - Mexican Taxi Man
http://youtu.be/zRDg-pvPs08

Blondie - Call Me

Whaddya know - it wasn't there. How did that even happen?

6/20

Cristina - Temporarily Yours

14/20

will there be an albums subpoll?

I'm not sure if that would be very popular? If someone else wants to run an album poll, I'm fine with that, but I don't have the time to do two polls.

Blondie - Call Me

Whaddya know - it wasn't there. How did that even happen?

I didn't add "Call Me" to the original list because I don't feel it's a disco tune, more like new wave. But if you're nominating it, I'll add it.

Boney M - Never Change Lovers In The Middle Of The Night
ABBA - Under Attack
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons - Grease
Imagination - Just An Illusion

4/20

"Just an Illusion" is already on the list.

nice one remembering 'grease', kept meaning to nominate that myself.

xpost, sorry, I'm sure I checked.

several ABBA noms but don't think my favourite has been mentioned yet so

ABBA - the winner takes it all 17/20

well, the day before you came is my actual fav but it's not disco.

yeah i hope the ABBA vote isn't split too much.

My last few:

Dalida - Gigi in Paradisco
Undisputed Truth - You + Me = Love
Cookie Monster and the Girls - "C" is for Cookie (Larry Levan Remix)

(20/20)

Lots more I could mention - Jakki, Busta Jones, Crystal Grass, Kleeer, Montreal Sound, "When the Whistle Blows", "Baby I Love You", "Cola Bottle Baby", "Let It Flow", "Backstrokin'" - but anyway, I guess I already have more than a ballot-full of tracks I want to vote for.

You already nominated "Cola Bottle Baby" upthread...

aha, that's one fewer regret then..

Barry Manilow - Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?
Barry Manilow - Break Down The Door

"Keep On Truckin' " from my first list doesn't seem to have made the spreadsheet. Also...

Gary Toms Empire - 7654321 Blow Your Whistle
Detroit Emeralds - Feel The Need in Me
The Tymes - You Little Trustmaker
Bohannon - South African Man

15/20

HAve we had:

Clout - Sunshine Baby

?

If not 4/20

The nomination list should now be up to date again.

There's still a lot of nominations not showing up on the list, including all of these:

Bionic Boogie - Risky Changes
C.J & Company - Devil's Gun
Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite
Celi Bee & the Buzzy Bunch - Superman
Irene Cara - Fame
Carol Douglas - Doctor's Orders
France Joli - Come to Me
Penny McLean - Lady Bump
Ritchie Family - Brazil
Salsoul Orchestra - Tangerine
Silver Convention - Get Up and Boogie (That's Right)
Donna Summer - Try Me, I Know We Can Make It

being lazy here but has anyone nominated:

Dennis Parker - Like an Eagle
Master Force - Don't Fight the Feeling
Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around
Peter Gordon and the Love of Life Orchestra - Beginning of the Heartbreak/Don't Don't

I would not hesitate to say "Copacabana" should be a given. It was ubiquitous even back in '78. And these are all major in my book:

Bionic Boogie - Risky Changes
C.J & Company - Devil's Gun
Claudja Barry - Sweet Dynamite
Celi Bee & the Buzzy Bunch - Superman
Carol Douglas - Doctor's Orders
France Joli - Come to Me
Penny McLean - Lady Bump
Ritchie Family - Brazil
Salsoul Orchestra - Tangerine
Silver Convention - Get Up and Boogie (That's Right)

― Josefa, 17. lokakuuta 2013 2:42 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry, when you posted above, I thought "these are all major" meant you were simply saying they were big tunes, I didn't know you were actually nominating them. That said, you had already nominated 12 tunes before, and now your new list has 12 more... So you need to reduce the new list to 8 tunes, because 20 is the upper limit.

being lazy here but has anyone nominated:

Dennis Parker - Like an Eagle
Master Force - Don't Fight the Feeling
Donald Byrd - Love Has Come Around
Peter Gordon and the Love of Life Orchestra - Beginning of the Heartbreak/Don't Don't

I'm updating the nomination list all the time, it's here. And you can use CTRL + F on it.

