Disco Fever - Various Artists

Advantages: makes you dance and smile
Disadvantages: sad to some, but who cares

...hope!!) I love the 70's disco tunes......they always get me up dancing no matter how crap the party is or even if I am sober! Sad I know, but at least I get up and dance. I was born in the mid 70's so didn't have the pleasure of appreciating these tunes first hand, but I have really grown to love them and even as I listen to this CD now I am shaking about and strutting my stuff going down to fetch another glass of wine! This is a double CD that ...
...- ymca the trammps - disco inferno dan hartman - relight my fire mcfadden & whitehead - ain't no stoppin' us now wild cherry - play that funky music labelle - lady marmalade brothers johnson - stomp rose royce - carwash gloria gaynor - i will survive a taste of honey - boogie oogie oogie the real thing - you to me are everything Disc Two donna summer - i feel love sylvester - you make me feel (mighty real) lipps inc - funkytown frantique ... Read review

Advantages: Contains classic artists such as Odyssey, Brothers Johnson and Diana Ross
Disadvantages: Is a populist take on the disco era.

...This album is a broad yet typical retrospective of the commercial side of the disco era. Staples of the disco scene such as Chic and Earth, Wind & Fire feature here, yet in their most famous incarnations as opposed to the music that changed the face of the dance underground forever. There are rare stand out moments such as the highlighted Brothers Johnson classic 'Stomp' and Diana Ross's Chic penned athem 'Upside Down' however, overall this album is a good album for those that think of disco as a Car Wash style flares and afro 'Good Times' party. It's not for the connoisseurs of disco for whom any one of the Larry Levan or Joey Negro compilations would be better suited.... Read review

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