For any older members here--who were old enough to experience, remember, the mid-late 70s, when Disco was on the rise and when it got big, I got a question or two:

1) What did you feel about it at the time? Were you into the whole Disco vs. Rock thing? My dad, who was a longhaired rock kid, who loved the Stones, wore a "Disco Sucks" pin and ended up getting a bottle smashed over his head as a result of wearing that pin.

2) Did you ever personally get into any fights like above, if you were involved in the Disco vs. Rock ''war''?

3) What year do you remember it getting big--around '74, '75, '76? What year do you first remember it coming onto the ''radar''--like from being an underground thing?

4) Lastly, how do you look back on Disco--the music, as well as the subculture?

Disco is one of my three most dreaded, hated forms of music....well, maybe there are more if you include Polka music.  :P

Rap, disco, and what they call around these parts, "beach music".

Never fought over it but sure as heck didn't listen to it or support it. Still feel the same way. I guess what they call "dance music" of today is similar to disco--the beat and instrumentation.

Nope. Won't ever like it. I guess I remember it coming out in about '75, but it really took off with the '77 movie "Saturday Night Fever". And no, I've never seen the movie, even on TV.  :P

I didn't like disco at that time, I hated it! but compared to today's music, Rap & Hip-Hop it ain't that bad, here is a picture of a friend of mine at that time, mid 70's with that very popular tee shirt.

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THERE ARE MANY FANTASTIC DISCO SONGS,I STILL LISTEN TO THEM ALL THE TIME.
WHAT " SUCKED" WAS THE WAY IT WAS MARKETED AND MILKED TO DEATH WITH NOVELTY RECORDS AND GAY AWARD SHOWS.
KIND OF LIKE POP MUSIC TODAY.

I was in grade school in the 70's, so Disco was pop music for me and anyone that is right around age 40 now.  It was what we knew.  I discovered the Stones through Disco because Miss You was marketed as a Disco tune and being played all over the radio.  Which is why I wanted to watch SNL when they played on there - the rest is history as they say.  I'm digressing.

I'll admit to still liking some disco tunes.  Can't help it, I love some of the funkier tunes.   I wore out my copy of Saturday Night Fever by the time I was 14.   Growing up in the midwest, 50 miles from the nearest big city, the roller rink was the best form of entertainment we had.  Went every weekend.  Disco is what was played.  That would have been from 76 - 79.  After that I was a band nerd and had other things to do, Disco was dying out, and then mom went through a religious conversion......well, less said about that the better.

So ya, I'll admit it - I still play Night Fever every now and again.  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xsrz-6U_hc

