Okay, so disco was not everyone’s cup of tea. Yet, some 30 or so years after its demise, and however much maligned, people still get up and dance to the music. Disco was most certainly a fad, the styles were awful (yet not as awful as some of the crap in the ’80s… remember parachute pants?) and was really never meant to stand the course of time. Although, however despised by some, much of the pop, hip/hop, electronica, and other forms of dance music that followed do owe a debt of gratitude to disco. Here are some of the better tunes to come out of the era that ran from approximately 1974 to 1980. Be sure to mention your favorites in the comments. Better yet, tell us what you think the top 3 Disco songs are and it may end up on a future list!
This may be the first in what was called the “Nu-Disco,” ushering in a more electronic sound. It was also one of the first to use the Moog Vocoder voice effect. The clip above is not featuring the band as they were a studio band – but the dancers are so awful it has to be seen to be believed. The best part: when the lady in pink does the robot at 02:11. here is a live version – almost worse than the above! Some consider this song to be the last disco number 1 hit in the US.
The band’s first of five #1 singles. Fun, infectious chorus of “do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight.” And the cool opening features a recorded guitar solo at double speed over a normal-speed guitar line in the background.
A disco classic. Lots of heavy bass, big horns and the vocals are actually really phenomenal, especially when she goes into the rapid singing.
Originally released by the group in ’76, the song became a huge hit with the release of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. It’s the song that Travolta does his dance solo to in the film – as you can see above.
A great funk/disco fusion, this is one of the band’s best, before Lionel Ritchie became all sappy and sentimental. Yes, she is indeed a “brick howwwse.”
This great song from a great band helped usher in the New Wave sound and was criticized for pandering to the disco set. It was a huge crossover hit and propelled the band into stardom. The video, by the way, was shot at the legendary Studio 54 disco in New York.
This early R&B/disco tune has led to many a midnight rendezvous. Like many of Mr. White’s tunes, it’s just damn sex on vinyl, only this one is his most danceable hit.
From Jackson’s first solo album, Off The Wall, this pure dance pop tune was the first of many #1 singles, before he got really freaky weird.
This massive hit became the band’s biggest song, among their huge list of hits. It is still hugely popular today, especially since it was prominently featured in the musical “Mama Mia.”
This anthem made the Village People one of the disco era’s most successful groups. Sure, there’s the whole gay thing, but for those less homophobic, you’ll still find crowds doing the YMCA thing on the dance floors at weddings everywhere.
Speaking of wedding songs…This song came out towards the end of the disco era, yet is still a favorite of wedding DJs. Kylie Minogue covered it in the ’90s and looked much hotter doing it than Kool.
Wild Cherry was a relatively unknown rock band playing in the mid-’70s, when a black audience member yelled, “Play some funky music, white boy.” The song hit #1 and sold a couple million copies, but was the band’s only hit.
Are you ready? This song won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for best original song. Really. It’s the most notable fact from the painful disco comedy “Thank God It’s Friday,” (starring Jeff Goldblum and Debra Winger). Donna Summer, already a disco diva, confirmed her status with this tune.
Probably one of the most famous disco tunes of all time, this song became an anthem for female empowerment and Gaynor’s only real hit. Covered by Cake, The Puppini Sisters and dozens of others, it remains a classic.
The film “Saturday Night Fever” truly kicked off the world’s obsession with disco, and this song kicked off the movie. Still enormously popular, this is a great song, no matter what your taste, it’s hard to dislike.
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Loving your work, this list is pure fromage but so uplifting! It really takes me back.
Somebody mad at you Randall ?
