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  Disco (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Disco was not really an original studio album, but rather an album length collection of remixes of songs from their first album, Please, and B-sides.
Despite the title, it would be a stretch to call the music on this album disco; although these versions of the songs are certainly more danceable, the disco influence is indirect, or at least difficult to detect.
When, in 2001, they rereleased what they deemed their first 6 albums, this one got left out, confirming perhaps what many fans had already suspected, that the group did not consider this album on the same level as the others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disco_(album)   (264 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Disco (album)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
33â…“ LP vinyl record album The vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music.
Look up Album in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An album (from Latin albus white, blank, relating to a blank book in which something can be inserted) is a packaged collection of related things.
Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136 beats per minute) that originated in the early 1970s, mainly from funk and soul music, popular with audiences in larger cities all over the world, and derives its name from the French word discothèque (meaning...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Disco-(album)   (1049 words)

  
 Disco Savvy: The Complete Disco Guide to Sheila and B. Devotion
Since Sheila's first disco album was a departure from her previous style, it was decided to launch "Love Me Baby" anonymously as "S.B. Devotion", without revealing to the public that Sheila was the lead singer.
The "Singin' in the Rain" album was released by Carrere Records in Europe and by Casablanca Records in the United States.
As with their previous disco album, "King of the World" was released by Carrere Records.
www.discosavvy.com /sheila.html   (931 words)

  
 Choler Magazine Album Review: Clinton -- Disco and the Halfway to Discontent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Disco and the Halfway to Discontent may remind you of an acquaintance you like in spite of your better judgment.
Purportedly, the album follows a theme of taking dance and discotheque energy out into the actual world, but the lyrical content of the album tends more toward slice-of-consciousness diatribes on the dance floor accompanied by the occasional rave-as-reaction-to-screwy-society platitude.
Though disco does live on in mutated forms in the wide range of today's electronic music, Clinton's debut falls short of capturing its exact essence.
www.choler.com /reviews/clinton_disco.shtml   (495 words)

  
 Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes : Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Disco Tex gets four of the eleven tracks on what is actually a disco compilation album with Jerry Corbetta from Sugarloaf leading off the festivities.
The genius of this recording is two-fold, Bob Crewe keeping a rock and roll sound as the bed for this pseudo disco, and the entire two sides having the same beat, allowing for dance jocks to drop the needle on any portion of this album and get continuous sound.
Disco was not fully embraced by the rock crowd, understandably so, but Bob Crewe found a way to merge the two worlds, and there's no denying this is a classic of the genre.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,76735,00.html   (563 words)

  
 BorisMidney
A composer, arranger, producer, sound designer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist he is one of disco's most prolific artists.
Drug-induced dancers propelled the album to the top of the charts that summer and it marked a new era in disco music.
Even with it's use of his close knit group of musicians and singers the album failed to scale the charts like his previous efforts.
discomuseum.com /BorisMidney.html   (1053 words)

  
 Popstars singing disco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Disco music was such a fever that in those years, many popstars mixed their style with disco for a while.
Of course, in the disco era, she tried to hit some disco stuff, recording an album directly influenced by disco in 1979.
In 1979 she recorded a album with disco influence, together with Donny Hattaway, who killed himself some months before the debut of the album.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Palms/9855/Pop.html   (520 words)

  
 Disco Inferno: D.I. Go Pop - PopMatters Music Review
You'd read quotes about how their album was unlike anything anybody had done before, how utterly incredible it was, but if you lived in North America, far away from a good record store, the only thing you would know about Disco Inferno's album D.I. Go Pop would be its distinctive cover art.
As ignored as Disco Inferno was in North America, the band, surprisingly enough, didn't get heaps of press in the UK, either, as the album was completely shut out when the major publications made their year-end lists.
Disco Inferno has long since departed, and were sadly overlooked by most people (including yours truly) a decade ago, but now, with this new re-release, it's high time we all gave this most innovative band the recognition they so dearly deserve.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/d/discoinferno-digopop2004.shtml   (1125 words)

  
 Pet Shop Boys: Disco 3 - PopMatters Music Review
Their 2002 album Release was their most human sounding album yet, with Smiths guitar legend Johnny Marr heavily featured on seven of the album's 10 tracks.
The piano version of "London" that closes the album is lovely, but ultimately serves less as a shining moment and more as a painful reminder of what could have been throughout.
Disco 3 is certainly an upgrade from its predecessor, but some advice for Tennant and Lowe on the next installment, should there be one: do all of the remixes yourselves.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/p/petshopboys-disco3.shtml   (1301 words)

