Favorite Disco Tunes

If anyone can find this Disco 12" for me, PLEEEEEEAAASSSEEEE holler!

I only point these little gems out because the standard stuff (YMCA, Heart of Glass, I Will Survive, Le Freak, Funkytown) is pretty much etched in titanium and launched into space on Voyager2 CLASSIC.

anything by Chic

'Is It Love You're After' by...Rose Royce?

and modern house with a disco flavour: Cheek Venus 'Sunshine People'

Loose Joints' "(Tell You) Today"
Dan Hartman's "Vertigo/Relight My Fire"
Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby"
Cerrone's "Supernature"

Martin Circus - Disco Circus
Shalamar - Right in the Socket
Logg - I Know You Will
Convertion - Let's Do It
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz
Taana Gardner - Work That Body
Northend - Tee's Happy
Curtis Mayfield - Love Me, Love Me Now
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
Was (Not Was) - Tell Me That I'm Dreaming

Best disco song title ever is Night on Disco Mountain!

Whenever a real disco song is played in a club, I usually ask the DJ for Panic which most of them don't appreciate too much...

And then there's the sax solo in the middle which is the distilled essence of every single NY detective series theme tune ever made.

http://www.epiccenter.com/EpicCenter/work/LastDaysOfDisco/

(also Kate B and Chloé S are both ace - and dreamy! - in the movie *sigh*)

Diana Ross - "I'm Coming Out"
Gloria Gaynor - "I Will Survive"
Bee Gees - "How Deep is Your Love"
KC & the Sunshine Band - "That's the Way (I Like It)"

Surprised no one's mentioned "There But for the Grace of God" by Machine yet.

And I'd like to add "Rock the Boat" by the Hues Corporation, "Shame Shame Shame" by Shirley and Company, "Get Dancin'" by Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes, and "Jive Talkin'" by the Bee Gees

There are thousands more...

Taana Gardner is really my favorite... with all of this retroism going 'round, why can't we have more basement-disco-funk with basslines from heaven?

I think Andy is the only person that I have ever seen or heard mention that Convertion record, which is a great one. I play it at +8.

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Honorable Mentions:
I Feel Love - only gets a mention because although it was played in discos and is on every disco comp available - I consider it to be apocolyptic new wave & it's one of the greatest songs ever....

Alicia Bridges-"I Love The Night Life" - Never really liked the song, but LOVE the way she says "AaaaaaCK-SHON"

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Dishonorable mentions:
I Will Survive - really, not a great song, despite its popularity.

I'm already rocking it. Stillman is one of my favorite directors. I htink my love of "Doctor's Orders" stems from that opening sequence.

1000-fingerman-candido

was that all it was- jean carn

clouds-chaka kahn

standing in the rain- don ray

Philly Soul.

yes I know but that is where disco came from, and the lines can be pretty blurry when talking about records like those. listening to the shorter radio mixes of salsoul records is not that different. and those records were hits on disco dancefloors, especially the latter.

Hell you can certainly include the entire SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER soundtrack (I saw the whole movie for the first time in class last week, I should start a thread on um, whether its a "good" movie) ...didn't anyone mention DISCO INFERNO or the BeeGees MORE THAN A WOMAN yet ?

What about DEEE-LITE - GROOVE IS IN THE HEART...we can move out of just 70s here, right?

that, and "Le Freak" by Chic are far and away my favorites.

my faves...

Geraldine Hunt - Can't Fake the feeling

Thelma Houston - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Jean Carne - Was that all it was?

Chaka Khan - Any Love

Many Friday - Love Honey, Love Heatache

Larry Levan - Stand on the Word

Cher - Take Me Home

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

also, "The Hustle", for sure.

and here:
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Vaughan Mason & Crew

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

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

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

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

More love for Shalamar please

Peter Jacques Band - Is It It

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

- 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.

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'