The Disco Thread

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I’m listening to the Bee Gees right now so this is the Disco thread in which we talk about—that’s right—disco.

I want those shoes that have goldfish in them.

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/f/Covers/ferrara.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Quite the package on the guy there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

You should be dancin, ned

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.caratuleo.com/b/bso_-_saturday_night_fever_(1977)-front.jpg

― Dante-Cubed (Sean3), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/s/Covers/saturday.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:25 (twenty-two years ago)

If you are really interested in disco history try Love Saves The Day by Tim Lawrence (Duke University Press), which covers '70-'79 and introduces us to people like Larry Levan, Francois K and Frankie Knuckles when they were teens hanging out at the Continental Baths. Also very good about the tension between aspirational white fags and mixed-race, more 'street' counterparts, the birth of Voguing, the production of records I know JBR would drool over!

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f130/f130838for2.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cerrone.net/Pics/CD2.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.homoatao.com/diversavendre/disques/images/ritchif.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.stars-on-7-inch.com/index_k/kitt_e/where_is_my_man.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.musicfan.ru/img/baccara/photo/baccara.jpg http://www6.plala.or.jp/arabesque/discography2/2nd_g.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lp-cd.de/1/A8760_01.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/m/Covers/masquera.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.record-eurasia.com/sleeves/ralp-disc.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.domainnamesanity.com/webumake/wwwsites/www.gameinhand.net/wizofozxxbadpics/xx%20meco%20wiz%20of%20oz%20album.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.vinylcheese.com/graphics/hotblood.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bryanbatt.com/snf_girls.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.70disco.com/images/KONGAS.JPG

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/Costan/cos_pics/troc1a.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Morgan Geist sampled the break from Wuthering Heights(shhh...) and Porkchop rocks it on one of his mix cds.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/Costan/cos_pics/love1a.jpg http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/Costan/cos_pics/love2a.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.djfriendly.co.uk/images/records/104106.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.djfriendly.co.uk/images/records/103952.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.tradera.com/237/3415237_1.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cht.qc.ca/cht/images/rickdees.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone left my cake out in the rain!

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://guardian.planet-d.net/grouh/fabounio_no1_forever.mpeg

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't find any pix of the Hot Gossip Dancers! *weeps*

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://kore.mitene.or.jp/~jamboree/baltimora.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.italo.neostrada.pl/zdjecia/camarosgang.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/euro_beat_80/images/lime2.jpg

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll say goodnight, but first ask why Jody has not been to my parties...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Great picture! I had this in reserve:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c621/c621575c2x2.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, I'm not worthy.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

what do we do with all this baggage we are carrying around? what do I do with all the fear and all that anger and that repressed stuff, what do I do with all those attitudes and dogmas and theories that are just holding me down and holding me back and turning me into somebody I'm not, what do I do with them, and for me, I had to dance, I had to relieve myself of the whole of western culture and to find that emptiness where I could begin again and to see if there is such a thing as truth I wanted it now I wanted to experiance it, I wanted in this body in this lifetime not some other day some other time, I wanted it now. It's like dancing is sacred.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Baltimora guy looks like Buckaroo Banzai

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Dan, that video is like a high budget version of most Wax Trax! videos. Fucking brilliant!

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

(A Split Second "Mambo Witch" video to thread... )

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all about the "I <3 ZYX" sticker on his synthesizer.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite disco number, which seems astonishingly little known, is 'Penguin At The Big Apple/Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart', from the Trammps' great first album.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I had an argument with someone over what synth that was. I stumbled upon some weird Teisco Synth with that odd layout and thought I was cool, when my friend said, dude, it's a Roland JX-3P.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

Dennis Parker clips. Really quite incredible.

― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 13 August 2010 01:43 (fifteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Heard this at the weekend and it's now my favourite song in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lriulq79rI

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 4 November 2019 16:27 (six years ago)

fern had some tunes for sure

― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Monday, 4 November 2019 16:42 (six years ago)

Need to do a deep dive into the rest of the Malaco label at some stage - I know very little of it, but the team that produced those great fern kinney tracks did a whole bunch of other stuff together iirc

― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Monday, 4 November 2019 16:54 (six years ago)

I absolutely love it and I love this sound. This kind of post-disco r'n'b is a very close cousin of lover's rock, and I'm hearing a lot of parallels with Susan Cadogan or Sandra Cross. If you've got any other info about Malaco and other things of that style, let me know.

― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 4 November 2019 16:58 (six years ago)

yeah i can see that! her two other amazing tunes ('baby let me kiss you' and 'groove me') definitely tap into reggae, but they're also a bit cosmic and twinkly

― the creator has a mazda van (NickB), Monday, 4 November 2019 17:12 (six years ago)

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