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disco seems like the final frontier.
can someone suggest some not too house-y or 4/4 disco to me?
perhaps a little experimental, and dark? and preferably from the 70's.

i have no idea if this even exists.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

LCD Soundsystem.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, it exists from the late seventies and then some. But I'll let Andy K. and many others speak on it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

black devil disco club

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link

my mindset has always been "curse indie rockers, those thieves" so i never gave lcd a chance. but i will.

i wonder if there was an authentic 'out there' disco movement?

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

holy damn, black devil is a perfect name for what i have in mind.

(thanks dudes)

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link

The Winners - "Get ready for the future"
Montana Sextet - "Heavy vibes"
Stop Bajon - "Primavera"
Patrick Cowley - "Megatron man"
People's Choice - "Cold blooded and downright funky"
Bill Coday - "Get your lie straight"

― Jacob (Jacob), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link

all of the disco(not disco) stuff seems to fit this bill - lizzy m.d., arthur russell productions, etc.

also, italo-disco, while perhaps not conceived as "far-out", has made a fairly big impact on current outish dance. some people have suggested some good comps, but i forget their names. also, maybe the italo stuff isnt very dark...

anyhow, i bet 79-81 is a good time to find this stuff.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link

i mean, i was assuming there could be some counterpart to that cheery disco just like detroit techno was the counterpart to eurohouse.
i cant really get into detroit TOO far because it sometimes sounds clinical.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

Originally released on Out Records way back in 1978, Black Devil?s "Disco Club" is an extremely rare disco masterpiece, an epic journey into the deepest electronic disco ...
It?s already whipped up a storm in the UK hip dance bible Jockey Slut have made it their single of the month for March, and it?s the most asked for record in Berwick Street?s tastemaker shops. In other words there is a huge buzz about it.
The record was discovered by Rephlex?s own PP Roy for 20 pence at a car boot sale, and quickly found favour with friends Richard D. James and Luke Vibert.
Keen as ever to share fantastic music, label co-founder Grant Wilson-Claridge has managed to secure the exclusive license for Rephlex, unwittingly beating Metro Area?s Morgan Geist (a long time fan) to the snap!
The first ep contains four tracks from the original release.
The second (chart eligible, c'mon everybody!) version and the cd-s contains the other 2 tracks the poppy vocal tracks that didn?t make the first release plus a great new remix by Kerrier District, (Luke Vibert), who?s brilliant album was just released on rephlex in early February, to strong critical acclaim.
The record is credited to Joachim Sherylee and Junior Claristidge, , pseudonyms of two library writers Bernard Fevre and Jackie Giordiano.
It was made manually in a recording studio in the suburbs of Paris using synths and occasional tape loops and a drummer. No midi or computers. Incredibly it sounds contemporary and very fresh.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

isnt warp reissuing a lot of old disco?

i hoppppeee so! ill take any cheater route i can get.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

Fear by Easy Going (Claudio Simonetti)

From Here to Eternity by Giorgio Moroder (a blueprint for Black Devil Disco Club)

Much italo-disco from the early 80s is very dark and very proto-detroit techno-
check out the I-Robots comp on Irma

And much of the real underground disco of the late 70s/early 80s from the Patrick Adams/P&P camp to stuff on bigger disco labels can be, while not exacty dark, pretty out there. Check out Thousand Finger Man by Candido.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

thanks dan. ive heard that georgio. didnt he produce like, donna summer or someone along those lines? what a nut.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

Seems like you'll be hard-pressed to find "disco" that isn't "4/4"...in any event, it seems like I-F's mix of dirty, raggedy Italo disco, Mixed Up in the Hague, Vol. 1, will suit your needs.

― Rich, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

yeah yeah - mixed up in the hague was the one ive been recommended.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

if you want a real shortcut, go to:

http://www.viewlexx.net/cybernetic-mixage.htm

and start downloading. Definately start with Mixed Up In the Hague Vol 1, I-F's extremely influential mix of early 80s electro-italo with some NY electro and other stuff thrown in.

Giorgio Moroder produced Donna Summer, from the more conventional sounding disco stuff to the watershed electronic disco of I Feel Love.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i guess 4/4 is in the definition eh?

