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Surprise nobody mentioned Cos' third album Babel, which sound like Canterbury school music goes disco.
 
 
Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

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If you consider the Rolling Stones a "mainstream prog band" I sincerely recommend you to acquaint yourself with the basics of prog Stern Smile.
 
in the same vein, one could name Kiss with their I Was Made For Loving You song
 
 
But that hardly means that either band became disco bands
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Surprise nobody mentioned Cos' third album Babel, which sound like Canterbury school music goes disco.
I simply forgot
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There's about 5-6 tracks from Focus' 1975 album Mother Focus that would be classified as disco.

Here's My Sweetheart.....pure disco.
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The disco influence on prog - Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer - "future of music" - Brian Eno.
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Another Brick In The Wall a 3 part mini concept disco prog thing. Just get the riff from Set The Controls put it to a straight rock back beat, garnish with clean swung guitar strums and lo and behold...

... tbh I never thought of this as disco but a suitable strong and direct rhythm for the number. Rog was great at coming up with riffs...
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Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Camel - Summer Lightning (brilliant song by the way, excellent keys and guitarsolo, stellar drumming). If all disco was like this, I'd be a disco-fan.

I am now somewhat obsessed with this song. LOL Camel doing a song with obvious disco influence?? I don't even like disco but I like this song. 
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Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by Kingsnake Kingsnake wrote:

Camel - Summer Lightning (brilliant song by the way, excellent keys and guitarsolo, stellar drumming). If all disco was like this, I'd be a disco-fan.

I am now somewhat obsessed with this song. LOL Camel doing a song with obvious disco influence?? I don't even like disco but I like this song. 

Fans can sometimes obsess about a band selling out, and fail to give enough credit for integrating sounds of the day with the band's own style.  To me, that's progressive!  Still, I prefer the more traditional Camel style.  Great lead guitar licks though!   
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Mr. Bungle's Disco Volanti? Frank Zappa's Tinseltown Rebellion? Tongue

Edited by Slartibartfast - January 08 2019 at 17:21
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Spaniards and Spacemen by Amon Duul II (from their ‘78 album Only Human) is pure disco !
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Originally posted by vivoactive vivoactive wrote:

I don't know how accurate my addition to this thread might be, but I really adore Lisa Dal Bello (Dalbello)'s 1977 album featuring Marc Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Lukather, David Paich and David Hungate of Toto fame. The album has been labeled as disco, however, I think it is more of a pop/funk/soul album. Well, disco and soul music have a lot in common actually :)

 

I'll have to check that out! I like Lisa's 80s stuff!
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Okay, maybe this won't float everyone's boat, but Redbone — a '70s band formed by two Native American-Mexican brothers who got their start in the early '60s in a band called The Avantis — did record some trippy stuff on some of their albums apart from the usual funky soul-drenched rock (not counting the manic psychedelia of the unabridged "Brujo"). Their last proper studio album was labelled disco because, I guess, they added a full-time keyboardist who fully became 33.33% of their sound. Here's the title track from 1975's Cycles. 
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Chicago - Street Player, and it goes for over 9 mins.
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I’m a disco fan. I actually enjoy disco music nearly as much as prog rock. But disco was a popular style for a few years whereas prog is a bona fide (sub)genre.
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My mind immediately went to Pain of Salvation - Disco Queen
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Of course everyone knows this masterpiece

Yep.  Discovery = Disco Very
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Goblin also did disco at one point.
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The 4th track on Keith Emerson's otherwise excellent 1981 soundtrack album to the movie Nighthawks called erm...Nighthawking is an unadulterated octave bass poppin' Disco thang y'all. That said, the rest of the music has aged considerably more gracefully than this Sylvester Stallone movie.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by Mascodagama Mascodagama wrote:



I know many Magma fans despise this album, but I think it's pretty damn cool.
the first track of "Merci" is simply horrible, which is the main reason I don't like it.

I always considered a great part of Magma's "Retrospektiw 3" as "Magma Goes Disco", by the way



This one too by Magma, "Who's My love" off the live Bobino 1981.




As for the Merci track, I like the Offering "Love in the Darkness" take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4As9ZnrV2TQ.

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Duos for fave acts
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