I need a refresher. Why is disco evil?

[Deja Q]

:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

1. I don't think people were saying disco is evil...

I think the concern was that if people liked disco too much, then it might lead us into a war with Iran.

Man, I gotta stay out of GD.

[SoxFan]

2. The face of evil

[taterguy]

3. It was evil back in the day because it was perceived as being plastic and sterile

Along with folks who didn't like it because it was embraced by blacks and gays

[Deja Q]

4. Blimey. Disco is definitely airheaded and fun,

but I think that was the point.

The real sterile plastic stuff came during the 1980s.

:hide:

[Carrieyazel]

22. Disco does hold up pretty well today though. At least some of it.

compared to the crap being released today in "popular music".

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Look what it did to Rod Stewart

(Every picture tells a story, don't it?)

[Deja Q]

6. Who?

:hide:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. I've edited my previous post for the boomer-impaired.

[lost-in-nj]

7. I don't think disco was evil..

I think it was the CLOTHES that were evil















:scared: :scared:

lost

[derby378]

8. I think techno is more versatile than disco

I've heard techno that's been flavored with urban/R&B, hip-hop, rock, speed metal, "hippie" music, and even Brian Eno-style ambience. It's kind of hard for disco to stray from its own parameters without transforming into something else. Come to think of it, that's pretty much how techno got started in the first place - as house music in Detroit nightclubs. Someone described the first manifestations of house as something like "music performed at gay nightclubs by straight disco expatriates." I don't know how accurate that is, but there you go.

[billyskank]

9. Because disco leads to sex.

[Joey Liberal]

11. Disco was fun, but it wasn't Rock n Roll.................n/t

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

12. Here's a simple experiement for you to try

1. Smoke some of your favorite herbal essence (or whatever you use for your personal mental expansion purposes).

2. Play this a hundred times in a row. Dancing to it is permitted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RjuC9YeXg

3. Count the number of years your therapy is set back because of it.

[Deja Q]

13. That was so awful, I had to respond with a replacement option for #2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abQK_O1WVA

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. Hard core.

I suddenly recalled exactly why I stayed drunk the entire decade of the 70s.

Disco done it to me. :cry:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. What about this?

Early 80s Italian rap-disco! (This actually got airplay in Brazil, of all places) http://youtube.com/watch?v=oHLewcdIWlw

[trof]

15. Mainly because 'disco' spelled backwards is 'Ocsid'.

One of the minor minions of Beelzebub.
Ocsid was the forger.
No, not of bogus checks.
The pitchforks.
His were made of actual pitch, (key of C#) and required constant attention, as you would imagine.

[Guava Jelly]

16. Disco was the Shizzle!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D7-qMrJ0Kn8
Donna Summer On the radio

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oUG0GjdoGHE
Blondie Heart of glass

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gknXou3gha4
Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe (live)

[matcom]

17. because of this:

[Mountainman]

18. I loved disco. A whole gang of us use to go to Dillons in Westwood

http://www.discomusic.com/clubs-more/3031_0_6_0_C/ I was the oldest in our group but I looked much younger than the rest. I got carded all the time and they didn't. It use to really piss them off!

[hfojvt]

19. because it has a good beat, and you can dance to it

Dancing is evil

[mwdem]

23. It is. I danced to disco back in the 70's...

I had evil thoughts about my dance partners.:evilgrin:

[Scurrilous]

21. Looks evil to me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kphP-YDwE8Y

You Make Me Feel(Mighty Real) Sylvester 12''

:thumbsup:

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. It wasn't the music so much as the clothes and hair.