Disco Sucks? - Page 2

Might be more R&B, but it has a similar sound...And owns.

Brothers Johnson-Strawberry Letter 23

I love this performance where she does the robot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFox61M_0Fw

If the thread has Chic, it's gotta have some Shalamar.

A Night To Remember:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=guB_jQkCzCo

I Can Make You Feel Good:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nQil1DnISQ


(that video doesn't really do Jody Watley any favors, but goddamn she was an inordinately beautiful woman. Just a great performer and > Janet)

A couple more good Grace Jones tracks.

Do or Die

I Need a Man

Now this is totally not in any way disco, but check out the original version by Shuggie Otis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR1JQOBRrUY

A couple of great disco flavored tracks from Don Byrd.

You and the music

Close Your Eyes and Look Within

Don't know how I missed this thread for so long. I love disco. It never fails to make me smile and want to get up and dance. I really dig that you all are posting links to black artists. Most people think disco begins and ends with The Bee Gees. You all have pretty much touched on all my favorites though Grace Jones' Pull Up to The Bumper will never be topped!

ETA: Two more faves that always get me dancing.

September - Earth, Wind, & Fire

Love Hangover - Diana Ross

Got to Give It Up - Marvin Gaye

Ain't No Stopping Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead

And to go against the lovefest in here, I absolutely loath ABBA. On paper they have everything I like about disco/pop music but they make me want to jab hot pokers in my ears every time they come on. Maybe its because I associate them with the douchebags from my childhood who used to sing their songs all the time. Still, decades later, I cannot get into them.


Ha! Shalamar will now forever be associated with "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories". Also, I recently watched a documentary on Soul Train and I had no idea that Shalamar was a band created by Don Cornelius made up of several of the featured soul Train dancers. Further, I learned that Jeffrey Daniels orginated the "backward slide" which Michael Jackson co-opted and rebranded the "Moonwalk".

YES!

Every time the Boogie Nights soundtrack comes on shuffle I immediately turn the volume way up for this. So great.

Any rigid genre classification should be open for discussion of course, but for me, since disco evolved out of philly soul jams, I'd say the typical 'four-to-the-floor' rhythm pattern should be present in at least percussion and to a lesser amount, the bass (the 'umph-ti umph-ti' movement).
In that respect, I'd say Superfreak is rather straight funk. I personally find 'Flashlight' by Parliament a blurring of the disco/funk line (although that band was considered very 'anti-disco' at the time, even personifying white disco/funk in the cartoon character of Sir Nose D'Voidoffunk).

Good one Deev. Given those recent tabloid pics of Dolph Lundgren's shockingly average sized wang, I wonder if he cringes a little inside any time he hears his ex singing about her predilection for the long black limos.


That's great. There was also "Hip Hop on Precinct 13", which became the main music for the great Amiga/Atari ST shootemup Xenon 2.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbK8EfcHWZo

Haha, I'd never heard that Hip-Hop take, it's great!

Great news for Disco lovers.

Badass disco: The Kongas - Africanism/ Gimme Some Lovin

And some more Cerrone love: Supernature

A recent track that I'm enjoying a lot:

Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jacques Renault Remix)