 1. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor - 1978
 2. Le Freak - Chic - 1978
 3. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees - 1977
 4. Super Freak - Rick James - 1981
 5. Funky Town - Lipps Inc. - 1979
 6. Disco Inferno - Trammps - 1976
 7. YMCA - Village People - 1978
 8. Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez - 1979
 9. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson - 1982
10. Get Up...I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine - James Brown - 1970
11. Mandolay - La Flavour - 1980
12. I Feel Love - Donna Summer - 1977
13. Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer - 1975
14. Shame - Evelyn "Champagne" King - 1977
15. I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters - 1982
16. Do You Wanna Funk - Sylvester - 1982
17. Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight - Lime - 1982
18. That's The Way I Like It - K.C. & the Sunshine Band - 1975
19. Knock On Wood- Amii Stewart - 1978
20. Night Fever - Bee Gees - 1977
21. Last Dance - Donna Summer - 1978
22. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston - 1976
23. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares - 1976
24. Take Your Time (Do It Right) - S.O.S. Band - 1980
25. Double Dutch Bus - Frankie Smith - 1981
26. Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang - 1979
27. Feels Like I'm In Love - Kelly Marie - 1981
28. Celebration - Kool & the Gang - 1980
29. Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson - 1979
30. Love Hangover - Diana Ross - 1976
31. Hot Stuff - Donna Summer - 1979
32. Heaven Must Have Sent You - Bonnie Pointer - 1979
33. This Time Baby - Jackie Moore - 1979
34. Let's All Chant - Michael Zager Band - 1978
35. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey - 1978
36. Get Down Tonight - K.C. & the Sunshine Band - 1975
37. >Spank - Jimmy "Bo" Horne - 1978
38. Bad Girls - Donna Summer - 1979
39. The Hustle - Van McCoy - 1975
40. Ladies Night - Kool & the Gang - 1979
41. Macho Man - Village People - 1978
42. Turn The Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson - 1976
43. Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor - 1974
44. White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash - 1983
45. So Many Men, So Little Time - Miquel Brown - 1983
46. There But For The Grace Of God - Machine - 1979
47. The Love I Lost - Harold Melvin & Bluenotes - 1973
48. Come To Me - France Joli - 1979
49. I'll Always Love My Mama - Intruders - 1973
50. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love - Barry White - 1974
51. Bad Luck - Harold Melvin & Bluenotes - 1975
52. I Love The Night Life-(Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges - 1978
53. We Are Family - Sister Sledge - 1979
54. Wishing On A Star - Rose Royce - 1978
55. It Only Takes A Minute - Tavares - 1975
56. Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango - 1973
57. Give It To Me Baby - Rick James -1981
58. Holiday - Madonna - 1983
59. Where Do We Go From Here - Trammps - 1974
60. Sugar Pie Guy - Joneses - 1974
61. Heart Of Glass - Blondie - 1978
62. You're The One For Me - "D" Train - 1981
63. Let's Start II Dance Again - Bohannon - 1981
64. Contact - Edwin Starr - 1978
65. Love Train - O'Jays - 1972
66. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart - Trammps - 1972
67. Rock Your Baby - George McCrae - 1974
68. Good Times - Chic - 1979
69. Date With The Rain - Eddie Kendricks - 1972
70. Ten Percent - Double Exposure - 1976
71. More, More, More - Andrea True Connection - 1976
72. It's Raining Men - Weather Girls - 1982
73. Let's Groove - Earth Wind & Fire - 1981
74. Souvenirs - Voyage - 1978
75. Devil's Gun - C.J. & Co. - 1977
76. Think (About It) - Lynn Collins - 1972
77. Rock The Boat - Hues Corporation - 1974
78. San Francisco (medley) - Village People - 1977
79. I Love Music - O'Jays - 1975
80. Doing It To Death-Fred Wesley & J.B.'s (James Brown) - 1973
81. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester - 1978
82. Last Night a D.J. Saved My Life - Indeep - 1982
83. La La Peace Song - O.C. Smith - 1973
84. September - Earth, Wind & Fire - 1978
85. The Boss - Diana Ross - 1979
86. 1999 - Prince - 1982
87. Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman - 1979
88. Ask Me - Ecstasy. Passion & Pain - 1974
89. All My Love - L.A.X. - 1981
90. Brick House - Commodores - 1977
91. Honey Bee - Gloria Gaynor - 1973
92. I Found Love - Love & Kisses - 1977
93. Car Wash - Rose Royce - 1976
94. TSOP - MFSB featuring the Three Degrees - 1974
95. That's Where The Happy People Go - Trammps - 1976
96. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead - 1979
97. Woman - Barrabas - 1973
98. Get Off - Foxy - 1978
99. Got To Give It Up (pt. 1) - Marvin Gaye - 1977
100. Lady (You Bring Me Up) - Commodores - 1981
http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_disco-songs.html

http://www.nutsie.com/top100sradio/Top%20100%20Disco%20Songs/2095097

Yeah, I can dig a little disco. I’m at a stage now where I’ll embrace pretty much anything that moves me in a positive way. If I hear it and like it, that’s good enough. I no longer have any time for genre prejudice: if it’s rock and I’m loving it – why not? If it’s contemporary RnB and I’m loving it – why not?

To me, disco and funk are 2 different things. Maybe I catagorize things too much, and I'm just as inconsistent as the next person, but basic disco is still not my cup of tea. I can get me into some funk stuff, tho... ;) 8-)

I love disco; got to have a sense of humor about it.

"  remember, the mid-late 70s, when Disco was on the rise and  .... "


"  What did you feel about it at the time?   ....    Lastly, how do you look back on Disco--the music, as well as the subculture?   "


http://i40.tinypic.com/euk3ko.gif   !!!!!!

I  love the Bee Gees...and also the song "White Lines...(don't do it baby) by Grandmaster Flash and Melly Mel."    