  
 KC and the Sunshine Band - LA Times 1980   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For K.C., the disco king who has only seemed capable of high-speed, sunny music, to record a ballad is as incongruous as as him recording a Beethoven sonata.
As a fierce disco devotee, Casey was reluctant to rap the genre.
Disco, which is basically just lavishly orchestrated rhythm and blues, is a natural vehicle for Casey, who has a passion for uptempo RandB for as long as he can remember.
harrywaynecasey.com /kclatimes1980.html   (1207 words)

  
 icCoventry - PSB's release third Disco album
The album features ten dance-orientated tracks, written, recorded or remixed at the same time as the last studio album Release, including one track which was written in 1983 by the original Pet Shop Boys producer Bobby 'O'.
Disco 3 follows in the tradition of previous Disco albums, complementing the studio releases.
Disco 3 differs from the previous Disco albums in that it includes new dance tracks recorded during the studio sessions but which were not issued at the time.
iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk /0800whatson/0410musicnews/page.cfm?objectid=12590059&method=full&siteid=50003   (210 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock PA-PF
Parsons later remixed the album for CD re-release, but showed very good taste by limiting this process to a couple of added solos and synthesizer textures, which fit seamlessly in with the original recordings, and the restoration of Orson Welles' Poe recitations, recorded during the album sessions but omitted from the original mix.
The album's songs deal with various aspects of women, but mainly in terms of male stereotypes and pop cliches, either as idealised objects of desire or unfaithful tormentresses of the fragile male ego.
The album is redolent of lack of inspiration, as there are no less than three instrumentals of increasing insipidity filling the spaces between generic rockers ("In the Real World") and humdrum ballads ("Light of the World").
www.gepr.net /pa.html   (14362 words)

  
 Crazewire: The Disco Biscuits > Album Reviews > Senor Boombox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Disco Biscuits’ Senor Boombox is a sophomoric romp through the same tortured feelings of madness, loneliness and neurosis about technology that made Dark Side of the Moon and OK Computer such tour de force statements of life in the machine age.
The Disco Biscuits don’t necessarily profess to adhere to the peace and love ideals that other bands in the jam scene portray as being their lifestyle, and to a deeply cynical generation of young music fans, this is quite cool.
The Disco Biscuits have always produced a unique sound and keyboardist Aron Magner leads them in and out of electronica on Senor Boombox, but it's not as pronounced as their last album, They Missed the Perfume.
www.crazewire.com /features/2002120570.php   (662 words)

  
 Disco Savvy: The Complete Guide to Norma Jean Wright's disco and R&B album and related work
While her album "Norma Jean", released in July 1978 by Bearsville Records, was not a big commercial success, it did produce two important singles, "Saturday" and "Sorcerer".
Another 1982 pop/dance album on which Norma sang was "Sex and Material Possessions" by Fantasy, released by Pavillion Records.
She worked with Nelson Rangell on his jazz/pop album "Nelson Rangell", which was released November 1990 and features Nelson playing the saxophone, flute, and piccolo.
www.discosavvy.com /normajean.html   (1340 words)

  
 Voulez-Vous
The Album was released in 1978, and it didn't have a trace of disco on it.
While, their heavenly melody writing abilities are hardly even hindered on this album, resorting to disco is not always a wise thing to do.
ABBA wrote something similar on their previous album called "Thank You For the Music." While this track is certainly good, memorable, and everything, it waltzes a bit too closely near the tasteful/corny line.
donignacio.com /abba/voulezvous.html   (1304 words)

  
 Ethel Merman Disco Album
I bought this album at the end of the disco era.
I got to see and meet in the 70,s and know that she was very proud of making this recording and had a truly wondreful sprit to keep performing and up with the times hat off to you ethel one more time.
This album is certainly one of the greatest trialic pieces of work or the disco era.
www.franklarosa.com /vinyl/Exhibit.jsp?AlbumID=78   (945 words)

  
 Ethel merman disco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But what passes for disco now is a small group of pop hits that used disco's...Donny Osmond and James Brown and Ethel Merman and Cab Calloway and Kiss and...
Recorded in 1976 when she was 68, the album ranks up there with the Ethel MermanDisco Album as a camp classic, containing as it does "I've Written A Letter...
Disco is an up-tempo style of dance music (generally between 110 and 136...Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984) was a star of stage and...
www.factorydatabase.com /ethel+merman+disco.html   (1084 words)

  
 Disco Montego Album Review
DISCO MONTEGO work under the "anything is possible" credo to create fresh, pumping dance tracks that feel right at home on any dancefloor.
Having become two of Australia's most prolific and successful songwriters, DISCO MONTEGO are set to heat up the charts again and get the adrenaline pumping with their self-titled debut album.
It has since been reworked into a disco dazzler and is one of the hot properties on this album.
www.femail.com.au /discomontegoalbum.htm   (429 words)

  
 Giorgio Moroder Tribute @ Disco-Disco.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
And it's absolutely one of the most important Disco songs ever and it definatly helped Disco music to become as huge as it was during the late 70's and early 80's.
This album sets a nice end to a great partnership that lived for nearly a decade and which helped getting Disco as popular as it was during the seventies.
An album with only one track on each side - A side: "Get on the Funk train" which times in at 15:45 and the B side: "I wanna Funk with you tonight", which is a medley of Disco songs Giorgio wrote, produced and played on and it times in at 16:36.
www.disco-disco.com /tributes/giorgio.html   (2584 words)

