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

The nominations are done, and now you can vote in the Grandest of Polls, the Official ILM Disco Poll!

Here's the list of nominated tunes:

DISCO TRACKS

And here are the voting rules:

1) You can vote for 50 tracks. If that's too much, you can also send a ballot with less than 50. You can only vote for tracks that are on the nomination list, write-in votes are not allowed.

2) When you vote, number the ballot so that the highest voted track is number 1, the second highest is number 2, and so on.

3) The points for the tracks in your ballot will be counted like this:

1) ARTIST A - TRACK B 60 points
2) ARTIST C - TRACK D 59 points
3) ARTIST E - TRACK F 58 points
.
.
.
49) ARTIST W - TRACK X 12 points
50) ARTIST Y - TRACK Z 11 points

So the highest ranked track gets 60 points and the lowest 11 points (if you vote for full 50 tracks).

4) If there's a draw, the track with most votes wins. If it's still draw, the one with most #1 votes wins.

5) Every track on the nomination list counts as an separate entry in the poll, I will not collate the votes for a tune and its remixes. So if you want to vote, say, for both the original "Love Is the Message" and for the later Tom Moulton remix of it, you need to include both in your ballot.

6) Send you ballots to tuomast {dot} alho {at} gmail {dot} com. (Yes, it's "tuomast", not "tuomas".) Put the words ILM Disco Poll in the email subject line. Please also include your ILX username in the message, so I know it's not a fake ballot.

7) Voting ends on Sunday, December 1st, at 12PM (GMT).

I hate myself for missing the nominations.

If you want to campaign for your favourite disco tunes, don't jam this thread with Youtube embeds, use this other for that instead:

ILM Disco Poll campaigning thread

there won't be an albums subpoll?

heh good luck with that

These results will be the sweetest Christmas present of all.

Spotify playlist is here btw: http://open.spotify.com/user/arosner/playlist/3ev5BHoqKXb3MEmLYuJwd1

no one nominated loose joints' 'tell you (today)'? noooooooo.

sic nominated 'tell you (today)'! STRONGEST EMOTION, THE DISCO EXPLOSION: It's the Grand ILM Disco Poll nomination thread (nomination time ends on Friday, November 1st) fix the list tuomas stop cheating!!!!

Just realized nobody nominated Peter Brown's "Dance With Me".

Also Bell & James's "Livin' It Up". Along with the Peter Brown would have made my Top 50.

i gave the bell & james an honorary mention

A producer subpoll would be interesting, given how crutial production is to this genre

I added the missing Loose Joints tune to the list. Somehow I'd missed another of Sic's nominations, Carly Simon's "Why", that's on the list too now.

Is this the place to point out where certain mixes on the Spotify playlist differ from the original or preferred mix of the song?

For example, the "After Dark" by Pattie Brooks on the Spotify playlist is a remix that's radically different from the original (the original is found on the Thank God It's Friday soundtrack).

The Spotify version of "Darling" by Baccara is a re-recording that has a somewhat different vibe from the original.

Is this the place to point out that I don't quite "get" voting for Baccara?

xp I've corrected a couple of items in the playlist where the correct/original version was also on Spotify. If the correct version isn't there and you think it makes a difference, maybe post a YouTube link in the campaigning thread?

Cool, thanks

The original "After Dark" is on Spotify - it's the one that's 3:54

The original "Darling" is on Spotify also - it's the one that's 5:27 on the album The Collection

Anyone can add to/delete from the playlist btw.

I've counted three ballots already, hopefully I'll get plenty more.

I have a ballot ready to send but it feels premature when there's potentially a whole month of disco discovery ahead of me.

I cast my ballot first so I'd have no temptation to vote strategically after having seen what others have voted for, but this also means there wasn't any new discoveries in my ballot... OTOH, my initial shortlist had 300 tunes, and cutting it down to 50 was already painful enough, I'm not sure if there'd been room for recent discoveries anyway.

Bump!

Received a couple more ballots, already some tunes are starting to gain a lead.

OTOH, my initial shortlist had 300 tunes, and cutting it down to 50 was already painful enough, I'm not sure if there'd been room for recent discoveries anyway.