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Hey Randall,
Thanks for your comment. First off, it’s all subjective, isn’t it? You’re allowed to have your favorites. These songs were not chosen based on number of records sold or anything. More based on popularity and longevity and opinion. Yes, there were a lot of other popular songs, and anyone leaving a comment could add to the list. Your suggestions are absolutely valid, as are many others in these comments. But no suggestion should invalidate any other selection just because you say it so. That’s what being subjective and having an opinion is all about. So, relax, okay. Oh, and yes, Randall, I was around during this period. I was in high school in Philadelphia, where a lot of this sound came from, so I am more than vaguely familiar with it. T.S.O.P. is a great song, but is it as easily recognizable to the common person as say YMCA? Probably not. Oh, and as far as the fashions, let’s all be honest, there are bad fashions from every era. Was fashion worse in the ’80s than the ’70s? Again, matter of opinion. Wide lapels and Sansa-Belt polyester slacks were cheesy, but at the time, it was cool. No need to get condescending. It’s music, it’s fashion, not life or death.
I’m probably gonna have to by on Randall’s side on this. Those two Donna Summer songs were / are totally righteous disco songs. And just like him, I was there, and most of it was crap, but Donna Summer ruled. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t have minded so much if you just put Donna Summer’s catalog here, you’d be more right than you were when you published this.
God knows it’s hard to take criticism when you write one of these, I had my share after my first attempt. And my list even had hard cold facts. This is a little more on the subjective side, but Love to Love You Baby or I Feel Love not being on a disco list is like a Whopper not being on the menu at a Burger King. I mean, ‘BRING ME A WHOPPER!!’
Trust me, after going through it, you were relieved when an actual good song came along during all of that crapola. I love me some Wild Cherry, but I’m not even sure that was disco – more like funky RnB. Same with Brickhouse – don’t mess with me I was a Commodore freak – first concert I ever attended. They did some disco later, but Brickhouse is funk plain and simple.
I think we can do better here. . .
I don’t really give a ***** much about the fasion argument. But the 70′s were *****in brutal. All you gotta do is look at the album covers of some of this stuff and you’ll soon put on your Member’s Only jacket and brush your mullet.
I had bellbottoms so big if I fell down the stairs I had a reasonably good chance of floating down as the pants would open up like a chute so that I could delicately touch down on my platform shoes. As an added bonus the wide collar of the polysheen shirt acted as rudders so I could steer.
No, give me the gelled hair and marginally straight pants of the 80′s thank you. At least I could wear a white tee and look marginally bad ass – in the 70′s you could never be bad ass wearing that *****. Avacado silk shirt and Joanne Whorley sock it to me orange bellbottoms with 6 inch platform shoes? What, are you kidding me?
Steeveedee:
That you were around at the time—AND living in Philly–and wrote THIS list—makes it worse than mere oversight. I think you’re just plain nuts.
POPULARITY, Steevee, is NOT the same as “good” and is certainly not the same, by extension, as “great.” The list is titled “15 Great Disco Tunes.” Now, writing a list like this was your chance to show some taste, some discernment–and to educate the youthful and unaware. Instead, you grabbed some titles that you liked, out of a hat, and tossed them in a list. Well I’ll tell ya, Steevee… I “liked” Gilligan’s Island sometimes, but I’d never put it on a list of “15 Great TV Shows.”
That fewer people would recognize “TSOP” than would recognize a Bee Gees song is irrelevant. It doesn’t make “Stayin’ Alive” superior to “TSOP.” Just as “Last Dance” is NOT superior to “I Feel Love” simply because “Last Dance” sold more copies. Do you not SEE this?
Yeah, all this is subjective. But that’s why I’m calling you to task for it. Because your choices, in my humble opinion, sucked. If you’re going to write a list like this, you should make some effort to consider what, historically, culturally, musically, and in terms of influence, which songs ARE in fact “great.” Mere popularity should be the LAST consideration. The whole POINT to lists like this is that they have that critical angle that *****yzes why a piece of work, in this case a song, MATTERS. If you approach it, as you did, purely from the angle of which songs people would most recognize or which songs were the most popular, then what’s the POINT of making such a list? You might as well call it “My List of Favorite Disco Tunes For No Particular Reason Other Than They’re Ones Everyone Recognizes And/or Sold The Most Copies.” Which is, in essence, what this list is.
