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Disco era looks like an awesome time


Disco music, dancing, positive vibes, its just... So sad we've lost so much of that in this social era of ours.



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The spread of herpes and the police raids probably weren't so fun though.



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It was a multi-billion dollar industry (making more than films) with radio programmers playing everything they could lay their hands on. July-79 - Jan.80 was pretty much the quick end to it.

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Disco music, dancing, positive vibes, its just... So sad we've lost so much of that in this social era of ours.

yes you are right on. totally true. i try to tell young people now how it was happy then, and they just don't get it.

what i say is, find me an angry song from back then. you can't do it.

(and don't cite metal, cause that was not mainstream then)


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No disrespect to those of you who enjoyed this era, but at the time, I was a rock-and-roll fan and mildly anti-disco. The music was good, but the disco culture was drug-oriented, appearance-oriented, shallow, mindless, and artificial. Its entire premise was based on elitism and exclusivity--the situation where a small amount of people are allowed to participate while the rest are excluded and derided.

Good movie, though--as it made me realize the good points of the lifestyle.

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The music was good, but the disco culture was drug-oriented, appearance-oriented, shallow, mindless, and artificial. Its entire premise was based on elitism and exclusivity--the situation where a small amount of people are allowed to participate while the rest are excluded and derided



You're only describing the few elitist clubs and there weren't that many of them and they were pretty much only in the largest cities. There were discos all over the place in every city that never discriminated. The clubs you describe haven't gone away at all either. They are still there, just playing different music. As horrible and tacky as disco music was at the time, it sure wasn't as negative as you describe it at all.

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Others would say Disco was inclusive and integrative, in that blacks and gays could participate alongside whites . . . . and that homophobia was part of the anti-disco aesthetic.

Disco was also a kind of performance art, where the audience/dancers were as much a part of the show as the music/musicians/DJs.

What I hated most about the anti-disco crowd was their claim that "disco isn't serious music". Why the hell would I want seriousness in my music?

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I came of age during that era and I could be regarded as a former disco duck. Honestly, I feel fortunate to have experienced it. It was a golden age of hedonism. The sexual revolution of the sixties had gone commercial. Yeah, you had to look a certain way, dress a certain way, and certainly be able to dance, if you couldn't then you were excluded. Elitist, you bet, any good club was. But when I tell some of the millennials about the things that went on back then they think I am making it up. I'm not.

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You are right.
I lived during the club days of the late 90s. We also experienced an amazing nightlife. I had some the BEST memories with friends during this time. We were into the music and having fun with each other. Sure there were drugs ( I stayed away from them) but that's always been the case. My older friends who came out would tell us about the glorious disco days.

Much like the end of disco, I saw the end of the club days. It's much different now and the millenials or whatever generation is now they don't get it, some do, but the majority don't.

This movie is really only going to stick with a certain group. Others will not understand it at all.

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Disco was what the country needed after Vietnam and Watergate. The culture of the United States today is very different Those were much simpler times

We've all changed and evolved.. but it's nice to go back every once and awhile and enjoy the music of our 20s (well MY 20s ;)

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No, it really wasn't. It was a time of senseless music and mindless trolls.

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The disco era has been romanticized, but it really was a dark period. The Vietnam War just ended, the economy was a mess, NYC was close to bankruptcy. I am from NYC and while I was very young during the disco era, my father describes that time as "the pits," and he was in his mid-30s at the time.

To me what is more sad is what happened to the NYC club scene. Up until the late 90s clubs were about music and having a great time. Limelight was jam packed with people dancing and the bar was tiny. You went there to dance and have a great time. If some arrogant Wall Street guy showed up with his boys and tried to bribe their way in the door man would have laughed in their faces.

These days clubs are all about bottle service and they will let anyone in as long as they are willing to drop $700-$800 on two bottles (sometimes the entrance fee is even more). The NYC clubs used to be eclectic and now they are just filled with Wall Street douche bags and trust fund babies.

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