"Do You Think I'm Disco?" Steve Dahl & Teenage Radiation - parody song

[BenAliGtor]

Disco Stu does NOT appreciate self depricating humor...

[juliano66]

Lady gaga needs her dose of teenage radiation..

[jsc1215]

1979...I remember Scott Reppert (a deejay in West Virginia) playing this tune in heavy rotation following the disco record-smashing event at Comiskey Park. Several of my classmates sported Ted Nugent T-shirts with "Disco Sucks" on them as well. Wonderful times!

[Yemmuh4444]

I saw Saturday Night Fever 78 times ! XD

[Blueracer]

Seven people with no sense of humor.

[AbortionOnToast]

@Blueracer

Heh! I'm sure there are more than seven, but who cares what they think anyway!

DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!! DISCO STILL SUCKS!!

[PorygonFanatics]

I'm planning to make Justin Bieber parody music so I can have a Bieber Demolition Night... Thanks to Steve Dahl for inspiring me.

[DaveWollenberg]

Steve hit #58 in Billboard, 10-13-79. Thanx for postin' it.

[AbortionOnToast]

@DaveWollenberg

Sweet, number 58, not bad. Classic tune!

Thanks for the info and the comment!

Later, Toast

[spartansfan1026]

A Zeppelin belt buckle?!?! ...wish I had one of those!

[AbortionOnToast]

@spartansfan1026

I'm sure you could find one online if you really wanted one! Thanks for listening/watching.

[ScorpioBornIn69]

I grew up in the Chicago area and no doubt remember this DJ and the disco demolition in '79. If he thought disco was bad, I wonder what he thinks of the trash aired today??

Got to have a Rap Demolition this time!

"Welcome to the largest antirap rally! We have collected all the rap and hip hop CDs and put them in a giant box and we are going to blow them up real good...."

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BBOOOMMM!!

Rap sucks! Rap sucks! Rap sucks!

[AbortionOnToast]

@ScorpioBornIn69

Well, this was a comedy bit, not meant to be taken too seriously, and it was also a completely different era. In the context of the times it was a somewhat understandable position considering how commecial and tame disco had become by the late 70's. I don't think it would work in today's music market that is so segmented. Either way it was just a satirical poke, kind of a high school rivalry sort of a deal, Disco Demolition was just a big party that got a little crazy.

[pannoni1]

Take this, you rock and rollers were once bewildered!

From 1958, watch?v=-YkT-Cutz9s

Maybe that KWK DJ could have stopped the madness.

[AbortionOnToast]

@pannoni1

I get what you're saying but I wouldn't exactly call that a parallel, what you refer to was conservative groups that viewed the new rock music to be 'evil' and all that, what Disco Demolition (and this song) was about was the perception of a type of music that became very commercial along with a group that became stereotypically snobby and narcissistic (though this was COMEDY, not to be taken too seriously). Point taken but I don't think it's the same.

[EmpressOfWyoming58]

I used to listen to Steve back in Chicago in 1978. When an artist sells out, I call it his "Rod Stewert disco phase."

[DimensionsofChange]

I wear tight pants, I always am a Douche-bag

It always makes the ladies start to talkin'

My shirt is black, It has no buttons

So I look hip, I work for E.F. Hutton

Do you think I'm emo

'Cause I spend so much time

straightening, out my hair

Do you think I'm emo

'Cause I act like I'm cool

Even though I'm uh tool

[DimensionsofChange]

It's like hip-hop's evil father!

[Glockenheimer]

remember Coho Cola?

[nsminc]

I remember that disco demolition event in 1979.Total kick ass!

Disco still sucks!

[dadiscodad]

hahahhaahahahahahaha you sad fuckers hahhahahhhaha DISCO is FOREVER!!!!

