Recommend me some good disco albums!!

are there any classic disco albums? ones that are good from start to finish?

not really an "album" genre

Saturday Night Fever?



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Love To Love You Baby?

only cuz that title song takes up all of side one? (see what i mean)

Off The Wall?

sosgemini said:

yes quite a few actually

I used to have a Sylvester album that had Make Me Feel Mighty Real, Disco Heat, Do You want to Funk etc. It doesn't seem to be available anymore, but any Sylvester Greatest Hits will do the job.

Also Madonna, Confessions on a dance floor.

Exetergirl said:

Madonna is not Disco....

Don ray-Garden of Love
France Joli's 1st album
Tuxedo Junction
Celi Bee and the Buzzy Bunch
Musique
Alec R.Constandinos-Romeo and Juliet

Assuming this one counts, it's my favorite:

AlexdeParis said:

Nah, that's not Disco in any form at all.

whatsgoingon said:

Oh, it definitely has disco elements. I think the best label I've heard it called is "soul/funk/disco." It's not hard to see the progression from this album to "Got to Give It Up."

Diana Ross-The Boss
Grace Jones-Portfolio
Village People-Village People
SalSoul Orchestra-The Salsoul Orchestra
PetShop Boys=Disco
Bt-ESCM
the soundtracks to Boogie Nights & Studio 54

Cinnie said:

Indeed! Indeed!

sosgemini said:

I'll list some of my favorite disco albums.These albums are consistent from beginning to end:

'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack (1977)
'Bad Girls' by Donna Summer (1979)
'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge (1978)
'C'est Chic' by Chic (1978)
'Disco Nights' by GQ (1979)
'Ladies Night' by Kool and The Gang (1979)
'Part 3' by KC and The Sunshine Band (1976)
'Mandolay' by La Flavour (1979)
'Love In C Minor' by Cerrone (1976)
'Risque' by Chic (1979)
'I Remember Yesterday' by Donna Summer (1977)
'Off The Wall' by Michael Jackson (1979)
'Fantasy Love Affair' by Peter Brown (1977)
'Love Tracks' by Gloria Gaynor (1978)

Cinnie said:

I disagree Look at my list above.

funkpill said:

The first two singles got all the attention ("Shake Your Groove Thing" and "Reunited") but I really dig the third single "We've Got Love",which went nowhere

AlexdeParis said:

Yeah, I really consider albums like this to be the "calm before the storm". This might not have a typical disco production, but it had the lushy horns and strings, sexual revolution aptitude, and alot of that classic macho bravado from Gaye.
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SoulAlive said:

Those albums are still different from "I want you". "I want you" was far too mellow to me to be called Disco.

And even OFF The Wall was it Disco in the true essence, it came out at the end of the Disco of era, and although alot of the stuff like Don't Stop and Burn This Disco out had a Disco feel, alot of the other songs had other genres running through it. Infact Smokey Robinson once said it was a Dance/pop/soul album with an underlying jazz tone running through the whole album. Quite frankly I would say the Destinyalbum was alot more Disco than OFF The Wall. In general I think it's all very subjective.
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Yeah,it's hard to decide if 'Off The Wall' can truly be considered a disco album.It was considered more of an R&B album.Still,certain tracks are obviously disco ("Rock With You",the title track).

SoulAlive said:

Just like I Want You, I think it's generally R&B influenced by disco. When disco was hot, it was influencing just about everything -- which is one of the reasons there was such a huge backlash. It was inescapable.

AlexdeParis said:

Indeed.You even had rock artists jumping on the disco bandwagon.By 1979,you couldn't escape disco.

IAintTheOne said:

I recently bought both of these CDs I wanna add some more 70s Eurodisco to my collection.

SoulAlive said:

i adore Love in C Minor

me too the album is like one long,dreamy suite

70s Disco Album Of The Day: 'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge

I always say that this is the best Chic album of all It's a stronger album than Chic's own 'Risque' album,which came out the same year."He's The Greatest Dancer" is a heavenly disco classic,as is the title track.There's also the hypnotic third single "Lost In Music".Many people adore the track "Thinking Of You",a song that also could have been a single.Another noteworthy gem is the last song "One More Time".You can't go wrong with this album....there's absolutely no filler.Every song is top-notch.So much for the silly notion that disco albums contain only one or two good tracks and alot of filler.

I'd also recommend you check out A Taste Of Honey's second album 'Another Taste'.Released in the summer of '79,this is a very good album.The first single "Do It Good" is waaaayyyy funkier than "Boogie Oogie Oogie".It puts that earlier hit to shame.The girls also hit pay dirt with the dreamy,string-laden disco jam "Dance".