Last night a friend of mine told me he was having a disco-themed party some-time in the coming weeks.... He wanted me to provide the music in the form of home-made compilations. I decided to make two CDs, one with mostly straight-up disco, the other one focuses mainly on post-disco and early 80s dance music. Now I'm contemplating whether to add a 3rd CD or if I should alter the track listings.... I'll post the tracklistings for the 2 CDs. Please tell me what y'all think:

Note: I wanted to avoid most of the too obvious songs, which is why you won't find "I Will Survive", "It's Raining Men" or "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" on my compilations.

Disc 1 (DISCO)

1. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff (12" version)
2. Chic - Chic Cheer
3. Prince - Sexy Dancer
4. The Jacksons - Lovely One
5. Madonna - Everybody (Original Version)
6. Þú og ég - Villi og Lúlla (Icelandic disco act, was promoted as You and I in Japan, sound sample here:
http://tonlist.is/PlayTra...&Preview=1)
7. ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
8. Blondie - Heart of Glass
9. ABBA - Voulez-Vous
10. Chic - Le Freak
11. The Jacksons - Blame It On The Boogie (12" Promo Remix)
12. Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
13. Ljósin í bænum - Disco Frisco (Icelandic disco-act, sort of a studio project featuring members of fusion band Mezzoforte as session musicians - sound sample here: http://tonlist.is/PlayTra...&Preview=1

Disc 2 (Post-DISCO)

1. Donna Summer - I Feel Love
2. Taana Gardner - Heartbeat (Club Version)
3. Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
4. Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out
5. Laid Back - White Horse
6. Logg - I Know You Will (Original 12 inch Remix)
7. Skyy - Superlove
8. Imagination - Just An Illusion (Extended version)
9. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
10. Liquid Liquid - Cavern
11. Arthur Russell - Go Bang
[Edited 4/8/07 10:15am]

If you make a third disc,here's some songs you might wanna consider:

"Try It Out" by Gino Soccio (1981)
"I'm Ready" by Kano (1980)
"All Night Thing" by Invisble Man's Band (1980)
"Love Has Come Around" by Donald Byrd (1982)
"Anybody Wanna Party?" by Gloria Gaynor (1979)
"I'll Tell You" by Sergio Mendes (1979)
"Over Like A Fat Rat" by Fonda Rae (1982)
"Stage Fright" by Chic (1981)
"Rapture" by Blondie (1980)
"Fate" by Chaka Khan (1981)
"Don't You Want My Love" by Debbie Jacobs (1979)
"Hangin Out" by Kool and The Gang (1979)
"Get On The Floor" by Michael Jackson (1979)
"The Real Thing" by Brothers Johnson (1981)
"Why Leave Us Alone" by Five Special (1979)
"Love's Comin At Cha" by Melba Moore (1982)
"So Fine" by Howard Johnson (1982)
"Mandolay" by La Flavour (1979)
"I Like What You're Doing To Me" by Young and Company (1980)
"Remote Control" by the Reddings (1980)
"Overnight Sensation" by Jerry Knight (1980)

As you can see,I picked alot of "not-too-obvious" songs Sometimes,I get tired of the well-known songs too.I wanna hear the rare,forgotten stuff!

I also would highly reccomend Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" the 12" mix. That song always gets people to the floor.

If you need some more...

Dance With Me - Peter Brown
Funktown - Lipps INC.
Gett Off - Foxxy
Push-Push In The Bush - Musique
Let's Start II Dance - Hamilton Bohannon

A couple of off the wall choices for the "Disco" section.

Cerrone's Paradise - Cerrone
Keep On Jumpin' - Musique


tA

Tribal Disorder

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SoulAlive said:

theAudience said:

Oh hell yeah! One of my favorite disco jams

keep on jumpin'
let your body fly
everybody pumpin'
til you see the sun in the sky

This song is fast and relentless!

