Episode #76 – Mirror Balls and Polyester: Looking Back at Disco Music

Doug and Kirk were teenagers when disco hit. They didn’t care for it then, but has their opinion change after 40 years? Is it time to reevaluate disco music?

Show notes:

• Chic: Good Times (12″ version)
• The Joy of Disco – BBC Documentary
• Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On
• Saturday Night Fever
• New York City blackout, July 13, 1977
• Son of Sam
• Jumping the shark
• Why ‘Disco sucks!’ sucked
• Disco Demolition Night
• Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
• Readers’ Poll: The Best Disco Songs of All Time
• Apple Music: Essential Disco Hits

Our next tracks:

• Kirk: Lounge Lizards: The Lounge Lizards
• Doug: Frank Zappa: Halloween 77

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