“Disco is NOT dead! Disco is LIFE!”
Posted on 07/13/2019 6:32:43 AM PDT by C19fan
“Disco is NOT dead! Disco is LIFE!”
“Decline” also means loss of quality. C&W took a hit quality-wise after UC to make it more appealing to the masses. See post #50 from OttawaFreeper.
Likewise, SNF pushed the Bee Gees homogenized disco sound to the forefront, to the detriment of funk and R&B.
“Then a decade later, Garth Brooks put the final nail in the coffin of country music”
You put Garth Brooks above Billy Ray Cyrus and Achy Breaky Heart???
Honestly, I love that movie.
“Flip the SWITCH!!”
“Funkytown” is actually regarded as the last “disco” song to reach #1.
I put it in quotes because, as many have pointed out, disco never really “died” after that.
Indeed, we did have a few resurgences of very disco songs especially in the ‘80s.
Donna Summer arose again a bit, although her biggest hit “She Works Hard for the Money” I only regard as partially disco. Her other hit “This Time I Know It’s for Real” actually seemed more disco.
But then, by that time Rick Astley had come up and his hits were definitely disco, so maybe Summer’s connections weren’t as afraid of it as in the earlier ‘80s.
I thought FT was techno pop
The Left has been beating this drum for over 10 years that the “disco sucks” backlash in the 70s was really anti-Black and anti-homosexual.
It was anti “sh!tty music by and for coked out pop producers in NYC and LA”.
Frank Zappa:
Disco boy! Run to toilet and comb your hair.
Disco boy! Pucker your lip, and check your shoulders,
‘cause some dandruff might be hiding there.
Disco boy, your the disco king, aw the
disco thing made you think someday that you
just might go somewhere.
Disco girl, you’re outa sight, you need a
disco boy, to treat you right.
He’ll do a little dance, take you home tonight.
Leave his hair alone, but you can kiss his comb.
Disco boy! Run to toilet and comb your hair.
Disco boy! Shake it more than three times and you’re
playing with it while you’re standing there.
Disco boy, do the bump every night, ‘til the disco girl
who’s really right, gonna fall for your line,
and feed you a box full of chicken delight.
Disco chit-chat so demure,
pump that booty all across the floor.
A disco drink, a disco wink,
you never go duty that’s what you think.
You never go duty that’s what you think.
You never go duty that’s what you think.
Duty. Go duty!
Duty. Go duty!
Duty. You never go duty.
Duty. You never go duty.
Duty. You never go duty.
Duty. You never go duty.
You never duty. Go duty.
Duty. You never duty.
Disco boy! You got one more chance, to comb your hair again.
Disco boy! They’re closing the bar, and she’s
leaving with your friend.
Disco boy, that’s the way it goes, so wipe your nose, and
try it again, to get a little lay tomorrow.
Disco boy, no one understands, but thank the lord that you
still got hands, to help you do that jerkin’ that’ll
blot out your disco sorrow.
It’s disco love tonight. Make sure you look alright.
It’s disco love tonight. Make sure you look alright.
The worst is seeing disco bands inducted in “the rock and roll hall of fame” while true architects of rock and roll (like the recently deceased Dave Bartholomew) are in there as “influences” only. Skin color has nothing to do with saying “disco sucks” or “disco isn’t rock and roll”. Same with rap.
My local Home Depot always has great music playing. Mostly R&B from that late ‘60s to mid ‘70s sweet spot.
When Roger Corman started production on what became Rock and Roll High School, he wanted to make a movie called Disco High. One of his younger contributors asked older gentleman Roger if he’d see a movie called Rock And Roll High School,
“no but I’d go see Disco High”, and the argument was conceded that the youth market would go to Rock And Roll High School over Disco High.
They started out trying to get Cheap Trick before they got the Ramones.
Director Allan Arkush had worked at the Fillmore East and many of his commentaries on Trailers From Hell deal with rock music related films:
Eli Roth on ROCK ‘N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_4CrjZ4HnM
Allan Arkush on GET CRAZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi1MkuI2Adw
These days rock stations and old folks music stations were taken off the air and replaced with Latino formats.
White people are supposed to have pay radio like they have pay tv cable.
>>He may have very well been the cherry on the sundae regarding country’s decline during that time.
If you consider how MCA became a big player when the Urban Cowboy soundtrack hit (and the mob and payola affected playlists in the 80s), you can see how “talent” and “good songs” went out the window in radio Country after UC hit the charts and ever more.
Clarence Reid ushered in the Miami sound (KC and the Sunshine Band and others), he also ushered in X-rated rap in the 70s.
So disco and rap (even in excess) have linked origins. And every big name rapper knows “Blowfly” (Clarence’s alter ego), they listened to their parents’ dirty records when they weren’t home.
This year a Spotify “star” took the top of the country charts with a rap song with a twang voice.
And the industry was shamed into calling it “country”.
The Rolling Stones have more country songs than this trap trash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqhkVqE3SPU
Cab Calloway was upset with John Landis that he wasn’t getting to sing his disco song in The Blues Brothers movie.
These days US record companies are pushing Korean Pop boy bands and Bollywood soundtracks (”did you know that there are a BILLION people in India???”)
It is in that spirit that I share the 7 minute epic I’m A Disco Dancer from a Bollywood film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JdEZoffm-Q
I bought a prepackaged grab bag deal of cards at a Kentucky Halmark this weekend. And to my surprise it had Spanish only cards included. I don’t speak Spanish. Don’t know anyone who does. We have Spanish radio stations and tv channels too. We are in Kentucky.
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