Disco Demolition Night - The Day Disco Died...

A short video/photo slideshow clip showing the events of the July 12, 1979 Disco Demolition Night at the Old Comiskey Park in Chicago. Disco Still Sucks!!!

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• DISCO
• DEMOLITION
• CHICAGO
• COMISKEY

[talkedtoaflower]

Disco never died, it just got renamed "dance music," despite what some might like to believe. Burning a few records in a field is never going to "kill" such an influential form of music.

Almost all styles of dance music around today are just forms of disco that have developed further. Disco has had an enormous influence on pop music and some rock and the sound is still popular today eg. Lady Gaga.

See this: news(dot)bbc(dot)co(dot)uk/tod­ay/hi/today/newsid_8907000/890­7388(dot)stm

[marcol68]

This was like the Nazi book-burning and the Crystal night in 1938.

But a Rap/hip hop Demolition Night would be great!! Haha

[gusmcleod922]

I want this video on my Xperia X10 unit.

[selffless1]

@ksmontanaro Thank you! "Heart of Glass" wasn't bad either ; )

[lapislazuli248]

@ksmontanaro Me too...I miss horn sections and string arrangements very much...with disco, song arrangements came to the height of their power...after disco, music became so stripped-down and monotonous...you hear nothing else but a boring simply played guitar strumming and computer-produced sounds..no real playing, no vocal abilities...just a need for a good sound engineer..

[abaneyone]

@selffless1 Those bands came out with "disco hits" because that music was popular at the time and they also wanted to cash in on that sound too. They made music to make money, period.

[GreatUmbrage]

It's funny how much less obese flyover white trash was back in the 1970s.

[ksmontanaro]

I miss disco - I miss the horn sections. I miss seeing four (or more) singers on stage, dancing. I miss real drums and bass. I miss people who cared more about having fun than being cool. And by the way, 'Miss You' is a great record. Keith Richard's opinion on the subject is not relevant. I have spoken.

[ksmontanaro]

Wow, those white people must really hate black culture, to go to all that trouble.

[Glenn1967ful]

Hey, me and a guy who should we say was a little bit to the Right in his opinions downed a load of beer in 1990 and decided to have a House Music Must Die show and shot a Megabass/ Deep Heat CD to pieces and smashed up cassette singles by Black Box and Technotronic. It was such a good buzz destroying all that shit music made by faceless berks and " models" who can't sing.

[selffless1]

@524pmdnyc I wasn't making a comparison just pointing to a fact. Anyhow if you cant appreciate the genre and the legacy it has left then that's up to you Peace...