Mainstream Prog Bands doing Disco
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Topic: Mainstream Prog Bands doing Disco
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Mainstream Prog Bands doing Disco
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 06:51
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Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) for example... |
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Posted By: Kingsnake
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 07:10
| Camel - Summer Lightning (brilliant song by the way, excellent keys and guitarsolo, stellar drumming). If all disco was like this, I'd be a disco-fan. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 08:21
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Good song! And I thought I knew EVERY Camel song! Nice guitar solo, too... Funky bass. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 09:22
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Utopia - Disco Jets ------------- Bez pierdolenia sygnał zerwie, to w realia wychodź w hełmie! |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:06
Yep, I remember well those shots of Waters, Gilmour, Wright, and Mason in their Afro hairdos, jiving away to the funky beat......  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org |
MortSahlFan wrote:Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:24
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Here's my series of Prog Disco polls so far: http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=110273" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=110273 http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=110313" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=110313 http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111091" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111091 http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111140" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111140 http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111262" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111262 http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111408" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=111408 http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=112044" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=112044 http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=112295" rel="nofollow - http://progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=112295
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 10:42
Posted By: noni
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 13:10
Camel - Remote Romance
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: April 11 2018 at 16:14
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Rolling Stones - Miss You |
Posted By: RomerilloLaMissFripp
Date Posted: July 10 2018 at 06:26
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Mandrill's early days of jazz, funk and afro-latin fusion: https://youtu.be/k1CDIcTLCC8 Mandrill when they fell into the disco trap of the seventies: https://youtu.be/Lzn4N69DB9M |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: July 10 2018 at 07:01
 ->  ->  ->  ->  ->  If you consider the Rolling Stones a "mainstream prog band" I sincerely recommend you to acquaint yourself with the basics of prog  .------------- 
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: July 10 2018 at 07:04
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I know many Magma fans despise this album, but I think it's pretty damn cool. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: July 10 2018 at 13:03
wtf's disco about this song?
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: July 10 2018 at 13:45
I always considered a great part of Magma's "Retrospektiw 3" as "Magma Goes Disco", by the way
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Posted By: TheH
Date Posted: July 10 2018 at 15:10
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Best of Prog crossing Disco ever |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: July 10 2018 at 17:02
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Posted By: vivoactive
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 00:44
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I don't know how accurate my addition to this thread might be, but I really adore Lisa Dal Bello (Dalbello)'s 1977 album featuring Marc Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Lukather, David Paich and David Hungate of Toto fame. The album has been labeled as disco, however, I think it is more of a pop/funk/soul album. Well, disco and soul music have a lot in common actually :) ------------- ________ ...that the storm really doesn't matter until the storm begins to get you down |
Posted By: Chaser
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 01:43
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The opening of Gentle Giant's "Way of Life" is very disco before there was disco ------------- Songs cast a light on you |
Posted By: Modrigue
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 04:13
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 04:55
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Of course everyone knows this masterpiece ------------- 
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 06:37
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Surprise nobody mentioned Cos' third album Babel, which sound like Canterbury school music goes disco.
in the same vein, one could name Kiss with their I Was Made For Loving You song But that hardly means that either band became disco bands
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 23 2018 at 06:46
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Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: August 24 2018 at 21:09
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There's about 5-6 tracks from Focus' 1975 album Mother Focus that would be classified as disco. Here's My Sweetheart.....pure disco. |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: August 28 2018 at 03:43
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Can - I Want More |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: August 28 2018 at 03:45
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The disco influence on prog - Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer - "future of music" - Brian Eno. |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: August 28 2018 at 03:48
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Another Brick In The Wall a 3 part mini concept disco prog thing. Just get the riff from Set The Controls put it to a straight rock back beat, garnish with clean swung guitar strums and lo and behold... ... tbh I never thought of this as disco but a suitable strong and direct rhythm for the number. Rog was great at coming up with riffs...
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 28 2018 at 04:09
I am now somewhat obsessed with this song.
 Camel doing a song with obvious disco influence?? I don't even like disco but I like this song. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: January 08 2019 at 13:48
Fans can sometimes obsess about a band selling out, and fail to give enough credit for integrating sounds of the day with the band's own style. To me, that's progressive! Still, I prefer the more traditional Camel style. Great lead guitar licks though!
