brooksie said:

I don't like those type of docus, they put everything into everything. I rather just have them talk about the music or at least one musician in their docus but they hardly ever do that except a few times (Left Eye, Bruce Springsteen).

I never thought of The Stones' "Miss You" as disco, just a killer groove. Was it considered disco back then?

brooksie said:

Yeah it was. I don't know what's really "disco" about it, it's a cool funk joint tho. It was still pretty much rock 'n' roll, you could call it "dancey blues music".

Thanks for the correction, Harle, lol. It IS funk, lol.
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"Miss You" is straight up funk.

Harlepolis said:

Harlepolis said:

Hey Harle...your posts surely provoked much thought and great posts. Do you have any disco comps or anything you'd like to suggest to us? I'm always on the look out for something new.

Your enthusiasm is gonna to have folks pulling out their disco joints

Yup...I always thought of "Miss You" as a hot funk cut. I rock that one out often.

Even though I love disco, I adore ITS baby. The early 80s post-disco movement.

The movement that gave us Jacques Fred Petrus, Terry Lewis & Jimmy Jam, Mic Murphy, Kashif and the cats that Jay mentioned already, Leroy Burgess & Leon Sylvers.

Aside from Prince & Slick Rick, because those guys are on a league of their own

Well rock out now:



This is what I call "Funk music at the blues juke joint".

Timmy84 said:

Yes!!! This is!! Joan Osborn, stole the HELL out of this, for "Safety In Numbers", though.

Harlepolis said:

I've been trying to tell ya'll Leroy Burgess is that dude

He was the writer/producer on alot of gems

http://www.leroyburgess.com/discog.stm

brooksie said:

OMG I had this album when I was a kid.

This I'm not done with reading this thread but this is excellent. I'm learning a lot here, especially on one of my favorite genres, Disco.

GOOD READ!

What a great clip! Now I gotta read the thread

It wouldn't be right doing a DISCO thread and a DIANA ROSS/CHIC thread WITHOUT posting the GOT DAMN SONG!!!!

Timmy84 said:

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SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

From page 1, right?

SCNDLS said:

Yes!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Yeah I know, right. Silly me.

Here's a couple of disco cuts I really dig, enjoy! 1978 and 1980, respectively.

bboy87 said:

Here's the divine Yvonne Elliman. Some kid recently did a cover, but here's the original. She was a fantastic singer. For many years she was Eric Clapton's back up singer in ROCK music. She was label mates w/ the BGs who wrote this. Her old man was a big muckety muck at RSO Records, but she has chops.



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Unfortunately, one of the greatest disco instrumentals hasn't been uploaded to YT, but it's MFBS' cut "K Jee" that was on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. This song used to be used on PBS to do their ads for the show "Cosmos". Cool, huh?

OH I KNOW Y'ALL JUST DIDN'T...

Hold on, I got something for y'all asses:



NOW TRY ME!

One of my earliest memories of living in the US was being at a 4th of July bbq and my mother making me perform this song for everybody.

So is this disco or not?

^^^^ I thought "Love Hangover" had been posted? It has one of the best intros ever, I was just listening to it.

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SCNDLS said:

Wanna switch mothers?

I remember singing,,,

Like A Virgin
Touched for the very 1st time

At 10 Momma damn near threw me from the roof

Girl, don't let me catch you EVER...
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No, Muscles wasn't disco, but it was a killer cut that was HUGE. MJ wrote it for Diana and claimed it was about his snake. Funny thing was, the snake was famous too!

Harlepolis said:

Damn.

The funny thing is that as strict as she was when it came to music she let me do my own thing and didn't supervise what I bought at all. I bought 1999 when I was 9 or 10 then proceeded to purchase every Prince album/single i could get. I even hung up the shower poster over my bed but under my canopy. It was months before she noticed it and she never said a word. It stayed up til high school. She did however take a perverse pleasure in telling everyone that came to the house that Prince was my boyfriend.