51 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”
I like the nightlife. I like to Boogie.
p.s. comparing Disco to what came later, Punk, Rap, new age, it begins to look like Beethoven among the plebs.
Disco and Punk were contemporary.
10 years ago, the parent’s at my son’s school held a fund raiser “Disco Ball” dinner and dance. All the parents dressed the part while a disc jockey blared disco hits. I was anti disco and refused to dress disco. I went as a punk with stovepipe jeans, Cherry Doc Martins, red suspenders, fake piercings, a chain of baby pins from my nose to my ear, shaved head, dog collar, spiked leather wristlets and a jean jacket with the sleeves torn off with an “Enough of the Bollocks” sex pistols transfer on the back. Apparently it was real enough to fool the club’s bouncer. He put a firm hand on my chest to stop me from entering the club. I had to get several people to convince him that I belonged at the party.
I loathed disco, too. I was a fan of the Bee Gees’ OLD songs, the ones that I mooned over while draped across my bed, as a teen. ‘Massachusetts,’ ‘Gotta Get a Message to You,’ ‘To Love Somebody,’ ‘I Started a Joke,’ etc. The later Bee Gees offerings sounded robotic, and I didn’t like the disco style of dancing. Too contrived.
Disco Sucks
… and swallows.
I loved disco then and now at 75 still love it.
This classic rocker doesn’t … hate … disco. There were some well crafted songs from that musical aberration. But I LOATHE the fact that Disco spawned … Hooked on Classics. Classical Music with a constant disco beat throughout … Oh.My.Gawwd!
Theee WORST bastardization of music in the history of the planet … to make Classical Music “accessible” to the brain dead masses. I am ashamed to say that my own mother-in-law actually adored that crap, and played it all the time. I wanted to jab icepicks in my eardrums.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Wow! Hadn’t seen that before. Those boys kick ass! Poor bows though … The audience reaction is priceless … with the kids jumping up and down in their seats … parents scowling … too funny
However …
Who needs two cellos … when all you need is one electrified classical guitar?
waaaaaay back in the golden age of rock and roll I heard a guitarist do
‘flight of the bumblebee’ really, really fast.
oyph.
Whoever put that shit vinyl together should have every one of their fingers broken.
and I’d almost forgotten that this sort of thing was done to music.
wow… thanks.
My mother-in-Law played it while working out to her Jane Fonda exercise videos … I averted my eyes and ears …
I can only assume that Ben wrote that piece for Tipper Gore … EXPLICIT LYRICS WARNING!!!! I guess I should confess that I didn’t filter any of those cd’s that my kids wanted for Christmas. I am such a bad Christian man. I always taught them right from wrong and when swearing was just gratuitous nonsense.
Filed under who gives a shit.
Scheer likes disco.
Nah. Weak Andy has more of an Osmonds vibe about him.
Disco, meh. I was worried that R&R and R&B & Jazz would slip away and would never come back. Country is good. The Big Band sound from the 1940s too, ad Classical music is wonderful. There’s good and bad in everything. I even had Mozart, Frank Sinatra, Little River Band, Sting, Wilson-Phillips cassettes in my car. They got worn out when radio was out of range. I now like everything, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates, Santana, Chicago, the Stones, Mama’s and Papas, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Bozz Scaggs,Fleetwood Mac, America, 10CC, everything Motown and pre Motown, etc. I even have a two hour concert on the OPTIK TVs system of Jeff Lynn’s ELO: Wembley or Bust to finish enjoying. Occasionally I’ll rewatch Woodstock : three Days of Peace & Music. Even, ahem, Gilbert&Sullivan and American Show tunes. Have I left anything out?
I recently bought a black Monterey Pop Festival T-shirt to hang in and another one that says I love Rock and Roll!
So there you have it, this is me…
(Like real gentlemen too! The kind that are polite!)
(Holy Cow, Steve E… that sounds like some look you had going there!)
Nancy, apparently I made quite an impression. The head of school mentioned it at my son’s graduation 6 years later.
Steve E
Stop, you’re killing me. That is funny… you must’ve really stuck out. Nice that you were remembered all those years later at grad time!
( I too wore costumes convincingly for masquerade events. It’s a lot of fun to pull off )
I used to plow the field, then disco it , and then………
I’d like to hear more of your story but I fear it would be harrowing…
i’ll see myself out.
NME @8:25 pm & Semi Retired @ 9:33 pm
You Disc & Harrow Types… go right ahead …
… as long as you know the drills!
Some jokes should just be left to lie fallow.
You have all been too close to farmers gold.