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

no mention of CERRONE yet?? emma, get "Supernature"!! (Cerrone's drums are very CLEAN but the feel is often dark and freaky)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

some Cassius songs would fit the bill here, and i've got an idea you might like Les Rita Mitsouko as well

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

thanks!

im in a realm im totally out of touch with.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

also good stuff on this thread - dark disco

do a search on "disco" in the thread title and you'll find some more nummy disco

also everyone here is LAME for not mentioning Sparks yet

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

santa esmeralda, tantra, silver convention, chi chi faveles, alec costandinos, donna summer, d.c. larue, kano, boney m, the skatt bros, etc., etc., and yeah, obviously cerrone - LOTS of '70s (esp. Euro-)disco was EXTREMELY dark and gothic. (i have entire chapters about this stuff in my second book, *the accidental evolution of rock'n'roll.* you should buy it.) and most of the stuff mentioned on this thread has nothing to do with '70s disco whatsofuckingever, by the way.

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

wait. the first two names on that thread are adult. and the faint. haha

i hope electroclash burns in hell. immediately.

sparks seems kosher though. where to start?

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link

Kebekelektrik
Atmosfear
Giorgio Moroder (in case he hasn't been mentioned yet)
also
i'll second the Patrick Cowley rec

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

Sparks made one pretty decent disco album, *No 1 in Heaven*, produced by Giorgio Morodor. Before that, glam rock, often excellent. After that, half-assed technopop cabaret kitsch, for the most part. I dunno, I hate to be a purist about this stuff, but it's not like "darkness" is something new wavers from England and New York ADDED to disco in the '80s. It was there to begin with. Lots of it. (And the Bee Gees' '70s hits like "Tragedy" were darker than anything Sparks or the Faint ever did, anyway.) (As is lots of late '80s stuff by Stacey Q and Pajama Party, etc, but that's another story I guess.)

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

the dark isnt really necessary, actaully.
i often enjoy upbeat, lively and psychopathic equally if not more. haha

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link

Propaganda, Kimono My House, No. 1 in Heaven are all really really great albums..

haha i'm imagining emma with tottering pile of books and presents in her arms and you can only see her eyes.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link

You might also want to check out Sven Vath's pre-techno stuff as the Off (especially "Electric Salsa," one of the greatest records ever made) and 16 Bit (and whoever he recorded "J.R. is Dancing Pogo" as), which blows his later techno era stuff out of the water. Not to mention sundry '80s tracks by Yello, Propaganda, Laid Back, Falco, George Kranz, Alexander Robotnik (yeah, Italo disco rules), Flexx...

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link

you must understand that im giddy over this influx of information, tracer. haha

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link

emma. where did you come from?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago) link

Larry Levan's West End Records Remixes Made Famous at the Legendary Paradise Garage

also, Levan Live at the Paradise Garage 2CD mix. and Classic Salsoul Mastercuts.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

where did i come from?

my brother (tom cleveland: top 1000 perfect pop songs) gets on here a lot, and instead of him always referring me here when we talk about music, i decided to take things into my own hands.

i live in harrisonburg va.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

(Emma, be advised not to poke fun at / underestimate Adult.'s Resuscitation, which is in certain ways v. much the sort of Detroit/Italo you're sort of asking for.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link

ill be sure to stop joking on adult once thier fans stop dressing like douchebags. ; )

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

emma there's a song called "dirty disco" by section 25 - are you aware of this? it sounds terrifically deranged, but it's not *real* disco, it's joy divisionesque post punk with a beat (think PIL DEATH Disco as a reference and you're nearly there, now think martin hannett producing et voila). My vote for the stuff you want would include vintage indie-punkers gone dancehappy - the pop group "We are all prostitutes" and "she is beyond good and evil", james chance "contort yourself" medium medium "hungry so angry" and shit even throbbing gristle's "hot on the heels of love", while totally 4 on the floor and housey, is dark as shit and from 1979.... and i completely, fully endorse the sparks record as well, No 1 in Heaven

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link

yeah james chance and throbbing gristle are both VERY key.
havent heard the others but since i love those two so much, ill try them!

