armpit said:

I appreciate the fact that she can sing a large majority of the human population under the table .

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bunnyscotcooper said:

I will definitely check out more of her stuff! Yeah I'm a 90s baby, so I missed out on a lot of good music. Uh, I don't have Facebook, so...yeah. Thanks for the heads up though!

While you're exporing Donna's stuff, please don't overlook Giorgio Moroder's other productions. Suzi Lane's 'Ooh, La, La' and Giorgio's 'E=MC²' are masterful companion pieces to 'Bad Girls'.

bunnyscotcooper said:

leecappella said:

To MickyDolenz: It's s nice to be remembered:)

To BunnyScotCooper: How nice to see a youngster get into the woman who's been at the top of my favorite singer's list since I was a little boy. I don't know exactly how old you are, but, nonetheless, I hope you get into her other albums as well. Doesn't really matter which one. Although, I would suggest all. I no longer do the Summer Song Of The Day here except maybe on rare occasions, but, if you'd like, I do present one each Sunday on my Facebook page and you can befriend me there if you so desire. The rest of the week, it's songs featuring other artists, but I sometimes throw Donna in on another day of the week in addition to Sunday, just because I like her so much:) Her vocal versatility is what I love and the fact that she puts out songs that are from various genres instead of one. She's partially why I like different kinds of music as opposed to just one. Of course, the fact that when I first saw the Bad Girls album cover from a distance, I thought she had no eyebrows is also another reason that peaked my interest. Haha. Always take a little Summer with you:)

http://www.facebook.com/p...mp;sk=wall

Hopefully, something new from Donna is a brewing. This looks like a guest appearance on her nephew's song:

http://rapdirt.com/omega-...dio/20594/

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I will definitely check out more of her stuff! Yeah I'm a 90s baby, so I missed out on a lot of good music. Uh, I don't have Facebook, so...yeah. Thanks for the heads up though!

I thought everyone had a Facebook page! Nah. Just kiddin'. Not everyone has a pc either. Ah, yes. The 90's

bunnyscotcooper said:

I am listening to her album Bad Girls right now, and honeslty, what a dance/disco masterpiece! I have heard her songs here and there over the years, but I am pretty young so I didn't grow up with her music. Yet, I listen to it and it is almost timeless to me. I still feel something from it, something fresh. I know most people here are Prince fans, but are any of you as appreciative of Donna Summer as I am? Even though I am pretty late.

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Love the album and Donna Summer. I remember when this album dropped. It had two #1 singles out the gate ('Hot Stuff' and 'Bad Girls').

Not a song I don't like. 'On My Honor,' 'There Will Always Be A You' and 'All Through the Night' would bring tears to my eyes. I could listen to that trio over and over.

'Lucky' and 'Sunset People.' 'Love Will Always Find You' is the weakest track IMO.

vainandy said:

bunnyscotcooper said:

I am listening to her album Bad Girls right now, and honeslty, what a dance/disco masterpiece! I have heard her songs here and there over the years, but I am pretty young so I didn't grow up with her music. Yet, I listen to it and it is almost timeless to me. I still feel something from it, something fresh. I know most people here are Prince fans, but are any of you as appreciative of Donna Summer as I am? Even though I am pretty late.

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Hell yeah. Lots of Prince fans like Donna Summer's music and it's not surprising. Prince is an artist that throws down hard and so is Donna. Before I got into Prince in 1979, Donna was to me then what he became when I discovered him.

And the "Bad Girls" album is one of my favorite albums of alltime. Every song on the album is great, as well as the order of the songs on the album and the way they segue into each other, all the way down to the album artwork with the hookers hanging out and the nightlife scenes. My favorite is the picture on the back of the album where you can see Donna through the windshield of a car with a man's hand on the steering wheel with a $50 bill in his hand. I love some whores. Whores have always been my role models so naturally, when I discovered Prince a few months after that album, I simply just substituted one whore for another whore.

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Same here.

love me some Bad Girls!!

and some ACOUSTIC DONNA too!!!

I totally love Donna Summer.

I tried hard but unfortunately never could get into her. I just don't see the appeal, even her greatest hits albums are so dull, though I played them several times. I always though "State of Independence" is a great song but someone else should have sung it.

It never helped matters that there are a couple of Donna fans who have the "it's so unfair, Donna can't sell an album while people are buying the current horrible music in droves" attitude that Donna should be still popular ONLY because they still like her...

free2bfreeda said:

ultra sexy +

beautiful voice +

super feminine +

statuesque +

still fresh +

love +

=

Donna Summers

Did she say, Summers with an 's'? LOL.

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The chick from my childhood. LOVED her back then. She can still bring it today also.

I would have loved to have heard her do an entire rock record. Being that she was on the same label and KISS, Starz, and Angel it could have been a hell of a record. I know at one point she

mentioned it back then but management probably talked her out of it.

One of my favorite guest spots from her is her vocal fade out on Gene Simmons 78 solo track "Burning Up With Fever". She kills it.

My dad said she should be in the Hall of Fame. He doesn't understand what's goin on with that.

LiveToTell86 said:

I tried hard but unfortunately never could get into her. I just don't see the appeal, even her greatest hits albums are so dull, though I played them several times. I always though "State of Independence" is a great song but someone else should have sung it.

It never helped matters that there are a couple of Donna fans who have the "it's so unfair, Donna can't sell an album while people are buying the current horrible music in droves" attitude that Donna should be still popular ONLY because they still like her...

