"I Feel Love"- Donna Summer

It's great, but don't forget Fred Astaire recorded "Night And Day."

Why do you think so, OP?

It's in the Library of Congress in two different categories. Giorgio Moroder invented Techno, "I Feel Love" has been far more influential than anything Kraftwerk did, virtually every electronic group is obsessed with it. Moby said it breaks his heart he knows he'll never be able to equal it. Which is literally true, analog synthesizers had eccentricities that can't be reproduced by digital synthesizers, and no one knows how to operate analog synthesizers anymore, certainly not at the level Moroder did.

Kraftwerk predates this song by a few years, and Moroder was a genius but Kraftwerk laid the foundation.

That song is incredible. The first time I heard it it felt otherworldly. Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder are music geniuses for making this.

Sorry, but Giorgio was the true innovator. The proof of that is Kraftwerk started aping "I Feel Love" after it was released. They knew they'd been bested.

Supposedly, when Bowie and Eno were living in Berlin, working on Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, one day Eno came to their daily session holding this 12" and said to Bowie: "I've heard the future and this is it" (or something along those lines) Then they spent the whole day sitting around Bowie's apartment and listening to it.

When you look at it today, it's rather simple, the technology we have has vastly surpassed what Moroder had to play with, but, fuck, it still sounds so futuristic. It definitely spawned Detroit techno since all those guys were heavily influenced by Kraftwerk and Moroder. This and "Trans Europe Express" by Kraftwerk were the blueprint for it.

I heard it for the first time around 1994 and was convinced it was a recent release. It's only rather recently that I learned it was made 9 months before I was born!! Thereabouts.

Conversely, the first time I heard Don't look back in anger by Oasis it didn't feel novel at all, I just believed it was a lesser-known recording by the Beatles.

In retrospect, the genius of Moroder's production was that he kept it very minimal and didn't smother Donna's voice with some elaborate backing track. The combination of the iciness of the sparse, monotone, yet hypnotic arrangement and the sheer lushness and sensuality of her voice is simply amazing.

Giorgio expected Donna to belt the song out, thinking she'd have to so the hard track didn't smother her. It was Donna's choice to use her falsetto, to make it sound more ethereal.

For once I can agree

[quote]The greatest recording in the history of disco music and that's a fact.

Fixed.

I adore Donna and her version is an unbeatable masterpiece but Annette from Venus Hum at least did it justice. Such a joyful performance!

That was FABULOUS r13!

I Feel Love came out in 1977. Trans-Europe Express came out a couple months earlier, in March.

Autobahn was released in 1974.

Just stop, R6.

I agree. One of my all time favorites. The members of New Order always reference it as a major influence in their music.

Trans-Euro Express hasn't been anywhere near as influential, r15. Deny it all you want. Kraftwerk didn't invent electronic music, so it makes no difference when their forgotten crap was released.

[quote] Trans-Euro Express hasn't been anywhere near as influential, [R15]. Deny it all you want. Kraftwerk didn't invent electronic music, so it makes no difference when their forgotten crap was released.

Gurl, you be trippin' ... But I'd like some of whatever you're on.

Hon, "I Feel Love" and "Trans-Euro" are simply not comparable. "I Feel Love" is infinitely more danceable far more revered. Giorgio invented what's known as the galloping baseline with the song, which is heavily used in Trance music. There's been endless "I Feel Love" knock-offs and nothing notable or well-known for Trans-Euro. Giorgio bumped into a few of the Kraftwerk guys once, and said they were pretentious bores.

Eldergays arguing over the music of their youth, music that everybody else despises, even to this day.

What could be more entertaining?

[quote] Eldergays arguing over the music of their youth, music that everybody else despises, even to this day.

Hey, shopbottom, isn't there a new Katy Perry single dropping that you should be popping your bussy to while shrieking with your fellow vapid mean girls? Run away and let the adults talk amongst themselves.

"What could be more entertaining?"

The thought of you, in your dotage, trying to remember a single cultural artifact of your youth that's worth remembering?

Are Daft Punk eldergays? Their track "Giorgio on Moroder." just Giorgio talking about his life, appeared on their "Random Access Memories" album which won Album of the Year in 2014

My Eldergay children. Don't forget about my 1976 disco hit!

"that you should be popping your bussy to while shrieking with your fellow vapid mean girls?"

Yeah, as if the eldergays weren't shrieking to Donna Summer, guzzling alcohol, snorting coke and doing poppers. I'm sure you were all perfect ladies and on your best behavior while you were getting fucked bareback in the bathroom.

"Run away and let the adults talk amongst themselves."

How can you hear anyone speaking with all the clacking and clattering of your walkers on those hard nursing home floors.

Ageism is so 2015.