List of hi-NRG artists and songs
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Hi-NRG is uptempo disco or electronic dance music usually featuring synthetic bassline octaves. This list contains some examples of hi-NRG artists and songs. Hi-NRG songs by non-hi NRG artists are also included.
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Artists • Songs (1970s • Early 1980s • Mid- to late 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2000s) • Albums • References |
Songs
[edit]1970s
[edit]Year | Artist | Song | Label |
---|---|---|---|
1977 | Donna Summer | "I Feel Love"[1][2][3] | Casablanca / GTO |
1978 | Peter Jacques band | "Fly With the Wind"[4] | Ariola |
1978 | Sylvester | "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"[1][5][6][7][8] | Fantasy |
Early 1980s
[edit]Mid- to late 1980s
[edit]Year | Artist | Song | Label |
---|---|---|---|
1984 | Agents Aren't Aeroplanes | "The Upstroke"[47] | Proto (UK) |
1984 | Bronski Beat | "Smalltown Boy"[48] | London |
1984 | Bronski Beat | "Why?"[48][49][50] | London |
1984 | Dead or Alive | "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"[51][52][53][54] | Epic |
1984 | Hazell Dean | "Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)"[47] | Proto (UK) |
1984 | Divine | "You Think You're a Man"[21][31][41][47][55] | Proto |
1984 | Fancy | "Get Lost Tonight"[56] | Metronome |
1984 | Fancy | "Slice Me Nice"[57] | Metronome |
1984 | The Flirts | "Helpless (You Took My Love)"[58] | Telefon |
1984 | Frankie Goes to Hollywood | "Two Tribes"[59] | ZTT |
1984 | Fun Fun | "Colour My Love"[19] | X-Energy |
1984 | Fun Fun | "Give Me Your Love"[60] | X-Energy |
1984 | Sylvester | "Rock the Box"[14] | Megatone |
1984 | Evelyn Thomas | "High Energy"[16][31][36][37][38][61] | Record Shack (UK) |
1984 | Kim Wilde | "The Second Time"[62] | MCA |
1985 | Bronski Beat | "Hit That Perfect Beat"[63][64][65] | London |
1985 | Alaska y Dinarama | "Un hombre de verdad"[66] | Hispavox |
1985 | Bronski Beat | "Run from Love" / "Hard Rain"[67] | London |
1985 | Bronski Beat and Marc Almond | "I Feel Love"[7] | London |
1985 | Divine | "Walk Like a Man"[68] | Proto |
1985 | Madleen Kane | "I'm No Angel"[69] | TSR |
1985 | New Order | "Sub-culture"[70] | Factory Records |
1985 | Madleen Kane | "On Fire"[69] | TSR |
1985 | Lime | "Unexpected Lovers"[71] | Mantra |
1985 | Barbara Pennington | "Vertigo"[72] | Record Shack |
1985 | People Like Us | "Reincarnation (Coming Back For Love)"[73] | Passion (UK) |
1985 | Sinitta | "So Macho"[74] | Fanfare (UK) |
1985 | Suzy Q | "Computer Music"[16] | J.C. |
1985 | Taffy | "I Love My Radio"[75] | Ibiza (Italy) / Transglobal (UK) |
1985 | Village People | "Sex Over the Phone"[76][77] | Casablanca |
1985 | Betty Wright | "Sinderella"[78] | Jamaica |
1986 | Bananarama | "Venus"[47][79][80] | London |
1986 | Claudja Barry | "Down and Counting"[81] | Epic |
1986 | The Communards | "Don't Leave Me This Way"[63][82][83] | London |
1986 | Alaska y Dinarama | "¿A quien le importa?"[84][85][86] | Hispavox |
1986 | Dead or Alive | "Something in My House"[87] | Epic |
1986 | Man 2 Man and Man Parrish | "Male Stripper"[88] | Bolts |
1986 | Stacey Q | "Two of Hearts"[89][90] | Atlantic |
1986 | Evelyn Thomas | "How Many Hearts"[91] | Record Shack |
1986 | Kim Wilde | "You Keep Me Hangin' On"[92][93][94] | MCA |
1987 | Bona-Riah | "House of the Rising Sun"[51] | Rise |
1987 | The Communards | "Never Can Say Goodbye"[95] | London |
1987 | Paul Lekakis | "Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)"[96][97] | ZYX / Polydor |
1987 | New Baccara | "Call Me Up"[98] | Bellaphon |
1987 | Pet Shop Boys | "Always on My Mind"[99] | Parlophone |
1987 | Taffy | "Step by Step"[100] | Transglobal |
1987 | Kylie Minogue | "I Should Be So Lucky"[101] | PWL |
1988 | Erasure | "Knocking on Your Door"[102][103] | Mute / Sire |
1988 | Erasure | "Stop!"[102][103] | Mute / Sire |
1988 | Kylie Minogue | "The Loco-Motion"[104] | PWL |
1988 | New Baccara | "Fantasy Boy"[98] | Bellaphon |
1988 | Quantize | "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"[51] | Passion |
1989 | Boy | "Broken Wings"[51] | Flea |
1989 | Eartha Kitt and Bronski Beat | "Cha Cha Heels"[105] | Arista |
1989 | New Baccara | "Touch Me"[98] | Bellaphon |
1989 | Quantize | "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"[51] | Passion |
