Disco...yep, I'm going there

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.

For some reason, people often say "disco sucks" instead of saying "I dislike disco".

And the reason is usually imo, the bitterness left from disco having such a impact on rock music at a time when it had become imho incredibly pretentious, borish, and frankly quite silly.
"Rock is dead" many said at the time.
Of course it did survive in the end - but only because of the back to basics underground music scenes of New York and London.

At the end of the day, popular music is democratic in that consumers of it vote with their wallets. The pompous dinosaur bands of the seventies had their run. But the only constant is that there is no constant. It’s time to get over it.

I have to disagree with the post that disco was all about electronica. That happened with the rise of freestyle and the late disco era of 1980 forward.

The Disco era was a fusion of electronica and real instruments. It was displayed masterfully on the alec r. Costandionos and his band love and kisses. Anyone remember those long 15 minute songs like Romeo and juliete, I’ve found love and accidental lover? I love the disco era although I came late into that era, but thankfully I did. Had it not been for disco, I would not be into music, not have a record collection to speak of, or be the audiophile that I am today.

I am not just an audiophile, I am a Disco-phile as well. What is a disco-phile? Someone who knows disco better than anyone else. Yes, I am that good folks!!! And yes, I have great gems that most have not heard of before.

If anyone has a disco question about a song artist or group, chances are I know it.

My friends are impressed.