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Posted on 8/1/26 at 8:43 am to FAT SEXY
It was the best dance music ever, the clubs were exciting, women everywhere 
Posted on 8/1/26 at 8:49 am to FAT SEXY
Floor is for dancing. You can tell by the lights.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 8:55 am to FAT SEXY
Saturday NightFever….
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:00 am to FAT SEXY
A lot of polyester, gargantuan bush, and literally tons of cocaine. Mix in some shitty music and even worse dancing, that’s the Disco Era.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:02 am to Darth_Vader
quote:Sign me up.
gargantuan bush,
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:03 am to Darth_Vader
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Mix in some shitty music and even worse dancing, that’s the Disco Era.
frick that Darth. Disco was awesome. That is why it was so popular. 50 times better than the shite we have now
It was a amazing social time.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:05 am to FAT SEXY
Great thread
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:07 am to Rantavious
If you could dance, you could pull.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:10 am to FAT SEXY
This was peak Disco. While it still sounds futuristic today, in 1977 it must have sounded like aliens coming down and landing on the dance floor...
80's synth pop morphed out of songs like this.
80's synth pop morphed out of songs like this.
This post was edited on 8/1/26 at 9:12 am
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:12 am to LanierSpots
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50 times better than the shite we have now
And it will still be talked about fifty years from now when today's music has been long forgotten.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:12 am to LanierSpots
I agree with this . I got laid plenty of times just by my ability to dance to disco..
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:14 am to FAT SEXY
And to say it "ended" in 1979 isn't accurate we were still getting solid Disco songs in the early 80's...
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:17 am to FAT SEXY
I was in middle school and early HS (75-79) but did have two older brothers, and what I have learned from looking back at the time period was that
The Pill was now available in all 50 states and there was no stigma about it. "Women's liberation meant that women could date and even have casual sex and not be thought of as a slut if they were discreet.
The result was lots of sex. This was pre-Aids and very few STI's. They both were knee deep in punta. I graduated HS in 81 and it was still good, but not as free as my brother's time.
The Pill was now available in all 50 states and there was no stigma about it. "Women's liberation meant that women could date and even have casual sex and not be thought of as a slut if they were discreet.
The result was lots of sex. This was pre-Aids and very few STI's. They both were knee deep in punta. I graduated HS in 81 and it was still good, but not as free as my brother's time.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:28 am to LSUDonMCO
I was 12,13,14 yrs old. DAnces/parties every week seems like. I was NOT really a dancer unless a slow commodores song was on. Grease soundtrack. SNF.
Sugarhill gang. commodores. (Boys being boys, we always slipped in some Boston, Nazareth, Styx or Skynrd into the rotation.)
It was at one of these parties at a house that a classmate brought a portable 8 track player, gathered us in a corner and wanted us to listen to something from his older brother's collection. the first Van Halen. mind blown.
Good times.
Sugarhill gang. commodores. (Boys being boys, we always slipped in some Boston, Nazareth, Styx or Skynrd into the rotation.)
It was at one of these parties at a house that a classmate brought a portable 8 track player, gathered us in a corner and wanted us to listen to something from his older brother's collection. the first Van Halen. mind blown.
Good times.
This post was edited on 8/1/26 at 9:30 am
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:39 am to Traveler
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Only thing worse than the music were the clothes.
Yep, Leisure Suits, polyester everything, platform shoes, huge bell bottoms---and that was the guys.
Every club had about the same playlist:
Donna Summer
The Bee Gees
David Bowie
KC and The Sunshine Band
The Village People
Gloria Gainor
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:41 am to dalefla
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I still listen to Gap Band and George Clinton. LOL
Those guys did write and perform their own songs.
The GAP band is from Tulsa, OK, where I grew up.
GAP stands for Greenwood, Archer and Pine, which are three of the major streets in the black section of Tulsa.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:47 am to Havoc
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It was so cool but goofy, dancing as a masculine trait is kinda tricky.
Spot on 100%.
It was an interesting time when traditional adult rock got tiresome and we needed different energy. Disco provided it until new wave and hair bands took over. kind of like a coke-fueled transition.
Posted on 8/1/26 at 9:49 am to udtiger
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Lots of sex
Lots of drugs
Lots of abortions
I am an avid listener of the Rest is History podcast. I am in the process of catching up on their back catalog.
Out of sheer coincidence, I listened to Episode 439 earlier this morning while I was walking my dog. The episode is titled:
Disco | Sex and Race in Seventies America
quote:
Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by…
The explosion of Disco provides an extraordinary window into the tumultuous world of the 1970s, with its themes of sex, drugs, race and sexuality. By the start of the 1970s, America was a nation of dystopian gloom. The radical dream of the 1960's had dissipated, with economic decline, Vietnam and Watergate polarising and disenchanting the public.
Then, at a party in New York held by the DJ David Mancuso, something new was born: Disco. An intoxicating kaleidoscope of dancing and colour with an orgasmic new sound, it united disparate groups under the banner of music. An escape from the concerns of the day, it captivated the mainstream imagination with its idealism, open drug use, self-consciously flamboyant clothes, and acceptance of race and homosexuality at a time when the Civil Rights Movement was raging and gay rights still contentious.
But, with its rising orthodoxy, Disco was also attracting a dedicated base of critics and detractors. They decried its hedonism, its debasement of traditional masculinity, and, with the Aids crisis swirling, its immorality.
Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss the rise and fall of Disco, culminating in the shocking night of Disco Demolition at a White Sox game on the 12th of July 1979. Could it survive this ultimate reckoning?
Link to podcast
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