Disco-era DU'ers: The Hustle. Why? Why? Why?

[Taverner]

This song and that Disco Tex one were just horrible, yet they are always played - why is that?? Why did people like these tunes? Why werent the composers flayed and cooked over shells?

[Spider Jerusalem]

1. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

(disco was before my time, but that's the only explanation I can think of)

[Taverner]

2. Hehehehe seems like it

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. I think it was the dance thing...

Disco brought back physical contact between dance partners in upbeat-tempo tunes, which was kind of nice. Sure the songs sucked; but the dancing was fun.

[Taverner]

5. True...but I will argue there was good Disco

I like Disco Bee Gees (as well as their folk stuff)
The Trampps did the classic "Disco Inferno"
And the Commodores "Machine Gun" - if you can't dance to that tune, you're not human

But The Hustle was like bad elevator music with a beat.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. I'm With You

How about Parliament's "Flashlight", or Santa Esmerelda's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood", or Nia's "I Can't Stand The Rain". Even though it was overplayed, Disco Inferno was a good song that was arranged and produced terrifically!

There were a lot of nuggets of gold amongst the worthless rocks of disco!
The Professor

[Hissyspit]

6. It was a kind of formalizing of dance and interaction after the years of

informal and anarchic music and dance and social interaction of the late '60s and early 70's.

Whether that was good or bad is much debatable.

[skygazer]

4. I never understood the popularity of any of it

The music! The hair! The clothes! Gah! It was all awful. Personally, I blame the Bee Gees. :grr:

[Archae]

7. Hey, I like it.

I was in my late 'teens when disco really hit it's stride.

I called discos "meet markets."
I danced like a hippo with one leg and Parkinson's, but I loved trying to pick up women. :-)

[Skittles]

11. you voted for Reagan too

you fall for bad fads easily

[OzarkDem]

18. Everyone had fun doing it

though I preferred watching from the sidelines.

[donheld]

8. The Hustle is not horrible at all

That's why.

[deutsey]

9. Just be happy "Disco Duck" has mercifully faded into obscurity

If it begins receiving regular airplay again, ye shall know the end is nigh.

:scared:

[Skittles]

10. Tavener, don't get me started

when I started my teenage years I was in England, going to concerts to see Cream and Alvin Lee and such......then I was sent to live with my aunt in Iowa where all the girls liked David Cassidy....when I finally turned 18 and escaped into the miliary, THE DISCO ERA WAS ON. OMG, just utter f***ing CRAP.

[xchrom]

12. do the hustle!

[Crazy Dave]

13. I used to disco

[ProfessorGAC]

15. I Met My Wife At The Disco

We entered dance contest and everything for a year or so. We won two, finished 3rd once, and then got up into the big leagues and got shown the gate. At these contests, there were professional dancers who would pair up just for contest dancing. A little out of our league. We were good, but not THAT good!

So, disco was very good to me. Been married 26+ years!
The Professor

[NewWaveChick1981]

16. I never really liked disco.

I was about 13 when disco hit. Something about it just felt plain wrong. :P I took a ballroom dancing class around then because my mother signed me up, and we learned the Hustle along with waltzing and the foxtrot. I've never been fond of line dancing anyway, so the dance and the song just made me wanna hurl. I saw Saturday Night Fever with a group of girls from my school (never mind that we were all 13 or 14 and it was an R-rated movie! :rofl:) and wanted to know what the big deal was about when it was over. Those girls were gaga over John Travolta. I always called him John Revolting. :P There were some horrible songs that came out of that era. :puke:

That's OK, though---I found my music niche a few years later. :hi:

[OzarkDem]

17. I could never learn the dance

I didn't "get" disco. Never understood that line dancing thingy, either, where everyone lines up like in gym class and dances the same steps.

[RevCheesehead]

19. One word: Polyester.

The 70's version of "plastics."

[El Fuego]

20. Because almost everything in the 70s sucked.