  
 Disco Music .com - Disco Music, Records, CDs, DVDs, Charts and History
It's the 1970s or 1980s and you're out dancing to the sounds of such Disco DJs as Larry Levan of the Paradise Garage, David Mancuso of The Loft, John "Jellybean" Benitez of The Funhouse, John Ceglia of River West, Robbie Leslie of The Saint or perhaps Bobby Viteritti of Trocadero Transfer.
Disco music is everywhere today including the movies like "The Last Days of Disco" and "54" about Studio 54.
Read exclusive interviews with the Disco DJs and artists, chat with Disco fans and world renowned Disco DJs in the Disco forum about the music, culture and Disco equipment like mixers and turntables, how to clean your vinyl records and more.
www.discomusic.com   (627 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Ethel Merman Disco Album: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is the disco album "the Merm" recorded in 1979, a few years before her death.
Rumor has it that Merman couldn't stand the disco craze that was sweeping the nation in the late '70s, recording her vocals before the instrumental tracks were laid down.
Whether you find the album simply horrifying or an entrancing testimony to the power of people to lose their heads as they fall prey to a dance fad, this collision between two completely different American musical traditions is nothing short of, ahem, breathtaking.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000084TTG?v=glance   (1250 words)

  
 Ethel Merman, "The Ethel Merman Disco Album" (Fynsworth Alley) - 01/31/03
The brash Broadway legend had decided to jump into the disco craze, only to have it disappear shortly after the album's original 1979 release.
Those pipes were still a marvel, though, and there's no denying the guilty pleasure of hearing her belt out some of her most famous tunes with a throbbing disco beat and chirpy backup chorus.
Disco's unforgiving meter doesn't leave much room for lyric interpretation, and Merman seems to take a few liberties with rhythm.
www.detnews.com /2003/hometech/0302/03/e09-73291.htm   (302 words)

  
 Donna Summer @ Disco-Disco.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This album sets a nice end to a great partnership that lived for nearly a decade and which helped getting Disco as popular as it was during the late seventies.
The album was a minor success, and not as strong as her older albums.
People were dancing in the aisles, singing along to her disco classics and screaming "I l ove you" at the top of their lungs.
www.disco-disco.com /artists/donna.html   (2292 words)

  
 Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3 Review
It was a remix project of their ever-popular album Please.
Disco 3 is more or less a reworking of last year?s Release but this time around the duo has included several unreleased tracks on the album.
Disco 3 leaves room for old-school pop leanings, electro-clash tracks (?Time One My Hands?), their newly refined dance culture tracks and then the album wraps up with an amazing piano ballad of ?London?, a track to show that Neil Tennant still has the ability to write amazing music.
www.musicemissions.com /display_review/1760   (205 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Disco 3 [EP]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Just as the first Disco was a companion record to 1986's Please, and Disco 2 followed 1994's Very, Pet Shop Boys' Disco 3 is meant to be an extension of the sound and feel of 2002's Release.
Disco 3 finds the boys in the space they seem most comfortable in, combining the retro style which they rode to fame on and the dance floor style which they eternally idolize.
With the title of "Disco", it more closely resembles the structure of their first "Disco" release than the jumbled mess that was their "Disco 2" album.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000084TSF?v=glance   (1698 words)

  
 ABBA - The Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Abba flirted with disco (as it was known then),and soon after that arguable found their niche...
Yeah, to me ABBA´s vocal harmonies were really at their most sophisticated in 1978/79 when this album was recorded, and I think it´s a little shame that they abandoned this style on Super Trouper and Visitors where they more did `backing vocals´ rather than the full immaculate sound of their classic years (1975-1979).
I think Frida was done a disservice on this album and she was given the weakest songs.
www.abbasite.com /forum/thread.php?t=11154&right=login   (1692 words)

  
 A Review by The Phantom Tollbooth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The songs are very meaningful but the album seems to drag near the end, and if they had just put a another fast song around track nine or ten it would have sounded great.
In the end, though, disco is probably the most hated style of music in pop music history.
As the later tracks drag, the stronger material at the start of the album fades from the memory, and the impact is minimal.
www.tollbooth.org /review99/newsboys99.html   (1012 words)

  
 VickiSueRobinson
In 1973 she toured Japan with Itsuro Shimoda and sang background vocals on his album.
1977 was filled with the success of her second album, touring and public appearances
The album tarnished the careers of anyone associated with it.
discomuseum.com /VickiSueRobinson.html   (1029 words)

  
 Dog Fashion Disco's Live Album Beats Listeners into Submission
Dog Fashion Disco might not have the most metal name in the world, but with songs like "Baby Satan," "9 to 5 at the Morgue" and "Toothless Dream," you'd better believe they are a metal band.
Their first live album features the band, plus saxophonist Matt Rippetoe, in top form, along with the "DFD-Day" DVD featuring 95 minutes of concert footage and other fun stuff.
The album kicks off with the chugging guitars and calliope organ of "Worm in a Dog's Heart," throwing even the most prepared listener for a loop.
www.remodeling.hw.net /industry-news.asp?sectionID=155&articleID=103981   (535 words)

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