I WAS AROUND BACK N THE DAY (N CHICAGO EARLY HOUSE DAYZ)/ AND LET ME BE CLEAR THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO YT PEOPLE @ THE EARLY PARTIES!!! WHEN YTS N CHICAGO TOOK IT OVER / IT STOPPED BE N A DOMINANT MUSIC FORCE IN CHICAGO & THE MASSES MOVED OVER 2 RAP!!!
@BKinNY I'm confused. How are most DJs taking music any further by spinning other peoples music, remixing it? Besides I'm not a DJ, nor do I do dance music. Anyway, don't like to see the reverse racism going on. People need to get over it! I'm a white dude, sorry, ya know. But my father raised me on just as many black musicians as white ones and my great grandma was down on her knees scrubbing floors for white folks too! Sick of hearing the racist crap!
@birddogbull Your comment "Besides I'm not a DJ, nor do I do dance music. " That says it all. Dance is a culture and it's outside your realm. No one is an expert on things they don't like or don't understand so why bother to comment. Reverse racism? whatever makes your heart flutter.
@BKinNY I don't think my original comment was directed at you, or any of your comments for that matter. Being born in the year of Disco, having that being predominantly what was pumped into my ears from birth would make me someone who understands it, more then someone who had many influences before hand! Where you got the idea I don't like it, I'm not sure, "nor do I do dance music" doesn't mean "don't like"! As far as the "I'm not a DJ" thing. Yes, I prefer to make my own music. What about it!
oh gosh! I don't know, from some of the comments on here it doesn't sound like things changed. it just sounds like a large case of reverse racism. so why don't you all hold a rally and blow up white music. you can even blow up some Beastie Boys, even though they are partially responsible for influencing a lot of the music you like now. or blow up some Paul Oakenfod. he's white, doesn't matter if he's the King of House music. blow em up!
@birddogbull Oakenfold King of House Music? You need to put down your headphones and step onto a real dance floor. Cuz this virtual DJ crap is killing the music! Larry Heard, Robert Owens, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Lil Louie Vega all come before any Oakenfold. He doesn't even play the music that he claims influenced him!
*crying* I MISS THE WBMX days! recording on my cassette and running outside wondering if everyone in da hood can hear it. Grey coered primer low riders blasting the bass and cruising. southside forever!! much love to da househeads
@atzenanu If you compare these blacks full of love and being upper gay to the uber macho's with Uzi's and 59 chicks around them in a Hummer...What happened?
My response : Some black guys like Pussy and Some black guys like cock. We are not cartoons.
Ill advised war in Asia, leads to economic slowdown/crisis, and that results in freaked out "white" people lashing out in impotent violence. Yep, the late 70's homophobic/racist mob scene at the "Disco Demolition" was a preview of the Tea Bagg... er, I mean Tea Party.
@beowulven A Fool Will Lose Tomorrow,Reaching Back For Yesterday,But Don't Get It Twisted,The Past Matters,There Is No Future w/out A Past,So The Past Is Relevant,More So Today.We Who Forget The Past Are Destined To Repeat It,Nothing Ever Happens In A Vacuum Sir,The Trick Is Not To Dwell On It,But Don't Tell Others To Just Simply Get Over It,You Don't Tell That To Anyone Who Is Native American,or Modern Day Jewish Ancestry,Nor The Japanese Whom Endured Atomic Weapons On Their Heads,Iraq,etc.
Lol, loolks like whiteys got scared of the appeal of black music, once more.... looks like whites have to spend a decade to Tame a particular musical genre spawned by african americans... seems to have happenned many times (rock and roll anybody?).
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Nobody cared that disco was "nigger" music. Disco culture had been co-opted by the mainstream, it permeated every bit of waking life. It was too much for mainstream America.
NO - everyone on that field cared that it was "nigger" music. I was actually alive (and thinking) in 1979 - and Black - AND lived in the suburbs. And the backlash AGAINST Disco was against ANYTHING that sounded Black. Regardless of whether there were Metallica records (there were AC/DC right) that doesn't diminish the point of the dude's comment. It was a backlash against general post-Civil Rights black advancement (and gay visibility). The next year - Ronald Regan elected. Think about it
You and I are the same age and I respect your opinion, but I think it's extremely narrow-sighted and worse, typical African-American self-victimization to classify the "Disco Sucks" event (movement?) as strictly anti-black. It's strange to me that any black folks think the world at large cared? I don't remember it that way at all.
