Thread: Who here loves disco?

Love disco, I AM DISCO!

Yeah, Saturday Night Fever opened at theatres when I was in high school, ushering in the age of silk shirts, wide lapels, polyester shirts and bare chests. I remember driving to the high school disco dances in my '73 Vega.

I even used to be pretty good at it....


*Seeker digs through his playlist and puts on the Bee Gees*

Good times!

I prefer Funk.

Originally Posted by Seeker

Love disco, I AM DISCO!

Yeah, Saturday Night Fever opened at theatres when I was in high school, ushering in the age of silk shirts, wide lapels, polyester shirts and bare chests. I remember driving to the high school disco dances in my '73 Vega.

I even used to be pretty good at it....


*Seeker digs through his playlist and puts on the Bee Gees*

Good times!

All right! That's what I want to hear.

I remember when my mother took me to see Saturday Night Fever at the theater. I think we saw it at the theater for movies that came out two years earlier because I was in the second grade and the movie came out when I was in kindergarten. My parents used to play the soundtrack to that movie almost nonstop. My mother's Bee Gees fanatacism lives on to this day. In fact, we listened to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack on CD in my mother's car just last Saturday night.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

I prefer Funk.

This is a great disco/funk hybrid.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eXpa0Ef25XQ

Ah Stayin' Alive, the best song to strut to ever

UM, disco sucks! How could you? I thought you were cool. I'm not hanging out with you anymore.

OK, here's my all-time favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnFlHbeNgvA (is that disco or funk?)

Donna Summer, and the noises she made in that song, I love it , ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUWo05U0Ao

Rolling Stones Disco, not too bad (wow, that's a great video, I never saw it before): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qljSuSX1Na0

I got sick of Car Wash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE7G1-ME5eU

The biggest traitor to rock and roll that ever lived, Rod Stewart (boo, hiss): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbZNbms2PNA

Oh, Moonbeam, you were trying to be so cool but then just had to reveal your true colors. I am way past the point of denying that I love disco. It is just too good for that. However, I think there came a point where disco got so big that a lot of the wrong people started trying to perform it. Even commercials and stuff were using disco at the end of the 70's. That is always a sign that a music form is being ruined. Rod Stewart had no business trying to be disco, and I'm not too sure the Rolling Stones did either. I think Rod Stewart started sucking really bad once he went disco and never returned back. He just got worse and worse after that. There is another act that did a nose dive when they came out with a disco song, and they never returned to greatness either. I can't believe this one. I know you remember it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HnqUAbGMjLI

Why???????

I heard "Beth" on XM TopTracks yestersday, I was practically ...why, oh why did they do it?

Here's one I hated as a total sell-out at the time, but it doesn't sound as bad right now as I remember it...http://youtube.com/watch?v=iTjy_LW8DGM

P.S. I never knew the Rolling Stones were doing disco at the time; that worked on rock stations.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

I heard "Beth" on XM TopTracks yestersday, I was practically ...why, oh why did they do it?

One of the many examples of where a band's biggest hit is their worst song. Or was "Rock and Roll All Night" their biggest hit? Something tells me it was "Beth", unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Here's one I hated as a total sell-out at the time, but it doesn't sound as bad right now as I remember it...http://youtube.com/watch?v=iTjy_LW8DGM

I love Electric Light Orchestra, but I can't stand "Don't Bring Me Down". That might be another example of what I was just talking about, but I am not sure. They had another song that was very disco like, and I really like this one.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1LOBOJDI9yI

When disco got enormous enough, omens of its end started popping up.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4yWP6DMhgo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AA4PQBP7Bfk

In 1979, radio stations were advertising "Bee Gee free weekends" because so much of the public had had it with disco. That sentiment led to this major sign of the end times.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8a_hBR9YuNw

That's what I was saying about ELO, everything up until that album was great, then it was like, eww...disco..we didn't know the Stones had turned; they were still cool.

Why are there no good KC and the Sunshine Band videos?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8gCs...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEyWm...eature=related

Michael Jackson had a disco phase, and I think it was the best stuff he ever did.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4_hz2am90Hk

I loved Beth, to me it is just another indication of a versatile band.

Yea I liked "Beth" too, those were tears of joy when I heard it. Not really, but I did get a kick out of it, I hadn't heard it for such a long time. KISS and disco tho...