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtwT492YDvg&feature=related

Since I love to dance and party, disco was the hottest thing going in the late 70's early 80's and a great period of my life. The disco era was a time of flashy clothes, the girls wore tight shiny dresses high heels, and the guys wore silk shirts and tight pants, gold and silver chains, big hair for the girls and long hair for the guys. This was also a time of heavy cocaine use throughout the NY-NJ area. Disco music = cocaine & sex. People used to party till the cold gray dawn, at places like Studio 54 (I had a boyfriend who worked there) and so many happening clubs in and around NYC were packed every night of the week. drinking and dancing to the disco beat. Hell Yeah, doing the "hustle' on the dance floor, hooking up with the coolest guys, hanging out with so many fun friends and there were some dangerous charactors too. Those were the days man! Great fun and wild times, no cares about the rules of society. There was a defiant fvck you quality to it covered over with slick looking expensive outfits so it looked legit and innocent to the outside world, but inside those clubs it was anything/everything goes.  

I liked some disco. Heart of glass, Disco inferno, miss you, le freak, I was made for loving you - but generally, i had a different 70's. I liked Elton, some Ac/dc, alice cooper, Foreigner, cheap trick.

The thing i didnt like about disco was that it wasnt for me. It was for wannabe's. At the time, nearly every Italian guy went out and bought a white suit. lol! Disco seemed to influence alot of 2nd generation immigrants. Greeks & Turks got into it too.

Most of us honky Aussie males stuck with our own rock. Rose Tattoo, Cold Chisel, ac/dc, etc etc etc.

I was 13 in 1977 so the heart of it coincided exactly with my biggest AM radio listening years.  That list brings back some real horrors, like the fact that my high school cafeteria had a juke box and it played Get Off by Foxy over and over, but you could only hear the bass, which was like five notes over and over and over.  

It was also the era of smooth R&B like The Spinners, which was arguably worse.  If I never hear the Rubber Band Man again I will die happy.  

corgi37 wrote on Feb 21^st, 2011 at 3:39am:

I liked some disco. Heart of glass, Disco inferno, miss you, le freak, I was made for loving you - but generally, i had a different 70's. I liked Elton, some Ac/dc, alice cooper, Foreigner, cheap trick. The thing i didnt like about disco was that it wasnt for me. It was for wannabe's. At the time, nearly every Italian guy went out and bought a white suit. lol! Disco seemed to influence alot of 2nd generation immigrants. Greeks & Turks got into it too. Most of us honky Aussie males stuck with our own rock. Rose Tattoo, Cold Chisel, ac/dc, etc etc etc.

Your second line jumped out at me--about the Italian guys and whatnot. We have a picture of my grandpa, from the late spring of 1975--it was the last picture of him taken alive as he died that Fall; He was 55. He was a full blooded Italian, first generation. He's decked out in the picture with long, bushy sideburns, slicked back hair, and a butterfly collar shirt with some sign of design--A true Disco shirt. Another picture we have from July '72 shows him wearing pointed collar dress shorts and slightly flared slacks. He definitely would've been into Disco had he lived a few more years.

Interesting comments here. So many of you are just young whippersnappers! lol :P I was in my 20's when disco hit, and, having grown up on jazz and Brit rock and blues and, then a bit later, garage rock, psychedelic rock, prog rock....well, disco was just WAY too "pop-y" for me.

Hey, I love the Bee Gee's too! But, really, just the first 3 albums, which was WAY before their disco period. :)

When it got to be Disco Duck, that was way too much!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irgJPqkuakM

The chicks and coke were great.....music blew chunks of enormous proportions.......The Beegees thing was all you heard on the radio 24/7. I thought it would never end...then along came Southern Rock and I almost put a gun to my head.

