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Disco Appreciation Thread
10-11-2017, 11:09 AM
Quote: (10-10-2017 06:10 PM)MrRoundtree Wrote:
Pointer Sisters-I'm so excited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqwG_rQx7A Very popular song still in top clubs in Paris
Some good finds, MrRoundtree, and you point (heh) to an interesting phenomenon, the song that came and went in the US but stayed popular in Europe.
Over a decade after disco was dead, I traveled in Europe and couldn't get away from Sister Sledge.
I heard this song everywhere:
The two Canadian hippies I was traveling with got so tired of it, they sang their own parody version called "Lost in Muesli."
Another Sister Sledge disco classic that came and went and now you only hear it at family reunions:
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Disco Appreciation Thread
10-11-2017, 02:46 PM
There's good disco, for example Chic, which had a more sophisticated sound thanks to Nile Rodgers' jazz-leanings like in "Soup For One" or "Everybody Dance" (and production, check out his credits)
and bad disco, like "Disco Duck"... ( I won't post that here)
Hell, even Queen did it
quick sidenote: the whole Hot Space album was basically an album designed to sound like a gay club, albeit not by the band, as explained here from 4:30 onward
I venture, if they would've had their shit together, we wouldn't call Thriller the best selling album of all-time...
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Disco Appreciation Thread
10-11-2017, 02:47 PM
Some of the better examples, old and new:
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Disco Appreciation Thread
10-13-2017, 12:56 AM
Where do you place this one, Mr Roundtree? (wise move on the Disco Duck
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10-13-2017, 04:19 AM
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Disco Appreciation Thread
10-15-2017, 06:51 AM
Quote: (10-15-2017 03:39 AM)WalterBlack Wrote:
Ah yes, Jamiroquai. One of the better things from the 90's.
It's interesting how the band changed from the acid jazz/Stevie Wonder leanings on the first album ( Emergency On Planet Earth) to gradually having more supermodel friendly dance tracks in subsequent albums. Great stuff, nonetheless.
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Disco Appreciation Thread
10-18-2017, 12:32 PM
We're getting a bit meta with this one...
House music utilizing samples from disco tracks:
Samples used (in order of the videos):
- Abba "Lay all your love on me"
- Diana Ross "Upside Down"
- Norma Jean Wright "Sorcerer" (produced by Nile Rodgers!)
- Chic "My Forbidden Lover"
- Pino D'Angio "Ma Quale Idea"
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