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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:39:16 AM EDT
[#1]
like emo, with a better beat
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:40:19 AM EDT
[#2]
What are "disco people"?
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:43:43 AM EDT
[#3]
Still is!!
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:43:59 AM EDT
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The ones who bought into the lifestyle....wide collars, bellbottoms, platform shoes, listening to the music and going out to clubs. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:44:32 AM EDT
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I'n no fan of disco, but anything would have had a hard time coming after the golden age of rock. Compared to the crappy 80's cocaine & synthesizers music disco isn't so bad.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:45:32 AM EDT
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I went to high school in the late 70's. I was more into saying Disco Sucks since I was into the evils of rock n roll.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:45:48 AM EDT
[#7]
Cool at the time, lame in hindsight.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:46:24 AM EDT
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I dug disco for about a week or two. I was in High School
so I was into everything for about a week or two  Sergio Valente jeans for evereyone!  Anybody have advertisement pics of these fine threads? |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:47:07 AM EDT
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Oh, you mean people who liked disco at the time and went out to the clubs? They're in their late 40s at least, for the most part. I don't know anyone that talks about that time anymore or listens to the music. Well sometimes I hear that stuff at weddings, but that's with people younger than me and it's played as a joke. Disco may have seemed cool at the time (I was a little young for that) but probably lots of stuff seemed cool when you were pumped to the gills with cocaine. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:48:37 AM EDT
[#10]
I long for those simpler, innocent, beautiful, coked-up times.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:50:21 AM EDT
[#11]
 me too
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:51:42 AM EDT
[#12]
I wore out my "DISCO SUCKS" tee shirt. It was a well manipulated trend. "Saturday Nite Fever", polyester, platform shoes. Lots of girly guys that liked to dance. Whatever. I was in a rock band at the time.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:54:28 AM EDT
[#13]
That pretty much sums up "popular culture" since the, oh, late Stone Age or so. 
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:55:45 AM EDT
[#14]
That's what I'm talking about (except for the cocaine). Some people were so caught up with it and thought it was the coolest thing and those who thought it was lame were thought of as uncool...but history proved them correct. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:56:29 AM EDT
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IMO - with the caveat that I was only 10 or 11 when the disco craze finally died - it was a decent music trend with a stupid lifestyle attached to it. I own no disco albums but I have to admit that the production values on some of those records was excellent.
/rock and roll! |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:59:20 AM EDT
[#16]
Everything had the same "clapping" noise in it. I'm not a musician, but I think it was a 1-2 beat.
The worst part about is that you still here it in a lot of rap and urban music. Disco was really like smallpox on the face of music. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:59:30 AM EDT
[#17]
 Lame. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 10:00:43 AM EDT
[#18]
I think dogs were fairly safe during the disco era. Not so much so with hip-hop and rap.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 10:11:12 AM EDT
[#19]
I still like some of the music. It's neat having something that everyone is into and clubs where you know girls will be and you know how to act when you got there because you saw the movie. I did it in the '90s with the cowboy / line dancing. I worked a bar at a club, drank for free, learned and even taught some line dances and partied with coked-up waitresses at 6am on Sunday. The country music was actually pretty good then too. I bought two country discs and kept them in my car for the girls who visited the bar and didn't want to go home.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 10:12:12 AM EDT
[#20]
Millions of years from now, alien archeaologists will conclude that Abba marked the pinnacle of human civilization and culture.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 10:13:29 AM EDT
[#21]
Disco sucked right out of the box.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 10:22:27 AM EDT
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Disco was a "lite" version of Funk and was promoted by gay record producers and gay nightclub owners. Google "Wham" or "George Michael" if you don't believe me.
Believe it or not, some people actually danced to disco music without being coked out. 
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Posted: 4/18/2006 10:28:08 AM EDT
[#23]
It was better than some of the other popular shit around that time. Remember "Starland Vocal Band"?
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Posted: 4/18/2006 11:00:58 AM EDT
[#24]
I lived it!!!.................it was cool..............it was fun...............the girls were fun!
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Posted: 4/18/2006 11:10:20 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/18/2006 11:15:35 AM EDT
[#26]
I was 15 years too late for disco, but based on the documentaries you see about Studio 79, didn't women throw leg a lot more readily back then....and before AIDS?