1989 | Donna Summer | "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt"[106] | Warner Bros. |
1989 | Donna Summer | "This Time I Know It's for Real"[106][107][108] | Warner Bros. |
1989 | Donna Summer | "Whatever Your Heart Desires"[106] | Atlantic / PWL |
1990s
[edit]2000s
[edit]Year | Artist | Song | Label |
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2000 | A Touch of Class (ATC) | "Around the World (La La La La La)"[135] | King Size |
2003 | The Knife | "Listen Now"[136][137] | Rabid |
2004 | Jimmy Somerville | "Come On"[138] | Sony BMG |
2005 | Scissor Sisters | "Filthy/Gorgeous"[139] | Universal (US) Polydor (worldwide) |
2006 | Moby feat. Debbie Harry | "New York, New York"[140] | Mute |
2007 | Bloc Party | "Flux"[141] | Wichita |
2007 | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | "China Heart"[142][143] | Fascination |
2007 | Róisín Murphy | "Cry Baby"[144] | EMI |
2007 | Britney Spears | "Heaven on Earth"[145][146] | Jive / Zomba |
2008 | Anastacia | "Heavy Rotation"[147][148] | Mercury |
2008 | Donna Summer | "I'm a Fire"[149] | Burgundy |
2009 | Bananarama | "Dum Dum Boy"[150] | Fascination |
2009 | Bananarama | "Love Comes"[151][152] | Fascination |
2009 | Shakira | "She Wolf"[153] | Epic |
2009 | Silver Columns | "Brow Beaten"[154] | Silver Columns |
2010s & 2020s
[edit]Albums
[edit]- 1981: Patrick Cowley – Megatron Man[27]
- 1982: Patrick Cowley – Mind Warp[27]
- 1984: Kim Wilde – Teases & Dares[181]
- 1985: Lime – Unexpected Lovers[182]
- 1988: Dead or Alive – Nude[183]
- 1991: Bananarama – Pop Life[184]
- 1995: Traci Lords – 1000 Fires[185]
- 2004: Bobby Orlando – I Love Bobby "O" (Volume 1)[186]
- 2007: Róisín Murphy – Overpowered[187][188]
- 2009: Bananarama – Viva[189]
- 2013: Patrick Cowley – School Daze[13]
- 2013: Sally Shapiro – "Somewhere Else"[190][166]
Artists
[edit]- Abigail[113]
- A Touch of Class[191]
- Bananarama[108][184][192]
- Claudja Barry[193][194]
- Biddu[195]
- Boys Town Gang[196]
- Bronski Beat[197][198]
- Miquel Brown[130][199][200]
- Cappella[201]
- The Communards[202]
- Al Corley[203]
- Patrick Cowley[1][13][204][205]
- Dead or Alive[47][81][206][207]
- Hazell Dean[208][209]
- Divine[41][198][210]
- Jason Donovan[108]
- Erasure[211][212]
- Fancy[213]
- The Flirts[214]
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood[198][215][216][217]
- Nicki French[218]
- Fun Fun[219]
- Ian Levine[36][220][221][222]
- Lime[71][182]
- Man 2 Man[223]
- Kelly Marie[224][225]
- Giorgio Moroder[1]
- Alison Moyet[16]
- Bobby Orlando[22][186][226]
- Paul Parker[69]
- Roisin Murphy[227]
- Man Parrish[228]
- Pet Shop Boys[16][162][229]
- Real McCoy[230][218]
- RuPaul[231]
- Sinitta[232]
- Jimmy Somerville[233]
- Stacey Q[234]
- Stock Aitken Waterman[47][235][236]
- Donna Summer[16][108]
- Suzy Q[16]
- Sylvester[5][16][199]
- Take That[237][238][239]
- Evelyn Thomas[198][240][241][200]
- Jeanie Tracy[242]
- Trans-X[243]
- Jessie Ware[176]
- Fiachra Trench[244]
- U.S.U.R.A.[245]
- Village People[16]
- The Weather Girls[16][246]
- Kim Wilde[181]
- Viola Wills[247]
- Tom Wilson[49]
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Divine's "Native Love," a rowdy hi-NRG anthem previously pillaged by Nitzer Ebb, the Prodigy, even New Order.
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As Bronski Beat's falsetto leader, Somerville made gay politics a hot pop topic with such hi-NRG dance floor staples as "Why?" and "Smalltown Boy"
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This band originally hails from Africa so it's a bit of a surprise to find them performing a commercial slice of Hi-NRG which, compared to other tracks of this ilk, currently doing the rounds, lacks the necessary sparkle.
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It was in 1986 that Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced Bananarama's smash Hi-NRG remake of Shocking Blue's "Venus."
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The Communards' hi-NRG version makes it clear that the song is as concerned with sexual satisfaction as it is with romance; perhaps more so.
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a version of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" that infuses the soul that Abigail's 1992 Hi-NRG version lacked.
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