But if you're being lazy, "Like an Eagle" and "Love Has Come Around" are on the list, I don't think the other two are.

you had already nominated 12 tunes before, and now your new list has 12 more

Oh OK, I meant that those tunes were obvious ones that should have been on the original list, in which case they wouldn't count against my nominations. (I asked about that procedural point, but we missed each other). If I have to subtract four noms I would take out -

C.J. and Company - Devil's Gun
Carol Douglas - Doctor's Orders
Salsoul Orchestra - Tangerine
Silver Convention - Get Up and Boogie (which actually did make the list b/c someone else nominated it)

So is the deal that if a song was a chart hit then it gets a free pass onto the nomination list? I'd like to submit this one:

LTD - (Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again

So is the deal that if a song was a chart hit then it gets a free pass onto the nomination list?

Apparently this is not the case, which is what I misunderstood. (There are still many #1 Dance hits that haven't made the list).

At the risk of splitting the Donna Summer vote even further, this should really be in there:

Donna Summer - down deep inside 18/20

Bionic Boogie - Cream Always Rises to the Top

7/20

hi can someone confirm we are nominating TWENTY songs and not TWELVE?

Yes, it's twenty.

So is the deal that if a song was a chart hit then it gets a free pass onto the nomination list?

Apparently this is not the case, which is what I misunderstood. (There are still many #1 Dance hits that haven't made the list).

I said that if you know a song was a top 5 hit in the USA or UK (meaning the official single chart, not dance chart or club chart or what have you), you can mention it here and I'll add it to the list. I checked the list of tunes you posted when you said they were major, but I don't think any of them reached top 5, so I didn't add them then. "(Every Time I Turn Around) Back in Love Again" apparently was a top 4 hit, though, so I'll put that on the list.

The idea wasn't that every dance hit ever should automatically be on the list; you still need to nominate them. (And running the poll is pretty time-consuming business, I simply don't have the extra time to try to research all the disco tunes that might've been hits somewhere.) I just wanted to avoid the situation that I've seen happen with some other polls, where some very ubiquitous tune is missing from the list, (because folks are more likely to nom personal favourites than big hits), and people are like, "how did we miss that"?

Who's Who - Hypnodance
Raffaella Carra - Rumore

16/20

Kongas - Anikana-O
Barrabas - The Lion (Don't Kill the Lion)
Cher - Git Down (Guitar Groupie) (12" Mix)
Flash and the Pan - The African Shuffle
Martin Circus - Disco Circus
Fotomaker - Make Me Wanna Dance
Rare Earth - Warm Ride (12" Version)
Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train to London
Rita Lee - Lança Perfume
Asha Puthli - Space Talk
Lipstique – At The Discotheque
Sugar & Candy - I Don't Bake Cake (Just for Anyone)
Charo and the Salsoul Orchestra - Dance a Little Bit Closer
Risqué - Starlight (Extended American Edit)

14/20

http://youtu.be/1aLZ3Zu4ySI

hey tuomas please check out this one. not sure if i should nom it, but i just think it fits nicely with the spirit of the poll.

candido - thousand fingered man

This tune appears to be from 1970, or is there another version of it?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:04 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p sure there was a version from 1979. if that is the original it's waaaay ahead of it's time.

original is 1970, salsoul re-recording is 1979: http://www.discogs.com/Candido-Dancin-Prancin/master/168618

you gotta make an exception for thousand finger man

Fat Larry's Band - Looking For Love Tonight
Alfredo De La Fe - Hot To Trot
Cloud One - Don't Let This Rainbow Pass Me By
Rockers Revenge - Walking On Sunshine (or is this too electro?)
Shirley & Company - Shame, Shame, Shame

