Sister Sledge, "He Was The Greatest Dancer" (YSI link)
Sister Sledge, "We Are Family" (YSI link)
I mentioned starting a disco post last week, which I abandon because of a sad mood. Well, fuck being sad. Long live disco! I was going to delve into the underground shit that I normally highlight, but I feel like that tends to fall into that hipster thing of always having to find the obscure stuff. There's no shame in the classic disco songs and so this post is dedicated to one of the legendary groups, Sister Sledge, that dropped legendary disco tracks. It's all dedicated to all the rock snobs who insult disco to this day. Fuck y'all, go to sleep and/or keep ruining music journalism with your boring articles and conservatism.
The first and most important detail you need to know about Sister Sledge is that they were from North motherfucking Philadelphia. End of story, you know that they are gonna be the shit. Beyond that, they were 4 sisters - Kim, Debbie, Joni and Kathy- who formed a band in 1972 and have gone on to a long, successful career. It's hard to discuss the group without acknowledging their producers during the late 197os, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of CHIC (foreshadowing). It was under these guys that the group delivered their biggest hits and my favorites, two of which are above.
"He's The Greatest Dancer" is a fun one, mainly because I am not the greatest dancer but the idea of dancing to this song appeals to me. I first heard it on the soundtrack to the underrated Whit Stillman movie, The Last Days of Disco. It's a slow burner, no really crazy section or anything, just beautiful vocals, that disco orchestral sound (love the violin notes throughout) and an irresistable beat. Okay, the next one you had to have heard at some point in your life; I mean, the Pittsburgh Pirates made a whole season out of it! Yeah, so bar mitzvahs and wedding DJs have left you a little gunshy to say you like it. Get over yourself. This is as uplifting as music gets, listen to the feminist lyrics, those great handclaps, tell me that you aren't singing it and moving to this one in your chair.
Grab the We Are Family LP now, as it's one of the rare classic full length albums from the period. They're all at 256 too, so DJs grab these and work them into your sets. It's time to lose the snobby view towards disco, this is just great, joyous music.
-Joakim spins at APT tonight, rare chance to hear the French producer do a crazy set of disco, electro and whatnot.
-Flosstradamus at Check Yo Ponytail! Get to Safari Sam's (5214 Sunset Blvd.) Franki Chan says it's the place to be. Anything he says, I believe. LA, if you keep this up, I may have to move West on some Horatio Alger shit.
-DJ Steven Bloodbath at Bar Noir tonight
1 comment:
Your posts are just on fire! Can't wait for the rest of the disco series. Just wanna let you know that your YSI links say that you've gone over your download limit or some bullshit like that, so we can only access the Zshare links right now.
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