It Belongs to you and me
May 2, 2009 at 1:41 am
Fuck the future!
No, Tony, you can’t fuck the future.
The future catches up with you, and it
fucks you if you haven’t planned for it.
Tonight is the future, and I’m planning
for it. There’s a shirt I have to buy… (Saturday Night Fever, 1975)
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” The Disco List. New Era mix. ”
01. The Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive (Misio More-Bass Edit)
(Found somewhere on the net, 2009)
02. The Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
03. Lady GaGa [ft. Colby O'Donis] - Just Dance (Downtown Party Network Blend by Luminfire)
(Found somewhere on the net too,2009)
04. The Vanish - Heartbeat
The Vanish (The Vanish, 2009)
05. La Roux - Quicksand (Mad Decent Remix)
Quicksand EP (2009)
06. Parliament - Mothership Connection
Mothership Connection (1975)
note: Things are a mess out there. Flu, war, economy, more war. How about little disco? You can’t go wrong with disco. :D Everybody take out your polyester suits!
Hey we won an award. It has nifty logo too. I guess now we can’t post ugly pictures. winning award and all. Thanks guys.
image: ArtWerk
see also: Origin of disco, Disco (wiki), BBC docu on Disco.
RaNDom YouTUbe clips
Cold Chisel - Saturday Night (1984)
Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1984: Cold Chisel’s promo-video for the hit single ‘Saturday Night’ (April, 1984) taken from the 1984 album ‘Twentieth Century’.
Oh I Love Your Disco
Silly Olympics
Great map. Saw it on BoingBoing and died laughing. Bjork.
lady gaga? really?
yeah and she is tired of life already… lol
It’s for everybody’s inner middle school. I think she will last about 25 nano second. btw, the map. Gulf of Abba. I thought it was hilarious and deserve a list.
I just want to save “La Roux” from the rest…
You posted a great remix of her song: thank you!
LOL massive map!
I might try to keep up with the upbeat tunes.. can’t promise anything… :P I’ll have to dig deep through all of my downbeat, haunting and depressing music jajaa!!
hey this is pretty interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco
Backlash
From 1979, The popularity of the film Saturday Night Fever prompted major record labels to mass-produce hits, a move which some perceived as turning the genre from something vital and edgy into a safe “product” homogenized for mainstream audiences. Though disco music had enjoyed several years of popularity, an anti-disco sentiment manifested in America. This sentiment proliferated at the time because of oversaturation and the big-business mainstreaming of disco. Worried about declining profits, rock radio stations and record producers encouraged this trend. According to Gloria Gaynor, the music industry supported the destruction of disco because rock music producers were losing money and rock musicians were losing the spotlight.[32] Many hard rock fans expressed strong disapproval of disco throughout the height of its popularity. Among these fans, the slogan “Disco Sucks” was common by the late 1970s and appeared in written form in places ranging from tee shirts to graffiti.[33]
In the late 1970s, Disco music and dancing fads began to be depicted by rock music fans as silly and effeminate, such as in Frank Zappa’s satirical song “Dancin’ Fool”. Some listeners objected to the perceived sexual promiscuity and illegal drug use that had become associated with disco music. Others were put off by the exclusivity of the disco scene, especially in major clubs in large cities such as the Studio 54 discotheque, where bouncers only let in fashionably-dressed club-goers, celebrities, and their hangers-on. Rock fans objected to the idea of centering music around an electronic drum beat and synthesizers instead of live performers. Some have contended that there was also an element of bigotry to the anti-disco backlash; in his book A Change Is Gonna Come, Craig Werner wrote, “the attacks on disco gave respectable voice to the ugliest kinds of unacknowledged racism, sexism and homophobia.”[34] Some historians have referred to July 12, 1979 as “the day disco died” because of an anti-disco demonstration that was held in Chicago. Rock station DJs Steve Dahl and Garry Meier, along with Michael Veeck, son of Chicago White Sox owner Bill Veeck, staged Disco Demolition Night, a promotional event with an anti-disco theme, between games at a White Sox doubleheader for disgruntled rock fans. During this event, which involved exploding disco records, the raucous crowd tore out seats and turf in the field and did other damage to Comiskey Park. It ended in a riot in which police made numerous arrests. The damage done to the field forced the Sox to forfeit the second game to the Detroit Tigers who won the first game. The stadium suffered thousands of dollars in damage.
wait, I think that Parliament song is actually “Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker)”
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