Love the hair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viCYkduSzaU

Sioux wrote on Feb 19^th, 2011 at 3:46pm:

To me, disco and funk are 2 different things. Maybe I catagorize things too much, and I'm just as inconsistent as the next person, but basic disco is still not my cup of tea. I can get me into some funk stuff, tho... ;) 8-)

I agree with you Sioux. Us old farts have to stick together. :thatwassmart :willya

Like AngieBlue,
DIsco was just what you heard.
I was 12 in 1978, and way before I was into the Stones, I was an AM top forty kid.....
I liked it. The best stuff was just funky dance music. I didn't really appreciate the musical aspects until later. Even then, I thought the whole "disco sucks" thing was dumb - I pictured guys with their combs stuffed in their backpockets saying "faggot". I always loved soul ....and to me disco was a different animal, but still funky. It was a more urban, latino-black thing that swept the gay culture, but all three of those things were apparently scary to the more traditional white "rock" fan. I think that resistance made me like it even more.

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Feb 21^st, 2011 at 11:53am:

Sioux wrote on Feb 19th, 2011 at 3:46pm: To me, disco and funk are 2 different things. Maybe I catagorize things too much, and I'm just as inconsistent as the next person, but basic disco is still not my cup of tea. I can get me into some funk stuff, tho... ;) 8-) I agree with you Sioux. Us old farts have to stick together. :thatwassmart :willya

Ha ha! In this case, I'm glad to be an old fart.  ;) ;D :areyoufuckingserious

texile wrote on Feb 21^st, 2011 at 3:37pm:

Like AngieBlue, DIsco was just what you heard. I was 12 in 1978, and way before I was into the Stones, I was an AM top forty kid..... I liked it. The best stuff was just funky dance music. I didn't really appreciate the musical aspects until later. Even then, I thought the whole "disco sucks" thing was dumb - I pictured guys with their combs stuffed in their backpockets saying "faggot". I always loved soul ....and to me disco was a different animal, but still funky. It was a more urban, latino-black thing that swept the gay culture, but all three of those things were apparently scary to the more traditional white "rock" fan. I think that resistance made me like it even more.

And, you know? This is really the key to it all. We tend to like what we grew up with---that certain age...from maybe 9/10 through 14/15....that is what sticks with you. It is YOUR music. And yes, mine was top 40 radio. It's just that the bands were different----but, since I was pretty musically aware from about 1960, when I turned 8, I grew up with really classic, timeless rock. And, I'm glad that was my era.  ;D 8-)

True, I was a kid of the earl-mid70s.....but I also listened to my older cousin's Beatles lps and Motown stuff.
But at 13, disco was fun, funky and definately of its time. I still get a thrill when I hear an old Chic song.

Remember too that this was pre-Stones for me, and I wasn't some lucky kid growing up in grungy, cool New York so punk was alien to me then. And I would discover Elvis Costello and the Clash a few years later. I loved Neil Young's Live Rust, Springsteen's Darkness, the Cars etc...but for the most part, in 1978, for a kid like me in Pasadena, Texas, "rock" radio was Boston, Styx, Foreigner etc....which was good for solitary air guitar extravaganzas in your room...but bland and generic and full of macho masturbation. Disco was wild and crazy and exotic and the masturbation was unisex...lol
But I do envy your generation for what you were able to experience first-hand. Im grateful I got the tail end of the 60s, the first song I rememberhearing of its time was "Take a Letter Maria", plus my family had alot of records like Petula Clark, the 60s pop groups, singers, so had that as a foundation and have a sense of what it was like.
I feel sorry for the kids now, or anyone born after 1975. Or worse, born after 1980! They can only listen to the classics second-hand without the context of its time.

texile wrote on Feb 21^st, 2011 at 6:51pm:

True, I was a kid of the earl-mid70s.....but I also listened to my older cousin's Beatles lps and Motown stuff. But at 13, disco was fun, funky and definately of its time. I still get a thrill when I hear an old Chic song. Remember too that this was pre-Stones for me, and I wasn't some lucky kid growing up in grungy, cool New York so punk was alien to me then. And I would discover Elvis Costello and the Clash a few years later. I loved Neil Young's Live Rust, Springsteen's Darkness, the Cars etc...but for the most part, in 1978, for a kid like me in Pasadena, Texas, "rock" radio was Boston, Styx, Foreigner etc....which was good for solitary air guitar extravaganzas in your room...but bland and generic and full of macho masturbation. Disco was wild and crazy and exotic and the masturbation was unisex...lol But I do envy your generation for what you were able to experience first-hand. Im grateful I got the tail end of the 60s, the first song I rememberhearing of its time was "Take a Letter Maria", plus my family had alot of records like Petula Clark, the 60s pop groups, singers, so had that as a foundation and have a sense of what it was like. I feel sorry for the kids now, or anyone born after 1975. Or worse, born after 1980! They can only listen to the classics second-hand without the context of its time.

