Put on your flares and platforms and dust off the mirrorball.
ABBA
Bee Gees
George Benson
Boney M
Chic
Earth Wind and Fire
Gloria Gaynor
Heatwave
KC and the Sunshine Band
Chaka Khan
Kool and the Gang
Rose Royce
Diana Ross
Shalamar
Sister Sledge
Donna Summer
Village People
Barry White
And The Bee Gees. I must have watched my parents VHS copy of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band a hundred times when I was a kid. Great list there. Lots of memories. 👍
You know, I always felt like Gary Newman’s Cars Was kind of disco too.
Yes, there's a lot of artists that strayed into Disco territory (even Rod Stewart, lol). Gary Numan was definitely more Synth Pop and was heavily influenced by Kraftwerk and Eno era Roxy and Bowie.
shareKraftwerk is a one of a kind. They have tracks from the early 80’s that were still being played in clubs in the mid 90’s in full or sampled into other music. They are serious pioneers. Speaking of Kraftwerk, I went to all the vinyl shops in New Orleans yesterday and there is always a turntable available for test listening before you buy. One of the shops I went to had a Kraftwerk slip mat on its turntable deck. I almost asked them how much they wanted for it!
shareAbsolutely! Massive influence on everything from Synth Pop, to Industrial, to Hip-hop and all the way back again.
shareI loved Cars.
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I have to agree with you about many of those artists (even though I think ABBA only did one disco album).
But I want to remind you that The Jacksons and Michael Jackson did some nice disco songs in the late '70s.
Absolutely! The Off The Wall album was my favourite MJ era. The only reason I didn't include him (or the Jacksons) was because I associate them overall with Dance/Pop rather than Disco, although you could easily use the same argument for ABBA.
shareWhen it comes to Michael as a solo artist, "Off the wall" is indeed the album with the most Disco influences.
But I say he did more Disco with his brothers, even if the line between disco and dance/pop sure was unclear in the late '70s.
ABBA only did Disco on the "Voulez-Vous" album if you ask me.
Both ABBA and The Bee Gees suffered a huge backlash after the Disco boom ended and it took many years before they were (quite rightly) appreciated again. Somehow both MJ and The Jacksons seemed to escape this (although MJ would have other problems to worry about later on).
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ABBA only did two more albums after their disco album "Voulez-Vous". But it was mostly because the members needed a break from each other.
Bee Gees had a few minor hits later on, but it was not disco songs.
MJ was good at following the trends and was a very successful solo artist in the '80s and the '90s.
I’m a bit of a disco fanatic, trying to list all the stuff I like would take forever lol but some stuff I like
Chic
Sister Sledge
Brass Construction
Jackie Moore (especially 'Hows your love life?')
Gray & Hanks (especially 'You fooled me')
Cerrone
Fat Larrys Band
Fatback Band
Delegation
Eruption
Earth Wind and Fire
Lorraine Johnson (especially ‘Feed the Flame’)
Martin Circus
Boney M
KC and the Sunshine band