I have always loved disco. The musicianship in these songs are brilliant. There are so many disco songs that I love. One thing that I dig are the disco movies that came after Saturday Night Fever. Oh, that just gave me an idea for a thread. Thanx missfee!

u know, if you get sirius satellite channels theres a channel dedicated to disco music...and they play some GOOD SHIT, i listen 2 it everyday

I don't like disco.

Disco has got it's props and thats cool.

So u have zillions of disco nights and no newjackswing nights in clubs?


Also u can hear alot of disco in uk top 40 dance these days.


I know I moan but when the fuck will newjack get represented again?

thesexofit said:

Someone sounds bitter.

WhamBamGlamSlam said:

I like "Je Suis Music"

Not huge disco fan but some funk gets really close like Earth Wind and Fire and Jameriqua but too many more to mention from that era.

DavidEye said:

This takes me back. I especially remember jamming to Chic and Heatwave Albums.

SammiJ said:

Also check out the disco channel on Musicmatch. It has a fabulous mixture of songs, or you can listen to specific artists' discography from that genre. It's endless.

No Way!!! There are a lot of disco fans out there, and I'm one of them!!!

I listen to mostly disco when I go to the gym. I have a disco playlist on my Dell DJ, but it's a mixture of disco and dance music from the 70's-90's. I grew up on it, and it's lighthearted fun that puts a smile on my face and make me want to get up and boogie. I miss the club Polyesthers!!!

funkyslsistah said:

The Poly-Esthers nightclub in San Francisco closed too?! The one here in San Jose closed a few years ago,and I was pissed.But I assumed that one in SF was still open.That was a cool place to hear disco music all night!

Slave2daGroove said:

Jamiroquai are making the best "modern-day" disco songs of this era,imo.They are keeping that sound alive,with songs like "Cosmic Girl","Love Foolosophy" and "Canned Heat".Those songs sound like homages to 70s disco music.

I still like Disco. Donna Summer is one of my favorite artists ever but probably my only favorite disco artist. I prefer 80s dance music though, since I wasn't around for the disco era (I was in rehab :giggle). I just heard a nice disco song that came on my Launch station, "Doctor's Orders" by Carla Douglas. That's a nice one but I usually find disco in general more miss than hit.

Carla Douglas...what's wrong with me today!
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Cloudbuster said:

So what style should I put these ones???

Give it to me -Rick James
Burning Rubber- GAP Band??
Let's Groove- EWF

I first listened to them in the Disco era.... But I've always been confused.

Bass edit
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DavidEye said:

It closed sometime last summer, I believe. I had no idea until I went by there one night. No fan fare or nothing, just locked doors and no sign. I think there is a conspiracy to get me to move out of the city. The eateries, hangouts, and clubs that I have liked are closed. It all started with Woolworth's and it's been downhill since then.

Love the music from that period...not so much the commercial stuff. The true club classics like Machine's "There But for The Grace of God", First Choice and their classics "Dr. Love" and "Double Cross". Throw in Double Exposure and Martin Circus and you've got a REAL party. Hey, I wasn't quite in jr. high yet but I remember them well.

tritoncin said:

Funk.

Those are funk songs that came out in the early 1980s. The last year of disco was 1979. Even though disco died, funk and R&B continued on with uptempo jams for the dance floor. That's how I first got into funk.

Disco had a lot of funk influence. When it died, funk continued on, but IMO, better.
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I don't know if this track belongs to the disco era.

I hope somebody can help me out with the title and singers.

It was a duet (girl and boy) and the chorus was something like:

"Now you'll see
that we're good for each other...
Nooooow you'll see
youuuuu and me"

The song sounded like a recording from a concert, I could hear an audience around

I remember I used to go rollerblading with this song

Anyone???

funkyslsistah said:

It's like that here in the South Bay too.Nightclubs open one year,then close the next...lol...it's getting ridiculous.Currently,I'm looking for some type of place that plays old school jams.I get sick of the hip-hop clubs.

tritoncin said:

"Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)" is from 1980.The other two songs are from 1981.But all of those songs are funk.It's easy to get confused though,because many early-80s songs still had that "disco" flavor.Examples: Diana Ross' 1980 hit "Upside Down"...Lipps Inc's 1980 hit "Funkytown"...Taana Gardner's 1981 hit "Heartbeat".Since these songs (and others) were big hits,it proves that disco didn't really "die" at the end of the 70s afterall.

Exactly.

I've been offered this 2 CD set. What do you experts think?
Is it a too obvious selection?

1 Real Thing - Can You Feel The Force
2 Jacksons - Can You Feel It
3 Sly and the Family Stone - Dance To The Music
4 Frantique - Strut Your Funky Stuff
5 O Jays - Love Train
6 GQ - Disco Nights
7 Trammps - Hold Back The Night
8 Average White Band - Let's Go Round Again
9 KC and The Sunshine Band - Give It Up
10 Michael Zager Band - Let’s All Chant
11 Tramps - Disco Inferno
12 Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
13 Musique - Keep on Jumpin’
14 Evelyn King - Shame
15 Three Degrees - Givin’ Up Givin’ In
16 Pointer Sisters - Jump
17 Odyssey - Back To My Roots
18 Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of Beethoven
19 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music
20 Oliver Cheatham - Get Down Saturday night
21 Rose Royce - Carwash
22 Gladys Knight & The Pips - Baby Don't Change Your Mind
23 Thelma Houston - Don’t Leave Me This Way
24 Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy
25 In Deep - Last Night A DJ
26 True Connection - More More More
27 Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat
28 Odyssey - Native New Yorker
29 McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin’ Us Now
30 Diana Ross - Upside Down
31 Shalamar - I Can Make You Feel Good
32 LaBelle - Lady Marmalade
33 Melba Moore - This Is It.
34 Evelyn "Champagne" King - Love Come Down
35 Whispers - And The Beat Goes On
36 Joe Tex - Ain’t Gonna Bump No More With No Big Fat Woman
37 Chic - Le Freak
38 Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
39 Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
40 Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie
41 Cerrone - Super Nature
42 Candido - Jingo
43 Isaac Hayes - Theme From Shaft
44 Irene Cara - Flashdance
45 Dan Hartman - Instant Replay
46 Donna Summer - I Feel Love

PANDURITO said:

Those are a lot of good ones. I really like "Disco Nights" but never knew the atrist. Thanks for that info.

PANDURITO said:

That's not a bad collection,even though several of those songs are NOT disco ("Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes..."Flashdance" by Irene Cara..."Jump" by the Pointer Sisters???).As for Sly and The Family Stone's "Dance To The Music",I assume they're using the 1978 disco remix version? The original version is nowhere near being a disco song!