Good News

**Charlie Windle** · August 22nd, 2005, 04:38 PM

Good News - Australia, not sure you would call it Disco ,pre Hi Energy. Does anyone know if they did anything else? or anything about them?

Charlie

**SandraDee** · August 22nd, 2005, 04:58 PM

I think this track is a total rip-off of the late 70s Village People sound but that doesn't mean I don't like it. It's definitely 100% down-the-line, no-messin', glitter-ball-tastic DISCO but if you want to call it pre-hinrg or proto-boystown or whatever then that's just fine & dandy my old fruit.

:P

**Charlie Windle** · August 22nd, 2005, 05:26 PM

So would you call Lime disco? As they were out around the same time.
Just don't want to upset anyone, the times I've called a track disco only to be told that it's an insult to disco.
I tend to refer to most pre Hi energy/Eurobeat as disco.

Charlie

**SandraDee** · August 22nd, 2005, 05:30 PM

Personally I'd call Lime hi-nrg as they were an 80s happening, whereas Good News were late 70s. A few members here may have other choice names for Lime! :lol: I quite like 'em though.

**Energyguy** · August 26th, 2005, 10:53 AM

Originally Written by SandraDee

Personally I'd call Lime hi-nrg as they were an 80s happening, whereas Good News were late 70s. A few members here may have other choice names for Lime! :lol: I quite like 'em though.

hello Mrs Dee !! - i agree, I would class LIME as a HI-NRG artist as their main output was during the 80s HI-NRG boom years.

**remicks** · August 26th, 2005, 12:10 PM

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It's both , since HI NRG is disco .

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**Energyguy** · August 26th, 2005, 12:36 PM

Originally Written by remicks

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It's both , since HI NRG is disco .

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I would say HI-NRG is a FORM of disco !!

**SandraDee** · August 26th, 2005, 05:28 PM

I know what u mean remicks, it's all disco I s'pose but it isn't 'classic disco' with the orchestras & horn sections etc. Lime were very synthesised & 80s generally. Anyway, didn't you Americans reckon disco died in 1979? :-?

**remicks** · August 26th, 2005, 09:02 PM

This sure goes 'round 'n round !! :)
High energy was present all through the disco era ... high energy is what ... beats per minute say 128 or more .... typically at 132 + ....High energy might've become a common term for these fast beats in the eighties ..... but it was nothing new .....

"TURN THE BEAT AROUND " --131 BPMs
"MY BABY's BABY " -- 134 BPMs
and for maximum energy :
LOVIN' IS REALLY MY GAME ( Brainstorm original version) -- 143 BPMs

Since there is no "one" disco style ... every club song is somehow a form of disco ... and sometimes we pigeonhole them as funk or whatever but the bigger encompasing word ....remains ....disco. In order for a song to fit into the sub category of HI NRG --- it must also be disco .....

Now if HINRG requires only the use of synths ... well that goes waaay back too....

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**Energyguy** · August 27th, 2005, 04:38 AM

Originally Written by SandraDee

I know what u mean remicks, it's all disco I s'pose but it isn't 'classic disco' with the orchestras & horn sections etc. Lime were very synthesised & 80s generally. Anyway, didn't you Americans reckon disco died in 1979? :-?

I believe they were burning Amii Stewart 12" records in the streets.. what a shocking waste of plastic... :lol: