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« on: February 24, 2017, 10:10:27 AM »

I was watching TV today and they discussed the Disco Days.  What are your thoughts of the Disco Days?
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2017, 10:19:54 AM »

Diapers, learning to walk, moving to solid foods, starting elementary school towards the end of that era...

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2017, 10:22:07 AM »

The only disco songs I liked were Kiss's "I was Made for Lovin' You", and Blondie's "Rapture".
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2017, 10:28:33 AM »

Disco was probably the worst era of music in history.
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2017, 10:35:55 AM »

Past-Disco Sucked
Present-Disco Sucks
Future-Disco Shall Always Suck
 Roll Eyes
1976, Big Daddy's-Marina Del Rey, California.  Saturday night fever, no hope in sight, and the two o'clock desperation three story dance hall glances, dances, and romances.  Stoked, coked, and joked again by the folly of youth.  2funny  Oh how we learned the hard way!
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2017, 10:50:25 AM »

Don't know much about dancin'
That's why I got this song
One of my legs is shorter than the other
'N' both my feet's too long
'Course now right along with 'em
I got no natural rhythm
But I go dancin' every night
Hopin' one day I might get it right
I'm a dancin'fool, I'm a
Dancin' fool
I hear that beat; I jump outa my seat
But I can't compete, cause I'm a
Dancin' fool, I'm a
Dancin' fool

The disco folks all dressed up
Like they's fit to kill
I walk on in 'n' see 'em there
Gonna give them all a thrill
When they see me comin'
They all steps aside
They has a fit while I commit
My social suicide,

I'm a Dancin' fool,
I'm a Dancin' fool
The beat goes on
And I'm so wrong
The beat goes on
And I'm so wrong
The beat goes on'n'I'm so wrong
The beat goes on 'n' I'm so wrong
The beat goes on 'n' I'm so wrong
I may be totally wrong, but I'm a
Dancin'fool, I'm a
Dancin' fool

Yowsa, yowsa, yowsa

I got it all together now
With my very own disco clothes, hey!
My shirt's half open, t'show you my chains
'N' the spoon for up my nose
I am really somethin'
That's what you'd prob'ly say
So smoke your little smoke
Drink your little drink
While I dance the night away, I'm a
Dancin'fool, I'm a
Dancin'fool, efc., [etc.]

I may be totally wrong but I'm a
I may be totally wrong but I'm a
I may be totally wrong but I'm a FOOL-uh!

Hey, darlin'... can I buyya a drink?
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I've got it... you're an Italian! Hah?
Yer Jewish?
Love your nails ... you must be a Libra... Your place or mine?
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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2017, 10:54:28 AM »

Some of the music was O K. Didn't go outa my way to go to a disco joint. Wore Bell Bottoms in the service and for a SHORT while on civy street.  uglystupid2 Do NOT have a hankerin to go back!  tickedoff RIDE SAFE.
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« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2017, 11:03:04 AM »


Before they tore it down, they turned the old Greenville Textile Hall into a disco joint.
I went there because that's where Sharon Paradowski was  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2017, 11:05:07 AM »

Disco was probably the worst era of music in history.

Rap/Hip-Hop says "Hold my beer and watch this!"

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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2017, 11:10:27 AM »

Disco was probably the worst era of music in history.


Rap music has proven that Disco wasn't as bad as we thought that it was.
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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2017, 11:12:40 AM »


Before they tore it down, they turned the old Greenville Textile Hall into a disco joint.
I went there because that's where Sharon Paradowski was  Roll Eyes

-Mike
Yes, there was a "Sharon Paradowski" everywhere...and elusive...everywhere.  She's still out there, somewhere and tormenting some other young buck.  Songs, books, and poems are still being written about her.  Ain't it great? coolsmiley
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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2017, 11:12:57 AM »

