The 100 Greatest Songs of 1977 #1. Come Sail Away (3 Viewers)

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30. The Ramones “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (from Rocket to Russia)

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So when Joey wrote this song he was trying for all the complexities of a multi piece of work like “A Day In the Life”- or maybe not. Maybe he was just trying to write a great rock and roll song, and one of the best punk anthems ever.

 

[HellToupee]

30. The Ramones “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (from Rocket to Russia)

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So when Joey wrote this song he was trying for all the complexities of a multi piece of work like “A Day In the Life”- or maybe not. Maybe he was just trying to write a great rock and roll song, and one of the best punk anthems ever.

A squistion #FUNFACT courtesy of songfacts-

• While this was the first punk rock song to hit the Hot 100, it was not the first song on the chart with the word "Punk" in the title: Barry Mann made #78 in 1976 with "The Princess And The Punk," a song that about mismatched lovers that was certainly not a punk rocker.

 

[FairWarning]

I don’t think I would have a third of these songs in my list. It’s a big year, no doubt.

 

[rockaction]

30. The Ramones “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (from Rocket to Russia)

This is the song that got me into the Ramones in tenth grade.

Well the kids are all hopped up and ready to go
(They're ready to go now)
They got done surfin' and they're going to the discotheque a go-go
Well she just couldn't stay
She had to break away
Oh little Sheena really has it all

Sheena is...

Rocket to Russia is pure bubblegum rock that is less lyrically nihilistic than their predecessors. Only brief nods to weirdness on the album, really. It's almost a perfect pop album start to finish.

 

[Ghost Rider]

33. Billy Joel “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” (from The Stranger)

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Many people regard this as Billy Joel’s finest work. I certainly don’t, but I do see it as sort of his “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” effort.

I heard him talk about this on his Sirius/XM channel. He basically said it was him trying to create a multi-piece work with all the complexities of working the transitions similar to what the Beatles did with Day In The Life. His discussion of this tune was a good listen. He's a great songwriter, and it was really interesting to hear where his ideas come from, how he approaches putting his music together, the choices he'll make for chords, keys, etc.

Good Lord.......

I know. I like the song, but it’s not one of the great compositions of all time and Billy can get a little pretentious at times.
As I wrote there are 3 other songs on The Stranger that are better than “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”, and they’re all coming up later on this list.

Find me a great artist who isn't a little pretentious sometimes.

 

[DocHolliday]

Things got real at song 35. Strong group of songs!

 

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33. Billy Joel “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” (from The Stranger)

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Many people regard this as Billy Joel’s finest work. I certainly don’t, but I do see it as sort of his “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” effort.

I heard him talk about this on his Sirius/XM channel. He basically said it was him trying to create a multi-piece work with all the complexities of working the transitions similar to what the Beatles did with Day In The Life. His discussion of this tune was a good listen. He's a great songwriter, and it was really interesting to hear where his ideas come from, how he approaches putting his music together, the choices he'll make for chords, keys, etc.

Good Lord.......

I know. I like the song, but it’s not one of the great compositions of all time and Billy can get a little pretentious at times.
As I wrote there are 3 other songs on The Stranger that are better than “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”, and they’re all coming up later on this list.

Find me a great artist who isn't a little pretentious sometimes.

Well…Joey Ramone!

 

[timschochet]

But don’t get me wrong. I love pretentious. The #1 song on this list was written and sung by one of the most pretentious artists I can think of.

ETA and the song is one of the most delightfully pretentious tunes of all time.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

33. Billy Joel “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” (from The Stranger)

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Many people regard this as Billy Joel’s finest work. I certainly don’t, but I do see it as sort of his “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” effort.

I heard him talk about this on his Sirius/XM channel. He basically said it was him trying to create a multi-piece work with all the complexities of working the transitions similar to what the Beatles did with Day In The Life. His discussion of this tune was a good listen. He's a great songwriter, and it was really interesting to hear where his ideas come from, how he approaches putting his music together, the choices he'll make for chords, keys, etc.

