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

Bionic BOOGIE

Meco "Wizard of Oz" seconded.

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neil young - trans
prince - dirty mind
prince - 1999
zapp - s/t

Chic - C'est Chic

(i wish i knew actual disco albums)

Does the Metro Area LP count?

Also, both Cerrone Albums, the Donna Summer one, the Universal Robot Band and about half of the others on your list. Some brilliant stuff on there though scott.

Does Funkadelic, One nation under a groove count? I think it does.

Also...Risque, which is probably the better album.

A big personal favourite of mine is Musique - Keep on jumpin'. 4 tracks and each one a classic. Also Boney M - Nightflight to Venus.

I could probably think of plenty more.

CLOUD ONE - Cloud One

DOCTOR'S CAT - Watch Out

Forgetting many, I'm sure, but these are faves that come to mind.

Definitely.

And to think I hated it when I got it!

Kudos for mentioning this ... on one of the Donna Summer threads, opinions were strongly split on this record. Better than "Bad Girls"? Hell yeah.

i finally decided i wasn't gonna find Stop/Go so i picked up the vinyl reissue a few weeks ago. that and Insides Out are his best. stop/go has been sampled numerous times. a bit on the slower, more soulful tip.

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Bohannon-wise, I LOVE LOVE LOVE Keep On Dancin' and Insides Out. The self-titled Bohannon record I like a bunch too. I have never heard Dance Your Ass Off or Stop & Go.

is pretty great through and through.

Sister Sledge We Are Family

Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

D Train You're The One For Me seconded

Cerrone Supernature seconded -- my favorite disco album

Donna Summer Bad Girls

Gloria Gaynor Love Tracks

Jimmy "Bo" Horne Let's Dance Across The Floor

Detroit Emeralds Feel The Need

Change The Glow of Love

Jackson Five Dancing Machine

Johnnie Taylor Eargasm

MFSB Mysteries of the World

Shalamar Three for Love

Shirley & Co Shame Shame Shame

T-Connection - S/T (great funky disco.)

is this really that good? i forget. i've got it and listened to it a few times, but it didn't stick. i think i was expecting some of Adam's tweaky, jazz keyboard squiggles all over it

Is there really a Sine album? I have to find a way to hear that.

munich machine 'body shine (oasis 1979)'

Gino Soccio 'Face To Face (atlantic 1982)'

Space 'Magic Fly(Disques Vogue 1977)

Rinder & Lewis 'Seven Deadly Sins (AVI 1977)

Motown Sounds 'Space Dance (Motown 1978)

Vivien Vee 'With Vivien Vee (Banana 1983)

Tantra 'The Double Album (Importe 1980)

These are some of my favorites.

Does "I Am" by Earth Wind & Fire count as disco? An excellent album it is anyway.

that's okay! i was asking for people's favorites after all.

Best day of my life? possibly...

Norma Jean Wright Norma Jean

Imagination In The Heat Of The Night

Miracles City of Angels

McFadden & Whitehead s/t

Capt. Sky: if the rest is 1/2 as good as SUPER SPERM then it must be the equal of I don't know Sgt Pepper or something.

maybe disco isn't strictly a singles medium?

right now I'm kicking myself for not buying LPS by Gino Soccio and Munich Machine and Sharon Redd and Alicia Bridges back when they were 99 cents...now where's my copy of Instant Replay??

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.

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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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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.

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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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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.

a recent discovery not upthread: the morodor-produced ooh la la by suzi lane.

Fascinating thread, don't remember it at all! Think I mostly knew disco (back in the day) as singles, in club mixes and on the radio, radio--album-wise,only know Summer's On The Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II, omg. Must check her originals. Exception: Midnight Rhythm's v. dynamic, you-are-there s/t. AlsoKC & The Sunshine Band, which is just as consistent as Greatest Hits and Very Best of. I did more or less catch up with Dr Buzzard and Chic, incl. the Soup For One soundtrack, which came out in '82, and was transitional, in a good way. Discogs:
Genre: Funk / Soul, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack, Disco, Funk
Tracklist

A1 –Chic Soup For One 5:33
A2 –Carly Simon Why 4:06
A3 –Teddy Pendergrass Dream Girl 4:08
A4 –Fonzi Thornton I Work For A Livin' 3:31
B1 –Chic I Want Your Love 6:53
B2 –Sister Sledge Let's Go On Vacation 5:08
B3 –Chic Tavern On The Green 2:15
B4 –Deborah Harry Jump, Jump 4:02
Title track is suitably moody, "I Want Your Love" is passionately awash in strings (incl. guitar), "Tavern On The Green", named for the Central Park spot, is as urban pastoral/folk as they ever got, they drive Carly Simon closer to reggae (which is kinda) than I thought she or they would ever get.
Also, I love the definition-testing (despite the ho-hum generic opener) Rough Guide To African Disco (especially the version w bonus disc) and the less surprising but lovely RG To Latin Disco.
(Also love a lot of Arthur Russell's dance music, but he's one of those, like Elvis, who tends to take over whenever you type his name---back off, Arthur!)

Also, speaking of challenging or testing the definition, and getting testy about the tag---supposedly he really really didn't want "Disco" in the title, but label insisted--whatevs, bet it all sounded great on the floor or pavement or wherever The Gallery was that night:

Siano the Times
Mercury rising as disco evolves out of its prior knowledge
by Don Allred
January 11th, 2005 2:14 PM Issue 02

Nicky Siano's Legendary the Gallery: New York's original disco 1973-1977
Soul Jazz import

In the early '70s, a teenage DJ named Nicky Siano traveled the space-wise
dancefloor of David Mancuso's Loft, before launching his own Gallery. (Gallery
kid Larry Levan later levitated Paradise Garage; he and Siano also worked with disco mystic Arthur Russell.) Despite acid, balloons, and
the food bar, the Gallery wasn't always totally blissed-out. As described in his CD notes, Siano's sound design, influenced by Mancuso's approach, was logically
based on and changing with the rooms and scenes he performed in as the feast
moved around NYC.
The Gallery opened in the summer of '73. Couch-potato arena rock ruled. There and elsewhere, DJs and dancers (especially blacks,
Latinos, gays) were among those, at times closely observed, who chose to carve fresh heat from the vinyl
beast. Spinning out of this disc, the Gallery is mercury still
rising, through crosstown funk, soul, and one gospel
song, personalized: Gloria Spencer proclaims: "I got it! I don't understand it! I got
it!" A jet blasts (like, "Amen!") out of Exuma's "Obeah Man." The Temptations
lay down the "Law of the Land": "You might not like who you are, but you
better start. 'Cause you sure can't be nobody else." But the music rumbles and clatters like a
roulette wheel. Meanwhile, turns out that Bonnie Bramlett's "Crazy 'Bout My
Baby" is crazy like a tambourine and a fox, shaking in wait for that slowhand
dobro.
Loleatta Holloway, Bobby Womack, Bill Withers, the Isleys,
and Undisputed Truth also make the most of prior knowledge and surprise.
Without waiting for the remix: These are original (full-length) LP tracks and
seven-inch singles. Yet great breaks burst out of (and roll through) good
grooves, good songs. Often.
Seehttp://www.nickysiano.com/"> http://www.nickysiano.com/ and http://www.timlawrence.info/.

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