Disco is one of those things that I really don't know why I have a passion for it so much. I think that my love for it comes from movies that my parents made me watch when I was little so that I may understand them more. My parents and aunts and uncles were all dancers, apparently. This makes for quite the funny anecdote for friends and good moments of black mail when they try to embarrass me. However, I embrace this about my family. I love that they had this sort of youthful spirit when they were close to my age, and I'm just an immensity jealous that they were able to encounter such youth during this time in music.
-This clip is from the popular variety show "SoulTrain" and it features a line dance to the popular song, Jungle Boogie by Kool & The Gang. This song is one of my favorite from the era and I absolutely love to find it hidden in movies, videos, small corners of coffee shops, etc. It is one of those tunes that I can hear and be instantly lifted by it. It makes you just want to move.
-This clip is of a performance by Average White Band, with their hit "Pick Up The Pieces." This song I think has a deep draw to movies, specifically Undercover Brother and maybe even Roll Bounce. This song also has that slight characteristic that makes me want to get up off my behind and just move. I could clean my room and feel good about it just because of this song.
Many more songs just like these two have made their way to my ears and I have enjoyed nearly every attack of pitch and note that they have to offer just because they are of this genre. Disco has always seemed to be my small quirk that I have and cannot help but own up to wholeheartedly. I have a love for hearing it, dancing to it, and performing disco. Too bad I am only about...forty years too late for that movement.
Suggested other tracks of this feel of music:
-Ladies Night-Kool & The Gang
-Flashlight-Parliament
-Give Up The Funk-Parliament
-Get The Funk Out Ma Face-The Brothers Johnson
-Stayin' Alive-The Bee-Gee's
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