Disco wasn't cool

**nrgbeat** · February 14th, 2006, 07:29 PM

I remember as a teen that the guys in school liked stuff like Styx, Boston and Bruce Springsteen. If you said you liked disco you got a lot of razzing.

Now all those cool guys have turned into bald, beer bellyed couch potatoes who's biggest excitement is going to their son's soccer game. :P :P :P :P :P :P

**discoadam** · February 14th, 2006, 09:07 PM

As it has often been said before: He who laughs last, laughs loudest. ;-) I suppose they were partly right though - disco was never cool, it was always HOT, heh, heh! Sign me, Forever Dancing...

**jam master jay** · February 15th, 2006, 01:46 AM

You are right - Styx, Foreigner, Boston et al ruled the day back then, especially in mainstream America. But, those of us in and around NYC saw things differently (thank goodness!).

**TheLordOfFlatbush** · February 15th, 2006, 08:04 AM

Originally Written by nrgbeat

I remember as a teen that the guys in school liked stuff like Styx, Boston and Bruce Springsteen. If you said you liked disco you got a lot of razzing.

Now all those cool guys have turned into bald, beer bellyed couch potatoes who's biggest excitement is going to their son's soccer game. :P :P :P :P :P :P

n

That's some funny $#I+! because I'm none of the above and my son's in his third year of college!

I never got a razzing whatsoever because in New York, we loved all kinds of songs from many genres of music.

Coming from a DJ perspective, KTU can attest to my claim on Disco!

Holler back!!!

**tehuti** · February 15th, 2006, 06:08 PM

I lived in the Bronx during those days and partied in Manhattan primarily back then. Disco was VERY cool in NYC. Once it was all over the radio and the TV that was the beginning of the end, but while it was still sor tof underground it was cool.

**DiscoMan** · February 15th, 2006, 07:21 PM

I never had a problem. I remember the first time I went into BJ's Disco in Worcester; two of my crew went into the Rock 'n Roll club next door, I was cool they were dressed like Goobers. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Seriously though, I never had a problem and I never saw any of the homos who were in the same clubs get jazzed either.

**discotom73** · February 15th, 2006, 08:33 PM

Contrary to popular belief, disco has ALWAYS been cool! Maybe not in name, but in dance music it has! Even as the 1970s went into the 1980s, dance music of all sorts continued to thrive. Human League, ABC, The Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, among others help develop a "new" kind of disco (call it synthpop or British technopop). Then "House" developed. So, I'm hoping that all this time people hated the WORD disco, but NOT the MUSIC itself.

**tehuti** · February 15th, 2006, 09:12 PM

Originally Written by discotom73

Contrary to popular belief, disco has ALWAYS been cool! Maybe not in name, but in dance music it has! Even as the 1970s went into the 1980s, dance music of all sorts continued to thrive. Human League, ABC, The Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, among others help develop a "new" kind of disco (call it synthpop or British technopop). Then "House" developed. So, I'm hoping that all this time people hated the WORD disco, but NOT the MUSIC itself.

Good point. I never really differentiate between disco, house, and new wave when thinking about dance music. It's only necessary when trying to discuss music with others that I find myself labeling the genres.

**Paulo** · February 16th, 2006, 05:47 AM

Here in Rio, in the late 70's, the whole city was into Disco and everybody loved it. The music press was another thing: some rock critics slashed it, but the big public went to the night clubs. Disco was cool.

Every boy, girl, man & woman (straigths) were in the clubs, so there was no sign of DISCO being synonym to GAY lifestyle.

The problem began when the 80's arrived:
70's DISCO was swept away from the planet. The resulting sound (hi-nrg disco) was immediately connected to gay music... this time the press was ruthless. By then, it was totally ridiculous and cheese to be a DISCO fan or to be on a DISCO.

**Videoskooter** · February 16th, 2006, 03:14 PM

Originally Written by nrgbeat

Styx

Styx was cool??? :o "Siiiiiiiiiiingforthedaaaaay" was cool? :lol:

Going to the recordshop as a 14-year-old and buying Cerrone with a NUDE chica on the cover, that was cool OK! Taking the cover from Amanda Lear's "Sweet Revenge" to school, and show the pics to da buddies, that was cool!