Good Lord.......

I know. I like the song, but it’s not one of the great compositions of all time and Billy can get a little pretentious at times.
As I wrote there are 3 other songs on The Stranger that are better than “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”, and they’re all coming up later on this list.

He only said that's what he "tried" to do.

 

[timschochet]

29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

This was the other song I was referencing when you posted "Trans Europe Express".

 

[zamboni]

31. The Bee Gees “More Than A Woman” (from Saturday Night Fever)

https://twitter.com/super70ssports/status/1612929156370599938?s=46&t=6zTSeGJNRCBAzD5OnKbOVQ

 

[Leroy Hoard]

31. The Bee Gees “More Than A Woman” (from Saturday Night Fever)

https://twitter.com/super70ssports/status/1612929156370599938?s=46&t=6zTSeGJNRCBAzD5OnKbOVQ

"How Deep is Your Glove?"

 

[Gr00vus]

33. Billy Joel “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” (from The Stranger)

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Many people regard this as Billy Joel’s finest work. I certainly don’t, but I do see it as sort of his “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” effort.

I heard him talk about this on his Sirius/XM channel. He basically said it was him trying to create a multi-piece work with all the complexities of working the transitions similar to what the Beatles did with Day In The Life. His discussion of this tune was a good listen. He's a great songwriter, and it was really interesting to hear where his ideas come from, how he approaches putting his music together, the choices he'll make for chords, keys, etc.

Good Lord.......

I know. I like the song, but it’s not one of the great compositions of all time and Billy can get a little pretentious at times.
As I wrote there are 3 other songs on The Stranger that are better than “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”, and they’re all coming up later on this list.

He only said that's what he "tried" to do.

Right. I didn't do a great job of conveying what he was saying. He used the Beatles song as inspiration to attempt something similarly complex in terms of transitions in a suite type work. That's all, he never intimated he was attempting to outdo "A Day In The Life" in terms of meaningfulness, quality, or anything like that. The way he was talking, it was like a technical challenge, or a puzzle to solve, attempting to knit together a few different mini-themes/pieces he had kicking around into a comprehensive whole..

 

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28. Dolly Parton “Here You Come Again” (from Here You Come Again)

Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again (Official Video)

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From the brilliant songwriting team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, this became one of Dolly’s biggest ever hits and a signature tune for her. And it’s one of the greatest country/pop crossover songs of all time.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

Name an Erasure or Bronski Beat song without looking it up.
You really, really, REALLY undersell this songs importance by mentioned good bands, but not hugely influential ones.
Try Brian Eno, David Bowie, the Human League, dance music for the next 15 years and pretty much the entire LGBTQI community

Electro Ecstasy: How Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ Changed Music

Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte helped lay a path for the future of music with the smash hit 'I Feel Love.'

www.udiscovermusic.com

How Donna Summer's I Feel Love changed pop

Pop critic Jon Savage and record producer Ewan Pearson on the undimmed majesty of Donna Summer's finest 3 minutes and 47 seconds

www.theguardian.com

 

[rockaction]

pretty much the entire LGBTQI community

What the **** does this have to do with musical taste or preference? Who cares?

It's like saying the nihilist subculture community appreciates punk rock, therefore it is nihilists' music. It tells you nothing other than about its audience, not the musical styles or where it is derived from. I mean, I get what you're saying, but...

That we give an identifiable social or political movement to Moroder's theories of the synthesizer is rubbish, IMO.

It is not LGBTQ music. It's just music.

I think people really do a disservice to music when they call it "hick music" or "queer music" or any music. Music is sounds and math. It's not the polity.

 

[rockaction]

Because really, if we're going to take music and put it into the realm of modern politics, chances are, the music sucks because the identity politics of the subculture tends to suck. It's shrill and unceasing, maybe just like disco. And punk, too. And indie. And country, if it's MAGA country. And all that.

