[Phoenix8]

It was this kind of music that put disco back where it belonged.

In obscurity.

[shelterguy]

I lived through disco. The only thing good about that era was that nobody had cell phones so there is no photographic or video evidence that can be used against me.

[Dr. Sivana]

It was this kind of music that put disco back where it belonged.

I was a teenager at the time, and mostly got on the anti-disco bandwagon.

Looking back, and listening to someof it again, I wpuld maintain that it was much more like real music , with melody and harmony than much of the popular material today.

No, the studio production is spent on special effects like auto-tune, getting a "sound" but not making MUSIC.

But look at some of the lush arrangements, like Barry White's "Love Unlimited Orchestra" ("My First, My Last, My Everything") and some of the singers who could really belt it out like Laura Brannigan ("Gloria").

I think the real problem was that musical tastes were segmenting, and Disco got too popular, too fast. If it had stayed at the same level of popularity as the Soul Music and Funk that were its progenitors, it would have stayed unhampered in its niche, as country-western/bluegrass were.

But the teenage hard rock/heavy metal types decided that their music had to define the era. Interestingly, some of the electronica, and avant garde (Robert Fripp with his Discotronics) incorporated the electronic repetition found in Disco of the era. Frank Zappa mocked everything, so of course he mocked Disco ("Dancing Fool"). Some talented performers either struggled with it (Elton John touched upon it with his worst album ["Victim of Love" . . . mailed in], plus two singles "Bite Your Lip" and "Mama Can't Buy You Love".) or just avoided it because they were largely album acts. (e.g. David Bowie)

It is not all BeeGees and Donna Summer, check each song on its merits.