(6/20)

this was really tough to narrow down, i didnt even really start to think about my favorite boogie tracks before i already had too many to nominate, tried to rep for #teambeardo where i could

my noms:

massara - margarita
don ray - standing in the rain
punkin machine - i need you tonight
chaplin band - lets have a party
chaz jankel - glad to know you
dusty springfield - that's the kind of love i've got for you
love committee - just as long as i've got you
cat gang - locomotive breath (special cat version)
the winners - get ready for the future
change - hold tight
players association - ride the groove
skatt bros - walk the night
hot rs - slow blow
don armando's 2nd avenue rhumba band - i'm an indian too
the osmonds - i, i, i
barrabas - woman
john paul young - love is in the air
herbie hancock - magic number
that thing (jerry rix) - that thing
elkin & nelson - jibaro

http://i.imgur.com/Q6fPS4A.gifhttp://i.imgur.com/FQK6KA3.gif

here are 6 more i'd nominate if i could/maybe someone else wants to nominate them/maybe you just want to listen to some cool disco on a saturday:

peter brown - burning love breakdown (this is an extended version of the breakdown in "do ya wanna get funky with me" which is already nominated)
manu dibango - soul makossa (tuomas will probably disqualify this anyway for being "proto")
rosebud - money
bell & james - livin it up (friday night)
azoto - havah nagilah
disco/very - get it on

I'll nominate peter brown - burning love breakdown!!

damn, someone else nominate:

sticky jones gang - tunisian ride

Sticky Jones Gang - Tunisian Ride

I didn't realize it was 20 now, so
Rene & Angela - I Love You More
Ris Feat. Celeste – Love-N-Music
Hipnotic – Are You Lonely?
West Phillips - (I'm Just a) Sucker for a Pretty Face
Rinder & Lewis - Lust
The 202 Machine - Get Up (Rock Your Body)
Queen Samantha - Take A Chance
Viven Vee - Blue Disease

http://youtu.be/1aLZ3Zu4ySI

hey tuomas please check out this one. not sure if i should nom it, but i just think it fits nicely with the spirit of the poll.

― cock chirea, 19. lokakuuta 2013 6:13 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, I don't know if you could dance it, but it's undeniably in the disco idiom...

candido - thousand fingered man

This tune appears to be from 1970, or is there another version of it?

― Tuomas, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:04 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

p sure there was a version from 1979. if that is the original it's waaaay ahead of it's time.

original is 1970, salsoul re-recording is 1979: http://www.discogs.com/Candido-Dancin-Prancin/master/168618

Thanks for the info, I added it to the notes.

Current disco favourite:

Ish - Don't Stop

Flash and the Pan - Midnight Man

The list should be up to date, there are already over 1000 tunes on it. But keep them noms coming!

Roni Griffith - Desire
Madonna - Dress You Up
ABBA - Voulez-vous ?
ABBA - Summer Night City
Patrick Juvet - Où Sont les Femmes?
Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie
Boney M. - Sunny
Boney M. - Ma Baker
Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
The Fifth Dimension - Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In
Musique - Push Push In The Bush
Kelly Marie - Love Trial
Diana Ross - The Boss
Plastic Bertrand - Stop Ou Encore
Diana Ross - The Boss
Trans-X - Living On Video
Lime - Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody

^^^ A bunch of those have alaready been nominated.

Runa Laila - Disco Premee
Patrick Cowley - Mind Warp
True Example - As Long As You Love Me
The Salsoul Orchestra - Magic Bird of Fire
Cristina - Drive My Car
Sylvester - Trouble in Paradise

17/20

(x-post) I used Ctrl F and they didn't come up. Guess I'll nominate more stuff then !

Leroorleroo: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiVOdCUDZoLxdFpydEdVdnc0ejN5Ul9SMm9hZmxGbnc&usp=sharing

Tuomas added 600-odd tracks to the list before starting the thread - for once, Ctrl+F is not your friend.

