ILM Disco Poll campaigning thread

The Disco poll thread shouldn't become cluttered with Youtubes, so campaign for your favourite tracks in this one. I'll start with one of my absolute favourites:

The height of the disco era coincided with a renewed interest in sci-fi, due to the popularity of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (both of which received disco remakes of their theme tunes, included in the nomination list), so there were a shitload of awesome, epic sci-fi disco tunes. This lesser known gem from Canada might be the campiest and best of them all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19X-g5jHRzI
(The Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord)

This is going to crash every browser ever created within a few hours

I'm not sure what is so irresistible abt this slice of Italo (maybe it's the drum hits, maybe it's the looped vocals, idk) but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K14bPef09Ko

The song is, like, one of the reasons synthesizers were invented.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmlnnDn3eq4

Never heard that remix before, but it sounds like someone's been listening to "Rockit". :) The synth hook in "Happy Station" is one for the ages IMO... The vocals I've always thought are a bit bland (as in many Italo tunes), so I don't mind them getting chopped up.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq652JcOrmE

I don't really have anything interesting to say about this, but the version on the spotify playlist is some 2008 remix that isn't very good, so I wanted to put this here (this is the version specified on Tuomas' list)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq652JcOrmE

Sorry, I didn't mean to post it twice.

I don't really have anything interesting to say about this

This isn't very good campaigning, is it? I feel guilty I'm not doing more to sell it now, because it's one of my favourite tracks, produced my Marc Moulin from Telex, Placebo and Aksak Maboul if that interests anyone. Anyway, don't let my ineffectual campaigning technique put you off this fantastic track.

Yep, Sage Comme Une Image is flawless.

I think I'm A Man by Macho will be high on my list. The 17 minute 12" version feels about half as long as I want it to be.

http://youtu.be/c_wEO4GXj1Q

Thinking about Aksak Maboul is making me wonder if there are any other points of crossover with Rock in Opposition/Disco personel amongst the nominated tracks.

I like some Fun Fun but I just don't like Happy Station. Bah.

Anyway, fun disco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13nCj7ORh4o
Passengers - He's Speedy Like Gonzalez

Serious business disco:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltvGdutwtDA
Easy Going - Fear

Hot Butterfly by Bionic Boogie has a shot at my number one. Probably my favourite Luther Vandross vocal ever.

http://youtu.be/wi3UaMtOMiE

So in addition to the Linda Clifford/Curtis Mayfield track I singled out in the nominations thread ...

http://youtu.be/QfcIgtZoYmo

I'd also like to draw more attention to the P&P masterpiece that is High Fidelity's "Magic Carpet," an unbelievably punchy, lo-fi workout:

http://asoundmodification.blogspot.com/2010/01/high-fidelity-magic-carpet.html

guys can you please post your artists and titles for people on zing (or sensibly browsing with flashblock)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mWWhInB3Ek

Nadia Cassini - Obsessed, because it's not on the spotify playlist and it's probably my favourite out of all the tracks I nominated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFo1NF1sXU4

Karen Carpenter- Lovelines
This is NOT ELIGIBLE for the poll as it was only released in 1989, but I wanted to post it on the off chance that there is anyone reading this who hasn't heard it before, because it's wonderful, would have a been definite top ten for me had it come out the time.

Those were both meant to be just links rather than embedded videos?

First couple of these aren't on Spotify:

New York Community Choir - I'll Keep My Light In My Window (Disco Mix): amazing gospel-disco version of the Caston and Majors/Marvin and Diana classic, possibly the most joyous song ever
Undisputed Truth - You + Me = Love: Norman Whitfield hits the discotheque, as good as it sounds
Demis Roussos - L.O.V.E. Got a Hold On Me - this track would be sweet with anyone singing it, Demis Roussos' housewife- and hipster-approved falsetto takes it over the top
Risco Connection - Ain't No Stopping Us Now (Version): Caribbean disco for parties under the sea
Garçons - French Boy: if Love of Life Orchestra had aimed straight at the dancefloor; my all-time favourite rock/disco track
Hot RS - House of the Rising Sun: "It's Hot! It's Hot! It's Hot!"
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough: disco juggernaut like no other, starts at a gallop and ends up flying through space

