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rsmurphy wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 12:54 pm Hey now! "Kerosene" is disco, "Stinking Drunk" is death-rock, and "Copper" is pop.

bisou

What about "Precious thing"? That one always had me bobbing my head and making "moves"...more of a 80s Hip-hop groove on that one IMO...

rsmurphy wrote: Hey now! "Kerosene" is disco, "Stinking Drunk" is death-rock, and "Copper" is pop.

bisou

OK! And if The Fall covering a Sister Sledge song from 1979 ("Lost In Music," above) doesn't qualify as disco, I'll eat my damn hat.

Blur “Girls & Boys”?

Regarding previous suggestions, not all booty-shaking music is disco, but all disco music is booty-shaking.

Nate Dort wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:41 pm

That one feels more synth pop to me, but Tattoo (Giving It Up For Love) takes both him and Huey Lewis onto the light-up dancefloor.

susanvp wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 4:08 pm

rsmurphy wrote: Hey now! "Kerosene" is disco, "Stinking Drunk" is death-rock, and "Copper" is pop.

bisou

OK! And if The Fall covering a Sister Sledge song from 1979 ("Lost In Music," above) doesn't qualify as disco, I'll eat my damn hat.

Mark Smith was good at disco. Forgot about this one.



And then of course the last good Fall album contained this gem.



Actually, Your Future Our Clutter was quite good.

Nice 16-beat on this one, too.



And finally,

jfv wrote: Sat Jun 24, 2023 5:05 pm Blur “Girls & Boys”?

Regarding previous suggestions, not all booty-shaking music is disco, but all disco music is booty-shaking.

IMO Blur was never rock, though they could rock. They were pop.

Minor Threat, sort of, but only during this drum break:

Don't know if he really counts as a rocker but in 1979 Elton John made a disco album with Donna Summer's producer Pete Bellotte. Apparently it was not well received.

How about when disco went new wave?

Dave N. wrote: Sun Jun 25, 2023 9:12 pm How about when disco went new wave?

There was a renaissance and we missed it! I think I still have that tape somewhere.