because we all liked to boogie and wanted the world to know
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 19 February 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
I think the real question is why aren't there more songs about boogying now?
― chap, Friday, 19 February 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
recent enough - Wizkid always delivers:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwDhrN4-wY
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 February 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
(that’s Saeon ft. Wizkid • Boogie Down)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 February 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
Boogie Shoes
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 19 February 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccz_XYbof6Y
― Lily Dale, Friday, 19 February 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link
Isn't there a band called Endless Boogie? (yes.)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 19:24 (three years ago) link
Lou knew where it was at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDymH1RW-AA
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:25 (three years ago) link
Lou's song "So Alone" was from 1980, so not eligible, despite containing the following lyric from the poet of the streets:
"Oh, get up and boogie, oh baby, get up and danceOh, get, get, get, get up and boogie, baby, oh, get up and danceShake your booty, mama, oh, get up and dance"
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
that’s right:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG-Bez96j5Y
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
Boogie is life how is this a question?
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
Also Baccara still my favourite UK number 1 ever
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
Is boogying, like, choogling?
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
maybe my favourite of the boogie songs:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ee3C2m3OXE
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 February 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
short answer = no sir, it is notlong answer = oh christ, maybe in many ways it is
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 February 2021 20:01 (three years ago) link
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 February 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
Fun fact: there are actually 100 words for bughii in Romanian!
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
(I lol’d at ‘spiritul muierului’ btw.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
Choogling (post-CCR) seems like how the hirsute denim-clad dudes might get down at a butt rock show in the '70s. Like, you would boogie to Chic, but you would choogle at a Brownsville Station show.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
Is choogle the province of butt-rock?
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
It's proprietary to CCR, but a lot of people peddled cheap knockoffs in the '70s.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
A friend and I put out a book on '70s pop/rock long ago and had a chapter on (the white version of) this. We called it HRS--hard rockin' shit (I wish we'd gone with hard rockin' sludge instead). Humble Pie, Foghat, Brownsville Station, BTO, etc. For the sake of simplicity, we lumped that and Southern Rock together.
"Right from the start, HRS attached profound spiritual significance to a human transaction called 'boogie.' Few of us really know what the word means, and some of us don't even like to say it, but familiarity with its intricacies was part of an HRS zealot's basic training."
I don't where boogying ends and choogling begins. It all just sort of intuitively fit together for us at the time--I claim no scientific expertise.
― clemenza, Friday, 19 February 2021 22:07 (three years ago) link
"don't know"
is ... no one mentioning that "boogie woogie" was a style of blues from the 20s
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 19 February 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
i guess kind of touched on in the boogie woogie (dance) post but
it does seem to me there was a fascination in the disco era w the aesthetics of the roaring 20s kinda right
50 year gap makes the 2020s to the 1970s [weebey gif]
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 19 February 2021 22:46 (three years ago) link
several links have in fact been posted, deej
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 19 February 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
I always thought the ba-ba-ba-ba-baaa vocals in Chic's "Dance Dance Dance" were actually a callback to stuff like Andrews Sister, come to think of it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
yea i see the links... i feel like speakeasy / flapper vibes that were big in the 70s might have some loose spiritual connection to that time
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/df/bb/07/dfbb0765ac09fefab7def76c281f9872.jpg
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 19 February 2021 23:07 (three years ago) link
Moreso the disco industry was fascinated by the swing era, since that was the last big time for couples dancing
― Josefa, Friday, 19 February 2021 23:16 (three years ago) link
Boogie with Canned Heat in '68 was boogie chooglie. Boogie with Stu in '75 was boogie woogie.
― BrianB, Friday, 19 February 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
Bolan boogied AND choogled in the 70s fwiw.
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Friday, 19 February 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
He's a boogie bridger.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 23:56 (three years ago) link
Also was a groover iirc
― Josefa, Friday, 19 February 2021 23:57 (three years ago) link
was bowie's "let all the children boogie" a reference to john lee hooker's "boogie chillen"?