State of Independence has been covered several times including by Chrissie Hynde. Look for it.

musicjunky318 said:

My dad said she should be in the Hall of Fame. He doesn't understand what's goin on with that.

I agree with your Dad. From 74-85 she was THE female vocalist for me. Actually still my favorite female vocalist.

SPYZFAN1 said:

The chick from my childhood. LOVED her back then. She can still bring it today also.

I would have loved to have heard her do an entire rock record. Being that she was on the same label and KISS, Starz, and Angel it could have been a hell of a record. I know at one point she

mentioned it back then but management probably talked her out of it.

One of my favorite guest spots from her is her vocal fade out on Gene Simmons 78 solo track "Burning Up With Fever". She kills it.

'The Wanderer'

The All Systems Go album doesn't get nearly enough shine. It's filled with excellent cuts. "Dinner With Gershwin", for one, was the jam. The song's writer, Brenda Russell, has a version of her own, but Donna's is the one.

Donna is the truth! Her induction into the HOF is as much a no-brainer as a playoff in college football, but it doesn't look like either is gonna happen.

Give it up for the definitive version of "MacArthur Park"!

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AlexdeParis said:

Donna is the truth! Her induction into the HOF is as much a no-brainer as a playoff in college football, but it doesn't look like either is gonna happen.

Give it up for the definitive version of "MacArthur Park"!

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Of course I have this, now I have to play it.

Thanx!

But both my versions are over 17 min.?

SUPRMAN said:

AlexdeParis said:

Donna is the truth! Her induction into the HOF is as much a no-brainer as a playoff in college football, but it doesn't look like either is gonna happen.

Give it up for the definitive version of "MacArthur Park"!

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Of course I have this, now I have to play it.

Thanx!

But both my versions are over 17 min.?

You're welcome! Yeah, that suite is cut in like a billion different ways. The 17+ minute one is the best.

SUPRMAN...you're right. "The Wanderer" comes very close. "Cold Love" and "Night Life" rock pretty good. Some of the songs off that LP reminded me too much of "Fame" and Irene Cara..but that was that era I guess.

This song is fierce

I love this song currently

MY JAM

SPYZFAN1 said:

SUPRMAN...you're right. "The Wanderer" comes very close. "Cold Love" and "Night Life" rock pretty good. Some of the songs off that LP reminded me too much of "Fame" and Irene Cara..but that was that era I guess.

I love the entire Side One of that album.The first five songs are amazing."Grand Illusion" is so eerie and haunting with a truly mesmerizing beat! I'm surprised that a rapper hasn't sampled it.

yanowha said:

armpit said:

I appreciate the fact that she can sing a large majority of the human population under the table .

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OMG I didn't know that she could sang like that either..... I'm definitely sold on Donna. Whats the best greatest hits album to buy?

PlayboyOriginal said:

OMG I didn't know that she could sang like that either..... I'm definitely sold on Donna. Whats the best greatest hits album to buy?

There are tons (not literally) of greatest hits releases. Too many some fans would say. I would suggest The Donna Summer Anthology or Gold, as AkexdeParis suggested. Both are a lot similar. However, Gold is more of an updated version of the Anthology 2 cd set. Anthology has Once Upon A Time and Friends Unknown. Gold does not. Gold has Love's About To Change My Heart, Melody Of Love, I Will Go With You, I Will Live For Love, and You're So Beautiful. Anthology does not. I don't own Gold. Thus, my suggestion of Anthology. Honestly, I'd say buy all of her stuff album by album and the greatest hits collections. But, I know you're not me or any other die hard Donna fan:) I usually only buy greatest hits collections if there is a song or two on them that is not on any of the albums that I already have.

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PlayboyOriginal said:

OMG I didn't know that she could sang like that either..... I'm definitely sold on Donna. Whats the best greatest hits album to buy?

Bad Girls would be an excellent first purchase. The best hits compilation is probably this one (primarily because it's 2 discs):

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PlayboyOriginal said:

OMG I didn't know that she could sang like that either..... I'm definitely sold on Donna. Whats the best greatest hits album to buy?

I'm not a big fan of greatest hits albums in general. In particular, not when it comes to Donna. I'd much rather listen to her studio albums. But of all the Donna greatest hits/best of discs that have been released...I shit you not, this budget CD that I bought at the Christmas Tree Shop is the only one I get any real satisfaction from. It's such an eclectic mix of songs. I wish whomever compiled this CD would do a Volume 2.

Donna Summer - The Collection

Don't let that cheap cover fool you.

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As far as I'm concerned Donna's best hasn't even been captured on wax.

Thank you all.... I will hunt those 3 on Amazon and see which one has the most hits that I know. Great thread.

The Live and More album would rock the roof off any house party back in the day.

As far as the question Is there anyone out there who still appreciates Donna Summer is concerned, Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain quoted her in the televised debates from Iowa a few days ago although he didn't say her name, he just said something like "a poet once said."

And then he reeled off a few lines from The Power of One about life being a challenge. Turns out he was quoting Donna from the Pokemon soundtrack!

Talk about life being stranger than fiction!

PlayboyOriginal said:

Thank you all.... I will hunt those 3 on Amazon and see which one has the most hits that I know. Great thread.

Thanks for enjoying this thread as much I enjoy seeing everyone enjoying it. I didn't realize how great she was until I heard her whole album (Bad Girls).