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Donna Summer
Bad Girls (Deluxe Edition/Remastered)
Donna Summer:  Bad Girls (Deluxe Edition/Remastered)

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Released: 1979
Label: Mercury
Selection #: 250531
Disco diva's pinnacle w/bonus disc of 12" remixes & more. Bad Girls, Hot Stuff, Dim All The Lights, Walk Away, MacArthur Park Suite, Lucky, etc.
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1 Hot Stuff
2 Bad Girls
3 Love Will Always Find You
4 Walk Away
5 Dim All the Lights
6 Journey to the Centre of Your Heart
7 One Night in a Lifetime
8 Can't Get to Sleep at Night
9 On My Honor
10 There Will Always Be a You
11 All Through the Night
12 My Baby Understands
13 Our Love
14 Lucky
15 Sunset People
16 Bad Girls [*][Demo Version]
17 I Feel Love [12" Version]
18 Last Dance [12" Version]
19 Mac Arthur Park Suite: Mac Arthur Park/One of a Kind/Heaven ...
20 Hot Stuff [12" Version]
21 Bad Girls [12" Version]
22 Walk Away [12" Version]
23 Dim All the Lights [12" Version]
24 No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) [12" Version]
25 On the Radio [Long Version]
  
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"Bad Girls" marked the high-water mark in Donna Summer's career, spending six weeks at number one, going double platinum, and spinning off four Top 40 singles, including the chart-topping title song and "Hot Stuff," which sold two million copies each, and the million-selling, number two hit "Dim All The Lights." Producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte recognized that disco was going in different directions by the late '70s, and they gave the leadoff one-two punch of "Hot Stuff" and "Bad Girls" a rock edge derived from new wave. The original two-LP set was divided into four musically consistent sides, with the rock-steady beat of the first side giving way to a more traditional disco sound on the second side, followed by a third side of ballads and a fourth side with a more electronic, synthesizer-driven sound that recalled Summer's 1977 hit "I Feel Love." Though remembered for its hits, the album had depth and consistency, concluding with "Sunset People," one of Summer's best album-only tracks. The result was the artistic and commercial peak of her career and, arguably, of disco itself. This two-CD reissue fits the original album on disc one with a sole bonus track, Summer's original demo of "Bad Girls." Disc two, dubbed "12" Singles & More," presents extended dance remixes of Summer hits from "I Feel Love" to the post-"Bad Girls" numbers "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (a duet with Barbra Streisand) and "On The Radio," including versions of all four "Bad Girls" hits (the fourth being "Walk Away"). The packaging re-creates the expensive, glossy cover of the original LP, with Summer as a scantily clad streetwalker. The choices to augment the album are excellent, giving a good sense of Summer in her 1977-1980 prime. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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