![]() By songs such as “Black Lady” and even “I Feel Love” she wants to experience life and sex on her own terms. ![]() On the title song,she wants to dance the night away on a romantic adventure. It’s also important to note this album also kind of takes you on an entertaining history through the eyes of the “black lady”. If Donna Summer never goes down in history for anything else it’ll be singing that one song. Pulsing electronics inspired by the German dance music scene along with the repetitive vocal lines from Donna and flavor of an almost robotic orgiastic atmosphere,it’s the direction the parade was headed especially with new wave and even people as recent as Lady Gaga. And especially now one realizes this is probably the birth of the electropop genre. ![]() Of course the most talked about song here is “I Feel Love”,the closer representing the future. “Take Me”,with it’s mix of dance rhythms and bass moog synthesizer and the lush ballad “Can’t We Just Sit Down (And Talk It Over)” are very much at present tense. By “Black Lady” there’s some fuzzed keyboards and we’re more into the 70’s blacksploitation funk era. On the very catchy “Love’s Unkind” we’ve entered what sounds like some girl group/brill building type wall of sound.Īnd on “Back In Love Again” it’s total Holland/Dozier/Holland style Motown memories for Donna in a Supremes state of mind. As seen through the filter of the 4/4 beat,this brassiness (similar in flavor to Dr.Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band) showcases the origins of what they call Broadway disco. The title song starts out the entire album…well in the best possible place: the big band swing era. And as a musical timeline?I’m sure no one knew how spot on it would turn out to be. It’s a journey from music’s past to an anticipated future. So the concept of this album wasn’t as much lyrical as it was cultural and moreover musical. Donna and Giorgio both were aware their musical interests worked on a timeline,even extending a bit before they were born. Dream sequences,memories of the future,etc all work their way into lyrics at different times. Generally speaking musical concept tend to work on a floating timeline. Representing the final installment of what turned out to be a trilogy of concept albums released by Donna Summer on Casablanca records in 19,this album took a slight different approach to it’s music. And how it all comes together into its overall concept. ![]() A few years ago,I wrote a review on that goes deeper into how each individual song on the album. Wanted to know what concept Summer,Moroder and Pete Bellote came up with together for an album with ended with what still often sounds like a totally futuristic song in 2017. I Remember Yesterday is an album of Summer’s with Moroder that interested me because it ended with “I Feel Love”,a song I first heard at the exact same time I was just starting to listen to Kraftwerk. Summer’s late 70’s with Moroder were among the most prominent disco albums reflecting this particular ethic. It was also utilized in different album length concepts reflecting the mainstream social revolutions of the 60’s and 70s-both real and fantasy based. It wasn’t merely a medium of elongated singles meant for dancers of one particular generation. The discovery of her music recorded with Giorgio Moroder in the mid to late 70’s also helped me to alter my perception of disco. Donna Summer was someone whose full musical impact didn’t hit me at all until I was a grown adult. ![]()
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