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Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Donna Summer - MacArthur Park
Wild Cherry - Play that Funky Music, White Boy (genre-crossing w/ funk)
Brick - Dazz ("Dazz, dazz, disco jazz")
Chic - Le Freak
Rose Royce - Car Wash
Theme from Shaft (genre crossing, but close enough)

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 24 August 2003 16:10 (twenty years ago) link

Arabesque, "City Cats"

― animal wrangler (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 24 August 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

Barry White-My First, My Last, My Everything

― Barima (Barima), Sunday, 24 August 2003 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

- a good portion of Larry Levan's Live at the Paradise Garage ("My First Mistake," "It's Music," "Bourgie Bourgie," "Put Your Body In It," and "Bad Mouthin")
- Patrick Juvet's "I Love America"... there's just something irresistible about a song by (probably?) gay immigrants (Belolo, Morali) gushing uncontrollably about how great America is; more believably patriotic than practically any country song, and deeply sad, when lyrics like "the people there were so friendly, I have good memories still" are considered against the very different, very impending Reagan era.
- Funkadelic's "(not just) Knee Deep"... the full album version, for having a yowlingly great guitar break
- Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic" has about the most divine bridge ever (though I could've personally done without the umpteenth Donna orgasms on the top of it)
- agreed re: "Native New Yorker," which sounds like every advertisment I ever saw in the archives of Life Magazine c. 1976

- many many more... disco is one of my favorite genres.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

"Bounce Rock Skate Roll", by.. someone. anyone know who?

also, "The Hustle", for sure.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:21 (twenty years ago) link

On an 'I Love America' tip, also Metropolis's I Love New York City, which I recently got from gareth.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 10:58 (twenty years ago) link

and here it is!

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:20 (twenty years ago) link

Late Additions:
Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
Get Off - Foxy
Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Superfreak - Rick James

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 11:31 (twenty years ago) link

"The Record Keeps Spinning" - In Deep

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:49 (twenty years ago) link

THere some good stuff here:
disco-pick only ten

and here:
disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco disco DISCO!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:51 (twenty years ago) link

"Bounce Rock Skate Roll", by.. someone. anyone know who?

Vaughan Mason & Crew

― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 14:03 (twenty years ago) link

Donna Summer's "Love's Unkind",
gotta be the fave of mine

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 22:26 (twenty years ago) link

"I'm Coming Out"
"Good Times"
"Move Your Feet"
"Disco Biscuit"

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

following on from "Disco Biscuit" - what about the Larry Levan mix of "C is for Cookie" by the Cookie Monster!

Now i feel like eating Cookies and Dancing at the same time! get down! get down!

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:02 (twenty years ago) link

I have mixed feelings about Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic"; it sounds like it may have been recorded as a self-consciously camp number. The opening bits with her moaning "come... come! come into my arms" is the best part.

Amii Stewart's "Knock On Wood" is amazing; what a backing track!

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 28 August 2003 00:56 (twenty years ago) link

I really want to second or third "Ring My Bell"... I always forget about it but when I hear it I am suddenly convinced it is the best disco bassline of all time.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Thursday, 28 August 2003 02:13 (twenty years ago) link

I have mixed feelings about Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic"; it sounds like it may have been recorded as a self-consciously camp number.

Disco, more so than any genre apart from Americana, is hardly above camp.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:17 (twenty years ago) link

Not a lot of great disco tracks, but certainly some great disco influenced ones:

"Shine a Little Love" by ELO
"The Number One Song In Heaven" by Sparks
"Life In Tokyo" by Japan

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

AHEM! - yeah thats right Geir - Disco itself wasn't great - it was only great cos it influenced some rock slackers!!!!!!!!!! Get real!!!!!!!

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:30 (twenty years ago) link

(Step by tiny two-step, I'm nudging my way towards 'alf-believing it is Geir after all :)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:49 (twenty years ago) link

Baccara - Yes Sir I, Can Boogie

― bert (bert), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:58 (twenty years ago) link

I would classify neither ELO, Sparks nor Japan as "rock". At least not at that stage of their career (Japan and Sparks may have started out doing rock a few years earlier)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

why respond to the thread if you don't like disco?

― jed_e_3 (jed_e_3), Friday, 29 August 2003 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

five years pass...

― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link

― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link

― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link

― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link

More love for Shalamar please

― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link

Peter Jacques Band - Is It It

― (temporary) ilxor (goon) (PappaWheelie V), Friday, 5 December 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

DJ Soul Sister is posting on Twitter that Vaughan Mason of “Rock, Bounce, Skate , Roll “ fame has died

― curmudgeon, Friday, 3 April 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link

- a good portion of Larry Levan's Live at the Paradise Garage ("My First Mistake," "It's Music," "Bourgie Bourgie," "Put Your Body In It," and "Bad Mouthin")
- Patrick Juvet's "I Love America"... there's just something irresistible about a song by (probably?) gay immigrants (Belolo, Morali) gushing uncontrollably about how great America is; more believably patriotic than practically any country song, and deeply sad, when lyrics like "the people there were so friendly, I have good memories still" are considered against the very different, very impending Reagan era.
- Funkadelic's "(not just) Knee Deep"... the full album version, for having a yowlingly great guitar break
- Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic" has about the most divine bridge ever (though I could've personally done without the umpteenth Donna orgasms on the top of it)
- agreed re: "Native New Yorker," which sounds like every advertisment I ever saw in the archives of Life Magazine c. 1976
- many many more... disco is one of my favorite genres.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:17 AM (sixteen years ago)

I agree with a startling amount of this post from my youth.

― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link

DJ Soul Sister is posting on Twitter that Vaughan Mason of “Rock, Bounce, Skate , Roll “ fame has died

Was also the man behing Raze and their early house classics 'Break 4 Love' and 'Jack The Groove'

― ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 3 April 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link

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