I Feel Love

Infobox Single
Name = I Feel Love




Artist = Donna Summer
from Album = I Remember Yesterday
B-side = "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)"
Released = 1977
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Disco
Length =
Label = Casablanca (U.S.) GTO Records (UK)
Writer = Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Producer = Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte
Certification = Gold (US)
Gold (UK)
Last single = "Can't We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)" (1977)
This single = "I Feel Love" (1977)
Next single = "Shut Out" (1977)
Misc = Infobox Single
Name = I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remix)


Artist = Donna Summer
from Album =
B-side =
Released = 1982
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Disco
Length =
Label = Casablanca
Writer = Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Producer = Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte
Certification =
Last single = "State of Independence" (1982)
This single = "I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Remix)" (1982)
Next single = "The Woman in Me" (1983)
Misc = Infobox Single
Name = I Feel Love (The 1995 Remixes)


Artist = Donna Summer
from Album =
B-side =
Released = 1995
Format = 12" single, CD single
Recorded = 1995
Genre = Disco
Length =
Label = PolyGram
Writer = Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte
Producer = Giorgio Moroder Pete Bellotte
Certification =
Last single = "Any Way At All" (1994)
This single = "I Feel Love (The 1995 Remixes)" (1995)
Next single = "State of Independence (The 1996 Remixes)" (1996)
Misc =

"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, taken from her 1977 concept album "I Remember Yesterday". The song originally symbolised the 'future' segment of the album, which loosely depicted a musical trip through time. The title track of the "I Remember Yesterday" album represented the 1940s, "Love's Unkind" the 50s, "Back in Love Again" the 60s, while the album concluded with the futuristic "I Feel Love". The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and number six on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

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Production

Before "I Feel Love", most disco recordings were backed by acoustic orchestras. [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:gvv1z85a6yyn All Music review] ] Although such mid 1970s bands as Kraftwerk had pioneered all-electronic music, it has been said that this song is the first disco-style song recorded with an entirely synthesized backing track, and has been enormously influential in the development of disco, electronica, house and techno thanks to Giorgio Moroder's innovative production. [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kiftxqr5ldae~T1 All Music Donna Summer biography] ] In particular, the song popularised the insistent, robotic bass line, which has been frequently imitated ever since.

Reception

According to David Bowie, then in the middle of his own groundbreaking 'Berlin Trilogy', its impact on the genre's direction was recognized early on:

The original album version of the song lasted almost six minutes. The song was extended for its release as a 12" maxi-single, the eight-minute version is included on the 1989 compilation '. The song was only very slightly edited on the 7" format, with the fade-in opening sound reaching maximum volume quicker. A version which fades out at 3:45, before the third verse and the final choruses, has however been included on a large number of greatest hits packages and other compilations issued by PolyGram, Mercury Records, Universal Music and others, such as 1994's ' and 2003's "".

In 2004, "Rolling Stone" ranked "I Feel Love" #411 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The review for the song stated that Moroder and Summer "claimed tomorrow in the name of disco." [ [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6596256/i_feel_love "Rolling Stone" review] ]

Patrick Cowley remix

In the early 1980s, after Summer had left Casablanca Records and signed with Geffen Records, Casablanca issued a series of singles from her 1979 double album "Bad Girls" as well as the compilation "Walk Away - The Best of 1977-1980". A new version of "I Feel Love" remixed by disco and high energy pioneer Patrick Cowley followed in early 1982.

The full-length 12" version of the remix which clocks in at 15:45 became a dance floor hit all over again - five years after its original release, and was also re-issued as an edited 7" single which reached #21 on the UK singles chart.

The 1995 Remixes

Following 1993's "The Donna Summer Anthology" and 1994's "", both released by PolyGram, "I Feel Love" was re-released on the PolyGram sublabel Manifesto in newly remixed form as a single in 1995, including mixes by Masters At Work and Rollo Armstrong and Sister Bliss of UK remixer/producer team Faithless - and also new vocals by Summer herself. The single became a UK Top 20 hit again and the '95 Radio Edit was later included as a bonus track on PolyGram France's version of the "Endless Summer" compilation.In 2006 the Rollo & Sister Bliss Monster Remix of the track was re-released as part of Faithless' "Renaissance 3D" 3 CD box set.

