The 60’s, KC & the Sunshine Band: I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind, Loleatta Holloway (with Bobby Womack): Baby It’s You, The Story Behind Mighty Clouds of Joy’s “Mighty High”, Salsoul’s First Choice Reunites, Even If It’s for One Night Only, Various Artists: A Complete Introduction to Disco. Baccara – Srry, I’m a lady 12. Frantique – Strut your funky stuff 13. 2 EMI SWINDON, Mastering SID Code (Disc 2, variant 3): IFPI L042, Mould SID Code (Disc 2, variant 3): ifpi 1421. Tracklist 1 1. Donna Summer – Romeo 14. All in all, these are important essentials to almost any decent library celebrating the life of disco music. Harold & The Blue Notes Melvin – Don’t leave me this way, Pampuslaan 59 - 1382JM - Weesp - The Netherlands. When recording classic disco, Jones isn’t quite refined. Sylvester ; Bang-A-Boomerang; Knowing Me, Knowing You; Fernando] –, Written-By [Voulez-Vouz; Money, Money, Money; The Winner Takes It All; Trouper; S.O.S. Deniece Williams – Let’s hear it for the boy 5. Rock Your Baby First of two great compilations of seventies disco music, Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2009. The best disco songs ever were largely produced by Giorgio Moroder, so it's only fitting for the Italian legend to be the one to pick them. Eruption – One way ticket 8. The Drifters – There goes my first love 19. April 2, 2015 by. Would appreciate knowing if you offer them for sale. (2008; DFA), It’s not all that hard to find the disco references peppered throughout alternative music on either side of the turn of the century. Musique Charted: #23 / Billboard 200. Children of the World, released only months before the release of Saturday Night Fever, technically isn’t a disco album. A Collection of the Very Finest Tracks from the Funkiest Dance Scene Ever to Hit 70's Clubland. Boney M. – Sunny 9. And there’s a damn good reason for that. – JT, Donna Summer – Bad Girls The Disco Sucks massacre of 1979 hosted at Comiskey Park, spurred by the fear-based propaganda coming from WLUP disc jockey Steve Dahl, led the charge for disco’s unfortunate downfall. (1980; Emergency) The Chemical Brothers have made three albums this decade, and they saved the best for last. Two years later, that vibe continues to show up on the radar of pop’s food chain. – Disco nights (Rock freak) 5. First Choice – Armed and extremely dangerous, Tracklist 2 1. Charted: #62 / Billboard 200. Donna Summer Biddu Orchestra – Summer of ’42 18. Harry Wayne Casey and Rick Finch produce the entire album, exercising their inventive Miami sound muscle on strong cuts like “I Can’t Leave You Alone,” “Look at You” and the heavily hip-hop sampled “I Get Lifted.”, Big Fun Jewels In The Crown: All-Star Duets With the Queen. Supernature — Cerrone’s third album — is space disco’s sacred scroll, a work of sci-fi absurdism (the title track is about a mutant rebellion, with lyrics written by Lene Lovich) and hot-dog musicianship (no fooling, there’s a track called “Sweet Drums” which is just that). Iit will have you dancing in the kitchen ( handbags optional), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2020. Funk; Synth Funk; Disco; 40. What’s more, it feels just as progressive (if not more) than the modern slate of electro-disco revival. In 1979, Moroder teamed up with the Los Angeles art rock duo for a pair of albums, including Terminal Jive, which also included a heavy presence from “Axel F” composer Harold Faltermeyer. LaBelle – Lady marmalade 2. Preferably those that cover the more well-known/popular disco songs. Gladys Knight & The Pips – Come back and finish what you started 7. Leading the sound were backing vocalists Jocelyn Brown, Christine Wiltshire, Angela Howell and Gina Tharps. Donna Summer – Love is in control (Finger on the trigger) 4. Bee Gees The Isley Brothers – That lady [Part 1] 20. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. All of those are glorious albums, but aren’t exactly a rite of passage into classic disco territory. Average White Band – Let’s go round again 10. Wanted a solid compilation of classic Disco songs and this Set delivers. A song like “I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone” feels simultaneously desolate and full of energy; strikingly alien yet so familiar. With Adams’ feisty disco romps and stellar production packed with standout percussion, strings and horns, Musique emerged as one of Adams’ proudest moments. And that may very well go for all six tracks on this beautiful, bizarre experiment of a record. A lot of that has to do with just how funky it is — the epic build-up of leadoff track “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough,” the string-laden discoball romance and popcorn keyboards of “Rock With You,” the percussion-heavy drive of “Working Day and Night,” or the atmospheric density of the title track. The others are just must-haves for historical sake. All originals and will NOT dissapoint! Ashford & Simpson’s string-studded disco formula, propped up by Jimmy Simpson’s mixing, worked well on a number of their big hits in the late-70’s, and proved to also work well on Motown’s superstar darling. 1:2:9 EMI SWINDON, Mastering SID Code (Disc 1, variant 3): IFPI L042, Mould SID Code (Disc 1, variant 3): IFPI 1443, Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, variant 1): 844450 2 . (1979; Casablanca), There may be lingering gay-bashing questions from back in 1983, but as a performer, does anyone seriously have a bad thing to say about Donna Summer? Herbie Hancock – Rockit 9. Funk; Synth Funk; Disco; 40. ; Bang-A-Boomerang; Knowing Me, Knowing You; Fernando] –, Buy CD, Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, variant 1): 844449 2 . Diana Ross The Isley Brothers – It’s a disco night (Rock don’t stop) 4. The rest of the record is just as entrancing with her splendid cover of Barry Manilow’s “Could It Be Magic” and a string-heavy “Wasted” prominently featured. But the word disco has somehow resurrected to the surface for newer, younger generations. Dan Hartman – Relight my fire 2. The Trammps (“Disco Inferno”) and MFSB (“K-Jee”) were “Philadelphia sound” veterans able to easily refocus; Tavares (“More Than a Woman”) and Kool & The Gang (“Open Sesame”) were funk groups able to do the same as each headed in opposite career directions. Aretha Franklin – What a fool believes 7. Right now, the rage is all about Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk.” The popular song is another draft of dance fever, although it’s not exactly cut with the four-on-the-floor method in mind. That retro sound — usually made up of real strings, live drums and the occasional horns — showed up on a number of albums and released singles coming from artists like Chromeo, Escort, Clean Bandit, Kiesza, Calvin Harris, Mary J. Blige, Olly Murs, Charlie Wilson and many others. The Communards – Don’t leave me this way 3. George McCrae (1977; CBS), French producer Marc Cerrone is all about spectacle.