[AbortionOnToast]

@dadiscodad Keep telling yourself that! And really, what do we care? Disco DIED quite succinctly on July 12, 1979, that is just a fact. Radio stations changed formats almost overnight, disco record sales plummeted, and the fad ended. That doesn't mean dance music died, or funk, but the commercialized pap that disco had become ended, period, over and out, that's just a historical fact.

Also, this was COMEDY, not meant to be taken too seriously anyway, like a high school rivalry, nothing more.

[jaredrim]

@AbortionOnToast Why don't you educate your sad fucking self before flappin' your gums on subjects on which you CLEARLY know nothing about, you moron? If "Disco died quite succinctly" in July 1979, then what the fuck was Lipps Inc. doing taking "Funkytown to Number One for 4 weeks in 1980??? Furthermore, what was the MASSIVE European genre called "Italo DISCO" doing with hundreds of artists around the world making HUGE hits from 1983-1989?

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim Wow, that's a lot of hate there, buddy! Let me attempt to explain this again (maybe even you will get it) the FAD of disco did die, but that doesn't mean that dance music itself died. What part of this are you not understanding? That was the perception of the time,but you'd have to be old enough to remember it, and I'm guessing that perhaps you aren't (or your just an uptight asswipe troll, certainly not uncommon!) As far as Europe goes, that's another story, I'm talking US perception.

[jaredrim]

@AbortionOn Toast FYI, hotshot. I'm in my 40's , FAR from being a troll and have worked in the music business from 1978 until 2007. And nice attempt to save your ignorant ass as far as "U.S perception" goes. Madonna IS American and her DISCO album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" was her biggest album to date. You know sweet-fuck-all what happened in the music business between 1979 and now, so save your arrogant opinions to things you know something about - namely, trying to be a big shot..

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim Dude, you have some serious hate issues. As a matter of fact I was also around and I know what happened.

The only one here obviously trying to be self-important is you. You came here and commented, I responded, now you're upset because it's not what you wanted to hear.

All along we've been talking about the FAD aspect of disco in the US, whatever other idiot conversation you were having are rattling around in your pea brain. Piss off, you are accomplishing nothing but looking stupid.

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim Feel free to review all the comments here and you will see that I have not changed my opinion. I've been around radio all my life and I know what happened and didn't happen. If you want to delude yourself into believing that disco is still alive and well then go ahead, anyone with a clue knows that the FAD died, it's so obvious, then again you're obviously a TROLL and a dick so just fuck off, there's no point in arguing with you when you won't face FACTS! Later dumbass.

[jaredrim]

@AbortionOnToast Also, you crazy bitch, people are STILL dancing to Donna Summer and the like, while Steve Dahl is worm food six-feet-under. How's THAT for irony, you lonely, pathetic freak with no friends who has nothing better to do with his time than spout her opinions on Youtube. Incidentally, I am NOT a "Disco Duck". I listen to Blues and Rock. I juts can't stand idiots like you who flap their gums on subjects they know nothing about.

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim And I can't stand idiots who have ZERO historical context. How man times do I have to tell you that dance music still exists, it always has, long before the disco fad, and I'm it always will. The point was was that there was a drastic change in the industry as a result of Disco Demolition. Ask anyone in radio at that time and they can verify it. I don't really give a shit what you listen to or what you believe, the truth is he truth no matter how mad you want to be about it!

[jaredrim]

@AbortionOnToast AND what the hell were artists like Black Box, C & C Music factory, 2 Unlimited, Ace Of Bass, The KLF, Haddaway, SNAP!, Pet Shop Boys, just to mention a FEW, doing having International DISCO hits into the 1990s and into the 2000s? Finally, Madonna had a DISCO single (sampled from ABBA, no less) which went to Number One in more countries than any other song in History in 2005. If you must make yourself look like an idiot, do it on your own time and quit wasting ours.

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim Again, no one ever said dance music or funk and pop disappeared, it just changed, and Disco Demolition was a big part of that change. Literally overnight radio station formats changed, and the really commercial artists like The BeeGees and Diana Ross saw some severe drops in record sales. That's just a FACT, easily verifiable, but it sounds to me like your are just a vitriolic ass-clown that wants to argue about it. I'm fine with that, but at least know that FACTS beforehand! Later.

