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Post by impulse on Dec 5, 2023 11:52:25 GMT -5
I had forgotten about the little angsty runaway subplot in season 2. Thankfully, so did the showrunners. Interesting theory on Barb. That could be interesting.
And the Baboons is a great band name, and "Old World Monkeys" is a great album name for them.
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Post by Batflunkie on Dec 6, 2023 10:54:53 GMT -5
I generally dislike disco, though I do like some of it's derivatives, like Italo disco and hi-NRG. Go figure. Though most of my teenage years were spent in the 2000s, I have zero nostalgia for that decade. I look back on noughties pop culture and I hate almost every aspect of it, from nu metal to reality TV. Most of Disco is trash, but that's what happens when everybody and there mother tries to capitalize on something popular. I love Italo Disco purely because how much of a wonderfully strange sub-genre it is I was also a teen in the 00's and had a good time during it. A lot was happening then with the anime/manga boom, the sixth generation of consoles, and the ruthless aggression era of wrestling to keep me interested
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Post by Rags on Dec 6, 2023 11:05:48 GMT -5
Most of Disco is trash, but that's what happens when everybody and there mother tries to capitalize on something popular. I love Italo Disco purely because how much of a wonderfully strange sub-genre it is
I do like Chic...but that's partly because Nile Rodgers has gone on to become quite a part of Duran Duran's history and is still in the studio with them to date
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2023 12:23:41 GMT -5
Most of Disco is trash, but that's what happens when everybody and there mother tries to capitalize on something popular. I love Italo Disco purely because how much of a wonderfully strange sub-genre it is
I do like Chic...but that's partly because Nile Rodgers has gone on to become quite a part of Duran Duran's history and is still in the studio with them to date Love classic Chic, and this is where genre labels can get squishy as I love them more for the funk aspect. Nile Rodgers on guitar and Bernard Edwards on bass was such a potent combination, fantastic musicianship. Everyone was trying to get the "disco" sounding hits for a period of time from a commercial success standpoint, but disco/funk/pop/rock could all blur quite a bit at times.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2023 12:59:04 GMT -5
I generally dislike disco, though I do like some of it's derivatives, like Italo disco and hi-NRG. Go figure. Though most of my teenage years were spent in the 2000s, I have zero nostalgia for that decade. I look back on noughties pop culture and I hate almost every aspect of it, from nu metal to reality TV. Most of Disco is trash, but that's what happens when everybody and there mother tries to capitalize on something popular. I love Italo Disco purely because how much of a wonderfully strange sub-genre it is I was also a teen in the 00's and had a good time during it. A lot was happening then with the anime/manga boom, the sixth generation of consoles, and the ruthless aggression era of wrestling to keep me interested Most attempts to cash in on disco were trash. There is plenty of great disco music and if you are broad enough to consider disco an extension of funk and other dance-oriented music, there is a ton of great stuff. I grew up in the 70s and mainly am a rock and roll person; but, I loved the hell out of a lot of disco and funk, enough so that I have a playlist saved on youtube, for my own personal enjoyment. I'm probably more into funk; but, the disco side is good and there was a lot of crossover between the two, earlier on. You get stuff produced by Nile Rogers (of Chic) or Giorgio Moroder and you have tremendous music. Saturday Night Fever was a tremendous album. Paul Jabara created this bit..... There some real iconic stuff in mid-late 70s movies, especially "The Chase," aka the theme to The Midnight Express....... Donna Summer, Sister Sledge, the Bee Gees, Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Anita Ward, Alicia Bridges, Boney M, Vicki Sue Robinson.... Even the Village People (to a point). There is definite trash at the end of the 70s and most Hollywood attempts at using disco in tv and film is laughably bad; but, there were the exceptions, like Saturday Night Fever. Heck, even the theme to the tv show SWAT was a disco hit (in a modified form, by Rhythm Heritage).... So, yeah, disco on CHiPs....trash; but, how can you not love Meco's disco reworkings of top movie themes? Besides, what other music matched the heartrate of a person on cocaine?
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2023 13:13:29 GMT -5
ps Without disco songs, we'd never get the Communards later covers of said disco songs....
The incomparable Jimmy Somerville and the dancing Reverend (for real) Richard Coles!
(There was a running gag on Have I Got News For You of Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye and team captain, looking like Jimmy Somerville)
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 6, 2023 13:23:36 GMT -5
Leave us not forget the Trammps...
And New Bedford's own, Tavares...
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2023 14:16:37 GMT -5
KC and the Sunshine Band.....
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 6, 2023 15:27:39 GMT -5
I concur. There were some bright moments, even in late-era disco…
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2023 15:49:32 GMT -5
You guys are "dancing" around the issue. This little jewel was clearly the height of the era.
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Post by tartanphantom on Dec 6, 2023 16:00:01 GMT -5
You guys are "dancing" around the issue. This little jewel was clearly the height of the era. If you’ve never seen the “shred” version of this video, you haven’t lived….
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2023 16:39:20 GMT -5
I concur. There were some bright moments, even in late-era disco… Well, if you are going to bring hookers into it.......
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2023 16:43:29 GMT -5
You guys are "dancing" around the issue. This little jewel was clearly the height of the era. KISS was on a disco label....Casablanca.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 6, 2023 16:47:11 GMT -5
Go hate on disco....I will survive!
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Post by impulse on Dec 7, 2023 10:58:34 GMT -5
I love disco, but like any fad, if you attract enough people, you're going to attract mostly crap and copycats. Like most genres, the good stuff remains good, and the detritus remains correctly forgotten.
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