funkadelic11 said:

because they sucks, actually they killed disco !

They killed disco ???? How...????

Stayin' Alive is the definition of Disco itself..... it's the disco signature song, maybe along with Y.M.C.A., Hot Stuff, Le Freak, Knock On Wood, I Will Survive.

and along with Bee Gees classics....

How Deep Is Your Love,

Jive Talkin'

Night Fever,

You Should Be Dancing,

More Than A Woman,

Tragedy,

Love You Inside Out

and even more.

Let's not forget

To Love Somebody

They didn't kill disco. Disco is still alive. Dammit some folks deserve to go to Music 101. I swear.

Graycap23 said:

Hated? I never heard that one before.

They were good at what they did.

I think people decided one day they hated disco, and the Bee Gees represented disco to many folks.

But you are right, if you like that type of music, you can't deny they did it really well.

Timmy84 said:

They didn't kill disco. Disco is still alive. Dammit some folks deserve to go to Music 101. I swear.

even when disco was "out" in the 80's people were still playing Stayin' Alive as a joke and secretly loving it!

Who hates the Heebee Jeebees? Never heard that one before. They're great and I love them.

The disco era was heap big fun for me! Lots of great songs, fashion and dancing...disco dancing was the best,

NDRU said:

Timmy84 said:

They didn't kill disco. Disco is still alive. Dammit some folks deserve to go to Music 101. I swear.

even when disco was "out" in the 80's people were still playing Stayin' Alive as a joke and secretly loving it!

If they REALLY hate it, they turned it off.

vainandy pretty much summed it up. But overall, great responses from everyone.

Love their falsetto harmonies.They had good hooks to their songs.....

Harlepolis said:

TD3 said:

P.S. Some Black artist/musicians never liked Disco either.

Stop that disco music, play my favorite song

Another troubling factor you make a point by bringing the homophobic factor but Ms.Trina, we as a collective are not strangers to disowning a musical style once a music expression created by us get embraced by white people, lets be real.

I mean, rock & roll and blues were looked at with contempt when the 70s emerged and any black performer(who have the god giving right to sing that music) gets the side-eye whenever she or he dabbles on that style.

Of course, not all black people feel this way, but the bulk of them do,,,,,remember that Dave Chappelle skit where only white people supposedly love hearing the guitar while black folks love hearing the drums? And thats only for comedic affect, I have heard with my very own ears that Jimi Hendrix' music is "white people's music". If there were quotations above my head, you'll see clouds of "WTFs" floating around, child

I don't recall Black people as a whole disowning or walking away from Disco because white mainstream embraced it. I recall many walked away from it because the record industry ran the genre into the damn ground. When they started taking songs such as Diana Ross, Mahogany and Waylon Jennings, If You Could Read My Mind and hitching it to the same repetitive, formulaic and banal beat, that's when "we" moved on to "house music". A reminder to those of use (including me) who get our bras and BVD's in a tight when speaking of rappers and sampling. In many ways Disco was a specific time and place that burned hot and cooled down. Rockabelle, Doo Wap, specific styles within a genre came and went leaving behind and influencing the continuum.

As far a Rock & Roll & the Blues I don't think those two music genre's can be spoken in the same context. The African American's attitude about the Blues has always been one of ambivalence. I think we must speak who disavowed what because it appears to me it ran along generational lines and for 2 main reasons: 1) Blues was seen as the devils music. 2) Post World War Black's and specifically Blacks who moved up North from the South, saw Blues as a reminder of the humiliation, oppression and violence. There was a scene in Wattstax documentary I recall a brotha (maybe early 40's) saying, "you know the Blues is dead." I heard him saying, those days of use shuffling along wailing and moaning about or sorrows and pains are over. Though I would argue the blues was saying so much more, many in my generation equated the blues with a time and place where black people knew and kept their place . . . they didn't want to be reminded of it or speak of it. Where blues musicians feeling hurt? Yes, bitterly so.

To my original point about Black artist/musicians not liking Disco, the era knocked or pushed aside quite a few of our established artist to the sideline, some just didn't like the music. Still I'm convinced it saved some careers such as Diana Ross. His name escapes me now but he - was a well known and well regarded musician, songwriter, producer - who couldn't stand Disco but would latter embrace Rap music in it's infancy. This gentleman wrote piece in the Village Voice that ripped Disco so, Donna Summer would've lost her voice.

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Love their falsetto harmonies.They had good hooks to their songs.....

I've thought that Barry overdubbed himself in the studio when it came to the falsetto

They sounded totally different live

But still had good harmonies

funkpill said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Love their falsetto harmonies.They had good hooks to their songs.....

I've thought that Barry overdubbed himself in the studio when it came to the falsetto

They sounded totally different live

But still had good harmonies

I agree with that I saw them recently on Jimmy Fallon he is a fan of them also. They sung live they didn't sound the same. So there just a studio group. I agree about Barry overdubbing himself like Prince does.....But Prince sounds the same live....

Why's everyone only talking about the disco Bee Gees? What about the Beatle-esque Bee Gees? I'm trying to push to get rights to use "Lonely Days" in my indie movie... introduce a whole new audience to this forgotten treasure of songs... made before their disco days.

It's such an incredible song... listen to it!

I even have Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band recorded in HD! You know, with the Bee Gees... not that I think they're versions are superior in any way...

But I do love the Bee Gees.

ufoclub said:

Why's everyone only talking about the disco Bee Gees? What about the Beatle-esque Bee Gees? I'm trying to push to get rights to use "Lonely Days" in my indie movie... introduce a whole new audience to this forgotten treasure of songs... made before their disco days.

It's such an incredible song... listen to it!

