Reply With QuoteHand down for "I will Survive". Considering GG has so many better tracks like Casanova Brown, and such, its a shame.
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Maybe this was discussed previously, but this should be interesting to hear from you.
What disco track do you believe was the most (and still) played on the radio ?
I'd go with "I will survive" for disco (been fed up hearing this one for quite a while, what's with radio stations sticking with this one....)
and "Hotel California" for classic rock
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Hand down for "I will Survive". Considering GG has so many better tracks like Casanova Brown, and such, its a shame.
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Originally Written by disco1999
Yeah, pretty much one which is lonely at the top :icon_lol:
Especially at parties when people begin to chant "La-lala-laaa-laaa(...etc)" during that instrumental endpart of violins ... i loathe it when they do that :icon_lol:
... and after a fair gap of space, i might wanna add these :
- Disco inferno - Trammps (...is it a classic disco-song though, just for the title :icon_question:)
- Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman
- uhm ... which one to pick from Sisters Sledge ? ... "We're Lost in Music" ?, "We Are Family" ?, "He's the Greatest Dancer" ? ...
- Le Freak - Chic
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I soooo don't like Casanova Brown.
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"I Will Survive" most definitely; they even play this on "lite" stations. Ditto "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe" and "You're The First, The Last, My Everything" by Barry White. "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls, "Last Dance" and "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer.
"Everyone knows the real reason why you got that part it was the time you spent on that casting couch"--Antoine Merriwether
"Excuse me, Miss Thing, but both of us spent time on that couch"--Blaine Edwards
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I think since that silly striptease movie came out, Hot Stuff has taken over the spot formerly held by I Will Survive.
It is truly atrocious to think that a whole new generation of people will use Hot Stuff as benchmark to whatever...Donna Summer, Disco....
I hate it when movies or ads, create a big fuss over a particular song, and said song takes on a new lease in life and gets twisted so much that new stories around it, and fake legends and stuff, are born from all that.
It all boils down to what people are fed, and when they are ignorant and don't know any better.
This and lots of other rants, but I'm sure you get the idea lol
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Mine would be STAYING ALIVE.
I hate the fact that SNF represents "disco" for a lot of people.
There is no doubt that the soundtrack was a HUGE success but this one is overplayed...and just another chapter in the BEE GEES' career.
Other songs from the era I wouldn't mind never hearing again :
WILD CHERRY's Play that funky music or KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND's Boogie shoes.
Last edited by kdavid13; July 13th, 2008 at 06:48 PM.
KRIS
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Alicia Bridges-I love the nightlife....Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!
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I've actually never heard this one other than in the Priscilla movie and soundtrack.
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Where I come from it would be 'Stayin' Alive' by the BG's and 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy' by RS. However, whilst both are overplayed, I still love them.:icon_razz:
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For me,it's Y.M.C.A.!!!
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anything to do with disco in UK always has this track playing on TV and radio.
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i'd say Kool & The Gang - CELEBRATION. i hear it all the time on the radio. so much so that i always skip that track now on the CD compilation i have of the group. totally over exposed. cannot stand it.
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We Are Family is also my least favorite, and why do they even put Celebration in a disco context? What's disco about it?
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I'm with Mark D's selection . . . . cue the new chorus: bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp . . . It Sucks to Overplay Y.M.C.A. . . .It Sucks to Overplay Y.M.C.A-ay . . .
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I think this is pretty easy. Of course it depends on the radio DJ and what the station has racked up but for the most part look at any cheap Disco CD "Best Of" and you will have it. They will contain the most "radio" played songs and not the club hits we aficionados know.
"I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor
"Good Times" - Chic
"Get Off" - Foxy
"Ring My Bell" - Anita Ward
"Staying Alive" - Bee Gees
"Disco Inferno" - Trammps
"Rock The Boat" - Hughes Corporation
And the list goes on.....
You won't see any Gino Socio, Voyage, Cerrone, Change, etc.. on these CD's.
Eric
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I feel like it's a tossup between Vicki Sue Robinson's "Turn The Beat Around" and Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive.
At least on NY radio, they are.
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"Turn The Beat Around" is another of those top 25 radio played to death songs. Just like "If I Can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman.
It also appears the most played often falls within the early disco era - 1975-1976 time frame.
Eric
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Modern formulaistic blue-suit programmed radio only will play pop top 10 disco songs. Back in the day Disco DAI 94.7 played the opposite, strickly clus cuts with featured mixes from the local DJs from BBC, Cinderella Rockaflla and Faces. I was like being in a disco 24/7 for the year or so it lasted. Best time I ever had listening to the radio!
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Donna Summer's Hot Stuff ....
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I couldn't agree more. For some reason, every station seems to think that particular track was the ONLY empowering post break up song that was ever recorded. Heck, Linda Clifford did a few hot tracks in her day that have not been given adequate air time.
As for I Will Survive, it is as enduring as the pyramids of Giza but nowhere near as enthralling any longer.
Indie Release [Level 4]
I agree with the lists above me. Add to the list:
Michael Jackson's Don't stop till you get enough
Chic's Good Times (I never hear enough of Dance,Dance,Dance but I always hear Good Times. I hated it.)
Anything by KC and the Sunshine Band
Disco! Where the Happy People Go.
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I love Donna Summer, and I like Hot Stuff though it's never been a huge fave, but you prob have a point. When i was a teen and discovered Donna and Moroder (which really got me into disco) I was 16 and Full Monty had just come out coincidentally. Somehow, I honestly had never heard Donna;'s standards before--no Love to Love You, no Last Dance, etc. All I recognized were I Feel Love, Hot Stuff and She Works Hard for the Money.
Otherwise I knew most of the disco standards, YMCA and In the Navy and Macho Man, Most of the SNF soundtrack, I Will Survive, More More More, Turn the BEat Around, Knock on Wood, We Are Family... Those are the ones that come to mind first.
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