Favourite Hi-NRG Album

**marmite7** · September 9th, 2005, 03:05 AM

Hmmm - compilation or single artist?

So many great LP's, so I'm gonna start with my Top 5:

Lime - Greatest Hits

Lisa - Lisa

Barbara Pennington - Out Of The Darkest Night (Voice extraordinaire)

ERC - Greatest Hits - (Double LP feat Technique, 501's, Meagen, Christopher Street, Normal Lewis, Jimmy James, Sylvester etc)

Miquel Brown - Manpower (Just for Beeline) ;)

Morning all btw :)

**Energyguy** · September 9th, 2005, 11:47 AM

Evening gang !!

My favourite hi-nrg albums...

RECORD SHACK PRESENTS VOLUME 3 : THE REMIXES

OUT OF THE DARKEST NIGHT - BARBARA PENNINGTON (Pure class or wot ?)

HIGH ENERGY - EVELYN THOMAS (Running wild in the night - superb!)

GREATEST HITS - CAROL JIANI - (Hit n Run lover/Vanity)

MANPOWER - MIQUEL BROWN (Top class tracks)

LIME II - Superb tracks/classy artwork !!

**SandraDee** · September 27th, 2005, 03:56 PM

'Eurobeat' - Various artists on Streetsounds ('86)
'Face To Face' - Gino Soccio ('82)
'Results' - Liza Minelli ('89)
'Record Shack presents Volume 1 ('84)
'Wow' - Bananarama ('87)

**Energyguy** · September 29th, 2005, 11:40 AM

Originally Written by SandraDee

'Eurobeat' - Various artists on Streetsounds ('86)
'Face To Face' - Gino Soccio ('82)
'Results' - Liza Minelli ('89)
'Record Shack presents Volume 1 ('84)
'Wow' - Bananarama ('87)

Those RECORD SHACK compilations are classics. VOLUME 3 has some great remixes.
RESULTS by LIZA is another great album . one of my faves

**Andy Farley** · September 29th, 2005, 03:36 PM

Forgot about my albums, just found loads in there I'd forgotten about including a Waterfront Home album!!

Anyway my faves would be

Sisley Ferre & Attack - The Album
Best of made up vol 1
Sharon Redd - Redd Hot
Madleen Kane - Cover Girl
Fred Ventura - East To West
Body Rock soundtrack (great Laura Branigan track Sharpshooter on here)

Also tucked in there were copies of Jack Mix 4 & 5 by Mirage :-? oh dear lol

**Andy Farley** · September 29th, 2005, 03:38 PM

Oh and Donna Summer 'I'm A Rainbow' a recent purchase as it never got released at the time but some great tracks on the cd :D

**Davicillo** · September 29th, 2005, 04:27 PM

Mine are;

Lime - Greatest hits
Divine - T shirts & tight blue jeans
Various - TRD 1100 (Italian Time comp)
Sylvester - 12 x 12
Various - 12 x 12 (Best of Megatone)

**Energyguy** · September 30th, 2005, 01:02 PM

Originally Written by Davicillo

Mine are;

Lime - Greatest hits
Divine - T shirts & tight blue jeans
Various - TRD 1100 (Italian Time comp)
Sylvester - 12 x 12
Various - 12 x 12 (Best of Megatone)

Dave - What is that Divine LP like ?? Can you give me a track listing ?
I have most of Divine`s 12" singles and a great LP called MAID IN ENGLAND. I also have a rare Dutch LP called JUNGLE JEZEBEL

**Davicillo** · September 30th, 2005, 01:59 PM

It's like a non stop remix package of the Bobby O years.
Dutch LP.

**Energyguy** · September 30th, 2005, 02:16 PM

Originally Written by Davicillo

It's like a non stop remix package of the Bobby O years.
Dutch LP.

I bet that is very rare nowadays and goes for mega bucks on e-bay

**Davicillo** · September 30th, 2005, 02:39 PM

Dunno Neil. I haven't seen it either.

**gunbuck** · September 30th, 2005, 03:41 PM

Originally Written by Energyguy

Dave - What is that Divine LP like ?? Can you give me a track listing ?
I have most of Divine`s 12" singles and a great LP called MAID IN ENGLAND. I also have a rare Dutch LP called JUNGLE JEZEBEL

There's a copy of Divine's "T-Shirts And Tight Blue Jeans" on ebay right now for a fairly reasonable price:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Divine-T-Shirts-And-Tight-Blue-Jeans-Holland-Ep

T-Shirts And Tight Blue Jeans

Side 1.
a. Native Love (remix), 6:03
b. Love Reaction (remix) 5:26
c. Shoot Your Shot (remix) 7:11

Side 2.
a. T-Shirts And Tight Blue Jeans 3:28
b. Alphabet Rap 4:03
c. Shake It Up 4:23
d. Jungle Jezebel 3:06

**totoman** · October 14th, 2005, 08:10 AM

I can only think of these

Lime - Greatest Hits
Lime - Your Love (they never put You'r My Magician on the Greatest Hits).
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective (not sure if it can all be classed as hi-nrg but it's from the period)
Hi-nrg (streetsounds compilation)
Carol Jiani - The Woman In Me (I think that was the title, the first one, I didn't know there had been a Greatest Hits out)
Donna Summer - Another Place and Time
Record Shack Vol 1

toto

**djaay69** · April 3rd, 2006, 09:21 PM

hello everyone hope someone can help me
did the record shack albums ever make it on to cd would love to get these as my vinyl copies are completely scratched now for over play :lol: :cry: would of love to of transferred these to cd-r :cry:

**Energyguy** · April 11th, 2006, 12:39 PM

Originally Written by djaay69

hello everyone hope someone can help me
did the record shack albums ever make it on to cd would love to get these as my vinyl copies are completely scratched now for over play :lol: :cry: would of love to of transferred these to cd-r :cry:

Hi there !! - those record shack compilations are superb!!
You can get a great RECORD SHACK compilation CD that contains all the big hits from the label. It was released a few yaers back by GOLDMINE/SMAK records.. It always crops up on e-bay from time to time. it was also released on vinyl...

