5 - Miss you. Stones. I do not see this as a disco song, but Ive always loved it.
4 - Hold back the night. The Tramps. Sounds more like a Fill Me Up Buttercup mowtown type knock off than disco. But nice enough.
3 - Space Age. Jimmy Castor. I just like Jimmy.
2 - Idris Mohammed track.
1 - Im gonna hafta go Funky town. One of the worst songs of all time and I gotta respect the balls of whoever picked that…plus the chick in the black pants was pretty hot.
You’d have yourself a fairly extensive sax offender register by now.
Notes have been taken and will be released to the relevant authorities upon the reveal…
Disco… someone said it best earlier… it’s possibly more a vibe than an actual musical genre. There’s songs here I don’t think are “disco songs”, more songs that were influenced by the disco scene. Hell, I’m not even certain my own selection is a disco song per se - more that it got me tapping my toes, I liked it as a song, and I could just about imagine it being played at Studio 54 in the late 70’s.
Anyhow… some of these are just ■■■■, some suffer from over-familiarity, many are prime exhibits of unnecessary honking bastardry (Lizzy M, Revanche, Gino Socchio, Idris Muhammed etc. I’m looking at you all and condescendingly sneering in your general direction…)
5 votes: Sheila B & Devotion
This was my favourite song here by the length of the Flemington Straight. There’s something very appealing about the hook in it, and it’s that same hook that was appealing when it was sampled in one of those early-mid 2000’s Euro-pop club songs and made it better than what it actually is… can’t remember the song, someone here will know).
4 votes: Tantra
It’s almost two songs in one. The first part is great - some very tasty keyboard sounds in it. Once the vocals come in it kind of changes and is less appealing, but that first part gets it over the line.
3 votes: Tavares
This would have to be a prototype Studio 54 song, wouldn’t it? A pre-existing R&B/soul vocal group who then rode in on the crest of disco.
2 votes: Earth Wind & Fire
At least it wasn’t December…
1 vote: Lipps Inc
Just because it’s the original and not that farking awful Pseudo Echo cover…
Now, Le Freak… if Nile Rogers doesn’t play the exact same guitar riffs on every song he has ever wriitten/produced/played on/remixed/whatever I will go he-for-tiggy. Doesn’t matter if it’s Chic, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Duran Duran, Diana Ross, whatever… every goddamn one is identical!!! I mean, yes his playing is nice and compact, and he’s very good at that style but Jesus… mix it up a bit MAN!!!
@swoodley
Forget about funky town I’m going to Swoodley town.
@swoodley thanks - I didn’t mind that too much, (and Mrs vbi loved it) so bit of credit to the BDJ selections, lot of good and interesting choices.
5 Sylvester - you make me feel
4 Donna summer - I feel love
3 bee gees - you should be dancing
2 tramps - hold back the night
1 Gino soccio dancer
Walk up to anyone in the street and ask them to name some disco tracks and they’d say half a dozen of the tracks here without a thought. Your reward for not trying is no votes from me.
I realised from this set that synths help. The space/italo/Hi-NRG tracks here really stood out.
5 - Tantra - Hills Of Katmandu
(Absolute banger. Those big synth sounds. This is farking cool as, every element is gold.)
4 - The Immortals - The Ultimate Warlord
(This is tasty. How is it even 70s? Pre-Cybotron electro sounds.)
3 - Sylvester - You Make Me Feel
(Had a good long look at this one myself. Almost sounds like it’s speeding up every 4 bars.)
2- Gino Soccio - Dancer
1 - Tavares - Heaven…
(inoffensive smooth pop disco)
I am taking notes, and preparing for a rant.
If it relates to certain non disco tracks, then please proceed
If that’s referring to my post directly above yours, bring it on!
It relates to non disco tracks, to various posters (and a couple in particular), to blatantly contradictory commentary and votes from a number of posters, and general disingenuous voting practices in general. Oh yeah, and sax crimes. Oh my. What a whole bunch of sax crimes. I’m not even sure sax should be in disco, but even if it could be, it shouldn’t be in good disco. Far out
Hahaha. Not so much.
Is disco that narrow a genre that expanding on the sound and adding other instruments and influences is sacrilege?
If there’s sax on it, it is (with very, very, VERY few exceptions) not good anything…
It is an elite group of people who know how to play it tastefully without it being gratuitous honking and parping…
No, except sax. Sax is always sacrilege.
But I reckon in a bunch of cases the sax crimes point to more funk than disco. And a bunch of the songs here are just pure “pop” following pop song structures with a bit of a funk groove and a couple of synths that make me think they were as much real disco as Mantissa was a real Grunge band.
I once saw a guy (on international acclaim) playing sax at Bennett’s Lane. He was clearly elite at the playing bit, but the result was him playing as many notes as he could in a minute, then trying to beat his record in the next minute. For 45 minutes. It was horrendous and ear destroying, and I’m not even sure I could have enjoyed it if I’d been wearing a black skivvy
So we needed to play “real disco”, not pop disco?
Love the Mantissa reference 
Yes! Guitar solos are the same to me. Most solos really.
I’ve never, ever liked a song purely because of the technical wizardry on-show.
I know there are people that wank-on about great guitar/keyboard/drum/whatever solos or vocal performances, but that’s not what moves me. But then… I don’t play (very well at all) or sing…
I mean, Mariah Carey clearly has great vocal range, but she has absolutely no feel or restraint. She has every note in the book, and goddamn she’s gonna use them… and in every farking song! Most modern female singers are the same… no restraint whatsoever.
I’m far more impressed by someone’s ability to build something from very little. That is what gets me in the feels.
Clearly not, as Swoods was happy with the entire lot being “disco”. But playing a song where some band, or record label are just trying to cash in on a fad seems a bit disrespectful to a genre that genuinely changed society.
Happens to everything. Look at the ■■■■ that passes for punk or hip-hop these days.