Giorgio Moroder – his 20 greatest songs, rated | The music

20. Giorgio
Son of my father (1972)

Before immersing himself fully in electronics, Moroder was an architect of the pop bubblegum. He began mixing the two in 1972, re-recording one of his German compositions in English and adding a Moog synthesizer; The cover of Chicory Tip has become the number 1 of the United Kingdom and a must on the football terrace. The ease of Moroder for melody and novelty has been established.

19. Giorgio Moroder
(Theme of) Midnight Express (1978)

Only six years after his first success, Moroder wrote an Oscar-winning full-length movie score. The theme of Alan Parker's drama in 1978 showed that Moroder had always understood the sadness of automatic music, with a poignant and synthesized melody for winds.

18. Japan
Life in Tokyo (1979)

A single in early Japan, co-written by Moroder, filled with the same iced British song as the emerging electronic star of 1979, Gary Numan. It finally became a hit in 1982. Here, stuttering synths complete a lyrics evoking "A sound of distant life / locked in high society," especially at the last minute of disintegration.

17. Coldplay
Midnight (remix by Giorgio Moroder) (2014)

This remix influenced by electronic dance was so good that Coldplay reissued it in single. Giorgio adds a hammering EDM pulse, a house piano and himself to the vocoder in the middle of the eighth, speaking of all the love he can give – in French.

16. Giorgio Moroder
From here to eternity (1977)

The rolling and cosmic bbadlines, the Moog stunt effects at the end of the phrases and the synthesizer strokes helped to invent the "space disco" sound, aided by supremely cheesy lyrics to the theme of space, that sings Moroder: "From there to eternity / it's there that she takes me".

15. Giorgio Moroder and Raney Shockne
611 Time out (2016)

The soundtrack of Moroder and Raney Shockne 2016 for the video game Tron Run / r is full of addictive techno, deep and dark. This is the best track, the sound of metal on metal and the output speed. On the full soundtrack, Autechre adds a remix to boot.

14. Donna Summer
Hot Stuff (1979)

Moroder, British co-producer Pete Bellotte and Donna Summer met in Munich in 1974, where she sang after leaving a production tour of Hair. Five years later, they incorporate rock into their well-established disco-pop brand, and Moroder co-produces this still brilliant and international hit.

13. Einzelgänger
Good old Germany (1975)

This experimental electronic pop album entitled Einzelgänger – Lone Wolf – has helped strengthen Moroder's muscles for the future. This is the best track: playful and melodic, full of floating riffs and jerky voices.

12. Giorgio Moroder
Doll Valley (1980)

A nugget lost from the electronic funk from Adrian Lyne's film Foxes, which tells the story of the arrival in maturity in 1980 and describes adolescent girls growing up in the disco age in Los Angeles. A threatening bbad line, with minor tones, reminiscent of the city's atmosphere, before breaking into disjointed sequences of mechanical twinkling, Salsoul strings and percussive brbad.

11. Giorgio Moroder
74 is the new 24 (2014)

An end-of-year record of Moroder's return album, recorded after Daft Punk reinstated his huge influence with Giorgio de Moroder in Random Access Memories, 2013. Vocoder Effect Indicating Title – Recovering Pbadwords freebus with renewed energy – is an absolute joy.

10. Donna Summer
Love to love baby (1975)

Moroder, Bellotte and Summer are the first disco hit co-written with 22 simulated bads. In a 2009 interview, Moroder said he got the green light when record director Neil Bogart wanted a longer version to record his orgies. Extended over 16 minutes to occupy a whole side of an album, its effects still require an open window.

9. Berlin
Breathtaking (1986)

Moroder has repeatedly said that Top Gun's epic ballad was his favorite composition. Its power comes from the synth-bbad, loaded with chorus and reverb. Moroder first wrote the music for the song, before Tom Whitlock added his perfectly feverish lyrics. The combination was so powerful that director Tony Scott filmed other love scenes.

8. Barbra Streisand & Donna Summer
No more tears (enough, that's enough) (1979)

The change of attitude in this song, after a minute and 45 seconds, is the biggest bounce of pop, and the sounds of Moroder match. We move from a hazy dream to a man who lets a woman down, to feminist empowerment in a flash, with disco as the ultimate catalyst. On the dancefloor, as with Streisand and Summer, the women meet.

7. Irene Cara
Flashdance (What a feeling) (1983)

Co-composed and produced by Moroder, this song defines the power-ballad model of the film of the 80s and describes the lived experience of teenage emotion, as well as the effects of music on music. ;soul. Note that the synthesizers boil behind the lyrics about fear and sadness at first, before we hear the music and feel the rhythm. Then everything is transformed.

6. Giorgio
Utopia – Me Giorgio (1977)

Moroder's solo work is at its best when there is no dive bombing, as is the case on the Metropolis soundtrack, but using just enough shine for give his ideas a heavenly ballast. This well-named track succeeds, with mbaded voices that meet propulsive rhythms, close to perfection.

5. Blondie
Call me (1980)

The American Gigolo theme song could have been a collaboration with Stevie Nicks if she had not refused Moroder. Debbie Harry took the order instead, writing the words and music of the suspicious escort of Richard Gere's murder in one hour. Moroder produces brilliantly, elevates Harry's voice and creates one of the best electronic means in the world.

4. sparks
The number one song in paradise (1979)

The flying madness of Moroder becomes majestic when he is in the company of eccentrics. He has worked well with Nina Hagen and Sigue Sigue Sputnik also, but the genius explodes in seven minutes with Sparks. The tempo slows down and the sky opens three minutes later, and you turn into a rabbit burrow two minutes later, the synthesizers carry you. Glorious.

3. Giorgio Moroder
Chase (1978)

Some may remember the slightly sour theme of Midnight Express's Love's Theme, but that's the title of Alan Parker's drama that has really endured. A minimal masterpiece, machine-made, which is phased and built slowly; electro and techno five years ahead of his time.

2. Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder
Together in electric dreams (1984)

The climax of Moroder's achievements in the epic and fulfilling melancholy of the heart. His best moments are the melody that falls at first, like a shining rain on a windowpane, and one of the greatest pop choruses of all time, which soars before settling down, then collapses sadly before to try again with all his power.

1. Donna Summer
I feel love (1977)

The paradigm shifts of pop often occur in a particular way. Summer produced a 1977 historical concept album with Moroder and Bellotte, I Remember Yesterday, transporting jazz listeners from the 1940s to 60s girls' groups and 70s funk to an imaginary future. So the song representing the future has become the future. I feel that the love still stuns me. These ruthless synthesizer arpeggios deliver unwavering power. These Moog washes look like the Doppler effect of a pbading supersonic train. The double hits at the beginning of the bars also bring us back to the dancefloor and the possibility that our new gift could be – both now and forever.