Did Van Halen's first album destroy disco?

[coloradodem2005]

I keep thinking that it probably did, but what do you think?

[CanuckAmok]

1. who cares, as long as something did.

Plus, I think punk/power pop destroyed disco.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. And the stupid shit people dance to in clubs now is somehow better?

Disco was absolute art compared to the drivel they call dance music today. I spent one night at The Beach in Las Vegas several years ago on a date, and had to just shake my head. :shrug:

[BlueJazz]

14. I have to agree with you on that. Man Oh Man..I can't believe..

...how far some parts of the "Music Rainbow" has degraded into adolescent Pablum Bull-Shit.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Disco only "died" in the US until new club music styles took over

Most of the rest of the world continuted to embrace what is called "Italo disco". Pretty much the same music, just from Europe or whatever.

I doubt many conventional disco fans would have paid any attention to Van Halen, but who knows. :)

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. I'd call it a combined effort.

Van Halen certainly was involved. But so were The Clash, Ac/Dc, Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, and The Knack. And believe it or not, the "Urban Cowboy" movement, which took the Travolta Trendies who had only been into disco since his previous movie anyway.

I know that horrid form of music has many fans around here, but "Disco Sucks" was my battle cry in 1978 and remains so today.

[Droopy]

5. Ronald Reagan killed disco

By executive order #1785. The one bright spot in his presidencies. I think he actually campaigned on that and that's how he won.

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. Don't start rumors like that

I might start respecting the old bastard :puke:

[Droopy]

9. He was also responsible for the creation of the death metal genre

My 80s metal bands wrote songs about Reagan and his policies. Without Reagan there never would have been Megadeth.

[MrSlayer]

10. Well while not Death Metal I have to agree.

Megadeth was Thrash. But there were a ton of bands who fed off his and Poppy Bush's policies. D.R.I.'s simple "Reaganomics" song epitomized it.


Edit: Dave Mustaine is now a Born Again and an ardent Bush follower.

[Droopy]

11. Say it ain't so!

I can understand getting religion, but supporting Bush? Mustaine is now a parody of himself.

[Maestro]

12. Mustain is a * follower?

OMG! I am going to hurl. So much good music I am going to have to trash if this is true.

[MrSlayer]

17. Absolutely True.

http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=28343

There are many others where he supports the war for Christian reasons and shit like that. He's a puke as well as a sellout punk.

[Chicago Democrat]

7. Steve Dahl destroyed disco and the lawn at Comiskey Park in 1977

everyone knows that/

[MrSlayer]

8. I don't know that it killed Disco.

But I do know their semi-commercialized "Big Rock" sound helped bring Heavier bands into focus and birthed (along with Randy Rhodes and Angus Young) the era of the guitar hero. The album didn't kill disco but it did deal out a serious wound to it. Credit to them.

[saltpoint]

13. I can't say with clinical certainty that it did. But IF it did,

God bless it.

[sundog]

15. um... disco was never destroyed

m'kay?

:P

[Shadowen]

16. "I like pop./I like soul./I like rock.

"But I never liked disco."
-Everclear, AM Radio

[cleofus1]

18. heathens!

The Ramones and the Sex Pistols destroyed disco...

van halen....bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah heh...

i know....i was there...

[Strawman]

19. I thought it was "Disco Duck" with some help from "Copacabana"

[Scurrilous]

20. Cocaine destroyed disco...

...or at least its septum.