I'll cry me a river that leads to your ocean

December 14, 2018 1:49 PM

Sheesh do I ever dig Emotion as recorded by Samantha Sang. What else would I dig that I am not thinking of?

I am fairly well-versed in other music of the brothers Gibb, and, uh, "sad disco" in general but what might I have missed? I think I'm looking for late 70's stuff specifically but if there's something newer that will work too.

posted by dirtdirt to Media & Arts (14 answers total)

Deneice Williams — Silly
Gladys Knight and the Pips — Neither One of Us

These match? Maybe you need more groove tho.
posted by wemayfreeze at 1:53 PM on December 14, 2018

When you do find something you like, you can use this little app called Sounder Project, search on the artist's name and it will play a short preview of everything they have till you hear something you like. It is a beta and it is a little buggy but works as a good tool to do exactly what you are trying to accomplish.
posted by bkeene12 at 2:18 PM on December 14, 2018 [1 favorite]

Maybe Blood Orange — "You're Not Good Enough"? I'm especially partial to the Silent Houses live cover, with added Gotye and Fleetwood Mac mashup goodness.
posted by sacrifix at 2:24 PM on December 14, 2018

Amanda Lear? The Sphinx, Alphabet
posted by Bloxworth Snout at 3:09 PM on December 14, 2018

It's hard to figure out what you want from the one data point you've given, but this is a convenient opportunity to point you and everyone else to one of the greatest ask metafilter music threads of all time, one I think about every holiday season:

Help me build a playlist of coked-out, airless rock songs from the 70s and 80s.

I'm not sure exactly what you want, but I am reasonably certain that what you want is in that thread somewhere.
posted by ferdydurke at 4:28 PM on December 14, 2018 [1 favorite]

Omg Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb, Guilty, sooo good.
posted by Rube R. Nekker at 4:54 PM on December 14, 2018 [2 favorites]

If I Can't Have You is also a Bee Gees song recorded by a woman.
posted by nakedmolerats at 6:20 PM on December 14, 2018

As a Bee Gees fan, you might judge their cover of "How Deep is Your Love" more critically, but maybe the whole album of Hall & Oates covers by The Bird and the Bee could work.
posted by Wobbuffet at 6:30 PM on December 14, 2018

Al Green: I'm Still in Love with You
Donna Summer: Love to Love You Baby
Love Unlimited Orchestra: Love's Theme
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band: We Got It Made Night & Day
George Duke: I Want You for Myself
posted by heatvision at 5:52 AM on December 15, 2018

Bill Withers: Just the Two of Us
10cc: I'm Not in Love
America: I Need You, She's Gonna Let You Down
Roberta Flack: Where Is The Love
posted by Bron at 8:42 AM on December 15, 2018

Olivia Newton-John: Magic
ONJ + Cliff Richard: Suddenly

Basically, lots of ONJ.
posted by LynnDee at 10:18 AM on December 15, 2018

Patrice Rushen, Forget-Me-Nots (1982)
Newer: Tame Impala, The Less I Know the Better (2015)
(link above is spotify; the video, easy to find on youtube, is NSFW and quite far from the soft-focus disco vibe of Emotion)
posted by miles per flower at 11:16 AM on December 15, 2018

not sure if it is something you might have missed but I understand Abba has never been as popular in the US as in the rest of the world so there it goes:
The winner takes it all and The day before you came
posted by bluedora at 1:39 PM on December 15, 2018

Brothers Gibb also produced some interesting minor-key ballads for their brother Andy Gibb, 'Love is Thicker Than Water', 'Shadow Dancing'.
posted by ovvl at 7:29 AM on December 16, 2018