They can all jump off a ship of state with each other. Let me have music, unadulterated and without sociopolitical nods, please.

 

[rockaction]

And that's just a tangent, but I hate the co-option of anything musical for a cause.

Holy ****, that's why otb_lifer hated punk drifting to the left so much. It dulled it, it killed it. Punk died as an aesthetic when the groovie ghoulies of the left got a hold of it. Before then, it was all about an aesthetic movement rather than a squalid one concerned with politics.

@otb_lifer

Hey man, gotcha back on this one.

 

[rockaction]

And I do NOT come from any right on this one. Just a point to make about music as divorced from politics. Never divorced from math, but politics.

Cacophony is the dance that the devil does with math and music. To the extent music is euphony, then we seek heaven. The true euphony, though, has cacophonous elements to it, but cacophony is never music's raison d'être. That is the devil's work.

And this has been your sober uncle, signing off.

 

[krista4]

Really?

 

[rockaction]

Really?

I know. Dolly Parton at number twenty-eight is an utter abomination.

 

[krista4]

Really?

I know. Dolly Parton at number twenty-eight is an utter abomination.

Exactly.

 

[rockaction]

Okay, forget my rant before. "I Feel Love" is one of the most important songs of any genre, period, that came out of 1977. Anybody familiar with Daft Punk's "Girogio by Moroder" can tell you all about how Moroder came to his fanbase and the work that he put into becoming an innovator. It's a song that, in one fell swoop, tells a story and then rocks the house by using his techniques in an autobiographical format to achieve not only a story, but an understanding by the listener to how Moroder innovated dance music in the '80s, '90s', '00s, '10s, and '20s.

Yes, for LBGTQ people, too. Sorry about that before. That's really neither here nor there.

so we put the click on the twenty-fourth track which was then synched to the Moog modular -- I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn't realize how much the impact might be - my name is Giovanni Girogio but everybody calls me just Giorgio

Giorgio by Moroder

 

[FairWarning]

29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

Name an Erasure or Bronski Beat song without looking it up.
You really, really, REALLY undersell this songs importance by mentioned good bands, but not hugely influential ones.
Try Brian Eno, David Bowie, the Human League, dance music for the next 15 years and pretty much the entire LGBTQI community

Electro Ecstasy: How Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ Changed Music

Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte helped lay a path for the future of music with the smash hit 'I Feel Love.'

www.udiscovermusic.com

How Donna Summer's I Feel Love changed pop

Pop critic Jon Savage and record producer Ewan Pearson on the undimmed majesty of Donna Summer's finest 3 minutes and 47 seconds

www.theguardian.com

Great post, it’s also what makes 1977 music great. This list could be taken in numerous directions.

 

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29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

Name an Erasure or Bronski Beat song without looking it up.
You really, really, REALLY undersell this songs importance by mentioned good bands, but not hugely influential ones.
Try Brian Eno, David Bowie, the Human League, dance music for the next 15 years and pretty much the entire LGBTQI community

Electro Ecstasy: How Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ Changed Music

Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte helped lay a path for the future of music with the smash hit 'I Feel Love.'

www.udiscovermusic.com

How Donna Summer's I Feel Love changed pop

Pop critic Jon Savage and record producer Ewan Pearson on the undimmed majesty of Donna Summer's finest 3 minutes and 47 seconds

www.theguardian.com

I love Erasure. “A Little Respect” is easily one of my favorite songs from the 80s. And Bronski Beat was my (gay) roommate’s favorite band during that era and he played them incessantly. I was PRAISING this song by offering those groups up as examples of its influence. So your criticism seems misplaced.

 

[timschochet]

27. Paul Simon “Slip Slidin’ Away” (from Greatest Hits, Etc.)

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This was actually recorded in 1975 but wasn’t released until his first greatest hits album. Featuring the Oak Ridge Boys singing backup harmony.

I’ve always considered this song to have some of Simon’s best, most poetic lyrics.

