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Disco...yep, I'm going there

We've all read the comments about disco music, most seem to heavily weigh on the side of "it sucks". I cannot say how many times I've read that two word remark......yet, without any explanation. One thing for sure, that era defined our consciousness and is an important part of our musical history.

Frankly, I love listening to several artists from that era ... Bee Gees, Donna Summer, KC & The Sunshine Band...………..

I really can't understand how anyone can listen to these artists and not be moved to get up and dance. That IS an emotional connection. The exact connection most of us long for. So, what's the problem?
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glupson
7,842 posts
 
slaw,

yep, I'm going there
Why did you ever leave? What were you thinking?
jdub071
71 posts
 
Hate to see people put down disco--to each his own. I like reggae, jazz,both electronic and acoustic, c;assic rock, Beethoven, Tchaichovsky, Mozart and other classical and just about any other genre and oh yes, I have a blu-ray of Saturday Nite Fever and if that doesn't stir something up maybe you're dead.
reubent
7,003 posts
 
In 1977 (maybe it was 1978), I had a Disco Sucks Tee-Shirt. Wish I still had it. Not necessarily because I dislike disco. But because I really did like 1977.......
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bdp24
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@reubent, '77 WAS a great year musically. So much was happening, local music scenes exploding all over the country. The Progressive and "Singer-Songwriter" era was over! I put S-S in quotes because a lot of the new music was still being written and sung by a single person (Graham Parker, Costello, Nick Lowe, Tom Waits, Marshall Crenshaw, Tom Petty, etc.), but the music wasn't being performed in the laidback "West Coast" S-S style the genre is thought in terms of.

That year I discovered the burgeoning underground scene of Fanzines---small 'zines dedicated to the Power Pop and Garage Bands I had missed after I abandoned Rock music entirely in '71: Bomp Magazine (the first and the best, written mostly by Greg Shaw, manager of The Flamin' Groovies and owner of the highly-influential indi label Bomp Records), Trouser Press (which focused on UK bands), and dozens more. That year I was introduced to Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, The Dwight Twilley Band, The Ramones, Marshall Crenshaw, Tom Petty, Jonathan Richman, Moon Martin, ABBA (they might seem out of place here, but in fact aren't), AC/DC, Squeeze, Television, Willy DeVille, Cheap Trick, The Symptoms (out of Springfield, Missouri; a great band.), and a bunch more.

And 1978 was just as good!

bigkidz
3,383 posts
 
Oh God, I grew up in Brooklyn by the famous DISCO place.  Being a guitar player in a band I had to suffer through playing little guitar strumming crap and a few notes here and there.  I even wore a big fro with multiple colors in a Disco band.  There were two benefits though, lots of girls and got paid well to do nothing on the guitar, just strum away.

while you are saying there is an emotional engagement, but the music was not meant to sit in your listening chair for hours to listen to.  YUK!

Happy Boogie Woogie.
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