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Listening to Amanda Lear's Sweet Revenge album for the umpteenth time and, in my less than humble opinion, if rock has produced anything as wonderful since, well, god knows when, I call you a liar.
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The ecstasy of disco cannot be denied. Unless I'm listening to Burzum, where for obvious reasons, it is. I certainly don't feel the need to justify liking disco the older I get, and what I do like of it is not for ironic reasons. Some of it is good, ja?
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I hate the way that it's been marginalised as a gay genre; some of the greatest music out there.
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i don't think i can trust someone who isn't down with "you should be dancing" by the bee-gees
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No need to get ironic at all. Giorgio Moroder is quite simply a genius producer. One of the things I hate most about the American indie scene is the way in which it seems to exist entirely without reference to this scene - and on the rare occasion that it does it seems content to deal with it in that ironic sense that Melly quite rightly dismisses.
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The most horrid thing is that gays themselves know nothing of their own aural history either, anymore. Don't make me scan pages of this week's BOYZ magazine.
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To think that people wasted pages, PAGES, about someone like Jimi Hendrix when I've still yet to have found a single mention of Donna Summers' Once Upon a Time album.
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There have been pages like that. When Glice was unemployed and still living with his parents, sonicl didn't find a new voice from the old board, Toilet & Bowels lived at his old house, there were mentions of Gloria Gaynor and the like sometimes.
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Perhaps a disco 'primer' should be in order here - haven't heard the D Summer album, but am curious now.
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Saturday Night Fever was one of the best films ever made.
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I have an ever growing collection of disco singles.
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It makes me smile when people associate disco with gays, these days. Gays don't listen to disco anymore than straights anymore. It's a total thing of the past. Gays listen to shit music, just like most other people. And they dress just as bad. Hearing of a gay man with decent or at least stimulating taste is as rare as a safe bus journey home.
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Although disco, as we know is primarily a singles thang, some very good albums did emerge.
So, by way of the first steps towards a primer: Chic, C'est Chic http://youtube.com/watch?v=DxmDn2IzzhE Donna Summer, Once Upon a Time Candi Staton, Suspicious Minds Norma Jean, Norma Jean Michael Jackson, Off the Wall http://youtube.com/watch?v=mq0PFb34Cjk Shalamar, Friends. http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVAm_obRPQ8 .. But don't get hung up on albums, a few good compilations will do. Neither Odyssey or Sister Sledge ever made a genuinely great album but as a single, both Inside Out http://youtube.com/watch?v=bCkFebsGXxg and Greatest Dancer http://youtube.com/watch?v=7LUie81E82k are virtually peerless. And if any further evidence that Disco was genuinely fantastic is required, let's not forget: http://youtube.com/watch?v=_XOY7lsBVpo http://youtube.com/watch?v=-opY4qcidFk http://youtube.com/watch?v=E5AVy6aSl4Y http://youtube.com/watch?v=yio9zi_GPPs |
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And here's perhaps the very greatest single to have come out of the whole of the 70s:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iF-JOw6syD0 And Nile Rodgers was a greater guitarist than Jimi Hendrix, by the way. |
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You forgot Madonna's Hung Up, dude.
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Confessions on a Dance Floor is definitely one of the great post-disco albums. Prefer this track over Hung Up, though: http://youtube.com/watch?v=KIwnKtL6leQ |
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If you use the post-disco term, we'll have to stop being internet friends altogether. It was a gay joke. I only like that song on the album and the rest is rubbish.
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That's genuinely a great album. Not being clever or ironic at ALL. I don't know why I said post-disco - although it's definitely not pure disco (more like a hybrid of disco and house) Although this guy remains the kings of the now as far as I'm concerned: http://youtube.com/watch?v=iQst-s5_m...elated&search= |
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Anyway, for once the music is too good to get 'hung up' ~~cough~~ on terms/labels.
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