Ken K @ 12:05 am
And you are a gentleman, and a scholar and a man outstanding in his field!
I’ve got my own memories of disco.
It first came to my attention shortly before I started my junior undergrad year. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, but I had to admit that some of the tunes were rather catchy. Then again, I was in my late teens at the time.
I remember that one of the local radio stations in Edmonton, 630 CHED, had a disco show Friday nights, starting at 9 PM. It was largely background music for me.
And then came Saturday Night Fever (Feeble?). When that movie was released, I was in the middle of being transferred to Calgary by the oil company I was working for at the time. Soon after I got settled in, I got in touch with some of my mates from my freshman year who happened to be in the city.
One night, we went to a local watering hole, the reason being that it had a disco. I remember sitting at our table with one of my buddies while the rest of our group was on the dance floor. We looked at each other and I’m sure we both had the same thought: “What on earth are we doing here?”
That, thankfully, was my one and only time in such an establishment. One reason is that just about every bar, dive, and watering hole in town had made the “conversion”, so one couldn’t avoid it if one went to one of those places.
Of course, the soundtrack to SNF was a best-seller and in just about every apartment block I passed by, I swore that every other unit had it on the turntable or in the cassette player. I must confess, though, that the number of songs I actually liked from it I can count off on one hand and have fingers to spare.
I never saw the movie until a few years ago when it was shown on TCM. My reaction to it was: “That is what all the fuss was about back then?” I was quite unimpressed and I was reminded once again that John Travolta can’t act.
As for disco suddenly disappearing in 1979, I noticed that as well. I started grad studies that year and I noticed that none of the radio stations I listened to played those songs any more. A more palatable form of new wave had become popular and those recordings became dominant. As well, the Eagles had released their album The Long Run, Supertramp had Breakfast In America, and Fleetwood Mac brought out Tusk, so tracks from those were given a lot of airplay as well, and disco got sort of pushed off the radio.
I was never a fan of that genre, as such. As I mentioned earlier, some songs were nice but, on the whole, that genre was completely forgettable for me. I was interested more in what groups such as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac were recording. (Rumors–probably the best album of the 1970s!) But, by the time disco faded into justifiable obscurity, I had become a classical music and opera buff, which is what I have mainly listened to for the past 40 or so years.
By the way, Bryan Adams recorded a disco song (yup, old Cuts Like
A Knife himself) and it got airplay, at least in the Vancouver area. I know what the name of that ditty is, but I’ll make the morbidly curious look that one up. Be warned: brain bleach will be required immediately after listening.
I hated disco mainly because a lot of my crowd were musicians in Vancouver,and disco was damned near the end of club and bar bands.
It wasn’t all bad,still enjoy “Rasputin” when I hear it on an oldies station.
btw,how come they never play doo-wop on any station anymore? is it too far back in history?
I’d love to hear the Cadillacs, Frankie Lymon, the Drifters, Clyde McPhatter once more before I shuffle off.
B A @ 9:09 pm
About your last paragraph –
With regards to Bryan Adams, I have it, by gosh! Firstly, I will be frank in saying that I am not normally a ‘morbidly’ curious person in the least. Mildly curious though, occasionally. The “name of that ditty” in question is entitled, “Let Me Take You Dancing.” It’s from 1979.
What a shockingly bad song! Yikes! There are no words.
They chose to increase the tempo of the song, but there was no time- compression technology at that time so this increased the pitch of Adam’s vocals. Adam’s was disappointed with the vocals. Man oh man, who could’ve blamed him, he sounded like Alvin the Chipmunk!
I saw Bryan Adams on TV in concert a few years ago and he was terrific, as always. I think his greatness lies in the fact that no two songs sound alike. He is one of the most successful of Canadian artists.
I dismissed you at first, in thought, when you said Adams put out a disco song. I know all his music. Not. Thought you were only kidding. Heh, heh. You are cute!
P.S. Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” – one of the best albums ever. Yes!
‘Rumors’.
I distinctly remember buying the LP (yes LP) hours before the grammy awards
when it won album of the year.
still have a copy on CD.
Stevie Nicks. oooooh my.
Disco never died. It dusted off, moved to places like London, Detroit, and Chicago, changed clothes, and came back as house, techno, synth/dancepop, and for a brief spell, new romantic.
I like “Stayin’ Alive” as interpreted in the Leslie Nielsen movie “Airplane”.
Ken @ 12:05 am
And you Ken Kulak, are a gentleman and a scholar and a man outstanding in his field!
If there’s one thing you’ve written that will eternally endear you to millions and millions of fans, it’s “I hated disco with every fiber of my being”.
