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Moroder Week: Day 7 – Donna Summer – I Feel Love 12″
What else could we end Moroder Week with but the truly seminal single “I Feel Love,” by Donna Summer? I can only typify the effect of this song’s appearance in 1977 as cataclysmic? I was still listening to Top 40 … Continue reading
Posted in Bowie, Record Review, Satire, seminal single
Tagged 12" single, 1977, Adult Swim, Donna Summer, I Feel Love, Lords Of Synth
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Moroder Week: Day 5 – Blondie – Call Me Spanish 12″
Yesterday we considered a band once compared to Moroder and Blondie. Today it’s the real thing, but with a twist. In 1980 the biggest song of the year in America was “Call Me,” the collaboration between Giorgio Moroder, then making … Continue reading
Moroder Week: Day 4 – Berlin – No More Words 12″
While I’d first heard Berlin in late 1981 when their self-released single of “The Metro” made it onto WUSF-FM to ensnare me without ever finding a copy [that was affordable], I next ran across the band when Enigma Records had … Continue reading
Moroder Week: Day 3 – Nina Hagen – Zarah 12″
Following the acid-drenched splendor of “Nunsexmonkrock,” Nina Hagen might have been shocked to still have a contract with CBS records in America. So in that framework, maybe her linkup with Moroder on the following album wasn’t all that left field. … Continue reading
Moroder Week: Day 2 – JAPAN – Life In Tokyo 12″
After the bombshell of “I Feel Love” hit with a thunderclap in 1977, lots of acts wanted to work with the Italian producer. Sparks were among the first, but so were JAPAN, the cult [with a lower case “c”] glam … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, New Romantic, Record Review
Tagged 12" single, 1979, 1981, Japan, reissue
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Moroder Week: Day 1 – Sparks – Tryouts For The Human Race 12″
Don’t you think it’s time we had another of the random theme weeks we sometimes investigate here at PPM? I’ve been feeling in a decidedly Giorgio Moroder mood lately, so we’ll go there. Actually, there are so many great Moroder … Continue reading
Posted in Record Review
Tagged 12" single, 1979, Giorgio Moroder, No. 1 In Heaven, Sparks
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Record Review: Thompson Twins – You Take Me Up UK 12″
Thompson Twins: You Take Me Up UK 12″ [1984] You Take Me Up/Machines Take Me Over Down Tools Leopard Ray Passion Planet I somehow knew when I saw the video clip for “Hold Me Now” a few months before it … Continue reading
Posted in Record Review, Records I Used To Own
Tagged 12" single, 1984, Thompson Twins, You Take Me Up
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