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vicarz1. Do you listen to disco? If you listen to disco, do you admit you listen to disco? Why or why not?
2. Why do you love or hate disco?
3. When did you first hear disco, and what did you think then?
4. What does disco mean or say to you?
5. Does disco have any special memories for you, good or bad?
*. Are there any interesting stories about or involving disco music that you'd like to share?
EDIT my answers:
1. I heart disco and brag that I listen to disco because I live to piss people off with camp.
2. It is happy stupid music.
3. My parents bought me my first cassette tape of Earth, Wind, and Fire. I've listened hundreds of times but still don't know the words to the fantasy song.
4. It screams dance and fuck and dance and fuck high. For me, it's one of the many things I tried not to like when I was conforming to normal society (normal Gaithersburg). I loved it, but wouldn't admit it. I think I came out as bi before I admitted I liked disco.
5. Does masturbation count?
I don't know if anybody on my f-list will understand why, when last night at happy hour, I found the cute girl I was talking to, the short redhead with tomboyish tendencies, explained to me that she was bad with names but hers was "Becca, like Rebecca without the Ruh!" I ran screaming.
2. Why do you love or hate disco?
3. When did you first hear disco, and what did you think then?
4. What does disco mean or say to you?
5. Does disco have any special memories for you, good or bad?
*. Are there any interesting stories about or involving disco music that you'd like to share?
EDIT my answers:
1. I heart disco and brag that I listen to disco because I live to piss people off with camp.
2. It is happy stupid music.
3. My parents bought me my first cassette tape of Earth, Wind, and Fire. I've listened hundreds of times but still don't know the words to the fantasy song.
4. It screams dance and fuck and dance and fuck high. For me, it's one of the many things I tried not to like when I was conforming to normal society (normal Gaithersburg). I loved it, but wouldn't admit it. I think I came out as bi before I admitted I liked disco.
5. Does masturbation count?
I don't know if anybody on my f-list will understand why, when last night at happy hour, I found the cute girl I was talking to, the short redhead with tomboyish tendencies, explained to me that she was bad with names but hers was "Becca, like Rebecca without the Ruh!" I ran screaming.
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Date: 2005-07-28 11:55 am (UTC)2. I like disco fine; not love. Decent beat, weird synthy sounds, "light rock" patina, danceable (with specific dances).
3. As a child, and loved it.
4. Disco is fourteen year olds playing with a loaded gun, thinking they're cool, with all that implies.
5. I liked the Sesame Street Fever album. The one with Grover as Travolta.
*. See #5. Not very interesting.
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Date: 2005-07-28 01:01 pm (UTC)I gave Shaun an 8 track I picked up in a rural VA flea market of Seasame Street Disco. He was very pleased.
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Date: 2005-07-28 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 12:32 pm (UTC)2. It's fun to dance to, gets the blood pumping, usually has some interesting and addictive melodies running through it, and makes me nostalgic for an era I never got to experience.
3. My mother used to play the BeeGees in the car, I was fascinated.
4. It's frivolity and decadence, sex and drugs personified.
5. Singing in the car with my mom and siblings, getting everyone on the dance floor in high school, and there're some great movies that feature it heavily.
That was a random quiz, where'd that come from?
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Date: 2005-07-28 01:00 pm (UTC)Very cool observation - I think I get some of that myself. Not knowing, I can make it as seedy or sophisticated as I like in my imagination. My dream may well be better than the reality (like in so many other areas).
Where from - my ass, totally made it up out of curiosity.
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Date: 2005-07-28 01:10 pm (UTC)2. It's fun, mindless music for fun, mindless times. We all need to not think so much every now and then.
3. I guess as a kid, in the 70s. My family was never into any kind of music all that much, so we just listened to whatever was on the (AM only) car radio. I especially liked the ones that told a story, like "Copacabana".
4. See #2
5. I remember wanting to be a Solid Gold dancer. Definitely.
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Date: 2005-07-28 01:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 01:20 pm (UTC)2. Because it's got a good beat and you can dance to it. Also, it doesn't take itself seriously. i love the nightlife, I love to boogie
3. When I was a little kid (5 or 6ish) on my disney record disco, disco duck
4. Disco, I think can mean any dance music really, but I know most people associate it with the 70's.
5. Not any specific ones, except bad karaoke renditions of YMCA.
~my name is Sunny, like the weather.
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Date: 2005-07-28 01:48 pm (UTC)I remember listening to disco duck over and over...I am sure murders have been committed for less offensive crimes.
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Date: 2005-07-28 02:02 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-28 02:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-28 02:04 pm (UTC)All the time. I love it, and I always have. Pretty much all electronic dance music evolved from disco, including all of the electronic stuff you hear at spooky clubs that people will (laughably) claim is a refuge from it.
2. Why do you love or hate disco?
I love it because it's the origins of modern club music. It was the first real DJ music, in fact the history of the DJ and Disco music are pretty much inextricably linked.
3. When did you first hear disco, and what did you think then?
I guess it was probably when I was a little kid, hearing Kool and the Gang or The Village People on the radio or seeing them on TV. Would have had to have been something like that.
4. What does disco mean or say to you?
DANCE!! It's energetic, it gets you up and moving. It's got an overall optimism to it that's infectious, like all dance music. Disco = Dance Music, more or less, which most people won't accept because when you say the word "disco" most people instantly think of the year or two in the 70's when it was co-opted by the mainstream and turned into a punchline.
5. Does disco have any special memories for you, good or bad?
Too many to name.
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Date: 2005-07-28 02:43 pm (UTC)2. Because I can shake my ass to it and I'm a dance floor whore.
3. Um, it's been around as long as I have, so I have no idea.
4. Nothing, it just fun.
5. I like to clean to disco and Madonna.