Yeah, just made a playlist in iTunes based on what I've got from the nomination list on there, included a lot of tracks I couldn't quite recall but I think I'll end up filling my ballot just picking out the ones I already know I love.

Bump.

Ain't gonna bump no more (with no big fat woman).

did a jam packed disco set on my radio show the other night, 23 tracks in 1 hr incl lots of stuff in the noms list of this poll

http://archives.ckut.ca/128/20131105.03.00-04.00.mp3

Voted! Cutting it down to just 50 was not easy, even after I arbitrarily decided to limit myself to one track per artist. Honestly have no idea what the results are going to look like...

I will probably not vote for 50 tracks. I suspect more like 25 killers. Unless people want to really bust it on the lobbying thread.

Thanks for the ballot, Seandalai and everyone else who's already voted. Like I said, some tracks already seem to have gained a bit of a lead in the poll; a few of them are the usual suspects, but there's also more unexpected ones. Only 6 ballots have been cast so far, though, so obviously anything can still happen. Keep them ballots coming!

Argh, why didn't I nominate B.T. Express's "Energy Level"?

will try to compile my ballot during my shift today heh

Bump.

No new ballots today. :(

I'm working through the Spotify playlist, trying to give everything a fair shot. Have definitely heard for the first time some fantastic records that may get votes out of me. I used to think there were about 20 disco records that I REALLY loved, but apparently it's more like 200.

the version of fox the fox's "precious little diamond" on the spotify playlist is a terrible 00's remix, the only version of the original on spotify (in the US at least) is on a mix by LaRoux (with a few seconds of the previous track overlapping at the start):

http://open.spotify.com/track/07A3edlfz0wKrG6NucsRGE

but c'mon don't vote for that song-- its one of the best songs ever but doesn't belong on a disco poll

ditto for the john paul young "love is in the air" on the spotify playlist

the orig isn't on spotify at all (in the US)

here's a youtube

Bump.

Didn't have any time to even think about nominating, so pleased and relieved that everyone else seems to have nommed the things I would have. Will certainly vote but not til nearer the deadline.

Kinda bummed no Ganymed got nommed

How did only one Stephanie Mills song get nominated?

How am I ever going to narrow down which Shalamar tracks to support?

"I Need Your Lovin" wasn't nominated?!

Guys, half my ballot is going to have to be reserved for Prelude Records.

"Be Thankful For What You Got" is one of the GOAT songs, but I'm just not voting for it in a disco poll, sorry about it.

ditto for "float on"

and "glamour profession"

Yes x 2 + "Superstition"

pls vote for magic number though

how did a vengaboys track get on the spotify playlist

pls disregard that post

i dont know how to use spotify

yeah "i need your lovin" was a grave omission. great list overall though, thanks tuomas for putting it together. i'm working my way down from a list of about 350 songs right now, it's harder than i expected!

I've got my ballot down to about 170 songs, and I feel like it's going to be nigh impossible to cut it even by half.

"Be Thankful For What You Got" is one of the GOAT songs, but I'm just not voting for it in a disco poll, sorry about it.

If you didn't know it, there's also a disco version of the tune, released in 1980:

http://youtu.be/aIUpJWE76nM

I'm not sure if that if that was meant to be the version to be on the voting list, but whoever nominated it didn't specify any version, so I didn't do so either.

(The disco version isn't quite as good as the original, though, and I don't think the original is disco either, so I didn't vote for it.)

the version of fox the fox's "precious little diamond" on the spotify playlist is a terrible 00's remix, the only version of the original on spotify (in the US at least) is on a mix by LaRoux (with a few seconds of the previous track overlapping at the start):

http://open.spotify.com/track/07A3edlfz0wKrG6NucsRGE

but c'mon don't vote for that song-- its one of the best songs ever but doesn't belong on a disco poll

Note that version of "Precious Little Diamond" on the list is not the original (as heard on that LaRoux mix), but the Ben Liebrand remix, which is more disco (that's the reason I included it, and not the original):

http://youtu.be/c5D7cFF2enY

Have just made a playlist of all the songs I have on iTunes from the nominations list. That's 462 songs in total! Those Disco Discharge compilations have really come in handy.

Now the hard part of cutting them down to 50.

