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

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??

one of those patrick cowley ones!

I can lend you one.

I still need to look for some of the stuff mentioned here.

i think i forgot this one:

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/d/drenno_eddi_collage~~_101b.jpg

eddie drennon & the bbs orchestra. solid thru and thru.

I think the track MFSB is my favourite piece of music ever.

giorgio - e mc 2

nytro - nytro express

arpadys - arpadys

inner life - inner life

supermax - dont stop the music

tantra - the double album

Saw them on a Soul Train rerun a few weeks ago, and they were great!

Anyone here know B.T. Express? I'm new to them, but they sound pretty good so far. I'm not sure if they're considered pure disco, though.

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.

http://www.blackmeninamerica.com/From_Disco_To_Love_-_Lp_Cover.jpg

"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"

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.

http://dreamchimney.com/slvs/Deliverance_20080404021002.jpg

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

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oM1Q_VvLTkk/TdLVLtj4a9I/AAAAAAAAG5Y/Q6AJIbw1JVo/s1600/61gdPgQtfsL%255B1%255D.jpg

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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http://www.ufoshock.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Laserdance-Future-Generation.jpg
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/.

Looking a bit worse for the paste from wayback, sorry (also, should've said it's from the Voice).