What does disco mean 2U?

[boogie nites]

I know this question will have been asked before. But I shall ask it anyway. Why do you like disco? I have always been different and in 1997, when i was 13 I was accidentally introduced to disco via radio. Now i am 20 and my love for disco is cemented. Sometimes I feel alienated because when I was out at a (rare) 70s disco night in a nearby city, and towards 2 am the club began to empty and I started to think why is disco so forgotten about? Why am I forced to listen to the music come out nowadays? Disco is awesome and I can't get the same feeling about new dance music as 70s and 80s grooves. Sometimes I think why am I listening to it, I wasnt there so I am not recalling the disco days. Well, disco makes sense to me, it takes me away from the problems the world always throws at us, and its amazing, funky, funny, stylish, original. I'm sorry to be so dramatic, but I have just been clubbing with my friends, and all the music that they like I cannot relate to. I wish I could experience the 70s. So, what does disco mean to you? Why did you like it? Do any of you ever feel like its a form of music that the mainstream ignores?

[MAN]

boogie nites if you likes disco music so you've got a good taste of music, I think that disco music is just a kind or style of music some one likes it and other did not move him, but as you see even the now days dance music many of the tones came from the disco music as you see many new artists remakes and took many tones from the disco music, and you don't have to be there at 70's and 80's to like and taste the disco music many of the people lived and raised at 70's and 80's also did not liked the disco music, other thing also many people likes the Classical music which is made by MOZART, SCHUBERT, BACH and many others from 2 or 3 centuries and enjoying it and they were not there of course at this era, just enjoy yourself with the music you likes and disco music is a good choice have many verities most of the new music came from computer games.

[K-Bee]

I too was too young to go out on clubs in the 70s and early 80s but that hasn't stopped me from having disco as one of my main musical interest today (jazz and REAL soul - not usher :lol: - is another)

Disco is all about getting down and feeling good...so you're right when u describe it as being able to take you away from the daily boring issues that's a big part of all our lives.
happy music is escape music i guess

I wouldn't say the mainstream ignores disco...they may think they do, but fact of the matter is that disco is the foundation of dance music. 90% of today's dance music wouldn't even have been there without disco. So loads of people may officialy hate disco but they still dance to a similar music today without even thinking about it.

[PeaceFroggy]

I love disco because when I switch it up on my stereo reaaaaal loud for a while it just spins me into this orgy of happiness and it just makes me so happy no know that there were people happy enough to make music that happy. A lot of people say that disco has no soul and that it is all plastic. Well I think these people are not allowing themselves to succumb to the funk and the groove. They might think they are turning their back on disco music but I bet no matter how hard they try they just can't stop themselves from tapping their feet and bopping their head everytime they hear a classic funky track on the radio.

Disco speaks to me the same way rock music and metal music speak to other people. They mistakenly believe that just because tthis music is happy it is not artistic or "deep". Who says music has to be sad and depressing to be "deep". Listen to the lyrics of Chic's Everybody Dance for example. I feel that that song really speaks to me. It sums up the appeal of disco. It's so happy but it is also sad for me becuase it speaks of a time I can't enjoy.

[MixMasterMax]

My recollection of what these days were and meant to me are very vivid and inspiring to this day. On those many nights the only consideration was,
which disco are we going to. Yes the DJ had an integral part in the evening but it truly was the music. Disco music has a fantastic beat which could not be ignored and lyrics which are powerful. Thousands of people in one place with a common goal, to have a good time and dance. I believe the only reason people don't like disco today is because they don't take the time to listen to it and they are influenced by the many years of "disco sucks" and other negative connotations. I must say that I see many more young people digging and dancing to disco music these days. In our town as in most, the clubs feature a "disco" night and to my amazement, it's always packed with young people. So spread the word and turn someone on to disco, they will thank you for it.

[Studio74]

Disco to me means freedom, means good time,means love...Disco brings to me good feelings, it´s a very positive music.I was also young to enjoy Disco´s golden age (70s/early 80s...i was born in 1974).But since young age i loved to hear disco (and also felt attracted to all types of electronic music,but that´s another story...).Of course at the beginning i was more into the mostly known stuff, like Gloria Gaynor,Bee Gees,KC & The Sunshine Band,Donna Summer,Thelma Houston.Then one day the whole filtered-disco-house stuff exploded,and it felt like the Disco age all over again.Of course i became curious to hear where all those samples came from.Since then i became a lover of the more underground side of Disco.And i got to tell you,i started to have a new perception of all the dance music movement.Lots of things that we hear today are rooted in Funk and Disco...Electro,House,Techno,Pop,Modern R'n'B...even Rock.I think Disco had the last laugh after all.

