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I rented Saturday Night Fever recently and ended up watching it 3 times within one week. The plethora of unlikeable characters, the hideous vomit-pattern polyester shirts, the bursting chest hair, the guys' puffy hairdos...the dancing! Love the movie. Pretty good acting for a movie that's probably ridiculed no like other.
I collect vinyl records that I find at thrift stores for 50 cents apiece. I base my purchases based on the absurdity and pure tackiness of the album covers, and hence have amassed a fair amount of late 70s disco-era recordings - including a disco instructional lesson gem.
But seriously, I really do like disco. It's so bad it's good. It was such a brief era and before my time, so I never had the chance to hit the clubs in a tube top and bell bottoms and gaze at the blinking tile dance floor and disco ball.
Any comments or memories from those who lived through it? Was it concentrated in certain parts of the country (I read it was mostly a Northeast fad)? Any stories from disco clubs?
I'm also a disco lover.
Had to, and still do, put up with lots of raised eyebrows and 'yuck yucks' when admitting it.
I've always had the idea that it got such a bad rap because not many could look like Travolta when they tried to dance to it so it was easier on the ego to trash it
LOL... Well, it's not ironic that "Disco Ducks" rhymes with "Disco Sucks!"...
I saw Black Sabbath in December of 1978... yeah, they were my favorite Disco band! and I remember Ozzy's last polite words in that concert, which were "Disco Fu*** Sucks!"... Nice guy, eh?
I was in NYC when disco was pretty well over, 1978-81 - punk days (and even punk had gone mainstream by then). Disco was too much of a trendy city subculture to last very long or to spread very far without becoming adulterated and bland. But when it was hot and new, WOW! There was NOTHING like it! I understand the raves of recent years were similar - but I get the feeling they didnt have the same silly-sweet heart that disco had.
I was living in Virginia at the time disco was coming out. More rockers in Va. than disco lovers.
I've never been to a disco but I do love some of the music and have a lot of disco songs on my mp3 player that I use for walking or dancing around.
At least most disco was real music and had real instruments. A lot of amazing bass, percussion and horn work in a lot of disco songs.
A lot better than most new top 40 songs that are over produced pieces of garbage. I think producers are making fun of people and seeing just how crappy they can make a song and still get people to buy it.
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