Donna Summer

I Feel Love

Composed by Pete Bellotte / Giorgio Moroder / Donna Summer

Song Review by Jason Ankeny

Not only one of the landmark records of the disco era, Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" also anticipated the emergence of techno -- sleek, pulsating, and sensual, its signature galloping bass line and sequencer-driven rhythm established the sonic blueprint for virtually all of the dance music to follow in its wake. Written by Summer in tandem with her longtime production team of Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellotte, upon its 1977 release "I Feel Love" heralded a massive shift from the lushly orchestral disco records popular during the middle of the decade toward a harder-edged, electronic approach -- completely computer-generated, the song's futuristic sheen combines with its dreamily orgasmic vocal to create an experience that's both clinically remote and primally erotic. Summer's second Top Ten hit, "I Feel Love" ranks alongside Brian Eno's Another Green World and Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express among the era's seminal electronic recordings, and is perhaps even more pivotal because of its mainstream success; a subsequent 20-minute remix by Patrick Cowley pushed the envelope even further, while in 1985 the Jimmy Somerville-led Bronski Beat recorded a hit cover featuring Marc Almond.

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Year	Artist/Album	Label	Time
1977	Donna Summer I Remember Yesterday	Casablanca	5:55
1977	Various Artists Billboard Top Dance Hits: 1977	Rhino	5:57
1978	Various Artists Disco Fire	K-Tel Distribution
1978	Various Artists Music Magic	K-Tel Distribution
1979	Donna Summer Bad Girls	Casablanca	0:00
1979	Donna Summer On the Radio: Greatest Hits, Vols. 1-2	Casablanca	3:20
1980	Donna Summer Walk Away: The Best of Donna Summer (1977-1980)	Mercury	5:39
1987	Donna Summer The Dance Collection	Casablanca / Universal	8:14
1992	Various Artists The Disco Years, Vol. 5: Must Be the Music	Rhino	5:57
1993	Donna Summer The Donna Summer Anthology	Casablanca / Universal	5:51
1993	Various Artists Sounds of the Seventies: AM Nuggets	Time / Life Music	5:56
1994	Various Artists Casablanca Records Story	Casablanca / Mercury	8:12
1995	Donna Summer Endless Summer: Donna Summer's Greatest Hits	Casablanca	3:46
1995	Donna Summer Greatest Hits [1995]	Universal International	3:57
1995	Various Artists Now That's What I Call Music! 32 [UK]	Virgin / EMI
1996	Various Artists Casablanca Records Greatest Hits	Casablanca / Universal / Polygram	3:46
1996	Various Artists And They Danced the Night	Debutante	3:46
1996	Various Artists Pure Disco [Polygram]	Polydor / Polygram	3:54
1996	Various Artists Disco Mix 96	WEA International
1996	Various Artists 100% Pure Dance	Mercury	6:21
1997	Various Artists Dance Box, Vol. 3 [Damian]	Damian Music	6:21
1997	Various Artists Dance Box Set, Vol. 2	Damian Music	6:21
1997	Various Artists Disco in the House	Priority Records	9:32
1997	Various Artists Disco: The Best Album in the World...Ever!	Virgin
1997	Various Artists Sounds of the Seventies: '70s Dance Party, 1976-1977	Time / Life Music	5:56
1998	Various Artists Gay Anthems, Vol. 3 [Blast]	Blast Records	9:54
1998	Various Artists Hi-NRG Classics	SPG	15:45
1998	Various Artists Disco Fever: 20 Smash Hit Dancefloor Classics	Crimson Productions
1998	Various Artists City FM, Vol. 1	Pro D.J.	3:56
1998	Various Artists The Very Very Best of Disco	Repertoire	5:40
1998	Various Artists 70's Disco Ball Party Pack	Rhino	8:13
1998	Donna Summer Greatest Hits	Chronicles / Mercury	3:46
1998	Original Soundtrack Modulations: Cinema for the Ear	Caipirinha Records	5:55
1998	Various Artists Class Reunion: The Greatest Hits of 1977	Rebound Records	3:48
1999	Various Artists Disco Box	Rhino	5:55
1999	Various Artists Disco 1999	EMI Music Distribution	3:50
