The Disco Appreciation Thread!!!

ELO - Last Train To London. Great song !

For me, disCo begins and ends with this:

Sorry, one more track from me from the discoesque tradition-- course Moroder who has been mentioed quite a few times was a big influence on Euro Disco.



The Midnight Express soundtrack was one of the earliest albums I purchased and the film was one of the first I saw on the family's newly bought VCR (it had a profound effect on me when I was a child that still resonates to this day).

Edited by Logan - January 06 2018 at 11:15

^ Oh GAWD! Disco 🕺Zeppelin! Noooooooo! Make it STOP!

And I DID make it stop. Ahhhh!


Edited by Peter - January 06 2018 at 09:50

Yes, "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" comes closer to disco than the title-track, I make the association (there are degrees of relatedness) due to a funky groove, but the title track has more in common with, say, Pink Floyd's "Funky Dung' from the "Atom Heart Mother" suite, which I certainly wouldn't call disco (unlike "Another Brick in the Wall" where one gets that disco feel). Can is a band with that groove that I also associate with disco-funk due more to the funk than the disco.

Although this Can is quite disco and I LOVE it!



And if that ain't disco enough, this Euro Disco version might do it:



I like quite a bit of space disco.

Great discussion, by the way, both good reading and good listening, thank you all.

Edited by Logan - January 06 2018 at 11:40

Peter wrote: Sean Trane wrote: BTW, I never thought of APP's I Robot as anywhere close to disco. I agree that the title cut is not disco, but I think there's no denying that this single is:I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You

Sounds a bit more like it, but even then, I never heard it in disco. Mostly probably, because the message and title didn't suit the nightclub athmosphere

I mean, it's definitely funky (excellent bass line), but it's anything but binary in terms of drumming

siLLy puPPy wrote: If you're going for traditional 70s disco, how can you not just love the heck outa this one?

This is really disco: the binary beat stuff that even the lousiest white dude could dance to.

I mean we also heard that kind of stuff (below) in discotheques, but it's not like it was actually disco either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyIZ3pYKOQM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Z-DQGqM90

I mean, just the song titles are right on the disco marketting science





Edited by Sean Trane - January 06 2018 at 09:08

Even the punk scene got in on the action!

If you're going for traditional 70s disco, how can you not just love the heck outa this one?

Russian disco please

While disco was the crippled idiot b*****d son of Killer Funk (listen to Chic that managed both on the same album without any trouble), and the fact that I hated it back then, I can say in retrospect that I appreciate it better nowadays, especially in the light of the dance music that came afterwards....
While I really dislike some of those Moroder disco veins (Donna's I Feel Love), I do appreciate some of those European fun synth disco tracks (for ex: the late 70's French JM Jarre's cover of Popcorn was fantastic, born on the wings of  Oxygene IV), but it was mostly because it was fun, a bit like Devo or B-52 were fun a couple of years later.

Indeed, I hated the 80's funk (Grandmaster Flash and Chaka Kahn were survivors of the 70's, but they did worse than Genesis and Yes in turning away from their 70's aesthetics), house/techno, "dance", and whatever BS mass dance movements coming from South Korea (I just hope North K invades them if only to kill that nonsense)

BTW, I never thought of APP's I Robot as anywhere close to disco.