Post your Top 5 Disco songs EVER.

Ag said:
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?
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ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY
 
funky said:
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)
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How is Upside Down not disco?
 
I suppose it is. Much more R&B leaning though. I suppose if September is disco, so is Upside Down.
 
Ain't Nobody definitely doesn't sound like disco to me. It's classic Funk through and through. Although I suppose the two overlap.
 
My list could look completely different tomorrow (except for Candi and Donna - absolute since-childhood mainstays). :disco:

Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Donna Summer - Last Dance
Sylvester - Over and Over
First Choice - Let No Man Put Asunder
Loleatta Holloway – Love Sensation
 
I think there's a certain disco "spirit" that spills over into many songs of the mid 70s-mid 80s which are technically electro-pop, soulful pop, funk or adjacent genres. Ain't Nobody certainly isn't disco but it's a product of that era and I wouldn't be RAGING if somebody included it on a classic disco playlist. but then I'm again I'm no genre purist.
 
Funk makes you feel like, maybe I'll wax maybe I won't and I'll probably have a cup of coffee tomorrow, but with disco you KNOW you're going to wax as you're in for a long night of bottoming after the ball.

Hope that clarifies the difference.
 
Jark said:
I think there's a certain disco "spirit" that spills over into many songs of the mid 70s-mid 80s which are technically electro-pop, soulful pop, funk or adjacent genres. Ain't Nobody certainly isn't disco but it's a product of that era and I wouldn't be RAGING if somebody included it on a classic disco playlist. but then I'm again I'm no genre purist.
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It isn’t that era at all! It was 1983- 3 years after disco “died”.
 
Further Top 5:

Change - The Glow Of Love
Patti LaBelle - Music Is My Way Of Life
Barry White - You See The Trouble With Me
The Jacksons - Shake Your Body
Bee Gees - You Should Be Dancing
 
Sheena said:
It isn’t that era at all! It was 1983- 3 years after disco “died”.
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you just clarified my exact point :D I'm not a purist, you are. it's not that because disco died traces of it couldn't be found in other genres.
 
Jark said:
you just clarified my exact point :D I'm not a purist, you are. it's not that because disco died traces of it couldn't be found in other genres.
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And I never said that at all! You’ll notice I said “died”- it NEVER died. But if you think 1983 is still the disco era or that Ain’t Nobody is from the same era, you’re mistaken. Three years is a long time in music.
 
Jark said:
I think there's a certain disco "spirit" that spills over into many songs of the mid 70s-mid 80s which are technically electro-pop, soulful pop, funk or adjacent genres. Ain't Nobody certainly isn't disco but it's a product of that era and I wouldn't be RAGING if somebody included it on a classic disco playlist. but then I'm again I'm no genre purist.
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there are many opinions on this. I think it just depends how broadly people are using the terms. There’s no right or wrong answer.

It doesn’t bother me when it comes to disco - I mean where do you draw the line. The dominance of funky house in 1996-2000 saw many disco records sampled and many original songs that could easily be classed as disco (albeit with a higher BPM).

I can see the argument for Ain’t Nobody. Personally I don’t think “Jump” is - that’s just camp 80s pop. Great tune though.

Check out any “disco” compilation over the years and you’ll find Kool & The Gang, The Commodores, The Isley Brothers, SOS Band on there - not disco. But it’s fine, funk and disco go great together. You’ll also find songs from the likes of Shalamar and Rose Royce when their sound had moved on in the early 80s. Personally I prefer funk Shalamar to disco Shalamar but it’s horses for courses

now if we’re talking when people call Motown soul music - THAT’S ANOTHER STORY :D
 
SO DIFFICULT but I'll have a stab:

Odyssey - Native New Yorker :disco: :(
Brainstorm - Lovin' is Really My Game
Diana Ross - The Boss
Donna Summer - MacArthur Park Suite
Candi Staton - Nights on Broadway

I nearly doubled up on the suites with Marlena Shaw's Suite Seventeen.
 
a bit basic but I do love some DISCO myself

Dschinghis Khan - Dschinghis Khan :D
Abba - Voulez-Vous
Van McCoy - The Hustle
The Hues Corporation - Rock The Boat
Boney M - Rasputin

sorry KC, I know it's limited to 5 but I also LOVE Fly, Robin, Fly by Silver Convention, and Boney M's Sunny + Daddy Cool I can't leave them out!
 
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