UM I think now that at the time the opposition to disco may have been sort of rascist. I didn't think about it back then, but that "Disco Sucks" thing was a little too strong and reactionary or something--there was nothing wrong with that music, as you point out, there was a lot of good stuff. White people had taken rock over from black people, but in the beginning of rock it was the same thing--opposition to it because it was black people's music. It was kind of like the same thing maybe; once again the new music had been created by black people. Same with rap, but it didn't quite get the backlash? I don't know. I remember when "Rapper's Delight" (1978?) came out, and it was definitely the black kids' music, but it didn't seem to get the revulsion poured on it that Disco did.

Or maybe us stoners hated disco because we didn't want to get dressed up in those shiny clothes to go dancing. (I saw Saturday Night Live at the theater too--my Mom took us and later she told me that she almost walked out of it. I guess she thought we would have put up a fight and embarrassed her, so she didn't. )

Anyway I had a lot of fun last night looking up videos on you tube.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

UM I think now that at the time the opposition to disco may have been sort of rascist. I didn't think about it back then, but that "Disco Sucks" thing was a little too strong and reactionary or something--there was nothing wrong with that music, as you point out, there was a lot of good stuff. White people had taken rock over from black people, but in the beginning of rock it was the same thing--opposition to it because it was black people's music. It was kind of like the same thing maybe; once again the new music had been created by black people. Same with rap, but it didn't quite get the backlash? I don't know. I remember when "Rapper's Delight" (1978?) came out, and it was definitely the black kids' music, but it didn't seem to get the revulsion poured on it that Disco did.

I have heard that argument. I don't think the backlash against disco had anything to do with race. For one thing, disco was a very racially mixed genre. The biggest selling disco act was the Bee Gees, and they were white. A lot of the other biggest selling disco acts were white or racially mixed. K.C. of K.C. and the Sunshine Band was white. Andy Gibb, Alicia Bridges, Abba, Blondie, Samantha Sang, and Rick Dees ("Disco Duck") were white. Two of the members of the Village People were white. Yvonne Elliman was Asian. The radio stations were advertising "Bee Gee free weekends", not "Chic free weekends" or "Donna Summer free weekends". Rock fans were sick of disco taking over every radio station, being performed in every other commercial, and influencing what the bars played, what the masses wore, and what their social networks wanted to do on weekends. They hated the fact that Rod Stewart, the Rolling Stones, Kiss, and other great acts had become pathetic because they went disco. Disco was burying rock and roll, and a lot of great bands suffered because of it. Steely Dan and the Allman Brothers claim their careers suffered huge dents because of disco, and they also claim that the record companies were trying to pressure everybody in rock and roll to move in a more disco direction. That is the reason for the hate. There were no riots against Motown, blues, or gospel. I love disco, but I can definitely understand why so many people were fed up with it. It did end the classic rock era. Rock and roll never recovered from the damage disco caused it.

True, there were a lot of white people into disco, but it was sort of seen as a black/latin/other people that rednecks consider to be lower class than them.

ABBA! Good one. I heard "Fernando" the other day, what a great song. (The drummer died recently, but did you ever even see a drummer? I guess they had one.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEluLG0CZRM

I don't think disco killed classic rock. My die-hard progressive/classic rock station would have blown itself up rather than play a "disco" song (but it did play "Miss You" and ELO, altho no post-rock Rod Stewart; we knew what he was up to.) That station is still the same even now. I think classic rock sort of killed itself with the evolution of hair-band metal, which was as bad as (actually a lot worse than) disco. I don't think it's really dead tho; lots of alternative music and then grunge kept it going. You can't have a genre be the only thing forever, younger people are going to have their own music. Even rap will fade someday. :pray: Classic rock was the greatest music ever invented, no matter what, and it will never really die.

I sort of feel like I miss out on new stuff anymore; radio stations don't do it anymore, not where I'm at anyway, and it's not like I'm going out and hearing new music anywhere anymore. I should listen to different stations on my satellite radio, but I stick with classic and alternative. I was glad to dicover that Viking folk metal stuff I put in the non-English music thread--I was like Wow, hard rock without any rap, you don't hear that being made much anymore! (My brother calls it Aryan Rock--not how I wanted to look at it, but he's got a point.)

Does Earth, Wind, and Fire count as disco? Because I've always liked them.

Originally Posted by Moonbeam

Classic rock was the greatest music ever invented, no matter what, and it will never really die.

I'll drink to that!

Originally Posted by Grod

Does Earth, Wind, and Fire count as disco? Because I've always liked them.

That is a band that was very close to the line. It is hard to say for sure, but I would probably say they were not. Some people say their 1979 hit "Boogie Wonderland" qualifies as disco, but I don't think even it quite does.