I Feel Love

"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 in the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.

1 Production
2 Reception
3 Patrick Cowley remix
4 The 1995 Remixes
5 Blue Man Group cover
- 5.1 Track listings
  - 5.1.1 2 x 12" single
  - 5.1.2 CD single
6 Additional remixes and covers
7 References

[edit] Production

Before "I Feel Love", most disco recordings were backed by acoustic orchestras.^[1] 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 and techno music, thanks to Giorgio Moroder's innovative production.^[2] In particular, the song popularised the insistent, robotic bass line, which has been frequently imitated ever since.

[edit] 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:

“

One day in Berlin ... Eno came running in and said, 'I have heard the sound of the future.' … he puts on 'I Feel Love', by Donna Summer … He said, 'This is it, look no further. This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next fifteen years.' Which was more or less right.^[3]

”

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 Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles . 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 Endless Summer: Greatest Hits and 2003's The Journey: The Very Best of Donna Summer.

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."^[4]

[edit] 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.

[edit] The 1995 Remixes

Following 1993's The Donna Summer Anthology and 1994's Endless Summer: Greatest Hits, 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.

[edit] Blue Man Group cover

Blue Man Group featured a cover of "I Feel Love" on their 2003 concept album, The Complex. The song featured electronic pop band Venus Hum, and was released as the album's second single in 2003. Blue Man Group wanted to cover a techno song using their acoustic tube instruments to recreate fast synthesizer arpeggios. The cover took the electronic sounds used in the original version, and replaced them with real instruments such as a drum kit, electric guitars, and the group's custom Tubulum instruments.^[5]

[edit] Track listings

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.
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 - Plump DJs released a bootleg single - the breakbeat remix titled Donna Kebab.
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.

[edit] References

^ All Music review
^ All Music Donna Summer biography
^ David Bowie & Kurt Loder (1989). Sound and Vision: CD liner notes
^ Rolling Stone review
^ Song Bios for The Complex. Unmasked. Blue Man Group. Retrieved on 2007-06-10.

Preceded by "So You Win Again" by Hot Chocolate	UK number one single July 23, 1977	Succeeded by "Angelo" by Brotherhood of Man
Preceded by "Ma Baker" by Boney M.	United World Chart number one single August 27, 1977 – October 8, 1977	Succeeded by "Way Down" by Elvis Presley
Preceded by "Way Down" by Elvis Presley	United World Chart number one single October 29, 1977 - November 26, 1977	Succeeded by "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Santa Esmeralda

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