What Disco Songs Were Your Faves but Now You Can't Stand

[Cdnbob]

Here we go with another list gang :icon_razz:

Just wondered what disco songs from the 70's/80's you loved at the time but when you hear them now make you cringe? My list would include:

1) Funkytown by Lipps Inc - I can't stand this song and now whenever I hear it I want to upchuck!

2) Disco Kicks by Boystown Gang - I know there's another version recorded by someone else (can't remember their name for the life of me) but this is one song I loved when it was out originally but now can't stand it. Talk about boring!

3) Rasputin by Boney M - I had a friend who absolutely idolized Boney M and played this song, amongst many other of their songs, endlessly over and over. Needless to say, I can't stand this song now. That chorus is enough to make me puke. :icon_cry:

4) The Break by Kat Mandu - loved it back in the day but I find this so overly long and overly repetitive. EEEEESSSH!

5) Do You Think I'm Sexy by Rod Stewart - my like for this song back then was iffy at the best of times, but now.... YIKES!!! ... Everytime I hear it I'm reminded of the jokes Joan Rivers use to make about him and acne. That about sums it up. Do I think you're sexy Rod, please, not even if you were the last man on Earth. :icon_rolleyes:

[Billy72]

Good Topic Bob;

Lipps Inc. "Funky Town": I was in 3rd grade when this one came out; and really liked it back then. Then at the beginning of the 90s (starting to get into old Disco again it still was 'fresh' and listenable. NOW, its one of those 'find the button to next station fast tunes'.

The Village People: Again, as a elementary school kid, I liked their radio hits, but now can't stand the tunes (no offense to anyone lol). I feel like this may have been one of the bands that really FUELED the RAGE against DISCO. It seems like when Disco was trashed (in the 80s) this band was playing in the background (so to speak), or some other.......Disco song which was shallow or just plain horrible.

"Ring my Bell" Ok, I liked it for awhile, but the repetition is too much; and its so overplayed. Gotta turn it fast.

Gloria Gaynor "I will Survive" Not a bad song, I liked it as a kid; but now, just gotta get it outta my speakers pretty damn quick.

Kool and the Gang: "Lady's Night"; "Get down on it": The 2nd it funk I know; but I gotta through these two in the mix here. I remember hearing these as a kid; and when I got back into Disco I liked em for a bit; but now these tunes are so annoying I just about break the radio or wreck (lol) trying to get em off FAST!

Barry Manilow "Coca Cobana" I like alot of Barry's songs; and THE STORY of this song is cool; but I can only take it so many times; I'll turn this one.
I just don't think he does so well with Disco (which is faster usually than his love ballads).

LIME (OK, its post disco, High Energy I know): I can think of a few of their songs I heard the first and maybe second time that I thought were cool; then THAT DAMN rhythm REPETION became so OVERWHELMINGLY apparent that it overshawdowed their singing, and WOULD have DROVE me bonkers if I didnt SHUT IT OUTTA MY BRAIN. I cant stand their stuff (no offense to anybody IMO). I dont like High Energy and I found this to be a MAJOR PROBLEM with house and High Energy tracks in the early 90s. I started buying imports (at that time) cause I was sooo pissed that U.S. radio wasnt giving us DANCE MUSIC (in the early 90s). However; almost all of the songs (on my import cds) would only be cool (IMO) for a few times; then I was tired of em.

There are many more, just can't think of em right now.

[discophil]

When I saw the topic title I immediately thought of "Ring My Bell" and "I Will Survive". Not because they're bad songs, but because they are so horribly over-played. Just got tired of hearing them (odd, I don't feel that way about "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever", though!).

Then I saw someone mention "Funkytown" and I'd have to agree on that one, too.

[Billy72]

I agree with you DISCOPHIL (on those two songs you mentioned); not bad songs at all; way overplayed (inlcuding Coca Cabana). The others I mentioned I just don't like at all.

I will give you a DOUBLE REVERSAL:
As a kid I liked Rick Dee's "Disco Duck"; when I got back into Disco I didnt like it; even felt it was part of the 'goofy disco' that killed the genre.
Then my daughter got old enough to really enjoy music and loved this song (naturally; as any kid would); and ofcourse I see the humour in it all over again. Not a song I pick to play, but can listen too it. ALSO, when I bought SAT. NIGHT FEVER and heard the tune in the film; hey.....I just love that movie sooo much, any song within it can't be bad with me.

[markydefad]

Billy, the Barry Manilow record is titled "Copacabana"

• Copacabana (Rio de Janeiro), a neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where Copacabana Beach is located
• Copacabana (nightclub), a New York City nightclub named after the district in Rio de Janeiro.
• Copacabana (Bolivia), a Bolivian town on the shores of Lake Titicaca.
• Copacabana (Colombia), a town in the Colombian department of Antioquia.
• Copacabana Beach (Dubrovnik), a beach in the Croatian city of Dubrovnik.
• Copacabana, a beach in the Australian city of Gosford, New South Wales.

Art works:

• Copacabana (song), a song by Jack Feldman, sung by Barry Manilow.
• Copacabana (musical), a musical by Barry Manilow named after the song.
• Copacabana (film), a film starring Groucho Marx and Carmen Miranda.

[FranceJoliFan]

1. Here Comes That Sound Again (it drags now)
2. Don't Cry For Me Argentina (although I still enjoy the rest of the Festival album)
3. The Hustle (too Love Boat-ish)

[Cdnbob]

I also have to add:

Stayin Alive and Night Fever by Bee Gees - I can't stand these songs and I really find their high pitched voices grating. Mind you there are a few of their songs I do like.

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Disco Kicks by Boystown Gang - I know there's another version recorded by someone else (can't remember their name for the life of me)

The original version of this song (released mere weeks ahead of, and almost identical to, the Boystown Gang version) was by Perry Botkin Jr.'s 'Original Mass'. Released on JDC Records, I believe. (Mine is on DiscoNet, with no original label listed.) Also, the b-side of the 12", which was never released on an LP, was "I'm The One, You're The One". A remake of a very old Three Degrees track. that was, itself, the b-side to their infamous single, "Maybe".

More so on subject... I really loved "I Will Survive", when it was still considered the b-side of "Substitute". But now, if I never, ever hear it again, I won't be broken-hearted.

[remicks]

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FranceJoliFan : 1. Here Comes That Sound Again (it drags now)

thats a good one. There are many such made-for-the-clubs records that worked fantastically in that setting ....but don't for simple pure listening pleasure . EVERYBODY, GET UP AND BOOGIE similarly comes to mind at that same period.

Another one (imo) like that is STAR LOVE by Cheryl Lynn .... too repetitive of simplistic and very harsh sounds. Can't play it too loud around here anyway ... all that gobbling would bring in the wild turkeys !! :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

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[thommy2458]

McFadden and Whitehead's "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"-I bought the 12" when it 1st came out and a few weeks later I was walking off the dancefloor.It's never recovered it's original charm for me,even though
I know I'm supposed to like it! Another one I feel guilty for not loving
anymore(already mentioned above) is "The Break"-it's over between us.

Thom