Yeah I had checked that too... I probably didn't have the updated version.

LeRoo, "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" was released in 1968, so it's not valid. (And it's not really disco, is it?)

"Dress You Up" is a borderline case, it wasn't released as a single until 1985, but it was an album track on Like a Virgin (which came out in 1984), so I'll allow it.

"Dress You Up" is a borderline case

I see what you did there.

Haha. It always sounded to me like her most disco song, probably because of Nile Rodgers.

As for "Aquarius", my bad. I used to hear it all the time at disco themed parties or even on disco radio shows (though you're right it's not really disco), so I assumed it came out in the 70's.

Now that I think of it, I guess the "Let the Sunshine" part of the song is kinda proto-discoish, I can imagine it being mixed to a proper disco tune. But proto-disco (or post-disco) isn't what this poll is about, that's why I set the year limits.

http://youtu.be/1aLZ3Zu4ySI

hey tuomas please check out this one. not sure if i should nom it, but i just think it fits nicely with the spirit of the poll.

― cock chirea, 19. lokakuuta 2013 6:13 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well, I don't know if you could dance it, but it's undeniably in the disco idiom...

― Tuomas, Saturday, 19 October 2013 22:05 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Urgm.. good morning..

For some reason, I thought I was still on the Excelsior thread, was reading the above post, clicked the link and thought to myself.. 'idgi'

Umberto Tozzi - Gloria

17/20

I don't hear a shred of disco in "Let the Sunshine In" but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Was that all it was?

someone nominate "let it flow" when i ctrl+f'd the thread it looked like it had been nominated already but i guess it was merely discussed

I've hit my 20 limit :(

That said, I tried to put together a shortlist last night and this is going to be impossible even with the current noms list.

xp - gr80 otm

I've definitely got 8 more coming. I just want to see if anyone else can pick them off first.

man I love "Dress You Up" but I refuse to vote for it because it's not disco

Not these artists' biggest hits, but two of my faves:

Kool & the Gang - Stand Up and Sing
Summer, Donna - Love's Unkind

2/20

I'm banning italo disco from my ballot because it's just too much. I will nom and vote the hell out of that italo poll when it comes, though.

well, i'm banning the more synth-pop leaning stuff, Change will prob get in.

I'm not *banning* Euro-disco from my ballot per se. It's just that I don't like it as much as the American R&B-leaning stuff.

i love it all, it just seems odd to include like a Savage track alongside "hit and run", idk.

Yeah, I have a pretty classicist 70s/NYC-centric conception of the genre. Kano/Casco/etc are just something else completely. I mean I even decided to cut "Menergy" because it doesn't fit imo (though mostly because I needed to start cutting *somewhere*).

I have to admit that I too find often find the synth-heavy, minimally arranged 80s Italo kinda off-putting and cold and detached... I dunno why this is, because I love techno and trance, but I guess the the generic, unflourished vocals often found in these tunes is a contributing factor. I don't much care for 80s British synth pop like Depeche Mode or Human League for the same resons. OTOH, some of my favourite disco tunes are epic Euro style tracks where the synth riffs are part of a large arrangement with sweeping strings and funk basslines and corny purple prose lyrics, stuff like Tantra or Boris Midney's various projects. I guess I'm fine with detachment and coldness and minimalism in purely electronic music, but with disco I prefer a bit of humanity.

took a look at updated list and how did Eagles "One of These Nights" get pass the sensors?

It was one of those crazy nights.

I haven't had the time to listen to every nominated tune, sorry. That said, I'm not gonna disqualify anything, everyone's free to vote for the tunes they consider to be disco.

Tuomas did ask for disco/rock crossovers, and OOTN is certainly that

Yeah, I'm fine with crossovers, as long as they're more disco than rock.

