What are some 90's groups and artists that were influenced by 70's disco? Ones I can think of are Ace of Base and the Cardigans, who sound a lot like they could be proteges of ABBA. I also think that a lot of early 90's dance music had some influence by 70's disco and funk.

The Spice Girls and Cher were pretty heavily influenced by disco in their 1997-1998 period or so. I think alot of the club/house/rave music, particularly that which made the charts, was disco-esque. There was alot of disco nostalgia around 1997-1998.

The Spice Girls and Cher were pretty heavily influenced by disco in their 1997-1998 period or so. I think alot of the club/house/rave music, particularly that which made the charts, was disco-esque. There was alot of disco nostalgia around 1997-1998.


Yeah, "Believe" seemed to have that late '70s club feel. This era also seemed to be the time which That '70s Show focused the most on (like 1975/76 to '78).

Would you call Ace of Base a "90s-ified" '80s band? That's sort of what "The Sign" sounds like to me (one of my favorite songs from 1994 btw). :)

Yeah, "Believe" seemed to have that late '70s club feel. This era also seemed to be the time which That '70s Show focused the most on (like 1975/76 to '78).

Would you call Ace of Base a "90s-ified" '80s band? That's sort of what "The Sign" sounds like to me (one of my favorite songs from 1994 btw). :)


I suppose so, they're ABBA-esque. Alot of late '90s club music has a late '70s, heavily updated feel...the very breezy, happy sound of late '90s techno almost sounds a little out of date now, with the synthesized voices and shouted choruses. Alot of it seems like de-funked, technified disco. Stuff by the C&C Dance Factory sounds like rap-ified disco, but rap comes from disco, anyway.

what about LEN?

What are some 90's groups and artists that were influenced by 70's disco? Ones I can think of are Ace of Base and the Cardigans, who sound a lot like they could be proteges of ABBA. I also think that a lot of early 90's dance music had some influence by 70's disco and funk.


The Cardigans are one of my favourite Euro bands of all time!  :) But they weren't really influenced by 70's disco at all - more the lo-fi, 'sub-pop' of late 80s British post-punk groups like the Inspiral Carpets.

ABBA could hardly be typecast as a 'Disco' group. For one, they were pumping out hits well before the Disco era (from their hit 'Waterloo' which won Eurovision '73), and their song structure.etc is much more varied.etc.

Yeah, "Believe" seemed to have that late '70s club feel. This era also seemed to be the time which That '70s Show focused the most on (like 1975/76 to '78).

Would you call Ace of Base a "90s-ified" '80s band? That's sort of what "The Sign" sounds like to me (one of my favorite songs from 1994 btw). :)


Indeed, just listening to 90s disco hits like 'Power of a Woman' and 'Believe' I see the strong 70s disco-inspired sound, and the have fun at all costs' mentality. There was something about the late 70s in the late 90s, both precursors to very glam, materialistic decades.

The funk and acid jazz 90's group Jamiroquai has a bit of funk in their music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLppVSb9OKs

Lots of Eurodance in the early-to-mid 90s is very much influenced by 70s disco in many ways.
Also a lot of rock music in the mid-90s had a very hippie-ish sound to it that was reminiscent of the 60s/70s, groups such as Hootie and the Blowish, Dave Matthews, Alanis Morissette, Gin Blossoms, etc. just to name a few.

Teen Pop?

West coast G-funk was heavily influenced by 70s funk (as the name implies)

Teen Pop?



I don't think so.

Teen Pop?
A-Teens was a teen pop group from Sweden whose first cover was entirely ABBA songs.

"I'm Your Boogie Man", a 1976 Disco song originally recorded by KC and the Sunshine Band, was covered by the industrial metal band White Zombie for the 1996 film Crow: City of Angels, and was a rather popular cover at the time.

A-Teens was a teen pop group from Sweden whose first cover was entirely ABBA songs.


They were supposed to only do ABBA songs, but then the producers of the group realized there are only so many of those songs, so their 2nd and 3rd albums were just regular songs