What's wrong with disco?

FRED HALE SR. · 06-30-2014, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by gandhara

KC and Village People were a joke i agree lol

KC and the Sunshine band were the ****.

Psy-Fi · 06-30-2014, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.

KC and the Sunshine band were the ****.

KC and the Sunshine Band - Get down tonight - YouTube

~~Lord Larehip~~ · 06-30-2014, 05:17 PM

Freakazoid-Midnight Star - YouTube

Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood (with lyrics) - YouTube

William Bootsy Collins - Shine-O-Mite (Rag Popping) - YouTube

Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady (Long Version) - YouTube

Cameo - Just Be Yourself (Slayd5000) - YouTube

Andre Cymone Kelly's Eyes - YouTube

Rjinn · 07-02-2014, 06:05 AM

I love disco. Simple, feel-good, fun, body-swaying music that's perfect to get into while boozing.

neardeathexperience · 07-03-2014, 07:54 PM

Musically it is a very solid form of music. Unfortunatly the era it represts people are more inclined to want to forget about..............

Rexx Shredd · 07-04-2014, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip

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Freakazoid, Shine-O-Mite, and Just Be Yourself are NOT disco

just sayin'.............

Necromancer · 07-04-2014, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

KC and the Sunshine Band - Get down tonight - YouTube

This is a disco anthem.

~~Lord Larehip~~ · 07-05-2014, 01:12 PM

If people were alive during this era, as I was, and visited at least a couple of hundred discos around the world as I did (I was in the service), you'll know that the stuff I posted here was the stuff they played. I seriously doubt anybody in those places gave a f-uck whether anyone thought it was "disco" or "funk." Me least of all. The whole argument is specious and tenuous at best. It boils to one person making himself the arbiter of what constitutes each and his reasoning is based on if he likes it then it's funk and if he doesn't then it's disco. If you bothered to go into the discos, it is clear that people didn't care. And I think they were right.

~~Lord Larehip~~ · 07-05-2014, 01:44 PM

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Stax-...elease/3026040

In the above link Rufus Thomas, the Staple Singers and Booker T are all classified as purveyors of "southern disco" on the Stax label. The album was released in '75 when disco was at its peak. The genre is classified as "funk/soul."

Rexx Shredd · 07-05-2014, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Larehip

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Stax-...elease/3026040

In the above link Rufus Thomas, the Staple Singers and Booker T are all classified as purveyors of "southern disco" on the Stax label. The album was released in '75 when disco was at its peak. The genre is classified as "funk/soul."

Much in the same way a discog or anthology site may put Rock/Metal in one category for their own listing purposes....that still doesnt make them the same genre

Rufus Thomas is most certainly R&B and is (IMO) one of the earliest examples of funk

07-02-2014, 06:05 AM	#24 (permalink)
Rjinn The Aerosol in your Soul Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: New South Wales, Australia Posts: 1,546	I love disco. Simple, feel-good, fun, body-swaying music that's perfect to get into while boozing. __________________ last.fm

06-30-2014, 05:17 PM	#23 (permalink)
~~Lord Larehip~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 899	Freakazoid-Midnight Star - YouTube Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood (with lyrics) - YouTube William Bootsy Collins - Shine-O-Mite (Rag Popping) - YouTube Johnnie Taylor - Disco Lady (Long Version) - YouTube Cameo - Just Be Yourself (Slayd5000) - YouTube Andre Cymone Kelly's Eyes - YouTube

07-03-2014, 07:54 PM	#25 (permalink)
neardeathexperience Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 531	Musically it is a very solid form of music. Unfortunatly the era it represts people are more inclined to want to forget about..............

07-05-2014, 01:12 PM	#28 (permalink)
~~Lord Larehip~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 899	If people were alive during this era, as I was, and visited at least a couple of hundred discos around the world as I did (I was in the service), you'll know that the stuff I posted here was the stuff they played. I seriously doubt anybody in those places gave a f-uck whether anyone thought it was "disco" or "funk." Me least of all. The whole argument is specious and tenuous at best. It boils to one person making himself the arbiter of what constitutes each and his reasoning is based on if he likes it then it's funk and if he doesn't then it's disco. If you bothered to go into the discos, it is clear that people didn't care. And I think they were right.

07-05-2014, 01:44 PM	#29 (permalink)
~~Lord Larehip~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 899	http://www.discogs.com/Various-Stax-...elease/3026040 In the above link Rufus Thomas, the Staple Singers and Booker T are all classified as purveyors of "southern disco" on the Stax label. The album was released in '75 when disco was at its peak. The genre is classified as "funk/soul."