Italo in languages other than English

I just started this thread as an excuse to post this gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvHOHwFx0C8

...and this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL7D76F1zMg&feature=related

...this one too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4JwenFloWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ouCuXcLrNw

there is a more synth-italo version in English called "Love on the Rocks" by Lama. Both of these are covers of an older italian pop song I think?

Which ones?

OK I get it, nevermind.

I'm cheating a bit on this one cause the better-known version of it is in English, but whatever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku-DUGDWRfY&feature=PlayList&p=92E09F9BDA1E0FF8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4

the original?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1SJiz0mnlE&feature=related

Probably... sounds pre Italo to me. More like mid-70's funky-disco?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2z6H9ej9U

The original is 76, so it's italian disco, and not technically italo, but I consider most of that stuff italo anyway. I'd rather grant all the original/influential disco stuff italo then focus on all the pop crap of the mid 80s that's most often associated with the description.

I cannot think of a single italo influenced french pop track that isn't completely atrocious. There must be a few ones that aren't that bad tho.

mid 80's on ZYX, so it should count, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oa-xgy6UoE

I cannot think of a single italo influenced french pop track that isn't completely atrocious.

I can...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBiTrNzJ7DE

Not as good, but not bad either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyv70KiAc7g

Yes it's actually a good one (written by Christophe BTW). But if you had been a teenager in France in the mid 80s like me, you would have been reluctant to post it. That song was like everywhere for a few months, and well eternally be associated in my head with crappy camping nightclubs.

the Corynne Charby is not bad at all, but lol at the idea of a pretty girl spending the evening alone in a bowling alley

from Spain:

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

^ Amazing!

dan, definitely hip yourself to luccio batisti. such a bro. that is the original. his 70s albums are so rad. he's like an italian tim buckley. or i guess as i said on this thread, Nascimento and Franco Battiato.
Lucio Battisti

how's this for one of the creepiest unofficial videos ever made for a song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWkIRFGgDu0

there was an even creepier one with a heavy set lesbian in leather whipping a riding whip for the entire video, but it looks like it's been taken off youtube.

i've been playing this one out a lot lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSaNHLC2eiA

and 2 more from righeira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVQpcY1au4

this one's less campy than that one

http://www.robotsinheat.com/temp/Tanzen%20Mit%20Righeira.mp3

The Bandolero is awesome... I had forgotten the guy was rapping in french.

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

It's disco and not Italo, but here's a dope Finnish version of Boney M's "Rasputin":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdK6JXfgMIE

the production values of that Mylene Farmer video are only slightly better than that loltastic fan-made Toute Premiere Fois video above!

Great posts so far! <3 Corynne Charby

Here's a favorite:

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

Gary Low, another popular italo guy from Spain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2LBO08UQ9A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTJV0Irpzs

The elephant in the room:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y7c1_gK8Os

Or just the instrumentals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RuJKwCR8As

Hmm the name of the thread is "Italo in languages other than English".

imo the elephant in the room is definitely this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCCL6VkNms

maybe not 'italo' proper but telex also had a bunch of tracks like this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02VNHLz5ss&feature=related
(also sorta cheating since i was mostly familiar with the english version)

^ Telex - Quelque Chose a Dire

I have a request for you. For some strange reason, my browser crashes when it tries to load a thread with too many embedded youtube videos on it. The only way I've found to partially solve the problem is to disable the flash plugin before clicking on the thread. But then I don't get to see the links, I can only see text. Could you, from now on, write down the artist and song titles of the videos you post on this thread. Hope you don't mind :) Thanks. Or does anyone know a better way around this?

stop using netscape

works fine in Safari and Firefox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2LLqdN__nE&feature=related

It's not about the browser (I'm using the latest version of firefox BTW), It's something about the configuration of my PC at work which I can't change (not the admin). I'm pretty sure there's no way I can't prevent the crash (it's not my own computer that I'm using), I was just asking if anyone knows a way to disable flash and still see the links.

that last one (Normand Brathwaite - Métal) is amazing

Yeah I remember that one (maybe another version) was on a Quebec 80s pop compilation? Pretty good stuff in there. Anyone remember the name?

Quebectronique 80. There's some great songs on there like "Talk About It" by Belgazou, "Call Girl" by Nanette Workman and "Pied De Poule" by Dolbie Stereo.

That's it! Thanks.

Also from Québec, the orignal was in french:

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

LeRooLeRoo, can you tell me what it is? (see below).

I have a request for you. For some strange reason, my browser crashes when it tries to load a thread with too many embedded youtube videos on it. The only way I've found to partially solve the problem is to disable the flash plugin before clicking on the thread. But then I don't get to see the links, I can only see text. Could you, from now on, write down the artist and song titles of the videos you post on this thread... Hope you don't mind. Thanks!

― Y tú, y tú, dime lo que bailas! (daavid), Monday, August 10, 2009 2:47 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

OK problem solved. Thanks to whoever suggested flashblock! :)

We can't forget the Princess:

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

I have a request for you. For some strange reason, my browser crashes when it tries to load a thread with too many embedded youtube videos on it. The only way I've found to partially solve the problem is to disable the flash plugin before clicking on the thread. But then I don't get to see the links, I can only see text. Could you, from now on, write down the artist and song titles of the videos you post on this thread. Hope you don't mind :) Thanks. Or does anyone know a better way around this?

― Y tú, y tú, dime lo que bailas! (daavid), Monday, August 10, 2009 2:47 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

I've experienced your problem. Changing/adding the fan solved that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJWd6H4PkK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As9kUIB-KMM

wow great thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0avQ9w950Rk

and a French classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CstPu4ZSmvE

is there anyone out there that would consider rita mitsouko italo? if so, this song kills it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHEwFoo_KA0

I love 'Petit Train' but wouldn't really put it in italo. tbh I think I have no idea what constitutes italo. I think this would qualify tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf09M1vBw00

!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eNBgHMPsak

Well, here's the Opera-Italo hybrid I've always wanted, sung in fake Russian. Video is entertaining too.

Midnight Moscow - Tovarish Gorbachev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y8aYw8pY-w