Sylvester "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" C/D

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Anyone besides me here that finds this to be classic? I was introduced to this masterpeice via VH1 in the late nineties on a special about Studio 54. They showed the video in its entirety and my eyes were glued to the TV trying to figure out what gender Sylvester was and at the same time I was mesmerized by how that beat was commanding me to dance. I was about 12 at the time.

Disco is cool.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone besides me here that finds this to be classic?

I think the question actually is: is there anyone who doesn't find this to be a classic? I think even non-disco fans would cite it as a highlight of the genre.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah this is def. one of the more loved 54-era disco tunes.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex in NYC OTM.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Re Alex in NYC OTM: Alex in SF OTM

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I agree w/the Alexes

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep, it's a classic, and I nominated it for the 70's poll, so I hope you all voted for it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Three people voted in the 70s poll.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 13 May 2005 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

well duh. classic.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 05:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer "Stars", but classic, yes.

― a banana (alanbanana), Friday, 13 May 2005 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

classique

― cindy williams permafrost (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 13 May 2005 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

while on the subject- B-side to the Stars EP, I Need Somebody to Love Tonight, is the most beautiful piece of electronic music ever released.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 May 2005 06:12 (twenty-one years ago)

This record is an overrated, rhythm-dominant, tune-free clatter with minimal lyrical interest, sung by someone who sounds like he has been castrated. Certainly in real life Sylvester should have been castrated, then he wouldn't have died of AIDS. He is nothing, as are others of his ilk.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Friday, 13 May 2005 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

so classic!

except for some shitty remix I downloaded off slsk once, that wasn't classic at all.

― haitch (haitch), Friday, 13 May 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate this song.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Friday, 13 May 2005 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah I'm fucking with you, best song ever probably.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Friday, 13 May 2005 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

You were correct the first time.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The last time I heard this song, Derrick May dropped it into the middle of a techno set at about +12 or something. It didn't really work in that context.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Derrick May has soiled Sylvester's vision.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I second the call on I Need Somebody to Love Tonight, classic twisted fucked up gay space music. Love it!

― oats (oats), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a paper on Sylvester at EMP. Apparently he didn't actually like this song much, meant it for a B-Side, thought the disco treatment was inappropriate for a song intended as a gospel/soul number... NEVER LISTEN TO ARTISTS!!! ahem. Anyway the paper also told a moving story of his collaboration with Patrick Cowley just before the latter died and his late conversion to thinking the disco he made was good after all.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 13 May 2005 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

SO VERY CLASSIC. It makes even grouches (and Geirs maybe?) smile. The 12" mix is the greatest song ever recorded.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it a lot.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You are incorrect to like it a lot. It fails to qualify as a song, being overly rhythmical and insufficiently melodic, unlike other "disco" hits of the period such as "From New York To L.A." by Patsy Gallant.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Friday, 13 May 2005 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" vs. "Blue Monday!"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't really like this song. 'I who have nothing' is far superior.

― Affectian (Affectian), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer "Do You Wanna Funk?" myself.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"I (Who Have Nothing)" is at least a proper song with melody, and is best performed by Shirley Bassey, if not by Tom Jones.

― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i prefer 'do u wanna funk?' but this si still great.

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 13 May 2005 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, and "Stars" is fucking ace as well.

Do we rate Byron Stingily's house remake of "Mighty Real"?

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 13 May 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

IF said the best thing ever about "I Need Somebody To Love Tonight" (or maybe any song, really) during the CBS 100 countdown: "The ultimate track for making love to whatever."

Byron Stingily's cover of "MR" was like the remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre -- it was finally an unpretentious way of doing what had been going on for years anyway (Syl's spirit stopped by "Devotion" on the way up, no doubt).

― Rich (Rich), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(Syl's spirit stopped by "Devotion" on the way up, no doubt).

Hell, yeah!

(Where you been, Rich?)

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

hah rich, just heard that last night. It's more like "the ultimate track for making love to...whatever"!!!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Doubleplusgood classic!

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 13 May 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been around. It just takes a real man like Sylvester to delurk me.

Ha Dan, yeah. I really can't decide what's better -- the songs or IF's commentary. Had no idea he was so funny, but really, I should have guessed.

― Rich (Rich), Friday, 13 May 2005 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm all for up-upping the entire Megatone catalog... ok, well, a good chunk of it, as well, as it is underrated, even in comparison to "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (which wasn't on Megatone, if I remember the vinyl label correctly)

Anything Patrick Cowley released on his own is at least worth investigating if not immediately snagging. The Menergy EP, for sure.

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

TS: "You make me feel(mighty real)" vs. Divine "Shoot Your Shot (dance mix)"

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Friday, 13 May 2005 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) > Shoot Your Shot > Blue Monday > Love Reaction

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Friday, 13 May 2005 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You Make Me Feel>Blue Monday>Shoot Your Shot>Kreem's Triangle of Love>every other song ever written>Love Reaction

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You Make Me Feel + I Feel Love + I Cry >>>>>>>>> the world

"I WAS...
BORN IN...
THE GHETTO!!!"