Truer words have *never* been written…
I was big on disco when it was hip, four years or more before SNF. To this day I have a soft spot for “El Bimbo” by Bimbo Jet:
…then I look at you
and the world’s alright with me
just one look at you
and I know it’s gonna be
A lovely daaaaaaay
A lovely daaaaaaay…
Gotta love Bill Withers. Maroon 5 did a pretty good cover.
I agree with ya Steve E..
Maroon 5 is great! Theirs is slower tempo, bet Diana Krall would be great if she did a cover of this song also.
Then there’s Jill Scott who did a really ” lovely ” version for the children! Check it out.
Very soulful! Loved it.
…sure looks good…
…the Cuervo Gold…
Have a nice weekend, guys…
See the curtains hangin’
in the window, in the
evening on a Friday night
A little light a – shinin’
through the window, let’s
me know everything’s
alright
Summer breeze, makes me
feel fine, blowing through
the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze, makes me
feel fine, blowing through
the jasmine in my mind.
Tonight…I spend my bread,
Tonight…I lose my head
Tonight…I got to get tonight
Monday I have Friday on my mind.
When Black Friday falls you know it’s got to be,
Don’t let it fall on me.
Steely Dan
Saturday in the Park
I think it was the 4th of July,
Saturday in the Park
I think it was the 4th of July,
People dancing,
People laughing,
A man selling ice cream….
I’ve been waiting such a long time
For Saturday…
‘Cause Saturday night’s the night I like
Saturday night’s alright, alright, alright…
Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday!
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land…
It’s just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
‘Cause that’s my fun day
My I don’t have to run day
It’s just another manic Monday…
Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin’, it was all I hoped it would be.
Oh Monday mornin’, Monday mornin’ couldn’t guarantee
That Monday evenin’ you would still be here with me…
Feelin’ good on Sunday
Sunday is a feel good kind of day
Feelin’ good on Sunday
Sunday is a feel good kind of day
I got friendship all around me
Ain’t nobody standin’ in my way
I like the nightlife. I like to Boogie.
p.s. comparing Disco to what came later, Punk, Rap, new age, it begins to look like Beethoven among the plebs.
Disco and Punk were contemporary.
10 years ago, the parent’s at my son’s school held a fund raiser “Disco Ball” dinner and dance. All the parents dressed the part while a disc jockey blared disco hits. I was anti disco and refused to dress disco. I went as a punk with stovepipe jeans, Cherry Doc Martins, red suspenders, fake piercings, a chain of baby pins from my nose to my ear, shaved head, dog collar, spiked leather wristlets and a jean jacket with the sleeves torn off with an “Enough of the Bollocks” sex pistols transfer on the back. Apparently it was real enough to fool the club’s bouncer. He put a firm hand on my chest to stop me from entering the club. I had to get several people to convince him that I belonged at the party.
I loathed disco, too. I was a fan of the Bee Gees’ OLD songs, the ones that I mooned over while draped across my bed, as a teen. ‘Massachusetts,’ ‘Gotta Get a Message to You,’ ‘To Love Somebody,’ ‘I Started a Joke,’ etc. The later Bee Gees offerings sounded robotic, and I didn’t like the disco style of dancing. Too contrived.
Disco Sucks
… and swallows.
I loved disco then and now at 75 still love it.
This classic rocker doesn’t … hate … disco. There were some well crafted songs from that musical aberration. But I LOATHE the fact that Disco spawned … Hooked on Classics. Classical Music with a constant disco beat throughout … Oh.My.Gawwd!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecmps6Mh5Yg
Theee WORST bastardization of music in the history of the planet … to make Classical Music “accessible” to the brain dead masses. I am ashamed to say that my own mother-in-law actually adored that crap, and played it all the time. I wanted to jab icepicks in my eardrums.
2CELLOS – Thunderstruck [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT3SBzmDxGk
Here is the reverse rock goes classical…ENJOY!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Wow! Hadn’t seen that before. Those boys kick ass! Poor bows though … The audience reaction is priceless … with the kids jumping up and down in their seats … parents scowling … too funny
However …
Who needs two cellos … when all you need is one electrified classical guitar?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMPWfHqVj40
waaaaaay back in the golden age of rock and roll I heard a guitarist do
‘flight of the bumblebee’ really, really fast.
oyph.
Whoever put that shit vinyl together should have every one of their fingers broken.
and I’d almost forgotten that this sort of thing was done to music.
wow… thanks.
