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re: The Disco phenomenon
Posted on 8/17/25 at 4:51 am to Ace Midnight
Posted on 8/17/25 at 4:51 am to Ace Midnight
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Short answer? Cocaine
Long answer? Coooocaiinnnneee
SEX - Cocaine was secodary
Any guy or gal could dance with a dozen different people and everyone was doing the same. (eta: you were already line dancing)
Ugly people, good looking people, women you'd never, and women you hope would, and most weren't leaving alone. It was damn near automatic and as many nights a week as you cared to go. Throw in alcohol with thinking penicillin would cure venereal disease and it's easy to see why the sexual revolution was in full swing. Cocaine on yeah, for sure, but it was more like gas on a flame that was already raging. And the music was practically secondary.
Disco wasn't made to listen to it was more about facilitating a much more hedonistic swing. Song titles alone tell the story:
GLORIA GAYNOR - I Will Survive
BEE GEES - Stayin' Alive
MICHAEL JACKSON - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
SISTER SLEDGE - We Are Family
KOOL & THE GANG - Celebration
CHIC - Le Freak
ABBA - Dancing Queen
LIPPS INC - Funky Town
DONNA SUMMER - Bad Girls
THE COMMODORES - Brick House
KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND - Get Down Tonight
BEE GEES - Night Fever
THELMA HOUSTON - Don't Leave Me This Way
DONNA SUMMER - Hot Stuff
BARRY WHITE - Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
DONNA SUMMER - Last Dance
CHIC - Good Times
KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND - That's The Way (I Like It)
ROD STEWART - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
BLONDIE - Heart of Glass
MARVIN GAYE - Got To Give It Up
A TASTE OF HONEY - Boogie Oogie Oogie
VAN McCOY - The Hustle
KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND - Shake Your Booty
BARRY MANILOW - Copacabana
BARRY WHITE - You're the First, the Last, My Everything
TRAMMPS - Disco Inferno
PEACHES & HERB - Shake Your Groove Thing
DIANA ROSS - Upside Down
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 5:02 am
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Posted on 8/17/25 at 7:16 am to awestruck
Not a single ELO song?
Posted on 8/17/25 at 7:40 am to Kafka
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Disco = Dance Music = the same shite that's been playing for 50+ years in discos, er I mean clubs
yeah, it's simple.. it was the dance music of its time.. its been replicated over and over again... for a lot of people, that's all the want out of music..
people were doing blow and fricking in that era regardless of the music they were listening to...
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 7:45 am
Posted on 8/17/25 at 7:41 am to Bayou
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What made it so big?
Depends on how you define it.
Generic club dance disco music is just the generic pop of the time. It’s hyper up beat dance music and it is still an awesome genre in the right situations. A live band at a giant event like a Mardi Gras ball or charity auction dance floor playing disco late in the evening once everyone is loosened up? I’ll take that all day over every form of dance music produced in the last 30 years or so.
But there’s plenty of amazing R&B and Funk that gets lumped into that era.
Neal Francis’s new album has that 70s R&B, Funk, Disco vibe and it absolutely amazing.
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 7:45 am
Posted on 8/17/25 at 7:44 am to DeltaTigerDelta
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Travolta got everyone wearing cowboy hats and two stepping in Urban Cowboy then he flipped ‘em to disco which sucked and is why I became a punk.
You got that backwards. Saturday Night Fever came out in 1977; Urban Cowboy in 1980. Disco dance clubs soon turned into so-called honky-tonks and both were terrible.
I didn't become a punk, but really got into New Wave, Punk, and 60's psychedelia when all this was going on.
This post was edited on 8/17/25 at 11:27 am
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:48 am to Lonnie Utah
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Not a single ELO song?
No
They didn't really go disco until Discovery, which came out later in mid 1979.
...hence the title; "Disco-very"
Posted on 8/17/25 at 1:56 pm to Saint Alfonzo
quote:
Cocaine.
Some truth to this.
Posted on 8/17/25 at 1:56 pm to Bayou
Posted on 8/17/25 at 8:25 pm to awestruck
The correct way to perform CPR on someone is to the beat of staying alive. 103 beats per minute.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 8:26 am to geauxbrown
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If you take the raised high hat off the upbeat
This is a good way to explain the difference between disco and funk of the time. TSOP took over.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 8:49 am to Bayou
quote:
What made it so big?
Women like to dance.
Disco is dance music.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 8:52 am to Red Boarman
It's still alive in mutated and hybrid forms..Daft Punk, Tame Impala, Goldfrapp, Weeknd, Pharell, etc..
Posted on 8/18/25 at 1:13 pm to Got Blaze
A lot of those club regulars were gay, so ...
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:12 pm to oldtrucker
quote:
it is great up tempo music that has me at a higher pace
hence...
Posted on 8/18/25 at 2:18 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
quote:if you care to listen closely you’ll quickly realize how ingrained the four on the floor disco beat is in nearly all popular music. Hell, almost all of nirvana’s music is really just a few chords over disco drumming
Cheap, easy to produce brain rot for the masses.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 6:34 am to TheRoarRestoredInBR
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It's still alive in mutated and hybrid forms..Daft Punk, Tame Impala, Goldfrapp, Weeknd, Pharell, etc..
You are correct about The Weeknd. He's worked with Daft Punk on I Feel It Coming and StarBoy, and Pharrell produced Timeless on his last album. Giorgio Moroder, disco legend, co-produced the record. '70s and '80s influences are everywhere in The Weeknd's music.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 6:41 am
Posted on 8/20/25 at 9:24 am to Lonnie Utah
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Not a single ELO song?
No but Paul McCartney did.
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