THE POLLFECT BEATS VOLUME 1: New York Electro Hip-Hop + Underground Dance Classics 1980 - 1985

Don't Make Me Wait is my favourite of these but i can't imagine that many people feel the same way.

It's probably my 2nd favorite after Play At Your Own Risk.

Wait, is this the same Level 42 that did "Something About You" and "Lessons in Love"??

Great list. Tempted to go with my favorite Yello song ("Everybody!!! Pizza Party!!!" At leaast that's how I always hear it), and I'd for sure vote for "The Mexican" if it was the original Babe Ruth version. But I'm going to surprise myself and go with "Just An Illusion."

I mean, "Trans Europe Express" and "Planet Rock" seem more great, I guess, but Imagination's is the one I most often want to hear. (And fwiw, I really really love the Peech Boys' song, too.)

"Dirty Talk" is awesome beat Larry Heard at his own game.

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Wait, is this the same Level 42 that did "Something About You" and "Lessons in Love"??

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 16 February 2010 19:41 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yes and "starchild" is a superb track!

when i interviewed Bob Blank yesterday, we kept winding up discussing "Walking on Sunshine" and i hear that one out most often in DJ sets. pretty deathless.

it's probably considered sacrilege but i've never really liked that track.

a little bit of jazz!

I went with Dirty Talk, but can't wait for Vol. 2.

I have so many 12"s with so many different versions of Walking On Sunshine...

bit of a weird mix this one...

HEY BOLLY BA, HEY BOLLY BA, WOOF! WOOF!

Or words to that effect. Planet Patrol by a whisker over the Peech Boys.

i decided to follow the example upthread and vote for Just An Illusion.

Between the two Kraftwerk tracks for me. Although I love Don't Make Me Wait and Starchild

"T.W. Funkmasters* - Love Money"

not sure if i know this song. and not entirely sure that i've heard the level 42 song either.

i don't like the male vox on walking on sunshine but most of it, esp in the long version, is str8 fire

Bostich or Planet Rock

bostich rules.

The tracklists of these volumes are so great. The mastering, iirc, is so poor.

Anyway, voted for Nick Straker Band for one of the all-time boogie tracks.

I first heard the Level 42 track on François K's Essential Mix CD.

This is one of my all-time fave collections. It dives right into disco's "when the cat's away" sense of play in this period. I'm going with the zero gravity soul of "Just An Illusion" here with lots of love for Yaz(oo) (esp. for how they dispense with two verse/choruses by 1:07) and Peech Boys' dub disco and Yello birthing Ruffneck Ft. Yavahn and...

"The mastering, iirc, is so poor."

Is it really? I'll have to compare a couple of different versions of "Planet Rock" for comparison now.

btw did you mean Larry Levan upthread? 'Dirty Talk' predates any Larry Heard stuff (and doesn't seem that similar) right?

No I meant Larry Heard and yeah it predating him was what I meant. As for not seeming that similar. . .

would have voted for bugger groove over any of these. to be honest.

jusr peeked at vol 2. trak-listing and that one is way harder to choose from.

reason i mentioned Levan is because of Street Beat 'Do The Flex' which actually does sound a lot like 'Dirty Talk' (more than Heard stuff) and has something to do with him i read somewhere? don't know what year that's from tho

I just listened to "Dirty Talk" and "Beyond The Clouds" and I agree that the similarity is mostly in memory.

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Man "Bostich" is a great track. So is "Dirty Talk". Love the Kraftwerk tracks too, of course, and "Planet Rock". And don't even know some of the others (Level 42, really?).

In the end I am voting for "Bostich" but I feel kind of like I should apologise to Kraftwerk for that.

(Maybe I should be a little more respectful of the "New York" in the comp title and vote for Afrika Bambaataa or half of Klein + MBO actually coming from NYC, but eh)

it's ALL GOOD - this is my favorite music in the world, soundtrack to my early 20s -- but after mucho deliberation voting Peech Boys

IT HAS TO BE YELLO.

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Funny that Trans Europe Express didn't get one vote.

by default the TEE votes went to Planet Rock...