disco-pick only ten

You're right about the track having a universal appeal. I was at a party a few weeks ago where this was dropped and it got EVERYBODY to dance. Truly magical, indeed.

Eddie Kendricks - Goin' Up in Smoke

-- Andy K (Andy K), Friday, May 23, 2003 8:50 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

when theo does his eq thing on that 'these days and times part 2' mix i about lose my mind

unbelievably great song

TALKED TO MY FRIEND AGAIN TODAYYYYYYY

i've pared a list down to about 20 but can go no further!

ranks with scott's 1001 psychedelic thread as the most useful ever.

Lamont Dozier, "Goin' Back to My Roots"

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

i like how eddie kendricks' vision of fiery hell is based on the sun getting a bit closer to the earth every day. it is reassuringly practical?

Chas Jankel - Glad to Know You
Bionic Boogie -- Risky changes
Ronnie Dyson -- It's All Over Your Face
Barbara Roy and Ecstasy, Passion & Pain - If You Want Me (new disco mix)
East Coast - The Rock
Sea Level - Fifty Four
Patrick Cowley - Get A Little
Salsoul Orchestra - Love Break
Kazino - Binary
Gary's Gang - Making Music (dub mix)

Marlena Shaw - Love Dancing
Chaka Khan - I'm Every Woman
Sparks - The Number One Song in Heaven
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Earth, Wind & Fire - Let's Groove
The Crusaders - Street Life (the 11 minute version with the slow intro, not the shorter version sometimes credited to Randy Newman)
Anita Ward - Ring My bell
Curtis Mayfield - Do It All Night
Lalo Schifrin - Jaws (a wonderful disco version of the Jaws theme)
The J.B.'s - Rock Groove Machine

Everyone who hasn't heard it should check out "Rock Groove Machine", it's an incredible stripped-down proto-house tune with a squeaky, modulating synth line that sounds like a 303.

Boogie only list this time:

Unlimited Touch, "Searching To Find The One"
Tom Browne, "Thighs High (Grip Your Hips And Move)"
Alicia Myers, "I Want To Thank You"
Logg, "Something Else"
Slave, "Steppin' Out"
Extra T's, "E.T. Boogie"
Odyssey, "Inside Out"
Edwin Birdsong, "Cola Bottle Baby"
Empress, "Dyin' To Be Dancin'"
Pino D'Angio, "Ma Quale Idea"

Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice
Cloud One - Disco Juice

I lie awake at night wondering if "Disco Juice" has a 3/4 measure followed by a 4/4 one or if it's just one big long 7/4 measure.

10 for me right now:

Taste of Honey "Boogie Oogie Oogie"
Toney Lee "Love So Deep (Dub)"
Gino Soccio "It's Alright"
Love Unlimited presents Webster Lewis "Welcome Aboard"
Lex "14 Days"
D.C. Larue "Cathedrals"
O.R.S. "Body To Body Boogie"
Jones Girls "You're Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else"
Barry White "It's Ecstacy When You Lay Down Next To Me"
Lee Ritenour "Countdown(Captain Fingers)"

and one to grow on:

Pacific Blue "Argentina Forever"

Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love

this song!!! >_<

If "Jacob (Jacob)" is still on ILX, please post more selections, those are KILLER!

lately-

Gino Soccio-There's a Woman
Baccara-Yes Sir, I can Boogie
Azoto-Any Time or Place

that Azoto track is a killer, and so is the entire album ...
http://dreamchimney.com/slvs/Azoto_-_Disco_Fizz_20060815085105.jpg

ahhh i love "there's a woman". for all time - "get another love" by chantal curtis. and "love has come around" by donald byrd

ooh also "standing in the rain" by don ray

and "sea hunt" by patrick cowley (one of the most deeply beautiful songs i've ever heard)

i'm starting to think "happy man" is the killer track on c'est chic

couple of things not mentioned yet on this thread that i love love love

azoto - san salvador
t-connection - at midnight
kool & the gang - open sesasme
ltg exchange - corazon
two man sound - que tal america

oh and people mentioned gino soccio but not "dancer"?!? WTF

i gotta second these: "going up in smoke," "got to get your love," "there but for the grace of god," and "bourgie bourgie"

leftfield selection that's more rock-disco: "not tonight". incredible!

i think i said que tal america at some point

on the pop tip "pull up to the bumper" and "miss you" i never really tire of

<3 "Circles" by City Limits, "Disco Madness" by Sparkle <-----heard this at a deep house page show the other day

xpost: I live to please...

Ten gamey, well-hung and not for the faint-hearted selections:

Powerline - "Double Journey"
I'm sure lots of "cats" like this record but the jazz chops aren't what makes it great, it's just, like, a journey man

First Choice - "Double Cross"
If you only like disco that doesn't sound like disco you're going to fucking hate this one. Strings, melodrama and slap bass make it fruitier than a make-up convention on a mango plantation

T-Connection - "At midnight"
This could well be the biggest tease in disco, even more so than "work that body". About 6 minutes of hard, forceful drumming that you'd swear is a house track, and then *bang* vocals, horns, organs everything hits at once. There's nothing light or fluffy about this.

