Ever imagine what the disco scene would have been like if..

[Rab]

Has anyone ever imagined what the disco scene might have been like if there had not been this huge conspiracy to kill it? Perhaps imaging people embracing it back in the late 1970's similar to the way young people celebrate this hip hop/rap stuff today? Remember what it was like in 1979? Imagine if it just continued...and we saw more upcoming artists throughout the 80's and 90's embracing that style we now associate with the late 1970's.

It just seems strange to me that there was so much talent within just of few short years...and then it all dissappeared...

[Forrrce]

Funny, Rab - it's hard to imagine the tide of disco going unchecked. I do kinda think the anti-brigade did it a favour in some ways. They may have hurt it commercially, but not creatively. Even with your scenario, I'm having trouble being optimistic!

[StuckIn1979]

You know that is an interesting thought. Particularly when you consider that the talent is so bad these days. Imagine if the people today were as talented as the artists of the 70's? It is unfortunate that people can't see that. Some people seem to believe that guys like Justin Timberlake and Eminem are just as talented as John Lennon and Jim Morrison for example. What happened? I've heard a lot of people blame it on the AIDS epidemic? Even the fashions today are so grungy.

[Forrrce]

This is taking the thread off course, but I do honestly feel there are genuinely talented people around these days - there's just no call for them, so we don't get to hear them. Standards have slipped to the point where no one expects better than what they are shovel-fed. Sure, the kids of today can't sing, write decent songs - and they have to sample everything. Who's to blame? As long as I don't have to listen to all that caterwauling, I'll stick with my old records, thank you.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that there have always been rubbish artists and records polluting our ears. Things were only better yesterday by 'our' standards. 'We' don't count now - we're not the mainstream.

[Nano]

There always were products like Justin Timberlake aimed at teenage masses: remember the Osmond Brothers, David Cassidy, The Monkees, Milli Vanilli, NKOTB... From time to time, real artists come out from them, like in the case of the Jackson 5.
Now they have a bigger share in the media's eye because, in part, of the current MP3 download trend. Record labels aim their products at people who are not really interested in sitting all day in front of the PC. Records linked with TV contest shows, for example, prove to sustain sales more that others because their consumers prefer to buy them than to download them. Thus, all media hype (specially TV) goes to them.

[Discovery]

I do kinda think the anti-brigade did it a favour in some ways. They may have hurt it commercially, but not creatively.

I think it may have actually been hurt creatively as well. As a result of being hurt commercially, who knows how much disco material was left unreleased, unfinished, unrecorded, or abandoned.

[QUINNY]

Do I care? Ya gotta go with the flow or get the hell out!!
As someone who saw most of the artists from the early '70s eclipsed by "those new fangled inferior disco stars", but played the records and kept on playing the sounds that eclipsed disco........................SO WHAT?
TIME MOVES ON, FASHIONS CHANGE, YOUTH WILL HAVE ITS HEAD.