The lyrics were usually terrible but Disco was/is Great music.
The use of strings and horns along with the deep bass and fast beat made it really special. The vocals were usualy good too, just bad lyrics. The negative things said about Disco was mainly because Blacks and Hispanics were buying and recording it. Also after a while everybody and his brother made some really bad music trying to cash in on the trend. Disco was KILLING rock sales and a lot of people were very resentful. Disco is still around it's just changed a little and been renamed "House"
House is slower with deeper bass and not as many strings or horns. It's kind of a stripped down version of Disco but it's still played in a lot of clubs.

joseph8 said:

Well you're wrong there about disco. It's still alive with new material coming out endlessly.

And the way you pass off house as being almost a sideline genre is quite humorous. The house scene exploded and took over the UK music scene quite a few years ago, itself splitting and forming with other new styles that appeared during, and after, the rave period.

I know a little about house having clubbed my fucking ass off during the Second Summer of Love right up until the scene died with the commercialisation of trance. They were sad times. Imagine hearing a trance version of the X Files being played in what was once your favourite club. That's when I knew that period was over.

Best Disco acts of all time

donna summer
rod stewart
bee gees
kc & sunshine band


hmm, I never associated disco with being gay. I never even knew gays liked disco until I grew up and started learning more about the music genre and its' popularity in the 70s. To me its just about the music and people's need to dance and escape life's doldrums - kind of like drugs at that time. With that said, not only am I surprised by how much gay folk liked disco, I'm equally surprised by the so called "disco backlash" that happened. I was watching some VH1 special and all these people, mostly white, were gathered at some football stadium trashing disco records. Utterly bizzare.