The Whatnauts - "Help is on the way"
Bassline.

Erotic Drum Band - "Jerky Rhythm"
Drums that hang out on street corners and bother pensioners.

The Cats'n'Jammer Kids - "Disco drum"
Yeah the C2 edit is better than the original. But it's still good. Punchy punchy horns.

Kano - "It's a war"
Token italo mention. OTT space battle disco.

Slimline - "If you can dance you can do it" (inst. with count)
Like a workout video with cocaine and strippers. Imperious, demanding strippers.

Loleatta Holloway - "Hit and run" (Walter Gibbons mix)
More like hit, hit, hit and eventually run.

Billy Nichols - "Give your body up to the music"
I'm not ashamed. I can walk down the street in broad daylight looking like this. There's no room for apologies on the dancefloor.

Also, Don Ray "Standing in the rain" is on the Roy Ayers radio station in GTA4. That made me chuckle when I heard it come on...

cant believe so few Change songs were mentioned!!!

"Glow of Love," "Girls Affair," "Searching," "Angel in my Pocket," "The End," so uh yeah the entire "Glow of Love" album

"love you inside and out" by the bee gees

I love love love "Angel in my pocket", that little slide before it hits is totally classic. A lot of people find that track cornball though.

i dont want those ppl in my disco

See also: Sparkle - Handsome man

Of those not mentioned yet:

Belle Epoque: "Miss Broadway"
Hamilton Bohannon: "Foot Stompin' Music"
Change: "The Glow of Love"
Corruption: "Show Me Yours"
Divine: "Alphabet Rap"
Magazine 60: "Don Quichotte"
Skatt Bros.: "Walk The Night"
Sylvester: "I (Who Have Nothing)"
Tantra: "Wishbone"
The Weather Girls: "It's Raining Men"

The only bad thing about the GTA4 disco station is that it's only 10 songs long when it should be about 70.

THANK YOU!

"Peanut Butter," Twennynine
"You're So Good To Me," Curtis Mayfield
"Heart's Desire," Don Blackman (iffy as disco at best, but wow!)
"Love Party"/"Dance 'n' Be Happy," Marvin Gaye
"Wheel Me Out," Was (Not Was)
"Once I've Been There," Norman Connors
"Chicago," Roy Ayers
"Straight from the Heart," Loose Change
"Gonna Get Over You," France Joli
"Sharivari," A Number of Names

OK, that Blackman track isn't disco at all. I second Bohannon's "Foot Stompin' Music."

"Once I've Been There," Norman Connors
jyeah!

Two fun "Sharevari" videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhE-0IDpkiM"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhE-0IDpkiM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUvqq_Kmr9o

I totally had that second one bookmarked.

screw* all this obscure shit!

carl douglas - kung fu fighting
average white band - pick up the pieces
k.c. and the sunshine band - thats the way i like it
wild cherry - play that funky music
chic - freak out
lipps inc - funky town
peaches and herb - shake your groove thing
commodores - brick house
michael jackson - don't stop till you get enough
earth wind and fire - september

put these on at a party, ANY party, and see if people dont get up and dance. and i dont really care if lipps inc already got like 10 mentions either, it deserves every last one of them.

-mw

*"screw" meaning soulseek & download, i've never heard most of this stuff

here's what I've been disco-digging lately.

disco betamax repository

i've never heard most of this stuff

i very much suspect you have, but without knowing who/what.
several of these are very played out tracks, many advert standards.

Er, so you've all found a monsieurwilly world, right? Incredible stuff, all sourced from one guy's vinyl collection. Plenty more if you click though on "messages plus anciens".

I'm sure lots of "cats" like this record but the jazz chops aren't what makes it great, it's just, like, a journey man

nah, I don't think any actual "jazz" "cats" would give an ounce of credit to anything that came out of the uk jazz-funk scene. It's probably all disco to them!

Speaking of though, I've been playing:

Shalamar-Take That to the Bank
Shakatak-Easier Said than Done

also...
Serge Ponsar-Out in the Night
Sleeque-One For the Money

One of my favourite picks from monsieur willy:

How Can I Tell Her - Curtis (1979)

Soulful and raw, with a kind of rough-and-ready insistence that appeals to me (and which seems to be a common factor in many of monsieur w's picks; he's also big on Leroy Burgess/Aleem rarities).

Top 10 disco jazz tunes...

Herbie Hancock: "Just Around the Corner"
Lalo Schifrin: "Turning Point"
Idris Muhammad: "Bahia"
Stanley Clarke: "Just a Feeling"
Ray Barretto: "Pastime Paradise"
Herbie Hancock: "Doin' It"
Mongo Santamaria: "It Feels So Good"
Willie Bobo: "Always There"
Airto: "Samba de Flora"
Hubert Laws: "Guatemala Connection"