What about stuff like Aerosmith, Zeppelin, etc? Like the movie Dazed & Confused is set in Texas in 1976 (yes I know it's a movie but it was based on the directors' own experiences) and all the teenagers love those bands and even KISS.

Skating rinks and disco music- good times! KC and the Sunshine band were cool. This is glencars favorite thread.

I hated it, At the time I was playing music., for a buck.  In order to get jobs through the booking agency and to get paid we had to learn the songs that were popular.Songs that  the agency thought the audience wanted to hear. There were many fight in the band. We also had to change or appearance, clean up the act!  The only good thing about it was ,we decide, comprimised to play some of the good stuff. Some of the stuff on these albums not being played on the FM radio.  Filling some of  the spots in the song list we used songs by bands like "Tower of Power" and "The Average White Band". We got good and were allow to play A 50 50 ratio, even being allowed to play originals and rearranged songs. "Play that Funky Music White Boy" end with the Edgar Winter's  Still Playin that Rock and Roll the grouping of the 2 songs was a crowd pleaser. No fights except in the rehearsesal room, and with the the agency. Looking back now I loved playin music, I played all types , and would not change a thin, at the time I felt I was a sell out. Now I realize I was doing what had to be done to Keep Playin. I see now in order to get to play "Johnny B Goode" we had to play "Bad Luck". I love you Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes Now, sorry for the hate in the 70's. I grew up. The kids and my much younger wife listen to the crap on the radio now and I cringe, I try my hardest to shut up, but it really reminds me of those God awful Disco days when the music really  DIED! IMO, One of the reasons I was and am so happy to hear anything new by The Stones. they save me, from the dismal static air waves playing on the radio Today.  Playin music for a livin sucked or I gave up. I could not make it, I was not good enough, I got tired of fighting the battle.I'd like to think I gave up because of the  lack of creative acceptance, I call it now the "WalMart Mentality" all plastic and  cheap and it's what everybody else has..But in truth I gave up.
I went to Nashville once and the weird thing is  most of the good players were not in the studio they were in the gas stations. They all wanted to be the next hit so did I. I hope some of them did not give up like I did. I'm not burning an old cross anymore, very happy to play for the crowd I have, no cover charge, no line at the bathroom and the beer is cheap, almost free!
By the way I always thought a great Name for a Bar Bad was "FREE BEER"
I love this place and the chance to answer this question, now back to work!
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StickyStones wrote on Feb 21^st, 2011 at 10:20pm:

texile wrote on Feb 21st, 2011 at 6:51pm: True, I was a kid of the earl-mid70s.....but I also listened to my older cousin's Beatles lps and Motown stuff. But at 13, disco was fun, funky and definately of its time. I still get a thrill when I hear an old Chic song. Remember too that this was pre-Stones for me, and I wasn't some lucky kid growing up in grungy, cool New York so punk was alien to me then. And I would discover Elvis Costello and the Clash a few years later. I loved Neil Young's Live Rust, Springsteen's Darkness, the Cars etc...but for the most part, in 1978, for a kid like me in Pasadena, Texas, "rock" radio was Boston, Styx, Foreigner etc....which was good for solitary air guitar extravaganzas in your room...but bland and generic and full of macho masturbation. Disco was wild and crazy and exotic and the masturbation was unisex...lol But I do envy your generation for what you were able to experience first-hand. Im grateful I got the tail end of the 60s, the first song I rememberhearing of its time was "Take a Letter Maria", plus my family had alot of records like Petula Clark, the 60s pop groups, singers, so had that as a foundation and have a sense of what it was like. I feel sorry for the kids now, or anyone born after 1975. Or worse, born after 1980! They can only listen to the classics second-hand without the context of its time. What about stuff like Aerosmith, Zeppelin, etc? Like the movie Dazed & Confused is set in Texas in 1976 (yes I know it's a movie but it was based on the directors' own experiences) and all the teenagers love those bands and even KISS.

