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This right here. Best edit of You Should Be Dancin' you'll ever hear. 2 1/2 minutes in when eveything cuts out but that rhythm looping over and over. And then the hook is finally introduced, and the horns come in again. You could say it's constructed towards a climax.

I'll look for it on Netflix! I love P-Funk!

I think the reason people hate on disco is because, in a lot of peoples minds, the first thing they think of are novelty songs like Disco Duck or ripe pieces of cheese like Da Ya Think I'm Sexy. People remember Rod Stewart, not Loleatta Holloway (unless they make house music). They remember campy arrangements of Night

No, you just pull it down. Easy peasy!

And people listening to rock never did drugs?

You are absolutely the voice of reason.

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I'll be on the dance floor if you need me.

Thank you. I came here to say almost the same thing. There were like, three good disco songs in 1978, all of them by Donna Summer, and the rest was just awful, terrible stuff.

You didn't need cocaine—it just was an add-on.

Those songs are good to dance to. So are songs by Zapp, the Ohio Players, and the Gap Bad. A lot of disco is also good to dance to, including songs by Instant Funk, MFSB, the Salsoul Orchestra, Loose Joints and Loletta Holloway. The problem is a lot of the disco that made it to the radio was awful, which may be why

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Such a great song to dance to. Plus everything Nile Rodgers touches is gold.

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Love Donna Summer. The sexiest disco song ever.

It's not an either/ or deal.I don't listen to Journey, Boston, Soundgarden or Arctic Monkeys to drop it down to the floor, but that's exactly what Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough and I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love were made for (also, see the Bar-Kays & The Isley Brothers). It's about being one person who's capable of

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And of course there was funk that had a lot to do with disco:

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Meh. Good music is good music. I like punk rock. I like hip hop. I like r&b. I like japanese idol groups, death metal, Cape Breton fiddle, jazz, crust punk, P-Funk, country, rockabilly, house, power pop, shibuya kei, whatever the fuck you want to call what Melt-Banana does, and UK hardcore (I mean the rave music, not

I would prefer that we get to supervise THEIR use of force.

Only on the holidays, bae.

So, is Mark Shrayber the only writer for Jezebel for 2015, or nah!? Just curious, dassit.

I TOO HAVE FELT LOSS

why is there no white history month, right?