Oh dear, just made my first attempt at some kind of shortlist and it's 125 songs! There were at least 30 songs I was thinking had to be in my top 10. This is going to be hard.

WHAT is this I missed the nomination process! sad to see there's no:

larry paul emmet - evita
sheryl lee ralph - in the evening
TERI DESARIO - AIN'T NOTHING...
earlene bentley - living my own life
ivan - fotonovela
soccer - time out for love
Agnetha Fältskog – Wrap Your Arms Around Me
THP Orchestra - Who Do You Love
Sticky Fingers - Taking A Chance On You
Donna McGhee – It Ain't No Big Thing
Queen Samantha – Sweet San Francisco
Jimmy Ross – First True Love Affair (A Larry Levan Mix)
Leonore O'Malley – First Be a Woman
THP Orchestra – Who Do You Love
Chaka Khan – I'm Every Woman
madleen kane - any track
International Music System – Dancing Therapy
Gazebo – Masterpiece
my mine - can delight

You should read more carefully, "First True Love Affair" and "I'm Every Woman" are included on the list.

can I just confirm that the 'relight my fire' we're voting for is the proper 'vertigo/relight my fire' version because it's not the same without that build up imo.

having a blast compiling my ballot

wanna include every sylvester song on the list

what's causing me a problem is 'stop bajon' being on the list because it's one of my top 2 or 3 songs ever but i'm not sure I think of it as a straight up disco record. it's either going to not make my ballot or be my number 1.

Went through my list to specifically highlight "top 10" contenders and ended up with 25 of them. Filling out this ballot is actually going to be both painful and painfully easy.

consensus that 'relight my fire' isn't 'relight my fire' w/o 'vertigo'?

can I just confirm that the 'relight my fire' we're voting for is the proper 'vertigo/relight my fire' version because it's not the same without that build up imo.

Yeah, that is the version that was intended to be on the list. Sorry about the confusion, I forgot about the "Vertigo" bit. I edited the list, so the entry is now "Vertigo/Relight My Fire".

thanks tuomas. happy to consider it for a top 20 spot now. if it wasn't for general overplay + take that & lulu it'd be a top 5 lock probably.

god damn, listening to Sirius radio's Studio 54 station right now is not really helping me narrow my ballot

what's causing me a problem is 'stop bajon' being on the list because it's one of my top 2 or 3 songs ever but i'm not sure I think of it as a straight up disco record. it's either going to not make my ballot or be my number 1.

― ewar woowar (or something), Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:15 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's lots of stuff on the list where i'm like ehh not rly disco hope ppl vote with discretion

madleen kane - any track

"Rough Diamond" is on the list

Bump.

I've sent a reply to everyone who's mailed me a ballot, so if for some reason you haven't gotten a reply from me, your ballot hasn't reached me.

disco rules

Sent!

Yeah, I got it.

I still have received only 7 ballots (plus my own), hopefully I'll get many more. I think around 30 people nominated tracks, so I'm hoping all of them will vote at least, as well as others who missed the nomination thread.

10 days left to send your ballot!

My ballot is assured. Deciding on the last 10-15 slots is the hardest.

there but for the grace of god go i

That's one of my 20 no-question-top-10 slotters.

Bump.

Eep, I still need to go through the repping thread. It will be done, I swear.

glad that we have another week to get our ballots together. getting four days off next week so will be a good time to get mine together.

Bump! Remember, you only have this week left to vote...

still super bummed I can't play, guys, everyone make the most of it

mine will likely be left quite late, so hard. got it down to 50, I think, just need to order them.

Almost there. I have 55 songs on my list and I just don't want to leave any of them off. I even thought about just limiting it to one song per artist but if I didn't end up doing that for the Motown poll I can surely do the same here.

Sent. There were about five songs that would have been on my ballot had I remembered to nominate them, but ultimately not a big issue. It was a wonderfully nostalgic exercise. I miss those days.

Bump.

My ballot will be very last minute, but it will come in.

I voted!