― donut debonair (donut), Friday, 13 May 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You Make Me Feel>Blue Monday>Shoot Your Shot>Kreem's Triangle of Love>every other song ever written>Love Reaction

But that doesn't make any sense! Love Reaction and Blue Monday are the same songs!

And where does Native Love fit in?

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Saturday, 14 May 2005 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

it's what's different about them that makes ALL the difference!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!

And original song classic etc.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i love how everyone is just ignoring Comstock Carabinieri. he's like a bad, fake geir

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

certainly ignoring the odd statement that he wouldn't have gotten aids had he been castrated...but lets not go there.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 14 May 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Derrick May dropped it into a techno set at +12 on thursday and it was great! It was because it followed bongos. Also: Japanese people.

― Jacob (Jacob), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is making me want to start a "Love Action"-The Human League C/D thread...

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

he's like a bad, fake geir

Well, yes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

megaxpost. no, "I (Who Have Nothing)" is best performed by Sylvester. By far the greatest thing he has done.

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 14 May 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

On first sight, this thread was redundant – obviously classic – but it made me go hme and dig out Stars, which I hadn’t listened to for an age and which is fantastic. Classic!

― LRJP! (LRJP!), Saturday, 14 May 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ILM is redundant by nature, nothing's changed since I used to lurk here back in the day.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Saturday, 14 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

this is going to be the first dance at my wedding

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 3 February 2008 02:42 (eighteen years ago)

sylvester = total classic. some of patrick cowley's solo stuff is pretty classic, too.

― burt_stanton, Sunday, 3 February 2008 03:36 (eighteen years ago)

this is going to be the first dance at my wedding

aww, that's sweet.

― Eric H., Sunday, 3 February 2008 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

"Over and Over" is sort of my favorite Sylvester song, I have to admit.

― Eric H., Sunday, 3 February 2008 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

this was on my wedding dance mix!

― gershy, Sunday, 3 February 2008 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

awesome song

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 3 February 2008 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

This is on the XM satellite radio station for the 1970's, one of my bosses favorites. I worked for much of this past year without frequent supervision at a Whole Foods coffee bar and would abuse my unmitigated access to caffeine. This song would come on at the same time every evening, and I'm straining my voice to be a little higher and pretending he danced like Ducky doing Otis. The customers love it, but then this is San Francisco. I hope my having gray hairs at twenty isn't a consequence of the butterfly stomach ground rounds.

― MParadis, Sunday, 3 February 2008 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

If anyone can find an mp3 of Sylvester's cover of "Southern Man" I will be eternally grateful and may produce a shiny nickel as reward. I'm starting to think that it, and the Sniff My Flower album it's from, are nothing but a cruel hoax perpetrated on poor innocent folk who just want to hear Sylvester sing "Southern Man" (or "Whiter Shade of Pale," but that's incidental).

― Telephone thing, Friday, 11 April 2008 08:23 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

pretty huge C iirc

― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:03 (fifteen years ago)

yeah

― plax (ico), Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:10 (fifteen years ago)

This is classic all the way. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly an enemy of humanity.

― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:14 (fifteen years ago)

wait what?

This record is an overrated, rhythm-dominant, tune-free clatter with minimal lyrical interest, sung by someone who sounds like he has been castrated. Certainly in real life Sylvester should have been castrated, then he wouldn't have died of AIDS. He is nothing, as are others of his ilk.
― Comstock Carabinieri (nostudium), Friday, May 13, 2005 6:21 AM (5 years ago)

― plax (ico), Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:28 (fifteen years ago)

this is maybe the only thing i have ever read on ilx that feels so personally insulting

― plax (ico), Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:29 (fifteen years ago)

It's a "joke" post.

― Orange You Glad I Didn't Say Mañana? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:32 (fifteen years ago)

This song is nuts (in a good way).

Nostadium was an awesome troll. Gives away too much with that Shirley Bassey comment, though.

― bamcquern, Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:42 (fifteen years ago)

Well, okay, no one paid attention to him, so I guess that's not successful trolling, but I don't care.

― bamcquern, Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:43 (fifteen years ago)

he was supposed to be a geir parody but there wasnt enough of a diff between him & the real thing iirc

― blap...tremendo (deej), Sunday, 18 July 2010 08:51 (fifteen years ago)

awesome song

― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, February 3, 2008 3:13 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― goth (crüt), Sunday, 18 July 2010 10:12 (fifteen years ago)

Wasn't Comstock Marcello?

― Tim F, Sunday, 18 July 2010 10:16 (fifteen years ago)

Yes.

This is very classic. Should chase a compilation sometime.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 July 2010 10:24 (fifteen years ago)

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