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

what constitutes dressing like a douchebag, I wonder?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

Emma I'm offended. This ribbed plastic baggy shirt and neck-hose happen to be very hot in Williamsburg.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link

or more to the point, most of the Adult. fans I know don't dress in any particular way. (if as nabisco is saying you're lumping them in w/electroclash willy nilly you're pretty much mistaken, at least as far as Adult. goes, if not electroclash)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:19 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i have a bunch of "respectable" non trendy friends who dig. i just like to take any chance i can get to poke fun at electroclash.

i wont stand for hair that looks like its been hairsprayed while in a windtunnel ; )

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:21 (twenty years ago) link

Hair like that will stand for you!

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

I've found Adult. fans to dress more like out of work dot.commers, all black messenger bags and smart haircuts. It's the Faint's fans who dress like people who can't decide if they're ravers, goths, or indie-hipsters, and thus wear their Fred Perry shirts with stockings on their arms. I'm making this up, of course.

There are many post-punk dance threads I'm sure, and comps, to explore that side of things.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

Laura Branigan, "Self Control" >>>>>>> most vintage indie-punkers gone dancehappy (or Adult for that matter, yuck.)

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago) link

yeah id rather not think about it, to tell you the truth.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago) link

sorry I turned it into a tangent, I was just confused by it at first.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

I mean, if we're gonna count electroclash ice-queen s&m nostalgia shtick shmaltz as disco, we might as well count everything on Wax Trax records between, say, 1985 and 1990. And everything on Metropolitan Records now. And dark metal, for that matter. (And Killing Joke, and Belfegore, and Telex, and Big Black, etc. etc.)

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

um, you already DO, Chuck. so do a lot of us.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

I'd count Telex and "Everyday is Halloween!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:31 (twenty years ago) link

or maybe just the everyday is halloween remix

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, good point Matos. I just keep looking at that "preferably from the 70's" upthread, and see people recommending Adult and the Faint and LCD Soundsystem, and I get kinda confused and cranky I guess. Sorry...

xpost

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

back to the question at hand-

some of the disco referred to as UK Jazz Funk is excellent stripped down and raw disco, the hits being Francine Mghee's Feeling Good(instrumental B-side is Delirium) and the work of Andy Sojka such as the aforementioned Atmosfear and Powerline's Journey/Double Journey.

I'd also look for the Began Cekic "version" of Jimmy Bo Horne's Spank, released as Change Position/69 by Brooklyn Express. That is some seriously intense kick-ass disco. It was recently bootlegged on Ballroom records, and is the flipside of the very long and wonderful Patrick Cowley remix of I Feel Love. Most of the stuff on the Ballroom, Music Box and Automan bootleg series are worth checking out.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Well, if we want to open the doors even wider, a lot of the old Trax stuff could probably fit in here, too. Surely, a lot of it's lo-fi and those acid bass lines are woozy, if not brooding. The new 3-disc 20th anniversary comp. is worth checking out, regardless.

― Rich, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

Dark disco is timeless.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:35 (twenty years ago) link

chuck, im with you!
thus the "fuck off indierockers" comments.

im just younger. and i have a soft spot for the 70s.
and one too many times has someone tried to talk to me about the strokes instead of the stooges, or iron and wine instead of john fahey. feel my pain, haha.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link

This is about the time I ask if you're working at your college radio station yet (because if they had a lick of sense and started sometime in the sixties or seventies, you never know WHAT you'll find in the archives).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

also Cerrone's buddies Don Ray and Max Berlin.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

Nabsico! where you been?

― andybeta, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, i work at our radio station.
its only 14 years old though, as my college was awomens college during the 60s/70s and everyone knows girls dont care about music!

anyhow, we moved to digital, so i rip all the cds onto a harddrive. isnt that nutty?