 

[FairWarning]

29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

Name an Erasure or Bronski Beat song without looking it up.
You really, really, REALLY undersell this songs importance by mentioned good bands, but not hugely influential ones.
Try Brian Eno, David Bowie, the Human League, dance music for the next 15 years and pretty much the entire LGBTQI community

Electro Ecstasy: How Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ Changed Music

Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte helped lay a path for the future of music with the smash hit 'I Feel Love.'

www.udiscovermusic.com

How Donna Summer's I Feel Love changed pop

Pop critic Jon Savage and record producer Ewan Pearson on the undimmed majesty of Donna Summer's finest 3 minutes and 47 seconds

www.theguardian.com

I love Erasure. “A Little Respect” is easily one of my favorite songs from the 80s. And Bronski Beat was my (gay) roommate’s favorite band during that era and he played them incessantly. I was PRAISING this song by offering those groups up as examples of its influence. So your criticism seems misplaced.

Bronski Beat had a lot of play on early MTV.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I’ve always considered this song to have some of Simon’s best, most poetic lyrics

Not just Simon’s - some of the best all time lyrics imo.

 

[zamboni]

27. Paul Simon “Slip Slidin’ Away” (from Greatest Hits, Etc.)

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This was actually recorded in 1975 but wasn’t released until his first greatest hits album. Featuring the Oak Ridge Boys singing backup harmony.

I’ve always considered this song to have some of Simon’s best, most poetic lyrics.

The Oak Ridge Boys is something I didn't know - even that baritone "giddy up a oom poppa mow mow" guy?

 

[timschochet]

27. Paul Simon “Slip Slidin’ Away” (from Greatest Hits, Etc.)

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This was actually recorded in 1975 but wasn’t released until his first greatest hits album. Featuring the Oak Ridge Boys singing backup harmony.

I’ve always considered this song to have some of Simon’s best, most poetic lyrics.

The Oak Ridge Boys is something I didn't know - even that baritone "giddy up a oom poppa mow mow" guy?

I would assume so yeah

 

[Tin Cup]

The #1 song on this list was written and sung by one of the most pretentious artists I can think of.

John Denver? Helen Reddy?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

The Oak Ridge Boys is something I didn't know - even that baritone "giddy up a oom poppa mow mow" guy?

I never knew that either. I just listened again - there would be no way of telling they provided back-up vocals. There's very little backing vocals at all on the recording and what's there is mostly humming and whooing.

 

[timschochet]

26. Rod Stewart “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)” (from Footloose And Fancy Free)

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I’ve never been the biggest Rod fan post the early 70s: in my mind everything he did up to around 1974 is pure gold, some of the best music ever; afterwards it was hit and miss, mostly miss, often a sellout to whatever was popular at the time (see “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy”, even though I somehow like that song and feel guilty about it.)

But “You’re In My Heart” is a throwback to the early days. It’s a gorgeous tune, one of his best ever love ballads. His lyrics “you’re ageless, timeless” might just as well apply to this song. It’s magnificent.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

26. Rod Stewart “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)” (from Footloose And Fancy Free)

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I’ve never been the biggest Rod fan post the early 70s: in my mind everything he did up to around 1974 is pure gold, some of the best music ever; afterwards it was hit and miss, mostly miss, often a sellout to whatever was popular at the time (see “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy”, even though I somehow like that song and feel guilty about it.)

But “You’re In My Heart” is a throwback to the early days. It’s a gorgeous tune, one of his best ever love ballads. His lyrics “you’re ageless, timeless” might just as well apply to this song. It’s magnificent.

"Tonight's The Night" is, to me, a far worse crime than "Do Ya...."

 

[Van Dyman]

33. Billy Joel “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” (from The Stranger)

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Many people regard this as Billy Joel’s finest work. I certainly don’t, but I do see it as sort of his “Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” effort.

No one can sing "Brender" like he can.

