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One of Italo’s many charms is that you can often tell what the singer meant to say in English but the actual meaning is quite different or often just odd. Unlik
by mattbierner 8y ago
One of Italo’s many charms is that you can often tell what the singer meant to say in English but the actual meaning is quite different or often just odd. Unlike the Swedish song writers mentioned here, I suspect many Italo artists knew only basic English, which they learned from song lyrics or movies or something.
This mimicry produced great songs—arguably much more disco disco than what came out of the states, sort of like why spaghetti westerns are the best westerns—and it also holds up a mirror to the original culture and material
- wodenokoto 8y agoI have never heard of italo before, but it appears to be a subgenre of disco. Can you name a few "classic" hits one might know?
- namdnay 8y agoYo listen up, here's the story About a little guy that lives in a blue world And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue Like him, inside and outside Blue his house with a blue little window And a blue Corvette And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause he ain't got nobody to listen to
- wodenokoto 8y agoI'm blue da ba dee da ba dai?
- toasterlovin 8y agoI don’t have any particular recommendations, but if you want to explore, use the search term “Italo disco”, rather than “Italo”. YouTube can take you on a nice tour.
- mbroncano 8y agoLady of Ice by fancy is a good start
- poisonarena 8y agoMy Mine - Hypnotic Tengo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHvA0QFDoVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHvA0QFDoVY
- sireat 8y agoThere were two strands of italo disco: space one and the pop one, both can be quite fun pop: Savage - Don't Cry Tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfc-knHB41U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfc-knHB41U (what computer is that?) Silent Circle - Touch in the night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAvd5x0KpU8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAvd5x0KpU8 space: Charlie - Spacer Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglu23iGsU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eglu23iGsU0 Koto - Visitors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4s3jJSjB1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4s3jJSjB1Y
- mattbierner 8y agoWikipedia has an ok starting list of artists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italo_disco_artists_and_songs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italo_disco_artists_... YouTube is the best for finding their work. Spotify mostly has remixes and compilations For an example of the lyrics, check out “Hey Hey Guy” by the amazing Ken Laszlo: http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Laszlo:Hey_Hey_Guy http://lyrics.wikia.com/wiki/Ken_Laszlo:Hey_Hey_Guy