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 08 2019 at 17:20
Mr. Bungle's Disco Volanti? Frank Zappa's Tinseltown Rebellion? 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 16:00
| Spaniards and Spacemen by Amon Duul II (from their ‘78 album Only Human) is pure disco ! |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 19:08
I'll have to check that out! I like Lisa's 80s stuff! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: January 26 2019 at 19:31
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Okay, maybe this won't float everyone's boat, but Redbone — a '70s band formed by two Native American-Mexican brothers who got their start in the early '60s in a band called The Avantis — did record some trippy stuff on some of their albums apart from the usual funky soul-drenched rock (not counting the manic psychedelia of the unabridged "Brujo"). Their last proper studio album was labelled disco because, I guess, they added a full-time keyboardist who fully became 33.33% of their sound. Here's the title track from 1975's Cycles. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 03 2019 at 13:11
| Chicago - Street Player, and it goes for over 9 mins. |
Posted By: patrickq
Date Posted: June 06 2019 at 16:55
| I’m a disco fan. I actually enjoy disco music nearly as much as prog rock. But disco was a popular style for a few years whereas prog is a bona fide (sub)genre. |
Posted By: Bucklebutt
Date Posted: June 06 2019 at 18:24
| My mind immediately went to Pain of Salvation - Disco Queen |
Posted By: Fischman
Date Posted: June 06 2019 at 20:50
Yep. Discovery = Disco Very
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: June 07 2019 at 06:17
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Goblin also did disco at one point. ------------- Bez pierdolenia sygnał zerwie, to w realia wychodź w hełmie! |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 09 2019 at 08:43
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The 4th track on Keith Emerson's otherwise excellent 1981 soundtrack album to the movie Nighthawks called erm...Nighthawking is an unadulterated octave bass poppin' Disco thang y'all. That said, the rest of the music has aged considerably more gracefully than this Sylvester Stallone movie. ------------- 
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: June 13 2019 at 05:00
This one too by Magma, "Who's My love" off the live Bobino 1981. As for the Merci track, I like the Offering "Love in the Darkness" take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4As9ZnrV2TQ" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4As9ZnrV2TQ . ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: tempest_77
Date Posted: June 13 2019 at 12:00
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Most of Time by ELO. ------------- I use they/them pronouns (feel free to ask me about this!) Check out my music on https://tempestsounds.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - my bandcamp ! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: June 13 2019 at 13:45
Actually in it's time, say between about 1971 and 1978, prog was chart-topping, did huge business, was cutting edge popular music, and lasted longer than disco during roughly the same period. Of course what we think of as 'prog' was just the best of modern rock: ELP, Yes, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Zappa, Mahavishnu . My pick for Disco-prog ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-RO11u_l78" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-RO11u_l78 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi_2pCmnOfiAhUOvp4KHXf_DewQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=%2Furl%3Fsa%3Di%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dimages%26cd%3D%26ved%3D%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.progarchives.com%252Falbum.asp%253Fid%253D9954%26psig%3DAOvVaw249jSnwXfC0DjIiDAuyEUn%26ust%3D1560541509421486&psig=AOvVaw249jSnwXfC0DjIiDAuyEUn&ust=1560541509421486" rel="nofollow">  ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: December 23 2019 at 03:14
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Very derivative of Moroder's work at the time and totally out of place on the album that it's on, but still a massive guilty pleasure of mine
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 23 2019 at 06:23
The Dutch Prog-Rock band Earth & Fire went all D.I.S.C.O. in the late 70's & early 80's. 
EARTH & FIRE - Weekend (1980) |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 29 2020 at 12:48
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I love this... ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:12
Check out its 1-2 beat... You'll find Run Like Hell's beat also very disco-ish in the same regard |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:44
not disco-ish, maybe funk-ish...
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 01 2020 at 12:56
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want some funky? ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 01 2020 at 17:12
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 01 2020 at 22:22
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diff between funk and disco was that the latter was a 1/2 beat, which
is why it became big with the whiteys, since even the sorriest excuses
of them could dance to it
absolutely, early APP albums albums were filled with disco-beat tracks 
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 13 2020 at 20:25
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I nominate Steven Wilson for "permanating" from his last album(not the new one coming up soon). Maybe not quite genuine disco but close enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4LfUDV1x5s" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4LfUDV1x5s And who could forget this little "prog" nugget from 37 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLzPPFc21o" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLzPPFc21o
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