yeh he s guilt of emulating the 70's black look...

luvsexy4all said:

yeh he s guilt of emulating the 70's black look...

Maybe for 5 Minutes...

i could tell this guy wasn't black american by watching him dance, the girls either, maybe that was passable in europe but it's laughable here. did prince copy? very well could have, wouldn't be the first time prince took inspiration from a fringe act, kid creole, which he really based morris' character on was transparent to the point kid could have sued.

PeteSilas said:

interesting story about his death, i guess he died the same day and the same city as rasputin, kinda wierd.

I read that too, that's so bizarre...

sometimes I do not understand the americans,


ABBA never had any big hits either in the US besides Dancing Queen,

And, their catalogue is rich and so very huge..



I do enjoy though that Robbie Williams from Take That never had just 1 single hit over there (in more recent history than ABBA & Boney M.), he Robbie IS a crap artist, to that I can agree with the americans..

I was a small kid when both ABBA and Boney M. were huge, here in Denmark/ Europe, I enjoyed their pop music (disco), & I am still enjoying it..

thedance said:

sometimes I do not understand the americans,


ABBA never had any big hits either in the US besides Dancing Queen,

And, their catalogue is rich and so very huge..



I do enjoy though that Robbie Williams from Take That never had just 1 single hit over there (in more recent history than ABBA & Boney M.), he Robbie IS a crap artist, to that I can agree with the americans..

I was a small kid when both ABBA and Boney M. were huge, here in Denmark/ Europe, I enjoyed their pop music (disco), & I am still enjoying it..

i like what i like and that boner stuff sounds like crap to me.

PeteSilas said:

thedance said:

sometimes I do not understand the americans,


ABBA never had any big hits either in the US besides Dancing Queen,

And, their catalogue is rich and so very huge..



I do enjoy though that Robbie Williams from Take That never had just 1 single hit over there (in more recent history than ABBA & Boney M.), he Robbie IS a crap artist, to that I can agree with the americans..

I was a small kid when both ABBA and Boney M. were huge, here in Denmark/ Europe, I enjoyed their pop music (disco), & I am still enjoying it..

i like what i like and that boner stuff sounds like crap to me.

That boner stuff is a lot of fun - no need to be so serious all the time.

TheFman said:

PeteSilas said:

i like what i like and that boner stuff sounds like crap to me.

That boner stuff is a lot of fun - no need to be so serious all the time.

it just isn't good, or fun. only resemblance i can see is with the wardrobe and some of the arm movements at the end of mountains.

2freaky4church1 said:

How did we miss this:

These are the Parade tour moves. In another video Bony does what looks like The Bird. The song was from 1979! He also had pants like Hammer. Hammer also ripped him off. Did Prince ever mention Bony? I'm stunned.

If My memory serves Me correct, Boney M. was createdby & produced by the SAME Man who put together Milli Vanilli: Frank Farian. And the chances are high that NONE of these Folks U see in this Video or on the records ACTUALLY sang sh*t!!!

that's what i read on wiki, the guy complained about not getting paid but all he did was lypsync and dance (terribly).

woogiebear said:

2freaky4church1 said:

How did we miss this:

These are the Parade tour moves. In another video Bony does what looks like The Bird. The song was from 1979! He also had pants like Hammer. Hammer also ripped him off. Did Prince ever mention Bony? I'm stunned.

If My memory serves Me correct, Boney M. was createdby & produced by the SAME Man who put together Milli Vanilli: Frank Farian. And the chances are high that NONE of these Folks U see in this Video or on the records ACTUALLY sang sh*t!!!

Frank Farian is (in Europe) a huge and succesful producer.. ok the Milli Vanilli scandal was embarrassing.. but u socalled negativity spreaders, may I say "disco-haters" to you guys..?

You should try listen to this.

Frank Farian, his great coverversion of "Stairway To Heaven", the rock classic from Led Zeppelin:


He made another EXCELLENT version in the mid- 1980s with folks from rock band Toto, a big choir, - and others,

here's a (Shorter), tv version, 1985:







^ "Stairway To Heaven" (1985) / Far Corporation,



imho.... a great version of this classic.

If I recall correctly, Boney M sold more singles than ABBA in the 70's and 80's. They're still the sound of christmas and they're still simultaneously absolute rubbish and absolute brilliance. Their album covers gave Prince a run for his money as well

Im seeing Boney M on Saturday - they are on the sam bill as the NPG

Will be trying to spot the Parade moves

you guys must be european, because boner m was unheard of here, that wasn't a us show that clip is on is it? they'd get run out of soul train. I'm no disco hater, a lot of it i like, if i love Sylvester that tells you i have no hate for disco, but this crap?

thedance said:

Frank Farian is (in Europe) a huge and succesful producer.. ok the Milli Vanilli scandal was embarrassing.. but u socalled negativity spreaders, may I say "disco-haters" to you guys..?

You should try listen to this.

Frank Farian, his great coverversion of "Stairway To Heaven", the rock classic from Led Zeppelin:


He made another EXCELLENT version in the mid- 1980s with folks from rock band Toto, a big choir, - and others,

here's a (Shorter), tv version, 1985:







^ "Stairway To Heaven" (1985) / Far Corporation,



imho.... a great version of this classic.

PeteSilas said:

you guys must be european, because boner m was unheard of here, that wasn't a us show that clip is on is it? they'd get run out of soul train. I'm no disco hater, a lot of it i like, if i love Sylvester that tells you i have no hate for disco, but this crap?

