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Compare yourself to those of us who lived Disco during the '70s and are still trapped in the period. :-?
I would say you're pretty normal. :D
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Hi I am also known as boogie nites but my real name is Lloyd Copper from Queensland in Australia and i am 21. i have been heavily in to disco since i was 13 and i still love it as well as appreciating modern music. I'm gay. All of my gay friends like thump thump modern dance music which i like too but when i play the stuff i like - Brothers Johnson, Chic, early Luther Vandross and Heatwave they pay me out. Though I don't care what they think i sometimes feel very alone and my mother once commented that i was trying to be in another time. is it abnormal to listen to music that is before my time? because i love disco so much i spend so much money on cds and time reading this site and about it but sometimes i feel like a freak? Am I??
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Compare yourself to those of us who lived Disco during the '70s and are still trapped in the period. :-?
I would say you're pretty normal. :D
Indie Release [Level 4]
Lloyd, welcome home! You're not a freak for liking music you enjoy. Look at all the people who are into classical, big band, or 50's doo-wop!
Enjoy what you like and don't worry about the others. Your friends have probably never takne the time to listen to disco carefully and they probably think it's all about breathless vocals, female cooing, and idiotic endlessly-repeated lyrics...or that it all sounds like YMCA! :-)
How about you take it upon yourself to educate them? Play the stuff you like when they're around. If they don't like it, they don't like it. But chances are some of your friends will like the music (at least a few tracks). Some might even recognize a riff or two that have been sampled into more current songs!
Good luck and, again, welcome!
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Glad to see that youngsters can appreciate the old vibes and can love SONGS! Let your friends have their taste but think positive: a lot of the stuff they like is based on or stolen from the records you adore so much. That's what Prince means with his song "Musicology".
And for your worries about spending so much money and time on CD's and reading this wonderful site: you are in very good company here.
"I don't wanna be a freak but I can't help myself" :D
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
Hi, Lloyd,
I'm 23, and I know more about Disco music than current music. I only play disco at gigs. I eat, breathe and sleep Disco. I like House but only to dance to... Try vocal deep house, you'll find the same feeling as with Disco tracks. It's equally good IMO, the old stuff is just warmer and more elegant...
Just to say you're not alone. Disco is a way of life, I'm sure you'll feel at home here...
Indie Release [Level 4]
hey lloyd, are you living in brisbane? :) i play at a small bar called "the bowery" on friday nights,Originally Written by boogie nites
in fortitude valley. pop in, if your in town sometime.
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Welcome Lloyd. :D
Enjoy the music to your hearts content. As one of the guys who lived through period, I feel like an ambassador of Disco because people hear me playing it in my car. A lot of young people like yourself often ask about it the music so you are not alone in liking it.
The more time you spend here, the more you'll find out about more treasures you never heard before.
Enjoy :D
Indie Release [Level 4]
Nothing wrong with that whatsoever! Im just gone 21 myself and Ive been collecting and playing disco for around 4/5 years now. TBH I wouldnt listen to anyone else as musical preferences are a personal thing and they shouldnt be influenced to please other people. Sure most of my friends my age listen to 50 cent and that nonsense :roll:
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Lloyd, nothing but good advise here! :D I grew up in the 70's and besides disco. I listened to stuff by the Doors, the Beatles, America, the Eagles, an so on..... and you might not think that's strange, but I'm black and lived in a large urban city, so my friends couldn't quite understand how I could rave about "Boogie Oogie Oogie", "the Logic Song" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" all at the same time, lol. but it never stopped me from listening to what I liked, and I definitley consider myself a better person for it. And if your friends are true friends, it won't matter (though they'll still rag on you about it....) as mine did and still do! :D
You only feel alone, because you don't have people near you that think the same way, but as you can see from being here, there are people just like you in every corner in the world. You just have to go out and find them!
So, don't even sweat it....
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As a 53 year old I consider it slightly weird that anyone of your age would exclusively like music from 20-30+ years ago.
It's as if I exclusively liked Glen Miller/Dorsey Brothers etc when I was 21. MY friends certainly would have ribbed me about that.
