How is Disco different?
How is Disco different than clubbing? Obviously, the music will be different. But their lives seemed pretty much like mine now. I go clubbing every weekend.
share Disco just meant a mix of like-sounding rhythmic bass-oriented music, danced to by polyester fashioned gay-looking guys.
The anomaly was, as stupid and shallow it may have been (musically/socially) it was very significant for about five years in the radio/rec./club business until it vanished as quickly as it appeared.
Disco is primarily thought of as Eastern, urban, gay, drug oriented, hedonistic, and appreciated much more by women (and Europeans) than (straight) men. Dancing to Donna Summer or the Village people couldn't have made it at any other time.
Disco, despite being primarily electronic, had a level of organicness and exoticness to it, and melody. The krapola they play in "clubs" today has none of that...you need to be numbed on Ex or something else in order to dance to that hip hop/trance/house garbage.
And disco was a fad that was around for about four years, and then people grew tired of it, grew up, or moved on to another genre (punk, rock n roll, or New Wave). Hip hop/trance/house has been dragged out for nearly a decade....and it's getting worse. I thought we'd hit rock bottom a few years ago with Fergie's London Bridge and Justin's Sexyback...but sadly the spiral is still moving down. Rock and roll needs to drop another bomb--this time on hip hop and house. Or people are just so dumbed down and have such low expectations, they don't care what is played. But if anything with melody would be played at these clubs, they'd probably have seizures.
Honestly I wish they'd blow up hip hop/house CDs and records in a stadium as they did with disco records. Compared to hip hop and trance, disco music is not disposable. I'd venture to bet that clubbers today do not play the krap they hear in clubs inside their own homes---that wasn't the case with disco. In 2009, people still enjoy hearing Chic and Donna Summer (at parties, weddings, etc). Twenty years from now, will people be craving to hear London Bridge and Sexyback? Not bloody likely.
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And disco was a fad that was around for about four years...Love Train by the O'Jays (the song on the subway car at the end), arguably the first true disco song, was released in December 1972 and cracked the Top 40 at the end of January 1973. I don't know about New York, where this film is set, but out here in the provinces (I live in Arizona), disco was pushed off the airwaves by the growing popularity of punk/new wave in 1978 or 1979 and the continuing popularity of country rock/southern boogie, heavy metal, and progressive/arena rock. Disco was then pushed out of the bars in 1980 by the mass conversion of clubs to a country format in response to Urban Cowboy.
~~Bayowolf
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Disposable is the right word. Listening to the music & seeing the pictures, there's an element of glamour to disco. We think of it as "tacky" because it included a lot of lower-class people trying to make themselves look fancy. People were TRYING.
House/techno/rave were more fratty. Very common to see a guy in a tank top, jeans & baseball cap. And those who did dress up are mostly just being campy. Nothing wrong with that, it's just left no legacy.