Disco...yep, I'm going there

Wow this post took me back to the beginning of my musical coming-of-age time period, when I would argue with friends and siblings about what was acceptable to play on the boombox while we played bball or foursquare in the driveway.  Girls all loved pop and disco tunes, guys preferred rock, the more anthemic, the better.  I think if I would have caught on to the link between girls and their love of music they can dance to, my high school experience would have been very different.  Instead, I spent years in my bedroom listening to "real music" on my "real stereo" and feeling very superior.  Luckily, eventually, I found there were girls who liked The Cure, Talking Heads, New Order.  Dance music that wasn't disco....or was it?

And of course my young adult daughters and middle age wife still prefer Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Abba to Talking Heads, Jonathon Richman, Steely Dan.  I guess I need to try Daft Punk rather than LCDSS while we are doing the dishes?

Thanks OP!

You're welcome my friend.

I was only 12 at the peak of Disco in '77, but even then I thought it was cool to blend rock drums, funk bass, and an orchestral string section to create dance music.  I've always been a fan of well produced music, and Disco had some amazing productions..... sure a lot of it was horribly repetitive and went nowhere musically, but the sound quality and production quality was top notch.  I'm still amazed at the string arrangements and performance quality of that time.... and that was pre-computer and digital editing.   I don't hear that kind of quality in any of today's modern music, outside of Hollywood soundtracks.

Interesting perspective.

Therein lies the problem, " . . . it defined our consciousness . . . " and not everybody wanted to have that definition of who and what they were required to be in order to conform and to fit in by a simplistic linear drum beat on the level of kindergarten nursery rhymes. Disco was something forced down peoples' throats by making it a part of everybody's environment, playing it in passing cars, putting in on every television station including PBS when Ronald Regan ordered the dumbing down expedient of replacing concert music with more commercial pop culture, and the surplus civil right to play it so your neighbors had to hear it violating the privacy of our back yards. That is why everybody rebelled against its cultural tyranny by back-lashing against it with intolerance.