My mother-in-Law played it while working out to her Jane Fonda exercise videos … I averted my eyes and ears …
There there, listen to this and you feel better (NSFW) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C4N6p78io
I can only assume that Ben wrote that piece for Tipper Gore … EXPLICIT LYRICS WARNING!!!! I guess I should confess that I didn’t filter any of those cd’s that my kids wanted for Christmas. I am such a bad Christian man. I always taught them right from wrong and when swearing was just gratuitous nonsense.
Filed under who gives a shit.
Scheer likes disco.
Nah. Weak Andy has more of an Osmonds vibe about him.
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Disco, meh. I was worried that R&R and R&B & Jazz would slip away and would never come back. Country is good. The Big Band sound from the 1940s too, ad Classical music is wonderful. There’s good and bad in everything. I even had Mozart, Frank Sinatra, Little River Band, Sting, Wilson-Phillips cassettes in my car. They got worn out when radio was out of range. I now like everything, Steely Dan, Hall & Oates, Santana, Chicago, the Stones, Mama’s and Papas, David Bowie, Phil Collins, Bozz Scaggs,Fleetwood Mac, America, 10CC, everything Motown and pre Motown, etc. I even have a two hour concert on the OPTIK TVs system of Jeff Lynn’s ELO: Wembley or Bust to finish enjoying. Occasionally I’ll rewatch Woodstock : three Days of Peace & Music. Even, ahem, Gilbert&Sullivan and American Show tunes. Have I left anything out?
I recently bought a black Monterey Pop Festival T-shirt to hang in and another one that says I love Rock and Roll!
So there you have it, this is me…
(Like real gentlemen too! The kind that are polite!)
(Holy Cow, Steve E… that sounds like some look you had going there!)
Nancy, apparently I made quite an impression. The head of school mentioned it at my son’s graduation 6 years later.
Steve E
Stop, you’re killing me. That is funny… you must’ve really stuck out. Nice that you were remembered all those years later at grad time!
( I too wore costumes convincingly for masquerade events. It’s a lot of fun to pull off )
I used to plow the field, then disco it , and then………
I’d like to hear more of your story but I fear it would be harrowing…
i’ll see myself out.
NME @8:25 pm & Semi Retired @ 9:33 pm
You Disc & Harrow Types… go right ahead …
… as long as you know the drills!
Some jokes should just be left to lie fallow.
You have all been too close to farmers gold.
Ken K @ 12:05 am
And you are a gentleman, and a scholar and a man outstanding in his field!
I’ve got my own memories of disco.
It first came to my attention shortly before I started my junior undergrad year. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it, but I had to admit that some of the tunes were rather catchy. Then again, I was in my late teens at the time.
I remember that one of the local radio stations in Edmonton, 630 CHED, had a disco show Friday nights, starting at 9 PM. It was largely background music for me.
And then came Saturday Night Fever (Feeble?). When that movie was released, I was in the middle of being transferred to Calgary by the oil company I was working for at the time. Soon after I got settled in, I got in touch with some of my mates from my freshman year who happened to be in the city.
One night, we went to a local watering hole, the reason being that it had a disco. I remember sitting at our table with one of my buddies while the rest of our group was on the dance floor. We looked at each other and I’m sure we both had the same thought: “What on earth are we doing here?”
That, thankfully, was my one and only time in such an establishment. One reason is that just about every bar, dive, and watering hole in town had made the “conversion”, so one couldn’t avoid it if one went to one of those places.
Of course, the soundtrack to SNF was a best-seller and in just about every apartment block I passed by, I swore that every other unit had it on the turntable or in the cassette player. I must confess, though, that the number of songs I actually liked from it I can count off on one hand and have fingers to spare.
I never saw the movie until a few years ago when it was shown on TCM. My reaction to it was: “That is what all the fuss was about back then?” I was quite unimpressed and I was reminded once again that John Travolta can’t act.
As for disco suddenly disappearing in 1979, I noticed that as well. I started grad studies that year and I noticed that none of the radio stations I listened to played those songs any more. A more palatable form of new wave had become popular and those recordings became dominant. As well, the Eagles had released their album The Long Run, Supertramp had Breakfast In America, and Fleetwood Mac brought out Tusk, so tracks from those were given a lot of airplay as well, and disco got sort of pushed off the radio.
I was never a fan of that genre, as such. As I mentioned earlier, some songs were nice but, on the whole, that genre was completely forgettable for me. I was interested more in what groups such as the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac were recording. (Rumors–probably the best album of the 1970s!) But, by the time disco faded into justifiable obscurity, I had become a classical music and opera buff, which is what I have mainly listened to for the past 40 or so years.