Track listings

2 x 12" single

#"I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Big Room Remix) – 10:00
#"I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Big Room Radio Edit) – 3:47
#"I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Electromagnetic Remix) – 10:00
#"I Feel Love" (Blue Man Group Radio Edit) – 4:05
#"I Feel Love" (Shanghai Surprise Mix) – 7:03
#"I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Big Room Dub) – 9:05
#"I Feel Love" (The Professionals Mix) – 4:20
#"I Feel Love" (Human Mix) – 4:20
#"I Feel Love" (Kap10Kurt Mix) – 5:56

CD single

#"I Feel Love (Blue Man Group Radio Edit) – 3:11
#"I Feel Love (DJ Mutter Sweet Beat Mix) – 4:00
#"I Feel Love (Jason Nevins Big Room Radio Edit) – 3:48
#"I Feel Love (The Professionals Mix) – 4:18
#"I Feel Love (Human Mix) – 4:11
#"I Feel Love (Video) – 3:44

Additional remixes and covers

*1979 - Klaus Nomi recorded the song in live performance at Hurrah's (New York).
*1979 - Blondie's obscure recording at CBGB (New York).
*1985 - Bronski Beat covered the song in a medley with "Johnny Remember Me" and Summer's "Love to Love You Baby", in a collaboration with Marc Almond.
*1987 - Balaam and the Angel record a goth-style cover of the song as a track on the 12" version of their single 'I'll Show You Something Special'
*1993 - Finnish progressive rock band Kingston Wall recorded a cover on their album "II".
*1993 - London techno duo Messiah included a breakneck electronic version of the song on their album "21st Century Jesus".
*1993 - Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience recorded a cover version on their album "Our Bodies Our Selves".
*1995 - Summer re-recorded her version of the song and it became a UK Top 10 single.
*1995- A live version of the song, lifted from a 1979 concert recording, was included as a b-side to Blondie's re-issued single "Union City Blue."
*1997 - Bono of U2 would snippet this song at the end of the band's "Do You Feel Loved" on their PopMart Tour.
*1997 - Vanessa-Mae released a cover on the album "Storm", produced by Andy Hill.
*1998 - Electronic music duo Underworld interpolated the bassline of the song for their single "King of Snake," which was released as the third single from the album "Beaucoup Fish".
*1998 - Cher used a similar bassline to the song in the track "All or Nothing" in her "Believe" album.
*1999 - House artist Mousse T sampled the song's bassline for his "Feel Love" remix of Moloko's hit single "Sing It Back."
*2000 - The title track of Kylie Minogue's album "Light Years" imitates the bassline of "I Feel Love". Minogue quoted lines from "I Feel Love" during the performance of "Light Years" on her KylieFever world tour. There is also a studio version of the song (used on the tour mash-up-but without the "Light Years" part) that leaked onto the internet in 2006
*2000 - Canadian techno group Love Inc. recorded a cover with an updated techno sound on their second album, "Into The Night".
*2002 - Guitarist Paul Gilbert recorded a cover version on his "Burning Organ" album.
*2003 - Finnish electronic music duo Dallas Superstars covered the song on their first album "Flash".
*2003 - The New Deal (band) released a 'live progressive breakbeat house' version on their album "Gone Gone Gone".
*2003 - Blue Man Group covered the song on their album The Complex, featuring Annette Strean of Venus Hum.
*2003 - Plump DJs released a bootleg single - the breakbeat remix titled "Donna Kebab".
*2004 - Songs From A Random House released a cover on their album "gListen".
*2004 - Québécois singer/cellist Jorane covered the song on her album "The You and the Now".
*2004 - Curve released a version on their compilation album "The Way of Curve".
*2004 - Red Hot Chili Peppers released a version on the live album "Live in Hyde Park"; guitarist John Frusciante has been known to break into a rendition of the song at their live shows during song interludes on other occasions.
*2004 - Electronica band Syntax released a single from their Meccano Mind CD called "Pray", which reached #28 in the UK charts. The opening synth riff and entire bassline are almost identical to that of "I Feel Love".
*2005 - The song "Future Lovers" from Madonna's album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" sampled the bassline of "I Feel Love"; in 2006, Madonna performed a few lines of "I Feel Love" during "Future Lovers" on her Confessions Tour.
*2006 - The Mexican electropop band Belanova did a live cover of "I Feel Love" during their Dulce Beat Tour; it was released in their "Dulce Beat Live" album in 2006. Belanova had also previously sampled the song towards the end of "What a Shame," the third track of their debut album, "Cocktail".
*2006 - Rollo and Sister Bliss of the British dance act Faithless remixed the track for their "Renaissance 3D" collection.
*2007 - The Red Hot Chili Peppers band member Flea covered "I Feel Love" at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on 28 April 2007.
*2007 - Koda Kumi performed "I Feel Love" with Blue Man Group at their presentation on Summersonic Festival, in Japan and on her 2007 tour promoting her album "Black Cherry".

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