[jaredrim]

@jaredrim And, you ridiculous moron, Diana Ross had her biggest DISCO hit in years in 1980 with "Upside Down" AFTER your fantasy death of disco in 1979. Just admit you're wrong, unless you have facts and data to prove your prattling nonsense. Really nice back-peddling by the way, you fuckwad!

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim I didn't back peddle, it's what I've said all along. We're talking about the PERCEPTION in the minds of Americans as to what happened to the disco FAD, not individual artists. And the FACT is that radio stations and record sales changed dramatically AFTER Disco Demolition, FACT.

If you just want to name call and be a jackass then go ahead, all you're really doing is showing what an asshole you are. I was there and I remember, were you? Are you even old enough to know? Obviously not!

[jaredrim]

@AbortionOnToast Are you deaf and blind as well as being stupid, idiot? I just told you that I am in my 40's and I remember clearly those days. Also, working in the music business I SAW FIRSTHAND that disco did not "die." Just shut your fucking trap because you don't know what the hell you're talking about. You believe EVERYTHING the media tells you. Well, you keep saying you "were there" but you weren't in the music business, so might I suggest you get a life & shut your uneducated trap?

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim For someone claiming to be in the music industry you sure are an uptight idiot. Not that it's any of your business but I have been around the radio industry all my life, I was around at that time. The only one coming off sounding like an 'idiot' is you. If you have a point to make then make it, why the need to name call and demean me? (Not that I really give a fuck, uptight morons like you are a dime a dozen!) This is not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of HISTORICAL FACT, period!

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim The FACT is that in terms of records and radio ratings, after Disco Demolition sales went down dramatically. I seem to even recall KC & The Sunshine Band blaming Steve Dahl and Disco Demolition for the serious change in their careers on a VH1 special about the 70's, so it's not like I'm making any of this up, it's just the way things happened. Dance music moved on but the disco FAD itself DIED, that just a fact, you can be a dick and argue all you want, it won't change the FACTS!

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim Either you put no value on historical context, you weren't even alive to know what the general perception was (and the actual effect on the industry), or you're just a narrow-minded idiot refusing to face the FACT that the disco FAD did indeed go away. Sorry, those are the facts, like it or not.

[jaredrim]

@jaredrim Also, you crazy bitch, people are STILL dancing to Donna Summer and the like, while Steve Dahl is worm food six-feet-under. How's THAT for irony, you lonely, pathetic freak with no friends who has nothing better to do with his time than spout her opinions on Youtube. Incidentally, I am NOT a "Disco Duck". I listen to Blues and Rock. I juts can't stand idiots like you who flap their gums on subjects they know nothing about.

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim Also, Steve Dahl is one of the most successful and trend-setting people in the comedy radio industry, where the fuck in Donna Summer? She putting out in hits lately? You are such a joke dude. I'm all for a debate when it contains REALITY, something you seem to be a little short on. If you like disco then like it, why do you feel the need to whine about it to people that don't, and why the need to try and warp history with your idiocy? Seriosly, lighten the fuck up, life is too short!

[jaredrim]

@AbortionOnToast Go suck your old troll Steve Dahl's dick, you fat old fuck. Go masturbate like the lonely, uggo you are and don't ever contact me again. You are a complete and utter idiot. And why did Steve Dahl's song only reach the mid-60's on the chart while disco records were skyrocketing to Number One? You're a blind old fuck who gets flustered when presented with facts. Go fuck yourself, you socially inept retard.

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim Thanks, no further debate necessary, this statement clearly shows the person that you are, uptight, hateful, and just a general piece of shit.

Also, let me remind you that you contacted me by coming here and whining, I just responded with what I know to be true. If you hate it so much then why do you keep commenting. You really are as stupid as I initially thought, but I always try to give anyone a chance, and I value other opinions (even if they're historically inaccurate like yours!)

[AbortionOnToast]

@jaredrim You also perfectly encapsulated what many rock & rollers believed about the disco crowd, at least as a generalization; hateful, arrogant, demeaning (with little effect), mean-spirited, narcissistic, and just generally a douche. If you think you've served some point for your 'cause' (whatever the fuck that would be) then you have, you've proven that there were definitely the people that we thought in that crowd, and that everything that Steve Dahl said, jokingly, about disco was right!

[tryithere]

I actually have this on a 45.

[musicmandon1]

Love this. I was a teen-age disco duck too, when I heard this on FM radio in 1979.  I actually thought music couldn't get any worse than that. 31 years later, and it's still going south, with the bottom nowhere in sight. Classic country forever!! If it doesn't twang, keep it off my radio.

[Pbirv]

I was at "Disco Demolition"! I got in free after contributing a Village People and a Donna Summer(belonging to my older sister) record. What a GREAT time that was!

[AbortionOnToast]

@Pbirv That had to be something to see, truly a unique and impactful event!

[Pbirv]

@AbortionOnToast It was. Too bad we couldn't have blown up a few of the disco artists themselves at the event. Especially the Village People!

[AbortionOnToast]

@Pbirv That's OK, Steve Dahl blew up their careers in one night anyway!

[bucky468]

Song hit the Billboard Hot 100 at pos #58 in '79 - cool.

This song's at iTunes - really?! Cool!!

[AbortionOnToast]

@bucky468 Yes, there are quite a few Steve Dahl songs, and comedy clips available on iTunes, and in the store at Dahl*com, check it out.

[ghetto14289]

disco back Nu-disko baby

[dalmatian847]

Let's here it for Disco Demolition Night, the last good thing to happen at Comiskey Park!

[wjv4me]

LOL! The "Stever" is still funny, and realistic, 30 years later! Rock on Steve Dahl!

I abhored the 70s pretentious Chicago disco scene. Lots of truth in this

funny song! LONG LIVE ROCK!

[AbortionOnToast]

@wjv4me I don't know what it was like in other cities, but the scene in Chicago, as a generalization, was fairly nauseating; a bunch of uptight douchebags in bad clothing trying to make us feel like we're not as good as them because we don't dance or like the BeeGees (remember back when the BeeGees actually played ROCK music?!)

[davedworkin]

I concur with your comment about the disco "scene" AOT, and add that another part of the reason disco destruction exploded was that everything was being disco-tized. Even the Mickey Mouse show changed their theme to a disco version. When some group had the bone-headed idea to disco-tize Stairway To Heaven, I declared it sacrilege and jumped on the disco destruction bandwagon on KQRS in Minneapolis. When this record came out, Steve was a guest on my show. He's a VERY funny guy.

[AbortionOnToast]

@davedworkin Steve is hilarious, and his show is still funny to this day!

I'd love to hear that interview if you have a recording of it!

And yes, when some marketing nitwit decided that EVERYTHING had to be disco it was over for it as a legitimate artform.

[davedworkin]

@davedworkin I'm sure I have the tape, but it's in one of several boxes. Perhaps when I retire I'll go through them. Sorry.

[AbortionOnToast]

@davedworkin Let me know when that happens! Of course you never know in radio!! Just kidding, thanks for commenting.

Later, Toast

[ajgolfer1]

disco still sucks after 31 years

[Pbirv]

@ajgolfer1 WORD!!

[moneeymanqb]

AWESOME!!!!!!!

[MrInternet69]

I still have my coho cola can from back then!!!! These tunes were awesome!!!

[AbortionOnToast]

Co-Ho! Co-Ho! Co-Ho!

[DiscoSource]

Yes, i think i'm disco

[AbortionOnToast]

Hmm, by the definition of this song?

(Which would be scary!)

Or you just like the music?

