Post your Top 5 Disco songs EVER.

Nothing from Chic so far?

I love Chic, but it's all become a bit HEN DO DISCO for me. Overplay has destroyed a lot of their charms to the point I don't ever seek out playing them, but I do always enjoy them coming on. MY FORBIDDEN LOVER if I had to pick one.
 
I love Chic, but it's all become a bit HEN DO DISCO for me. Overplay has destroyed a lot of their charms to the point I don't ever seek out playing them, but I do always enjoy them coming on. MY FORBIDDEN LOVER if I had to pick one.

Hasn't this happened to Donna Summer as well though? It seems like a lot of disco has been 'reduced' to novelty karaoke status. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing?
 
OMG this was how I found the original too :disco:

It's SO GOOD. I play it every time I DJ and everyone EVERY SINGLE TIME gets all "Huh? Why has the song stopped?" before the song kicks off... :disco:
 
Hasn't this happened to Donna Summer as well though? It seems like a lot of disco has been 'reduced' to novelty karaoke status. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing?

Not at all, it's just not my thing.

And Donna Summer has so much more beyond the big hitters. I could happily never listen to "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff" ever again, even though I love them and technically they're 10/10s, but give me Heaven Knows, Try Me...I Know We Can Make It, Wasted, Walk Away etc. etc.
 
For the same reason I ADORE We Are Family, but you'll never see me play it DJ'ing...I'll go for He's The Greatest Dancer or You Fooled Around instead :disco:
 
The 12" version with VERTIGO segueing into it is one of the best ten minutes you can EVER SPEND. When the beat drops out and Relight My Fire kicks in...oh MAN!
Can you please link me to this? I don't think I know it :shy:
 
Loleatta Holloway's vocal spot on Relight My Fire is one of the greatest and most insane moments in music history. I loved the Take That version as a kid, but Lulu is so tame by comparison.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH YOU GOTTA BE STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK ON THROUGH THE NIGHT! :disco::disco::disco::disco::disco:
 
The full 12" Vertigo/Relight My Fire is a disco BEHEMOTH. It's just full of euphoric breaks and just doesn't relent...until LOLEATTA comes in and rips it a WHOLE NEW ARSEHOLE
 
Generic choices but you can’t beat ‘em

MJ - Get On The Floor (or absolutely anything at all on Off The Wall)
Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk?
Bee Gees - More Than a Woman
Diana Ross - Upside Down
A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie
 
Generic choices but you can’t beat ‘em

MJ - Get On The Floor (or absolutely anything at all on Off The Wall)
Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk?
Bee Gees - More Than a Woman
Diana Ross - Upside Down
A Taste of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie

HIGH FIVE MY SYLVESTER LOVING SISTER :disco:
 
Oh wait, of course I know this! thanks to Moopy of course :D Also, they used this track as the intro for one of the old Melodifestivalen, and I used it for AllaFestivalen :disco:

I don't remember it being part of MF! But I'm not SURPRISED by this fact...
 
The bit with Loleatta, obviously, is amazing, but from 8:10 onwards is where it's at with Relight My Fire for me...WELL WELL WEELLLLLLLLLL and it all comes crashing down. Turns round every crowd, EVERY SINGLE TIME :disco:
 
My top 5 would repeat a lot of what's already been posted, but you really can't go wrong with a bit of Stephanie Mills



This and If I Can't Have You are my favourite disco ballads of all time...
 
Not at all, it's just not my thing.

And Donna Summer has so much more beyond the big hitters. I could happily never listen to "Bad Girls" and "Hot Stuff" ever again, even though I love them and technically they're 10/10s, but give me Heaven Knows, Try Me...I Know We Can Make It, Wasted, Walk Away etc. etc.

even just that Bad Girls album!
 
A very basique list

Donna Summer - Macarthur Park
ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
Sylvester - (You Make Me Feel) Mighty Real
Donna Summer - Could It Be Magic
 
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If you go to 5'35" in that 2004 MF video, they're totally using the Vertigo/RMF mash up, unless that I'm very wrong. @Sheena
 
Dreamin' - Loleatta Holloway
La Vie En Rose - Tom Moulton
Found A Cure - Ashford & Simpson
The Glow Of Love - Change
I Specialize In Love - Sharon Brown
 
Along with the rest of the gay Internet, I've only recently started diving into Sylvester. Is it worth going any further than the obvious hits?
 
Along with the rest of the gay Internet, I've only recently started diving into Sylvester. Is it worth going any further than the obvious hits?

Step II is a classic album. Not just classic disco. "Stars" is another strong set - "I Need Somebody to Love Tonight" is an example of the sultry side of Sylvester.
 
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It a top 7 but they were all essential

Bonnie Pointer - Heaven Must Have Sent You :disco::disco::disco::disco::disco::disco::disco:
Yvonne Elliman - If I Can't Have You :disco::disco::disco::disco::disco::disco:
Thelma Houston - Don’t Leave Me This Way :disco::disco::disco::disco::disco:
Diana Ross - The Boss :disco::disco::disco::disco:
Donna Summer/Barbara Streisand - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough):disco::disco::disco:
Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat:disco::disco:
Dionne Warwick/The Spinners - Then Came You:disco:
 
C'est Chic Cheer all the way.

I Like Love - Norma Jean
Lost In Music - Sister Sledge
Thinking of You - Sister Sledge
Upside Down - Diana Ross
Everybody Dance - Chic

5 just isn't nearly enough.

The blue sky, beaming lustre of the Sledge, Norma and Luther all sprouting rainbows from their throats on the We Are Family album is an unmatched masterstroke. Diana's Diana is near impeccable, her sultry jurisdiction (I say to thee) and flighty flushes (she's coming out, just don't tell her) show her to be a far more accomplished vocalist with what she's given credit for or even technically knowledgeable about herself (I love the stories of her recording session hissy fits about changing keys and producers giving in verbally and keeping it just so anyway - not on this album though, this was it's own battle, which is well documented and settled with the reissue). Norma's solo Chic songs don't all hit home runs, but the galvanizing Sorcerer is a lava flow of disco if ever I heard one and Saturday is every bit as iconic as a the other good times (and don't forget the mash potat'ah - the twee Havin' A Party is a decent addition where better original material wasn't forthcoming).

I Like Love, it's joyful, hopeless, gushing commitment diffuses even the worst of times, side splitter of all side splitters Lost In Music is the horizon point, Thinking of You is as pure as sure, the airkiss Upside Down is disco with sequins and chandelier earings, and Everybody Dance is as sure fire arms aloft today as it probably was then.
 
Does Barry White count as disco?

You're The First, The Last, My Everything is also up there for me
 
Hmmm....

Sister Sledge - Lost In Music
Odyssey - Going Back To My Roots
Rose Royce - Is It Love You’re After
Crusaders - Street Life
Chic - I Want Your Love

special mention to

Earth Wind & Fire - September
Sylvester - Do You Wanna Funk (the best Funk/Disco crossover ever)
Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Upside Down even better but not really proper disco)
George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (such early disco I don’t really count it as disco but it’s also 11/10)
Rufus - Ain’t Nobody (also not really disco but usually recognised as such so needs to be mentioned as one of the greatest songs ever)
 
I’m also a much bigger fan of its nephew, 80s funk, which I’d love to do a countdown of one day...
 

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