All Time Classic Albums in the Dance Genre

[originalbigm]

Happened to be viewing the ongoing thread on all time favourite disco songs and got to thinking about what I might consider my all time favourite LP in the dance genre.My classic pick for R&B would have to be Marvin Gaye's What's Going on.This to me was a profound masterpiece .It combined poetic lyrics of protest and questions that were relevant at that time and still today with classic melodies.This is one LP that I can just let play over and over again.I'd consider it a giant in the history of music.Mind you it was pre disco (1971) but I recall it vividly being played in small early disco venues.What's Going On,Mercy,Mercy Me and Inner City Blues are etched in R&B history.I'd be interested in others choices.

[BrunoRepublic]

Ultimate disco LPs? Lesseee...



- Love & Kisses (self-titled)

- Musique: Keep On Jumpin'

- Ultimate (self-titled)

- El Coco: Dancing In Paradise

- Village People (self-titled EP)

- Donna Summer: The 12" Collection

- Macho: I'm A Man

- Beautiful Bend: Make That Feeling Come Again

- Bionic Boogie: Hot Butterfly

- Cerrone: Love In C Minor

- Kleeer: I Love To Dance

- USA/European Connection: Come Into My Heart

- Gloria Gaynor: Never Can Say Goodbye

- The Ritchie Family: African Queens

- Double Exposure: Ten Percent



... there are so many more, plus countless ones that I haven't even heard yet...

[discodjinn]

It's interesting how preferences vary so much within such a specific genre. The albums I consider containing the best music and most consistent quality across tracks:



1. C'est Chic...Chic

2. Stars...Sylvester

3. Four Seasons of Love...Donna Summer

4. Stay Free...Ashford & Simpson (maybe not disco per se, but multiple tracks working magic on dance floors for 20 plus years)

5. Caress...Boris Midney

6. We Are Family...Sister Sledge

7. Fame...Grace Jones



Honorable mention to:



I'm Yours...Linda Clifford

Garden of Love...Don Ray

Hold Your Horses...First Choice

Love Somebody Today...Sister Sledge

My Claim To Fame...James Wells

Inner Life...Inner Life (maybe not within the disco years proper, but definitely in the spirit)

[KBallenger53]

WOW!!!!:icon_eek: This is definately a mind bender. There's just so many...so many. But I'll try to list at least 10:

1. Love is the Message - MSFB
2. Bra - Cymande
3. Love in C Minor - Cerrone
4. Disco Circus - Martin Circus
5. I feel Love - Donna Summer
6. Open Sesame - Kool & the Gang
7. Movin' - Brass Construction
8. It's Serious - Cameo
9. Welcome to our World of Merry Music - Mass Production
10. Let's Get it together - El Coco


"WHEW"!!!

'NUFF SAID

[Cdnbob]

Hmmmm... :icon_rolleyes: That is a tough one. Let's see...

My picks in no particular order

Stars - Sylvester
Sell My Soul - Sylvester
Two Tons of Fun - Two Tons of Fun
The Glow of Love - Change
Instant Replay - Dan Hartman
Relight My Fire - Dan Hartman
Keep On Dancin - Gary's Gang
Bad Bad Boy - Theo Vanness
E=MC2 - Giorgio Moroder
Macho Man - Village People
Fly Away - Voyage
The Second Album - USA European Connection
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Closer - Gino Soccio
Bionic Boogie - Bionic Boogie (with Risky Changes)

[srg]

Off the top of my head, not in order:

Bad Girls- Donna Summer
Step II- Sylvester
Stars- Sylvester
Roni Griffith- Roni Griffith
Bad Bad Boy-Theo Vaness
Passengers- Passengers
Fever- Fever (LOVE THIS ONE!!! WHERE'S THE CD?)
Village People (1)- Village People
If My Friends...- Linda Clifford
Anything by Tantra***
Fire Night Dance-Peter Jacques Band
E=Mc2-Giorgio Moroder
Knock On Wood-Amii Stewart
Beautiful Bend- Beautiful Bend
Romeo & Juliet- Alec Costandinos
Supernature- Cerrone
Masterpiece- Gazebo
Hold Your Horses- First Choice
Woman In Me- Carol Jiani
Lime 1- Lime

and more...there's always MORE great disco to discover even after 30 years after its supposed "death"....

[drlove]

I'd add to the great ones already suggested above:

Trammps' "Where the Happy People Go" (1976)

[shives]

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band album of the same name
Andrea True Connection More More More album

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Okay...
The first 10 LP's, off the top-of-my head, showcasing different 'Dance' genres...

Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Cloud One - Spaced Out
(gulp!) Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Cerrone - Love In C-Minor
Alec R. Costandinos - Romeo and Juliet
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
The Salsoul Orchestra - The Salsoul Orchestra
The Village People - The Village People
Viola Wills - If You Could Read My Mind

[kdavid13]

My top 10:

Donna Summer - Once upon a time
Alec Costandinos - Romeo & Juliet
Giorgio Moroder - From here to eternity
Gino Soccio - Outline
First Choice - Hold your horses
Grace Jones - Fame (Canadian pressing with Comme un oiseau qui s'envole)
James Wells - My claim to fame
The Trammps - Where the happy people go
Sparks - No 1 in heaven
Claudja Barry- Sweet dymanite (US Salsoul)

[thommy2458]

1)Supernature-Cerrone
2)Bad Girls-Dona Summer
3)Watson Beasley
4)Don Ray-Garden
5)Madleen Kane-Rough Diamond
6)Voyage-1st Lp
7)Trammps/Happy People
8)Linda Clifford/If My Friends
9)Theo Vaness/Bad Boy
10)Tantra-Hills

[JussiK]

h/c underground disco classics, anyone?
1. The Androids: Disco Dream
2. Arpadys: Arpadys
3. Black Hole: Black Hole
4. Babette: Gypsy
5. Roger Gravel Flashback: Un Habit En La Bemol
6. Zacar Orchestra: Disco-take
7. Syncophonic Orchestra: Columbia Symphonie Spatiale
8. Laser: Laser
9. Stratosferic Band: Splash
10. Slang: Slang

[musiquelover]

All-time classic albums in the dance genre?
That description is very wide!

How about:
Nuyorican Soul – Nuyorican Soul
Daft Punk – Homework
Soul II Soul – Club Classics Vol. 1
Roni Size/Reprazent – New Forms
Reel People – Second Guess
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