However, all music from the 1930s on was part of my musical makeup and I still like certain tunes/bands from way back when.
NO problem if that's what you like, but it ain't the natural course of events...is it? However, I won't deny you the pleasure of listening to what you want.
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Oops, I forgot to warn you Lloyd. Mr Quinny is a bad man...a very bad man :lol: :lol:
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Never let anybody put you down for the music you like.
When I listen to the music I love, it affects my emotions, my thoughts and memories in a wonderful way that is unique to me. I believe that everyone deserves to feel this and I realize it's not always going to be the same music that does it for everybody. There is no such thing as "bad" music. If it makes somebody feel great, then they have a right to enjoy it. Those of us who've been around for awhiile also have the great memories of the past to go along with those songs!
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Quinny! We're the same age!? Oh my gawd!!!! :o
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Some of us call Quinny, The Grinch who Stole Disco! :)
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If I remember correctly (which i most probably don't), our birthday is within a few days of each other. Mid January?
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Wasted on me, as I act my age and don't go to see such juvenile films, although I was made to sit through Shrek II.:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Lloyd, Quinny's bark is worse than his bite. Behind that ornery, scruffy demeanor is a man that was made to sit through Shrek II.
Chart Hit [Level 6]
Lloyd. Enjoy. If you like it, enjoy it mate. I have some mates who are the same age as you and they're into the same music and nobody gives them any stick. Think 'bout it. People at your age are addicted to eveything Mr. Brown toches!
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Can you tell I'm enjoying this thread :lol:
Ok, back to being a Disco ambassador. Lloyd allow me to be so forward as to make a few recommendations.
No Disco collection is complete without Cocomotion. If you don't have it, get it. :D
This is gonna sound like blasphemy around here but I like the movie 54 better than Saturday Night Fever. Not just because of Salma Hayek (which would be reason enough for me :D :P ) but of the movies I've seen of this genre, this made me feel better at the end. I know there were some flaws but virtually all movies have some. My only major complaint was I wish they allowed more of the music to play. Speaking of the music, the soundtrack is something I can't say enough good things about. Most notable to me is the well remastered tracks. The sound was the way it sounded back in the day. I only have the first soundtrack released though I've heard the second is just as good.
Feel free to ask any questions 8)
Chart Hit [Level 6]
When I turned 21, I went from thoroughly enjoying about 95% of the tracks to hating about 85% of those played on Black radio. In 1997, the styles drastically changed. Today it seems that all of black contempory music is midtempo and is not pitched the way it used to be. The urban dancefloor, club, and Quiet Storm provided guidelines for songs to fit (tempo, style, lyrical content). The music I do like from today are either artists of yesterday or are extremely influenced by them like Kem.
I do feel a bit alienated because I am white, 29 and avidly collect soul music from 1963-1997. I cherry pick CDs of hard bop, contempory jazz, and soul music before and after those dates. I'm finding fewer reissues each year in the standard music store and have to rely on the internet for purchases.
P.S. My ex-girlfriend thought my musical taste was strange and knocked me quite often for it. She always asked me if I was gay because of how she perceived disco.
Advance Promo Copy [Level 3]
To answer your question, no it's not weird or freaky to like disco. I'm 19 and I love disco for the same amount of time you have. In fact I have tapes from radio mix shows I use to record back when I lived in NYC. Because of disco I have gotten into more modern types of dance music such as house and trance which all derive from the disco era. You could say disco rebranded itself as house music back in the 80's and took on a different sound through sampled loops and electric instruments (via keyboard) rather than live ones. As technology progressed so did the music which gave way to better effects and techno house. Through this transformation is how trance music evolved. My point is, enjoy the disco and expand your horizons musically.
Underground Hit [Level 5]
You only have to look at the UK pop charts recently, with the number of cover versions, reissues, etc. that have been dominating the top of the charts, to conclude that creativity in popular music of all kinds reached its peak in the 60s-80s, and since then it's been downhill all the way.
