What Happened During the Infamous Disco Demolition Night?
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Date: 2022-12-29
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Kavinsky
9: 27 to 9: 50 What kinda Jibber jabber did YOU grow up on boy, like YEASH lol its music, people play to enjoy it and they always love indulging in something different from the norm that's new and offers a new sound or a new experience, as their aint no science, their aint no culture, their aint no middle class white dudes fighting the Patriarcy, its GOD DAMN MUSIC, you put it on a record player and you PLAY IT lol
like boy did you look up the SJW's handbook to dumb Phrasing and bet yourself you could put every DUMB statement ever made by those loop holed idiots in a paragraph, as that is about what you did there lol
and to think all I wanted to see was if I could spot Michael Clark Duncan in the crowd somewhere, and to see what this thing actually looked like, like YEASH lol
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9: 27 to 9: 50 What kinda Jibber jabber did YOU grow up on boy, like YEASH lol its music, people play to enjoy it and they always love indulging in something different from the norm that's new and offers a new sound or a new experience, as their aint no science, their aint no culture, their aint no middle class white dudes fighting the Patriarcy, its GOD DAMN MUSIC, you put it on a record player and you PLAY IT lol
like boy did you look up the SJW's handbook to dumb Phrasing and bet yourself you could put every DUMB statement ever made by those loop holed idiots in a paragraph, as that is about what you did there lol
and to think all I wanted to see was if I could spot Michael Clark Duncan in the crowd somewhere, and to see what this thing actually looked like, like YEASH lol
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tony
People forget that disco like any other fad was seized by advertisers and crammed down the public's throat until everyone was sick of it. Disco jeans, disco socks, disco hamburgers, disco potato chips. you name it. There had to be a backlash. Disco was an elitist pastime for rich white jerks. You had to have the right clothes, the right friends, the right look and plenty of spending cash for all that cocaine. You can flaunt that stuff in the faces of the working class for only so long.
And disco never really died in 1979. Look at the charts for 1980, 1981, 1982 etc. and see how many songs with dance grooves were huge hits. Only difference was nobody used the D-word for it anymore.
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People forget that disco like any other fad was seized by advertisers and crammed down the public's throat until everyone was sick of it. Disco jeans, disco socks, disco hamburgers, disco potato chips. you name it. There had to be a backlash. Disco was an elitist pastime for rich white jerks. You had to have the right clothes, the right friends, the right look and plenty of spending cash for all that cocaine. You can flaunt that stuff in the faces of the working class for only so long.
And disco never really died in 1979. Look at the charts for 1980, 1981, 1982 etc. and see how many songs with dance grooves were huge hits. Only difference was nobody used the D-word for it anymore.
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Sean
The problem with Disco Demolition Night was not that they were blowing up the disco records, but rather they they didn't include the disco artists being also blown up. As bad as disco was (and I had the unfortunately 'pleasure' of having to live through it) it was still better than rap-crap and hip-hop. Disco was BAD music whereas rap-crap and hip-hop are just noise and the artists should be burnt at the stake.
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The problem with Disco Demolition Night was not that they were blowing up the disco records, but rather they they didn't include the disco artists being also blown up. As bad as disco was (and I had the unfortunately 'pleasure' of having to live through it) it was still better than rap-crap and hip-hop. Disco was BAD music whereas rap-crap and hip-hop are just noise and the artists should be burnt at the stake.
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Yodaneer
No doubt this has already been addressed amoungst the many comments below but to be sure - COHO is NOT a meaningless word. Fact is here in Oregon we all know a Coho to be a Fearless, Fightin' breed a Salmon (or a SILVER to our loser neighbors up north in Warshinton)that tastes REAL GOOD!
Also, The Bee Gee's weren't a disco band. Not really.
froggy girl
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1 month ago
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No doubt this has already been addressed amoungst the many comments below but to be sure - COHO is NOT a meaningless word. Fact is here in Oregon we all know a Coho to be a Fearless, Fightin' breed a Salmon (or a SILVER to our loser neighbors up north in Warshinton)that tastes REAL GOOD!
