Artist
Donna Summer
Donna Summer appears 3 times in our Disco, Roots, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Disco, Roots, and The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
- Year
- 1977
- Highest placing
- No. 1 in Disco
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
I Feel Love
1977 · Casablanca
Ranked No. 1 in Disco
Giorgio Moroder replaces the band with a Moog sequencer and Summer sings over the top as though nothing unusual is happening. Brian Eno called it the future, correctly, and it is still arriving.
Also on Roots, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
I Feel Love
1977 · Casablanca
Picked by Roots
Eno reportedly burst into Bowie's Berlin session announcing that the sound of the future had arrived. Early by about six years, and wrong by about nothing.
Also on Disco, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
I Feel Love
1977 · Casablanca
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred
The moment a machine takes over the rhythm section of popular music and nobody notices they have crossed a line. Everything electronic below here is downstream of it.