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Originally Posted by maxhifi
One thing I find interesting about disco:
"Disco was the last popular music movement driven by the baby boom generation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco
Anyway, as much maligned as it is, and as cheap and crappy as some of it is, it definitely makes for good party music. You should get yourself some K-tel 8-tracks, I don't know what it is about that format, but it suits disco music perfectly.. songs all blended together in an endless loop, and accentuated bass to punctuate the dance music.
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Yes, the K-tel tapes are a good bet. I don't recall finding any tapes filled entirely with songs by a single group/artist that I really like. Of course if I wanted to I could make my own mix tapes.
8-tracks were being phased out even by my time, but being a near lifelong Luddite I was hooked once I got my first stereo system with about five dozen tapes in late '90 or early '91.
Disco was the target of a lot of jokes even when it was popular. For instance, a first year Garfield comic strip had Garfield deliberately shed on Lyman's disco suit, and in
Airplane! a disco station's transmitter tower gets knocked over by a Boeing 707.