Track Listing

1. I Feel Love
2. With Your Love
3. Last Dance
4. MacArthur Park Suite
5. Hot Stuff
6. Walk Away
7. Dim All The Lights
8. No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) - Summer, Donna & Barbra Streisand

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1962 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

CD Description
A fine collection of the original 12-inch dance mixes of eight of Donna Summer's classic disco singles--half of which have never appeared on CD before--this compilation is a must for disco fans. If for no other reason, DANCE COLLECTION is indispensable because it contains the full 17-minute "MacArthur Park Suite", possibly Summer's most gloriously over-the-top record ever, which was excised from the CD edition of her LIVE AND MORE double album.
Other highlights include the stunningly minimal "I Feel Love", as hypnotic as a classickrautrock track by Kraftwerk or Neu!, and softened only slightly by Summer's erotic lead vocal. Shockingly, Summer's first hit, "Love to Love You Baby", is not included. This 18-minute track is quite possibly the most influential 12-inch single ever released, and the lack of it is puzzling in this otherwise excellent compilation.

Customer Reviews

Pity about the omissions
Although this album is a good buy to get the extended versions of some of Summer's greatest dance hits, it is by no means complete. The omission of hits like Bad Girls, Love's Unkind and Love To Love You Baby and of great album tracks like Queen For A Day, Working The Midnight Shift, Lucky and Journey To The Centre Of Your Heart detracts somewhat from the pomise of the album title. On the other hand, the inclusion of the magnificent MacArthur Park Suite makes up for a lot of what is missing. And this extended version of I Feel Love is worth the price of the album. Like another reviewer said, this ought to have been a 2-CD set. It is valuable to replace those old 12" vinyl singles, but not a comprehensive reflection of the Queen of Disco's contribution to dance music.

Blow your Mind AWAY!!!!
For all those who believe club music is getting more and more the same and sometimes plain retro... GET THIS!!! "I Feel Love" is extended to 8 minutes of THE MOST PERFECT TECHNO TRACK EVER to be foisted upon the minds of all mortals. "With Your Love" is country disco: and THAT's a compliment. It'll get you bumping and jumping and feeling you're locked in Studio 54 sniffing coke side by side with Warhol's buddies. "Last Dance" was written by Summer and is perhaps het best known song: everytimes she plays the thing on live shows the audience goes berzerk and even geeky guys start dancing as if they were locked up in gay disco heaven! LOL! But then... "MacArthur Park Suite" kicks in and we're no longer in 7 or 8 minute territory: if you can imagine 17.47 minutes of perfection swishing by like the funk machine Parliament wanted to be but only got close to you are still galaxies away from the symphonic beauty splashed over these glorious moments of music capable of bringing tears to your eyes and electric shocks to your mind. The day i hear a DJ playing this on his/her set i will get down on my knees and propose!!! "Hot Stuff" you know: i really don't like this track or "Walk away", but some do and here you get more of it. It was the beginning of her rock leanings, and i guess it's understandable to see it happen that way when one begins to consider the market becoming closer to disco backlash. One of the worst possible things that ever happened to pop and brought back funkless music played by white old men with names like Knopfler. "Dim All the Lights" is a joy, a pure joy, and probably even better than "Last Dance". And, breaking the 10 minute scale ladies and gentlemen and hermaphrodites, the dynamic diva duo that competes for those high notes and those high heels: Donna Summer and barbra Streisand (audience goes AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH and a plane crashes while millions are smashed in a pool of blood and bones and pus trying to get a glimpse of their goddesses and idols)!!!! Enough is, truly, enough. They should've made this a double CD though: it's a shame that something THIS good has to stop. A carnival of the senses. A perpetual grin. GET IT NOW!!!!

DISCO HEAVEN!!!!
from the opening bars of "i feel love" you know how good this cd will be! after 8 minutes of this you go into "with your love" an unknown track but its wonderful..only available on this cd! as dance hypnotic as the predecessor! then you have"last dance" a summer classic in its 12" glory!!! amazing!!! jumping straight into the macauthur park suite.."yes we know someone left a cake out" but the 18 minute frenzy that encapsulates "one of a kind" and "heaven knows"..its a bit too much!

then into the 12" versions of "hot stuff" and "walk away"!!! if exstatic hasnt set in by now...you get "dim all the lights"...and to finish you off the full lenght versions of "tears are not enough" is a show stopper!

if you only buy 1 donna summer album...buy this one!