Greatest disco song of all time is "Love Train" by The O'Jays. Holy crap but it's magnificent.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 11:24amAs someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
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See I don't even think of that as a disco song. More like a 70's soul/pop/R&B. I see wiki classifies at as disco and there is a six minute version, so maybe I need to give that a spin.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 12:18pmGreatest disco song of all time is "Love Train" by The O'Jays. Holy crap but it's magnificent.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 11:24amAs someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
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I was going to say Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield but it's so early that we have to call it soul.
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I totally get that about the production and sound, it felt like it had landed from another planet. But ultimately as a tune it doesn't really knock my socks off.Silent Majority wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 12:17pmIt's still got that mad freshness that truly original songs always carry, regardless of their imitators. The Pistols singles came out in the same year, and their revolution was in the lyrics and presentational attack - there was nothing new in the music. I Feel Love is brilliantly new and you can hear that.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 11:24amAs someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
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as i alluded to above, the production was a big influence on the post-punk scenes of, particular,y new york where there was all that mutant disco happening in the 80s. I love all that shit, all of it took a huge page out of the giorgio moroder book and this song in particular. which, again, doesn't necessarily mean i'm full on in love with the song itself, but there is some pretty solid punk and underground connectivity there, if you want it.
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And speaking of Joni, here's her first known recording, a very lovely cover of House of the Rising Sun:
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It's early disco, so the soul antecedents more obviously stand out. But it's definitely disco.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 12:26pmSee I don't even think of that as a disco song. More like a 70's soul/pop/R&B. I see wiki classifies at as disco and there is a six minute version, so maybe I need to give that a spin.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 12:18pmGreatest disco song of all time is "Love Train" by The O'Jays. Holy crap but it's magnificent.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 11:24amAs someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
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I don't know if I think it's the greatest disco song of all time but it's great for sure.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 12:18pmGreatest disco song of all time is "Love Train" by The O'Jays. Holy crap but it's magnificent.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 11:24amAs someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
Probably pick something by Chic. But there are loads of great disco songs. "I Feel Love" was a huge disco song but it's equal parts electronic as disco.

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My vote would be for some Chic song or other as well, if only because of Bernard Edwards. Probably "Clap Your Hands."Marky Dread wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 1:41pmI don't know if I think it's the greatest disco song of all time but it's great for sure.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 12:18pmGreatest disco song of all time is "Love Train" by The O'Jays. Holy crap but it's magnificent.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 11:24amAs someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
Probably pick something by Chic. But there are loads of great disco songs. "I Feel Love" was a huge disco song but it's equal parts electronic as disco.
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Yeah that's a great tune Kory.Kory wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 5:24pmMy vote would be for some Chic song or other as well, if only because of Bernard Edwards. Probably "Clap Your Hands."Marky Dread wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 1:41pmI don't know if I think it's the greatest disco song of all time but it's great for sure.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 12:18pmGreatest disco song of all time is "Love Train" by The O'Jays. Holy crap but it's magnificent.matedog wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 11:24amAs someone who only has a cursory knowledge of disco, "I Feel Love" feels foreign. It's certainly not a pop song, there is too much space. Refrains come and go seemingly at random. I really wish it was 4am and I was high off my ass on coke and this song would be perfect. Reminds of that Beach Boys disco song, but better. I guess real disco songs are long as shit and just meandering for coke heads.
Probably pick something by Chic. But there are loads of great disco songs. "I Feel Love" was a huge disco song but it's equal parts electronic as disco.


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Well, one song is anti-capitalist, and the other is a drug anthemDr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Sep 2020, 7:54amWhen you think of Clash fans, clearly you should think of disco or folk pop, not ska punk! But which should you think of more?
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If we're talking disco, I can't look past "Red Light Spells Danger" by Billy Ocean.
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Wait, is the parking lot actually a narc?tepista wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 5:26pmWell, one song is anti-capitalist, and the other is a drug anthemDr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Sep 2020, 7:54amWhen you think of Clash fans, clearly you should think of disco or folk pop, not ska punk! But which should you think of more?
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Sure, what kind of paradise did you think she was talking about?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 5:35pmWait, is the parking lot actually a narc?tepista wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 5:26pmWell, one song is anti-capitalist, and the other is a drug anthemDr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Sep 2020, 7:54amWhen you think of Clash fans, clearly you should think of disco or folk pop, not ska punk! But which should you think of more?
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I thought it was a 72 virgins Islamic terrorist suicide bomber song. Man, I don't get lyrics, like, at all.Kory wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 6:35pmSure, what kind of paradise did you think she was talking about?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 5:35pmWait, is the parking lot actually a narc?tepista wrote: ↑14 Sep 2020, 5:26pmWell, one song is anti-capitalist, and the other is a drug anthemDr. Medulla wrote: ↑13 Sep 2020, 7:54amWhen you think of Clash fans, clearly you should think of disco or folk pop, not ska punk! But which should you think of more?
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