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# Disco

1. Another one that kinda reminds me of something (Bad Love?), but this is great anyway.

2. Oh— Aimer d’Amour’s a cover. Prefer the cover though.

   Never listened to him before, thought he just did gimmicky stuff.

3. Like the real bassy grimy sound, but that Soft Cell guy wrecks it.

   Otherwise I haven’t really got into any other BB songs.

4. Guy in Pacific Club mentioned this song.

   Might fit nice in a playlist after In Alto Mare.

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   Meant to note that it was interesting hearing this kind of vocal affectation in French.

   I’ve been listening to this daily.

5. Discogs rec’d Traslocando, but this is the only song I like off it.

6. Got some guy’s folder of ‘weird freaky disco singles’ off Soulseek and been going through it. None of it’s weird, mostly it’s just Italian. This is the first song I liked. Will listen to more of her stuff; has lots of records.

   I like grandpa on the drums. One of the saxophoners didn’t get the memo about the yellow shirts. Kinda want a cowprint top.

7. Thought I posted this one another time, but maybe it was amongst the stuff that went missing.

   Kinda find it annoying as much as I kinda like it.

8. Reminds me a bit of Disco Gal.

   Lots of Japanese disco seems to not actually be great for dancing to, more just a nice disco vibe for round the house or something.

   edit: Lyric video.

9. Was trying to disprove a potential hot take about how the only good italo-disco songs all have superior Japanese covers and stumbled on this one.

   Only downside for me is the lyric (and kinda the guy’s voice), but there’s also an instrumental version as a B-side.

   (Also There’s no superior cover to Kiss Her, so…

10. And I guess this is the second best hey.

11. I got real excited dancing to this song once last year. I couldn’t remember having heard it before. Maybe it was just the drugs, maybe it was a different mix, but it seemed to go on a lot longer. The bass was real loud. Definitely best ABBA song.

12. Dunno how I got here, but this as in a tab I’ve had open for months.

    On the current listen it was really bugging me I couldn’t figure out what it reminded me of. Those bass and twangy electric piano sounds. Clicking on other things realised I’d heard his song Holiday Action a bunch of times on the Doing It In Lagos compilation.

13. She has one of them Youtube-famous city pop songs, so I’ll skip posting that. But this’s another real good one.

14. Jumping back in time a bit—I meant to add this song.

    I love that rich ‘youuuuuuuuuuuu’ so much. It’s like an owl. Penetrates my skull, like I’m singing it myself. Reminds me a bit of the way Miki Matsubara sings her vowels. Song itself reminded me of the way that みずいろの雨 song by Junko Yagami comes in.

    And somehow this is a B-side~

15. 

    This one’s not from the soundtrack, and by a singer that’s done lots of songs I like, but this was a nice surprise! Especially that cover, though the album title got my attention too.

    The rest of the record’s a bit dull, but. I wanted him to do a full disco record :(

16. Again! This is from the Foxes soundtrack, and by a singer who has mostly boring songs, and it’s amazing.

    There are clips on Youtube, but they didn’t really seem worth posting.

17. Kinda in the same boat here as the Marcia Hines entry; probably the only song of Cher’s I actually like, so it was nice to stumble onto it. Cher wrote it, too!

    This is from the soundtrack to a film called Foxes, which has another few great songs on there, and was produced by Giorgio Moroder.

    Maybe it feels a bit too similar to some other songs (Looking For Some Hot Stuff), but it’s soooo good anyway.

18. I really like Marcia’s voice, you can really hear that she’s smiling when she sings this. Unfortunately most of her other song choices aren’t really my thing.

    Sorry about the soft audio, the other vids on youtube are a different version.

19. Had to replace an item in a Discogs order, so ended up trawling through thousands of listings looking for singles. Listened to a bunch of things I hadn’t heard before, and this is one of the highlights. Total sucker for these kinds of disco songs that build up to a big swirling chorus.

    This is performed with a group called Brooklyn Dream, but I didn’t think much of the rest of their stuff.

20. And here’s something special. Too funky for a little blog like this.

    This whole album is good.

21. Been bingeing African disco and related genres working on a compilation. I meant to post a bunch while I was Youtubeing, but got carried away.

    So this batch’ll be cheating a bit, but here’s a song I found that I love a lot to start things off.

    Thinking I’ll make a smooth Summer comp. with this on there too.

22. Turns out it’s a good thing I didn’t post a break, as I’m back to playing Stay With Me and Tatsuro Yamashita’s Love Talkin’ over-and-over. They’re just the best :D

    Even found transcriptions and translations of the lyrics and put them on my wiki:

    • Stay with Me
    • Love Talkin’

    Been working on my Japanese disco-y playlist, I think that’s to blame.

23. How do you even get sick of listening to this song?

    I fell like I’ve recently fallen into a well of Bandcamp labels specialised in doing really ace rereleases. And now I need more record shelves.

24. Flows on nice from Disco Dancer, has some nice keys in there.

    Guess what record I just ordered :3

25. Youtube recs. working just nice.

26. I got this comp. for Christmas called Nigeria Soul Fever, and it’s finally got me digging into more funk and disco and stuff from Africa.

    Sol Oshijo’s bass playing on this one is so dirty, I love it. And in general it’s just a really nice flirty dancefloor song.

27. Found it via an inferior J-Pop cover by Yoshimi Iwasaki.

28. Soft spot for that almost-awful opening vocal section. Gunna stick it in the custom OutRun soundtrack :)

29. Similar thumpyness to that last one.

30. This is the other film-related song. I watched both of these on the same day, and both have been taking turns being stuck in my head.

    I like the thumpy organ, fits the film it comes from well (The ice hockey film Slap Shot).

    I like the sparkly ground in this clip.

31. I’m posting a couple of songs from a couple of films I watched recently.

    Sky High is the main theme from The Man From Hong Kong, an Australian and Hong Kong co-production that is a pretty fun Golden Harvest James Bond thing set mostly in Sydney. The fight scenes are actually well shot, and it turns out co-ordinated by Sammo Hung!

    Here’s a nice little talk by the director Brian Trenchard-Smith, and should lead to some others if you follow the Youtube trail.

    This clip is how the song first appears in the film, and a tops credit sequence to boot.

32. I like the ‘shu shu sugar baby’ part.

33. Appropriate.

    I thought they were Australian when I first heard their voices.

34. There’s a bit of Eleanor Rigby in there, for some reason. And d~a~n~c~i~n~g.

35. The Youtube page has the lyric.

36. Not many people realised, but Fancy was eventually replaced by Roy Orbison, before he joined the Travelling Wilburys.

37. Several things are a bit like Pet Shop Boys.

38. S P A C E M U S I C

39. That was good before the singing started.

40. Church Guy mentioned them in some hokey interview, and I kinda like this disco/ish song.

    Oh, they have a song called Rushall Station. Rushall Station certainly deserves a song. Probably a better one, though.