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    Posted: March 13 2020 at 20:25
I nominate Steven Wilson for "permanating" from his last album(not the new one coming up soon). Maybe not quite genuine disco but close enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4LfUDV1x5s

And who could forget this little "prog" nugget from 37 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLzPPFc21o






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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) for example...

wtf's disco about this song?


Check out its 1-2 beat... You'll find Run Like Hell's beat also very disco-ish in the same regard


not disco-ish, maybe funk-ish...


The diff between funk and disco was that the latter was a 1/2 beat, which is why it became big with the whiteys, since even the sorriest excuses of them could dance to it

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absolutely, early APP albums albums were filled with disco-beat tracks

And when that stopped APP started sucking way worse than disco LOL
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want some funky?
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) for example...

wtf's disco about this song?


Check out its 1-2 beat... You'll find Run Like Hell's beat also very disco-ish in the same regard


not disco-ish, maybe funk-ish...
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by MortSahlFan MortSahlFan wrote:

Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) for example...

wtf's disco about this song?


Check out its 1-2 beat... You'll find Run Like Hell's beat also very disco-ish in the same regard
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I love this...
 

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The Dutch Prog-Rock band Earth & Fire went all D.I.S.C.O. in the late 70's & early 80's. Smile 
 
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Very derivative of Moroder's work at the time and totally out of place on the album that it's on, but still a massive guilty pleasure of mine LOL
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Originally posted by patrickq patrickq wrote:

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.

Actually in it's time, say between about 1971 and 1978, prog was chart-topping, did huge business, was cutting edge popular music, and lasted longer than disco during roughly the same period.   Of course what we think of as 'prog' was just the best of modern rock:  ELP, Yes, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Zappa, Mahavishnu .

My pick for Disco-prog ~


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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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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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Goblin also did disco at one point.
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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Of course everyone knows this masterpiece

Yep.  Discovery = Disco Very
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My mind immediately went to Pain of Salvation - Disco Queen
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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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Chicago - Street Player, and it goes for over 9 mins.
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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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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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