disco-pick only ten

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"

Willie Bobo: "Always There"

^^^this is a great one

It's also on monsieurwilly: http://amonsieurwillyworld.blogspot.com/2008/04/willie-bobo-always-there.html

top ten records i'm bring with me to play tonight:

Sylvia - Automatic Lover
Sylvia Love - Instant Love
Earons - Land Of Hunger
Osmonds - I, I, I
Les Rockets - On the Road Again
Chaz Jankel - 3,000,000 Synths
Coach House Rhythm Section - Time Warp
Loose Joints - Is it all over my face
Patrick Cowley - Sea Hunt
Eartha Kitt - Where Is My Man

top 2 records i don't own but have been rocking the shit outta me lately:
Guy Cuevas - Obsession
Chemise - She Can't Love You

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"

-- Tuomas, Friday, June 6, 2008 8:24 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yr missin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1USj00M1OQ&feature=related

Or anything by Roy Ayers.

"Tamiko Jones - Can't Live Without Your Love

this song!!! >_< "

major co-sine !!!

Brass Construction - Movin'
Boz Scaggs - Lowdown
Roy Ayers - Chicago
Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz
James White & the Blacks - Contort Yourself (August Darnell mix)
Can - I Want More

Jimmy "Bo" Horne - "Spank"
This would be unquestionably the greatest disco record ever if only they'd left out the annoying vocal.

The vocals are possibly the best thing about it! So many hooks!

"Whe-hen yurrr lohvin' me, baby, SPANK!
Ooh-ooh-woo-ooh
(Let's! Get! To it! Do it!)"

I love the vocals on spank!

Hard to pick ten favourites but my current favourite disco song is the Larry Levan mix of "Cryin" by Instant Funk.

Crying even.

Joe Simon - Love Vibration
Gwen Guthrie - Peanut Butter
Montana Sextet - Heavy Vibes
Erotic Drum Band - Pop Pop Shoo Wah
Don Ray - Got To Have A lot More Lovin
Chocolat's - El Carnavero
Gene Chandler - When Your'e #1
Black Ivory - Mainline
Grey & Hanks - Dancin'
Lime - You're My Magician
Trax - Crusader

Chocolat's - El Carnavero

^^^^yeah but do u know 'baby lets do it the french way'???

^^^actually, it's El Caravanero.

and 'baby lets do it the french way' is pretty great as well and lives up to its awesome title (thanks, American Athlete).

aww did he post that? fuk

i thought i was dropping knowledge :-/

dood, you are knowledge droppin in sync w/ disco blogerati. gain 26 hit points.

ok heres one - ghalib ghallab - 'love desire'

geez ... i just read that gino soccio was 19 when kebekelektrik was recorded

I had no idea that Gino Soccio was involved with Kebekeleltrik until now. I also just read that he produced the awesome Witch Queen album (he mus have been 20 at that point).

He also played on The Mexican by the Bombers.

heard some interesting stories while i was in montreal. apparently george cucuzzella (pres of unidisc) is sitting on a full, finished, unreleased soccio record ...

Heatwave need to be mentioned here! I would list ten of their songs alone if I could, but "Boogie Nights" and "The Groove Line" are total classics.

'posin til closin' is my favorite heatwave track

"ain't no half steppin"

http://www.discomuseum.com/GinoSoccio.html

in that "try it out video" gino looks like wolfen

still haven't heard the disco version of "The Mexican." :(

In disco songs, there's that "byoo" sound. What the hell is that supposed ot be? Ray guns or some shit?