Lets just say that I was glad when Travolta made Urban Cowboy, and the music craze switched from the dreaded Disco to Country..... and subsequently all those single gals started dressing up as cowgirls and frequenting the bars & clubs I was accustomed to hanging out in. Grin Grin  
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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2017, 11:14:36 AM »


Before they tore it down, they turned the old Greenville Textile Hall into a disco joint.
I went there because that's where Sharon Paradowski was  Roll Eyes

-Mike

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« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2017, 11:16:40 AM »

Polyester,  John Revolting,  Saturday Night Fever that never broke. Like I always used to say sometimes,  disco sucked.   cooldude  
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« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2017, 11:17:53 AM »


Before they tore it down, they turned the old Greenville Textile Hall into a disco joint.
I went there because that's where Sharon Paradowski was  Roll Eyes

-Mike

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I'm not sure if I got the math right, but I think she was five then  coolsmiley

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« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2017, 11:20:45 AM »

Disco was probably the worst era of music in history.

Without a doubt. I liked the Bee Gees till they went disco.
Remember when Steve Dahl had that fracas in the stadium in Chicago and burned disco records and it got out of hand and almost destroyed the stadium

And     Rap is not music in my book. Its Crap
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« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2017, 11:47:23 AM »

Myself! Disco was a new adventure for me; I liked some of the trick beats of the music. I don’t know about your area, but around here, it seemed to be somewhat positive time, it was a self- health conscience time.  People dressed nice, the ladies were hot, and you actually had to know how to dance, not like to toady.  Now a days, people dance like washing machines, back and forth, repetitively.  Allot of Ego though, you had to look and act your best.  I liked the music, it seemed happier than now of days. Allot of good memories!  But everything must evolve and we move on.
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« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2017, 12:41:31 PM »

I like Disco.  He's a nice guy and great to share wind with.



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« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2017, 01:27:46 PM »

The only disco songs I liked were Kiss's "I was Made for Lovin' You", and Blondie's "Rapture".
Wasnt the song I was made for loving you done by Paul Stanley on his solo album?
So technically not KISS. I was and am a huge fan.
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« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2017, 03:53:51 PM »

Disco was probably the worst era of music in history.

Without a doubt. I liked the Bee Gees till they went disco.
Remember when Steve Dahl had that fracas in the stadium in Chicago and burned disco records and it got out of hand and almost destroyed the stadium

And     Rap is not music in my book. Its Crap


Out of many memories from that era this may be my biggest.  First off I was living in Detroit suburbs at that time in summer of 79.  The Detroit Tigers were playing the White Sox in a double header that night.  I worked nights and always had the Tigers game on the radio.  I had heard of the promotion being a card carrying member of DREAD at that time.  DREAD was Detroit Rockers Engaged in the Abolition of Disco,  certainly a most worth cause at that time. Along with Steve Dahl the eccentric White Sox owner, Bill Veeck signed off  on this.  Just come to Comiskey Park with 98 cents and a Disco record to blow up in between games. They may have had the largest crowd to ever see a White Sox game in Comiskey.  Then the hoodlums stormed the field for 40 minutes and tore it all to hell.  In the end the White Sox had to forfeit the second game, Tigers won the double header, and that promotion to a great part ushered in the  end the Disco era.  

Now if anyone can just come up with a similar promotion that will bring the Rap era to an end, I am all in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP1751wJA
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« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2017, 04:00:41 PM »

Recall!  I have to see if I still have my DREAD card.  Forgot about that, even though I was a card holder, I still like some the Disco music.
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« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2017, 04:39:38 PM »

I like Disco.  He's a nice guy and great to share wind with.





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« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2017, 04:46:12 PM »

Yeah Disco is a good dude of course being from Texas he got a head start

I was never afraid to get on the dance floor when I was young and stupid and lets face it, chicks love to dance especially the bodacious ones.

