The disco success story not only counts from Donna Summer, daft punk, among other things, but also from Rockacts.
Which Rockacts have not yet resisted the temptation of the disco sound? We checked …
Recommendations of the editorial team
01. Roxy Music – Love is the Drug (1975)
While they will all claw from Chic soon, they in turn belonged to John Gustafson’s bass game very precisely. In addition, Roxy Music should be with pieces like this enormously influential for the sound of pop music from the early 1980s.
02. Can – I Want More (1976)
Probably the best known and one of the best pieces when it comes to showing the rapprochement between Krautrock and Disco.
(But you will also find what you are looking for at Guru Guru, Birth Control and Ash Ra.)
03. Wings – Silly Love Songs (1976)
Not only a deliberately cheesy replica on Lennon’s accusation that his ex-band colleague would only write stupid love songs. But also the first intentional piece for the Discofox dance lesson.
04. Abba – Dancing Queen (1976)
No, of course ABBA was not a rock chapel, but a very good example of how artistically and commercially successfully successfully hold this sound … if they could.
05. Elton John & Kiki Dee – Don’t go Breaking My Heart (1976)
Elton John had already drowned around in all possible styles. But this was something else.
As Motown pasties, he and Kiki were whirled down directly to Philadelphia and back again by these strings and the shuffle.
06. The Rolling Stones – Miss You (1978)
Instead of listening exactly how close well-made disco (rock) music could also be on what the Rolling Stones had pulled a few years earlier when rooting from old R’n’B and soul, purists were upset about Jagger’s “Eunuchen” singing. (Mostly without suspecting that there is also an 8: 37-minute special disco version!)
07. Rod Stewart – Da Ya Think I’m sexy (1978)
People, so you jumble the “Saturday Night Fever” train! One of these pieces that take the old (blues) rock friend to you: but then on the inside-because: nasty catchy tune (from motifs by Jorge Ben Jor and Bobby Womack, broke up by the way).
08. Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (1978)
An earlier access by punk and new wave to disco, without any malice; Ian Dury interprets the every-TUT-ES motif from Cole Porters “Let’s do it (Let’s Fall in Love)”-explicitly, but not too explicitly for 1st place in the UK charts. At first he sounds like a chansonnier, then Libido and saxophone go through him.
09. Toto – Georgy Porgy (1978)
The third single of the elegant supermucker from LA is often also labeled under “Blue-Eyed Soul” and “Yacht Rock”. You have copied the beat from old R’n’B drummer legends. But at the latest when soul/disco queen cheryl lynn is involved, it is clear where this song has to run.
10. Blondie – Heart of Glass (1978)
Debbie and the Boys already covered Donna Summers “I Feel Love” in 1978 in front of the consternated “CBGB” people. This piece entitled “Once I Had a Love” alias “The Disco Song” was even part of her repertoire in 1975, but was only born with producer Mike Chapman as the (again), which should go down in the mirror ball pop history.
11. Doobie Brothers – What a Fool Believes (1978)
Wikipedia say: “The song was one of the few non-disco-number-offs of the US single charts in the first eight months of 1979.” We say: and yet not far enough away from disco to avoid this list.
12. Kiss – I was made for lovin ‘You (1979)
Supposedly only a funny “disco we can”. In truth, the make-up (hard?-) rockers tried to offer something for dance floor and cuddle corner for two albums. Doesn’t matter. This was definitely her biggest hit! Highlight: the ramp to the guitar solo, with the Toms break including funny science fiction shots, until Ace Frehley then compacted to almost eight seconds, whereupon the 1970s were used.
13. Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 (1979)
Even if the approach of the rock operistas was rather hypothermic and not least because of the dark Songhemas, not a single travolta move wanted to fit: the beat whispered by producer Bob Ezrin with the shucking Hi-Hat and the rhythm guitar are absolutely to be assigned to the disco compartment.
14. Electric Light Orchestra – Shine A Little Love (1979)
Jeff Lynnes Orchestra already had the string with the dizzying strings, now it just put on the pace a little (almost too quickly!), Packed a few hand clapes and called “Uuuui!” – The light organ already flashed in time.
15. David Bowie – John I’m ONLY DANCING (AGAIN) (1979)
Disco influences are always available at David Bowie. With this late outare from the Young American sessions, they stand out most clearly, especially in the seven-minute original version with the Funky Jam for the final.
16. Lou Reed – Disco Mystic (1979)
How does disco sound when you have banged something on the neurotransmitter? After an uninterrical psych-r’n’b strudel.
17. Chicago – Street Player (1979)
Another group that (see Toto or the Doobie Brothers) is actually the necessary tools to venture into the dance floor. The essence from this piece pressed Kenny “Dope” Gonzalez 15 years later for his house bang “The Bomb!
18th Sparks – The Number One Song in Heaven (1979)
Until then, the camping brothers Mael had a clear art/glam rock edge with all pop appeal. But floating in co-working space with Giorgio Moroder suddenly sounded like Gary Numan on scooter skates.
19th Japan – Life in Tokyo (1979)
The electric moroder, which is also involved here, plucked significantly through the art pop of the English, which with this single further emancipated themselves from the large Roxy Music influence and could develop into an impulse provider for the New Romantic scene.
20. Queen – Another One Bites The Dust (1980)
In addition to the bass run, the futuristic and dust -dry production of this piece is the star. Absolutely groundbreaking also for the club music of the 80s.
21. The Clash – The Magnificent Seven (1980)
Even if the even-noise punk rockers on their fourth album Sandinista! Quite a lot of matches: there is a lot of train in this single. Most important influence: the first rap tracks from New York.
22. Fehmen – one year (it is progressing) (1980)
Because you combined the Düsseldorfers with a different scene, with completely different content and on the rest of their debut album with a different style of music, most of them did not even notice it: the false colors lent their biggest hit at Chic!
23. ESG – Moody (1981)
Unfortunately, we cannot get into the post-disco-labyrinth too far: otherwise we still end up with Hi-NRG/Italo/Discopunk, etc. and no longer find an end.
But as effective as the Scroggins sisters from the Bronx can remove the hot stuff to the skeleton, it simply stays wow-and was often copied to the LCD sound system.