tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post7854111896129319279..comments2024-02-23T18:09:21.909-05:00Comments on Disco Delivery: Tonight..Tommyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01631387187116034184noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-61112973160073221932007-02-21T13:18:00.000-05:002007-02-21T13:18:00.000-05:00Thanks Freddy for the comment and the insight! :) ...Thanks Freddy for the comment and the insight! :) Summed everything up perfectly.. <BR/><BR/>I don't really care for Vivien Vee's "Give Me A Break," either.. I just heard Vivien's "Blue Disease" though, which I quite like.. It's certainly got me interested in some of her other material.. I agree, that vocal on Macho's "I'm A Man" is excellent too..Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01631387187116034184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20748548.post-77120253157913647242007-02-17T16:06:00.000-05:002007-02-17T16:06:00.000-05:00Agreed. Like all subgenres, Italo had good and bad...Agreed. Like all subgenres, Italo had good and bad records. I doubt I've heard more than a small fraction of them, but the best I know all fuse tsense he melody you describe with this charmingly cockeyed approach to American aeshetics.<BR/><BR/>Those wonderful records by Change, BB&Q, Kano, Jimmy Ross, etc. were big hits on the street as well as the clubs: they were considered very "down," even though rap was already revolutionizing urban radio. But they are at once not-quite and more-than: literally, italicized!<BR/><BR/>Some goes for pure eurodisco: records by Tantra, Macho, Revanche, all the way up through Hemyl all sound like brilliant practical jokes that get to their essence as much despite as because their style. Whenever I hear any of these records I immediately feel the connection to Italian visual design values.<BR/><BR/>BTW, although the preference for the cream of black New York session singers was a master stroke, a number of Italian singers, obscure to me, were quite strong. <BR/><BR/>I'm thinking of Viven Vee (not for "Give me a Break," which I hated, but "Remember," which is a bitter masterpiece); whoever it was who sang "I'm a Man;" and Hemyl, for "Keep on Rockin." I hope to hear many more surprises as ItaloDisco becomes more accessible.<BR/><BR/>-Freddy in P'townAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com