The worst movie ever produced regarding a disco theme?

[DJ Jimmy M]

When did the movie Car Wash get released on DVD??? This I must get! And does the DVD include the edited out charactors played by Danny Devito and the gal who was Stephanie in Sat Night Fever? Not many know about that, but I have it somewhere on an old VHS.

[DiscoMan]

A year or two anyway. I've had the DVD for quite some time. The DeVito/Gorney characters aren't in the movie and I have never watched the "special features". I usually don't. I like the movies and don't give a shit about all the crap that's packed into the special features etc. It's a great transfer with good sound and a great '70s movie view of pop culture.

[DJ Jimmy M]

Very cool :) Saw the links that were added. By the reviews they say the transfer is bad..however, I know never to listen to reviews from "outsiders" LOL. That sucks that the extra scenes wernt edited in there. The charactors were pretty funny and was typical Devito stuff. Was shown back in the late 80s on TV like that which is how I knew about it and have it somewhere :)

[Rab]

Originally Posted by DJ Jimmy M

When did the movie Car Wash get released on DVD??? This I must get! And does the DVD include the edited out charactors played by Danny Devito and the gal who was Stephanie in Sat Night Fever? Not many know about that, but I have it somewhere on an old VHS.

What songs are in carwash?

[Videoskooter]

1. Car Wash
2. 6 O'Clock DJ (Let's Rock)
3. I Wanna Get Next to You
4. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
5. Zig Zag
6. You're on My Mind
7. Mid Day DJ Theme
8. Born to Love You
9. Daddy Rich
10. Richard Pryor Dialogue/Rich Reprise
11. You Gotta Believe - The Pointer Sisters
12. I'm Going Down
13. Yo Yo
14. Sunrise
15. Righteous Rhythm
16. Water
17. Crying
18. Doin' What Comes Naturally
19. Keep on Keepin' On

OMG-how could we forget about this one. Also bought it on DVD and I deeply enjoyed it. Especially "The fly" bzzzzzzz.

And what about "Mother, Jugs and Speed"??

1. Dance - Paul Jabara
2. Star in My Life - Wallace, Marriott
3. Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton
4. My Soul Is a Witness - Joe Green, Billy Preston
5. No Love Today - Roger Nicholas, Will Jennings
6. Thunder Thumbs and Lightnin' Licks - George Johnson, Louis Johnson, Dave Grusin, Paul Riser
7. No Love Today - Pete Jolly
8. Get the Funk Out Ma Face - George Johnson, Quincy Jones, Louis Johnson
9. Mellow Out - Larry Carlton
10. Dance - Paul Jabara

[JussiK]

Worst movie with a disco theme...? Archieves around the world contain some pretty impressively bad reels of celluloid so look beyond standard American pieces of blandness for that something extra. While a Roller Boogie or Rudy Moore's "Disco Godfather" could be called be "bad" their kind are no match for true incompetence of, say, the bottom of the barrel "Disco King" from Italy or "She Who Awaits" from India, or the quick Saturday Night Fever cash-ins from Germany. "Disco Fieber" was actually shot on the primitive video technology of 1978 to get it on the screens as fast as possible. Not even porno films were done that way back then. Fieber was a great (?) mix of Schulmaedchen-Report style softcore sex, mortifying comedy and clubbing footage shot in studio, with acts like Boney M lipsynching their hits. Lots of bare bottoms, hairdos resembling croissants, hideous Travolta clones pointing their fingers toward the ceiling. Total waste of time back then but fun today, just like Roller Boogie. And besides, "bad" films often contain infectious energy and fresh attitudes absent from today's clinical, cynical pieces of sleek multiplex fodder manufactured by corporate Hollywood. Good taste is the arch enemy of creativity as Picasso put it.

[judydoggie]

Jussik, "Good taste is the arch-enemy of creativity" -- I'm gonna think of you when I repeat that at a dinner I'm speaking at tonight. Just in time--thank you! I've gotta talk to musicians of color ranging from rappers to jazz artists to classical; and I, being lilly white, will be in the distinct (like, only one!) minority. Not that this hasn't happened before, but I always feel self conscious; especially when I speak.

To Videoskooter: I think I'm gonna buy the DVD just to have the tunes! Now I remember that fabulous blues, "I'm goin' down" and the girl who sings it really nails it. I may be confusing it with another cut from the movie, maybe "Rain" that has kinda a water/clock-ticking theme in the background; but for cover material, I seem to recall there's some good stuff in there that I want one of my R&B/Blues artists to take a look at. Now, I wonder if I can get the sheet music from a publisher -- time to get onto the Inet w/ASCAP and BMI.

[Salsoul1975]

Voyage,

I do remember the disco scene in Goldmember. The afro hairdos, slick clothes, and tacky decor is simply "retro" (rubbish) and should not give the viewer the idea that this is what the '70s disco lifestyle was all about. No, I didn't see 54 or The Last Days Of Disco and I know for sure they are all distorted historically. As I said before, this cannot be re-created, make no mistake. Watch Saturday Night Fever, Thank God It's Friday and Looking For Mr. Goodbar and you will see what the '70s were like in those films, although TGIF was the least realistic of the three.

[DiscoMan]

As I said before, this cannot be re-created, make no mistake. Watch Saturday Night Fever, Thank God It's Friday and Looking For Mr. Goodbar and you will see what the '70s were like in those films, although TGIF was the least realistic of the three.

