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#1 2016-09-22 14:52:26

farrago
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A Cultural Oddity

This isn't terribly NSFW, but it is somewhat humorous from an American perspective at a very particular time in this country's history: the curse of disco.

The hatred of disco is primal and visceral.

It bothers me that marketing execs can't pull off promotions like these any more.

I don't know if the gents on the other side of the pond have any outstanding examples of somewhat sports related shame (of the humorous variety) that define one's nationality or national identity.

Fast forward towards the end. The game itself is of no particular interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptK_PX0XkRk

Edit: I should note that this is something more than a mere invasion of the pitch.

Last edited by farrago (2016-09-22 14:54:33)

 

#2 2016-09-23 01:11:13

4F Hepcat
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Re: A Cultural Oddity


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#3 2016-09-23 09:54:10

formby1
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Re: A Cultural Oddity

There's good disco and there's bad disco. Obviously.

That disco demolition derby or whatever it was called reeked of other prejudices...


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#4 2016-09-23 09:58:56

Bop
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Re: A Cultural Oddity

The more he chants the more its sounds like "this cold sock, this cold sock!"

 

#5 2016-09-23 21:14:36

stanshall
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Re: A Cultural Oddity


"bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay"

 

#6 2016-09-24 05:46:19

chatsworth osborne jr.
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#7 2016-09-24 07:07:54

4F Hepcat
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Re: A Cultural Oddity

What about that occasional stock laser whooshing sound in disco music of the time that supposedly connected well with those coming out the toilets having just taken a line?

I was very anti all that Hitman And Her/Stock Aitken Waterman vibe of the late 80s and early 90s dance world. Awful. 70s disco by comparison was magnificent including the Euro variety.


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#8 2016-09-25 04:00:52

formby1
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Re: A Cultural Oddity

The best disco is the early, underground-y stuff. Once it became commercial, it got diluted. It wouldn't be right to say all commercial disco was bad though, Chic was commercial and they were rather good. The wheels started to come off though when we had the rockers moving-in.

'Play that funky music white boy' and Rod Stewart's 'Do ya think I'm sexy' as prime examples...

SAW was awful...Earlier though, they did produce Dead or Alive's 'You Spin Me Around (like a Record)'  which is a bit of a mid-80s banger. I've got a great 12" mix of it.

12" mixes. Remember them?


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#9 2016-09-26 11:44:44

stanshall
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Re: A Cultural Oddity

/\  12" discomix and I are besties


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#10 2016-09-26 15:25:55

formby1
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Re: A Cultural Oddity

Essential for a disco cut, you wouldn't get the bass otherwise.


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

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#11 2016-09-27 00:53:12

Bop
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Re: A Cultural Oddity

I was just watching the 2001 house music doc Pump Up The Volume where a guy comments on how people were just turning up at the stadium with black music records... definitely racial as well as homophobic to a large degree... saying that you know sometimes music is just bad it deserve to be blown on a baseball field

 

#12 2016-09-27 01:54:15

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Re: A Cultural Oddity


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