(Which would be scary [to me] but to each their own!! There was actually 'some' music that ended up in the Disco category that wasn't bad, more funkish, but most of the pop commercial crap was total garbage, i.e. BeeGees, Abba, etc. but hey, whatever floats your boat!)

[DiscoSource]

I like disco, house, italo-disco (my favourite) and everything related to dance music except hardcore. Here in Italy, under different forms, disco is still the most popular genre.. so popular we still clubs "Discos", what happened during the disco demolition night never reached us.

[AbortionOnToast]

Well, just for historical context, Disco Demolition was more about the 'scene' than the music. As a generalization the disco scene in this country in the 70's had an image of narcissism, elitism, (and bad 70's clothing!) There was a significant segment (some, not all) that were just arrogant about being into disco, and if you weren't into it then you weren't 'cool' and all of that. Disco Demolition was a natural reaction, and was also a COMEDY piece from a radio show that was very rock & roll!

[DiscoSource]

I know that, check out the last video i have uploaded, it should be on the right in my channel "I ragazzi della notte - Scena girata al Genux" and you will understand what i'm talking about.

[AbortionOnToast]

Interesting, then again 'dance' culture (for lack of a better term) has always been different in many ways from how it is here in the states.

Again, the disco backlash of the late 70's had more to do with the commercial and fad part of it, plus the snobbish nature of some of those that were a little too into the scene. Frankly it was just lame, and the more popular the worse it got.

Hey, looks like you're having a good time over there! Disco inferno! (and I don't mean by explosives!)

Later.

[lurch321]

Before there was "Weird Al" Yankovic, there was Steve Dahl.

[AbortionOnToast]

So true!

[pvj31]

poor marcus, I think I do have a copy of "Dirty White Boy" somewhere.

[AbortionOnToast]

It's available on the Steve & Garry "A Decade Of Service" album.

[Neptuneman07]

I like both Rock and Disco, but more on the Rock side of things. But Steve Dahl did a clever mockery of the late 70s culture.

[DoIGetTube]

If "disco s***ks," then rock reeks!

Those two phony genres are not true music!

MUSIC HAS DIED!

[AbortionOnToast]

Commercial pop music does suck, it always did, but that doesn't mean that there isn't plenty of other good music out there. Broaden your horizons, hell there's even some music that is considered disco these days (which was funk and R&B back in the old days) that I don't mind. But keep in mind that Disco Demolition and this song were more about the snobbery of the scene and some of the condescending assholes that were a little too into it.

[yardking66]

Any body have audio of Marcus singing "Dirty White Boy" ? If so please post Thanks

[TheHappyHonu]

i still have this 45 at home... classic. steve and garry helped define my teenage years, and it's a travesty that steve's no longer on chicago radio.

[NBLP7096]

Sometimes real life mirrors parody.

Check out the ad for the Datsun 280ZX Black Gold.

youtube com/watch?v=kWF-hH1nloo

This song EXACTLY describes the guy in the ad. :) So funny it's hard to take the commercial seriously.

[AbortionOnToast]

Too funny, thanks for sharing!

[bluemax79]

Thanks for posting this song. It deserves its rightful place in history! Hard to believe it was 30 years ago when Dahl did the unthinkable. I was all for it as the pop charts in '78 and '79 were dominated by disco music.

[drmagic]

I AM A HUGE DISCO FAN!!!!

but...this was a funny parody. i like how the song segues from a typical disco sound to a typical rock sound. cool.

[AbortionOnToast]

Hey, good parody is good parody. Plus I think it's been far enough away from the genre for most of the old 'school rivalry' type of attitude to fade (though I still say DISCO SUCKS! I can't help it!!) This really was a perfect satire in that it hit on some aspects of parts of the scene but was also a little over the top like good satire is.

Thanks for the comment.