If it was an anti-black statement, why was there no major "Motown Sucks" event? "Jazz Sucks"?
"Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, a Chicago native and 21 at the time, attended the event. He was among the first 100 people to run onto the field and he slid into third base. He also had a silver belt buckle stolen during the ensuing riot and stole a bat from the dugout."
@beowulven Why do even think Black people should have to explain white lunacy? if you weren't there and didnt burn any discs why act guilty? This constant defense of indefensible behavior is where the problem lies. Motown was called race music, and Black artists couldn't even have their pics on their own records in the beginning. And Jazz? 2 words, "Al Jolson".
@earnings69 That's a fair comment, if I was black and american and I saw music created by my community, blown up by white people I'd call racism too. White America has a shameful history of oppression toward people of colour, times changed, but this was one of the last throws of the die.
But you know what, black people won they had the last laugh, they stole out hearts with the most wonderful music that had soul, soul injected into house,electro,techno,motown,stax, marvin,otis timeless sounds
@earnings69 Right my exact thought. I was in middle school at the time and remember defending James Brown and Parliament against white cats in class. It's ridiculous because at the time I loved Led Zepelin and Parliament it was all music to me but, their was this underlying hatred coming out. My place was Zanzibar in Newark, NJ Lincoln Motel. Colonel Abrams thank God.
God i miss the old school mixes on the weekends, "saturday night live ain't no jive chicago's hottest dance party" I can't believe that none of the local stations have jumped upon the opportunity to bring those old mix shows back!!!
Listen to what Steve is saying about the chicago style, Sound musical, tight blends, no vocals on top of vocals, these new school dj's need to learn from the legends!!!
after frankie knuckles is introduced on the video, another disco track starts with a woman screaming "i'll be right there" does anyone know the artist of that track?
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And then Punk and New Wave hit, which appealed to dance-challenged folks. The rest of the 80's was a movement-bereft time for all mainstream but house. (If you couldn't guess, not my favorite decade...tell me Madonna and Tears For Fears make for a good time...) But yeah, Salsoul, househousehouse, now that was worth the time.
Sorry if I dissed your decade. Any "thumbs-down" voters care to give me a list of truly great dance music which was mainstream from the middle-to-late 80's? Then perhaps we can discuss and compare to the mainstream music of the 70's-to-early-80's.
I remember the Garage...another time, almost another life. The only reason "Disco Sucks" came about was because (and I'm white and had soul and could seriously dance) whitey couldn't move for sh back then, and generally tended (save Italians) to head music like Floyd, Zappa, ELP, YES, etc...lots of air guitar but no feet. It wasn't racism, just lack of genetic ability. And I'm Jewish!
Not comparing him to the others, if you notice. There is, however, a reason he wrote "Dancin' Fool"...he couldn't. (I'm sure he was also poking fun at the -often Italian, of which he was part- disco scene.)
In 1986 I brought my first House Records from Groove Records, Greek Street... MR Fingers 'can you feel it'
VIRGO 'free your self. 'MASTER C&J 'when you hold me (LEE). Then ADONIS 'no way back' and PHUTRE 'acid' track/s',Think one of these is 1987. All TRAX label. Chicago/US house still the best and STILL sounds like House music.
8:09 song?
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Paquitosito 4 weeks ago
I WAS AROUND BACK N THE DAY (N CHICAGO EARLY HOUSE DAYZ)/ AND LET ME BE CLEAR THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO YT PEOPLE @ THE EARLY PARTIES!!! WHEN YTS N CHICAGO TOOK IT OVER / IT STOPPED BE N A DOMINANT MUSIC FORCE IN CHICAGO & THE MASSES MOVED OVER 2 RAP!!!
djjaaz 3 months ago
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drrtynewyork 3 months ago
House music is the past, present and future
ElectroWOWofficial 3 months ago
TRACK at 8:20 HELP
HanzSygnal 6 months ago 3
@HanzSygnal Any luck?
mjcg1978 2 months ago
@mjcg1978 (*sigh)...nope
HanzSygnal 2 months ago
Steve ´Silk´ Hurley + The Voices of Life - The Word is Love TUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNEEEE ! ! ! ! ! ! !
joshuasweeney 6 months ago
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musiclover3928 7 months ago
@BKinNY I'm confused. How are most DJs taking music any further by spinning other peoples music, remixing it? Besides I'm not a DJ, nor do I do dance music. Anyway, don't like to see the reverse racism going on. People need to get over it! I'm a white dude, sorry, ya know. But my father raised me on just as many black musicians as white ones and my great grandma was down on her knees scrubbing floors for white folks too! Sick of hearing the racist crap!
birddogbull 8 months ago
@birddogbull Your comment "Besides I'm not a DJ, nor do I do dance music. " That says it all. Dance is a culture and it's outside your realm. No one is an expert on things they don't like or don't understand so why bother to comment. Reverse racism? whatever makes your heart flutter.
BKinNY 7 months ago
@BKinNY I don't think my original comment was directed at you, or any of your comments for that matter. Being born in the year of Disco, having that being predominantly what was pumped into my ears from birth would make me someone who understands it, more then someone who had many influences before hand! Where you got the idea I don't like it, I'm not sure, "nor do I do dance music" doesn't mean "don't like"! As far as the "I'm not a DJ" thing. Yes, I prefer to make my own music. What about it!
birddogbull 7 months ago
oh gosh! I don't know, from some of the comments on here it doesn't sound like things changed. it just sounds like a large case of reverse racism. so why don't you all hold a rally and blow up white music. you can even blow up some Beastie Boys, even though they are partially responsible for influencing a lot of the music you like now. or blow up some Paul Oakenfod. he's white, doesn't matter if he's the King of House music. blow em up!
birddogbull 8 months ago
@birddogbull Oakenfold King of House Music? You need to put down your headphones and step onto a real dance floor. Cuz this virtual DJ crap is killing the music! Larry Heard, Robert Owens, Frankie Knuckles, David Morales, Lil Louie Vega all come before any Oakenfold. He doesn't even play the music that he claims influenced him!
BKinNY 8 months ago
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@BKinNY
You and I agree about this anyway.
beowulven 8 months ago
Steve Silk Hurley Feat.Sharon Pass-The Word Is Love 7.45 min
Steve Silk Hurley Feat.Sharon Pass-The Word Is Love
missilepk 8 months ago
TRACK ID at 8:20 to 9:00 please.....
boomoutahere 9 months ago
@boomoutahere
"Dr. Love" by First Choice.
suavehinrg 8 months ago
song at 6:30 plz!!!
illmatic380 9 months ago
Look at this crowd of brainwashed idiots.
PhysiologicAli 9 months ago
Can we all just get along and stop this useless homophobia , religious extremism and bigotry.
PhysiologicAli 9 months ago 3
@PhysiologicAli WORD.
Barbaraplease 9 months ago
@PhysiologicAli I agree with you Ali, totally....
mralmeister1 9 months ago
song at 1:01 PLEASE¡¡¡¡¡
Bikendi100 11 months ago
@Bikendi100 Loose Joints - Is It All Over My Face...Larry Levan mix I think
svenghal 11 months ago
Man, They jamming @ 0:58. "is it all over my face". go ya'll, go. lol.lol. ha, :)
jsc507 11 months ago
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4:56...Chip E the Godfather of Underground House on the southside...
Cancermom68 1 year ago
4:56...Chip E the Godfather of Undeground House on the southside...
Cancermom68 1 year ago
2:36 please?
efalba 1 year ago
*crying* I MISS THE WBMX days! recording on my cassette and running outside wondering if everyone in da hood can hear it. Grey coered primer low riders blasting the bass and cruising. southside forever!! much love to da househeads
1Skorpia 1 year ago
If you compare these blacks full of love and being upper gay to the uber macho's with Uzi's and 59 chicks around them in a Hummer...What happened????
atzenanu 1 year ago
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@atzenanu If you compare these blacks full of love and being upper gay to the uber macho's with Uzi's and 59 chicks around them in a Hummer...What happened?
My response : Some black guys like Pussy and Some black guys like cock. We are not cartoons.
