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lets get the usual suspects out of the way 1st

"Danger!High Voltage!"-Electric 6
"Macho City"-Steve Miller Band
"Gimme all your lovin'"-ZZ Top

I'll try and actually make this one too.....

― Michael B, Monday, 19 May 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link

maybe add these

Rapture 'House Of Jealous Lovers'
Le Tigre 'Deceptacon (DFA mix)'
Radio 4 'Dance To The Underground'
Duran Duran 'Girls On Film'
The Slits 'I Heard It Thru The Grapevine'
Steve Miller Band 'Abracadabra'
B52s '52 Girls'
Can 'I Want More'
Happy Mondays 'WFL'
Lo FIdelity All Stars 'Many Tentacles Pimping On The Keys'
Gerling 'Deka'
Primal Scream 'Miss Lucifer'
Sonic Youth 'Ca Plane Pour Moi'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

Nazareth "Expect No Mercy"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

Grand National-"Distance"

stevem-u watching TOTP2 earlier..."Girls on film" would count as disco-rock actually...a better song than I remembered too

― Michael B, Monday, 19 May 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

Aerosmith - "Sight for Sore Eyes"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

Chuck Eddy to thread obv.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

Aural Exciters - "My Boy Lollipop"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 May 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

nay the reason i added 'Girls On Film' is because it can be mixed into wonderfully after 'Dance To The Underground'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:08 (twenty years ago) link

"Train in Vain"

― Neudonymz, Monday, 19 May 2003 18:21 (twenty years ago) link

Do not proceed after mentioning Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart, I Was Made For Lovin' You - Kiss and Miss You - Rolling Stones...

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

Kiss, "Dirty Livin'" (where is dave q, anyway?)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:45 (twenty years ago) link

Queen "Another One Bites The Dust"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 19 May 2003 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

The Clash – Radio Clash
Queen – Another One Bites the Dust

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

Gang of Four – Great Men

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:49 (twenty years ago) link

Styx - "Too Much Time On My Hands," "Nothing Ever Goes As Planned," "Lonely People," "Half-Penny, Two-Penny"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

I was going to say "To Hell With Poverty!"

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

Blondie, "Call Me"
Kiss, "I Was Made for Loving You"

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 19 May 2003 19:01 (twenty years ago) link

AC/DC - "Who Made Who"
Streetheart - "Under My Thumb"
Loverboy - "Turn Me Loose"
Bon Jovi - "Livin' on a Prayer"
Greg Kihn Band - "Jeopardy"
Van Halen - "Jump"
Robert Palmer - "Johnny and Mary"

Almost all these people (esp. Streetheart and Loverboy) have more, too--these are the really choice ones.

― s woods, Monday, 19 May 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link

Sweeney Todd, "Roxy Roller" and probably half a dozen Gino Vanelli songs too.

― s woods, Monday, 19 May 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

Avert your eyes, Kenan.

"Follow the Leader" and "Malicious Boogie" by Killing Joke

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:25 (twenty years ago) link

Black Sabbath - check 'side two' of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Michael B

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

I don't hear the disco in "Jump." My Van Halen disco pick would be "Little Dreamer."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

Don't know "Little Dreamer" as well, but I think the bass in "Jump" makes it qualify, not to mention the synth chords.

― s woods, Monday, 19 May 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

speaking of Sab: the obvious choice here is "Hole in the Sky"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:34 (twenty years ago) link

Don't know "Little Dreamer" as well, but I think the bass in "Jump" makes it qualify, not to mention the synth chords.

Nah, the synth reminds me more of pomp-prog (although you could make a case for it sounding like Harold Faltermeyer).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

Daft Punk's 'Aerodynamic' counts surely

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

Nah, the synth reminds me more of pomp-prog (although you could make a case for it sounding like Harold Faltermeyer).

...or the Pointer Sisters, or early Prince--hence, disco! (But anyway, isn't Harold Faltemeyer disco?)

― s woods, Monday, 19 May 2003 20:40 (twenty years ago) link

(But anyway, isn't Harold Faltemeyer disco?)

