Irresponsible use of DISCO CLASSICS

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I WAS around BITD.... albeit in England, and there is a horrible trend of using Disco Classics on adverts and the like....DISCO SHOULD NOT BE USED OUT OF CONTEXT. the ONLY way to hear these songs is in a disco, or on headphones...Not on ipods, or TV.....unless it is a video.

I heard Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie on an Antiques Program the other day and wanted to shoot the TV....People UNDERSTAND,
DISCO MUSIC IS FOR DISCO USE ONLY...READ THE LABEL !!!

[QUINNY]

Originally Posted by starsky

I WAS around BITD.... albeit in England, and there is a horrible trend of using Disco Classics on adverts and the like....DISCO SHOULD NOT BE USED OUT OF CONTEXT. the ONLY way to hear these songs is in a disco, or on headphones...Not on ipods, or TV.....unless it is a video.

I heard Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie on an Antiques Program the other day and wanted to shoot the TV....People UNDERSTAND,
DISCO MUSIC IS FOR DISCO USE ONLY...READ THE LABEL !!!

I'd love to know what some of the tracks are that they use on Bargain Hunt. More power to 'em, that's what I say. Auntie Beeb is a funky ol' mama.

[Thereza bizarre]

I'm glad you noticed that!. i am truely seriously fed up with disco and 80s music being "Genre'ized" to death as if it is this quaint 500 year old relic that deserves only a "camp ole laugh" i see the antiques program your on about and they use that track or all 8 seconds of it very often and cut it to death make it sound totally out of context and people are stupid enough not to know the bloody difference. phew!!

[disco-disc]

Q..Yes LIBRARY music is OK in the right place, but NO!!! as Thereze quite rightly acknowledges, it is the OUT OF CONTEXT thing that bugs me.
BITD the radios played Disco all day long and it was great...however, I could NEVER stand hearing the old Sixties stuff at weddings, etcc...
Now I am as vexed and opposed to hearing 70's stuff out of context, as I was about 60's crap !!

Is it just age ?????

[RetroRuss]

Originally Posted by starsky

I WAS around BITD.... albeit in England, and there is a horrible trend of using Disco Classics on adverts and the like....DISCO SHOULD NOT BE USED OUT OF CONTEXT. the ONLY way to hear these songs is in a disco, or on headphones...Not on ipods, or TV.....unless it is a video.

I heard Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie on an Antiques Program the other day and wanted to shoot the TV....People UNDERSTAND,
DISCO MUSIC IS FOR DISCO USE ONLY...READ THE LABEL !!!

Funny, I saw that programme too as I was at home that day and commented on the use of Boogie Oogie Oogie...my view is that on mainstream media, Disco is given so little airtime, even on a crappy antques programme with poor production values a snippet of a disco tune is better than none at all! To take your arguement to its conclusion the only place to hear Disco music in context is actually in a Disco, not even on headphones!

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Just to set the record staright for our USA cousins, We DO ACTUALLY WORK in the UK....Just this program is on at ahem! lunchtime , and ALL the Brit CORRESPONDENTS HERE SAW IT ...says a lot about our viewing habits hey ...David Dickinson (I think) is a Floridian orange man with a garish dresss sense...or is it now the gap toothed 'nice bit of Tottie in a Jalopy' Gent ???

Who says we don't know disco in UK !!!!...even the OLD FOGIES get served it at lunchtime whilstr pretending to watch antiques being sold.....

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Sorry, just realised and wanted to clarify...the reason we are all watching this at Lunchtime is WE ARE ALL DJ'S AND THIS IS WHEN WE GET UP AND TAKE DELIVERY OF OUR RECORD POOL DISCS