- cut off at three tracks per act (three acts got three in)
- three ballads in the top ten; I remember reading once that the disco ballad is the worst genre ever created, how wrong the author was
- I like the Bee Gees more than I thought I did
- I like Earth Wind & Fire less
- poll seems to have slightly too wide a range; I felt uneasy putting in anything after about 1981
- I like you italo; but I don't really know what to do with you, sorry

Ha, Ismael I could see you working through the nominations on my Spotify sidebar.

I didn't offer any nominations so I can't complain but the following outrageous omissions would have all been Top 20 for me:

Salsoul Orchestra - Runaway
Barry White - You See the Trouble With Me
Teddy Pendergrass - You Can’t Hide From Yourself
Donna Summer – Our Love
Love Unlimited – Under the Influence of Love

You too?! Was unaware of this spotify stalkathon feature until NBS tipped me off the other night. No privacy.

Time was running through a disco playlist would've been a source of shame. I did fire it up at work yesterday with my headphones on but not plugged in, and nobody pointed it out for a couple of minutes - which could've been a massive faux pas in my rather staid workplace, but it was The Joubert Singers so I think I'm in the clear there.

- I like Earth Wind & Fire less

You too?! Was unaware of this spotify stalkathon feature until NBS tipped me off the other night. No privacy.

Wow - there are others. This is a little bit like Being John Malkovich.

HEY TUOMAS check your ILXmail (unrelated)

Sorry, my ILXmail links to an old mail address that no longer exists. If you want to mail me, use the Gmail address mentioned in my initial post of this thread.

I'm in a conference and haven't had the time to tabulate most recent votes, but I have received your ballots, ρεμπετις, Ismael, and DL. I don't have much time to contribute to this thread before Sunday, when I come back home, but it'd be nice if you others would keep bumping it during the weekend, so everyone remembers to vote.

bump plz vote

shame, shame, shame
shame on you
if you don't vote too

Ballot will be done TODAY!

Argh, oh no, I have been rubbish. Ends at the end of Sunday, right? I might have to just make a small list of the absolute killer tracks I want to rep for and leave it at that.

I mean, the easy part so far has been picking the top 25 of my ballot. It's narrowing down the remaining 100 contenders for the last 25 slots.

I recently found this really nice cover of "Magic Fly" by Mc Lane Explosion. It came out the same year as the Space original. I think I might like it better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpB2asybA7I

ballot sent!

Ballot delayed for one more day, but it's for sure coming in tomorrow.

Love Unlimited – Under the Influence of Love

i love this song, too

Remember, you have only until tomorrow left to vote. The initial post says the voting ends at noon GMT, but I'm gonna extend the voting time to the end of Sunday, since it'll take until Monday to count the votes anyway. So let's say you can vote until monday morning, 8AM GMT.

how many ballots so far?

I'll try to slap together a ballot today.

Voted

I'm having a lot of fun listening to the Spotify playlist and throwing my ballot together this weekend. i was busy when nominations were going on, assumed my favorites were all famous enough to get nommed, but man, "Pick Up The Pieces" got the shaft?

classic of course, but never considered it disco. i understand it was on the disco charts but it's pretty clearly funk to my ears.

So stoked for this, as long as all my top 15 make it

sent

♫♪♪♫♫ cos if you ain't lovin' me ♪♫♫♪♫ who in the world you lovin'? ♪♫♪♫♪

yeah the disco/funk line is tricky, although obv lots of nominees here are dancing right on that line

on the same note, will vote for Edwin Starr's "Contact" but would much rather be able to vote for "H.A.P.P.Y. Radio"

♫♪♪♫♫ cos if you ain't lovin' me ♪♫♫♪♫ who in the world you lovin'? ♪♫♪♫♪

― Ismael Klata, Saturday, November 30, 2013 4:33 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my man

that was in my top 5 iirc

I'm stuck on 53 songs, there is absolutely nothing I want to take out. I'm looking for any reason to take a song out now. Maybe some of the songs lower down in my list don't need any extra help? Would I not class certain songs as disco? ARRRRGH!

Which act has most tracks? Lose one of them.
Which song would you hear in a club more than in a discotheque? Lose it.
Which is an utter classic, yet leaves you slightly cold? Out it goes.

Done!

Thanks for the advice Ismael, I did apply some of that thinking to my final choices. This really was as hard as the Motown poll for me.