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

not all that nutty, actually, it's how a lot of stations work now. (like Village Voice Radio!)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, increasingly common that way, KUCI was starting to mutate in that direction by the time I left and I gather that's standard procedure now for all new releases.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:42 (twenty years ago) link

Or just go to the two-dollar bin of any good used record store out in the boonies somewhere, or even a few Salvation Armys. I'm not kidding. Forget expensive reissue bootlegs for DJs; it's still relatively easy to find the real thing laying around, if you look. And it's way more fun! (Yeah, for Don Ray. *Garden of Love* is a great album, especially "Standing in the Rain." I never considered it especially dark, though; it seems really optimistic and anthemic to me. But if you like that, you should check out Gino Soccio, as well.)

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link

wow. it also means i get to steal all the vinyl. ha!

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

Chuck has a good point there -- I find my random copy of Cerrone's Supernature album that way.

(I should note that I have to thank Erasure of all people for getting me into Cerrone, as they did a ridiculously brilliant cover of "Supernature" itself as a B-side back in 1989.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

>it's how a lot of stations work now. (like Village Voice Radio!)<

Well, not anymore. We went off the air (off the net?) months ago.

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link

thanks for getting my basic point, Chuck

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link

I did get yr point, Matos! Just wanted to set the record straight, in case anybody starting looking for the station. I'm still bummed.

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

Chuck, I've done my fair share of digging in the crates, searching the goodwills and salvation armies, in the cities, in the boonies and everywhere inbetween. Sometimes you HAVE to shell out for the bootlegs, I don't care how lucky you are. We can't all stumble accross vinyl copies of the Cowley I Feel Love mix.

I've had as many as 3 or 4 copies of Supernature at any given time, but I'm not about to hold out till I happen accross a copy of Spacer Woman by Charlie, just to save 10 bucks.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link

oh you working men, with 10 bucks to spare.

god save the internet.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

plus it's worth noting that Chuck's crate-digging time occurred during the period when NO ONE wanted those records anymore except him and Frank Kogan, which no doubt made them easier to find

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

Ergo, the crate-diggers of today should concentrate on scouring bins for promos of hair-metal bands signed to Atlantic in 1989 (make sure they have the 'When You Play It, Say It!' sticker on the cover).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

Heh, I go by the "no way is a vinyl album worth more than five bucks" rule myself. That even counts for obscure Jimmy Castor and Babe Ruth stuff. And the original 12-inch or album mixes of "I Feel Love" are still the best ones that ever existed. And if you don't find something truly obscure in the dollar bin, you can always buy another good Steve Miller or Billy Squier or Nena album. But hey, to each his own, you know? (And I should note that I do probably fetishize non-reissues too much, plus I built up most of my disco collection 15 or 20 years ago, when nobody seemed to give a shit about that kinda stuff. Lucky me. It may well be more scarce now, I admit.)

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

xpost, but yeah, Matos said it before I did

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

whoa, in case matos wk's name is an andrew wilkes-krier reference,
have you guys heard that he used to amke minimalist music while in art school? this mp3 comes from a hanson records comp with nautical alminac on it. HA

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/audio/labyandrewwilkeskrier.m3u

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link

So yeah, hair-metal cutouts are a good bet. (Start with Lord Tracy and Smashed Gladys, maybe?) And also-ran turn of the '90s Miami Bass! And forgotten pop-rap groups like the Skinny Boys, or whoever.

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

"plus it's worth noting that Chuck's crate-digging time occurred during the period when NO ONE wanted those records anymore except him and Frank Kogan"

I wonder if they looked like Faint fans back then...

― andybeta, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

I looked like a Fabulous Poodles fan myself; can't speak for Frank.

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

I love the 12" and album mixes of I Feel Love, but Cowley's mix is an entirely different beast, more like a mixture of the original and an entirely new Patrick Cowley epic. And it's quite rare.

Robert Lloyd (Nightingales/Prefects/New Four Seasons) just asked me if I could find Skinny Boys CDs here.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

(For the record Chuck no one recommended Adult! I just decided to stick up for them.)

By the way, has anyone mentioned Grace Jones? There's that point of disco to new wave crossover where she's sort of in the right zone.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:17 (twenty years ago) link

*Warm Leatherette* is the great Grace Jones album; *Nightclubbing* is the good one. Before *Warm Leatherette*, you should go with Amanda Lear, who did it better. After *Nightclubbing,* you should go with Mylene Farmer or Jeanne Mas, who also did it better.

