Favorite 'Rosco' (Rock that was almost 'Disco') Song

[georgeb]

my favourites "Rosco" are "Regiment" and "Qu aran" from "my life in a bush of ghosts"lp by Brian Eno and David Byrne.
Killer bassline!!!!!!!!! :o

[EricHG23]

I'm a big fan (in a guilty pleasure sort of way) of Jim Steinman and his over the to, bombastic rock. He's often sorta flirted with dance/disco music, and while nothing in the late 70s heyday (when his only major work was the Bat Out of Hell album) qualifies some of his later stuff does IMHO. Bonnie Tyler's I Need a Hero is the most obvious example but his production fo a dance cover of her Band of Gold would work in a club as does her underated Rebel Without a Clue by him. For the film Streets of Fire he did two over the top songs with studio band Fire Inc (created for the songs) and both have very driving BPMs--Nowhere Fat and the absolutely superb Tonight is What It Means to Be Young. He created a girl group called Pandora's Box in 1989 who flopped but he recycled many fot heir songs later (Celien Dion did their first single All Comign Back to Me) one song that Meat Loaf later covered, but the Pandora's version is much more dancey and is a fave of mine is Good Girls Go to Heaven (but the bad go everywhere).

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[funkykingston]

Rod Stewart/Faces - i know i'm losing you

[Ian Rose]

Does....
Chicago-Street Player count?,.....or is that just considered a disco song?

[Cory Ander]

Boz Scaggs' reggaeish "Love Me Tomorrow" has a wicked disco hi hat, and how about Mi-Sex's "Computer Games"?

[needlefingers]

Along with many of those mentioned, these are some of the Rosco and Pop/Rock songs that I either played or heard in disco clubs in the late ‘70’s/early ‘80’s.

Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon, Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Don’t Stop, You Make Loving Fun, Tusk, Sara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCiT5jeMPkQ

Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me
YouTube - Cheap Trick- I want you to want me

Al Stewart – Time Passages

Steely Dan – Do It Again, Peg

Paul Simon – Kodachrome

Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street, Right Down The Line

Heart – Magic Man, Crazy On You

Foreigner – Urgent, Hot Blooded, Cold As Ice

Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way

America – Sister Golden Hair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCc53eTwD9k

Golden Earring – Radar Love
YouTube - Radar Love - Golden Earring 1973

Cornelius Bros. & Sister Rose – Treat Her Like A Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_RHezEQt8o&feature=related

Steam – Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)

David Dundas – Jeans On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWdcZqG02Ls

Robbie Dupree - Steal Away

Ian Matthews – Shake It
YouTube - Ian Matthews - Shake It

Orleans – Still The One
YouTube - Still the One - Orleans

Nick Gilder – Hot Child In The City
YouTube - Nick Gilder - Hot Child In The City

Andrew Gold – Lonely Boy
YouTube - LONELY BOY - ANDREW GOLD - (TOMA'S TUNES

Reunion – Life Is A Rock, (But The Radio Rolled Me)

David Essex – Rock On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_mzadEFuP4

Ian Dury And The Blockheads – Wake Up And Make Love To Me, Reasons To Be Cheerful PT III, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick, Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll

George Baker Selection – Una Paloma Blanca

Smokie – Needles And Pins

Bellamy Brothers – Let Your Love Flow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKSNHcsqqKM&feature=related

Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman – Stumblin’ In
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6JeYe_Cqls

Tina Rainford – Silverbird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StFUa9pBfZw

[STEPHEN L FREEMAN]

Used to work 2 copies of KISS - "Christine Sixteen"

[srg]

I've championed this track before...you gotta listen to it...

"Do You Remember When" by the J.Geils Band...1983 (Freeze-Frame LP)

new wavey vocals with the most glorious, string-laden backing I've ever heard on a "rock" song...(think Ian Dury in a Philly production)...shouldn't work but it does!