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

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:

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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.

3 kleeer choices

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

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the other two

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"president B Positive
v. president D Termination"

I have the first two Kleeer albums, Winners looks especially amazing on vinyl.

Not heard the Garcon's album but I have a couple of tracks on the mutant disco compilations. French Boy is a really great track.

Alec R. Costandinos is probably my favourite person from the disco era. Almost everything I've picked up has been so good.

Romeo & Juliet
How Much How Much I Love you and the Love & Kisses self titled album
Sumeria-Golden Tears
The Sphinx album

Most of these have been mentioned in the thread already but I can't recommend them enough.

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No mention of Rose Royce so far?

i was digging Skyy last night. got, like, four of their albums that i hadn't heard before. something good on every one. they stayed pretty 70's into the 80's.

finally got a copy of this a few weeks ago. so hot.

http://dreamchimney.com/slvs/Just_Blue_20090207082301.jpg

A+ artwork. What does it sound like?

space made some of the best french electro-disco known to man. everyone needs their first three albums. magic fly, deliverance, and just blue. i STILL need a copy of deliverance.

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Oh right, it's those guys. I remember liking Magic Fly a lot.

magic fly is their classique. but its all good.

No mention of Rose Royce so far?

― seandalai, Friday, December 10, 2010 8:20 PM (40 minutes ago)

Yeah I got In Full Bloom and Strikes Again recently, both really great albums. Looking to get the Car Wash soundtrack next.

magic fly is their classique. but its all good.

― scott seward, Friday, December 10, 2010 8:54 PM (6 minutes ago)

I found myself enjoying Just Blue more than Magic Fly, I was probably influenced by how much I love the blue vinyl. Didn't really rate Deliverance, It was a great surprise to recognise Running In the City which Denim covered on Novelty Rock.

this is bomb, includes "I'll Never Forget My Favorite Disco" and "Sweetest Pain" plus fusion-y jams and vocals by the Jones Girls

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFJB1MUm8dg

not patrick adams related, big-screen technicolor hyper-orchestrated euro-disco. "catch the rhythm" has a huge riff-heavy 3-minute breakdown.

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All time top 10 at least.

ctrl-f > "Michael Jackson" > no results found > O_o

Off the Wall!

yah, i love laser dance. i kinda like the idea of devoting the rest of my life to collecting zyx releases. here at my store, i have a zillion 90's singles that they put out and its kinda daunting cuz i have no idea who any of the 90's people are. some of it has to be good, right? i will listen to any of the 80's stuff though.

speaking of the 90's, i'm a recent convert to loading bay records outta the u.k. some good latter-day hi-nrg stuff on that label. super bouncy bubblegum hi-nrg. and nobody wants it in the states, so its all almost free here if you see the singles anywhere.