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dfc99bb]

I know this is off-topic but if you want to see what the declining NYC of the mid-1970s looked like, check out Martin Scorsese's film "Taxi Driver" (1976). You couldn't re-create that look and feel today. Parts of NYC really were that awful back then. The city was spiraling downward. You had to be there to understand how out-of-control it was.

[judydoggie]

dfc:

You're not off-topic at all. Shortly before the opening of Studio the only place to go was the Ice Palace, Crisco's, 12 West, and a handful of other clubs; unless you had Regine's-style money. The city was, indeed, fractured. One could walk up Central Park West, but only to about 72nd street; there were rats jumping over the walls of Central Park; so one had to walk on the West side of the street, and if you walked West past Columbus Avenue, you were taking your life in your hands after dark (again north of 72nd st.). The upper east side even had its little dirty secrets; east 53rd street from York Avenue all the way to the Citicorp Center was a haven for gay male prostitutes, walking the streets and frequenting the five (count 'em) five (four public-one private) eating and drinking establishments along 53rd street that co-existed with such de-luxe restaurants as Il Nido and, I believe, The Leopard. I was a frequent customer at the notorious Cowboys and Cowgirls at 753 East 53rd Street, which served some of the most delightful Fried Chicken, Hamburgers, and Steaks of the era. It was not unusual to see Ice Palace regulars going there for a drink and a bite before partying (the place was owned by the same people). It was just a little awkward having to tell the more aggressive older customers that one was not "working" but merely "eating."

Oh, the city was grimy, dirty and gritty. Rudy Giuliani did great things for the city (with the aid of skyrocketing real-estate costs) but now Bloomberg's dropping the ball again. The nice thing is that, after the people saw how nice it could be, they're policing the city themselves; or so it seems to me.

On the better side of the coin; it just seems to me that, back then, when WKTU was brand new and WBLS was shifting its identity from an R&B station to focusing more on this thing called "disco," it just seemed that every working person in the city; every loading dock, every taxi, every office building, every newsstand, they all had disco on the radio (except for the old security guards and the waitresses in the coffee shops; THEY played WNEW-AM). Now, everybody either wears headphones, or they listen to all kinds of rap 'n noise.

[JussiK]

Originally Posted by judydoggie

dfc:

Oh, the city was grimy, dirty and gritty. Rudy Giuliani did great things for the city .

But hey - How Much How Much more vibrant, exciting, creative, nitty gritty and edgy New York was back then, before that Giuliani person and the subsequent Disneyfication of the city. Taxis emerging from the smoke, flashes of neon everywhere, hot music, all the animals out at night, streets burning with sexual tension. My mates and me we never felt more alive, wandering around in a daze, quoting dialoque from the Scorsese film in diners, cars and bars. Then again, we were from a country with a population less than half of New York City...

[Salsoul1975]

I was born in September 1975, and I know that NYC was not the greatest of cities at that time. It was a month before the Daily News put that infamous caption on the front of their newspaper: "Ford To N.Y.: Drop Dead". I love to look at old newspapers from that time because you can see how different the city truly was. Maybe from a different perspective as far as aestheticness goes. NYC still had many of its landmarks intact, unlike today where there is constant "renewal" going on. If you wanted to go see a movie, you didn't go to some quad, fiveplex, sixplex, or some megaplex you see on not-entirely-Disney W 42nd. You would go to places like the DeMille, Rivoli, Sutton, Beekman, New Yorker, National, Astor Plaza, Guild 50th, etc. I wish I was much older in those days for me to go to a still-intact movie palace with a single screen and balcony to watch a movie. W42nd had plenty of X-rated theaters along the strip, but mainstream films played there as well. I had a postcard of Times Square from around 1978 or so (Animal House was on one of the marquees), and it looked like an extension of W42nd. It seemed as if there was more porno there than on the infamous street. I would suggest a website to visit if you want to see images of NYC's past: www.nycsubway.org

[MixMasterMax]

Ahhh, New York in the 70's. What a town. Don't believe all you read, it was a fantastic place to party. Nothing bothered us at that age. We never got mugged and the rotting garbage never smelled better.

A comment was made, "You're not off-topic at all. Shortly before the opening of Studio the only place to go was the Ice Palace, Crisco's, 12 West, and a handful of other clubs; unless you had Regine's-style money. "

This could not be further from the truth. In my opinion, when Studio 54 opened the Disco scene was already drawing to a close. Just a couple of years left. The clubs were all over Manhattan, Queens, Long Island, Bronx, Westchester and New Jersey. Regarding the cost, I think the most I paid was at the Hippopotamus ($10). What an investment for the evening :lol:

[DiscoMan]

And then we had Beantown! :D

Boston was just as gritty, grimy and dirty as NYC, smaller and easier to get around in while it offered all the sleeze, cheese and good clean dirty fun young guys would ever need.

Of course we had the Combat Zone with the Pussycat Cinema, the Two O'Clock Lounge and other establishments whose names I no longer remember.

I only made it to NYC once then. Went with a pal in the summer of '76. Saw a live sex show off 42nd St. :o Never knew the name of the place (or if it even had one) I remember that the "club" was a short walk down a side street and downstairs. I had seen sex in nightclubs but NEVER anything like a live sex show! How I long for the good old days, good taste is indeed the arch enemy of creativity.