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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 20th Oct 2006 06:26 Edited at: 20th Oct 2006 06:44
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Am I the only one left in the world who listens to Disco music and enjoys it?

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indi
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Posted: 20th Oct 2006 06:30
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lol

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Zaibatsu
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I find your riducule and lack of appreciation and understanding disturbing and mark you as a non-understanding horrid cultureless barbaric ape with no taste in music.

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Posted: 20th Oct 2006 07:56
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Disco music sucks. Sorry to say.


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Quote: "Disco music sucks. Sorry to say."

It really depends, but I agree.

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Depends on what?


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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 20th Oct 2006 08:24 Edited at: 20th Oct 2006 08:25
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So I suppose trying to organize a Disco club here is out of the question?

for the refernce, my favorite Disco is, "Play that Funky Music White Boy."

for those who enjoy Disco, or need a laugh, heres the disco version of Beethoven's Fifth.

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your interpretation of me laughing at your post couldnt be further then my music tastes.
Im eclectic bar country and western.
I found the post very funny tho.
your insight that it was negative is your interpretation, not mine.
perhaps your confusing disco with electroclash or mashups with the later posts.
disco hailing from the seventies is probably before your time as well
who knows..

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Posted: 20th Oct 2006 09:08 Edited at: 20th Oct 2006 09:10
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Quote: "perhaps your confusing disco with electroclash or mashups with the later posts"


I didn't make that Disco Beethoven's Fifth. one of my firends saw the title and sent it to me.

Quote: "country and western."


OH GOD! your bringing up so many bad memories of my dad trying to teach me to play the banjo! he tuaght my sister to play the guitar, and I still hate him for that! she thought she was good, but she sucked. she was playing that god blasted things all day! I could have learned to play the banjo, but found it repulsive and would not learn.

And although I'm not much for country/western music, I do enjoy some old Cowboy movies such as Palerider. I also enjoy "Open Range," "The Outlaw Josie Whales," and a few more. My sig is actually a quote from a cowboy movie. if you can guess which one, you get a theoretical pat on the back!

EDIT: Bleh! todays not my day! I've had to edit all of my posts becuase of typos!

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Posted: 20th Oct 2006 11:33
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Just pictured Zaibatsu doing the finger-pointed-in-the-air-John-Travolta-Saturday-Night-Fever thing. Yep. It was pretty disturbing. Pretty disturbing indeed. Might need to watch TV to get it out of my head. TV is good. Not good enough though. Need something with a bit more kick. Rubbing alcohol would hurt. Been there done that. Is it dangerous to wash your eyes out with dish soap? Yeah, probably. Don't know what to do now. Guess I should find a disco record collection and set it on fire. Yeah. Fire's probably my best bet. Can't go wrong with fire.


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Disco music has a powerfull effect on me, it makes me happy. If a family member would cease to live, i would smile and sing along to a disco song 5 mins after.

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Quote: "for those who enjoy Disco, or need a laugh, heres the disco version of Beethoven's Fifth."

i used to listen to this "disco version" when i was little until i grew a little older than little. (i thought this was the original back then)

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Disco music gives me a headache (saying that I head bang to heavy music, then again I had a head ache before seeing Down and didn't afterwards), which is why if I have a part for my 18th, I'll tell the DJ to trash his Aqua, Abba, Steps and other stuff and take a pick from my personal collection, and some indie stuff for the indies.

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Posted: 20th Oct 2006 16:54
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Quote: "I find your riducule and lack of appreciation and understanding disturbing and mark you as a non-understanding horrid cultureless barbaric ape with no taste in music."


rofl! That was a great reaction to a "lol"!

Heeeyyy man, I personally don't dig the disco music white boy. I do not sport a 'fro, neither do I wear glittery silk pants and dancing boots. BUT, I would be real upset man if I watched a 70s cop movie that didn't have a few disco tunes to funk it up, as well as a good dose of funk of course, ma brother.

Sorry, the answer to your question is yes, there is nobody else left in the world who likes disco, except for you. But I dont think it's crap. I just think its had its day, and belongs in 70s cop gang and street movies.


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I listen to disco sometimes - just as I listen to rock, country, 80's-pop, classical, 8-bit (not much), metal, industrial (mostly NIN), and most other things. Generally not 90's or modern pop, or Brit-pop, or that other depressing chart stuff that came out around that time. Disco makes me happy.

