Disco Search and Destroy

ashford & simpson ~ bourgie bourgie
crown heights affair ~ dreaming a dream
cheryl lynn ~ got to be real (does this actually count, or is it too late? forgive my ignorance!)
chic ~ good times

Cloud One - Atmosphere Strut, Disco Juice
Paper Doll - Get Down Boy
Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even
Bumblebee Unlimited - Love Bug
Bunny Sigler - By the Way You Dance
Martin Circus - Disco Circus
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
Kleeer - Keep Your Body Working
Convertion - Let's Do It
ABBA - nearly everything, etc.
Chic - nearly everything, etc.
etc....

Paul Sci-Fi Soul to thread!

Blimey, where to start. I would say 90 per cent of this lot counts as a "disco classic". Do you want radio versions or 12" extended mixes however?

Loose Joints, "Is It All Over My Face?" MUST be included

"I Will Survive" Gloria Gaynor (I think)

Just get the freakytastick Casablanca Records boxset.

Here's a thread Sundar started with loads more suggestions. Note the date. I was relieved to have something take my mind off of everything going on, if only for a few minutes.

hi Tracer! fine lists'n'links above - this thread could go be endless - here's more faves:

Bettye LaVette - Doin' The Best That I Can
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Loleatta Holloway - Hit & Run
Taana Gardner - Work That Body, When You Touch Me and Paradise Express
Hudson People - Trip To Your Mind
Funkmasters - Love Money
Crown Heights Affair - Dancin' ("like Shaft, only BETTER" someone else's quote)
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder
MFSB - Love Is The Message
Wood, Brass & Steel - Funkanova
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Salsoul Orchestra - Ooh I Love It (Love Break)
People's Choice - Do It Anyway You Wanna
Spinners - I'll Be Around
GQ - Disco Nights (Rock Freak)
Roy Ayers - Sweet Tears (any version except Nu Yorican Soul)
Ashford & Simpson - Found A Cure
Chic - I Want Your Love
Dexter Wansell - Sweetest Pain
Eddy Grant - My Time To Love You and Nobody's Got Time
Kleeer - Open Your Mind
Gregg Diamond - (Andrea True Connection) More More More, (Bionic Boogie) Risky Changes, (Starcruiser) Bring Back Your Love
Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up
KC & The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight
Al Hudson & Soul Partners - Spread Love
McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
Harold Melvin & The BlueNotes - Bad Luck
Shalamar - Second Time Around
Whispers - The Beat Goes On
- plus - at least one of these:
George McRae - Rock Your Baby
Gwen McRae - Rockin' Chair
Hues Corporation - "Rock The Boat"

Dave Lee's comps are a good place to start
here's another disco link (address): www.disco-funk.com
I'll second: Paper Doll - Get Down Boy

oops, seconds too late for the threadlink

might as well add: Jacksons - Show You The Way To Go

Klein and MBO, Talk Dirty

Raw Silk, Do It To The Music

Fat Larry's Band, Act Like You Know

Instant Funk, I Got My Mind Made Up

Faster stuff:

Loose joints, Is it all over my face/Tell you(Today)/Indian ocean, tree house/school bell (In fact just about anything by Arthur Russell between 1979 and 1984) Sheila B Devotion, Spacer. Chic, I want your love/le freak/Good times, just about anything they recorded between 1977 and 1980 including stuff by Diana Ross, Sister Sledge and others. Get up and Boogie, Silver convention/Ma baker, Boney M. I feel love/Love to love you baby/Loves unkind ,Donna Summer Let the music play, Shannon (although this is a little later, 1983 I think) Walkin on sunshine, Rockers revenge. Macho City, Steve miller (the full version)

Slow stuff:

Warm summer night/At last I am free, Chic. After the love has gone, Earth wind and fire. Always and forever/Mind blowing decisions, Heatwave.

Jackson 5 -----> "Hum Along and Dance" -----> r000lz

Did TW Funkmasters put anything out besides "Love Money"? That song knocks me out every time.

I have to give massive seconds to Klein + MBO and Taana Gardner.

if it's the same group, Funkmasters also put out rare groove classic "It's Over", a sweet female vocal track with horns that chuggs along similar to "Heartbeat" but brighter and (good) jazzy. Chris Mac(k) (aka Potential Bad Boy) sampled it for his UK garage track "Plenty More".

more disco:
O'Jays - Love Train, Time To Get Down and Darlin' Darlin' Baby
Stargard - Which Way Is Up (more of a funk track)
Ashford & Simpson - It Seems To Hang On
Black Ivory - Mainline (sampled by Omni Trio)
Ecstasy Passion & Pain - Touch And Go (sampled by Foul Play!)
Slick - Space Bass
Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

plus gotta mention Rod Temperton:
Heatwave - Boogie Nights and The Grooveline
Michael Jackson - Rock With You and Off The Wall

I hate the Off The Wall reissue because it has that freaking bonus track which is basically a FUCKING interview. urgh.

Has anyone mentioned Bobby Orlando? I have now. Gotta love those cheesy disco comps.

Disco is easily one of my top 7 favourite words of all time. Insisting that Head Music by Suede is disco is a good way to piss people off. Insisting that said album is hugely undervalued masterpiece has similar effect, except this is actually true. Disco things are silver and round.

Roller skate bearings, mirror balls... I think you've got something here Alex.

brighter and (good) jazzy

sorry, poor description - more like a glistening paradise