Worst Disco Songs?

[Nadia]

I was thinking about it, and I wondered what you all thought were the worst disco songs of all time...I mean I know there are a lot of good ones, but what about the bad?

I'd have to say that one of my very *least* favorite disco songs is "Body Heat" by Alicia Bridges. I'm sure there are a lot of people who happen to love the song, but it just doesn't tickle my fancy at all.

So what are your least favorites?

[markydefad]

Well, I'm gonna slightly amend the question for my own means: "What's the worst Disco LP with one outstanding track?"

This question came to me recently when I listened to the Baby O' LP again. "In The Forest" is a sublime Latinish disco gem with vocals by The Waters. The rest of this LP is godawful. A song called "Pork Chop" comes to mind. I'm not home ...so I can't pull the rest of the titles...but I listened in disbelief at the unbelievable level of incompetent song-writing; even some of the vocals were dreadful (male vocals featured some of the Hudson Brothers, BTW. I think it was Bill Hudson who was married to Goldie Hawn and is the father of Kate and Oliver.) Not sure exactly who was responsible ....but it was sooooooooooooo awful. :o

Any other examples of this?

[SandraDee]

Well Marky, one LP that springs to mind is Alphonze Mouson's (of Poussez fame) 'Morning Sun' LP. I absolutely adore the 'I'm Glad That Youre Here' track as I just think its classic early 80's disco/jazz-funk, but the rest of the LP is the WORST kind of muzak imaginable. Its too bland for hotel lobbies or Jazz FM even!
BTW, I featured Baby O's 'In The Forest' in my Top 25 as I really rate this track. I've never heard the LP but according to the sleeve notes of 'Disco Spectrum' its every bit as bad as you say!! I'd love to hear it out of curiosity.

[QUINNY]

Steely & Marky: I think the recently talked about Lipstick soundtrack must be a candidate.

[JussiK]

Broadway Brass's "Guys And Dolls Go Disco" album is even worse than it sounds, with the exeption of the sole track "Luck Be A Lady". This jolly rolling tune always sounded perfect mixed in and out of Ritchie Family's "Lady Luck". And how about "Salsa Woman" off the Vast Majority lp, did you ever even consider giving any of the other tracks a spin? The hot & sassy "Salsa Woman" struts just fine even today. There's also an absolutely terrible Paul Delicato lp from 1976 which contains a wankish disco version of "Cara Mia". Terrible but I like it.

[NickNack]

Please put the Ethel Merman disco album in this category. I know we've circled this tree before but that woman's voice makes my eardrums bleed. :evil:

[Marcio**]

There's an incredible silence (I think) about the disco album of the group Black Ivory. They did disco songs like "Dance", "White Wind" and "Walking Downtown (Saturday Nignt)". Is it good ? Bad ? My fave, "Making Love In My Mind", has only 2:18 :( .



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[Masdefi]

No doubt: "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots (he included) :lol:

[Funky Dude]

I'm not the one to hate disco songs but there are two disco songs I find it really HARD to wanna listen to and they are:

Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of Beethoven 1976
Rice & Beans Orchestra - The Blue Danube Hustle 1976

They are very embarrassing :oops: :oops: :oops: to listen to as they are discotized old farts music. Not all discotized old farts songs are embarrassing to listen to but these ones are and I have a REALLY hard time wanting to listen to them.

Walter's discotized Beethoven while does sound funky to a certain extent, but at the same time it sounds uncool as the Beethoven tune makes me feel like one of those 1950's boarding school boys with glasses and wear a school uniform with a tie. If I listen to this song, I may as well be listening to classical music.

Rice & Bean's blue danube is even worse especially when they go "waltz waltz waltz" YUUUUUCK :( !!! This song makes me feel like I'm living in the 1930's. I've only fully listened to this song once and had to turn the volume right down as I was too emabarrassed :oops: to let anyone else hear it.

So they are the worse ones I've heard so far and the most uncool ones I've ever heard.

[nrgbeat]

Originally Posted by Funky Dude

I'm not the one to hate disco songs but there are two disco songs I find it really HARD to wanna listen to and they are:

Walter Murphy - A Fifth Of Beethoven 1976
Rice & Beans Orchestra - The Blue Danube Hustle 1976

They are very embarrassing :oops: :oops: :oops: to listen to as they are discotized old farts music. Not all discotized old farts songs are embarrassing to listen to but these ones are and I have a REALLY hard time wanting to listen to them.

Walter's discotized Beethoven while does sound funky to a certain extent, but at the same time it sounds uncool as the Beethoven tune makes me feel like one of those 1950's boarding school boys with glasses and wear a school uniform with a tie. If I listen to this song, I may as well be listening to classical music.

Rice & Bean's blue danube is even worse especially when they go "waltz waltz waltz" YUUUUUCK :( !!! This song makes me feel like I'm living in the 1930's. I've only fully listened to this song once and had to turn the volume right down as I was too emabarrassed :oops: to let anyone else hear it.

So they are the worse ones I've heard so far and the most uncool ones I've ever heard.

I love your descriptions.

[QUINNY]

Funky: Now you know how an awful lot of disco tunes make me feel. There are countless others I would add (including some by Alec R.) Sadly, there were many that made me feel ashamed of being a DJ. I tell no lies.

The most embarassing element in the Walter Murphy scenario is that it was featured so prominently in Satrurday Night Fever, THE film that supposedly turned so many people on to Disco music. The Trammps were just about the only band that came out of that with any honour and Disco Inferno was barely heard. Still, doubtless your fellow countryman Robert Stigwood had a BIG say in which tracks were included? Anyone know?

[discosavvy]

Hey Funky Dude, do you know that Robin Thicke's debut single "When I Get You Alone", which reached #29 on the American Pop chart last month, is sung over "A Fifth of Beethoven"? Can you believe it? The singing is actually OK, and I can deal with discofied classical music, but the music should have been original. Anyway, it's one of the few pure disco songs that have charted in the top-40 on the American pop chart since 1983. (because the good disco songs from foreign artists don't get much airplay or attention... Cher's "Strong Enough" got on the top-40 in 1999.)

Even worse, can you believe that the dreadful Ethel Merman Disco Album is being re-released on CD and that it got mentioned in the New York Times on December 6?

I can't tolerate "Is Something Wrong With You?" by Bobby Thurston, "YMCA" by the Village People, "Knock on Wood" by Amii Stewart, "Shake Shake Shake" by K.C. & the Sunshine Band, "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart, and "You're OK" by Ottawan.

[SandraDee]

Well I'd sooner listen to any of the tracks you have all just listed than that shit that's supposed to be music by the likes of Oasis & Eminem. Anyway, I think its a shame that everyone seems to have got away from the 'LPs with one brilliant track & not alot else' topic which is much more interesting IMO as we've been down this 'disco that sucks' route time & again. I'm sorry, but its so negative & defeats the object of why we're all here doesn't it? Sorry guyz but I had to get that off my chest.

[NickNack]

Originally Posted by discosavvy

I can't tolerate "Is Something Wrong With You?" by Bobby Thurston

Love it, Love It, LOVE IT! :lol: Talk about throwing attitude right back to the dancefloor? Was always in my box just in case 'one of those nights' popped up .

[midas]

it has got to be D.I.S.C.O by ottawa
destroes anyones reputition who listened to disco.