The doomsday music thread where I already posted Ghost's "Dance Macabre" reminded me of a disquieting trend I observed recently: Disco is making a comeback. There were early warnings like the 2016 "Cheese Nacho Baby" by Ghost's fellow Swedes of Royal Republic. By now it has caught people like The Weeknd (video sponsored by Mercedes, no less) and Dua Lipa. And worst of all, it has caught me.

maybe THIS generations version of what they wanna call disco.

this old fart knows what the real stuff sounded like

I'm with bendable, those really don't sound like old disco to me. Of the three though, I like The Weekends most.

I'm no fan of disco but she ain't Donna Summer.

it might be what goes for dance music , these days.




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You examples seem more like 80's pop to me. This is the disco I think of:



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Originally posted by k5blazer:
I'm no fan of disco but she ain't Donna Summer.

Yeah these millennials are no Giorgio Moroder, who was behind all of Summer's hits. Giorgio was a mastermind and a supreme talent. With Kraftwerk one of the main people on the planet that changed music, and early inventor of Techno, House music, EDM.

The idiots today are recyclers. And music is a big free for all with no record store influence, no critic influence, no anything. Film is going the same way. Legendary anything is going the way of the dodo.

Disco, and many people hated it, like many genres was loaded with crap. But that I dunno, 5-10%, was absolutely outstanding. Analog synth based where everything today is an app on a laptop.

Ah, tough crowd. Try this (yes, it's from 2001 and heavily drawing on Sheila and B. Devotion's "Spacer").

better , needs more bass

Cool Million is the group that has that vintage sound captured perfectly.

disco never left, just different artist with different levels of exposure,

and techno type kinda took over,, sorta,


try some Goldfrapp from the mid 2000's,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NseOmdUY30

Great, now I'm listening to disco while working with and soldering PCB connections for my wife's new (to her) Homelink unit for her car to replace the garage and gate remotes.

I think it's helping, actually.

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Originally posted by LastCubScout:
Cool Million is the group that has that vintage sound captured perfectly.

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Got the sound, the look, and the roller skates! Makes one feel it's still 1978.

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Originally posted by bendable:
maybe THIS generations version of what they wanna call disco.

this old fart knows what the real stuff sounded like

Whatever that shit was, it wasn't disco. Electro-funk maybe, but not disco

The 'Dua Lipa' linked above sounds like someone trying to recreate disco after only ever having seen 'Stranger Things'

I like them.

Who is them?

It ain't disco but I didn't say I didn't like 'them'.

This is disco:



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Quite the lyrics. Boogie....no more.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Who is them?

I meant eaxh in the OP.

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