A Complete Introduction to Disco [Box set]

Be warned that not all of them are the single versions. Amii Stewart's "Knock On Wood", for an example.

 

thats cool but once dan hartman left the edgar winter group i did not follow his work since for the most part a white boy leaving a hard rock band and switching to disco just didn't sound right to me for some reason lol

 

The correct 3:36 single version of this song is on this CD:

Disco Classics
Varese 302-066 465

 

Are you kidding? "The Hustle" is seminal disco, and was thrashed in clubs as long as people danced The Hustle. What "Rock Around The Clock" is to rock'n'roll dancing, so "The Hustle" is to that dance.

Again, disco is a primarily and exclusively a dance genre. Top 40 hits are Top 40 hits, and although they're quite relevant they don't define disco music. It's only in the minds of oldies collectors that some disco radio hits like the Bee Gees output are the defining moments of the genre.

I'm wondering how many critics of this comp actually dance - let alone listen to dance radio or even read the dance charts for that matter lol

 

Yes, but it's a needle drop on the Varese cd, right?

The only cd where I've found a tape source that matches the original single -- until it goes into a much extended outro -- is a relatively early BMG Canada release. I don't have easy access to that cd at the moment, but it was part of a 2 volume set and I think it was called Disco Classics.

 

I don't go out dancing anymore (mostly because I'm not interested in most new dance music but also because at my age I can no longer tolerate being in clubs that are as loud as all dance clubs seem to be), but I still regularly consult my Billboard Top Dance Hits book and I listen to disco almost every morning while doing cardio.

 

I agree that the Disco Discharge series deserves props for going beyond the predictable titles. It's obviously a series for collectors of the genre. One track that stood out for me after getting their initial batch of 4 titles was Suzy Q's Get On Up And Do It Again. I subsequently found that I actually already had this on another compilation, but I guess the track didn't stand out to me when I first got it. I don't remember hearing that track back when it was released, but I love it now.

 

Do I detect a bit of defensiveness? But around here I guess that's understandable. Again, I wasn't criticizing, but just asking whether a song I've always percieved as a lightweight novelty number was something more. And so it turns out to be, and I have learned something.

And re dancing: you wanna step on the dance floor and have a Hustle-off, bucko? My junior high dance classes have burned many of those moves into my muscle memory, so you'd better bring your game.

 

I had the same experience with a track on Vol 1; "Living Up To Love: by Companion. I've owned it for years on another comp (Boris Midney Collection) but I guess it didn't make an impession when I first heard it (love it now).

 

HAAAAAA....sometimes I forget my smileys!

But a grudge-match is a grudge match and I'm in my Jordache jeans & red Crayons shoes, so choose a lady mister and I WILL SEE YOU ON THE FLOOR!!!

 

Yes scroll back a week or so and they talk about the new ones..no track list yet tho.

 

As for the Bee Gees, I love em but I would rather have something more obscure since they have been pretty well covered on cd. Not that there are a ton on rarities on this but even so.

 

I also agree with much of what Willow has written. Maybe some of us went to different discos... but I remember rock in the clubs in both NYC and the UK. Disc one seems to be proto disco.


Now the big question.... where's the vinyl version?

 

The box is great, lots of album and 12 inch versions.

 

I love this box set. I have a lot of disco/dance compilations in my collection (my favourites being "Motown Disco" released about five years or so ago, the "Give Your Body Up" series from the '90s and the "Journey into Paradise" Larry Levan tribute CD) but this is a welcome set.

Excellent choices all around. I don't mind that there are no Bee Gees tracks because they don't usually end up on disco compilations (probably due to licensing and I assume they don't want their music on disco-specific compilations). The sound is great and the liner notes are thorough and well-written.

My only quibble is that the the version of Three Degrees' thumping "The Runner" is the single version and not the 12" version.

 

Wow, all those "Disco S##ks" guys are going to be twisting in agony in front of their computers.

 

Not read the thread.

Is this the definitve box to get?

 

No.

 

Yes. Good track selection & all bases covered, from the proto disco of The Equals through to the Euro Disco of Cerrone & Moroder, through to the post-'Disco Sucks' era of CD4.

Well worth picking up.

 

Definitive box.

How many tracks on the 6 cd box (Grant's choice) ?

 

Sorry, I don't think Eddie Grant
(great though he is, comes into the disco equa tion)
..though Electric Avenue is good.

I'd have to cherry pick the tracks listed.

 

The Equals/Eddy Grant was not disco.

 

Correctimo

1971

 

Thanks for recommending the Disco Discharge compilations -- they are amazing!