There are some disco songs that I like and some that I don't like. What really bothered me was when they have to remake a non-disco song and put a disco beat to it.  8-P 8-P 8-P



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What really bothered me was when they have to remake a non-disco song and put a disco beat to it.  8-P 8-P 8-P


Can I get a big AMEN?  ;D

There are some disco songs that I like and some that I don't like. What really bothered me was when they have to remake a non-disco song and put a disco beat to it.  8-P 8-P 8-P


Look, when I was growing up, we had to walk to the dance club in our bare feet.  Uphill.  Both ways.  In the snow.  And we didn't have no iPod shuffles.  We only had a C-20 cassette on autoloop, with the 7:55 disco mix of KISS's I Was Made For Lovin' You on one side, and the 9:59 extended version of Witch Queen's cover of Bang a Gong, and we... well, liked is probably too strong a word, but the two minutes of blank space on the first side weren't too bad.

Look, when I was growing up, we had to walk to the dance club in our bare feet.  Uphill.  Both ways.  In the snow. 


;D  Good one!

I think the bare feet uphill in the snow deal was more comfortable than some of those 70's platforms I remember having...  ::)


And we didn't have no iPod shuffles.  We only had a C-20 cassette on autoloop, with the 7:55 disco mix of KISS's I Was Made For Lovin' You on one side, and the 9:59 extended version of Witch Queen's cover of Bang a Gong, and we... well, liked is probably too strong a word, but the two minutes of blank space on the first side weren't too bad.


You had the fancy C-20 cassette on autoloop!  WOW!!!  I'm jealous - all I had was the stupid 8 track.  Four minutes of blank space there - and my fast forward button kept on getting stuck!  ;)

Disco did indeed elicit an unwarranted hatred.  It was an urban thing, it was a Latin thing, it was a black thing, and it was a gay thing.  If you were driving a truck out in Nebraska, you weren't included in the fun.  I saw a great deal of Urban/suburban versus urban divide in the animus against it.  I was a child in southern New Hampshire in the heydey of Disco, so I got to know the rallying cry "Disco sucks" pretty well.  The music transformed into hip-hop, R&B, and House music, but it never really receded from the urban scene.  Chic suburbanites ventured back into it after it was safely distinguishable from Disco and now it is part of that universal pop sound. 

Rock 'n' Rollers will never admit it, but music pioneered in the '70s by producers such as Giorgio Moroder and Nile Rogers is having a more significant influence on pop-music post-1990 than sounds pioneered by Flatt & Scrugs or Sun Records. 

Rock 'n' Roll always posed like it won the battle, but it lost the war.

Yeah, a lot of the music was trite crap and the styles didn't age well...but that's how I feel about Grunge too!
8)

Disco did indeed elicit an unwarranted hatred.  It was an urban thing, it was a Latin thing, it was a black thing, and it was a gay thing.  If you were driving a truck out in Nebraska, you weren't included in the fun. 


Ummm...  :-\\

It's kinda funny, actually. My older brothers, who were teenagers in the 70's, were rabid disco haters. They were into what is now considered classic rock, and they had quite a bit of influence over me, so I got on the "disco sucks" bandwagon myself.

My own feeling about the anti-disco thing was that disco got way oversaturated, and it led to a backlash among white rock n'rollers. Not to mention that in the 80's, there was a huge aversion to anything from the 70's. You wouldn't have been wanted to be caught dead wearing a pair of bell-bottoms in, say, 1987.

It seemed that the whole 90's disco revival was due to 2 things: 1) the whole 20-year retro cycle and 2) enough time had passed that people were willing to keep more of an open mind and they (like myself) realized that all genres of music have their great songs and their crappy songs, and disco was no exception. One of my brothers who, as a teenager was way into Led Zeppelin, started to really like KC and the Sunshine Band when he hit his late 30's.

As far as "truck drivers from Nebraska" go, well, maybe 30 years ago that might have been the case but when I was driving cross-country, I used to love driving through big cities and searching out the "jammin' oldies" stations. One of my favorite memories from when I was trucking was barreling down the I-294 tollway around Chicago on a nice summer day while "Disco Inferno" by the Trammps was blasting out of my radio.

For some reason, that song really made me want to stomp on the gas.  ;)

  One of my favorite memories from when I was trucking

Offtopic:  Dude, you were a trucker?  As a four-wheeling guy who likes to "buy stuff" and "eat food", thanks.  (And please accept my apologies on behalf of my fellow four-wheelers who don't know how to drive.  Failing that, here's some karma.)

was barreling down the I-294 tollway around Chicago on a nice summer day while "Disco Inferno" by the Trammps was blasting out of my radio.

For some reason, that song really made me want to stomp on the gas.  ;)


Ontopic:  First time my four-wheeler ever hit triple digits was during the organ solo to Captain and Tennille's Can't Stop Dancin'.  I was dumb enough to go 100mph on a public road, and while I was smart enough not to tell 'em what I was listening to, it was a group of truckers who told me that Smokey wasn't watching anything in the next ten miles, rather than calling me in, so... thanks again :)

Obligatory disco foot-to-the-floor track:  Patrick Hernandez, Born to be Alive, and I'm gonna suggest any mix, but particularly the 5:38 X-Mix version that discreetly sneaks in "It's worked so far but we're not out yet" (Dr. "Bones" McCoy from Star Trek, as sampled from Information Society's I Want To Know What You're Thinking) for an 80s touch to a 70s disco classic.

Obligatory rock/disco crossover:  Paul Sabu, Rockin' Rollin' Disco King, ca. 1979.  There was no real reason why rock and disco couldn't have gotten along.  With the benefit of almost 30 years of hindsight, this track could have proved the point.  This track could have been to disco/rock, what ZZ Top's Afterburner was to rock/synthpop, what Aerosmith/Run-DMC's Walk This Way was to rock/rap, and what Anthrax/Public-Enemy's I'm the Man was to metal/rap.

Offtopic:  Dude, you were a trucker?  As a four-wheeling guy who likes to "buy stuff" and "eat food", thanks.  (And please accept my apologies on behalf of my fellow four-wheelers who don't know how to drive.  Failing that, here's some karma.)



Yeah, but please don't tell my folks that.

They still think I'm a piano player in a whorehouse.  :D

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They still think I'm a piano player in a whorehouse.  :D


Ah, I hear ya (had a job or two like that myself).

But as for whorehouse piano players... John Valby has spent the past 30 years making whorehouse piano playing seem like the coolest job in the universe, and he's still going strong.  We're gonna need a more disreputable cover story :)