Dude, you don't know the half of the madness that is Boney M

[Edited 5/23/18 11:02am]

PeteSilas said:

you guys must be european, because boner m was unheard of here

Their biggest 2 Billboard hits in the US reached #11 on the disco chart in January 1977 & #30 on the Hot 100 in August 1978. The 3rd chart is the highest position Boney M ever reached on the R&B chart (then called Hot Soul Singles) at #75. But the disco chart (later retitled dance/club play or 12" singles in the 1980s) had many songs that didn't chart high on the other charts. It was mainly based on songs played in clubs and sales of maxi singles, not radio airplay. Daddy Cool + Fever & Take The Heat Off Me from the same album are the songs that reached #11 on the disco chart, but only Daddy Cool reached #65 on the Hot 100, which is the mainstream pop chart. So people going to dance at a disco (like Studio 54) might be more aware of Boney M than radio listeners

The group did appear on Soul Train. I know that because when Bounce TV was showing the reruns a few years ago, the episode was shown several times.

god i really have to question some of you guy's taste, i just watched rasputin, hell, milli vanilli was better than this crap.

2freaky4church1 said:

PeteSilas said:

i just watched rasputin

Don Cornelius had to be aware of Boney M to book them on the show and there were several other disco groups on Soul Train either as guests or just the song being played for the dancers. I remember when Bounce were showing the reruns, a lot of what they showed was from this period and some episodes from the 1st couple of seasons. They went to maybe around 1986 or 87, then skipped to the mid 1990s when it started to become the Rap Train. Bounce would show the same episodes over and over and not show any at all from other years. That Gonzalez song was played a lot on the show.

thedance said:

riocoolnes said:

thedance said:

sometimes I do not understand the americans,


ABBA never had any big hits either in the US besides Dancing Queen,

And, their catalogue is rich and so very huge..



I do enjoy though that Robbie Williams from Take That never had just 1 single hit over there (in more recent history than ABBA & Boney M.), he Robbie IS a crap artist, to that I can agree with the americans..

I was a small kid when both ABBA and Boney M. were huge, here in Denmark/ Europe, I enjoyed their pop music (disco), & I am still enjoying it..

Because we had disco bands like kc and the sunshine band which were 10x funkier. Abba is portrayed as kinda sissy like

word...and ABBA did get airplay in the US all the time, but no one was really checking for that stuff over here

hell, i'm a musician and judging how easy it is to impress euros, i should move over there, play a song, and hop around like a freak, i'd be a star.

PeteSilas said:

hell, i'm a musician and judging how easy it is to impress euros, i should move over there, play a song, and hop around like a freak, i'd be a star.

You can be a star in the USA now by making up a dance with a ringtone song like Stanky Legg, Chicken Noodle Soup, Dougie, Hit the Quan, Lean/Dabb, Juju On That Beat, Whip Nae Nae, Crank That Superman, etc. Ellen DeGeneres will be soon doing it on her show after it goes viral.

They're like the black version of Tommy Seebach.

You need to be real drunk or high to appreciate Boney M.
Me, it makes me hate it even more.
It's the sound. Everything Boney M. smells of unwashed armpits and bad breath.
That sad dirty disco night, that's what it is.

OK, let's play, let's say Prince got the whole 1999 concept from:
the retro-futuristic approach.




So at 7, if your first contact with the FM is "Stayin' Alive", "Isn't She Lovely" and this,
Boney M. really sounds like lots of surface and no meat.
This guys were ripped off by Daft Punk big time, by the way.

But that concept was already a rip-off of Bowie's.


This jiggling Boney M. punk is a bad, bad James Brown, certainly not the Bright Yellow Jamie Starr that the world witnessed in 1986 (please refer to Frisco '86 whole ten minutes before declaring such inanities).


At least give our Prince the proper influences he not only deserves to be associated with,
but learned from and never shied away from.
Like, in an interview: "Well what people don't understand is that my Linn programming comes from the masters: Boney M., Steve Cerrone, Giorgio Moroder...".
The smelliest crooks in pop history.

Prince didn't go to the club to get impressed by posers.
More like this :



Even the Stones did a better disco with just a single song ("Miss You")
than these clowns and their feathers up the ass.

"Prince ripped off Boney M."! For Chrisssake...

lrn36 said:

They're like the black version of Tommy Seebach.

At least they make fun of themselves.

Boney M., the guy was persuaded he was an artist. He was, but in the cabaret sense.
As for the sole white ass responsible for these countless so-called Boney M. hits
(dig if U will a whole Best Of Boney M.! I get acid cramps in my stomach just thinking about it),
let him suck silicone tits laid on his big white mansion swimming pool. He vaz in it for ze mony, goody, now getz the fuck outta here.

Here iz like good germans do disco.
It's cretin alright, it's ripped off Boner M.
It's disgusting, it has lyrics for 18 and over, and yet
you have to be twelve years old tops to dance on this shit. Hell, eight!

thedance said:

Frank Farian is (in Europe) a huge and succesful producer.. ok the Milli Vanilli scandal was embarrassing.. but u socalled negativity spreaders, may I say "disco-haters" to you guys..?

You should try listen to this.

Frank Farian, his great coverversion of "Stairway To Heaven", the rock classic from Led Zeppelin:


He made another EXCELLENT version

^ "Stairway To Heaven" (1985) / Far Corporation,


imho.... a great version of this classic.

Kill me. Kill me now.

2freaky4church1 said:

How did we miss this:

These are the Parade tour cocaine moves.
In another video Bony does what looks like The Sesame Street Bird.
The song was from 1979!

He also had pants like Hammer Himmler.
Hammer Hans Zimmer also ripped him off.

Did Prince ever mention Bony?

I'm stunned high as a kite.