Talk:List of Eurodisco artists
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Why are so many artists listed as Italian when clearly they are not? I know for a fact that Baltimora was from Northern Irish.
- Baltimora was an Italian New Wave Project produced by Maurizio Bassi and Naimy Hackett. Jimmy McShane, (23 May 1957 - 29 March 1995) Northern Irish dancer and singer was chosen to be the frontman of the project, that did not make the project Northern Irish. In central Europe, especially in Germany, there have been and still are so many projects the lead singers or rappers of which are/were Americans that certainly does not make those American projects, a few of those examples would be Culture Beat (from Germany), Magic Affair (from Germany) from the 90s or from the 80s Bad Boys Blue (from Germany) all three singers of which were non-Germans (one was from Jamaica second from England and third from USA) they only represented Germany as Jimmy McShane in the case of Baltimora represented Italy.--Harout72 (talk) 05:14, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Merge discussion[edit]
I propose a merger between this and the Italo Disco list as the latter has questionable quality to it, plus how do we know if any Euro Disco artists (that are listed there) are really Italo Disco even though some compliation markets them as that when they do not have that sound. Henceforth my proposal title would be List of Euro and Italo Disco artists.
- Italo Disco is all that I've ever been familiar with, why would I want to merge it with something else I don't even care about? If it isn't broken, don't fix it. The whole utility this list serves is to help me narrow it down from a larger, more generic list of Euro disco songs. You'd be eliminating that benefit if you merged them. It wouldn't help me in looking for, say, a list of Italian wineries, if Wikipedia only had one generic list of all the world's wineries (which would be tens of thousands of entries, or more).Biturica (talk) 14:49, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
- How do you know that Italo and Euro disco is different, not easy I will say as there is no definition, not even by an expert if there is any. To me, it sound almost similar. If you disagree, just give me a few examples why they are different, apart from typically Italian singers (common claim), Italian production or Italian producers (plenty of non-Italian acts listed though produced by Italians).
- Italo Disco is all that I've ever been familiar with, why would I want to merge it with something else I don't even care about? If it isn't broken, don't fix it. The whole utility this list serves is to help me narrow it down from a larger, more generic list of Euro disco songs. You'd be eliminating that benefit if you merged them. It wouldn't help me in looking for, say, a list of Italian wineries, if Wikipedia only had one generic list of all the world's wineries (which would be tens of thousands of entries, or more).Biturica (talk) 14:49, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
- I will give you an example of Europop acts being mismarketed as Italo disco, one of such is Dieter Bohlen and his Modern Talking, they are one common example, another is Michael Cretu and his (now ex) wife Sandra are marketed as Italo and Euro disco since I have listened to a number of their stuff in the past. To conclude it, I say neither of them as well that their work can hardly be classed as dance music at all, effectively making it an Europop. Being played in a nightclub does not count, nightclubs playing pop tunes is uncommon.
- Until you can find a source to define the difference between the two, excluding Discogs which is not a reliable third party source, I will stand by my decision to merge the two together. Donnie Park (talk) 18:12, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
the ITALO DISCO in the 80's[edit]
did this music was populer only in the 80's ? .... פארוק (talk) 12:19, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
Feedback to this list[edit]
I am writing this to highlight some problems with this list as it can be improved.
First, only one song should be listed and that is the perfomer's biggest hit, if they have a significant number of them, then their biggest international hit song; trouble is a number of entries there, their less popular hits is listed when their most famous song should be, eg Sam Fox, her biggest hit (her debut song) is not listed, instead her lesser known hit is. The same goes to Bananarama and Culture Club, but then these two are more like pop stars than Euro disco artists. Also 49ers is more like Eurodance than Euro disco.
This list is more like a listing for European popstars and European artist more than that for Euro Disco artists, trouble is, is there an reliable third party source for any of these as there is not a single thing to support these entries.
Also the year section makes it look as if these performer have been active for only that given year when they have been active for more than that. Donnie Park (talk) 16:19, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
List not complete[edit]
This list can’t be completed if a decade or more is excluded. It’s like ignoring history and discriminating people. Eurodisco took place before the 80’s. Eric Nelson27 (talk) 17:28, 5 October 2022 (UTC)