Can't wait for the results.

whoa, hopefully gonna be able to slot my ballot in by the end of today.

I finish work at 5pm GMT tomorrow, my entire evening thereafter will be devoted to ordering the 50 I've boiled it down to.

I'm going to have to wait to submit this right before midnight tomorrow PST, which will be after the deadline passes GMT. Hopefully it will still count!

submitted! there were 80 essential songs on my list which i boiled down to 50 semi-arbitrarily. a painful process. at least i made myself a sweet playlist out of it

Have it narrowed down to 60, and the effort just about killed me. I'll slice off the final 10 tomorrow. But, damn, I didn't even get a Shalamar track on my ballot!

the absence of komiko's I feel alright is something I can't comprehend. anyone has an explanation? also there's not enough cerrone, kano, and madleen kane songs but I can only blame myself for not sending a list.

Second part of your statement answers the first.

yeah in a way, but i feel alright is one of those underground hits. anyway, i just sent mine, tuomas.

Didn't recognise it by name but just youtubed and was like "ah, that one.."

is disco the best genre ever or what

without a doubt

just fell in love with Bad Luck by the Blue Notes. too late to vote for it now but damn, best genre ever indeed

Fourthed. Drum machines are the schism imo - a lot of the drumming on my favourite tracks is wonderfully fluid, but when every bass drum beat is like a punch to the solar plexus, it stops being disco.

yeah...anytime something with an obvious drum machine pops up on the spotify playlist, i usually skip it (or, if it sounds good, listen to it but don't consider voting for it). does "Funkytown" have a drum machine, though? if so I'm making an exception for that.

Done. I came down hard on genre.

I've received a bunch of ballots during the last couple days, thanks for everyone! There's still 11 hours or so left to vote, now is your last chance.

In! Stant! Re! Play! everyone

this is the first poll where i'm constantly going 'this feels too low' then looking at my ballot and thinking 'nah, look at what's above it'. I could almost throw my top 50 together at random and be happy with it. best genre ever? pretty much.

Had to make some tough choices, but the ballot has been sent.

sent!

it came to the point that I didn't care too much about the ordering. I just picked my top 10 tunes and randomly ordered them. ditto for the next two 20-song groups.

Made the painful choices and sent in my ballot, which is notably skewed toward disco from American R&B traditions and won't win any fans among Eurodisco partisans but oh well that's me deal with it.

DISCO, DISCO, DISCO!

Submitted.

Submitted my ballot, which is notably skewed toward awesomeness.

My ballot on the way in ten minutes....

Made the painful choices and sent in my ballot, which is notably skewed toward disco from American R&B traditions

Yours too? I think you made the right decision. Now I wanna compare ballots...

I squeezed in two Shalamar tracks, by the way.

I would have too, but "Dancing in the Sheets" inexplicably wasn't nominated

ballot sent.

Thanks for all the ballots, the voting is now officially closed. It'll probably take me a couple of days to count the votes, but I'll try to start the result countdown towards the end of the week.

Lee626, I don't think I've received an email from you...? Did you send the ballot to the correct address. It's tuomast dot alho at gmail dot com (note the extra "t" after "tuomas").

Okay, I got your ballot now.

right on! (to use the proper vernacular of the time)

so what's our ballot total?

to help get us all in the mood:

http://img1.123tagged.com/en/DiscoBalls/14.gif

The total is 40 ballots, I think.

OK, so this was nominated but I only discovered it on a Disco Discharge compilation over the weekend and bloody hell now I wish I'd put it in my Top 20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyqkePY6FKY

It's an awesome tune indeed. I think it might've suffered from the fact that it hasn't been easily available until recently, when Patrick Cowley remix first appeared on the Deep Disco Culture 2 compilation, and then the original version on that Disco Discharge comp. (Apparently there was a reissue single released by Unidisc in 1993 that had both the original version and the Cowley mix, but that one seems to have been a quite limited release.) Thankfully Harmless put out a 2CD comp this year which includes pretty much all the original Tantra releases, plus the best remixes. I highly recommend that one, Tantra had more cool tunes than just "Hills of Katmandu".

I nominated Cher's "Take Me Home" but it didn't show up on either the spreadsheet or the Spotify playlist. Not disco enough, maybe....

