Giorgio Moroder in the 1980's: What Of It Isn't Teh Suck?

I really love "Together in Electric Dreams," man – it's the warmest thing Oakey's ever touched.

Nina Hagen's Fearless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r5MBBRRn1Y

yeah, the 12" of Zarah is amazing.

American Gigolo was 1980.

e=mc^2 is a good album! baby blue is a total jammer

http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgpp30093+scarface-bw-machine-gun-pose-al-pacino-scarface-poster.jpg

This = closest I get to a "guilty pleasure" as a kid

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005RSU.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I take that back. I liked the Chili Peppers as a kid, too. They win the GP. Also, Virginia Fucking Madsen and Bud Fucking Cort!

virginia fucking madsen fucking bud fucking cort.

I really love "Together in Electric Dreams," man – it's the warmest thing Oakey's ever touched.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:14 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

such a great song

e=mc2 too

The Metropolis soundtrack is brilliant. I know nobody's supposed to like it.

Yes, Nina Hagen's "Zarah" and "New York (N.Y)" are both stunners.

Cat People soundtrack and Midnight Express soundtrack get heavy, heavy subway play for me!

I like his mid 80s sound. "Flashdance", "Together In Electric Dreams", "Neverending Story". All great!

Cat People/E=mc2/American Gigolo = all really superb. Never heard Scarface. I think he went downhill once he started going for a less synthetic production style (even though his earliest stuff wasn't too synthy).

It wasn't until "Take My Breath Away" (which I have never liked) and "Hand In Hand" (vomit!) that he really started sounding less synthetic.

I should've noted that <i>E=MC2</i> was 1980 -- just barely, tho, since it was released in January 1980. For all intents and purposes, it's a 1970's album, but whatevs. <i>Midnight Express</i>, however, is 1978. So all praise aside, that doesn't count.

I should check out the Nina Hagen. Has anyone heard the Joe Esposito record?

<sigh> BBcode...

I LOVE "Take My Breath Away" ...don't know what people think about it.

"I LOVE "Take My Breath Away" ...don't know what people think about it.

-- daavid"

one of my all time favorite songs, its been listened to 40+ as i talked about in another thread a while back.

I just discovered that the controversial 1984 "remake" of Metropolis, with the Pat Benetar and Jon Anderson(!) songs and color tint was actually Moroder's conception -- not just the soundtrack, but the whole project. Bizarre.

Yyyyyyyyyep. The whole thing. Some people HATE him for it, too. 'oh woe oh noes how dare you desecrate Lang's work with this popular effluent' etc etc. Just don't watch it ffs.

I like "Never Ending Story." A lot.

But is anyone going to defend this? :
http://www.paxmusic.co.kr/html/images/2101904.jpg

scarface was definitely the tipping point to crappness, the best over-coked end of the world theme and in essence the end of him being any good. I'm pretty sure take my breath away is completely synthetic, do you mean that it just doesnt have vocoders and robo arppegios?

I dressed up as moroder at halloween this year

Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

I'm pretty sure take my breath away is completely synthetic, do you mean that it just doesnt have vocoders and robo arppegios?

Mainly a matter of 80s synth technology, I guess. In the late 80s, you could use all synths and it didn't have to sound like synths were used at all. Damn PCM and FM synths!

in the 80s. faltermeyer stepped up and the Apprentice became the Master.

<i>I dressed up as moroder at halloween this year</i>

You must live in Brooklyn.

been listening to cat people quite a bit lately. great bits throughout.

in the 80s. faltermeyer stepped up and the Apprentice became the Master.

At the time Faltermeyer had appeared on the scene, there were already some 20-30 English synthpop bands who had became the masters.

i love moroder's "fly too high" instrumental from the foxes soundtrack, but that's early 1980 too so i guess it don't count

Yeah I've been spinning the Cat People soundtrack a lot lately. Some really great tracks on there. My housemate is a dance/Dj guy (which I know nothing about) and he spotted a bunch of stuff that has been lifted/remixed from that record...

I bought the Foxes soundtrack yesterday and it's so awesome. 10 min "Valley of the Dolls" is my favorite part, and I could probably live without the Cher song, but the rest is solid gold. Can't believe there's a giant pic of Scott Baio on the inner gatefold and no picture of Cherie Currie. Guess she wasn't such a big star?

Scarface soundtrack is generally horrible but Debbie Harry's Rush Rush (presumably the song Naive Teen Idol meant) is fantastic.

rush rush got the yayo

^^^ I hum this at least once a month.

Push it to the Limit from the Scarface soundtrack, however, got too much yayo. It's snorting yayo off the dashboard while getting head.

""I don't really have time for my old records," says Giorgio Moroder. "It's not that I don't like them, but if I listen for too long I get nervous."

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar98/articles/giorgio.html

Man I had no idea that that one Cannibal Ox track is just a loop of "Leopard Tree Dream" from Cat People- whoah! I guess I need a latepass

Oh i guess there's lots of other stuff going on too. Here's the track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVeUQxi7960

Is there a Brad Fiedel thread?

I may be the only Donna Summer fan on ILX who loves The Wanderer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAa81NCqFis

this starts off sounding a bit like transition music from barney miller, but that's not all bad i guess

hey, out in November! always liked it as a kid

http://www.amazon.com/Giorgio-Moroder-Presents-Metropolis-Special/dp/B005J7K950

oh god, i hate that version of 'Metropolis'. that soundtrack is the worst. Loverboy, for chrissakes. the worst.

i like the 'Metropolis' soundtrack that Jeff Mills did

Also, in response to Almanac, the problem people had with Moroder's Metropolis was if you were interested in Metropolis you couldn't just ignore it. At the time his version was the only version to feature many of the previously lost sequences and feature restoration work based off the A-print negatives. More than that, IIRC at the time he helped block other potential restorers from accessing the negative, preventing a more traditional restoration.

Is there a thread for Angel? This song is bananas

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

you realize their logo is the same upside down as right-side up

sorry for blowing your mind

whoa

they remind me of tamarins

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2010/07/23/article-1279874996998-0A889580000005DC-856536_636x399.jpg

"Angez"

This is what I see and say when I flip thru their many records at the flea markets

did they draw up the logo and then decide to form the band or what

(there is nothing wrong with this)