DISCO RECORDS BY ROCK ACTS

[Pete B]

Rod Steward "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"
Rolling Stones "Miss You"
Wings "Goodnight Tonight"
Queen "Another One Bites the Dust"
Kiss "I Was Made For Loving You"
Roxy Music "Angel Eyes"

What other examples are there of this style

Also, have any more recent rock acts made disco influenced songs?

[tony wong]

There is a special disco version of Miss You from The Rolling Stones which is a lot better. From Mick Jagger there's also Just Another Night, which was remixed by Francois Kevorkian. Finally Lucky in Love (dub) from Mick Jagger was often played by Larry Levan, if I'm correct.

Others:

Carly Simon - Why (a Chic production, that is if you can call Carly Simon rock..)
The Police - Voices in my Head (this is really good!)
The Clash - The Cool Out, The Magnificent Seven (remixed by Larry Levan as The Magnificent Dance) and This is Radio Clash
Steve Miller - Macho City
Roxy Music - My Little Girl (Manifesto, same album as Angel Eyes), Eight Miles High (Flesh + Blood) and The Main Thing (Avalon)
Prince Charles - Beat the Bush
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood, Lorelei and Genius of Love (ultimate cross-over track, been used by Mariah Carey, Grandmaster Flash and Ron Hardy, amongst others)
Supertramp - Cannonball (really good!)
Ian Dury - Spasticus Autisticus

Recently, there's a Morgan Geist remix of a Franz Ferdinand track (take me out), which can classify as discorock.

[Bernie]

Ram Jam : Black Betty
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/3840_0_2_0_C/

Chicago : Street Player
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/3753_0_2_0_C/

Queen : We Will Rock You
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/3749_0_2_0_C/

Beach Boys : Here Comes the Night
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/2483_0_2_30_M29/

Blondie : Heart of Glass
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/2949_0_2_60_M29/

Blondie : Rapture
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/3364_0_2_60_M29/

David Bowie : Wild Is the Wind / Golden Years
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/140_0_2_135_M29/

[FrontPage22]

That Ram Jam track is almost disco...the bass, the beat..but really is way more rock.

[Videoskooter]

What about The Sweet and "Love is like oxygen"? A definite departure from Glamrock. And so is "Shake it down" by Mud.

I just watched the movie "The Stud" where the two styles (disco and rock) are mixed and the score of the movie really gets you in the golden decade.

For the other records posted in this topic: Kiss has always been my favourite crossover-track. Amazing what you can do with strobelights when playing that one! Even the youngsters like it when I play it on the bumpertrack.

[K-Bee]

Would Pink Floyds "Another Brick In The Wall" qualify for this??

I think it definetely has some disco ingredients in there. Does anybody know if it was ever remixed?

[QUINNY]

Glitter Band - Makes You Blind and New York Groove were both radical departures for Gary Glitter's band at the time.
Does Ian Dury's Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick apply, as it had a pure (108 BPM) dance rhythm?
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
[No one's mentioned the dreaded B__ G___ yet, probably because they were only ever insipid pop prior to SNF, gulp!

[Pete B]

Originally Posted by tony wong

There is a special disco version of Miss You from The Rolling Stones which is a lot better. From Mick Jagger there's also Just Another Night, which was remixed by Francois Kevorkian. Finally Lucky in Love (dub) from Mick Jagger was often played by Larry Levan, if I'm correct.

Others:

Carly Simon - Why (a Chic production, that is if you can call Carly Simon rock..)
The Police - Voices in my Head (this is really good!)
The Clash - The Cool Out, The Magnificent Seven (remixed by Larry Levan as The Magnificent Dance) and This is Radio Clash
Steve Miller - Macho City
Roxy Music - My Little Girl (Manifesto, same album as Angel Eyes), Eight Miles High (Flesh + Blood) and The Main Thing (Avalon)
Prince Charles - Beat the Bush
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood, Lorelei and Genius of Love (ultimate cross-over track, been used by Mariah Carey, Grandmaster Flash and Ron Hardy, amongst others)
Supertramp - Cannonball (really good!)
Ian Dury - Spasticus Autisticus

Recently, there's a Morgan Geist remix of a Franz Ferdinand track (take me out), which can classify as discorock.

I know about his Rapture mix but not a FF one. Daft Punk did a mix of FF which was quite good

[Videoskooter]

Originally Posted by QUINNY

Does Ian Dury's Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick apply, as it had a pure (108 BPM) dance rhythm?

IMO absolutely! Ian Dury & The Blockheads made several excellent dancetrax. "Reasons to be cheerfull part 3", "Wake up and make love with me" and "Inbetweenies" fit well in a discoset.

No wonder, considering that Chaz Jankel was a member of that band.

[ComputerDisco]

Some that haven't been mentioned yet:

ELO - "Turn to Stone" - a classic disco track with heavy orchestration and a propulsive beat.

Yoko Ono & John Lennon - "Walking on thin ice" - definitely a disco track, it's a Yoko solo but John played on it and produced it. It was the last track he ever made.

[Bernie]

I despise Yoko "Oh-no", but love "Walking On Thin Ice."
http://www.discomusic.com/records-more/649_0_2_0_C/

[tony wong]

If you get the chance to listen to the Morgan Geist remix of Take Me Out, do so as it is excellent. It is a limited release though, I thought there were only 2500 copies worldwide.

Hit me with your rhythm stick is a very good song, although I prefer Spasticus. This latter song, and the Yoko Ono song mentioned before, are all on the excellent compilation Disco not Disco I. Compiled by Joey Negro. If anyone's interested in disco and rock, try to buy this album. It's on the now defunct strut label, so prepare to take your wallet while shopping on ebay... (I paid 26 pounds..)

[darrens]

Originally Posted by ComputerDisco

Some that haven't been mentioned yet:

ELO - "Turn to Stone" - a classic disco track with heavy orchestration and a propulsive beat.

Or from ELO's Discovery LP:

"Last train to London" (recently sampled and used in Atomic Kitten's Top 10 hit "Be with you")

"Shine a little love". A remix of this was released as a single yesterday, titled "Shine" by the Lovefreekz. It is expected to hit the Top 5 of the UK pop charts this Sunday. The group appeared on "Top of the Pops" 2 weeks ago, basically a group of dancers and some young bloke lip-synching the words. I assume Jeff Lynne gave permission. :o

You can hear part of the remix on entering the record label's web site:
http://www.positivarecords.com/

Regards
Darren

[Eurodancemix]

Not quite disco, but definitely 80's dance remixes of rock tracks:

LEGS -- ZZ TOP (I've only ever seen this as a promo)

STILL IN LOVE -- TAXXI (remixed and massively edited by The Latin Rascals, so you just *know* stutters and crashing drum machines abound!)

TURBO LOVER -- JUDAS PRIEST (whoever thought of this remix was out of their mind, but it's definitely worth a smile or two)

[KayJayEm54]

Just reading CHIC: Everybody Dance - The Politics of Disco and was amazed to see Roxy Music's "Love is the Drug" being courted as pre-cursor to mainstream disco. Looking at the above list, I'm beginning to think they're right!

And yes, I agree Kiss did sound very disco and that's probably what made me buy it way back then.......