What are some good full albums? Not compilations or greatest hits, but original albums. Thanks, it seems like it's really hard to find any full albums at all, so I want to know what to spend my time looking for lol.
Here's the list compiled from the replies below:
Italo and Hi-NRG Artists with Full Studio Albums
Fancy - Contact, Flames of Love
The Flirts
Roni Griffith
Oh Romeo
Hazell Dean
Mandy Smith
Dead or Alive - Youthquake, Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know, etc
Lime
Silicon Dream - Time Machine
Last edited by SiliconDreamer; September 7th, 2009 at 11:03 AM.
If you thought '70s Disco was singles driven then you'll quickly see that most Italo, Hi-NRG and Euro from the '80s were by artists who would put out only one or two songs.
Fancy out of Germany had some good material. Most of their songs were written by Anthony Monn. Fancy's albums "Contact" and "Flames of Love" are especially recommended. Here's a listing of Fancy on this site: Fancy @ DiscoMusic.com
Pretty sure other members can follow up with other recommendations.
Bernie (Bernard Lopez)
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Sylvester put out a few hi-nrg albums from '82-'87. Bobby O's acts such as The Flirts, Roni Griffith & Oh Romeo released decent hi-nrg albums too. Of course, my personal faves are the SAW albums such as Dead Or Alive, Hazell Dean & Mandy Smith.Oh & don't forget (Marky's fave!:icon_mrgreen:) the Lime albums.
...ya gotta beat the street......
Bernie (Bernard Lopez)
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Thanks Bernie and SandraDee. That's right, it's doubly hard to find the albums because most of them were singles artists, and italo was underground then and now really underground (which is why I like it).
I guess I don't totally understand what "italo" means. If it means albums recorded completely or partially in Italy, then the Jacques Fred Petrus/Mauro Malavasi productions of Change/the Peter Jacques Band/The B.B. and Q. Band/Macho and others would definitely be my favorites.
Last edited by FranceJoliFan; September 9th, 2009 at 03:35 PM. Reason: Spelling correction
"Because there's music in the air."
Lisa - Lisa
Disc Charge - Boystown Gang
A Cast of Thousands - Boystown Gang
Manpower - Miquel Brown
High Energy - Evelyn Thomas
Turn It On - Tapps
Double Fun - Fun Fun
Modern Rocketry - Modern Rocketry
Sex Technology - David Diebold
Dancing With The Bad Boys - Bad Boys Blue
Portrait - Gazebo
I Can't Get Enough - Chypnotic
Peace - Anything Box
My Name is Eria Fachin - Eria Fachin
Age of Consent - Bronski Beat
Communards - Communards
Better Than Heaven - Stacey Q
I Love Men - Eartha Kitt
Also albums by Modern Talking and Blue System
Dancin' helps relieve the pain, soothes your mind, makes you happy again
Revanche's Music Man is a great Italo album
Thanks! I'll be so happy trying to find these!
Dude, I love Fancy! After you said that, I went out and found their album, Get Your Kicks (85), and you were exactly right. They are some killer synth, and funky, just the way I like it. I can't wait to listen to Contact, Flames of Love, etc. There's another one for the list, Fancy - Get your Kicks. I hope all the albums on here are as good as that one. Now off to find the other albums...
Divine - Jungle Jezebel
Divine - Maid in England
Kinky Go - Reach Out
Ken Laszlo - Ken Laszlo
Water Front Home - New Breed of Mermaid
Baby's Gang - Challenger
Mike Mareen - Dance Control
Paul Parker - Too much to dream
Sylvester - All Megatone albums
Michael Fortunati - Machael Fortunati
Hazell Dean - Always
Modern Rocketry - Get Ready
Disco Lives !!!
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