The Hustle - Van McCoy

Thanx a lot to everyone who suggested stuff that I could use... I decided to make a 3rd disc, using some of the suggestions I got from here and I added some other stuff as well... Granted, there might be a bit too much of Donna Summer here, but I guess she HAS to be a big part of any serious disco party. Also, there are some songs on there that might not technically be "disco", like "Rapper's Delight" for instance, but the music in "Rapper's Delight" is an interpretation of a Chic song, so I decided to include it anyway.

So here's my 3rd CD (DISCO FRISCO):

1. Lipps Inc. - Funkytown (12")
2. Donna Summer - Bad Girls
3. Peter Brown - Dance With Me
4. Debbie Jacobs - Don't You Want My Love
5. Musique - Push Push in the Bush
6. Prince - Just As Long As We're Together (Disco Mix)
7. Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight (7.00 Edit)
8. Cerrone - Cerrone's Paradise´
9. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell (12 ")
10. Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing
11. Blondie - Rapture
12. Boney M - Daddy Cool
13. Donna Summer - Our Love (a cover version of the song in Icelandic was very popular in the mid-90s and has been redone by other local artists several times since. I included the original since the cover version is more new-wave/rock oriented)

purplehippieonthe1 said:

the majority of it sounds like a Bar/bat Mitzvah at club med..

if you make a 4th disc heres what 2 play

paradise-change(1981)
out of touch-hall and oates(1984)
get into the groovw-madonna(1985)
behind the groove-teena marie(1981)
groovin you-harvey mason(1980)
smack dab in the middle-janice mcclain(1980)
swept away-diana ross(1985)
shake it up tonight-cheryl lynn(1981)
lets start the dance-bohannon(1982)
only you-teddy pendergrass(1978)
lets get it together-el coco(1979)
dreamin a dream-crown heights affair(1975)
i just want to be-cameo(1978)
not just knee deep-funkadelic(1977)
chechez la femme-dr buzzard original savannah band(1976)
brickhouse-the commodores(1977)
give it to me-rick james(1981)
together forever(house mix)-rick astley
devotion/thats the way love is-ten city
set it off-strafe
gotta have house music-marshall jefferson
love is the messege-mfsb
jam on it-newcleaus
break 4 love-raze
smooth criminal-michael jackson
is it in/spank-jimmy bo horne
controversy-prince
walking on sunshine-eddy grant
music is my life-patti labelle
music is the answer-colonel abrams
pull up to the bumper/nipple to the bottle/im not perfect-grace jones
clouds/im every women-chaka khan
brand new lover/you spin me around-dead or alive
jungle love/get it up-the time
let the music play/give me tonight-shannon
trans europe express/numbers/computer world-kraftwork
dance(disco heat)/you make me feel mighty real-sylvester
victim-candi staton
back in love again-ltd
who is he and what is he to you-creative source
down to love town-the originals
static-james brown
watching you -loose ends
my perrogative-bobby brown
the glow of love-change
dynamite-stacy lattisaw
my love is free-double exposure
dreamin/hit and run-loleatta holloway
love thang/the player/let no man put asunder-first choice
love sensation-loleatta holloway
relight my fire/instant replay-dan hartman
everybody everybody/i dont want nobody else-blackbox
get up and boogie/fly robin fly-silver convention
this time baby-jackie moore

Din Da Da - George Kranz
Perfect Beat & Planet Rock - Soul Sonic Force

purplehippieonthe1 said:

Am I invited to the party?..sounds great!
[Edited 4/11/07 15:02pm]

babooshleeky said:

Yes, of course.
One question though, will you be wearing disco hotpants?

ditch the prince songs, the madonna song, the kajagoogoo and the lipps inc songs and you will have an awesome party.

omg I love lets all chant! we had the extended mix on record when I was little and the way the percussion built up was so impressive to me as a 5 year old that I would start making that beat with my mouth or the table and tell my dad to add in the other sounds I could only find the edited version on limewire but it was pure magic! However I think we have it dubbed over a family vacation video, gonna go listen to it now