J5MARLON 6 months ago
Love this music - brings back good memories. Old school DJs scratching vinyl. Love it!
peter5992 1 year ago
Ill advised war in Asia, leads to economic slowdown/crisis, and that results in freaked out "white" people lashing out in impotent violence. Yep, the late 70's homophobic/racist mob scene at the "Disco Demolition" was a preview of the Tea Bagg... er, I mean Tea Party.
tomdarch 1 year ago
@beowulven A Fool Will Lose Tomorrow,Reaching Back For Yesterday,But Don't Get It Twisted,The Past Matters,There Is No Future w/out A Past,So The Past Is Relevant,More So Today.We Who Forget The Past Are Destined To Repeat It,Nothing Ever Happens In A Vacuum Sir,The Trick Is Not To Dwell On It,But Don't Tell Others To Just Simply Get Over It,You Don't Tell That To Anyone Who Is Native American,or Modern Day Jewish Ancestry,Nor The Japanese Whom Endured Atomic Weapons On Their Heads,Iraq,etc.
INFINITEINDIGOCHILDE 1 year ago
Damb it why cant you guys just enjoy the choons, and the kick ass retro mixer?
pampers1919 1 year ago
disco lives. kiss ass haters. kiss ass.
acedaface954 1 year ago 2
LOL... all records are black... lol
jaimeone1 1 year ago
@jaimeone1 hahahaha...
well not quite true, but nic ejoke
LylesgoldMusic 1 year ago
This is very informational for aspiring djs such as myself.
modman1234567 1 year ago
Lol, loolks like whiteys got scared of the appeal of black music, once more.... looks like whites have to spend a decade to Tame a particular musical genre spawned by african americans... seems to have happenned many times (rock and roll anybody?).
Acadianiste 1 year ago
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Nobody cared that disco was "nigger" music. Disco culture had been co-opted by the mainstream, it permeated every bit of waking life. It was too much for mainstream America.
BTW, there were no Metallica records in 1979.
beowulven 2 years ago
NO - everyone on that field cared that it was "nigger" music. I was actually alive (and thinking) in 1979 - and Black - AND lived in the suburbs. And the backlash AGAINST Disco was against ANYTHING that sounded Black. Regardless of whether there were Metallica records (there were AC/DC right) that doesn't diminish the point of the dude's comment. It was a backlash against general post-Civil Rights black advancement (and gay visibility). The next year - Ronald Regan elected. Think about it
earnings69 2 years ago 39
You and I are the same age and I respect your opinion, but I think it's extremely narrow-sighted and worse, typical African-American self-victimization to classify the "Disco Sucks" event (movement?) as strictly anti-black. It's strange to me that any black folks think the world at large cared? I don't remember it that way at all.
If it was an anti-black statement, why was there no major "Motown Sucks" event? "Jazz Sucks"?
beowulven 2 years ago
A side note, from Wikipedia:
"Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, a Chicago native and 21 at the time, attended the event. He was among the first 100 people to run onto the field and he slid into third base. He also had a silver belt buckle stolen during the ensuing riot and stole a bat from the dugout."
Did he think it was anti-black?
beowulven 2 years ago
@beowulven The legacy of slavery is hardly something to be filed under self victimization.
charlesfrith 1 year ago
@charlesfrith
Enough is too much. Get up, get on with it, get busy.
beowulven 1 year ago
@beowulven Why do even think Black people should have to explain white lunacy? if you weren't there and didnt burn any discs why act guilty? This constant defense of indefensible behavior is where the problem lies. Motown was called race music, and Black artists couldn't even have their pics on their own records in the beginning. And Jazz? 2 words, "Al Jolson".
BKinNY 8 months ago
@BKinNY
Me and mine are guilty of nothing. What are your crimes, my brother? Good luck to you and yours, you continue to need it.
beowulven 8 months ago
@earnings69 That's a fair comment, if I was black and american and I saw music created by my community, blown up by white people I'd call racism too. White America has a shameful history of oppression toward people of colour, times changed, but this was one of the last throws of the die.
But you know what, black people won they had the last laugh, they stole out hearts with the most wonderful music that had soul, soul injected into house,electro,techno,motown,stax, marvin,otis timeless sounds
PVSJuicer 9 months ago 2
@earnings69 Right my exact thought. I was in middle school at the time and remember defending James Brown and Parliament against white cats in class. It's ridiculous because at the time I loved Led Zepelin and Parliament it was all music to me but, their was this underlying hatred coming out. My place was Zanzibar in Newark, NJ Lincoln Motel. Colonel Abrams thank God.
mosquito103 6 months ago
@earnings69 The Disco Demolition crowd was amazingly anti-gay as well as anti-black.
justinmajor 5 months ago in playlist The History of House Music
@earnings69 C'mon, you gotta bring Reagan into this?
djmaniac1 1 month ago
Well, the "grateful dead", then.