[MikeyBoyle]

Yes its 30 A.D. (after disco) great night.... a case of beer with five friends in a chevy down lake shore drive throwing beer cans out the window ......there will never be times like that again. And to all you who like that disco s#!t you lost in chicago we kicked your backsides all the way outta town and never saw you again

[AbortionOnToast]

30 years! Hard to believe isn't it?

And whether or not disco fans want to admit it disco really did end that day, or at least within a couple of days. Radio station formats literally changed over night, record sales plummeted, and the fad aspect of what had become disco faded away to be replaced by different dance music.

But I have to point out yet again that Disco Demolition Night was a celebration, a party that got a little too wild, but not a riot and not an event of hate or prejudice.

[owg59]

"disco demolition night." THE high water mark of the 1970's!

[AbortionOnToast]

It was certainly a pivotal moment, and in a symbolic way it really ended the 70's (a little early) by succinctly eliminating a fad genre that has since been used by some to represent 70's culture. Of course anyone that was around knows that there was much more going on than that but it's funny how these days people seem to automatically associate "70's" with "disco."

Thanks for checking in! Rock on!!

~Toast~

[corgi4u]

Steve Dahl is amazing. Him and the other WLUP guys like Kevin Mathews and Johnny B. Ilive in NC but listen to Kev on WLAV online. Still as funny as ever.

[crazywatergirl923]

He is so funny what are you talking about???????

[AbortionOnToast]

Some people are just uptight douche bags, what can ya do? Thanks for checking in!

Later, Toast

[boogieman54]

Steve Dahl really sucks, he is a fat stupid boy

[AbortionOnToast]

Wow, really insightful, what a retard. (That's the best comment you have? Nothing real to add nitwit??)

I'm guessing by the really cheesy screen name that you're perhaps a little too into disco. Perhaps one of those that actually fit the stereotype of the mindless, superficial idiot disco party freak with a shallow mind and a mostly empty head. Nice work douchebag, you fit the bill perfectly and your comment is really appropriate for your mental level. Glad you enjoyed the song, now piss off.

[rasticlock]

Weirds al father

[AbortionOnToast]

Steve Dahl was most definitely ahead of his time!

Thanks for listening, later, Toast

[ajgolfer1]

disco sucks

[DoomiteAsh]

It's weird, reading about the whole "Disco Demolition Night" thing, I saw something that made me do a double take. You see, I was supposed to have been born on (you guessed it) July 12th, 1979. I ended up being born via C-section, exactly two weeks later. I've always been a big music fan, mostly classic rock, although I do like disco music too. Sometimes I feel like I was born about 20 years late. I think it would have been cool to have lived through the '70s. Anyway, cool song and video!

[martinenq]

It's your opinion not mine but I respect it... It's more interesting to have a discussion with someone who disagree

[martinenq]

killed Disco.All songs looked alike with same arrangements and same producers!!

But don't forget Disco music has got things too!!In 77-78, it was great, there were great tunes with artists like Chic or Cerrone among other...

And Dahl acts (like burnin' vinyls) aren't respectable, you can get angry differently because there are anti-disco people but there are Disco fans too... I 'm a Disco fan and I'm not superficial like Dahl said!

[martinenq]

It's true I wasn't born in 1979 but I know all this events because I'm a huge Disco fan.

In '79 Disco was everywhere.Run-of-the-mill bands and artists like Ethel Merman Beach Boys or Dolly Parton wanted to make money with Disco music and they made a music which I call "soup".Because of this, some people had a stomach upset of Disco... So I can understand the big displeasure of Rock fans... It was the same thing in France most of people were fed up with Village People or Bee Gees Plenty of Disco

[boogieman54]

jaja pobre gordo acomplejado el disco vivio y tuvo mas exito que el rock anque hoy lo llamen de otra manera el dance, el house, el disco, la elcronica vendieron mas.. viva el rock y el disco abajo este goridito estupido

[hembetan]

That's exactly the point. From outside and with the benefit of hindsight, disco backlash reveals just as an American colective hysteria. But not a simple one. In the one, though limitedly, it was copied in some other countries; and in the other hand, it left a deep mark on the American pop culture: disco-like dance music is anathema.

