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

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"

BT Express were great!

http://www.discocity.it/images/VARIOUSIMAG/AFROFUNKYDISCO/AFROFUNKY8/crown%20heights%20affair%201976.jpg

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!

http://image01.wiki.livedoor.jp/g/l/golden_age_of_soul/a315cddfeb7629da.jpg

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.