I even have Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band recorded in HD! You know, with the Bee Gees... not that I think they're versions are superior in any way...

But I do love the Bee Gees.

I need to buy their greatest hits. Nice feel good music.

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One of the best movies ever!

Dewrede said:

^ go clean your ears

they composed some fantastic songs

outstanding harmonies etc

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you sounds like my ent-doctor !

she asked me one day if was hanging around to much in the disco in former times

i answered: no, i'm still in

thedance said:

funkadelic11 said:

because they sucks, actually they killed disco !

They killed disco ???? How...????

Stayin' Alive is the definition of Disco itself..... it's the disco signature song, maybe along with Y.M.C.A., Hot Stuff, Le Freak, Knock On Wood, I Will Survive.

and along with Bee Gees classics....

How Deep Is Your Love,

Jive Talkin'

Night Fever,

You Should Be Dancing,

More Than A Woman,

Tragedy,

Love You Inside Out

and even more.

i liked the bee gees also at that time, but i was a boy and i count it on my "bad-taste-era"

saturday night fever simply was an overdose of disco imo

every radio-station played it on and on, every disothek...

i just can't hear it anymore, same with some other songs of that era like

"i will survive" or "it's raining men" omg

and YMCA ? c'mon although i liked that as well once (i hope Dancelot is not around)

don't get me wrong, i love the 70's funk and there's a lot of good disco-stuff around, but i don't count the bee gees to them

listen to that for instance: car wash

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funkadelic11 said:

Dewrede said:

^ go clean your ears

they composed some fantastic songs

outstanding harmonies etc

[Edited 8/19/10 8:00am]

you sounds like my ent-doctor !

she asked me one day if was hanging around to much in the disco in former times

i answered: no, i'm still in

funkadelic11 said:

thedance said:

They killed disco ???? How...????

Stayin' Alive is the definition of Disco itself..... it's the disco signature song, maybe along with Y.M.C.A., Hot Stuff, Le Freak, Knock On Wood, I Will Survive.

and along with Bee Gees classics....

How Deep Is Your Love,

Jive Talkin'

Night Fever,

You Should Be Dancing,

More Than A Woman,

Tragedy,

Love You Inside Out

and even more.

i liked the bee gees also at that time, but i was a boy and i count it on my "bad-taste-era"

saturday night fever simply was an overdose of disco imo

every radio-station played it on and on, every disothek...

i just can't hear it anymore, same with some other songs of that era like

"i will survive" or "it's raining men" omg

and YMCA ? c'mon although i liked that as well once (i hope Dancelot is not around)

don't get me wrong, i love the 70's funk and there's a lot of good disco-stuff around, but i don't count the bee gees to them

listen to that for instance: car wash

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Hey

I agree with most of what you're saying but that is one of my all time fav

AndGodCreatedMe said:

Hey

I agree with most of what you're saying but that is one of my all time fav

which one ? don't dig it

Dewrede said:

by whom ?

they are great

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The question of the century?

Who hates the Bee Gees?

And why would they?

trickster said:

thedance said:

This is a fantastic album by BEE GEES:

"Spirits Having Flown" (1979)

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look at the picture you posted: THATS WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prince had that same look back in 79. What's wrong with it?

TonyVanDam said:

SoulAlive said:

The Bee Gees were unfairly blacklisted because of the disco backlash After the 'Spirits Having Flown' album,I didn't hear any of their singles on the radio.Ironically,other folks who were closely associated with disco (John Travolta,Donna Summer,Bernard Edwards and Niles Rodgers,etc) still continued to have success in the 80s.

Not so. the acting career of John Travoita was at an all time worst in the 1980's. The only thing that saved his career in the 1990's was Look Who's Talking? AND Pulp Fiction.

True dat. His career took a wrong turn with Urban Cowboy then went south .... fast with Blowout. Look Who's Talking did resurrect his career.

Timmy84 said:

JustErin said:

I never really realized how awesome they were until a few years ago when I actually listened to their music.

Brilliant, huh? Great lyrics, great vocal harmonies, they were something else!

While everyone was raving about their Disco hits, what really sold me as a little boy was "Too Much Heaven". Still one of my favorite "songs" of all time. Like you said the harmonies were off the chain.

I can't believe some people are seriously suggesting that disco music was not universally loved because people were being racist and homophobic. That is ludicrous.

The title and lyric of that famous Heebeegeebees track "Meaningless songs in very high voices" explains very well why I disliked 'disco' music and BeeGees in particular.

TheSkinMechanic said:

I can't believe some people are seriously suggesting that disco music was not universally loved because people were being racist and homophobic. That is ludicrous.

Yet the laughing stock was a trio of white brothers

dseann said:

trickster said:

look at the picture you posted: THATS WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prince had that same look back in 79. What's wrong with it?

Barry Gibb is STILL trying to rock that look

TheSkinMechanic said:

I can't believe some people are seriously suggesting that disco music was not universally loved because people were being racist and homophobic. That is ludicrous.

The title and lyric of that famous Heebeegeebees track "Meaningless songs in very high voices" explains very well why I disliked 'disco' music and BeeGees in particular.

You think it's ludicrous and you have every right to your opinion. I think many people are aware that some people disliked Disco NS/or the Bee Gee because they didn't like the music or them. Period, no shades of gray.

Even so (as always) race and sex has always played a part in every fiber of American culture and music didn't fly under it's radar. There was a blacklash, this thread address the reasons why and we've offered different opinions and observations.

PANDURITO said:

TheSkinMechanic said:

I can't believe some people are seriously suggesting that disco music was not universally loved because people were being racist and homophobic. That is ludicrous.

Yet the laughing stock was a trio of white brothers

Who sang in very high falsettos which a lot of people considered very "gay" sounding.