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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 01:23
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Quote: "Disco makes me happy.
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Quote: "Disco music has a powerfull effect on me, it makes me happy."


Quote: "I listen to disco sometimes"


and how can you say

Quote: "there is nobody else left in the world who likes disco, except for you

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Quote: "Just pictured Zaibatsu doing the finger-pointed-in-the-air-John-Travolta-Saturday-Night-Fever thing. Yep. It was pretty disturbing. Pretty disturbing indeed. Might need to watch TV to get it out of my head. TV is good. Not good enough though. Need something with a bit more kick. Rubbing alcohol would hurt. Been there done that. Is it dangerous to wash your eyes out with dish soap? Yeah, probably. Don't know what to do now. Guess I should find a disco record collection and set it on fire. Yeah. Fire's probably my best bet. Can't go wrong with fire."


actually thats not too far from true. sometimes me and my friends will go disco danceing. most of the time on mondays.

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As bad as disco is, it is still better then 95% of the rap I hear.

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 14:09 Edited at: 21st Oct 2006 14:09
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Rap disco and virtually every other catgerory of msuci are rubbish imho apart from rock , heavy rock , Metal , thrash metal , well all types of metal and rock

Dragonforce , AC/DC , Metallica , Jimmy eat world , Kasabian e.t.c

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Posted: 21st Oct 2006 14:12
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Quote: "Rap disco and virtually every other catgerory of msuci are rubbish imho apart from rock , heavy rock , Metal , thrash metal , well all types of metal and rock"

What about jazz, blues, funk, soul, etc?

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Quote: "Quote: "Rap disco and virtually every other catgerory of msuci are rubbish imho apart from rock , heavy rock , Metal , thrash metal , well all types of metal and rock"
What about jazz, blues, funk, soul, etc? "


hate rap and jazz the worst out of them but don't like any of thme either

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I dont like disco, it sucks. But yeah, there's more than just rock if you listen closely enough, things like when Benjamin said, but also things like orchestral music. It's a bit stereotypical of a kid to say "pfft, orchestras schmorchestras", does that mean that the theme tune to Star Wars sucks? Nope.

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Quote: "hate rap and jazz thew worst out of themk but don't like any of thme either "

What? What the hell does that actually mean?

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You might say jazz sucks because it's boring, but if you do, you haven't listened properly to it. All those "rock" bands (I'm talking Sum 41 and stuff here) are really, more boring that ever, because all they do is use a few powerchords and that's their song done. Jazz is well crafted, and much more complex, and isn't boring what-so-ever (especially if you listen to really jazzy saxophone players)

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jazz being a mostly on the fly style of music creation is hardly crafted like todays standards.

however go back in time to stuff like master blaster by stevie wonder and you will feel the funk of forty thousand rastas

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Quote: "What? What the hell does that actually mean?"

woops lol fixed now

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Jazz is actually OK. There's no was you can pass up a bit of Glenn Miller or Dave Brubeck

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BoneyM rules, it was my first LP ... "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion" ... ok I'll quit singing incase people vomit.
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Quote: ""By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion" ... ok I'll quit singing incase people vomit."


To late
Quote: "Jazz is actually OK. There's no was you can pass up a bit of Glenn Miller or Dave Brubeck "


Never even heard of them >.<

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Quote: "Never even heard of them >.<"




They aren't even modern composer - they are some of the classic Jazz composers/musicians!

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Quote: "Jazz is well crafted, and much more complex, and isn't boring what-so-ever (especially if you listen to really jazzy saxophone players)"

Indeed. Good jazz requires a lot more skill and natural musical talent than probably any other genre, apart from classical of course. You can't really compare jazz musicians with the likes of AC/DC, or many other rock bands for that matter.

Quote: "There's no was you can pass up a bit of Glenn Miller or Dave Brubeck "

Or Oscar Peterson, or the master of jazz piano - Art Tatum.

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Ah, c'mon, the BeeGees were awesome Now to put on my well worn Nirvana albums and wash the gay away. Ah, ang on, accidentally shuffled the pod and got Abba.....

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YES! YES! This is the response i was wanting to here! Disco is still alive and thriving and theres nothing you uncultured baboons can do about it!

