Half the "Off The Wall" album could make the cut.

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Yeah, especially the underrated I Can't Help It!

I Wanna Be Your Lover is disco. What the fuck.

thedance said:

My iTunes playlist - which classic DISCO songs did I forget to include.......

In case you have a list like this, may I see it??



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It took a while to compile this list in iTunes.....

Thanks for posting this, you turned me on to the following songs:

Daddy Cool - Boney M.

You To Me Are Everything - The Real Thing

Hang On In There Baby - Johnny Bristol

Going Back to My Roots - Odyssey

One Way Ticket - Eruption

Rasputin - Boney M. (yes beleive it or not i had never heard it)

Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm In Love

How about these that I don't see in any previous lists: v

"Lovin' Is Really My Game" - Brainstorm, 1977 RCA Records

"Love Insurance" - Front Page, 1979 RCA Records

"There But For The Grace Of God Go I" - Machine, 1979 RCA Records

"This Time Baby" - Jackie Moore, 1979 Columbia/CBS Records

"You + Me = Love" - Undisputed Truth, 1979 (I THINK. Not sure of the year), Whitfield Records.

The height years of Disco Music for ME were from 1977 - 1980. Prior to 1977, I would coin the style as "Soul" or "Funk." After 1980, I would coin it as "Post-Disco" or "R&B." It's always amazing to me that some songs are labeled "Disco" in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 & 1985. Disco had been long dead prior to these aforementioned years. Additionally, not all Soul/R&B within said years was intended to be labeled as "Disco" songs. R&B/Soul were separate entities which just so happend 2 parallel Disco.

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Absolutely BANGIN' song!

CynicKill said:

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I love all the attention Disco is getting on the org now, its great as I love Disco and that is a great list, but some very good early (1974 -1976) British disco is left out like.

1. I'm on fire - 5000Volts featuring Tina Charles

2. I love to love - Tina Charles

3. Doctor Love - Tina Charles

4. Dance little lady dance - Tina Charles (Seriously where is the love for Tina Charles?)

5. Heaven is in the back seat of my cadillac - Hot Chocolate

6. Emma/Emmeline - Hot Chocolate

7. Dr Kiss Kiss - 5000 Volts (Post Tina Charles)

8. Get right back - Maxine Nightingale

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Nearly all of it was produced by a chap called Biddu

.

Also what about Ottawans two disco smashes

Hands up and D.I.S.C.O

.

Grace Jones early output is pretty disco too like

Do or die

I need a man

Fame

Thats the Trouble and the ethereal

discofied mix of La Vie en rose.

I will think of more.

And "You make me feel like dancing" by Leo Sayer, his best disco song ever. Leo Sayer was an innovative artist who tried several forms of 70s music (Country, ballads, AOR, Rock, Folk etc) and his take on disco here is pretty good.

whitechocolatebrotha said:

How about these that I don't see in any previous lists: v

"Lovin' Is Really My Game" - Brainstorm, 1977 RCA Records

"Love Insurance" - Front Page, 1979 RCA Records

"There But For The Grace Of God Go I" - Machine, 1979 RCA Records

"This Time Baby" - Jackie Moore, 1979 Columbia/CBS Records

"You + Me = Love" - Undisputed Truth, 1979 (I THINK. Not sure of the year), Whitfield Records.

The height years of Disco Music for ME were from 1977 - 1980. Prior to 1977, I would coin the style as "Soul" or "Funk." After 1980, I would coin it as "Post-Disco" or "R&B." It's always amazing to me that some songs are labeled "Disco" in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 & 1985. Disco had been long dead prior to these aforementioned years. Additionally, not all Soul/R&B within said years was intended to be labeled as "Disco" songs. R&B/Soul were separate entities which just so happend 2 parallel Disco.

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Thanks for explaining this because I was thinking that some of the songs on this entire thread don't bring the word 'disco' to my mind when I hear them. Some, I think they sound more like funk to me.

728huey said:

Some more disco tunes:

Boogie Fever - The Sylvers
Love Machine - The Miracles
I'm Your Boogie Man - KC & the Sunshine Band
Shining Star - Eath Wind and Fire
Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players
Best of My Love - The Emotions
Dazz - Brick
(Love Is) Thicker Than Water - Andy Gibb
Do It (Till Your Satisfied) - BT Express
I Got My Mind Made Up - Instant Funk
Makin' It - David Naughton
The Second Time Around - Shalamar
A Night To Remember - Shalamar

Take Your Time (Do It Right) - The S.O.S. Band
Never Knew Love Like This - Stephanie Mills

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen

Fantastic Voyage - Lakeside

Body Language - Queen

Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me) - Gap Band

More Bounce To The Ounce - Zapp & Roger

The Glow of Love - Change (feat. Luther Vandross)

I Want Your Love - Chic
Call Me - Skyy

I love me some Intsant Funk

I use to jam the 8-track in my 63 Impala

Wow those were the good ol' days...

thanks for all the replies, all the Input to this thread,

And, thanks to AdoreCream for mentioning Grace Jones and Tina Charles..

Also, mentioned by Huey, Love Machine - The Miracles is fantastic I agree.....



isn't the lead singer Smokey Robinson on this track.....?????

Off the top of my head; my 100 essential Disco songs would a bit different and these would be on my list.

Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real, Star Love

O'Jays - Love Train

B.T. Express - Express

T-Connection -Do What You Wanna Do

Space Bass - Slick

Linda Clifford - Runaway Love

Crown Heights Affair - Dreaming A Dream

S.O.S Band - Take Your Time (Do It Right)

Hamilton Bohannon - Lets Start The Dance

Invisible Man's Band - All Night Thing

Silver Connection - Get Up And Boogie, Fly Robin Fly

TomTom Club- Genuis Of Love

First Choice - Doctor Love 12'

D' Train - You Are The One For Me

Salsoul Orchestra - Oh I Love It (Love Break)

Evelyn Champagne King - Love Come Down

Barry White - Can't Enough Of Your Love

Van McCoy - The Hustle

Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat

Issac Hayes - Juice Fruit (Disco Freak)

Anita Ward - You Can Ring My Bell

OK, so they put the Doobie Brothers on there just to see if we were paying attention?

DakutiusMaximus said:

OK, so they put the Doobie Brothers on there just to see if we were paying attention?

It does have a disco feel, doesn't it..?

Remix:

thedance said:

DakutiusMaximus said:

OK, so they put the Doobie Brothers on there just to see if we were paying attention?

It does have a disco feel, doesn't it..?

Remix:

OK, that was a nice adaptation right there but the original was definitely not disco.

I like this a lot. Did the Doobies remix it themselves?

Pop Muzik is more new-wave/synthpop than aything else. I don't know if I could really call it a disco song

CynicKill said:

a disco classic!! I have both albums by this group.