[born2disco]

I love disco because it is so simple yet means so much. It's music for the body and soul, not the mind. It usually covers simple (yet complex!) themes such as love and sex which we can all relate to. It was one of the first styles of music to appeal to straight and gay, black and white, rich and poor. Most of all, it's music to feel happy and have fun to.

That's a very watered down quick version of why I like disco.

[efunk_adelic]

Alright, my favorite topic this week. :D

I like disco for so many reasons... it's emotional, funky, symphonic. Makes me happy. I like everything about it actually... The great thing about disco is there are different types.... How could one not enjoy the classic SOUVENIRS by VOYAGE :roll: It's simply one of the best disco songs ever recorded... I love the songs that actually put me into a trance.. where every segment is different.. for example LOVE IN 'C' MINOR by CERRONE omg!!! that song sounds as good today as it did back in '77. I'd ramble on and on.. but, I'm enjoying what everyone else is writing....

[HustleBaby]

Disco gives me a fun, soothing, free, sensual, dreamy, happy music let yourself go kind of feeling :P . It has its politics and sexual innuendos yet its done with taste and perfection without inflaming/insulting specific groups. It takes me back to a time that's almost unreal - no hate, anti women, murder & mayhem, wish you can be me type of lyrics that continues to torture us :x . Disco is the MOST STYLISH form of music ever created......where would I be without it :-? :-? :-? ?????.

*DISCO DEEEEELITE*

[boogie nites]

I feel better now, people! I haven't heard any of Cerrone, though I have heard a lot about him, I will check him out. I love "Everybody Dance" its one of my fav songs of all time. I am glad to see its not just me who feels the same euphoric rush when I break out classix like Chic, Silver Convention, Sylvester, Slick (whos heard the awesome "Sexy Cream"?) etc. I guess i was just a little too overloaded with modern music from the club my friends and i were at (and perhaps a little emotional from everything else I was overloaded on!!!) and I had to express my love for disco. I never see a day when I won't like it, or appreciate it. Its weird to see that in so many of the replies a lot of u were 2 young to get down, and I think its important that young people know about it. I am just finishing up a course at TAFE in music, and I am the only one who digs disco. We had to do a concert for assessment and I knew I had to impress them on the turntables, so I started with the bassline from "Good Times", morphed into "Rappers Delight" (original!!) and then finished off with "Dance" from Paradise Express. Later, no joke, I heard my classmate, Mitch, a heavy metal fanatic, trying to recreate "Good Times" on his electric guitar!!! I am not saying he is going to to be a disco fan...but he found it cool. Naturally.

[DiscoMan]

What does Disco mean to me?
My youth!

I came of age in the '70s (B. '52) and I remember that time as being the most free spirited age ever. We pretty much were able to do anything we wanted because everything we did had not been done before and since the adults didn't know what we were up to we could do anything we wanted :D

The music was great and the women were HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was a great time to be young!

Sex, drugs and DISCO!!!!!!!!
And I do feel it now :cry:

[Studio74]

The 70´s and early 80´s seemed a great time to be alive.I was born in 1974,but those younger years seemed to me very colourfull and also full of hope (Portugal stoped being a fascist country in the 25th of April 1974).I remember my aunt like to hear Disco,Abba and even some New Wave stuff, and when i hear that stuff, i go back to those years.I remember the clothes, the spirit,the radio playing great tunes...i even remeber Kraftwerk being played on the radio.But sometimes i wish i was a little older in the 70´s,i know i would love spending all nights dancing to Disco (as i do now to Electro or House or even Disco-Punk stuff like Rapture or LCD Soundsystem), and watching those wild chicks Discodancing into oblivion...eheh :lol:

[DiscoMan]

I remember when Portugal emerged from Fascism and I remember when Francisco Franco of Spain croaked and Spain emerged from the darkness.