I mean come on. This is DISCO for chrissakes. It’s an uphill battle saying nice things about disco in the first place. It was an ideal opportunity to point out that there WAS some greatness in disco that maybe people aren’t totally aware of. And I’m sorry, but you blew it.
And I’m still just flabbergasted that someone from Philly, in the 70s, could have left out all the stuff you left out. Could have left out Gamble and Huff and everything they were tangentially responsible for. If there was ANYTHING worthy in disco, it was produced by people like that.
A bit of pointless trivia: Dancing Queen was written for the wedding of the King of Sweden.
Fantastic list, though.
bucslim:
Hear hear, man. In the 70s I had that wavy huge head of hair the likes of which today are only seen on that ***** Blagojovich (sp?)… I’d take the spiky punky ‘do I wore in the 80s ANYDAY over that. And I’ll take my skinny ties and mohair suit from college over the polyester bizarro ***** we wore in ’77. Actually, my family was pretty damn steadfastly prep, at the time, so I only had a few truly awful items of clothing–in the 80s I CHOSE to dress over the top, as rebellion and identity establishment, as it were. But even so, the clothes in the 80s were simply better. Some of it, today, is pure crap. But it was never meant to be taken SERIOUSLY (only people who took it seriously were off their nut). In the 70s people DID take bell bottoms and suchlike seriously–it was all you could buy, practically.
A sad, ick-inducing decade, that one. I miss some of it because it was my childhood and youth… but overall I’d never go back. Certainly not as an adult.
Your lists have been boring and disappointing lately. :[
You think you had it bad Randall, I live in the midwest where everything is 5 years behind. I was still wearing that ***** in the early 80′s. I know that explains a lot about me but it wasn’t like it is now were you can buy something different on the internet.
Screw the bellbottoms, I had a pair that were actually called ‘elephant’ bottoms. Just brutal man.
I’m totally with Randall on this.
Disco made the “live” concert impossible, as everything depended on studio tricks; voices, instruments, backbeats, choirs, orchestras, I could go on and on , but you get the picture…concerts during the disco era were all just recordings, with the groups pretending to play and sing.
“Why do you say that? How can you know?” you might say.
Because, after my stint in the film biz was over, I put in five more years with a PR guy. Said PR guy was a bigshot in the music world, in fact one of his clients was the BeeGee’s, another was the Jacksons, he was the largest individual music PR man in the world. I got schooled.
We did handle other stuff too, by the time I came along. But it was embarrassing to meet some of the musicians and have to lie through my teeth at how wonderful I thought they were.
Thankfully, after the first year his book got published and we got into that world, I became involved with authors and publishers and editing.
Got off track there…point being, Disco was a concert-unfriendly form of music. It was great to dance to, as Randall said, a lot of really great stuff was left off the list, but in my book, if it can’t be reproduced live, it isn’t fair to the audience.
bucslim:
You have my sympathy. Truly.
Do you know I’ve never been in the middle of the country? Never. I’ve only flown OVER it.
Years ago, just after college, some friends of mine packed up their cars—a Volkswagen Fox and a Suzuki Samurai—and drove cross country to jobs that were awaiting them in San Diego. They called me periodically along the way to let me know their progress and offer pithy comments on their surroundings. Things were pretty normal until they got to Nebraska. Then the weirdness started. I don’t remember much of the conversations… it was just along the lines of:
“Dude, it is like another PLANET out here. Every stereotype is true!”
Things like that.
Being the skeptical, even-keeled type, I took all this with a grain of salt or two, figuring on the views of a group of twenty-something hipster New Yorkers with spiked hair and funky clothes and music and Hermes scarves and such… to be a bit… skewed, shall we say.