The Originals - Down to Love Town
Mighty Clouds of Joy - Mighty High

Alec R Costandinos - Romeo & Juliet (Acts I & II)
Bionic Boogie - Hot Butterfly
Cerrone - Look For Love
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - I'll Play the Fool
Amant - If There's Love
Love Unlimited - I'm so Glad That I'm a Woman
Chic - 26
Kano - It's a War
Azoto - Soft Emotion
Mascara - If You Don't Want Me In Your Life
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Musique - Glide
Don Ray - Garden of Love
Le Pamplemousse - Le Spank
Gichy Dan's Beachwood # 9 - On a Day Like Today
Kleeer - Keeep Your Body Workin'
El Coco - Cocomotion

17/20

Models - Don't Ever
Space - Just Blue

19/20

Debarge - Dance the Night Away
Steely Dan - Glamour Profession
19/20

Shalamar - Go For It
Jacksons - Lovely One
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Sunshower
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - I'm Corrupt
Michael Jackson - Sunset Driver

10/20

Leon Ware - What's Your Name

11/20

Herb Alpert - Rise

12/20

manu dibango - soul makossa (tuomas will probably disqualify this anyway for being "proto")
― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, October 19, 2013 7:59 AM (6 days ago)

Soul Makossa definitely belongs! It broke big solely due to David Mancuso spinning it at The Loft.

Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa
Al Green - I Feel Good
Earth, Wind and Fire - Getaway
KC & Sunshine Band - Shake Your Booty

19/20

Machine - Is It Love?
Rhyze - Free
Alma Faye - Don't Fall In Love
Al Green - Georgia Boy
Boris Midney - Catch The Rhythm
Cerrone - Not Too Shabby
Magic Disco Machine - Control Tower
First Choice - Love Thang

20 / 20

switched out cameo - find my way for 'georgia boy' because 'i feel good' reminded me of the belle album. such a masterpiece. but then so is that cameo song. we need more nominators. the list could be at 1000 tracks and still not be enough.

rose royce - is it love you're after

19/20

Love & Kisses - Beauty and the Beast

20/20

whittled it down to 97 btw.

Tuomas (or anyone else who has an opinion on this), would 'Lovelines' or 'My Body Keeps Changing My Mind' by Karen Carpenter be eligible for the poll? They were recorded between 1979-80 but not released until 1989 and 1996, your first post says 'tracks released between 1972 and 1984 only', so I guess maybe not?

Carol Douglas - Doctor's Orders

3/20

Gwen Guthrie - "Peanut Butter (Larry Levan Mix)"
Gwen Guthrie - "Hopscotch (Larry Levan Mix)"
Grace Jones - "Warm Leatherette"

Fun Fun - "Happy Station (Scratch Version)"

Toni Basil - "You Gotta Problem"

I don't think I'm In The Mood For Dancing by The Nolans has been added to the list.

Bunny Sigler- I'm the Bunny (From the Other Side of the Ocean)
The RAH Band- Rock Me Down to Rio

19/20

If Tuomas decides it counts then I'll have 'Loveliness' by Karen Carpenter as 20/20

Hot Blood - Soul Dracula
Chi-Chi Favelas and the Black and White Band - Rock Solid
Soraya - If
Brenda Harris - Freakin Freak
Marta Acuna - Dance, Dance, Dance
Fist-O-Funk Orchestra - New York Strut
Francie Simone - Let Your Body Run
Starpoint - Get Ready, Get Down
Halloween - Love Energy
Delight - Is It Too Late
Herbie Hancock - You Bet Your Love

20/20

Stuff that should be on the list that isn't yet:

Droids - Shanti Dance (parts 1 & 2)
Patrick Cowley - Megatron Man
Giorgio Moroder - Knights in White Satin

Tuomas (or anyone else who has an opinion on this), would 'Lovelines' or 'My Body Keeps Changing My Mind' by Karen Carpenter be eligible for the poll? They were recorded between 1979-80 but not released until 1989 and 1996, your first post says 'tracks released between 1972 and 1984 only', so I guess maybe not?

Yeah, if they were released only after 1984, they're not eligible.

