JerseyGirl
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Yeah, I agree.
Disco!
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Yeah, I agree.
TheWhalerfan
Lovus My Avatarus
Hmm maybe it is just me then? I wouldn't say it was heavily disco tainted, but my ear hears a slight influence...it was the late 70's after all. Who knows, maybe I am just wacked.
JerseyGirl
Senior Member
I think of it more as a funky sound.
Mr. Bob Dobolina
Senior Member
To me, disco is like 80s hair metal. It's something I ignored at the time but now I'm discovering stuff I like. Some of them are: "Instant Replay" by Dan Hartman, "Dance With Me" by Peter Brown, "More, More, More" by the Andrea True Connection, "Rock Your Baby" by George Mcrea, "Fire", "Love Rollercoaster" and "Skintight" by the Ohio Players and "Sky High" by Jigsaw.
Oops.. I see quite a few vids posted on this thread that people are being misconstruing funk for disco.. Thats not going to happen.. disco is a by-product of this song.. Yeah, ok, why not cross over to other genres, it happens and some of them are going jump on the money wagon and actually write a song that is "disco" even tho they are NOT disco by any sense of the word... example KISS.
I wonder what musicians think when they write a song that some how floats over to the disco charts and 27 years later people walk up to them saying how much they really love that song over the other more serious classic songs they have.. What would they think.. that the greatest rock no roll band in the world and the only song people talk about is this "disco" song you wrote 27 years ago.. vs. other serious songs of who we really are that actually won grammys.
Me, being a musician, I was looking at songs (even back then) from a musical stand point as in what would this song sound like in a Ac-Dc style etc.. Black Sweden did a killer job with ABBA songs. I was also looking at structure, substance. melody and presentation. Thats the only real way to applicate music in any form.
I wonder what musicians think when they write a song that some how floats over to the disco charts and 27 years later people walk up to them saying how much they really love that song over the other more serious classic songs they have.. What would they think.. that the greatest rock no roll band in the world and the only song people talk about is this "disco" song you wrote 27 years ago.. vs. other serious songs of who we really are that actually won grammys.
Me, being a musician, I was looking at songs (even back then) from a musical stand point as in what would this song sound like in a Ac-Dc style etc.. Black Sweden did a killer job with ABBA songs. I was also looking at structure, substance. melody and presentation. Thats the only real way to applicate music in any form.
^^ I absolutely disagree with your last sentence...you can dissect music to it's component parts if you like but there is also nothing wrong with just "enjoying" a song for it's own sake.
Sorry Judd but that is an elitist way of looking at things, besides the vast majority of people that love music are not musicians, just fans.
Sorry Judd but that is an elitist way of looking at things, besides the vast majority of people that love music are not musicians, just fans.
Nololob
Long Live Wock 'n' Woll
Few other forgotten classics!
Boney M. - Happy Song
Eruption - One Way Ticket
Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
Boney M. - Happy Song
Eruption - One Way Ticket
Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
gcczep
Ever Onward...
LG, did you mean the song "Some Girls" or just the album in whole? About the song, I get a kick out of the lyrics while the whole set was the band trying to sound more "urban" after the "reggae" roots of "Black And Blue" before it. "Straight On" has that sexy, seductive slink to it but I agree that I'm not feeling the "disco" bit either.
Now Stewart? Well, he acknowledged how much that song was hated by his followers. That's when he discovered hair spray and spandex. Stewart went from a rootsy troubadour to a disco diva in one swing.
Speaking of disco, I always associate the divide in that one scene in "Detroit Rock City" where the kids were rolling on the highway followed by some older ones in their Trans-Am blaring "Makin' It".... The pizza scene? Priceless!
Well, that explains why when one listens to the radio (do people still listen to that thing any more) its the same old burned out songs over and over, and whenever I see a time-life commercial once again its the same old dry up songs thats been hashed to death..
Tell me Grendel, just how many various artist on vinyls, CDs, cassettes and 8-track tapes do you have that has steppenwolf - born to be wild on it.???? Its NOT that great of a song.
You want "fun songs" how about Raffi and mister rogers", arent those "fun songs"? Kids under 6 seems to enjoy them.
And theres absolutely nothing wrong with being a "elitist" when it comes to anything in fact, does that also means anybody with a PhD is a "elitist" as well? If your going to be serious about anything ones own standards have to be true, have to fix a certain criteria.. meaning (a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.)
Try this:
Which would you rather pick... 1. Eddie Van Halen or 2. Ritchie Blackmore? One is all flash and speed, the other is style and substance.?
People would pick Eddie because hes the flavor of the month and obviously you dont want to be labeled "weird" for picking Blackmore. And not using "any" criteria in this selection means you have no standards in evaluating anything whatsoever.
It is what it is... This is not a drug induced point of view nor do I make this crap up. Ask anybody.
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Sorry GCCzep I meant the song "Miss You", and I have grown to like whole Some Girls album more over the years than I did when it came out, there was all kinds of backlash about the Stones selling out and all that, at the time I didn't pay much attention. I couldn't blame any of the bands from the 60's or early mid 70's doing whatever they could to survive during that tumultuous time in rock music.