Wasnt sad to see disco run its course but rap, it aint music to me when all I hear is f this or niga that   it pisses me off to be honest

I'll admit that I play a version of KC and the Sunshine Band on my android thru the earpieces when waiting on the tarmac during rollout and takeoff, it calms my nerves  much in the way that The song remains the same, and Eminence Front at max volume mellows me out climbing mountains on the Valkyrie at WOT

Yeah I know I am different ride up the mounatin fast come back down slower
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« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2017, 04:53:51 PM »

Yeah Disco is a good dude of course being from Texas he got a head start

I was never afraid to get on the dance floor when I was young and stupid and lets face it, chicks love to dance especially the bodacious ones.

Wasnt sad to see disco run its course but rap, it aint music to me when all I hear is f this or niga that   it pisses me off to be honest

I'll admit that I play a version of KC and the Sunshine Band on my android thru the earpieces when waiting on the tarmac during rollout and takeoff, it calms my nerves  much in the way that The song remains the same, and Eminence Front at max volume mellows me out climbing mountains on the Valkyrie at WOT

Yeah I know I am different ride up the mounatin fast come back down slower
Dude ! KC and the Sunshine Band ? Shocked You've got to fire up some AC DC Back in Black  cooldude (just messing with you)
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« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2017, 05:13:11 PM »

Meathead I am with you on the BIB but KC had some good stuff too dontcha know.
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« Reply #25 on: February 24, 2017, 05:24:28 PM »

Meathead I am with you on the BIB but KC had some good stuff too dontcha know.
Yeah, actually they were ok. I'm just not sure I'm as open about it as Evan is.  2funny It is pretty hard to not sing along with their stuff when I hear it on the radio. But I don't think I'll put it on my playlist.
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« Reply #26 on: February 24, 2017, 05:27:33 PM »

Do a little dance, make a little love,get down tonight coolsmiley
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« Reply #27 on: February 24, 2017, 05:33:29 PM »

dont have lyrics like that no mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEsE9yN2CY or if you prefer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn14q4z5rOA

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« Reply #28 on: February 24, 2017, 05:44:55 PM »

Never liked disco.  Liked rock (still do).  I was a good dancer, and the girls like to dance. 

But when my sister got her hair cutting license, I let her give me a curly perm (which was pure disco).

There was a lot of laughing in the family, and at school.

I did not know a curly perm took weeks and weeks to go away.

Hell, at least I had hair back then, and with color other than white. 
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« Reply #29 on: February 24, 2017, 05:56:33 PM »

dont have lyrics like that no mo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHEsE9yN2CY or if you prefer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn14q4z5rOA

say what you will it WAS contact dancing down and dirty  Now I am lucky I can touch my toes.........
I'll see yours and raise you one.

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« Reply #30 on: February 24, 2017, 06:17:54 PM »

yah, am a big AC/DC fan along with the 80s hair band music of bonjovi and def leppard and several others.  80s rocknroll ruled the day for sure.  Still rock to the stuff today pretty selective in my music lineup unfortunately.

I still remember weekends as a very young 5-10 year old in the 70s watching SOULTRAIN with those young disco dudes and dudettes getting DOWNNNNNN.   They surely had rythm and could dance groovvvyyyy!!!  I found it amusing to watch but not horrible or anything, but I got a kick out of that TV dance show. 

Now that RAP CRAP and even some grunge rock totally sucks big time, nothing but yelling and screaming  and cussing and swearing.  I find that the worst of all music ever made.    But opinions are like a__holes, every one has one... Grin
About as far rap is I get is RUN DMC and maybe a few Beastie Boys songs from the 80s and may be funky cold medina rap song of the 80s as well I think by tone loc??

What I find more interesting is the tried and true old school country music most of us grew up in the 70s and 80s being traditional songs is totally different than most of today's near rock n roll country music songs.   It is almost like country music is  rock n rollish in a lot of country songs nowadays.  I do enjoy though listening at times to the old school traditional country songs of way back then though for a change of pace when times were less complicated and easier laid back lifestyle vs. todays GO, GO, GO all the time ways of living.  Johnny paycheck, waylon jennings, johnny cash, hank williams jr. just to name a few and even my parents era of the 50s/60s enjoying patsy cline and conway twitty just to name a few.    My moms favorite was patsy cline for sure.

