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The best of Giorgio Moroder

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This fascinating collection starts with Giorgio's synthpop hits from the late 1960s and early 1970s, of which Looky Looky and Son Of My Father reached the highest chart positions in Europe and the UK. I Wanna Funk With You Tonight dates from 1977 and was released under the name The Munich Machine; Knights In White Satin comes from the same album. From Here To Eternity is a brilliant hypnotic electrodisco track from his 1978 album of the same name, while E=MC2 comes from the follow-up album. Together In Electric dreams appears on the soundtrack of a popular movie from about 1984, but tracks like Reach Out an To Be Number One were unfamiliar to me. Of course, if Giorgio Moroder had to compile all the great hits he produced for artists as diverse as Donna Summer, Blondie and Sigue Sigue Sputnik, it would take a box set to accommodate them all. This album gives a good overview of the solo outings of this synth pioneer though. Recommended to all fans of Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys and Gary Numan.

What a disappointment! It does cover his work from the 60s to the early 90s... however, this is more a collection of his singles and the selections from the 80s are POOR choices!! Nothing from "Cat People" "Scarface" "Flashdance" "Top Gun" -- unbelievable!! His most accomplished works from the 80s are on those albums!! Instead they stuck in some boring 80s tracks including one from the 84 Olympics called "reach out" which is horribly shallow in music and lyrics -- i am a fan of Giorgio Moroder and was highly disappointed with the selections -- Now, if you are interested in a collection of his singles then this is the album to buy - but if you want to hear his best stuff i recommend the albums i already mentioned above as well as "From Here to Eternity" "E=Mc2" and "Midnight Express" which are great electronic feats!

Since this compilation is the only one retracing about 20 years of Moroder's carrer, it's best than nothing, but it's certainly not enough for the real fan who will have to search for vinyls LP's. But it's a good choise. the tracks are in their correct chronologic order and their choice is quite good. However, let me correct an error from the Amazon site: "love affair" and "Goodbye Bad times" are * not * included on the CD. So overal, this is a nice Moroder compilation but I hope Repertoire Records will continue to reissue Moroder stuff.

If you liked 2001, A Space Odyssey, You will love this CD. The creativity used in this music is out of this world. I would go so far as to say that Giorgio Moroder is the Father Of Futuristic
Music,just as Elvis Presley is the Father Of Rock And Roll Music, Beethoven is the Father of Romantic Music, and Haydn is the Father of Classical Symphonic Music.

I first heard "From Here To Eternity" on TV on the cable station A & E which was airing a show about disco back in 1993 and REALLY loved the song. There apparently is also a video to accompany this song. Too bad I never got to hear this song when it was out back around 1978. I did hear "Chase" played a few times on the radio back in late '78 ,early 1979 & they even used it during 1979's superbowl or else on one of the games leading up to it. It wasn't until over 5 years later when someone told me who the artist was that made "Chase."
I think this is a good cd and I even like "Looky Looky" which sounds like a 1960s folk music song. Some of the 1980s songs lost the strange, mesmerizing sound of Giorgio and I don't like E=MC2 at all because it sounds dated and too simple of a song even for 1979. A few songs on the album From Here To Eternity are basically good songs but slightly ruined by sounds that belonged on cartoons and are annoying. The backup female singers are really good on Giorgio's songs.

Too bad most people didn't get to hear this music even though they were teens and young adults during Giorgio's most successful days. Even back then, radio programmers were deciding what was/wasn't cool for people to hear and people lose out on hearing cool music big time because of this. I think Giorgio went for the money by working in Hollywood after Flashdance and by working with Blondie. Unfortunately Hollywood is where the money seems to be and there isn't enough money involved in making music so the end result is there is no good music to be heard unless you spend hours looking for it on the internet.

Too much electronic & new wave music got dismissed as not being "real" but it sounded good and that's the bottom line not whether someone uses a "real" guitar or bass or drums who makes music that sounds like crap.

Again most of us didn't get to hear Giorgio on the radio because programmers decided Pink Floyd & the Eagles were what young men needed to hear back then-no thanks.

Clearly - this is not the "best" of Giorgio Moroder. The CD should be titled "Some of Giorgio Moroder's best" ... for it does not include some of his greatest work: Music from motion pictures like American Gigolo, Cat People, Midnight Express, the Neverending Story and his team-ups with dance recording artists like Suzi Lane, Madleen Kane, plus mainstream artists like Blondie, David Bowie, the Sparks and Donna Summer... just to name a few. Sure, "Carry On" (with Donna Summer) is featured. That's only a spark. I would not recommend this one... I'd wait...

This is the worst "Best Of...." compliation ever issued on CD. This man has so many hits that it's impossible to put them all on a Best Of compilation without having several volumns. This Cd has very few of his best!!! Don't bother!!!

AS A CHILD GROWING UP LISTENING TO ALL KINDS OF MUSIC, I REMEMBER
WHEN (SON OF MY FATHER CAME OUT) I WAS ATTRACTED. DEFINATELY A FINE PIECE OF WORK.AS I HAVE SEARCHED THROUGH THE YEARS TO FIND OUT WHO THE ARTIST WAS, THAT WAS DEFINATELY A TASK. ALL I KNEW WAS THAT,
THE ARTIST WAS (GIORGIO) NOW HAVING THE KNOWLEDGE THAT
(MORODER) PUTS THE MEANING BEHIND THIS BRILLINT INSPIRING MAN.
ALL OF THIS MANS WORK IS ARTISTRY IN IT'S OWN FORM.
THE BEST OF MORODER IS THE PERFECT CD TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THE MAN BEHIND THE TALENTED MUSIC.
WAY TO GO GIORGIO!!!!!!

Stylistically, this collection is all over the place; covering Giorgio's early pop and rock material to his better known electronic and dance compositions. Sure, it's an uneven collection, but there are enough quality tunes on here (and you are not short-changed by the amount of music; it's an hour-plus) to satisfy me.

This fascinating collection starts with Giorgio's synthpop hits from the late 1960s and early 1970s, of which Looky Looky and Son Of My Father reached the highest chart positions in Europe and the UK. I Wanna Funk With You Tonight dates from 1977 and was released under the name The Munich Machine; Knights In White Satin comes from the same album. From Here To Eternity is a brilliant hypnotic electrodisco track from his 1978 album of the same name, while E=MC2 comes from the follow-up album. Together In Electric Dreams appears on the soundtrack of a popular movie from about 1984, but tracks like Reach Out and To Be Number One were unfamiliar to me. Of course, if Giorgio Moroder had to compile all the great hits he produced for artists as diverse as Donna Summer, Blondie and Sigue Sigue Sputnik, it would take a box set to accommodate them all. This album gives a good overview of the solo outings of this synth pioneer though. Recommended to all fans of Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys and Gary Numan.