What's your favorite disco song?

For me, it's Shame, by Evelyn "Champagne" King.

You Make Me Feel.....Miiiiiighty Real

:)

way back, when I moved to S.F., that song was popular and it always evokes that time and place for me.

...by Hot Chocolate.

BTW...do you have the extended version of Shame?

In MP3 format.

Blondie

Not Disco

I'd definitely say "Heart of Glass" falls into the disco category, certainly not punk.

Now it's "I Will Survive".

I'm just a LUV machine! And I don't work for no-bo-dy but you!

ooh yeah

I'm just a LUV machine, a hugging kissing fiend!

Dr. Love, he don't need no office life
'Cause he operates at night
Dr. Love, what he does is keep me well
What he does I'll never tell
Dr. Love, sweet Dr. Love
Dr. Love, Dr. Love, Dr. Love, Dr. Love, Dr. Love,
He ain't got no competition
only he writes my perscription

He's got the power every hour... he's the reason why my face is all aglow! Just one kiss from his lips is like takin' vitamin C! Oh! You can't imagine what my Doctor does for me!

He can cure my every pain.
He can make me well again.
Doctor Love.

mmmm MMMMMMMMMMMM
Doctor Love!

so listen baby ...
GIMME-BACK, GIMME-BACK,
Gimme back my Love Affair!

GIMME-BACK, GIMME-BACK,
Gimme back my Love Affair!

That's what I want
That's what I need

That song makes me want to get up and dance still.

song by a somewhat little known group. It's called Your the one for me by D-train. Still one of my favorites after 20 years.

:D

I only know a handful of people that have even heard that song. Every time a burn a cd, thats always on it.

either "How Deep Is Your Love?" or "More Than a Woman". Just beautiful songs.

Those songs stand up to any others in any genre.

I still know all the words. My son does too :)

How can this even be close? I sing it in the shower all the time. :D

Dating myself. <blush> Oh gosh, gotta add "Ring My Bell! <g>

....make the list.

by KC and the Sunshine Band of course! :)

do a vigourous, funky hustle to.

Your body,
My body,
Everybody move your body...

K,
is this the vid where Mikey and his bros are in gold lamé with space ship graphics?

I have seen/heard it only once and it was quite awesome. Just want to know the title for my hunting trip.

Awesome song. Starts like R&B and turns into the mutha of all Disco. AWESOME stuff!

That would have been my choice...kudos!

It's like any musical genre. Except Karaoke or American Idol...

i.e., a precursor.
Disco turned a whole generation of brains to mush so that they were easily molded by Reagan's evil. The rest is, as they say, history.

:shrug:

OK, so this is tounge in cheek. Actually, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln:

For those who like this kind of CRAP,
this is the kind of CRAP they will like.

:evilgrin:

was really crappy, at least until Punk and New Wave came along. Mid-70's Rock certainly wasn't making anyone smarter. Although there was some interesting jazz/fusion in the early 70's. (IMHO...)

I always thought that straight men hated disco because they identified it as "gay" or "black." Personally, I preferred Punk, but liked going to gay male clubs so I could dance and have fun without being bothered.

A lot of my put down of Disco is, as I said, tounge in cheek.

I don't care for it, but that's just me. But I do think that a lot of it was rather insipid.

I think we also tend to associate music of the past with events or other memories - very personal.

I absolutely *hated* the BeeGees and most of the other non-funky disco. I used to lobby the D.J.'s in the gay clubs to "Pleeeeze" play some funky or punky dance music like George Clinton or Sylvester, or, even Billy Idol (even though he was a poser).

Nonetheless, I loved to dance so I would settle for just about any disco they played as long as it wasn't the BeeGees or "Billy Jean."

Besides Punk, it was really The Blasters and Los Lobos that made Rock fun and interesting again. (Again, IMHO...)

Hey, lover, I got a sugarcane
That I wanna lose in you,
Baby can you stand the pain
Hey, lover, sugar don't you see?
There's so many things that you do to me
Ooo baby!
All I wanna see is the love in your eyes (hey, lover)
And all I wanna hear is your sweet love sighs
All I wanna feel is burning flames (hey, lover)
Tell me, tell me, baby, that U feel the same
Tell me that U feel the same way I do
Tell me that U love me too

U feel so wrong, be alone, if u just follow somebody someday]

Soft and wet
Soft and wet

Soft and wet
Soft and wet

Every time I'm with you, you just love me to death
Ooo weee, baby. you leave me without...
Breath! Ooo, baby! Oooo, yeah

You're just as soft as a lion tamed
You're just as wet as the evening rain
How will I take it when you call my name?