I loved Zep, but I was too young for the Dazed and Confused stoner thing ....yeah, there was good rock and roll, but in 78, bands like Styx and Boston really seemed to dominate rock radio.....
But I actually loved disco.....the production, the orchestration, the bass lines, the beats.....there was alot going on there...
and Kiroy, Im a musician too.....and I actually learned more about rhythm from learning Chic songs, than I did from Zep....

To me, disco was just a little less lame than the countrified West coast sound. Alot of American music was incredibly dull. Not just that, the artists were dull too. Being in Oz, we really had a different experience than American or English. We got a mix of both. I dont recall many English bands being huge in the U.S. circa 77. I mean, not any new bands anyway. Am i right there? I think i am. But down here, we had glam and smooth sounds like Ronstadt, James Taylor, Eagles etc. Plus as i said, we had our own stuff. Hard pub rock like Rose Tattoo, Ac/dc. Glam bands like Skyhooks. Pop bands like Sherbet. And until INXS, our two most successful exports from that era were Air Supply and Little River Band. Yeah, disco sucked. But some of it was ok. I hated the early drum machine Euro stuff like Bony M. i didnt get into the Stones until Miss You.

yeah, disco sucked. But lame ass soft rock was way, way worse.

Except for Pablo Cruise's "Love will find a way".

For some dumb old reason, i bloody LOVE that song!!!

"Love Will Find A Way" IS a good song!  ;D

"I see now in order to get to play "Johnny B Goode" we had to play "Bad Luck". I love you Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes"

I love that song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR8KfMTmPRQ

No one mentioned Punk Rock, it was a new movement in the mid to late 70's, I remember buying the 1st Ramones album, & Never Mind The Bollocks, it was a back lash against disco & progressive Rock bands like Styx & Emerson Lake & Palmer.

I remember "Frampton Comes Alive" as a huge album in the late 70's.

There's a saying that Bruce Springsteen & Punk Rock saved us from Disco taking over.

Here is a video about disco in the 70's, & how a lot of top rock people felt about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNTYoyrRN8

There's a saying that Bruce Springsteen & Punk Rock saved us from Disco taking over.
:keithpunky :keithpunky :booze :booze :willya :willya

[quote author=corgi37
yeah, disco sucked. But lame ass soft rock was way, way worse.

Except for Pablo Cruise's "Love will find a way".

For some dumb old reason, i bloody LOVE that song!!![/quote]


What about the other hit, "Whatchu Gonna Do When She Says Goodbye..."
Summer, 1978, slurpies and flip flops! Nice memory.....
But you make an excellent point corgi,...
While I may have appreciated disco musically more than some here did, the fact is that from 78-80, radio was saturated with very bland pop and "rock", whether it was the softer, California rock of the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Ronstadt (Who I loved, and actually got me into the Stones with her version of Tumbling Dice), or the more rock arena bands like Foreigner etc.....generic ruled the mainstream radio and I also remember that Rolling Stones Magazine had all these people on their cover at the time, so its was part of the musical culture of the time. That may be why disco took off .....there was little else that was different, or weird.
If you were cool enough to be into punk, early british new wave, lucky for you, but blandness ruled the day.
And yeah, Costello, Sprinsteen, Neil Young, ACDC, these artists were the exeption, but it still didn't preempt me from liking disco.

I also might point out that both Mick and CHarlie have said repeatedly that they liked disco music, as did Mick Jones and Joe Strummer, who all saw it as an extension of funk and latino-based music that had been percolating in New York clubs since the early 70s. Mick has also talked about how he would go unrecognized in underground latino clubs in NY in the early 70s....there's a line in one of the Miss You outtakes, where he says,
'Remember when we used to go those clubs and the girl turned out to be a man in the end...?'

texile wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2011 at 3:52pm:

[quote author=corgi37 yeah, disco sucked. But lame ass soft rock was way, way worse. Except for Pablo Cruise's "Love will find a way". For some dumb old reason, i bloody LOVE that song!!!

What about the other hit, "Whatchu Gonna Do When She Says Goodbye..."
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I like that one even better!  ;D Funkier.....don't hear it much. I think I actually heard it on the radio last year...

I got no natural rhythm

mojoman wrote on Feb 24^th, 2011 at 9:51pm:

I got no natural rhythm

The rhythm method...too much work