By the way, Bryan Adams recorded a disco song (yup, old Cuts Like
A Knife himself) and it got airplay, at least in the Vancouver area. I know what the name of that ditty is, but I’ll make the morbidly curious look that one up. Be warned: brain bleach will be required immediately after listening.
I hated disco mainly because a lot of my crowd were musicians in Vancouver,and disco was damned near the end of club and bar bands.
It wasn’t all bad,still enjoy “Rasputin” when I hear it on an oldies station.
btw,how come they never play doo-wop on any station anymore? is it too far back in history?
I’d love to hear the Cadillacs, Frankie Lymon, the Drifters, Clyde McPhatter once more before I shuffle off.
B A @ 9:09 pm
About your last paragraph –
With regards to Bryan Adams, I have it, by gosh! Firstly, I will be frank in saying that I am not normally a ‘morbidly’ curious person in the least. Mildly curious though, occasionally. The “name of that ditty” in question is entitled, “Let Me Take You Dancing.” It’s from 1979.
What a shockingly bad song! Yikes! There are no words.
They chose to increase the tempo of the song, but there was no time- compression technology at that time so this increased the pitch of Adam’s vocals. Adam’s was disappointed with the vocals. Man oh man, who could’ve blamed him, he sounded like Alvin the Chipmunk!
I saw Bryan Adams on TV in concert a few years ago and he was terrific, as always. I think his greatness lies in the fact that no two songs sound alike. He is one of the most successful of Canadian artists.
I dismissed you at first, in thought, when you said Adams put out a disco song. I know all his music. Not. Thought you were only kidding. Heh, heh. You are cute!
P.S. Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” – one of the best albums ever. Yes!
‘Rumors’.
I distinctly remember buying the LP (yes LP) hours before the grammy awards
when it won album of the year.
still have a copy on CD.
Stevie Nicks. oooooh my.
Disco never died. It dusted off, moved to places like London, Detroit, and Chicago, changed clothes, and came back as house, techno, synth/dancepop, and for a brief spell, new romantic.
I like “Stayin’ Alive” as interpreted in the Leslie Nielsen movie “Airplane”.
Ken @ 12:05 am
And you Ken Kulak, are a gentleman and a scholar and a man outstanding in his field!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxf2KCSyvgQ
Kate,
If there’s one thing you’ve written that will eternally endear you to millions and millions of fans, it’s “I hated disco with every fiber of my being”.
Truer words have *never* been written…
I was big on disco when it was hip, four years or more before SNF. To this day I have a soft spot for “El Bimbo” by Bimbo Jet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xn3CXv6o2E
…then I look at you
and the world’s alright with me
just one look at you
and I know it’s gonna be
A lovely daaaaaaay
A lovely daaaaaaay…
Gotta love Bill Withers. Maroon 5 did a pretty good cover.
I agree with ya Steve E..
Maroon 5 is great! Theirs is slower tempo, bet Diana Krall would be great if she did a cover of this song also.
Then there’s Jill Scott who did a really ” lovely ” version for the children! Check it out.
Very soulful! Loved it.
…sure looks good…
…the Cuervo Gold…
Have a nice weekend, guys…
See the curtains hangin’
in the window, in the
evening on a Friday night
A little light a – shinin’
through the window, let’s
me know everything’s
alright
Summer breeze, makes me
feel fine, blowing through
the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze, makes me
feel fine, blowing through
the jasmine in my mind.
Tonight…I spend my bread,
Tonight…I lose my head
Tonight…I got to get tonight
Monday I have Friday on my mind.
When Black Friday falls you know it’s got to be,
Don’t let it fall on me.
Steely Dan
Saturday in the Park
I think it was the 4th of July,
Saturday in the Park
I think it was the 4th of July,
People dancing,
People laughing,
A man selling ice cream….
I’ve been waiting such a long time
For Saturday…
‘Cause Saturday night’s the night I like
Saturday night’s alright, alright, alright…
Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! Saturday!
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Charcoal burning everywhere
Another Pleasant Valley Sunday
Here in status symbol land…
It’s just another manic Monday
I wish it was Sunday
‘Cause that’s my fun day
My I don’t have to run day
It’s just another manic Monday…
Monday, Monday, so good to me
Monday mornin’, it was all I hoped it would be.
Oh Monday mornin’, Monday mornin’ couldn’t guarantee
That Monday evenin’ you would still be here with me…
Feelin’ good on Sunday
Sunday is a feel good kind of day
Feelin’ good on Sunday
Sunday is a feel good kind of day
I got friendship all around me
Ain’t nobody standin’ in my way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCs1slIfofE