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Most pop music trends eventually crumble under the weight of their own excess. Disco certainly did, but oddly enough it never really went away. It just evolved and made its way into other pop trends.
Confession time: I really liked a lot of music that was classified as “disco” back in the day. Maybe it was because our family always liked to dance that disco was part of my musical soundtrack back in the 70s. Even when we went to London, En-ga-land the first time in the mid-70s, it wasn’t punk that was interesting to a young lad like me. Rather, it was listening to disco records and watching everyone dance in my grandmother’s living room that was fun. Plus, being the youngest, I wasn’t allowed to go the clubs, but my sister did. And it all seemed so, well, exciting to hang out in a London club! Call it a romanticism borne out of deprivation, but excluding Kiss, hearing some of these songs again really takes me back to a time before disco became a parody of itself.
“Also Sprach Zarathustra” Eumir Deodato Because everyone has an embarrassing moment in their past, mine is dancing on my oldest brother’s bed when “610 KFRC” was playing this pre-disco ditty back in 1973. My mom was in the room egging me on with every dance move probably copied from the Sonny and Cher Show.
“Love Rollercoaster” Ohio Players My brother Steve had the 45 of this one. I played it over and over one day when I got to stay home from school because I was sick. After awhile, I would just lift the needle on the record player and play my favorite parts of the song again and again. Millions of other kids were probably doing the same thing with their crappy turntables back then. Nowadays, they just call it sampling.
“Good Times” Chic Ah yeah! Junior high school dances. Good times, indeed!
“I Just Want To Be Your Everything” Andy Gibb My best friend got to see Kiss in 1976, and I got to see Andy Gibb that same year. That was one moment when I really hated disco.
“Miss You” The Rolling Stones Not as disco-y as “Emotional Rescue,” but you can certainly hear the Stones jumping on the disco train on this one.
“I Was Made For Lovin’ You” Kiss Even though Kiss had a pretty good hit with this one, it was clear the band had completely lost its way by the time this album came out. Kiss doing disco? Boy, does that suck! Where’s the Kiss of “Alive?” Where’s “Detroit Rock City?” Where was the rock band I loved? Gone daddy gone, that’s where. Kiss was everything to me back when I was 12, but when this album came out it signaled the end of disco, and my obsession with Kiss.
–PK
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I’m one of those freaky people who love disco! So, this is my bag, baby 🙂
Hope this makes you Wednesday a little more funky! 😉
I never even knew that song was Kiss, can you belive it?
I can see how a kid could dance and have fun to “Also Sprach Zarathustra”, but I kinda think a 23 year old man out there on the dance floor hoping to get lucky that night? Dancing to that song might have blown it for him, big time!
Kiss, Andy Gibb, and Chic bring back some serious memories for me. I think it’s mostly when we first moved to the US. I must listen!
I remember watching a Kiss TV special in 1979 because you were really into this group, and I wanted to catch up on your interests since getting back from England. They had a bad script, but the music in the end was good. I never really liked disco, although dancing on the lighted floor at Uncle Mario’s and the lasers at the Star Palace was fun.
Kiss had some straight ahead rock albums early on, but by “Dynasty,” it was pretty much over.
For better or worse, disco = dance. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been the DJ at weddings where some guy walks up with a rock CD/LP and says “Hey man, if you play this, the dance floor will be packed.” I took that bait maybe two times, and both times it cleared the dance floor.
New Disco is great! Scissor Sisters? Peaches? Electric Six? Awesome!
Andy Gibb, oh my lost love, thank you for including him in your mix six. Disco era was such a fun era, I noticed Madonna is still stuck in that era as her new songs and style is disco
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Man, that is the only song by KISS that I actually like. BTW- Huuba-hubba saw them in concert about 12 years ago and claims it was the best “show” he’s ever seen. I put it in quotations because he differentiates it from “concert.”
I have nothing really against disco, and like all genres, there is good disco and bad disco. In fact, I adore the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack.
And I never would have thunk that “Miss You” was disco, but it certainly does have some elements.
Those last three back to back…Genius. Each one with a cheesier disco hook than the one before. I’m almost afraid to download it.
Oh, I can’t wait to download this…
My mother had that Deodato album. Ho-lee crap.
man! I missed a good mix six. Love the Disco. I have that Andy Gibb song on my MP3 player 😀