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PrintablePshhh, I loved rock and disco. What I hated were all those automated radio stations playing bad prerecorded garbage disco 24 hours per day in the late 70s that was nothing like the disco music that came before... I called it Disco Muzak. "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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No DJs, no shows, no more good disco... That's when I started listening to college and independent radio stations that weren't stuck in that robotic cookie cutter format. That's what killed disco and drove the real thing underground to morph into other forms of music. But I still love the classic "real" disco of the '70s.
Are you talking about Eurodisco? A lot of what was called disco was really R&B and funk. Which is why many Top 40 pop stations began to play less R&B after the riot at the baseball game. To those stations R&B = disco. When MTV began, they wouldn't play much R&B either unless it was by white artists like Hall & Oates. There's an interview David Bowie did on MTV and called them out on it. CBS Records threatened to take all of their artists off the channel if they didn't show Billie Jean. Which would have been popular acts like Journey & Bruce Springsteen You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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The crap they played on the automated radio stations was NOT R&B and funk. It was Disco Muzak. It had no resemblance to real R&B and Funk at all, which I love. Pure garbage. [Edited 1/7/21 11:42am] "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Yep...they referred to it as "n****r" or "f*****" music. Disco became such a hated word, radio stations started calling it dance music (at least here in NYC) around 1981/82. I remember that well... Though here’s the irony- the most racist Italians I grew up around and went to school with, like the ones that killed Yusuf Hawkins in Brooklyn- absolutely LOVED Disco and R&B . A similar situation in England around the same time- racist skinheads who listened to tons of Reggae music. #SOCIETYDEFINESU | |
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Even locally, I remember people that listened to disco prior to the backlash and after the backlash, they all of a sudden hated disco overnight. It's like they didn't have a mind of their own and were told not to like it so they no longer liked it. And they used to make the most racist and homophobic remarks concerning disco.