Oh, and they didn't shave/wax the beaver back then, either. That may be a separate poll topic. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 11:16:20 AM EDT
[#27]
It launched the career of John Travolta--you decide.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 11:21:00 AM EDT
[#28]
It taught a lot of drummers how to hit the open high hat on "+"
boom-chick-boom-chick-boom-boom-boom-boom-chick...... Imagine where Neil Peart would be without that Seriously, it did give us Earth Wind & Fire and Chic. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 4:56:14 PM EDT
[#29]
Disco was DANCE MUSIC, purposely made, or modified, to be more suitable for the dance club environment than the 3-minute pop songs of the era. To compare Disco to (what we now call Classic-) Rock is to completely misunderstand its roots. How many dance clubs could survive playing Zepplin & Pink Floyd? The REAL problem with Disco is that it was one of the first fads of the modern era, and was siezed upon first by the record industry, who were seeing Rock sales sliding, and later by marketers of every sort, looking for a "feel good" fad to lift people out of the Carter Malaise. This resulted in Disco being FAR over-hyped and over-done, to the point where tons of non-Disco artists were coerced into making a "disco record" and "disco fashions" (most of which weren't) were declared to be "the in thing" and pushed everywhere. It wasn't the big-city dance clubs that pushed Disco into the white suburbs and TV, it was the record companies, fashion companies, and marketing departments throughout LA, Chicago, and New York. By the time of Disco's peak popularity, most of the originators had left it behind, and many of the early "Disco clubs" were closed or had changed their client-base dramatically. Most of the true Disco music is good music for what it was intended: the dance floor. It wasn't ever intended to be music that was played on the radio or in movies. But it's the Frank Sinatra and Olivia Newton-John "disco records" (to name a few examples) that were the real problem, and why there is still so much animosity towards Disco. -Troy |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 5:01:13 PM EDT
[#30]
That reminds me of a rock station in Denver having a "smash-a-thon" every Friday night of disco records. Hilarious. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 5:13:01 PM EDT
[#31]
The people that hate/hated it are the ones who could not dance, period.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 5:35:20 PM EDT
[#32]
One of the most inspiring moments in Michigan history is the disturbance at Tiger Stadium. As Bob Seger said " Detroit , Michigan the home of Rock and Roll".
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Posted: 4/18/2006 7:14:16 PM EDT
[#33]
Disco never died in gay bars....
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Posted: 4/18/2006 7:15:14 PM EDT
[#34]
teh ghey
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Posted: 4/18/2006 7:18:31 PM EDT
[#35]
DISCO SUCKED!
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Posted: 4/18/2006 7:20:29 PM EDT
[#36]
I was born in '86. Disco music to me is, well okay. It's not bad, but it's not great.
I'm more of a rock and roll person. The disco lifestyle is a little weird but that's just me. I was born in the city that had the Disco Demolition Rally in 1979. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 7:50:06 PM EDT
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I was driving through Maryland in the summer of 78 and I heard a radio ad. After playing some clips of the BGs the listener heard the announcer say this weekend you won't here this, after a another clip he came on and said you won't hear this tune either, yes here by popular demand we have scheduled a BGs free weekend. It was so well done, I laughed so hard I nearly ran off the road.
Just remember DISCO SUCKS!!!! Alvin |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 8:54:27 PM EDT
[#38]
Disco sucked then and still sucks. Thank God it was short lived (still too fucking long though). Disco albums made great targets and I destroyed many.
Disco Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:00:29 PM EDT
[#39]
But it was a million times better than Rap!!
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:00:43 PM EDT
[#40]
it was okay. Every era had it's dopey craze
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:02:56 PM EDT
[#41]
If you cannot listen to "Dancing Queen" without at least tapping your feet, I pity you!  |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:06:03 PM EDT
[#42]
It was a trend, just like watching "American Idol" is a trend now. Massively popular, but only a select group of folks did it or were into it.
It wasn't like people who 2 months before were listening to Rush & Zeppelin suddenly went polyester and started dancing down the fucking street. It was a goofy fad, just like the millions before and the millions after. The only people who find it cool now are the people too young to remember how gay it was when it was happening. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:06:27 PM EDT
[#43]
I wasn't around for it.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:07:06 PM EDT
[#44]
w00t! The avatar is back!!
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:10:28 PM EDT
[#45]
I missed it too much.
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:19:02 PM EDT
[#46]
We all did. Like we miss disco!
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:28:03 PM EDT
[#47]
ABBA is OK, in my book, and those chicks were kinda hot in a funky Swedish '70s way. I think the only thing worse than people who get a bit "too carried away with" a fad, are those "anti-fad" people who ridicule anything new, or especially anything old that was once "faddish." I have never dislike entire genres of music. I don't understand the mentality of those that do. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:36:11 PM EDT
[#48]
The music sucked,
The scene was smokin'. Major meat market, with the women dressed in tight lowcut silk stuff. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 9:55:56 PM EDT
[#49]
Hey, I still have that 45!!  "Afternoon Delight" Having been there and a teenager at the time, I have to say it was good for the teenagers. I have great memories of those times, maybe because I didn't have any polyester suits (just Marine cammies!) and never have used coke. Also I ditched the "stacks" and mongo bell-bottom jeans after high school along with all my hair! I still like to listen to some of it occasionally, but a little goes a long way. |
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Posted: 4/18/2006 10:05:26 PM EDT
[#50]
Well, we can see from the replies all those that can't dance.
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