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

Also, along those lines, you could likewise do worse than buy Marianne Faithful's *Broken English* and the first Lene Lovich album (after her Cerrone/Chi Chi Faveles collaborations, I mean). (Possibly Nina Hagen, too, but I'm no expert on her once I get past her jack-booted German cover of "White Punks on Dope.")

― chuck, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

I actually just picked my moniker for how it looked rather than any kind of deep devotion to Andrew W.K., though that's sort of an interesting fact.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

I play Broken English a lot, along with Gina X and similar "ice queen" stuff. Lene Lovich's record with New York, New York and Zarah is good, both of those were singles as well. Moroder and/or his associates produced it, Zarah(Dub) is really good.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

Matos, yers is s'pose to mean "White Killer" too?

― andybeta, Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

what everyone else said. and lemme echo the luv for the black devil "disco club" record.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link

Laura Branigan, "Self Control"

in a similar vein, pat nebatar's "we live for love"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 June 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago) link

excuse my ignorance,
I'm a Grace Jones *Nightclubbing* and *Warm Leatherette* fans, but especially a Amanda Lear fans.
Chuck wrote:
"(after) *Nightclubbing,* you should go with Mylene Farmer or Jeanne Mas, who also did it better"

who is Jeanne Mas? and of Mylene I often noticed (nice cover...) a double cd best of in the shop near home, is this double compilation cd well done, or is compiled like crap (like 90% of best of...)and should i better check out for specific album?

please somebody enlighten me!

― francesco, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

"Devil's Gun" by uh, I Can't Remember Who was pretty dark, wasn't it?
If you do want to spring for a pricey reissue CD, this German compilation The Soul of Disco has some diabolical funky tracks on it including The Strikers' weird & great "Body Music."

― lovebug starski, Friday, 4 June 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

Emma, did you know the kids in Crayola house?

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 02:00 (twenty years ago) link

I just keep looking at that "preferably from the 70's" upthread, and see people recommending Adult and the Faint and LCD Soundsystem, and I get kinda confused and cranky I guess.

Amen. I like Adult & LCD, had a great time seeing Adult when they played here, too. But on a thread with the same title as THAT Section 25 song, I expect the authentic late 70's variety, damnit!

― Bimble (bimble), Friday, 4 June 2004 05:32 (twenty years ago) link

whoa clarke. yes. i live in spaghetti house across the street.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Friday, 4 June 2004 07:39 (twenty years ago) link

That's crazy -- those kids are some of my closest high school friends. My girlfriend and I are in Charlottesville now, like five minutes from Ryan and Candace... It's good to see more VA on the boards!

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago) link

that made my day.
after a year of a bunch of shitjammers living in crayola, some friends of mine are moving in.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:07 (twenty years ago) link

>"Devil's Gun" by uh, I Can't Remember Who was pretty dark, wasn't it?<

Yep. By CJ and Co -- Westbound Records, 1978. Great fucking record; I spin the 7-inch every time I DJ. (Next time is this Sunday Night at Southpaw in Park Slope, Brooklyn, if anybody reading this happens to live in New York..)

― chuck, Friday, 4 June 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

awww, nearly two years later and im thoroughly obsessed. thanks ilm.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread is great! i just downloaded a bunch of stuff and am going to scour amoeba tomorrow.

anything else that sounds like follow me by amanda lear? simultaneously ethereal, distant and sugary and lush and somehow joyful? tall order. maybe i'm retarded but it seems like the closest just might be 'i feel love.'

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

mebbe Sheila & B Devotion - Spacer

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks, will check it out.
here's the amanda lear track for reference too

http://s31.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=079HM4XI63HSS38Y3TL7X967TX

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

also Divine, Ian Dury, Edwin Starr, Tasha Thomas, Carte Blanche, Sinnamon, Raw Silk, Glass, Space, Linx, Index, Asso, Stone, Yoko Ono's "Walking On Thin Ice", Love De-Luxe's "Here Comes That Sound Again". All 17 minutes of it.

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i think this was my first thread, actually. im going to see alexander robotnick this weekend for the second time.

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

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