It’s possible that disco died, but it makes a fabulous corpse.
Blame Fuckhead for this one:
by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 32 Comments
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It’s possible that disco died, but it makes a fabulous corpse.
Blame Fuckhead for this one:
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gbear
Talk about: M – Pop Muzik
Just Some Fuckhead
Gibson Brothers and Kelly Marie. Play the good stuff!
gbear
Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
SiubhanDuinne
Hey, Sarah, did you used to be Tattoo Sydney?
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@SiubhanDuinne:
A lady never kisses and tells.
ETA: Memo to Yutsy. I’ve been rumbled. I’m scared.
EATA: Keep chatting up in Cole’s cat thread, and maybe no one will notice.
Yatsuno
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: It’s his fault really. What, running off and getting married to his doctor beloved and all that. I personally think he got lost in some alleyway in Lisboa and found himself a tavern owner with amnesia.
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Pfft. You’re 22 years older than her. You could bend her over your knee if necessary. Or desirable.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Yatsuno:
I once had an email exchange with a spammer who was planning to meet me in Lisbon to set up a youth’s home with his millions before he succumbed to his terminal cancer. Never panned out. Funny that.
asiangrrlMN
A:@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Bahahhaha! I’ll hold you. And Yutsy. ::GROUP HUGS::
ETA: Disco gets you every time!
Yatsuno
@asiangrrlMN: JUBLEYS!!!!
gbear
Shannon – Let The Music Play. A great dance floor soap opera.
asiangrrlMN
@Yatsuno: THREESOME! #waitwhat
@gbear: That’s a GREAT song.
trollhattan
Noticed I missed a bloody great disco war, below, earlier today. Not stuff I’m nostalgic for because I was into vastly different things back then, and I’m not of a mind to recast it as awesome, decades later. Won’t begrudge others for feeling differently but there was a shitton of much more interesting music being made and played, presuming one had a way to hear it.
Independent commercial radio was being killed off with great prejudice at the time and if disco was a convenient target for folks upset about that, it wasn’t the critical one. The day the music died was November 14, 1980.
http://bayarearadio.org/audio/ksan_fm/
Book it, hippies.
mai naem
Our alternate weekly in Phx had an article a few years ago about the Village People(I think they were in one of those retro music tours) and the reporter snickeringly mentioned how a lot of people didn’t realize that the Village People were gay. I was a kid at that time and I am not sure I even knew what gay meant at that time but its amazingl how obviously gay they were. LOL
Yatsuno
Nope. Not apologising.
handy
@gbear:
Heh. “Reegan is president elect.” That lyric’s only slightly wrong, but the one following is oh so right.
Bruce Partington
The Village People weren’t gay. The audience they were marketed to was gay.
Also, disco didn’t die, it was assimilated. Just like mainstream gays.
handy
Whoa whoa whoa whoa. Almost two hours have passed since this thread started and not one mention of Right Said Fred? Somebody’s asleep at the wheel, obviously.
maven
Where are my poppers?
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Bruce Partington:
Some of them was definitely gay.
maven
Also too……marry me ST&P.
BruinKid
While not made during the disco era, this 1998 version of “If You Could Read My Mind” for the movie 54 is awesome. And what about Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra’s “Love’s Theme“? Magical stuff.
dance around in your bones
@SiubhanDuinne:
Haha, Siubhan, that was awesome. I would never have had the balls to ask that question. I only speculate because it would be irresponsible not to.
tom
“Smalltown Boy” has aged really well – still very haunting and very moving.
nastybrutishntall
Judging by the joints Pharrell is turning up in these days, disco is very much alive, or at least undead. Viva disco, babies.
Mnemosyne
Just posted this at the end of the previous disco thread: “Groove is in the Heart”
I hate house music, except for Deee-Lite. I did find these guys weirdly fascinating when they opened for TMBG last month, though my ADHD brain can only take so much repetition before it gets bored. They were apparently banned from the subway during their busking days because there were too many dancing people blocking the platforms (or so they claim).
taylormattd
Thank you Sarah.
taylormattd
@Bruce Partington: Well thank god there is still an uber-hip, outside-the-system, non-sold-out gay here to remind us all of how motherfucking amazing he is.
*rolls eyes*
Bruce Partington
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: That’s hardly adequate citation. First, it in turn links to a dead URL as its source. Second, the individual Wikipedia entries it also links to say nothing about the sexuality of any of the members, gay or straight. One member married a guy in 2004, which I’ll accept as an implicit indication that he’s gay.
But being in Greenwich Village, a bartender, and wearing jingle bells on your shoes in the ’70s is hardly proof of gayness, and for that matter being opposite-sex married is hardly proof of straightness — lots of gay guys who are now over sixty married women back then. Men back then weren’t nearly as insecure (and overcompensating) about their “masculinity” as they are these days, and while most male long-haired hippies of that period would appear gay to modern eyes 99% of them weren’t, as I learned firsthand (much to my disappointment).
To sum up, the Village People as a group weren’t gay, unless you’re someone who thinks gayness is some sort of contagion, similar to the ol’ “one drop of Negro blood” theory of race. As best, and assuming your cite is 100% accurate, they were half gay.
Bruce Partington
@taylormattd: Wow, that’s a first-class case of projection you have there. Seek help before your eyes get stuck like that and you start running into doors.
The Tim Channel
Disco didn’t die. Reagan stuffed it in a duffel bag and shipped it to Gitmo. Enjoy.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Bruce Partington:
OK. I’m not sure it’s that important. Ymmv.
Bruce Partington
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: No worries. I know it’s partially a semantic argument that the original commenter would assume they were all gay, especially when informing some other putatively-ignorant person of their misconclusion.
Btw, if you like media-sf, check out Continuum (if you haven’t already). It’s kind of refreshing to see Vancouver BC playing itself for once. Channel 4’s Utopia was also quite a good conspiracy thriller series but may be too upsetting for some…