Therefore I believe it's far more likely for the youth of today to like 70s music, than it is for the youth of the 70s to like 40s music, if you see what I mean!
I myself was around in the disco era but too young to appreciate it (I'm nearly 35), so just like all the teens and twentysomethings on here, I have discovered disco "the second time around".
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Quite an assumption, especially the assumption that popular music reached its musical zenith during the '60s - '80s.
So Classical music is only so-so, Jazz likewise, Big Band/Swing, etc, etc.?
The point I was making was that it is not a natural state for rebellious teenagers (and therefore people immediately post teenage years) to like the music of their fathers, even though many of them would have been exposed to it (or maybe because of that). What do you think all that great music from the '60s-'80s, that you love, was about? Sharing with the old man on a bonding session, when you'd just walked (fell) into the house at 3/4/5/6/7/8 a.m.? No, it was all about asserting your (musical) independance, flying in the face of the ole folks perceived quality/moral threshold.
For me and others my age it was the music of our era and to some extent, a rite of passage. That's why it's just a tad weird for anyone who wasn't fully there and fully involved with it at the time, to exclusively like it now, unless they intend to do something creative with it.
The guy was looking for opinions. Well, that's mine.
Indie Release [Level 4]
Hi my friend, I can understand the way you feel . In 1979 I bought my first disco cassette which was "on the radio"greatest hits volume one and two by Donna Summer.My sister(she was 16 years old) told me that this was music for gay persons and she believed that I was gay too and she tried to explain me what gay means.I was only 8 years old and of course I was shocked!I started to feel guilty for my choice and then for many years I have felt out of space just like you.
I think that the problem isnt the time that someone starts to hear disco or high energy.All we know that there is a prejudice against disco and many people connect this kind of music with gay way of life or no way of life(music only for children).
when I was 15 I began to hear other kinds of music but disco was always my fav.Today I hear a lot of jazz, rock, soul ,funk, ethnic,new jack swing ,blaxploitation,blues e.t.c
Today I know the truth.If you try to compare yourself with people vho dont like disco you will see that you are an open mind person free from guilts and prejudices,and you have the ability to enjoy all the kinds of music.For example my friend people who are stuck on heavy metal dont have the adility to undertand and appreciate a musical genius like Nile Rodgers.I can hear and dance all day with disco ,but I cry everytime I hear the voice of Billie Holiday,I Know that"echoes" by Pink Floyd is a classic record and a piece of fine art I like groups like Led Zeppelin and you Know something I also like "Alexander the Great" by Iron Maiden .Thats the difference We are not blinkered and this is our advantage.
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This is a rough situation .
----- *** --- I think part of the problem here is listening to disco in isolation is kind of counter to its intention . Disco was a community music .... a party music .... a disco hit was defined by how many people jammed the floor in reaction to it . It's dance music.... ( It takes two baby .... or more ...many many more ... the more packed the loor .. the better ... :D ). A person wants to share this music ... to play it in a room full of receptive people .... watch them readily partying to it .....
It would have really been the rare bird back then for someone to be into disco and just listen to it alone at home . The whole point of the music was about the club experience .
There's no solution to this one ...
..... even if there were retro clubs where one could at least hear the music played loud and in its intended environment ........ that essence of the times ...when the music was new ....contemporary each and every night ... can't regain that . Even if a DJ stuck to a playlist and played only the exact songs that would have been hot that exact night .... it's all tainted .....we all now know all the music that was yet to be born then ... what would be coming next . There's no way today to play "CONTACT " to an unknowing crowd as if its the first time being played for them ever ... and watch it then grow into a club favorite ....
It was about the moment .... each particular evening . The night that everyone wanted to hear "LOVE HANGOVER " was seperated by three years from the night that the floor would go crazy from the playing of "WE ARE FAMILY " . How do you recreate that?? Can't.
It's great that some young people of today are able to sense and comprehend the dynamics of the music from then. You must have powerful imaginations to even begin to appreciate the awesome vibes this music once produced in the clubs when it was fresh and sizzling hot .... :D
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