Many orchestras and big bands released instrumental disco music, but Mike Theodore's orch migth've been the best of the bunch. "Cosmic Wind" is their space masterpiece, when the string melody hits at the two minute mark, after an extended hold-and-release start, the result is pure bliss:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atd0mg14X1Q
Mike Theodore Orchestra - Cosmic Wind

seandalai w/ some a+ candidates-- ive been hearing that demis roussos song played out for years w/o ever knowing what it was

if you've maybe only listened to the first few minutes of "just as long as i got you" by the love committee you could maybe be forgiven for thinking it was a typical lightweight sub-loveboat throwaway but i urge you to take the full eight minutes for a ride and let its psychedelic madness wash over you and up towards the top of your ballot

ditto for "get ready for the future" by the winners

also i don't know how anyone remotely interested in this poll could hate on this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH5FNyfYK8A

oops sorry 4 embed

ok one more

CHAPLIN BAND - LET'S HAVE A PARTY

this is the only version on youtube and its kind of shitty quality (its not on spotify either)

no idea why this isn't more of a classic-- such a straight-ahead disco-rock stomper with a chorus you can sing along to immediately

Idk if i will vote for this (just heard it this week) but it is a cool smooth tripped out magic carpet ride
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O2NO0idrUI

Sorry, that's "nights over egypt (tom moulton' remix)" by the jones girls.
Double sorry for embed.

will def be voting for that^

i would also recommend "i dig you" by demis roussous. Another great disco tune by the greek hunk produced by vangelis.

he was in aphrodite's child iirc

Both Roussos and Vangelis were, ja. Or is that what you meant? I'm more likely to vote 'I Dig You' but I'll give the other more of a listen.

you mean both hunks? most definitely
http://foglobe.com/data_images/main/vangelis/vangelis-04.jpg

oh lol n/m xp

i'm voting for "you gonna make me love somebody" else but "nights over egypt" is deserving, too

posted this in the voting thread but maybe this is the right thread for it:

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

Garçons - French Boy: if Love of Life Orchestra had aimed straight at the dancefloor; my all-time favourite rock/disco track

The find of the thread for me, thus far. Thanks, seandalia!

damn i know i said i was done campaigning but i just discovered

Ectasy, Passion, & Pain - Touch & Go

!!!!

!!!! yeah that's a good one

bummer that DC LaRue - Cathedrals missed the noms, its better than at least half the stuff that made it :-\

Please all, don't forget about Sharon Ridley's titanic "Changin." It's not available on the Spotify playlist.

http://youtu.be/VqGKiPirgdQ

My turn to campaign. A lesser known Kool and the Gang track, but one I've loved for over twenty years. Please try to not hold its inclusion in The Pirate Movie against it.

Kool and the Gang - Stand Up and Sing

Where can I find the list of nominations?

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

Thanks.

i notice this amazing bit of work is missing from the Donna Summer nominations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNc77h0Y7JM

French space disco. Come on guys, this is a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrU30Jja0To

Already knew and dug this track from the Rhino Disco Years comp, but the full version is something else entirely:

Boys Town Gang - Cruisin' the Streets

I didn't think this track would need campaigning, but maybe it does. A groovy disco cover version with a wonderfully energetic performance by Jocelyn Brown, a masterful remix by Larry Levan, and a hypnotic extended synth solo in the middle... What more can you ask?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlZKG488Bk
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Larry Levan Remix)

Whoops, sorry, I didn't notice Seandalai had already linked to it! Well, I'm gonna use the chance to link this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olKpi9AawoY
Ultra High Frequency - We're on the Right Track (Tom Moulton Mix)

A beautiful early disco groover with a wicked Tom Moulton edit.

OTOH, if instrumental, moody synth disco is your thing, you can't go wrong with this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0L7sKXEdG0

(IMO the best solo track Patrick Cowley ever produced.)

When talking about disco epics, Tantra's "Hills of Katmandu" is the first one I think about... It's 16 minutes of pure escapist bliss. I guess many of you might be familiar with the Patrick Cowley remix (which is ace), but the original version is even more epic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MCfnMpkUTo

I probably won't have time to make a list but I'd really appreciate if at least one person could vote for this song for me k thx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6eYzrTGXP4

tuomas this late campaigning push sort of breaks with everything else you've done to try and ensure your impartiality as poll mod

I voted for that iirc xp

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you should too though