**Paulo** · July 29th, 2006, 09:42 PM

Not counting compilations, my choice could be PLEASE, the first Pet Shop Boys album released in 1986.

By the time of the release, The Pet Shop Boys called themselves a hi-nrg band.

I've read collectors calling them hi-nrg-influenced-pop music. Others called them Euro-Disco. The Pet Shop Boys themselves said that tracks on that 1st album (Love Comes Quickly / Tonight Is Forever), plus tracks on the follow-up 1986 remix album "DISCO" (Paninaro, Love Comes Quickly remix & In The Night) ARE italo-disco songs.... although produced in England... but trying to emulate the romantic, cheese, obvious, banal "italo" feel.

Please... they haven't said that in a "negative" way... They said they loved banal produced sounds... and they loved italo and hi-nrg.

Rightly or wrongly , my opinion is that euro, italo and hi-nrg are produced the very same way.... the same 80's keyboard technology. So my choice for my favourite hi-nrg sounding album could be the Pet Shop Boys first album... or even their second, which has Italo sounding (??), Euro Disco sounding (??), Hi-nrg styled (??) songs like It's A Sin, What Have I Done To Deserve This, Hit Music, One More Chance and I Want To Wake Up.

**euroflash** · August 1st, 2006, 09:39 AM

A nice discussion thread, indeed.

Personally, I prefer 12" singles to any LP for the obvious reasons. However there were quite a few LPs in that Hi-Nrg / Italo / Euro period that stand out above the rest. To me these are:

1. Pet Shop Boys - Actually, this is one of the top LPs on my list that I usually listen from the beginning to the end..

2. Den Harrow - Overpower LP (Tom Hooker on vocals, Baby Records, Italy)For those who are into Italo Disco - this must be "IT".

3. Fancy - Contact LP (Metronome, Germany)- a monumental LP from a German "uber schlager-meister"

4. Aleph - Big Brother LP (Time Records, Italy) - probably the very finest LP in Italo High Nrg pre-house production, every song on this LP had a 12" single issued. Something that I've never seen before and since

5. Fred Ventura - East And West (Time Records, Italy) - the same as #4, but two songs did not make it on 12". others are fantastic.

6. Tom Hooker - Bad Reputation (Baby Records, Italy) A different kind of Italo, most of Tom's songs were more cerebral than the rest, and a great voice too...

Thanks for reading.

**80sGuy** · March 16th, 2007, 04:18 AM

In response to this aging thread, I'll have to resurrect (from my vault) Geraldine Cordeau's "Space & Time" album - a phenomenal 8 track LP released in 1984 by Matra Records. All the songs are incredible, "Maybe Tonight" and especially the title track "Space And Time". The album also includes “Sounds In The Night", an extended hit single released earlier in 1982. The instrumentation, lyrics and vocals are all top notch, and not to mention, a very well produced album.
I recently re-mastered the vinyl into a CD album. Amazing drums and vocals!

**Thereza bizarre** · March 16th, 2007, 07:40 AM

Great googly moogly they re servin me up hot!!!

any hi nrg mega mixes circa 1983 /84 where fab i had loadsof them lost them creid etc etc...

record shack volume one and three
eurobeat street sounds albums
Hazell dean..heart first,fab hi nrg dance and pop album that makes me smile
Lime III
Miquel brown..for man power and Beeline i love that track.

and load smore besides...

**kdavid13** · March 16th, 2007, 08:17 AM

Choosing only 5 is torture but here it is :

1- DONNA SUMMER Another place & time [Donna + SAW = Magic]
2- LIME Your Love + Lime 2 [On the same CD Unidisc Scarce Canadian pressing]
3- PAUL PARKER Destiny [Been listening to it very often lately]
4- PATRICK COWLEY's Greatest Hit Dance Party [Beat-mixed Sublime !!]
5- MIQUEL BROWN's Manpower [Ian Levine + Record Shack at their best...]

Honorable mentions :
PET SHOP BOYS Very
CAROL JIANI Hit 'n Run Lover [Matra LP]
MADLEEN KANE 12inches & More [CD]
LIME 3
KLONED 1 & 2

**Energyguy** · March 16th, 2007, 10:37 AM

Originally Written by Thereza bizarre

Great googly moogly they re servin me up hot!!!

any hi nrg mega mixes circa 1983 /84 where fab i had loadsof them lost them creid etc etc...

record shack volume one and three
eurobeat street sounds albums
Hazell dean..heart first,fab hi nrg dance and pop album that makes me smile
Lime III
Miquel brown..for man power and Beeline i love that track.

and load smore besides...

RECORD SHACK VOLUME III ihas some great re-mixes of all those classic UK produced tracks - I love the BARBARA PENNINTON mix and the MIQUEL BROWN MIX By SIMON CAPES. I think the EARLENIE BENTLEY MIX contains the USA remix of I`M LIVING MY OWN LIFE.. Great stuff