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?

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.

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. 

  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

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...

"  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?   "


   !!!!!!

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 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.

Interesting comments here. So many of you are just young whippersnappers! lol 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.

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.

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

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

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



Ha ha! In this case, I'm glad to be an old fart. 

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.