i have the nachos,who has the cheese

[judydoggie]

That wouldn't be the same Meco that did the "Star Wars" thing... I'm blushing at the thought that I ever danced to that!

I'd say more but I'm going into the other room to retch in the great big porcelain microphone...

Paul a.k.a. Judydoggie

[judydoggie]

I'm gonna yank this thread out of the grave on a positive note. I just bought "The Classic Rosemary Clooney" -- part of the RCA Victor 100 years of music set.

Included therein are some of the most catchy Mambos and Cha-Chas from the height of the craze ('59-64) and I find my dancin' feet going all over the place practicing my Latin steps to this music.

It would seem to me that creative dee-jays would have a field day with some of this cheese!

BTW, "Are The Stars Out Tonight" is the great Clooney/Perez Prado tune that's the theme for the Lipitor commercial with the handsome older gentleman who ends up doing a belly-flop into the lap pool...

paul - a.k.a. Judydoggie

[georgeb]

Hi guys

Definitely Ottawan have the cheese.Also SAW made the production for many cheesy tracks (especially for Kylie :evil: and Jason :evil: ).Another very cheesy song was "creme soufle",but I dont remember the group.Does anyone Know this track?It sounds like Boney M at the worst.

I disagree about Prince and Georgio Moroder

[bedshaker]

yes dr disco was a fantastic tune, much better than ted nugent.

[pepper1dancer]

Anything the Communards sing SUCK!!!!!

[DJDynasty]

Must add to the List
Though I still can still relate to it ocasionally
CARL DOUGLAS

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

They were funky China men from funky Chinatown
They were chopping them up and they were chopping them down
It's an ancient Chineese art and everybody knew their part
From a feint into a slip, and kicking from the hip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing

There was funky Billy Chin and little Sammy Chung
He said here comes the big boss, lets get it on
We took a bow and made a stand, started swinging with the hand
The sudden motion made me skip now we're into a brand knew trip

Everybody was kung-fu fighting
Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they did it with expert timing

(repeat)..make sure you have expert timing
Kung-fu fighting, had to be fast as lightning

[Svend]

OK, no one has mentioned this track and I suspect I will be bombarded with vitriol for mentioning it under this topic, but the chunk of Velveeta known as "Touch Me Baby" by Ultimate makes me wince every time. The instrumentation may be all right but, oh, those dreadful vocals. Containing all the soul of Lawrence Welk favorites the Lennon Sisters, and completely devoid of sex, attitude or emotion--especially when they go "wooooooo!" like a row of gleeful little Shirley Temples...

Wow, it's a relief to get that off my chest.

[markydefad]

Oh, Svendy...now you've done it. Can open...worms everywhere...yeah, I stole that from Chandler Bing. :lol: :P

This girls on "TOUCH ME BABY" seem almost soulful compared to the Kathie Lee Gifford singers cooing "come on let's do the co-co-mo-oo-tion" :lol: :P :x YUCK!!!!!!

[Svend]

Hey Marky!

Whoops, caught me. I've borrowed "can open...worms everywhere" line before too. Very funny!

So are you anti-Ultimate, my fellow Norseman? As for El Coco, other than the water torture of "Let's Get It Together," I gotta say I like 'em (especially "Afrodesia"). If the melody is strong enough, I can ignore the cheese factor. Wasn't the El Coco vocalist the woman who answered the phones at AVI Records?

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by pepper1dancer

Anything the Communards sing SUCK!!!!!

Yes sir! And throw Jimmy Sommerville and Bronski Beat in the same dustbin. Those guys really spoiled it. Their versions of "Don't leave me this way" and "You make me feel " were simply disgusting :evil:

Luckily there were good records like Ultimate's "Touch me baby".

[Blooeyz2001]

"Copacabana" by Manilow!

[discokicks]

There are millions of people out there who constantly say that all disco music is 'cheese' so seeing a forum topic on this is a bit discomforting to me. I'd have to disagree with a lot of, if not most suggestions.

Gloria Gaynor? Alec R. Constandinos? Moroder???? I think what this comes down to is musical taste so if someone doesn't like the work of Mr. Moroder then that's fine but to call his music 'cheese' is stretching it. Cheese, I believe, means lame, insipid, perhaps amateur, childish and wretchedly sweet. Manilow and the Carpenters seem to be society's epitome of cheese and are often ridiculed because of it. I would disagree taking into consideration their brilliant song-writing but these are society's poster children of cheese.

Now having said that, I would have to agree about 'Disco Duck'...that song alone was an embarassment for the genre called disco. The Ethel Merman disco album and similar attempts were as well. There were also plenty of duds released but I'd call them crap rather than society's definition of cheese. :lol:

And as for Bronski Beat.... :evil: ....I personally consider 'Smalltown Boy' and 'Why' as two very important pieces of musical work to ever have been written.

(Btw...I don't think that I've ever used that evil icon before in any post that I've written on the internet... :o )

[jackin]

funny enough most of the disco from europe is cheesy (but good)...and europeans often consider themselves more sophisticated than americans...but for once (in the disco, and most other musical genres) the europeans stands for the "cheese"

i think there aren´t that many disco songs i consider cheesy or bad...but still i get a bit annoyed when i have to hear (totally subjective)

MJ - off the wall
quincy jones - razzmatazz (TOO-polished-studiomusicians-wet-dream)
first choice - hold your horses (with the clappety-clap beat)
jakki- sun---sun...sun(terrible...levan was probably strung out when he mixed it on the PG-compilation)
joe tex- ain´t gonna bump no more with no big fat woman (title proves my case)
class action- weekend (many will probably disagree...but i find the sound too tinny and treble...like the original more)
ORS- moon boots (salsoul mistake)
Shalamar- uptown
the whispers- imagination (i love "it´s a love thing", but imagination is SOOOO cheesy!)
kellee patterson- turn on the lights (hyped by danny krivit, but i´m more skeptical. probably only because it´s "rare")
people´s choice- jam jam jam(heavy d:s version sucks too!)