I Feel Love

"I Feel Love" is a song by Donna Summer, taken from her 1977 concept album I Remember Yesterday. The recording's entirely electronic backing track helped pioneer electronic disco music.

The song constituted the 'future' segment of the album, which represented a stylistic progress 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 and the album concluded with the futuristic "I Feel Love". The song reached number one in the UK Singles Chart, number six on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and number nine on the Hot Soul Chart. It quickly became popular in gay dance clubs and was adopted as a gay anthem.​ "I Feel Love" is ranked #411 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Production

Before "I Feel Love", most disco recordings had been backed by acoustic orchestras​ although all-electronic music had been produced for decades. Giorgio Moroder's innovative production of this disco-style song, recorded with an entirely synthesized backing track, was influential in the development of disco, electronica, house and techno styles and has even been said to have originated the latter genres.​

Reception

According to David Bowie, then recording of his 'Berlin Trilogy', its impact on the genre's direction was recognized early on:

One day in Berlin ... [Brian] 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.​

The album version lasts for almost six minutes. It was extended for release as a 12" maxi-single, the eight-minute version included on the 1989 compilation The Dance Collection: A Compilation of Twelve Inch Singles. The song was slightly edited on the 7" format, the fade-in opening sound reaching maximum volume sooner. A version which fades out at 3:45, before the third verse and final choruses, has 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."​

Following the track's success, within months Summer and Moroder produced the 11 minute "Now I Need You"/"Working The Midnight Shift" sequence (on Summer's 1977 double album "Once Upon A Time"), which successfully builds on "I Feel Love"'s pioneering ethereal vocals, mechanised beats, sequenced arpeggios and ostinato basslines.

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, 15:45 long, became a dance floor hit again five years after its original release and was issued as an edited 7" single that reached #21 on the UK singles chart. The remix used loops, keeping the song's bass-line going for extended passages of overdubbed effects and synthesiser parts. Thus the track is not a remix in the true sense (ie, rebuilding the track from its constituent parts) due to the new instrumentation superimposed.

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 a 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 #8 hit, the second time the song had entered the Top 10, 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.

Track listings

2 x 12" single

1. "I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Big Room Remix) – 10:00
2. "I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Big Room Radio Edit) – 3:47
3. "I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Electromagnetic Remix) – 10:00
4. "I Feel Love" (Blue Man Group Radio Edit) – 4:05
5. "I Feel Love" (Shanghai Surprise Mix) – 7:03
6. "I Feel Love" (Jason Nevins Big Room Dub) – 9:05
7. "I Feel Love" (The Professionals Mix) – 4:20
8. "I Feel Love" (Human Mix) – 4:20
9. "I Feel Love" (Kap10Kurt Mix) – 5:56

Blue Man Group CD single

1. "I Feel Love (Blue Man Group Radio Edit) – 3:11
2. "I Feel Love (DJ Mutter Sweet Beat Mix) – 4:00
3. "I Feel Love (Jason Nevins Big Room Radio Edit) – 3:48
4. "I Feel Love (The Professionals Mix) – 4:18
5. "I Feel Love (Human Mix) – 4:11
6. "I Feel Love (Video) – 3:44

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'
• 1992 - Curve released a version on the NME charity album Ruby Trax.
• 1993 - Finnish psychedelic 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.
• 1994 - Irish rock band A House recorded a version of this song on their single Here Comes the Good Times.
• 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.
• 1998 - Cher used a similar bassline to the song in the track "All or Nothing" in her Believe album.
• 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.
• 2000 - House group CRW comprising Andrea Remondini and Mauro Picotto released a bass heavy house mix on Jellybean records.
• 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 - Blue Man Group covered the song on their album The Complex, featuring Annette Strean of Venus Hum.
• 2003 - Plump DJs released a bootleg single - the breakbeat remix titled Donna Kebab.
• 2004 - Songs From A Random House released a cover on their album gListen.
• 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 - 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 - Kumi Koda 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.
• 2009 - X Factor contestant Niki Evans will be releasing a cover for release in Summer 2009

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