Your love is driving me...
you're driving me insane
Crazy, baby
Crazy 'bout your love

Soft and wet (U know)
You are soft and wet (Oh, sugar)
Your love is soft and wet
Soft and wet

Ooooh Oooooh Oooooh :-P~~~~

Prince is the greatest American musician of the 1980s. He transcends genre more than he transcends gender. :)

....I remember requestin' Soft'n'Wet at a local disco that let us preteens dance on Sat. afternoons...he's a genius indeed! :)

:hi: Welcome to DU! :hi:

mmmmmmmmmmmmmBaby! My heart is full of love and desire for you...!

was a good disco LP...love that song

'cause Yvonne Elliman is local and, in fact, has recently begun performing again in Hawai'i, at "'70s Soul Jam" and suchlike events.

...oooh...Love to Love You Baby...

Love it!

An instrumental from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

But if you ever tell anybody that I liked any disco song whatsoever, I'll sic Asscrack on you... :)

Go ahead and tell me how EWF ain't Disco, but they won't fit into any category very well, will they?

:evilgrin:
dbt

nt

The BeeGees get blamed for starting the disco craze, but what's missed is that if everyone had done it as well as them, it might have been listenable. There's a wide gap between their work and the repetitive electronic noise that tried to follow them.

Well, that's my opinion. No one likes my opinions, but I give them anyway. Sad, huh?

Tommy Mottola lives on the road
He lost his lady two months ago
Maybe he'll find her, maybe he won't
Oh, wonder, nooo
He sleeps in the back of his grey Cadillac, oh my honey
Blowing his mind on cheap grass and wine
Oh ain't it crazy baby, hey
Guess you could say hey, hey
This man has learned his lesson, oh hey
Now he's alone
He's got no woman and no home
For misery, oh, oh
Cherchez la femme

Miggie, Miggie Bonija's very upset
She's sick and tired of living in debt
Tired of roaches and tired of rats, I know she is oooh
So her noble man says
"Baby I understand, oh my honey"
Now he's working two jobs at Eighth Avenue bars
Oh ain't crazy baby
Now she complains
That her man is never present, no
She goes next door, I know that she's just playing the whore
Hey for misery my friend, hey
Cherchez la femme

(Instrumental break)

They'll tell you a lie with a colgate smile, hey baby
Love you one second and hate you the next one
Oh ain't it crazy, yeah
All I can say, ay, hey, of one thing I am certain, ooh, ooh
They're all the same, all the sluts and the saints
For misery my friend
Cherchez la femme

Hey now, Cherchez la femme (ooh)
Oh babe, Cherchez la femme (ooh)
Yeah, Cherchez la femme (ooh)
Oooh that's amora, Cherchez
Oooh that's amora, Cherchez
Amora amora be mine, be mine
Devine! (Oooh that's amora, Cherchez)
Cherchez la femme
(Se si bon, Se si bon, Se si bon)
Cherchez la femme, rumba
(Se si bon, Se si bon, Se si bon)
Cherchez la femme, rumba

(Repeat and fade)

Andrea True Connection

:kick:

I thank God everyday that I wasn't around in the 70's. :)

album, THEN I would agree with you. :-)

Say it ain't so.

I actually do like one disco song...if it is disco...Kung Foo Fighting!

Edit: I also like "I Will Survive" by I forget her name. :)

Don't tell anyone that I secretly like those songs. :)

Even the people who say disco sucks can name at least one or two songs they like.

And it's Gloria Gaynor who sings it.

Burn baby burn!

That song was funkier than the average disco song. I always danced when that was played!

On edit: Who recorded that, anyway?

Are you perhaps thinking of "Tear The Roof Off The Sucker" by Parliament? One of the lines is "We're gonna turn this mother out."

Lyrics:

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Backstage/1687/gutf.html

Great tune on a great album, "Mothership Connection."

Edited to add this comment from an obscure article:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/pfunkdead.html

>>
This situation went into “urge overdrive” with release of Parliament’s Mothership Connection in early 1976. This landmark Funk masterpiece would earn P-Funk their first platinum album as well as their first million selling single “Tear The Roof Off The Sucker.” Within two years, they would become the biggest black touring attraction in the U.S.
<<

And "Tear The Roof...," but I do recall the line, "Burn the mutha down," being in Disco Inferno, although it isn't emphasized vocally.

Through the miracle of the Internet, I found a link:

http://www.disco-disco.com/disco/di.html

I'm actually a little embarrassed that I even remember it, when I can barely remember where I left my car keys...
:eyes:

Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards, baby!!!

I think I'd like that.

the performer was sued for copyright infringement. All the copies of the recording were destroyed. I have heard that there are bootleg copies out there somewhere.

For the disbelievers:

When disco was bad, it was awful. When it was good, it was great.

Let me direct your attention to this wonderful article, "Bad Songs... They Say So Much. The Worst Musical Refuse of the 70s." The songs are overwhelmingly not disco.

http://www.furious.com/perfect/badsongs.html

The article is in the delightfully named "Perfect Sound Forever." The name mocks the most sacred tenets of the CD Hoax. But that's another story.

George Clinton

but I like it just the same! :)

I just insulted George Clinton & the PFunks

and I love it, but, unfortunately, I never heard it played in any disco clubs I frequented. (I would have been thrilled!) It was WAY too funky.