Also, The Bee Gee's weren't a disco band. Not really.
froggy girl
froggy girl
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Thomas
I think a lot of people may not know that Disco was dying on the vine as it was a early 70's fad, but then Saturday Night Fever came out and revitalized Disco. This did not sit well with Rock fans and I understand Dahl's point but some of that Disco was quality music. It got a bad rep from a lot of bad Disco cropping up to cash in on the success of Disco. I still prefer Rock music myself.
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I think a lot of people may not know that Disco was dying on the vine as it was a early 70's fad, but then Saturday Night Fever came out and revitalized Disco. This did not sit well with Rock fans and I understand Dahl's point but some of that Disco was quality music. It got a bad rep from a lot of bad Disco cropping up to cash in on the success of Disco. I still prefer Rock music myself.
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Steven
Disco was fuelled by cocaine.
I owned a recording studio in NJ in the 90's. It was the same studio Gloria Gaynor recorded the hit song I will survive. Meatloaf cut all the Bat out of Hell demos at it and rumors have it Iron Maiden recorded there.
I did work with Vinnie Martel from Vanilla Fudge and Les Paul over the years.
Oh yea. One more thing. The studio was haunted.
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Disco was fuelled by cocaine.
I owned a recording studio in NJ in the 90's. It was the same studio Gloria Gaynor recorded the hit song I will survive. Meatloaf cut all the Bat out of Hell demos at it and rumors have it Iron Maiden recorded there.
I did work with Vinnie Martel from Vanilla Fudge and Les Paul over the years.
Oh yea. One more thing. The studio was haunted.
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Fox
While all this was going on, local ballpark residents were chasing the anti-disco revellers off their property with one that had to chase two boys off his property that were urinating on it, and had a parked car on the curb as well as had to clean up their properties of beer cans. The people who lived near the ballpark were incredibly livid with what had transpired that night.
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While all this was going on, local ballpark residents were chasing the anti-disco revellers off their property with one that had to chase two boys off his property that were urinating on it, and had a parked car on the curb as well as had to clean up their properties of beer cans. The people who lived near the ballpark were incredibly livid with what had transpired that night.
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Drea
Im all about freedom and expression but not sure what this solved lol. Dahl felt excluded so he decided to make others feel excluded with his hate disco rant? It's is just repeating the circle. I can say I wouldn't wouldn't have been the disco fan in the 70's but more with the rock crowd but wouldn't of participated in this ridiculousness. Let people enjoy all music
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Im all about freedom and expression but not sure what this solved lol. Dahl felt excluded so he decided to make others feel excluded with his hate disco rant? It's is just repeating the circle. I can say I wouldn't wouldn't have been the disco fan in the 70's but more with the rock crowd but wouldn't of participated in this ridiculousness. Let people enjoy all music
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KaijuKapital1440
I think it was actually the oversaturation of disco by the record labels that ran it into the ground and led to it's rapid decline during 1979/1980. I consider 1981 to be the official end of old school disco - Stars on 45 officially closed the book on disco, right in time for the beginning of the MTV boom
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I think it was actually the oversaturation of disco by the record labels that ran it into the ground and led to it's rapid decline during 1979/1980. I consider 1981 to be the official end of old school disco - Stars on 45 officially closed the book on disco, right in time for the beginning of the MTV boom
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Batphink
We thought Disco was bad but looking back much of it good funky music with real musicians. Today we have utter sh. t called 'Dubstep' which is NOT music rather throbbing low bass sounds that shake the car they blast it from and the entire street! We should protest these selfish noise makers!
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We thought Disco was bad but looking back much of it good funky music with real musicians. Today we have utter sh. t called 'Dubstep' which is NOT music rather throbbing low bass sounds that shake the car they blast it from and the entire street! We should protest these selfish noise makers!
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MrSuperkingtom
Drunk idiots blowing off steam.
Dahl has been a bit of a jerk for some time. I'll never forget when he tried to publicly trash my husband, a guy who worked for Com Ed in nuclear energy, for saying that in effect, nuclear energy was in theory limitless, but in reality it is not.