Thewufs, "Sunset Driver" by Michael Jackson may have been recorded in the 1970s, but I can't find any info that it was released until 2004. So unless you can prove it was actually released between 1972 and 1984, it's not valid.

Kitchen Person, "Romeo & Juliet" by Alec R. Costandinos was already nommed, so you get one extra nomination.

The track list should now be up to date. Only two days left to nominate!

So we have hundreds of nominations and somehow none yet for this prime early disco hit, no less from someone who was at least as much a trailblazer as Moulton or Moroder or anyone else I can think of:

Silvia - Pillow Talk

- i'll also nominate:
Cher - Take Me Home
Jackson 5 - Dancing Machine
Four Seasons, The - Who Loves You

finally a couple of TV show theme songs, not sure if they intrinsically qualify but both of these are prime disco grooves that were extended to full-length tracks, issued on 45s, and were hits in some countries:

Sammy Davis Jr. - Baretta's Theme (written by Dave Grusin and Morgan Ames)
Jack Jones - The Love Boat theme (written by Paul Williams and Charles Fox)

Any chance of a few more nomination slots? Just for completeness, like.

Hot Blood - Baby Frankenstein

can someone please ffs nominate: tamiko jones - let it flow

Will have my other 8 nominations set in stone in a little bit. Making a lot of disco ball Sophie's choices.

I've been wavering on whether to nominate the first two, but on the "crossovers more disco than rock" principle:

Public Image Ltd - Swan Lake
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in Uniform

and, on gr8080's behalf:

Tamiko Jones - Let it Flow

(7/20)

thank you

Hall and Oates - Portable Radio
Beach Boys - Here Comes the Night

I've been away from internet access for a couple of weeks, but thought I'd add to the fairly complete noms list:

Affinity - Don't Go Away
Beasley, Watson - Breakaway
Boule Noir - Discomania
Cela - I'm in Love
Electra - Feels Good
Hudson, Al - You Can Do It (Get Up and Do Your Thang)
Invisible Man's Band - All Night Thing
Rosebud - Have a Cigar

8/20

Demis Roussous - I Dig You
Don Ray - Body And Soul
K.I.D. - You Don't Like My Music
Paul Jabara - Pleasure Island
Paper Dolls - Get Down Boy

5/20

The Jimmy Castor Bunch- Psych-Out

20/20

The Staples Singers - Slippery People
Aleem ‎– Release Yourself
Esther Williams - I'll be your Pleasure
'Lectric Workers - Robot is Systematic
Zulema - Giving Up

I love that "have a cigar" cover.

Talking Heads - I Zimbra (debated including this, cause its kinda out there, but Alice Echols includes in the "disco playlist" in her book Hot Stuff, and I barely used any of my votes, so...

4/20

hey Tuomas ,FYI I just noticed that Chaka Khan - "I'm Every Woman" is listed twice on the spreadsheet (under 'C' and 'K').

Thanks! This is the last day to nominate, but I'll be going to sleep soon, so let's say the nominations will close tomorrow morning after I wake up... I'll give you until 8 AM GMT tomorrow to post any final nominations you may have, so there's still 10 hours.

This is an amazing list of noms, well done all.

I've been wavering on whether to nominate the first two, but on the "crossovers more disco than rock" principle:

Public Image Ltd - Swan Lake
Gang of Four - I Love a Man in Uniform

I listened to these two, and I don't think they're disco. "I Love a Man in Uniform" might be a borderline case, so I'll allow that, but "Swan Lake" is clearly new wave rock, which I said in the initial shouldn't be nominated in this poll. I know I said I wouldn't disqualify any nominations, but I have to draw the line somewhere, sorry. No "Swan Lake".

The same applies to "One of the Lads" by 4" be 2". I'm not sure if it was a joke nomination or something, but it's quite obviously not disco at all, so it's out.

