OFF: Disco Opera's

[J. Michael Looney]

At 06:25 AM 1/21/98 PST, you wrote:
>>"Well I can see we won't be settling this over eggnog, but here's
>>something we can all agree on, its time to go caroling."  - 4 Legged
>Man
>
>A mighty fine couplet.
>
>>
>>It also depend in large part on your definition of "disco". I tend to
>use the term disco as
>>it is more widely accepted when describing dance music in general, at
>>least it seems to be with rockers.
>
>Never trust a rocker talking about another genre!
>
>> Examples:
>>Funk Songs
>>Flashlight - Parliament Funkadelic
>>More Bounce to the Ounce - Roger (a great tBS cover waiting to happen)
>>The Butt - local DC legends Trouble Funk
>>
>>Classic Disco songs
>>
>>I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
>>Anything by the 70's Bee Gee's
>>The Hustle - Van McCoy
>>
>>Funk is to disco what Iron Maiden would be to Air Supply i.e., heavier
>>grooves along the bass an drum lines.
>
>Okay - you're right so far as you go, but _War of the Worlds_ came from
>the height of the Disco excess era and holds its disco Afro and glitter
>shirt high right up beside the BeeGees, Chic, Village People, anybody..
>

As it so happens, Disc 1 of "War of The Worlds" is in my CD player as we
speak.   For reasons that I would rather not go into, I have had to listen
to much more "'70's dance music" over the last 3 weeks than any member of
BOC-L should have to.  If you ignore what the band looks like, which has
diddly to do with the music, and just listen to say, "Forever Autumn" or
"Thunder Child" never mind "The Spirit of Man (disc 2)", then listen to any
of the songs listed above as "Classic Disco" (or, Ghod save me, "Ring my
Bell") and still think they are they same type of music, well, lets give it
up right now.  We are not even on the same planet, at least as far as music
goes.

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