Asking your female English teacher what "Deep throat" means, that was cool! (And yeah, I got away with it)

Kissing a half-naked Donna Summer as a 13-year old, that was cool!

Wearing smelly jeans, filthy sneakers, long greasy hair and a jacket with Led Zeppelin on, was NOT cool! Drinking beer under a Che Guevara poster, listening to Bruce and changing the world! Those guys sucked!

No, Disco was NOT cool in my hometown, but I didn't care, I had the fun, I got class, finesse and a whole lotta style. In fact I still have :lol: :lol: :lol:

**jam master jay** · February 16th, 2006, 03:22 PM

Kissing a half-naked Donna Summer as a 13-year old, that was cool!

What? You have to tell me more on that Videoskooter!

**TheLordOfFlatbush** · February 18th, 2006, 09:58 AM

Originally Written by discotom73

Contrary to popular belief, disco has ALWAYS been cool! Maybe not in name, but in dance music it has! Even as the 1970s went into the 1980s, dance music of all sorts continued to thrive. Human League, ABC, The Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, among others help develop a "new" kind of disco (call it synthpop or British technopop). Then "House" developed. So, I'm hoping that all this time people hated the WORD disco, but NOT the MUSIC itself.

People have adjusted to music changes from the 70's until today and the feeling is great, right now!

**sutnop** · February 18th, 2006, 11:31 PM

Originally Written by jam master jay

You are right - Styx, Foreigner, Boston et al ruled the day back then, especially in mainstream America. But, those of us in and around NYC saw things differently (thank goodness!).

I guess disco was never too white enough
for white america back then

I mean all the best cutz that still have some street credit
and
that aren't queer or high nrg

had a lot of black flavour

it was easier just listening to one of those rock bands pretending to read the rolling stone
and just rolling with the times
but honestly the rock back then was awful
I mean Styx thank got that nobody actually remembers them

**sutnop** · February 18th, 2006, 11:40 PM

Originally Written by Paulo

Here in Rio, in the late 70's, the whole city was into Disco and everybody loved it. The music press was another thing: some rock critics slashed it, but the big public went to the night clubs. Disco was cool.

Every boy, girl, man & woman (straigths) were in the clubs, so there was no sign of DISCO being synonym to GAY lifestyle.

The problem began when the 80's arrived:
70's DISCO was swept away from the planet. The resulting sound (hi-nrg disco) was immediately connected to gay music... this time the press was ruthless. By then, it was totally ridiculous and cheese to be a DISCO fan or to be on a DISCO.

Somehow I still feel like the Brazilians got it more right then anyone else

they loved disco when it was at its purest
at its funkiest
and grooviest

ofcourse I have no real proof or idea about this just a feeling

a saw that movie about the Brazilan street gangs in that ghetto
City of God
and back there they were listening as they said it
to either
Disco, Black or Traditional Brazilian music

I would just like to know
did the Black (James Brown and Motown) and Disco blend into each other in the eyes of a brazilian Paulo
or did people keep it seperated

as far has the disco, new wave/ house arguement

I can partially agree but for me when disco turned to High Nrg
Claudia Barry/ Fonda Rae
it started going New Wave
for me that was the end of the music I really digged

I am just in it for the flat out funky grooves

then its all good
wheather the music instruments are acoustic or electrical

**discorecordplayer** · February 18th, 2006, 11:55 PM

I was born in 77. As a kid in the 80s, I didnt even own one disco album. I didnt know even one disco song, but I could vagely remember hearing "upside down" by Diana Ross. Disco was as good as illigal. Nobody listened to it.By the very late 80s and early 90s, though, it started coming out a little. Still, you were a geek if you listened to it, so it was a bad word and nobody would ever admit listening to it. Example, In the Ghostbusters movie, the geeky guy was listening to the Tramps in his apartment.
But then in the early 90s it was coming into style a bit, and now I dont give a crap. everyone knows its my main music and plenty of people listen to it. Thank God the days of stupid crappy rock music being cool is over. (at least for me, anyway). Now I think that people who listen to alternative and metal and stuff like that listen to boring, danceless garbage. I do enjoy some of todays hip hop and Rap quite a bit, and so I guess you could say that I really like black music in general.