Review
After achieving pop’s most memorable orgasm (on 1975’s “Love to Love You Baby”) and practically inventing techno (on 1977’s “I Feel Love”), Donna Summer and synth-freak producer Giorgio Moroder retreated slightly on this 1979 double album, which hit number 1. The uplifting disco-pop side (“Hot Stuff,” “Walk Away”) is basically what Coco and Bruno were aiming for in Fame, but the melancholy Eurodisco moments (“Our Love”) obviously caught New Order’s imagination as well. Overall, the music is charming, but not radical or pervy enough. The superior bonus CD collects the era’s 12-inch mixes; “I Feel Love” makes an awe-inspiring appearance, while the 17-minute “McArthur Park Suite” turns Jimmy Webb’s melodrama into a preposterous yet spectacular Studio 54 megamix. Guess what? This disco doesn’t suck.
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