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
No one's mentioned Little Feat yet: "Triple Face Boogie" and "Old Folks Boogie."
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link
one of my least favorite disco songs is "Boogie Woogie Dancin' Shoes" by Claudja Barry
― eisimpleir (crüt), Saturday, 20 February 2021 09:33 (three years ago) link
(xp) I assume that's a different "Old Folks Boogie" from the 50s song covered by Beefheart?
― I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 February 2021 09:38 (three years ago) link
Not sure--I have the first (the medley version on Feets Don't Fail Me Now), not the second.
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 February 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
Hypotheses:
(1) When '70s rock bands use the term "boogie," the song form and rhythm will likely resemble historical (mostly black) forms of music known as "boogie,"* but in instrumentation and delivery will sound heavy metal (as the term "heavy metal" was being used then, e.g., as much Grand Funk as Sabbath). So a kind of dance metal for the greasers and grits - though T. Rex belong here as much as the Brownsville Stations and Foghats, but T. Rex's audience sociology is a bit different, as was the band's musical attack. (And T. Rex pose a problem for Phil and Scott's hard-rockin' shit chapter in that T. Rex clearly boogie but obv. aren't the anti-glam that Phil and Scott say the HRS bands are. Brownsville Station aren't particularly anti-glam either; they ref. T. Rex, cover "Sweet Jane.")
*I'd loosely call it a shuffle rhythm, in 4/4 but built on triple meter. John Lee Hooker would be a touchstone for these acts.
So of course the first track I listen to in order to test Hypothesis 1 is Thin Lizzy's "Boogie Woogie Dance" which it turns out does NOT use a boogie rhythm; in fact, other than being rock seems like an undercover musical experiment that doesn't remind me of much else. (Thin Lizzy clearly a subject for further research.)
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:26 (three years ago) link
Fortunately Brownsville Station's "Martian Boogie" is right on the money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgT1cfly8E
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
(2) When disco or funk bands use the term "boogie" they're not referencing or sounding like a musical form. I'm gathering from the discussion here it's a more diffuse term, not just dancing but a way of being and living. I'm obviously not the person to try to explicate this.
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
Not '70s, but there's the use of "boogie" as a moniker in hip-hop, e.g., Boogie Down Productions, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie.
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
Hello Frank! :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 February 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
Hi Tracer! Was just admiring the "I HOPE YOU LIKE PHISH AND TAYLOR SWIFT" doormat.
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
You should look at the late 40s hillbilly boogie scene where every song is something boogie.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 20 February 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
Frank!! (Phil here.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 February 2021 22:05 (three years ago) link
Yes, I recognized your sobriquet, and the book you were referencing.
Stevolende is quite correct; there are gobs of '40s hillbilly boogies. Used to own an album by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith but I never really followed up. Sort of a wind-it-up dance before the rage and optimism of rockabilly.
I'd say as many as not didn't use the triple beat so it swung less but stomped more.
Here's a nice one from the 13th century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjaFyhkGpLE
But this isn't what the '70s boogie rockers were pulling from. They were going for a sloppy prole blues.
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:17 (three years ago) link
weird that status quo never had a song about boogie afaict, cos in the uk at least they are boogie rock incarnate
― would a nit be nice? (NickB), Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
Here's a '40s 'billy that foreshadows the wild ones of the '50s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzt1iA2D_Kg
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
Tube Steak Boogie is another rock boogie that doesn't really boogie.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
this thread fuckin whips ass. thank you all
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 21 February 2021 01:50 (three years ago) link
maybe my favourite of the boogie songs:
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 February 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
your jab of boogie for the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBVNOrV0Pr4
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 February 2021 12:16 (three years ago) link
The greatest TV series of all time opens up with the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYgKmOJT_gM;>death of Boogie</a>
― octobeard, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:08 (three years ago) link