1999	Various Artists Billboard Top Dance Hits: 1976-1980	Rhino	5:57
1999	Various Artists Fetenkult Disco 70	BMG International	3:47
1999	Donna Summer Universal Masters Collection	Polydor / Universal	3:11
2000	Donna Summer Millennium Edition	Mercury	3:12
2000	Various Artists Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music	Rhino	5:55
2001	Various Artists Disco Freakout	WEA International	3:07
2001	Various Artists Magnum Opus	PolyGram	15:51
2001	Various Artists Back to Black: 1900-1999	Universal International	3:46
2001	Donna Summer Best of Donna Summer	WEA International	5:54
2001	Various Artists Feel	M.f.s.	11:50
2002	Various Artists I Love Disco [EMI]	EMI Music Distribution	3:42
2002	Various Artists Mastercuts: Discothèque	Mastercuts	5:19
2002	New Order Back to Mine	DMC	9:00
2003	Donna Summer 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Donna Summer	Mercury	5:53
2003	Various Artists Friends Reunited: 42 Classroom Classics from the 80's	Universal International	3:46
2003	Various Artists Girls Triple Set	Spectrum Music	3:45
2003	Various Artists Breaks 03 - The Album: Mixed by Kid Kenobi	Ministry Of Sound	6:13
2003	Donna Summer The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer	UTV	8:18
2003	Donna Summer The Ultimate Collection	Universal International	6:08
2003	Little Louie Vega Soul Heaven: London & Ibiza	SUSU	2:24
2004	Various Artists 90's	Spectrum Music
2004	Various Artists '70s [Universal]	Universal / USM	3:45
2004	Various Artists Girls [3 CD Box Set]	Universal Distribution	3:45
2005	Donna Summer Gold	Hip-O / Mercury	5:52
2005	Various Artists Disco Gold	Hip-O	5:54
2005	Various Artists Club St. Tropez, Vol. 3	More Music	3:09
2006	Various Artists '70s: Gold	Hip-O	3:46
2006	Various Artists Express Yourself: Soul In The 20th Century	Universal / Um3	3:45
2006	Various Artists 12"/'80s/Dance	Family Recordings	15:51
2006	Various Artists 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection: The Best of Disco, Vol. 2	Universal	5:54
2006	Various Artists Old School Jams, Vol. 6	SPG	5:48
2006	Various Artists And They Danced the Night Away: 72 Pure Disco Classics from the 70s & 80s	Polygram	3:46
2006	Original Soundtracks Once in a Lifetime [Original Soundtrack]	Superb Records	3:50
2006	Various Artists Greatest Ever! Party: The Definitive Collection	Union Square Music	3:47
2008	Various Artists The 70s Collection	Brunswick	5:56
2009	Donna Summer Classic	Spectrum Music	3:12
2009	John Lord Fonda Composite	Citizen Records	2:00
2009	Various Artists Floorfillers: 80s Club Classics	Universal Distribution	3:48
2009	Various Artists Back to Disco, Vol. 1	Mucha Mas	8:07
2009	Original Soundtrack The Firm [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]	Universal	3:46
2011	Various Artists 12" '80s Classics	Universal Music Canada
2013	Donna Summer Icon	Hip-O / Mercury	3:46
2013	Various Artists Now! That's What I Call Disco	Now!	3:23
2013	Various Artists The Ultimate Collection: Party Classics	Ultimate Collection	3:45
2013	Donna Summer Love to Love You Donna	Verve	7:15
2013	Original Soundtrack American Hustle [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]	Legacy	5:56
2016	Donna Summer The Ultimate Collection	Crimson / Sony Music	5:53
	Various Artists Classic Driving Songs	Spectrum Music	5:48
	Donna Summer I Feel Love [Universal]	Universal	11:36
	Various Artists Old School Hip Hop Jams: Old School Jams, Vol. 6	Spg Music Ltd.	5:48
	Various Artists Pacha Ibiza: 40 Years 1973-2013	New State / Pacha	3:39
	Various Artists The Ultimate Collection: Number 1s	Union Square Music	3:47
	Various Artists Total Hits, Vol. 1	Universal	3:45
	Various Artists Woman 2007	Universal Music	8:13

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I Feel Love

Composed by Pete Bellotte / Giorgio Moroder / Donna Summer

Song Review by Jason Ankeny

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