All in all, few things are as superficial as fans of a superficial genre rallying against another superficial genre.

[hembetan]

I might be analyzing too much, and if so, I'd be just matching the overreaction of many against disco. Strangely, there hasn't been a similar campaign against the equally stupid genres that came after disco, some of them embraced by disco detractors and rock fans.

And well, corporate profit is not always about increasing sales, but also about decreasing costs. And 80's rockish and popish genres were faster, easier and cheaper to produce than disco, but as commercial and simplistic as disco.

[hembetan]

Yes, Disco Sucks campaign was presented to the American public as a reaction against corporate control on pop culture, but it wasn't so. That campaign was in fact corporate controlled, and it modelled the American opinion, to the point that, today, 30 years later, the corporate-produced "disco-is-garbage" mantra is faithfully followed by many adherents, who thinks they're free of the corporate control.

[jegigijegi0]

that's sick

[filterbaby]

Fair enough. It is a shame that disco in America ended the way it did, in Europe it continued with none of the backlash, and newer forms of music developed out of it, but I guess if disco never ended in America there probably wouldn't be the same varied dance genres there are now.

[hembetan]

After backlash, other really plastified and tamed rockish genres substituted disco in the American mainstream.

It's really funny how Americans still stick to the dogma of "disco=plastified vs rock=a-kindof-superior-thing", while not seeing that the goal of that élite-conducted media-executed backlash was to termine the counterculture spread by both disco and rock but feared by the élites, goal which was achieved by making disco a surer target for the rock rage.

Much like Bush on Iraqi weapons.

[filterbaby]

Now you're knocking pop music? And yes, I will go on the record defending the Bee Gees and the Village People, not as a fan, but as a defender of the right to varying tastes in music. Just because something is commercial or marketed doesn't mean people can't like it, and if people want to spend their Saturday nights dressed up and self indulging themselves at a disco, that is a normal thing to do, everyone is allowed a fantasy world, and it is something many rock fans are just as guilty of.

[filterbaby]

Horrible rockists, long live disco!

[ajgolfer1]

Goodbye Steve Dahl we will miss you, if you see me getting smaller I'm leaving. Aloha

[edkollin]

Being from New York while Disco Demolition Night was a big deal as we had disco shoved down our throats even more then you since Disco originated here. we never heard Steve Dahls band. First I heard of this is when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames excellent exhibit "Disco: A Decade of Saturday Nights" which had a much praised section devoted to the anti disco backlash stopped by town in 05.

[davesharon5747]

You know what? I prefer disco music to most of today's music, especially that rap crap.

[BenAliGtor]

"Although I'm hip, I work for E. F. Hutton..." LOL

[sweetttina666]

"Let's just go back to my place...I live in my car" LOL

[ajgolfer1]

excellent, he featured joe walsh this morning

[Shanomo]

I'm researching the end of disco period for a assesment atm, this song should be decent evidence of the division between rock and disco =]

[edkollin]

"Disco Boy" also by Frank Zappa. "Goodbye Sister Disco" by The Who. Movies from 10 years ago "54" starring Mike Myers,"The Last Days of Disco". This song is parody of a song by Rod Stewart "Do You think I'm Sexy" who was a respected rocker at the time. Rock Stars who "sold out" and made disco records pissed people off to the point of sending hate mail. Also of interest is that the Bee Gees made some excellent art-rock in the 1967-1972 period

[edkollin]

To Shanomo: Any investigation of rock vs disco must include the continuing controversy over the role if any that racism and homophobia played in the anti disco backlash. There are also some conspiracy theorists (Gloria Gaynor) that say the anti disco backlash was "whipped up" by the rock establishment because they were threatened financially. At that time there were conspiracy theories suggesting the government or big business invented disco to brainwash or anesthetize people.