what are some of your favorite *full-length* disco albums?

I think the first two Silver Convention LPs are really cool all the way through. They have a sort of "minimalist", "hypnotic" quality (or somethin'!) that I like.

For Gloria Gaynor, I like an album she did called Experience a lot. There's some really nice, snappy R&B on it.

The first Heatwave album is good, though my favorite track, "All You Do is Dial", is more classic soul-sounding than disco floor material.

And I think No. 1 in Heaven is Sparks' best album.

I have a best of which is like this and all the better for it. Wasn't Silver Convention a Frank Farian act?

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/u/Covers/usa-euro.jpg

and the first thing that comes up on google is jbr writing about it on the ilxor thing!

http://ilmixor.blogspot.com/2005/03/usa-european-connection-come-into-my.html

you are not alone, jody! it is genius. pure genius. it gives me chills every time i hear it. both sides actually. it is all genius.

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"From Here To Eternity" is great, but is it disco?

Herbie Mann - Super Mann
Logg - Logg
Sylvester - Step II
Cloud One - Cloud One
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Trammps - That's Where The Happy People Go
Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - self titled
Venus Dodson - Night Rider
Donna Summer - Once Upon A Time/I Remember Yesterday/Bad Girls
Heatwave - Too Hot To Handle
Maryann Farra and Satin Soul - Never Gonna Let You Go
Mandrill - Getting In The Mood/New Worlds
Empress - Empress
Young and Company - I Like What You're Doing To Me

I also like that Eruption album with "I Can't Stand The Rain"

BT Express were great!

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seriously, if you ain't got it, get it.

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The great disco critic Michael Freedberg picks 50 essential disco albums (following an essential interview):

http://www.djsportal.com/en/pioneer/index.php?id=freedberg

I just bought a used copy of Cerrone's Supernature. Very good.

Cory Daye's Cory and Me and Claudja Barry's Sweet Dynamite never cease to impress. Somebody mentioned Maryann Farra & Satin Soul... I really have to hear their LP, cuz their singles are SO good. I also love Grace Jones' first, Portfolio.

i would own more disco full lengths if there were more that were as sublime as M People's Elegant Slumming.
also, kid creole - wise guy is quite loverly

i would own more disco full lengths if there were more that were as sublime as M People's Elegant Slumming.

Ha! My sentiments EXACTLY. Which is why I could never write One Night in Heaven: The 500 Best Disco Albums in the Universe (gee, guess what #1 would be) without informing the reader that there'd be some serious diminishing returns long about #50 (actually, though, if mix CDs, podcasts, and the like counted, then it would work).

Love that Freedberg interview, esp. how he first heard disco: "In 1974, at a "Young Republicans" "mixer" party, he encountered a DJ spinning danceable records. He went up to meet the DJ, and to talk to him. That DJ was John Luongo..."

Also this: "In 1975 John started a "disco magazine," named NIGHTFALL." Wha??? Has anyone ever seen this?

Wow ILM never ceases to amaze.

Instant Funk's self-titled album hasn't been mentioned yet and is pretty great.

oof, recently passed up buying that linda clifford album

Oh one of my favorite gross, decadent disco full-lengths is the Sphinx album on Casablanca, an ad hoc Alec R. Costandinos/Don Ray retelling of the betrayal of Jesus Christ. Side A: "Judas Iscariot" (19:16); Side B "Simon Peter" (17:06).

And I dig the Quartz album on Marlin, esp. "Quartz" (12:54).

i like that sphinx album a lot.

i was hanging out in my record store with my brother a couple of weeks ago long after i had closed for the night and this 50-something venezuelan guy came in with a younger guy and he looked around and asked my brother: "you have the romeo & juliet?" i don't know HOW my brother knew that he meant what he meant but he said: "by alec costandinos?" so, just in case i looked thru the c's of my r&b/funk section and i actually had a copy of the album. you have never seen a happier person in your life. he made me play it. then he bought it and a couple of abba records. he had been looking for romeo & juliet for decades apparently. i made his year. he even gave me a ten dollar tip! his younger friend wanted to know where to find "the magic mushroom". but he wasn't talking about an album.

that's a GREAT story scott!

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Donna Summer - Four Seasons of Love is awesome and overlooked alot

Boney M's "Nightflight To Venus" deserves canonical praise imho.

This is my favourite thread on ILM, since discovering it last year I have bought almost anything I could find that has been mentioned.

Some of these have been mentioned already but here's a few of mine.

Cerrone-Supernature
Azoto-Disco Fizz
Barry White-Let the Music Play
African Suite-African Suite
Cloud One-Atmosphere Strut
Bionic Boogie-Hot Butterfly
The Jacksons-Triupmh
Kano-Kano
Phreek-Patrick Adams presents Phreek
Bombers-Bombers II
Cameo-Cardiac arrest
Patrick Cowley-Megatron Man
Everything related to Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Erotic Drum Band-Plug Me To Death
Dee D Jackson-Cosmic Curves
Tantra-The double Album
Mandre-M3000
Space-Just Blue
Gino Soccio-Closer
Sparks-Number 1 in Heaven
Sylvester-Step II
Droids-Star Peace
New York City band-New York City Band
Peter Jacques Band-Fire Night Dance
Amanda Lear-Never Trust a Pretty Face
Le Pamplemousse-Le Spank
Zodiac-Disco Alliance
Donna Summer-Four Seasons of Love, Love Trilogy, Once Upon a Time, I Remember Yesterday
Just about everything Chic related from 1977 to 1981.

So much stuff! Definintely going to investigate...

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DarkStarr's Ashley Beadle and Cosmo have a really good 2CD disco mix coming out soon.

George McCrae's Rock Your Baby is p much wall-to-wall jams

thanks for the Sine - Happy Is The Only Way recommendation! four tracks in and I'm enjoying their kind of bittersweet melodies.

This has been talked about a few times elsewhere, but fans of Number One In Heaven should dig around for this similar Sparks-produced LP:

http://991.com/newgallery/Noel-Dancing-Is-Danger-118231.jpg

Great recommendation on the Noel album, I just picked it up and absolutely love it. My copy is called Is There More to Life Than Dancing? but I'm sure it's the same album. Number 1 in Heaven is one of my favourite albums ever, I really should have checked this out years ago.

This one? I've never seen it in this cover, but actually I have a piture disc with the same photos. Still kinda looking around for a red cover.

http://www.worldwidewax.com/images/z101.jpg

Oh, and yeah, it's the same 5 songs either way.

Okay, I guess the red cover is the 12" single. Mea culpa...

Yeah mine is the picture disc version too. There's quite a few of these disco albums that came out with different covers or alternative names for different countries.

It's definitely one of the best disco albums I've heard since I really started getting into this genre.

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More in the Ze-affiliated rock/disco camp, but this is so good:

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