All sorts of great stuff I realized I forgot to nominate as i was putting together my ballot.

Some of the Disco Discharge comps are patchy but European Connection is unstoppably good.

tuomas did you get my ballot

40 ballots, wow! usually the broader polls that draw from some really huge genre or category of music get a smaller voter turnout because people are daunted by the task or something, so it's cool to hear this one is bucking that trend.

aint no stoppin us now

oh nm tuomas just saw your email

I didn't get an email back, but am presuming that my ballot was received.

And, yeah, 40 is a nice chunk.

I know "I Feel Love" is an undying masterpiece and all, but I would be delighted to see something else deserving come out on top. Phyllis Hyman, for instance.

ftr tuomas emailed me because i had a song on my ballot twice

I've now sent a reply to each email I got. If you haven't received a mail from me, then I haven't gotten your ballot.

And Lee626, I'm sorry about the Cher omission: it wasn't intentional, seems that I just missed that tune while compiling the list. It's too late to add it now, I'm sorry.

I was too huungover ;_;

I haven't quite finished counting the votes, so if you send a ballot today, I can still sneak it in.

Apparently I'd saved it in draft mode, Tuomas. I emailed it about ten minutes ago.

I haven't received an email from you, Alfred... Did you send it to the right address?

Resent. I misspelled the address.

Okay, I got it now.

I haven't quite finished counting the votes, so if you send a ballot today, I can still sneak it in.

― Tuomas, Monday, December 2, 2013 2:15 PM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Agh! Maybe! Let me see if my list is workable. Thanks!

lol music polls but i am legit excited for these results- no safe bets at all imo (aside from a ton of great tracks)

Sent. Incredibly messy, both in the ordering and that I'm sure I've missed a whole load of stuff out, but at least it's done.

I know "I Feel Love" is an undying masterpiece and all, but I would be delighted to see something else deserving come out on top. Phyllis Hyman, for instance.

― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Monday, December 2, 2013 8:12 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love Phyllis Hyman but both of her nominated tracks fell just short of my top 50. It's really her post-disco stuff like "Living All Alone" i like best.

No prob Tuomas for leaving out "Take Me Home", i'm more bummed at all the great disco songs i forgot to nominate at all that i remembered as i was compiling my ballot.

am I the only one who doesn't include i feel love?

I didn't. But it was at least in part willful.

In the end I convinced myself there are >50 disco tracks I really do prefer over IFL, but even if I hadn't I probably would have decided that it doesn't need my help.

For me voting for the Patrick Cowley remix satisfied the demands of willfulness.

Man, I will laugh so hard if the Cowley remix slots above the original.

I purposely voted for another Donna Sumemr track.

i forgot to vote for it

I voted for two Donna songs that are both very much lost causes.

r.i.p. donna summer

i really have just never liked "I Feel Love" that much, especially compared to her other hits. never even had any perception of the song as being considered noteworthy or especially great before ILM.

it's pretty boring. bad girls >>>>> i feel love

never forget

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e128/ilxalbums/howtomakeifeellove.jpg

Yeah, don't get carried away here hombres.

To me, "I Feel Love" is like a Work of Art, and not a record I want to hear in a dance club. No vote from me, even though I put another Donna Moroder record at #1.

It'd be nice if you wouldn't discuss your specific votes yet, so there'll be no spoilers regarding the results. Save the discussion for the traditional "post your ballots here" thread that comes after the results have been rolled out.

with 40-something voters it's pretty impossible to spoil the results unless like a dozen people start doing it. but yeah i guess it's nice to preserve the mystery as much as possible.

Suffice it to say, then, "I love disco!" until the results start to roll out.

SMH @ the 'I Feel Love' haters.

they feel hate

I don't hate it - it's beautiful, I have enjoyed it, and maybe not voting for it is absurd in a way but I just went with my gut, like probably many other people in this poll did with their voting.

damn it tuomas you're supposed to link in this thread when you start a results thread

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

While this is revived and for not wanting to derail the results page, thought I'd link to this (rather groovy IMO) disco-reggae mix I made a few years back with the help and suggestions of ILMers http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/steady-operator-disco-reggae-sounds/