30. The Ramones “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker” (from Rocket to Russia)

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So when Joey wrote this song he was trying for all the complexities of a multi piece of work like “A Day In the Life”- or maybe not. Maybe he was just trying to write a great rock and roll song, and one of the best punk anthems ever.

Damn this thread! Now I'm hearing "Sheen-er is a punk rocker".

 

[rockaction]

There's very little backing vocals at all on the recording and what's there is mostly humming and whooing.

Yeah, but once you know....you can't really unhear it. There's the baritone in there.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

There's very little backing vocals at all on the recording and what's there is mostly humming and whooing.

Yeah, but once you know....you can't really unhear it. There's the baritone in there.

True.

 

[rockaction]

There's very little backing vocals at all on the recording and what's there is mostly humming and whooing.

Yeah, but once you know....you can't really unhear it. There's the baritone in there.

True.

Wasn’t disagreeing though. I never would have guessed from the studio recording. The live version is very touching in a way, but I want to kick Simon for always being so damn depressing.

 

[timschochet]

25. Billy Joel “Vienna” (from The Stranger)

Billy Joel Vienna (Live 1986)

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I keep marveling about how amazing this album is. In all the different years I’ve done these lists, I don’t believe I’ve ever selected this many songs from the same album- and that includes some of the great records by the biggies, like Zep, the Beatles, the Stones and the Who. And after this there’s still two more songs to go.

Anyhow Billy Joel has stated a few times that this is his favorite composition, and what’s not to like? It’s a tremendous ballad. Thanks to the TV show Glee, it also seems to be the most popular Billy Joel song for my children’s generation. My daughter even danced to it.

 

[Ghost Rider]

Vienna is definitely all kinds of awesome. The accordion solo alone is a massive treat.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

Okay, forget my rant before. "I Feel Love" is one of the most important songs of any genre, period, that came out of 1977. Anybody familiar with Daft Punk's "Girogio by Moroder" can tell you all about how Moroder came to his fanbase and the work that he put into becoming an innovator. It's a song that, in one fell swoop, tells a story and then rocks the house by using his techniques in an autobiographical format to achieve not only a story, but an understanding by the listener to how Moroder innovated dance music in the '80s, '90s', '00s, '10s, and '20s.

Yes, for LBGTQ people, too. Sorry about that before. That's really neither here nor there.

so we put the click on the twenty-fourth track which was then synched to the Moog modular -- I knew that could be a sound of the future, but I didn't realize how much the impact might be - my name is Giovanni Girogio but everybody calls me just Giorgio

Giorgio by Moroder

Im glad you reflected
I Feel Love, You Make Me Feel Mighty Reel, Its Raining Men, YMCA....all gay anthems.....when it wasnt cool. Some were deliberately aimed at the group, others were appropriated. Same with any group. LGBTQI, politicians, the military, sports teams, ice fisherman....whatever.

I love “gay” music, not because i am, but its generally fun, uptempo and celebratory. This song obviously hit with a much larger audience, but its been very very important to some groups.

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/essential-lgbtq-anthems-for-pride-month/

Just like i love punk music cause it expresses emotions i am all too familiar with. Anger IS an energy

This is about celebrating music. This cracker of a song was revolutionary. Its influence lives to this day. The Daft Punk reference was outstanding.

For better or worse, Moroder the producer is like Clint Eastwood the director. Eastwood often does only one take...”good enough”. Phil Oakey, lead singer of Human League tells the story of the Together in Electric Dreams recording. He thought he was just laying a background vocal. Moroder said finished and thats the version that was released.

 

[John Maddens Lunchbox]

29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

Name an Erasure or Bronski Beat song without looking it up.
You really, really, REALLY undersell this songs importance by mentioned good bands, but not hugely influential ones.
Try Brian Eno, David Bowie, the Human League, dance music for the next 15 years and pretty much the entire LGBTQI community

Electro Ecstasy: How Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ Changed Music

Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte helped lay a path for the future of music with the smash hit 'I Feel Love.'

www.udiscovermusic.com

How Donna Summer's I Feel Love changed pop

Pop critic Jon Savage and record producer Ewan Pearson on the undimmed majesty of Donna Summer's finest 3 minutes and 47 seconds

www.theguardian.com

I love Erasure. “A Little Respect” is easily one of my favorite songs from the 80s. And Bronski Beat was my (gay) roommate’s favorite band during that era and he played them incessantly. I was PRAISING this song by offering those groups up as examples of its influence. So your criticism seems misplaced.

