Voyagers, The ‎– Distant Planet

this is the best example to see, how with few, and simples melodies you can do a masterpiece. top 5.

A very, very special record.
Moody, romantic, sad as a trip on the moon on a moonless night, this has all the clichés linked with "classic" italo : bad out of tune singing in litterally translated english, quite dated synths and nothing so adventurous in the production or futuristic in the structure either (as opposed to all the proto techno records made in italy in the same era, ie BWH, Carrasco, Rago/Farina et al).

But the whole bloody magic lies in the melody, and that one is really intouchable.

Plus, to add some mystique, the artwork with the skeletons is somewhere between awkward and poetic in a typical clumsy-home-made italo fashion ; and the lyrics are devastatingly sad, and quite meaningless to be honest, thus incidentally encapsulating perfectly the romantic incommunication sensation of the song.

Released the same year as Valerie Dore's masterpiece "The Night", sung by the same singer (but sang and mixed in a totally different, slightly out of tune, far away, production mood) and clearly written in the same melodic inspiration, this one could be considered as its sad, dark, lost in space hidden sister.

(Note that the synth melody was badly ripped off on Sheila Stewart's "It's You" in 88)