Then they hit Wyoming. And the phone call that time was filled with versimillitude. The sense of experiencing true eerieness was deep in their voices. There was even fear there. “I never knew such people actually existed. These people *seriously* think they’re cowboys here.” I think they were afraid it was going to turn into “Five Thousand Maniacs” mid-western style.
You never heard such relieved people when they finally hit the coast and only had nutso southern californians to cope with. The only complaints then had to do with the utterly vapid lifestyle and the fact that you couldn’t get a decent bagel.
I really like Disco!
Let me say something here, to everybody.
It gives me no pleasure to come on this site and hurt people’s feelings about the lists they’ve submitted. You might ask why I feel the need to do this when it’s not MY site in the first place and who am I, after all? Well there’s no good answer to this, really. I’m someone with opinions is all, but I do think they’re very INFORMED opinions and worthy of being offered up. I spent a lot of time, effort, and sweat on my education, both in the traditional and non-traditional sense, and my parents spent beacoups bux on the traditional end of it, so I guess I feel obligated to make use of it as much as I can, even if it does make me sound sometimes like great big know-it-all.
But I don’t ENJOY ripping people apart–unless they clearly deserve it–and I’d like to think most of my targets on this site DO deserve it. I deeply dislike cant and propaganda and dull thinking, and I try to go after it whenever I see it. But I also dislike this widely prevalent American attitude (yes, I do think it’s confined mainly to us Americans) that only POPULAR things have any real value, and if something ISN’T popular then it can’t have much real worth. And indeed, the view seems to be that if something is appreciated only by a minority, then it isn’t “real” or isn’t valuable–by any stretch of the imagination—as something that is appreciated by the *majority.* That belief really bugs the hell out of me, and it’s one of the few things that I think are actually WRONG with our culture in this country—I mean, obviously there’s a LOT “wrong” with American culture, but there’s a lot “wrong” with EVERY culture in the world–it just varies from place to place. By and large I believe my fellow Americans to be nice, friendly people, if a bit vapid and isolationist and too quick to judge the rest of the world by their own standards. Greedy sometimes, sure, and provincial, hell yes. But some of the other “vices” of Americans are the result of just being too fat and happy with being rich and (at least superficially) free. I always thought, when Europeans complain that we “smile too much,” that Europeans could go f**k themselves… most of us smile so much, I know, because all things being more or less equal, we’re pretty happy. Most Americans don’t know the meaning of “suffering,” for instance, and while that DOES tend to make them a little too quick to judge others and be overly smug, (and make them rather shallow) it’s also not exactly a “vice,” to not know suffering. It’s a blessing. I don’t care if it’s god or the great spaghetti monster or our own dumb luck that’s “blessed” us. We are, in many senses of the word, “blessed,” and you can’t expect people who are blessed and whacky happy to be the deepest, most serious, most grown-up and even-tempered folk in the world.
But one thing I DO think is wrong with us is that, being so infatuated with popularity and “who likes what,” and being so insecure (we KNOW the Euros have it over us in sophistication, wit, discernment and style) we have this terrible failing to devalue those things that are outside of the purview of the lowest common denominator. We like to blame it on our “democracy” when confronted with it. I’d argue that de Toqueville knew better, as did Dwight MacDonald. In fact, you idiots, you NEED to realize that popularity is no measure of the value of ANYTHING, except possibly in politics.
It just irks me. It makes us throw away many good things just because the schlumps in the trailer parks don’t like them, or because they don’t register on some accountant’s chart. Or because they’re old and we can only like “new things,” even if the new ***** is just that… *****.
I know, I know… why all this angst over a disco list? Well it isn’t about the disco list per se. It’s the principle. It’s something we need to grow up about.
2. Copaface: I’m glad someone else knows who Freezepop is.
So, any “disco sucks” comments are stupid. Please, if you don’t like it, don’t comment because we don’t care.
Steeveedee, I have to agree with Randall on the “just because it’s popular doesn’t make it good”. William Hung was popular and by NO MEANS good. He sold millions!
