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I'm off to the disco
Posted by tim tunes on 10 August 2010 - 9:16pm.
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Coincidentally, my old mum...
...visited me on Saturday and looked through my CDs to take some home to put on her new iPod (a perfect example of someone who has got into technology and gadgets years into retirement).
She found Odyssey's Greatest Hits (which was in her record collection when I was a lass) and we put it on and did some mother/daughter* bonding singing the above and If You're Looking For A Way Out.
If You're Looking For A Way
If You're Looking For A Way Out = yet another example of the adult, complex grown-up thing that disco can do. Jesus, what a bleak song. (Even gloomsters Tindersticks failed to add much to the misery with their version).
Actually the ostensibly-spangly Inside Out by Odyssey is pretty fucked up when you have a close listen.
Bittersweet
A real bittersweet song, isn't it?
Marvellous. I loved Odyssey when I was a girl, then as a teenager decided it was all terrible (dyed my hair black, wrote bleak poetry etc), and then by the time I was in my late twenties, realised that I (and my Mum) was right all along.
Inside Out
Written by a slightly odd Scotsman...
I knew it had been written
I knew it had been written by a Scotsman, but I had never actually heard this version. How random, as they say.
Jesse Rae seems delightfully colourful. He's (kinda) into politics these days, I read.
Underrated
Just heard that for the first time in ages and thought - blimey that is a good tune (as is Inside Out and Use it Up Wear it Out).....i'm off for the white suit
Your Mum was right
Can I join in...?
It's Donna Time!
I Feel Love :
Best. Disco. Song.
Ever.
Yep
Best mix too
Shalamar : There it is.
That inevitable Star Wars/disco interface realised
C'est Chic
innit?
Très
Niles and Bernie
If I had a good foot, this would get me on it...
Moloko - Sing it Back.
I love Chic.
And this is a stoater...
Alternate universe floor filler...
...in Happy Castle world, anyway. :-)
Count me in
Van McCoy's wonderful The Hustle. This is happy music people!
Speaking of disco...
Has anyone explored the inexpensive and nicely-done Disco Discharge series? I have a couple of them. Disco fans will find lots of hard-to-find stuff. Apparently they guy behind it had to have some of the masters baked, yes - baked, in order to get decent quality stuff to transfer to CD.
I'm just pleased because now I have Patsy Gallant's From New York To LA on CD.
http://www.disco-discharge.com/
Three of them
arrived last week, the first purchases for many, many weeks. They lie atop a pile of other CD's, their cellophane patiently awaiting my probing fingernail. Their time will come...soon.
http://open.spotify.com/user/dr.pill/playlist/6hezmAOsqSY6V2XCF4NfWV
Toto: Georgy Porgy
Wonderful - and I see it has the rather unexpected (and successful) foray into disco by Africa hitmakers Toto featuring Got To Be Real hitmaker Cheryl Lynn.
Disco Discharge?
Sounds like a embarrassing Seventies STD. Not too sure about the Pink Pounder either.
!
You haven't lived.
Thanks for reminding me...
...I read about them a few months ago and meant to investigate. Delighted to be reminded.
My anachronistic bank manager (not a real person) will be less delighted.
Disco?
I'll give you disco
This came on the iPod in the car on the way to work...
... this morning and as a result I didn't walk into the office - I strutted.
That was the opening track on the NME's
'Dancing Master' tape in about 1981. THAT'S the way to start an album.
Shame on you if you can't dance too
Was dancing to this
...at Lovebox just the other week .
Giorgio Moroder
was hugely underrated as a producer and composer of disco music during the seventies and helped popularise the synth in pop music. My first ever record purchase was the Moroder-penned Son Of My Father by Chicory Tip, the first commercial single to use the Moog. I still haven't managed to work out exactly what they're singing though.
I also loved Rod Temperton's work with Heatwave long before he had a hand in Jacko's hits. (Ooer missus!)
Get ready to cut a rug.
Come on and jump!
Its Saturday Night!
Two guaranteed floor-fillers (for me)
Let's not forget Supernature
which seems to have penned by Lene Lovich !
---Wikipedia
Good Times...Bad Times...Lest We Forget
Since everyone seems to have cherry-picked the best of disco don't forget the excruciatingly bad disco records we had to endure. A real turkey from the same year as Anarchy in the UK...
If you don't mind, I think I'll sit this one out.
Judge and the juror too
A couple of classic 12 inchers:
The Mutant Variety?
A bit of Marvin
and this fabulous spring-loaded bass classic...
Got a fiver?
This is a pretty good way to get mp3s of a lot of these, mainly from the later years but they seem to bend the '80's groove' rules (plus of course some drivel, but it is 51 tracks) - its a good quality bundle
http://www.amazon.co.uk/80s-Groove/dp/B003WA4EW0/ref=pd_ts_th_1?pf_rd_p=...
Róisín Murphy