List of hi-NRG artists and songs

Hi-NRG is uptempo disco or electronic dance music usually featuring synthetic bassline octaves. This list contains some examples of hi-NRG artists and songs. Hi-NRG songs by non-hi NRG artists are also included.

Contents
Artists • Songs (1970s • Early 1980s • Mid to late 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s) • Albums • References

Songs

1970s
YearArtistOriginSongLabel
1977Donna Summer"I Feel Love"[1][2][3]Casablanca / GTO
1978Peter Jacques band"Fly With the Wind"[4]Ariola
1978Sylvester"You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"[1][5][6][7][8]Fantasy

Early 1980s
YearArtistOriginSongLabel
1980Donna Summer"Sunset People"[9]Casablanca
1981Boys Town Gang"Remember Me / Ain't No Mountain High Enough"[10]Moby Dick
1981Patrick Cowley"Get a Little"[11]Megatone
1981Patrick Cowley"Megatron Man"[12]Megatone
1981Patrick Cowley"Menergy"[8][12][13][14]Fusion
1981Carol Jiani"Hit 'N Run Lover"[15][16]Matra
1982Claudja Barry"Work Me Over"[17]Jupiter
1982Patrick Cowley"Goin' Home"[14]Megatone
1982Divine"Native Love (Step By Step)"[18][19]"O"
1982The Flirts"Passion"[20]"O"
1982Roni Griffith"Spys"[21][22]Vanguard
1982Lime"Babe, We're Gonna Love Tonight"[23]Mantra
1982Paul Parker"Right on Target"[8][12]Megatone
1982Q-Feel"Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)"[24]Jive
1982Donna Summer"I Feel Love" (Patrick Cowley Remix)[25]Casablanca
1982Sylvester"Do Ya Wanna Funk"[8][12][13][26][27]Megatone
1982The Weather Girls"It's Raining Men"[28][29][30]CBS (UK)
1982Viola Wills"Stormy Weather"[31][32]Sunergy
1983Claudja Barry"For Your Love"[33]Personal
1983Miquel Brown"So Many Men, So Little Time"[17][34][35][36]Record Shack
1983Dead or Alive"Misty Circles" (Dance Mix)[37]Epic
1983Hazell Dean"Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)"[17][29][38]Proto
1983Divine"Shoot Your Shot"[39]"O"
1983Frankie Goes to Hollywood"Relax"[40][41]ZTT
1983New Order"Blue Monday"[42]Factory
1983William Onyeabor"Good Name"[43]Wilfilms
1983Sylvester"Don't Stop"[12][44]Megatone
1984Agents Aren't Aeroplanes"The Upstroke"[45]Proto (UK)
1984Bronski Beat"Smalltown Boy"[46]London
1984Bronski Beat"Why?"[46][47][48]London
1984Dead or Alive"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)"[49][50][51][52]Epic
1984Hazell Dean"Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)"[45]Proto (UK)
1984Divine"You Think You're a Man"[19][29][39][45][53]Proto
1984Fancy"Get Lost Tonight"[54]Metronome
1984Fancy"Slice Me Nice"[55]Metronome
1984The Flirts"Helpless (You Took My Love)"[56]Telefon
1984Frankie Goes to Hollywood"Two Tribes"[57]ZTT
1984Fun Fun"Colour My Love"[17]X-Energy
1984Fun Fun"Give Me Your Love"[58]X-Energy
1984Sylvester"Rock the Box"[13]Megatone
1984Evelyn Thomas"High Energy"[15][29][34][35][36][59]Record Shack (UK)
1984Kim Wilde"The Second Time"[60]MCA

