Disco Music

[Pryderi]

Poll question: Disco Music

Do you love, hate, like or have no opinion?

[Pool Hall Ace]

1. Just like any genre, it has its good and bad.

I always saw the point of disco music was to get you on your feet and dancing. Not all music has to be deep. However, there have been plenty of crappy disco songs that had me changing the station.

[Pryderi]

2. I agree. I don't need music to have a message in order for me to enjoy it. n/t

[BurtWorm]

3. I used to secretly like.

Now I just like.

[begin_within]

4. I think of it as just novelty music.

Fun for a few minutes of silly dancing but not to sit down and listen to.

[Pryderi]

5. It's good "work out" music...

[AsahinaKimi]

6. In Japan they have a form of Disco called PARA PARA

Night of Fire (The Hinoi team shows you what it is)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dzz8cyQUu80/S0Dg_yNeNvI/AAAAAAAABBU/ZFwPT5ueoqk/s320/Hinoi+Team+-+Night+Of+Fire.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iIwJdQDcSA

and Ike Ike also Para Para
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYqjeB7Q-g4&feature=related

[Urban Prairie]

7. Going to discotheques was enjoyable in the mid-late70s

I had my very own version of Charlie's Angels to chaperone at them on occasion, they were my younger sister and her two girlfriends. All three were very attractive, and my sister looked very much like Jacklyn Smith, maybe even more beautiful. The girls used me as a means to discourage guys whom they did not want to dance with, that became too obnoxious or persistent after they were turned down.

I preferred rock and roll music to disco, but IMO, most of the girls who went to discotheques were always dressed to the "nines". I rarely saw girls at rock & roll themed bars who would be wearing a dress. The ratio of girls to guys was always much better at discos as well.

[Skittles]

8. I absolutely DETESTED disco with a few exceptions

Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Donna Summer managed to do Disco with STYLE

[MrSlayer]

9. Hated it when it was out but compared to the so-called dance music of today it wasn't so bad.

At least they actually played instruments, though the lyrics were nearly as inane.

[Archae]

10. Disco is just plain FUN!

No big heavy message like "Four Dead In Ohio," no pseudo-profound gibberish like "Horse With No Name," just having fun.

I still can't dance. But I love the tunes.
We used to laugh our heads off at the Village People.

[donheld]

11. Just

Someone left the cake out in the rain :D and I'll never have that recipe again

[Canuckistanian]

12. Hated it

Hated the music. Hated the clothes. Hated the hairstyles. Hated the culture.

I used to listen to the morning guys on our FM rock station. They did a thing called "Disco Destruction" They would start playing a disco song, then about 20 sec into it, grab the tonearm and begin grinding it into the record. Then they smashed the record.
The they said "And you'll NEVER hear that record AGAIN on this station".

It was the highlight of my day.

Oh, and did I mention that I hated disco?

[PJPhreak]

14. We said it then,

And it still holds true today...

[elshiva]

13. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_h3fTLn_l3pA/SwmkC0zzyLI/AAAAAAAABi4/OXHvOKCw5z4/s1600/donna+summer+-+once+upon+a+time.jpg

[kwassa]

17. Donna Summers has a great singing voice, but she was stereotyped by disco

which trapped her and prevented her from a wider career, I think.

[bluesbassman]

15. Disco is to music what Etch A Sketch is to art.

Seriously though, like all music genres there was some really good, and some really bad Disco. Most of it fell kinda in the middle. Got people dancing so that isn't too bad a thing. :)

[HopeHoops]

16. I still have my "Death Before Disco" shirt from the late 70's.

My middle daughter wore it when she shadowed the DJ from our classic rock station (school assignment). He even let her do some of the announcements including the closing piece.

[kwassa]

18. Disco was a producer's medium, not an artist's medium

and everything came out sounding exactly the same, with the same exact drum line to it.

There were about five or six memorable, actual songs, the rest really were poor excuses.

best song: "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35FqbbZWPsM

[gmoney]

25. Heard "Don't Leave Me This Way" a couple weeks ago... highly dysfunctional relationship there

Um-hm-hm... aah ah ah...
Don't leave me this way
I can't survive, can't stay alive
Without your love, oh baby
Don't leave me this way, no
I can't exist, I'll surely miss your tender kiss
Don't leave me this way

Aaah baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
Now come on down and do what you gotta do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can't you see it's burning out of control
Come on (now) satisfy the need in me
Only your good lovin' can set me free... hey

Don't, don't you leave me this way, no
Don't you understand I'm at your command
Oh baby please, please don't leave me this way

Need your lovin' baby, need need your love right now...
Your love is so important to me... got to have it...
('Cause it would be wrong
To string me along a love so true)

[muffin1]

19. Love it!

I think it's more of a "coming of age" thing for me. I was in my late teens when it was all the rage. First real date, real kiss, and real boyfriend during that time.

For me, disco evokes good memories of being a teenager and having "adult fun" away from wicked stepmother.

[NoGOPZone]

20. Ninety five percent of disco was utter garbage

which makes it the same as all other forms of popular culture.

[Iggo]

21. I like it better now than I did then. (n/t)

[billyclem]

22. Loathe would be a better fit for me.

I am in my '60s and have broad tastes in music, disco has never been part of it. Just the sound of disco music is enough to bring on a sense of loathing that makes me want to either stop the source or get out of hearing range. Either way an antidote is required. The best one that I have found is 'Chronometer' by Harrison Birtwistle. It is an electronic composition based on the recordings of about 100 clocks, including Big Ben. It will chase away all remnants of disco. This recording was a pleasant surprise as I bought the album for the other side, his 'Triumph of Time' symphony by the London Symphony Orch. This was his first venture into electronic/synthesized music.

At the other end of my musical tastes, my grandkids call me a rusty old metalhead. Go figure.

:bounce:

[bigwillq]

23. Shiny Disco Balls! I love it!!

:bounce:

[joeybee12]

24. Who are the barbarians who DIDN'T vote for LOVE?????

History of music:

Mozart

Beethoven

Donna Summer.