That's what I'm saying. That's where the "although" comes in. He's like the bridge between disco and synth-prog.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

Queen - "Get Down, Make Love" and "Don't Stop Me Now".

― Wired Flounder (Wired Flounder), Monday, 19 May 2003 20:54 (twenty years ago) link

Bryan Adams' "Let Me Take You Dancing"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

White Stripes "Seven Nation Army"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 19 May 2003 21:25 (twenty years ago) link

Marianne Faithful, "Broken English"

― s woods, Monday, 19 May 2003 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

Richard Hell and the Voidoids "Downtown at Dawn" & "Destiny Street"

― Vic Funk, Monday, 19 May 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link

Side one of Queen's "Hot Space"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 May 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link

Altered Images' "Don't Talk to Me About Love"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 May 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link

one could argue that Fred Schneider's Just Fred counts. They wouldn't have called it his "rock move" if the B-52's weren't seen as some kind of "dance" group. And "Bulldozer" off that album is pretty great (fine fake Queen guitar solo).

also Flock Of Seagulls' Dream Come True was supposedly pretty rock heavy (and total crap). Depeche Mode's Songs Of Faith And Devotion (if not Violator) could count too.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 19 May 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link

nada surf's "Hi Speed Soul" has a nice disco thing going with disco beat and disco strings.

― MerkinMuffley (MerkinMuffley), Monday, 19 May 2003 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

If we're talking Sabbath it's gotta be "Supernaut". For god's sake, listen to that hi-hat intro. You could fool friends into thinking you'd just cued up "Theme From Shaft" with that shit.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 20 May 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

Led Zep - pretty much all the good stuff

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link

Queen- Seven Seas Of Rhye(remix)
It's on Queen II

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link

"For god's sake, listen to that hi-hat intro."

Ditto that for "Woman From Tokyo" by Deep Purple.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 21 May 2003 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

White Stripes - "The Hardest Button to Button"

no joke.

Second mention on this thread for them! I think they're really a disco band!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

AC/DC - "Get it Hot"

yeah, yeah, Bon. Fuck i wish.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:04 (twenty years ago) link

I'm probably getting this all wrong, but these are some songs I mix in with disco when I'm DJing. They seem to work OK.

Edgar Winter-Free Ride
Redbone-Witch Queen of New Orleans
Grand Funk-Some Kind of Wonderful
Norman Greenbaum-Spirit in the Sky
Alice Cooper-Public Animal #9
Humble Pie-Hot 'n' Nasty
Slade-Run Run Away
Roxette-Joyride
Nilsson-Jump into the Fire
Giorgio-Son of My Father
Jerry Reed-Ko-Ko Joe
Allman Brothers-Revival
Donovan-Barabajagal
Captain Beefheart-Zig Zag Wanderer
Led Zeppelin-Boogie with Stu

Laura Brannigan's "Self Control" goes really well with "Danger! High Voltage!", as does Samantha Fox's "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)". Well, they're practically the same song, Sam & Laura.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 31 May 2003 13:33 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

Bryan Ferry - Tokyo Joe
Bowie - China Girl
The Clash - Magnificent Dance
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Primal Scream - Don´t Fight It, Feel It
Barabas - Woman
Wacko Jacko - Beat It

The late seventies and early eighties was (by obvious reasons) a golden age for disco-rock.

― Vincent Vern, Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

I can't believe I forgot this one, but:
Heart-Straight On

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 22 July 2003 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

Korn - "Got the Life"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 23 July 2003 07:25 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

Cornelius - 'Another View Point' fits ('Fly' also has this cool Queen style intro). What about 'State of Shock' by the Jacksons and '...So' by Soft Cell (thank you, Tiga's DJ-Kicks) or is that too synth?

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 11:00 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

led zeppelin - all my love

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link

followed by "eye in the sky" on the classic rock radio station

what, it's like rainy disco rock day

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 15 October 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

This thread seems to be missing
Warren Zevon- "Night Time In The Switching Yard"

― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 18 August 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link

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