There are quite a few missing tunes. Someone mentioned The Hustle- that’s the quintessential disco tune, for me. And there’s others, too. I know it’s hard to pick a select few.
Randall: wow, I haven’t seen you around in a while. World of Warcraft has gobbled my free time, so I haven’t been around as often, either. How’s my big grumpy bear?
ummmm…disco sucks?
good choice for number 1
Randall:
All in all, I agree with your post. However, I do take issue with one item, an important item, and that is that “Most Americans don’t know the meaning of “suffering,””.
Suffering is such an objective state that I would hesitate to say who suffers and who does not; and what sort of suffering are we to consider?
The suffering of those under a totalitarian regime?
The suffering of grinding poverty?
The suffering of incurable disease?
The suffering of lack of hope?
The suffering of daily fear?
The only suffering Americans are free of is the first. Otherwise, we suffer as well as anyone.
# 15 Was my favorite when I was a preteen. JF you should have added the band Kiss with their attempt at disco lol.
Cedestra:
As you can see, grumpy as ever.
Yeah, didn’t KISS attempt a contribution to disco with their “Dynasty” album?
Randall: What we agree on a music list? Well at least on one tune. And there were a few good fashion hits in the 70′s. I can think of two; low rise jeans (ladies’ Lee Rider’s) and flowy peasant skirts. Also water buffalo sandals (Jesus sandals) were quite popular in the 70′s at least where I lived. The skinny ties and false posturing of the 80′s along with the further demarcation between the haves and the have-nots of that decade ruined it for me. The worship of Reagan (Thank goodness for Obama; just now fixing that mess) by the fellows wearing those said skinny ties pontificating on how they were going to help the poor by getting richer and ignoring them (trickle down economics-hah) is how I remember the 80′s. Give me back the 70′s, even with the leisure suits and wide lapels.
Segue:
I was speaking in a general sense, and I was speaking historically, in a way. But primarily, I was speaking comparatively. There IS, of course, poverty in the US. And there is racism. Many people have suffered terribly due to these. There has been injustice in our history, terrible injustice.
But in the grand scheme of things? I mean, in the grand scheme of what humanity as a whole has suffered? Our poverty is far less in quantity and depth than what many other countries have suffered; we haven’t experienced real famine or truly widespread, unchecked disease. We haven’t suffered invasion or privation at the hands of an enemy–not since 1812, anyway. Lack of hope and daily fear? Well sure, everyone has these in one form or another. But there’s MORE often a light at the end of the tunnel here than there is in other cultures.
We DO have suffering, yes. I would never deny that. But compared to what others have had to cope with, it’s just not the same. And again, I mean, overall… in a general sense.
Stayin’ Alive Rocks our Socks
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grumpy? WTF is wrong w/ being grumpy? you get to an age and it becomes an entitlement! as for disco..the highlight of my 20′s ‘bar hopping’ period. also included the ‘Urban Cowboy’ line dancing craze as well.
people need to just chill out on these lists generally speaking. its just the internet, not your life. state your case in civil terms and move on. have some fun goddamnit
YES! I was hoping “Last Dance” would be on this list, I swear I listened to it for like a half-hour straight on my MP3 player at work yesterday. I LOVE that song. It’s so fun to sing.
Mom:
I’ll give you the jeans. Great jeans in the 70s. It’s truly a wonderful thing when a woman wears jeans well. And yeah, I liked the skirts on women too… that very feminine, flowing, airy look…. ah, but I’m getting horny. Again.
Perhaps you forget that I was ONE of those skinny-tie-wearing Reagan worshipers back then. I do regret it now. But I’d still take that fashion sense over most of the 70s. Some of the 80s style hearkened back to the early 60s, and to the 30s and 40s and 50s. I prefer the sharp, hip, jazzy style of those eras to the frumpy mess of the late 60s and 70s. Remember, it was a rebellion against that hippie aesthetic. But some of us weren’t so much rejecting the counterculture as we were rejecting the smug baby boomer attitude of superiority about it.