Mid to late 1980s
YearArtistOriginSongLabel
1985Bronski Beat"Hit That Perfect Beat"[61][62][63]London
1985Bronski Beat"Run From Love" / "Hard Rain"[64]London
1985Bronski Beat and Marc Almond"I Feel Love"[7]London
1985Divine"Walk Like a Man"[65]Proto
1985Madleen Kane"I'm No Angel"[66]TSR
1985Madleen Kane"On Fire"[66]TSR
1985Lime"Unexpected Lovers"[67]Mantra
1985Barbara Pennington"Vertigo"[68]Record Shack
1985People Like Us"Reincarnation (Coming Back For Love)"[69]Passion (UK)
1985Sinitta"So Macho"[70]Fanfare (UK)
1985Suzy Q"Computer Music"[15]J.C.
1985Taffy"I Love My Radio"[71]Ibiza (Italy) / Transglobal (UK)
1985Village People"Sex Over the Phone"[72][73]Casablanca
1985Betty Wright"Sinderella"[74]Jamaica
1986Bananarama"Venus"[45][75][76]London
1986Claudja Barry"Down and Counting"[77]Epic
1986The Communards"Don't Leave Me This Way"[61][78][79]London
1986Dead or Alive"Something In My House"[80]Epic
1986Man 2 Man and Man Parrish"Male Stripper"[81]Bolts
1986Stacey Q"Two of Hearts"[82][83]Atlantic
1986Evelyn Thomas"How Many Hearts"[84]Record Shack
1986Kim Wilde"You Keep Me Hangin' On"[85][86][87]MCA
1987Bona-Riah"House of the Rising Sun"[49]Rise
1987The Communards"Never Can Say Goodbye"[88]London
1987Paul Lekakis"Boom Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room)"[89][90]ZYX / Polydor
1987New Baccara"Call Me Up"[91]Bellaphon
1987Pet Shop Boys"Always on My Mind"[92]Parlophone
1987Taffy"Step by Step"[93]Transglobal
1987Kylie Minogue"I Should Be So Lucky"[94]PWL
1988Erasure"Knocking on Your Door"[95][96]Mute / Sire
1988Erasure"Stop!"[95][96]Mute / Sire
1988Kylie Minogue"The Loco-Motion"[97]PWL
1988New Baccara"Fantasy Boy"[91]Bellaphon
1988Quantize"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"[49]Passion
1989Boy"Broken Wings"[49]Flea
1989Eartha Kitt and Bronski Beat
"Cha Cha Heels"[98]Arista
1989New Baccara"Touch Me"[91]Bellaphon
1989Quantize"You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"[49]Passion
1989Donna Summer"I Don't Wanna Get Hurt"[99]Warner Bros.
1989Donna Summer"This Time I Know It's for Real"[99][100][101]Warner Bros.
1989Donna Summer"Whatever Your Heart Desires"[99]Atlantic / PWL

1990s
YearArtistOriginSongLabel
1990Quantize"Stop! In the Name of Love"[49]Passion
1991Pet Shop Boys"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)"[92][102][103]Parlophone / EMI
1991Quantize feat. Adrienne"Yesterday Once More"[49]Passion
1992Erasure"Take a Chance on Me"[104][105]Mute
1993Abigail"Constant Craving"[106]ZYX
1993Abigail"Losing My Religion"[107]ZYX
1993Cappella"U Got 2 Know"[108]ZYX
1993Cappella"U Got 2 Let the Music"[108]ZYX
1993Frankie Goes to Hollywood"Relax" (Jam & Spoon HI N-R-G Remix)[109]ZTT
1994Abigail"Smells Like Teen Spirit"[106][110]ZYX
1994Blur"Girls & Boys" (Pet Shop Boys 12" Remix)[111]Food / Parlophone
1994Cappella"Move on Baby"[108]ZYX
1994Fancy"Long Way to Paradise"[112]Koch International
1994Fancy"Wait by the Radio"[112]Koch International
1994Nicki French"Total Eclipse of the Heart"[113][114]Bags of Fun / Mega
1995Nicki French"Did You Ever Really Love Me"[115]Love This
1995Nicki French"For All We Know"[113]Bags of Fun
1995Karel"Live to Tell"[116]Jellybean
1995Outta Control"Tonight It's Party Time"[117]Interhit
1996Gina G"Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit"[118][119]Eternal
1996Johnna"Do What You Feel"[120]PWL International
1997Miquel Brown"It's a Sin"[121]Infinity
1997Cappella"Be My Baby"[122]ZYX
1997France Joli"Breakaway"[123]Jellybean
1997Karel"I Am"[124]Jellybean
1997Pet Shop Boys"Somewhere"[125]Parlophone / Atlantic

2000s
YearArtistOriginSongLabel
2000A Touch of Class (ATC)"Around the World (La La La La La)"[126]King Size
2003The Knife"Listen Now"[127][128]Rabid
2004Jimmy Somerville"Come On"[129]Sony BMG
2006Moby feat. Debbie Harry"New York, New York"[130]Mute
2007Bloc Party"Flux"[131]Wichita
2007Sophie Ellis-Bextor"China Heart"[132][133]Fascination
2007Róisín Murphy"Cry Baby"[134]EMI
2007Britney Spears"Heaven on Earth"[135][136]Jive / Zomba
2008Anastacia"Heavy Rotation"[137][138]Mercury
2008Donna Summer"I'm a Fire"[139]Burgundy
2009Bananarama"Dum Dum Boy"[140]Fascination
2009Bananarama"Love Comes"[141][142]Fascination
2009Silver Columns"Brow Beaten"[143]Silver Columns

2010s
YearArtistOriginSongLabel
2011Britney Spears"I Wanna Go"[144]Jive
2011Rihanna"S&M"[145]Def Jam / SRP
2011Kim Wilde"Remember Me"[146]Columbia SevenOne
2012Pet Shop Boys"A Face Like That"[147]Parlophone
2013Club 8"Stop Taking My Time"[148][149]Labrador
2013Pet Shop Boys"Axis"[150][151]x2
2013Pet Shop Boys"Love Is a Bourgeois Construct"[152][153]x2
2013Shit Robot feat. JENR
"Feels Real"[154][155]DFA
2014Todd Terje"Delorean Dynamite"[156]Olsen
2015Belle and Sebastian"Enter Sylvia Plath"[157]Matador

Albums

Artists

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