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Drunk idiots blowing off steam.
Dahl has been a bit of a jerk for some time. I'll never forget when he tried to publicly trash my husband, a guy who worked for Com Ed in nuclear energy, for saying that in effect, nuclear energy was in theory limitless, but in reality it is not.
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MsDaydream3r
Look, I hate disco as much as the next headbanger, but to be this hostile towards people who like something you don't is pretty harsh. Unless you're blasting ABBA into my ears, I got no problem with you. In the words Ozzy Osborne, learn how to love and forget how to hate.
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Look, I hate disco as much as the next headbanger, but to be this hostile towards people who like something you don't is pretty harsh. Unless you're blasting ABBA into my ears, I got no problem with you. In the words Ozzy Osborne, learn how to love and forget how to hate.
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Fox
Make no mistake about it, anyone who conducts this or Justin Bieber Demolition Night today better have some serious cash and very good lawyers reserved for lawsuits and criminal charges against the offender that blows up Justin Bieber albums and incites a riot on top of that.
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Make no mistake about it, anyone who conducts this or Justin Bieber Demolition Night today better have some serious cash and very good lawyers reserved for lawsuits and criminal charges against the offender that blows up Justin Bieber albums and incites a riot on top of that.
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Jon
I feel like listening to the Bee Gees and Donna Summer. Hating and use violence against art that you don't like is not going to help. The Christian right did the same with The Beatles albums. Dave Grohl, Nirvana's rock star did an awesome tribute to disco Bee Gees.
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I feel like listening to the Bee Gees and Donna Summer. Hating and use violence against art that you don't like is not going to help. The Christian right did the same with The Beatles albums. Dave Grohl, Nirvana's rock star did an awesome tribute to disco Bee Gees.
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Scorch1028
It's amazing how long Disco remained popular in various parts of the U. S. after Disco Demolition Night in 1979. I remember hearing people say they were going Disco dancing as late as 1983. Disco held on for a while after Disco Demolition Night.
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It's amazing how long Disco remained popular in various parts of the U. S. after Disco Demolition Night in 1979. I remember hearing people say they were going Disco dancing as late as 1983. Disco held on for a while after Disco Demolition Night.
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David
There's lots of music that I don't like, but to each their own. Why some people have to passionately hate music and act like they know what's good and bad for everyone is beyond me. Those people need to get a life.
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There's lots of music that I don't like, but to each their own. Why some people have to passionately hate music and act like they know what's good and bad for everyone is beyond me. Those people need to get a life.
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Wehosrm
Disco won. It is now seen as a progenitor of almost all music genres. Disco was fundamentally about the music, played and sung by masterful artists. It was not easy to play or sing, hence the jealousy.
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Disco won. It is now seen as a progenitor of almost all music genres. Disco was fundamentally about the music, played and sung by masterful artists. It was not easy to play or sing, hence the jealousy.
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Ddark
Disco is alive in us all if not for Disco most of us wouldn't exist. Watch Patrick Hernandez Born to be alive world disco dancing championship. If that cant put a smile on your dial you are beyond help.
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Disco is alive in us all if not for Disco most of us wouldn't exist. Watch Patrick Hernandez Born to be alive world disco dancing championship. If that cant put a smile on your dial you are beyond help.
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lee
Almost immediatly, this incident was labeled and framed as an anti Black and Gay move. Silly, of course. We need another protest against not being able to skip ads but have to sit through 2 of them!
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Almost immediatly, this incident was labeled and framed as an anti Black and Gay move. Silly, of course. We need another protest against not being able to skip ads but have to sit through 2 of them!
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ct
When you have so much of the same type of music, there has to be a backlash of said music. I remember a DJ saying in about July 1980 that the last disco song was Funky Town by Lipps Inc. He was right
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When you have so much of the same type of music, there has to be a backlash of said music. I remember a DJ saying in about July 1980 that the last disco song was Funky Town by Lipps Inc. He was right
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