My Secret Pleasure...

Tony M. said:
Aah yes, the 70s
Disco music.
Saturday Night Fever...

Hot button pushed!:ohno:

I hate the Bee Gees.
I have hated them since day one.
I have hated everything they have ever done.
(except some tracks from that dopey disco movie. Go figure...)
Some of them are dead and I don't care. I hate the dead ones too.
I hate them all with the burning intensity of a hundred thousand supernovas.
They are, always have been and always will be a festering boil on the skin of music.
A billion years from now the average overall quality of all the music ever composed and
performed throughout the entire universe will still be significantly lower than it would have been
had they never existed.
I hate them.

(Please feel free to mentally insert lots of profanity in every spot where it will be grammatically correct.)
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I don't believe you really mean that.
 
RVA said:
I don't believe you really mean that.
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I don't believe you really mean that.
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Early 1977.
The disco thing is just about done.
My Classic Rock Cover Band Myakka is ready to ride the crest of the return of rock.
Saturday Night Fever hits the theaters just as we leave the rehearsal space to hit the clubs.
Disco comes back with a vengeance largely due to this movie and it's Bee Gees loaded sound tract.
(Funny thing is, the Bee Gees hits off that sound tract are the only things they have ever done that I liked.)
We worked anyway. We solved the problem by learning heavied up versions of Night Fever, (You could be) Dancin'
and How Deep is Your Love (Maybe that's why I like them) but we drew the line at Stayin' Alive. The songs went over
great so we heavied up a bunch of other disco stuff and did the best version of I got the Music in me I have ever heard.
We morphed from a Classic Rock Cover Band into a Heavy Disco band with some Who thrown in for good measure.
We played all over South Brooklyn every weekend for well over a year.
We had big fun with our Unique sound and people liked it a lot.

So no, I don't hate disco. The bass players in those songs COOKED.
But as for the Bee Gees, I have never liked anything else they have done,
with the exception of the Saturday Night Fever stuff. (I do dislike Stayin' Alive though.)
Hate is an overly strong word because their SNF songs were worth rearranging and doing.
The savage vitriol in the other post was for the sake of drama (and the knife blade!).
 
Hate away gents...I happened to know how to dance and Disco clubs got me laid more times than I can count on my fingers and toes...
I had some nice John Travolta wide legged pants and a few satin shirts and looked the part when I went to a club...

I also listened to all the New Wave and Punk music in the 80's...still like it too...

...and here's a slap back at some of you...THIS was way better than the crap the Hair Bands called music! I DESPISE MANY of the Hair Bands...



 
^^ well...yeah...I'm no fan of hair bands/cheesemetal. And The Church and The Fixx were two of my favorites in the '80's. But (and you had to know there was a but coming) the disaster of Disco in the '70's and very early '80's is where my hatred is focused. It was like an insidious disease, taking over rock radio, rock bands, being played at every place where teenagers gathered, on television, ice/roller rinks, in malls, everywhere. You couldn't escape it and it was just plain evil.
 
"They" say every decade has it's own musical "thing"

The 30s had Bing Crosby.
The 40s had Frank Sinatra.
The 50s had Elvis Presley.
The 60s had the Beatles.
The 70s had disco.
The 80s had hair bands and the "power ballad".
The 90s had "Seattle Grunge"
etc.
 
Tony M. said:
"They" say every decade has it's own musical "thing"

The 30s had Bing Crosby.
The 40s had Frank Sinatra.
The 50s had Elvis Presley.
The 60s had the Beatles.
The 70s had disco.
The 80s had hair bands and the "power ballad".
The 90s had "Seattle Grunge"
etc.
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Perhaps. But as a kid/teenager growing up during those years I personally tend to think of the '70's as the Rock era: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, UFO, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Scorpions, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc, etc. That was the music I was listening to, and I tend to think of Disco as a festering boil on the ass of the rock decade that needed to be lanced.
 
gball said:
^^ well...yeah...I'm no fan of hair bands/cheesemetal. And The Church and The Fixx were two of my favorites in the '80's. But (and you had to know there was a but coming) the disaster of Disco in the '70's and very early '80's is where my hatred is focused. It was like an insidious disease, taking over rock radio, rock bands, being played at every place where teenagers gathered, on television, ice/roller rinks, in malls, everywhere. You couldn't escape it and it was just plain evil.
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You know it's really kind of funny for me...in the 70's I HATED Disco because I was a die hard rocker and long haired punk. But then I joined the USAF and left home for thee first time in 1979.
The only music in the clubs was Disco and I learned the only way to get next to a hot chick was dancing...so I partially threw in the towel. I listened to the Disco in the
clubs, but still listened to Rock at home...now the Disco is like some sort of nostalgia thing and it brings back fun memories and the songs just make me want get up and dance!
 
In the late 80's I got into this...



Then in the mid 90's it was this...



I just love music of most any genre...except OPERA...I'd rather stick an ice pick in my ears...
 
Sp8ctre said:
You know it's really kind of funny for me...in the 70's I HATED Disco because I was a die hard rocker and long haired punk. But then I joined the USAF and left home for thee first time in 1979.
The only music in the clubs was Disco and I learned the only way to get next to a hot chick was dancing...so I partially threw in the towel. I listened to the Disco in the
clubs, but still listened to Rock at home...now the Disco is like some sort of nostalgia thing and it brings back fun memories and the songs just make me want get up and dance!
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I take it you never slam danced?
 
Forgot how much I liked this $hit! Snoop live up in Diamond Head now...I doubt he cruises the LBC anymore...

 
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