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revbob wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 5:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 4:46pm
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Hello,

I think this comes down to taste/likes/dislikes. I would challenge you to name a great disco song.
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Perhaps we're splitting hairs but to me this has a more R&B feel than a disco feel - great song part of the challenge completed.
No way, that's total disco. That beat and reliance on cheesy strings are core to the disco sound. Disco drew from r & b, funk, and soul, but slowed it down and employed garish cinematic orchestration to make it, I dunno, sexy?
R&B, funk and soul was already sexy.
Soul maybe, but r & b and funk were too energetic, I think, to be called sexy. Or maybe the better word that I want is seductive.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 5:14pm
revbob wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 5:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 4:46pm
gkbill wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 4:33pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 2:37pm


Hello,

Perhaps we're splitting hairs but to me this has a more R&B feel than a disco feel - great song part of the challenge completed.
No way, that's total disco. That beat and reliance on cheesy strings are core to the disco sound. Disco drew from r & b, funk, and soul, but slowed it down and employed garish cinematic orchestration to make it, I dunno, sexy?
R&B, funk and soul was already sexy.
Soul maybe, but r & b and funk were too energetic, I think, to be called sexy. Or maybe the better word that I want is seductive.
Depends on the song/perfromer I suppose. Try and tell my Betty Davis isnt sexy as hell.

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revbob wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 6:38pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 5:14pm
revbob wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 5:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 4:46pm
gkbill wrote:
04 Jul 2022, 4:33pm

Hello,

Perhaps we're splitting hairs but to me this has a more R&B feel than a disco feel - great song part of the challenge completed.
No way, that's total disco. That beat and reliance on cheesy strings are core to the disco sound. Disco drew from r & b, funk, and soul, but slowed it down and employed garish cinematic orchestration to make it, I dunno, sexy?
R&B, funk and soul was already sexy.
Soul maybe, but r & b and funk were too energetic, I think, to be called sexy. Or maybe the better word that I want is seductive.
Depends on the song/perfromer I suppose. Try and tell my Betty Davis isnt sexy as hell.
There's always going to be exceptions, but, generally speaking, say, Motown in the 60s isn't thought of as producing sexy music.
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Red Light Spells Danger by Billy Ocean is not only one of the greatest disco records ever, it's one of the greatest songs ever.
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Heston wrote:
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Red Light Spells Danger by Billy Ocean is not only one of the greatest disco records ever, it's one of the greatest songs ever.
Fucking brilliant song mate. Still can't believe it wasn't made 10 years earlier. Awesome song.
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Good Times. It's playing on the radio right now.
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One curious thing that I read years ago was a significant difference in disco's primary audience between the UK and America. in the US, disco's original fans were African Americans, gay men, and straight women (neither gay men nor straight women made lesbians welcome in the clubs), and then it exploded into middle-class popularity with Saturday Night Fever. In the UK, disco was mostly a working-class genre. Which is striking for us in North America because it was the white working class, mainly male, who were disco's chief opponents (tho probably not so much aesthetic reasons than the black and gay association).
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I'm pissed and I love ////////////kiSS

so do you
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I'm pissed and I love ////////////kiSS

so do you
Miss you too.

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Heston what's your address?
Pith off
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Heston what's your address?
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Ok and what size?

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Someone unbiased listen to Gene's 1978 solo album and tell me I'm not going insane. Absolutely beautiful.
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