The only people who didn't like disco, were the white trailer trash, who couldn't dance anyway. LOL!
shjtyu 2 years ago 46
@shjtyu Word! haha
musiclover3928 1 week ago
Hi everyone, who can tell me the name of the grrrreat tune at 2:34? Thanksss!
enrico06 2 years ago
God i miss the old school mixes on the weekends, "saturday night live ain't no jive chicago's hottest dance party" I can't believe that none of the local stations have jumped upon the opportunity to bring those old mix shows back!!!
housemanchi 2 years ago
Listen to what Steve is saying about the chicago style, Sound musical, tight blends, no vocals on top of vocals, these new school dj's need to learn from the legends!!!
housemanchi 2 years ago
cleptomaniacs all i do
somambo 2 years ago
the tune at 6:37 is steve hurley - the word is love
djwebby06 2 years ago
Thankyou so much.
Not knowing the name of the track would bug the BeJesus out of me for the next 5 years.
magellenproject 2 years ago
Some please tell me what THAT AMAZINGLY retro sounding track is called starting at 8:11.
I have to know it sounds SWEEEETT
magellenproject 2 years ago
It's "Dr. Love" by First Choice
houzfunatik 2 years ago
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magellenproject 2 years ago
Dr. Love is right at about 8:20 though, the tune in the background at 8:11 is "all i do" by...stevie wonder :)
vividimaginer 2 years ago
yo vince, man i remember him with a bad ass music studio, from way back when i was doin my rap music, yea he is one of the music guru's out their...
DemoRadio 2 years ago
the tune is named
steve silk hurley - the world is love
thanks for this music mans! you rules!
GuybrushL2 2 years ago
whats the name of the mixer the guy is using at 7:27?
killlist867 2 years ago
whats the tune at 6.37? tastey bass line
lloyddog 3 years ago
after frankie knuckles is introduced on the video, another disco track starts with a woman screaming "i'll be right there" does anyone know the artist of that track?
mrdeedz1 3 years ago
It's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Inner Life. The beginning part.
djezmike 3 years ago
inner life with jocelyn brown on the vocal, i(ts a remake to ain't no mountain aint enough from marvin gaye .
komiko78 3 years ago
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And then Punk and New Wave hit, which appealed to dance-challenged folks. The rest of the 80's was a movement-bereft time for all mainstream but house. (If you couldn't guess, not my favorite decade...tell me Madonna and Tears For Fears make for a good time...) But yeah, Salsoul, househousehouse, now that was worth the time.
fairalways 4 years ago
Sorry if I dissed your decade. Any "thumbs-down" voters care to give me a list of truly great dance music which was mainstream from the middle-to-late 80's? Then perhaps we can discuss and compare to the mainstream music of the 70's-to-early-80's.
fairalways 2 years ago
I remember the Garage...another time, almost another life. The only reason "Disco Sucks" came about was because (and I'm white and had soul and could seriously dance) whitey couldn't move for sh back then, and generally tended (save Italians) to head music like Floyd, Zappa, ELP, YES, etc...lots of air guitar but no feet. It wasn't racism, just lack of genetic ability. And I'm Jewish!
fairalways 4 years ago 2
zappa had groove lots i can point plenty of it out he was just more of a unique individual like sun-ra i really cant compare him to those others
thefriendsociety 2 years ago
Not comparing him to the others, if you notice. There is, however, a reason he wrote "Dancin' Fool"...he couldn't. (I'm sure he was also poking fun at the -often Italian, of which he was part- disco scene.)
But boy, was his band tight.
fairalways 2 years ago
I love Zappa, by the way. Of course he had groove, but you'll have to give me examples of music which made me want to do my James Brown.
(I also love the other bands I mentioned. They just didn't make dance music.)
fairalways 2 years ago
In 1986 I brought my first House Records from Groove Records, Greek Street... MR Fingers 'can you feel it'
VIRGO 'free your self. 'MASTER C&J 'when you hold me (LEE). Then ADONIS 'no way back' and PHUTRE 'acid' track/s',Think one of these is 1987. All TRAX label. Chicago/US house still the best and STILL sounds like House music.
I think Virgo did very good records.
rameryka 4 years ago 2
nice
hardfak 4 years ago
Thanks for putting this up!!! -D.R.
gjgjgjjyj 4 years ago