Search and Destroy: Disco

Destroy: Just stuff that's worn out its welcome. Much as I love them, I don't really need to hear the bigger hits of the Village People and K.C. "I Will Survive"-please, don't make me listen to it again, please! No more gay movies with it on the soundtrack please! And I always much preferred the pop Bee Gees to the disco Bee Gees, but I think most people on this list don't feel quite the same.

I do think that "I'm coming out" by la Diana is one of the best dance tunes ever written. Best tunes ever written, period, but, hey, its purpose really is dancing. And I'm not even gay. But I just feel so good everytime I hear...

Hamilton Bohannon - Les Start II Dance Again Disco Tex & the Sex-o-lets - Get Dancin' Sylvester - Do you wanna funk Divine - Native Love (the non vocal mix is perhaps even more mighty than the sublime vocal version) Blondie - Call Me Jacksons - Can u feel it Diana Ross - Love Hangover Roxy Music - Angel Eyes (extended mix) Anita Ward - Ring My Bell Tina Charles - I love to love Abba - Lay all your love on me Crown Heights Affair - You gave me love Three Degrees - Giving up, giving in Hot Gossip - Starship Trooper

I'm going to post something here once I get my head in order with a better list...disco...it's just...ugh...I can't. Gimme a couple days.

'Move On Up' - Destination
'Love Machine (part 1)' - The Miracles
'Can You Feel It' - The Jacksons
'Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet' - Gonzalez
'Come To Me' - France Joli
'Fly Robin Fly' - Silver Convention
'I Got My Mind Made Up' - Instant Funk
'Young Hearts, Run Free' - Candi Staton
'Groove Is In The Heart' - Deee-Lite
'Groovejet' - Spiller
'Don't Stop Movin'' - S Club 7
Everything by Chic.

And the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack too. Obviously.

it looks awful!

If you want some FANTASTIC disco, pick up "Disco Forever" mixed by Dimitri from Paris. It's a 3 disc set, and aside from having wonderful packaging it's an excellent collection of obscure underground disco that'd be impossible to find otherwise. It's the best collection of disco music I've ever heard- it's actually what got me to truly understand and appreciate disco.

Has anyone else heard this?

For really beaty, drummy latin stuff search:

Resonance - "Yellow train", T Connection "At midnight" George Kranz "Din Daa Daa" (possibly the greatest intro ever)

For gorgeous, timeless, modern sounding funky stuff:

Loose Joints "Is it on my face" which has to be one of the most perfect records ever made. A warning is that the version on the Loft compilation (which is otherwise an excellent introduction to disco) is an inferior unreleased mix.

Jimmy Bo Horne "Spank"

For incredible emotional, dramatic vocals, anything by First Choice, but particularly "Let no man put asunder" and "Double Cross".

Also Patti Labelle "The Spirit's in it" and "Music is my life".

Rare Pleasure "Let me down easy" (where the piano loop in David Morales' "needing U" comes from)

For spacy, trippy stuff:

Skyy "First time around", New York City Peech Boys "Don't make me wait"

And finally for dirty-ass raw funk sounds:

Any Peoples Choice but particularly "Here we go again y'all" and "Cold blooded and downright funky". Johnny "Guitar" Watson - "Booty Ooty" and "Gangster of Love" (which has a very weird country sound to it, but it works) and Manu Dibango "Soul Makossa"

Good compilations to get are the Loft volume one (vol 2 is weaker and contains more pop disco). Also the Joey Negro compilations have some fantastic rare gems on them. The Larry Levan mix cd that is out there is, of course, a work of absolute genius however there are far better mixes out there by the great man, but they are on 20th generation shitty bootlegs so the sound quality is very poor.

Destroy: BeeGees, Ottowan, Baccara, Boney M, all that student disco crap that gave the style a bad name.

God, someone mentioned "I Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet" by Gonzalez. I loved that one so much and hadn't heard it in more than 20 years. Flipped the radio on a couple weeks ago and heard the last 10 seconds of it. Just enough to ache for the rest of it.