I'm gonna go listen to "The Hustle"

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Quote: "uncultured baboons can do about it!"


The irony here is, a lot of 'disco' music was mass-manufactured rubbish, by people who could hardly sing at all. They simply had no talent.

So if anything, disco music is a bunch of uncultured baboons in itself; and it definitely isn't a music genre I would class as 'cultured' anyway, no matter how much I loved it (which I don't)

Classical music however, is a different matter. That's something I would describe as more 'cultured'

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Disco music was to the 70s and early 80s what boy/girl band pop music was to the 90s and 2000s.

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Quote: "Disco music was to the 70s and early 80s what boy/girl band pop music was to the 90s and 2000s."


Assuming this comment was designed to counter what I said about mass-manufacture - I know what era 'disco' music originates from. But a lot of it seems to be 'manufactured', as well as sounding very similar to other disco music.

Recently I attended a relatives birthday party - and she had a DJ doing some music for her party. A lot of it was 'disco' music from that era - and quite a lot of the tracks sounded very similar, albeit from different artists

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I believe if anything, Jeku's comment only reinforced the mass-manufacturing statement.

Zaibatsu - no offence intended, but the way you're reacting to some people with differing music tastes to you, I'd suspect trolling.

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Ah yes, I read Jeku's comment completely wrong

Just ignore what I wrote

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Im really into progressive house, the dying genre of dance music...But its so good!

I don't think you need to take negative feedback so seriously, as what tinkergirl said as long as you enjoy the music you're into, peoples' opinions really do not matter


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I'm a Metalhead, but can't help but humming to some of the old disco and smiling in appreciation of how retro it all sounds.

Early Bee Gee's, Village People (easy on the jokes guys ) and Boney M spring to mind as good "point your fingers up and flare those flares" romps.

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Disco Lives.

No you aren't the only one.

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Right. After this awesome sisters of mercy album has finished I'm going straight to the Saturday night fever soundtrack, followed perhaps by the scissor sisters. And theres nothing you can do to stop me!

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Okay, this insanity needs to end! It's disco that we're discussing here. DISCO! Disco and country are the butt of every joke for a reason! Name three things that disco has given us that have changed the world in a good way, and so help me god if anyone says "bellbottoms" I'll dump chicken grease on Apollo!

Just kidding. Disco really did help re-structure the music industry in a positive way. Really. It's a great style of music. Really. FOR ME TO POOP ON!

sorry, I'm bored. But hey, if people pick on me for being a PS2 fan, then I get to pick on you for being a disco fan. It's only fair!


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Quote: "and so help me god if anyone says "bellbottoms" I'll dump chicken grease on Apollo"


HEY! My friend Joe wheres bellbottoms...

I've worn them on occasion too.

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Quote: "Just kidding. Disco really did help re-structure the music industry in a positive way. Really. It's a great style of music. Really. FOR ME TO POOP ON!"


LOL

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C'mon, pop on the Saturday night fever soundtrack, and unless you were born in the 80's+ then it's hard not to like it

Saying that, I am now off to listen to some Espers and My Bloody Valentine. I'm in that sort of mood.

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Quote: "Saying that, I am now off to listen to some Espers and My Bloody Valentine. I'm in that sort of mood. "



No Metallica or Arch enemy?!?!

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Quote: "No Metallica or Arch enemy?!?!"
Wrong mood. Sunday is all about recovering from the last few days and regretting the fact that tomorrow is monday. And Radiohead is too depressing. Come midday I might put on some Megadeth to perk me up I've done Metallica to death for the last decade and a half or so. Bit of breathing space me thinks...

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Quote: "No Metallica or Arch enemy?!?!"


Yesterday I listened to St. Anger for the first time. Better saying, I listened to half of St. Anger. Now, I am pretty open minded to bands changing their style. I can put up with the tin-can drums. I can endure "no solos" from Hammett (I believe he's probably being paid by Lars and Hetfield on a per-solo basis and they are trying to cut down costs). I can even forgive the punk overtones.

But WHY THE HELL ARE THE SONGS SO BLOOOOODY LONG? 8:00 is ok if you're Dream Theater and you cram a lot of music into it, but it's an eternity when each song is really a one trick pony like in St. Anger.

After albums like Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets or even the Black Album it's hard to understand how someone like Metallica can get it so wrong.

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