When the war in Vietnam ended in '73 we here in the States threw a 10 year party - DISCO! I have never forgotten or gotten over those days. We did anything we wanted. Dance yourelf to the point of collapse and then some sweet young thing would **** your brains out :D

No HIV/AIDS either. The worst you could get would be a dose of the "Ol' Joe". A trip to the clap clinic, get your baloney checked out, then a prescription for penicillin and you'd be right back in action :D

The summer of '74 was particularly memorable for me - spent with a local red-headed hottie :D

She's been married for 25 years and has three kids.
My, how things change

She fucked my ass off so I would hope she did the same for the guy she married. :D

[JussiK]

Disco is like an image by Pierre&Gilles, with a sleek, shiny surface that sparkles with silver and throbs with vibrant hot orange, deep gold, shades of neon jungle green, cobalt blue and most of all purple. Every detail is well designed, even the more risque scene of the next image does not seem sordid, only enticingly sinful. There's a strong sense of stylized theatricality in the concept, with a well rehearsed pose in evidence. Everything is bound together by a steady drum heartbeat that keeps the images in constant motion. While techno could be described as being synthetic or even virtual in essence, and funk all about the groove, disco is about fun, deep emotions and dramatic attitudes. Watch the recent dvd of Kylie's Manchester concert and it's all there - she does a wonderful "I Feel Love" and goes from there to glamorous Afro scenes with incredible dancers dressed in tribal chic. That's Immortal Disco.

[HustleBaby]

Hi Boogie Nites :D

As I'm typing, Joe Causi (WKTU disco dj) is spinning the classics. Every sunday at 6pm for the past few years, I tune into KTU so this has become a ritual for me - almost like applying perfume after I dress. I was born in 69 - a child of the 70's, unable to take advantage of the excitement that our parents and older siblings experienced. Yet I must add that I had my share of fun back then. Disco have the whole package, its everything:music, attitudes, clothing, dances(hustle, bump etc..), creativity, tv shows (Dance Fever, Soul Alive), individuality etc......I can't think of any other era that gets me so joyous and nostalgic...... the 60's runs a close second. As far as the 80's goes, well I have mixed emotions, almost a love/hate kind of thing but there is absolutely NOTHING that I can say that I hate about the 70's! I'm trying to spread the "fever" to my friends, its a struggle but I think I'm breaking them down :D !

*DISCO DEEEELITE*

[NickNack]

DISCO was like the biggest 'Coming Out' party ever thrown. :) The timing for me was perfect. After 22 years of being 'confused', in 1974 I said **** it! And when I realized my being gay wasn't gonna break Momma's heart, everything was copacetic.

DISCO was a huge part of that release for me. For the longest time and especially before "Saturday Night Fever", rightly or wrongly, I considered the music to be 'ours'. We gays seemed to be partying 24/7. I loved every second of it. The music made you feel good about yourself, who you were and who you were with. You didn't have to 'pretend' when DISCO was blasting on the system. The music was speaking to you (well I'm a FREE MAN), talking about you (I WAS BORN THIS WAY) or telling the world to get a grip (THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I). We weren't hiding anymore in little dark hole-in-the-wall bars, praying the cops didn't show up. No, we were partying in 'palaces' and telling the world MUSIC IS MY LIFE. Hell, 98% if not more of the gay crowd you hung with was into DISCO. Everybody wanted the newest record, knew the hottest dj's and could tell you in a heartbeat when a new club was opening.

DISCO was joyous freedom for me and everyone around me. If we werent' talking about the boys (or 'girls', as the case may be ) we were talking about the music. When I would pick up my records from the Record Pool on Friday's I could barely step into the bar before someone would say, "Alright, what'd you get?" :lol: DISCO was fun, family, love, sex and PRIDE. As a party boy I couldn't wait to hear it on the dancefloor. As a DJ, I couldn't wait to share it with everyone who walked into the room. DISCO kept me alive. It still does. :D

[Sami M]

I was ten in 1979 so disco mostly past me by BITD. However, I was very much into those few songs and records that got played in the few radio shows here. We only had three radiostations back then and they were all nationwide. No powerplays. I also shopped quite a few discorecords during the early eighties as the cut outs of Donna Summer, Pattie Brooks, patrick Juvet, Anita Ward, Lipps Inc., Odyssey etc. were sold out in low prices. I got introduced to disco by my parents and my best friend who had several elder brothers.

To me disco is a feeling, a happy state of mind, a true reflection of universal love.

When I get bored with the modern music, it's important that I can go back to disco, or better yet, find out songs that were unknown to me before. :D