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4/2025: In the recent book The Uncanny Muse, the author was talking about the early history of disco and Giorgio Moroder, and the profound influence his work had on the music of the late 1970s. The fact that that gets into a book in 2025 is a testament to its historical power, as opposed to Steve Dahl, who might now be obscure]. "I Feel Love," released in July 1977, is considered by many to be a groundbreaking record that fully utilized the potential of electronics, replacing lush disco orchestration with the hypnotic precision of machines. Brian Eno, upon hearing the single, declared it "the Sound of the future" to David Bowie. Critic Simon Reynolds even suggested that "'I Feel Love'" could be pinpointed as "where the 1980s began". After 9/11, I used it as a metaphor for the idea that we're never symbolically going to get rid of an ideology by simply waging a war against it. And certainly the war on terror never worked, and whatever wars that were waging now, even in this country, ultimately won't be successful.  In some sense, Trump is a Steve Dahl figure].