Apologies. I thought you were throwing out Erasure and Bronski Beat as an insult like it influenced The Wiggles and William Hung. Erasure and Bronski Beat were heavily criticized by sections of the UK music press in the 80s with heavy undercurrents of homophobia.

 

[timschochet]

29. Donna Summer “I Feel Love” (from I Remember Yesterday)

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Donna and the brilliant Giorgio Moroder helped to invent electronic music with this amazing song. Because of the singer and era it’s regarded as disco, but it actually has more in common with 80s dance music like Erasure or Bronski Beat. Way way ahead of its time.

Name an Erasure or Bronski Beat song without looking it up.
You really, really, REALLY undersell this songs importance by mentioned good bands, but not hugely influential ones.
Try Brian Eno, David Bowie, the Human League, dance music for the next 15 years and pretty much the entire LGBTQI community

Electro Ecstasy: How Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’ Changed Music

Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and Pete Bellotte helped lay a path for the future of music with the smash hit 'I Feel Love.'

www.udiscovermusic.com

How Donna Summer's I Feel Love changed pop

Pop critic Jon Savage and record producer Ewan Pearson on the undimmed majesty of Donna Summer's finest 3 minutes and 47 seconds

www.theguardian.com

I love Erasure. “A Little Respect” is easily one of my favorite songs from the 80s. And Bronski Beat was my (gay) roommate’s favorite band during that era and he played them incessantly. I was PRAISING this song by offering those groups up as examples of its influence. So your criticism seems misplaced.

Apologies. I thought you were throwing out Erasure and Bronski Beat as an insult like it influenced The Wiggles and William Hung. Erasure and Bronski Beat were heavily criticized by sections of the UK music press in the 80s with heavy undercurrents of homophobia.

I wasn’t aware of that. I mean I guess I knew they were gay but I wasn’t aware of the criticism. They were both huge at the time at dance clubs I went to and on KROQ (the local new wave station.) I always associated Erasure with Yaz and Alison Moyet.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Where is the Bee Gees doc airing?

I’m watching on demand on FIOS. Per a quick Google:

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, a documentary movie is available to stream now. Watch it on HBO Max, Spectrum TV, Prime Video, Vudu or Apple TV on your Roku device.

I watched this the other day on Prime. It followed the standard music-doc template, but it was really good. I love that they got some of the non-Gibb band members and producers to sit for this.

 

[timschochet]

24. Steely Dan “Peg” (from Aja)

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This was Steely Dan’s biggest hit off Aja but I also believe it’s the best song, and apart from a couple of early tunes that I love (see my list for 1972), maybe the best thing they ever did, combining their quest for jazz rock perfection with a terrific pop hook.

 

[Mookie Gizzy]

24. Steely Dan “Peg” (from Aja)

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This was Steely Dan’s biggest hit off Aja but I also believe it’s the best song, and apart from a couple of early tunes that I love (see my list for 1972), maybe the best thing they ever did, combining their quest for jazz rock perfection with a terrific pop hook.

This at lowest in my top 3 so yeah, too low. The background vocals by Michael McDonald. The stories of them redoing the song daily with all different musicians. Go online and watch the making of Aja documentary. Just a perfect pop song

 

[Dr. Octopus]

This was Steely Dan’s biggest hit off Aja but I also believe it’s the best song

I don't believe so, but it's obviously not an outrageous claim.

 

[Bogart]

This thread now has me thinking too much about Billy Joel song rankings.

 

[Grace Under Pressure]

Peg is a great tune.