I still *understand* why people were dazzled by Reagan. I no longer approve, but I understand it. And I do believe that some of the crap that followed in his wake is NOT entirely what he intended. I do believe that if Reagan and Goldwater were alive today, they would have both been very disgusted with the route things have taken over the last 10-15 years or so. Even Buckley may have been. At any rate, we see that the surviving Reagans and Goldwaters supported Obama in the recent election (at least the vocal ones that I’m aware of) as did Christopher Buckley, WFB’s son.
But I do admit that Reagan was, in the end, wrong about many things. I think for the most part he meant well, but the policies and practices he put into motion ended up leaving a very bad taste in the mouth, even though they seemed sweet at first. And certainly the people that followed after him ended up being nothing but a group of bigots, thugs, and liars.
Segue; Suffering of daily fear? I don’t believe that to be the case in most of North America. In a few, and I mean few, inner-city areas that may be the case, but no where else in the country. And in Canada at least, and I’m sure in the USA too, there is no grinding poverty comparable to that of third world countries. People do not starve to death where I live or where you do either. Randall’s point is entirely valid.
We in NA are blessed.
How did this song get overlooked? In addition to a great beat, it has pithy, Elvis Costelloesque lyrics.
Okay, now that’s just great… bring back the traumatic childhood memories of my second-hand bell-bottom corduroy pants, will ya?!???!???
Oh the shame! The agony! The zip-drum sounds of knees rubbing together as I walked… I curse the textile mills of Manchester, and the cotton on which they worked their evil magics!
Randall, just stop with the bull***** about Reagan ok? This is a disco list, jeez. You don’t hear me *****ing about that *****-tard Clinton in here do you?
Ha ha I have every one of these songs! Nice list.
Interesting list.
I love Blondie. If Debbie Harry is quite possibly the first female rapper with the end secton of Rapture.
Bob Dylan’s probably the first rapper with Subterranean Homesick Blues – if you consider rapping spoken verse over music … and that Bob’s not really singing he’s talking.
Still making my way through the videos, but I have to say, since noone else has commented on it, that Debbie Harry (of Blondie) is absolutely incredibly beautiful in that “Heart of Glass” video. Wow. She still is, nowadays, albeit in a more mature way….
Oh, and Randall, go start a blog or stand on a street corner handing out leaflets or something. Noone wants to read your insane ramblings in a thread about DISCO MUSIC FFS!
I have all of these songs..but what about:
Hot Stuff
Grove Thing (gotta love this one)
Great list!!!
Another vote for Disco Inferno from me!
87. Randall: I was speaking in a general sense…
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Having read your explanatory post, I agree with you entirely.
86. Mom424 : I was just going to say that! In fact, one of the fascinating things about fashion is how some trends get recycled and renovated. How many times have I looked through my mom´s old things and come up with something I could wear today? In fact, the whole boho chic (and hippie chic) in style now for summer is exactly a throw-back to the 70s. (Sorry if this sounds a little shallow but I´m almost ashamed to say this is my area of expertise!
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On a completely different note, I agree with Randall´s comment about suffering in NA. I live in Peru and it will absolutely break your heart to see the living conditions of people here (remember that the latest estimates from the World Bank place from 45-50% of the total population below the poverty line): literally a one-room thatch house in the middle of the desert barely big enough for the entire family to lie down in.
No one is trying to downplay any particular person´s suffering, but as a whole, you have to admit that North America (and even South America when you compare other parts of the world) have a pretty cushy life.