In place of "Swan Lake," a crossover as much disco as jazz:

Sun Ra, "UFO"

(7/20)

I'm out of nominations, but if anyone would like to nominate these I'll be super-grateful:

Jakki - Sun Sun Sun (Walter Gibbons Remix)
Crystal Grass - Crystal World
Evelyn "Champagne" King - I don't know if it's right
La Flavour - When the whistle blows
Busta Jones - (You) Keep on making me hot
Easy Going - Baby I love you
Kleeer - Happy Me
Montreal Sound - Music
Patrick Cowley - Get a Little

Jakki - Sun Sun Sun (Walter Gibbons Remix)
Crystal Grass - Crystal World
Evelyn "Champagne" King - I don't know if it's right
La Flavour - When the whistle blows
Busta Jones - (You) Keep on making me hot
Easy Going - Baby I love you
Kleeer - Happy Me
Montreal Sound - Music
Patrick Cowley - Get a Little

13/20

Don Ray - Midnight Madness

14/20

Guy Cuevas - Obsession

15/20

thanks!!!

no prob

I meant to specify the "nassau mix" of "obsession" but i have not heard the "london mix" tbh

Bee Gees - Tragedy
Bee Gees - Love You inside Out

15/20

The Whatnauts - Help is on the Way
Tenderness - Keep on Trying
Goody Goody - Super Jock
The Superbs - Party Together
Fathers Children - Hollywood Dreaming
Tito Puente - Wata Wasuri (don't sleep if you dig the Candido disco stuff)

First Choice - Smarty Pants

20/20

My last 5 noms:

Madonna - Holiday
Madonna - Burning Up
Madonna - Everybody
Digital Emotion - Don't Stop
Moroder, Giorgio - I Wanna Funk With You Tonight

And also these big hits don't seem to have been nominated yet:

Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue (no 3 US)
Queen - Another One Bites the Dust (no 1 US)
KC and the Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man (no 1 US)

thanks, kent.

Just went with the top most-played disco songs in my iTunes library that haven't been nominated yet:

Sister Sledge, "One More Time"
Stevie Wonder, "Another Star"
Was (Not Was), "Wheel Me Out"
Tom Browne, "Thighs High (Grip Your Hips And Move)"
High Fidelity, "Magic Carpet"
Donna Summer, "I Remember Yesterday"
Deodato, "Night Cruiser"
Parliament, "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)"

20/20

The nominations are now closed. Thanks for everyone!

Shit shit shit, so I was right about to post the following if they can squeak by - if not not, I understand:

Michael Jackson - Get On the Floor
The Jacksons - Wondering Who
The Jacksons - Your Ways
Donna Summer - Love Is In Control (Finger On the Trigger)
Earth, Wind and Fire - Fall in Love With Me

Also, if you've never heard the Jacksons album Triumph, go out and buy that shit now. It's as good as Off the Wall - maybe better. There are no bad songs, no mediocre songs - even the ballad, "Time Waits for No One," is dope. That record is straight fire.

Still not nominated:

C. J. & Company - Devil's Gun
Salsoul Orchestra - Tangerine

Thewufs, I'll accept your last minute nominations, but they'll be the last tunes I'll add to the list. The nominations are closed, I'll try to start the voting thread later today.

Oog.... Inner Life tracks not nominated ("Moment of My Life," "I Like It Like That")

"Moment of My Life" is on the list.

Oof forgot the entire point of my nominations post -- Donna McGhee "It Ain't No Big Thing". Killer Patrick Adams/Red Greg steez.

THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT! It's the Grand ILM Disco Poll voting thread (voting ends on Sunday, December 1st)

Also, if you've never heard the Jacksons album Triumph, go out and buy that shit now. It's as good as Off the Wall - maybe better. There are no bad songs, no mediocre songs - even the ballad, "Time Waits for No One," is dope. That record is straight fire.

― thewufs

Completely agree with all of this.

there should be a month of campaigning before the voting opens imo (but I still won't be able to listen, so ignore me!)