What do yall think of the BAD GIRLS album as a whole? A lot of people dismissed disco as vapid but I think BAD GIRLS is an excellent album..not just "DISCO" album but I think it is a higly creative album and rates at least 4 stars out of 5 IMO

Love it. One of my favorite albums from one of my favorite artists. Like a lot of good albums, I don't think it's dated well, but it's still a very good record. It was a real genre-buster for its time.

RipHer2Shreds said:

i think the songs sound pretty good today..."Cant Get To Sleep", "Our Love" and "Sunset People" are VERY nice....

LoveAlive said:

I agree. A lot of them still sound very good. But some songs - particularly the title track among a few others - sound very much of their era. As you pointed out, Our Love is a great example of a song that retains its sound without feeling dated at all.

'Bad Girls' is Donna Summer's masterpiece.It's also one of the greatest disco alums ever.What makes it so brilliant is that it covers alot of ground,and it was hardly your typical late 70s "disco album".The opening track "Hot Stuff" dares to mix rock with disco,and it works.It is followed by the sassy title track,which adds a little funk to the mix,and of course,it also works.There are a few R&B-styled numbers ("Walk Away" and "Can't Get To Sleep At Night"),some truly innovative Eurodisco songs("Our Love"and "Sunset People"),a rock ballad "My Baby Understands" and even a country/pop ballad "On My Honor".It's obvious that,with this album,Donna and her producers were experimenting and trying new sounds,taking disco music in a whole new direction.

In addition,Donna sounds totally confident and soulful throughout this album.Vocally,she's never sounded better.

Excellent review of the album. This album is my absolute favorite Donna Summer album and also my favorite album of the disco era.

DavidEye said:

I always thought Dim All the Lights had a definite country influence as well. And I love that note she holds as it goes into the first upbeat verse.

DavidEye said:

Agree 100%! Donna is my girl, and this album was it for me when it came out. I remember seeing the billboard of this on Sunset in Hollywood when I was a kid. Donna was HUGE during this time. HUGE!

DavidEye said:

Did you know this album was cut much earlier, but Neil Bogart didn't want to release it cuz it was "too rock"?

Possibly her best album (some might argue "Once Upon A Time", including me). It's not just disco, but it experiments with a lot of different styles and even takes more of a stab at electronic music than "I Fell Love" and "Once Upon A Time" tracks like "Now I Need You" did. "Sunest People" still works today and very well. The fact that it fuses rock and soul music into songs like "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls" and "One Night In A Lifetime" (among ohters) is innovate and a good call back to when she did more rock oreinated pop she did way back in the day (1974's little known/heard "Lady Of the Night", never offically released in America). But the ballads are where she really shines with her writing (surpsingly, overall, this album has many various writers when before it used to be Donna, Girgio and Pete as the writers on nearly all her non-cover tracks)and voalcs is on the ballads. They are all heartfelt, they are all excellently sung and they are all over the place, sytle wise. An excellent album.

blackguitaristz said:

I woudln't be surprised. It was a huge risk and like nothing she's done before. She could have easily played it safe with a more euro dance/R&B based disco sound and done well, as usual. I know there was a demo of "Bad Girls", the track, and it's funkier.

LoveAlive said:

After the success of "Fever",the industry over saturated the market with Disco product."Bad Girls"stands alone as a badass recording.The grooves are irresistable and the vocals are contagious.I would go as far as to say that "Bad Girls"is as good as "Off The Wall"They're both excellent blueprints for Dance/Pop records.

Donna Summer actually wrote "Dim All The Lights" for Rod Stewart...luckily for her he turned it down and she recorded it. Also, pick up the deluxe edition of Bad Girls, it has all of those killer original 12"s included...

Serveitupfrankie*

serveitupfrankie said:

"The Deluxe Edition" is great but too bad there are more outakes (only the "Bad Girls" demo). For a lot of fans, it's been there, heard that but it's still a great buy. Hopefully it sold well enough that they might give this treatment to "Live and More" and/or "Once Upon A Time", songs with known outakes (there were cuts that did not make the final cut of "Live" and there are altnerate arrangements of the eletronic songs on "Once...").