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« Reply #31 on: February 24, 2017, 06:58:35 PM »

Early King Crimson, Rory Gallagher, Ten Years After, Mountain, Savoy Brown!
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« Reply #32 on: February 24, 2017, 07:15:56 PM »


, and Eminence Front at max volume mellows me out climbing mountains on the Valkyrie at WOT...


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"Sister Disco" features complicated synthesizer tracks that are the result of hours Townshend spent programming an ARP 2600 synthesizer.

"For this track I spent a lot of hours programming my analogue sequencers in my ARP 2500 studio synthesizer. It isn't quite KRAFTWERK, but in 1976 I don't think they were doing much better. This is a perfect example of the progression I was making towards theatrical music writing. I was trying to evoke absurd Baron Munchausen musical textures. Roger sounds so seriously intent about everything that the pomposity becomes real and threatening rather than pictorial."

— Pete Townshend  2funny


Pete Townshend has claimed that the song was written as a statement that The Who would never use disco elements in their music.

"With 'Sister Disco', I felt the need to say that the group would never, ever, in any way do anything like the Bee Gees. We stand over here and what we stand with is all right. They might say we're boring old farts but we still feel more at home with the boring old farts than any of that crowd."

— Pete ( where's my DREAD CARD  2funny ) Townshend, 1978

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Just another tricky day

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Steve Dahl was a popular DJ in Detroit in the 70s before moving on to the windy city. It was  Tuesday .25 a pitcher beer night at the Why Knot at Dix & Champaign in Lincoln Park (think about it) and I was watching the ball game with buddies when they pulled that demolition stunt at Cominsky.
Explosions. LPs thrown by those in the stands flying around, towards the field. The stand empied onto the field in support of Disco Demolition. Total mayhem. What a hoot. Sox forfeit. Biggest day in Dah's carrier, they talk about it every day on CHI radio...

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Clapton plays disco with Townshend and Ronnie Lane....

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« Reply #33 on: February 24, 2017, 11:09:44 PM »

The movie "the Martian" has disco as backstory n soundtrack

Good movie

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« Reply #34 on: February 25, 2017, 03:38:00 AM »

They SUCKED cooldude
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« Reply #35 on: February 25, 2017, 04:19:45 AM »

It was fun music and some could really get you moving. Different times.

The Trammps - Disco Inferno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQbZ9gjRCTw

Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music (HQ with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDZsNksbw2Q

Donna Summer I Feel Love [Extended Dance Edit]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljxm3NsnVI0

DISCO MUSIC 70'S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ89NxRh5TI

Duran Duran - Come Undone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICnlyNUt_0o

No one really listened to the words of these 2 songs at first
The Kinks - Lola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHSTEn1e1N8

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (original version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZ33w3B8Hw

Jethro Tull-Bungle In The Jungle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0frSN92mTGo

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g1P_J40JA

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bk2MrMGaA

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (HQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U
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« Reply #36 on: February 25, 2017, 04:23:24 AM »

They SUCKED cooldude

Agreed!! All it took for me was to watch the movie:  "Saturday Night Fever"   uglystupid2
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« Reply #37 on: February 25, 2017, 04:54:36 AM »

I guess it would suck if you had two left feet, and it sucked, all the way  from your pocket to their bank account. Right!!



Travolta's house! I agree it sucks!
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« Reply #38 on: February 25, 2017, 05:37:55 AM »


must... save... thread...

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« Reply #39 on: February 25, 2017, 12:38:45 PM »

I guess it would suck if you had two left feet, and it sucked, all the way  from your pocket to their bank account. Right!!



Travolta's house! I agree it sucks!


I bet you bought disco duck, come on don't lie, you know you did. Grin
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