Randall: your comments don’t just disappear – they go to moderation and stay there until one of the three main admins approves them – this can take a matter of minutes or hours – hopefully minutes. I believe the comment you thought had disappeared is now showing
I, too, was a young woman when this horrible fiasco called disco appeared, and overnight, 75% of the bars in our town became discos. A lot of disco-type people had bumper stickers that said, “Rock and Roll is Dead!” I was one of the people driving around with “Disco sucks!” stickers on my car. Being in Colorado cowboy country at the time, the other 25% of the bars were country/western. What was a young girl supposed to DO for fun in a place like that? It was awful.
And then I discovered punk. There was one, tiny punk hangout in the whole city, and we had a pretty tight scene – punks, mods, new wavers, (skinheads, even!) There was just nowhere else for anyone outside the popular “norm” to go. But we had a great time, and I was introduced to a whole world of new music that I still love to this day. Thank God, disco is dead. But remember, as Neil Young said, “Rock and Roll will never die!”
Kevin:
Eat me. Creep.
bucslim:
Why so sensitive? I was responding to something MOM said to me. Ease up sport.
Segue:
Glad we’re on the same page now.
jfrater:
I just got nervous. Too much caffeine this morning.
BooRadley:
“And then I discovered punk”
Me too, Boo. Me too. 1976. I had to buy the records surreptiously and sneak them home… I thought my mother would object.
Me three Boo! I was living in Denver at the time. An East Coast hetero*****ual stuck between disco and cowboy music, with only a meager LP collection to keep me sane.
BTW, criticizing Reagan is perfectly appropriate on any thread, especially this one. His theme song was #8 on this list, now the entire world is barely #1.
Disco is the antithesis of Rock N Roll.
wheres rasputin??
Reagan and Disco Rule! Now with that out of the way…..
1. “Rock With You” would be a better choice re Michael Jackson from “Off the Wall.”
2. Nothing wrong with any entries, but I also like:
I Love the Night Life–Alicia Bridges
Groove Line–Heatwave
If I Can’t Have You–Yvonne Elliman
September–Earth Wind & Fire
Night Fever–BeeGees
3. Best Disco song period–Heart of Glass–and by a punk/new wave band, no less!
The clothes were a must back then,no bell bottoms,no ugly half button up shirts,no platform shoes,no shoulder length hair then guess what? NO POONTANG. I was in the Navy at the time,so I was already cool with my gubment issue blue denim bell bottoms. There were so many disco songs it`s hard to argue and fuss about what was the best or worst. It`s easy today to say disco sucks especially if you didn`t live it or wasn`t there,it was what it was.
I LOVE FUNKY TOWN
Okay, Randall,
Go forth and write your diatribes about my choices. I may be “nuts” as you say, especially being from Philly and living through the ’70s, but I’ve got better things to do than worry about what someone has to say about a list of disco tunes. Have at it, bud. I’m getting on with my real life.
Oliver Cheatham – Get Down Saturday Night
One of my favorite disco tunes, house music owes a lot to this guy.
These are so generic, to be honest. Disco is a very intriguing and enjoyable subculture of America (and furthermore, the World) that is such a comment on society. I don’t know. There’s more to it then these #1′s which make it seem like such a silly fad.
That being said: “Heart of Glass” has to be one of my favorite songs ever.
Everyones a winner – hot chocolate
I like most of these songs; didn’t realize I was a disco kind of person! I do, however, really like “Rasputin” by Boney M. It’s an amusing song.
I also love how ironic it is that “Stayin’ Alive” is the perfect tempo for CPR…
Does “I believe in miracles” by Hot Chocolate fall under the disco category?
Cue comments about miracles…now.
What about “How Deep is Your Love?” That song is not only a disco classic, it’s an all-time classic.
Somebody ought to do a list of stupid disco novelty tunes, things like “Rasputin” and Disco Duck.”
One more thing, I don’t consider “Dancing Queen,” or anything else by ABBA, as disco. To me, it just doesn’t fit into the genre. Great great song, though, one of my faves whether it’s disco or not.
Celebration is one of the most annoying and overplayed songs ever recorded, does not belong on any list, well maybe the extinction list.