I love the funk brought by DISCO PUNK!!!

[TheMojoPin]

OK, so it's yet another in a long line of horrible, music journalist-coined genre labels, but I can't think of anything better.

This is the stuff that's rocking my world these days. Why? Well, because of the afore-mentioned rocking, and the simple fact that these groups make me wanna DANCE MY ASS OFF while they are doing said rocking.

Groups like Radio 4, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hot Hot Heat, The Rapture, Le Tigre, The Walkmen, Longwave, The Dismemberment Plan (RIP) and DC's own Q and Not You.

It's a simple premise...drop the funktastic bassline, get the classic early 80's NYC disco/hip-hop drumbeat, throw in the stabbing, angular guitars, and BAM! Bring it on the dance floor.

Of course, this is sort of a re-birth of this genre. It was big for about a second (Mostly just in NYC and London) in the early 80's before New Wave and hip-hop stole its thunder, and then it was known as "post-punk." Groups like Gang of Four, early P.I.L., ESG, The Slits, Liquid Liquid, DNA, Scritti Politti, Wire, The Fall, XTC and Girls Against Boys got it, and the gettin' was GOOD.

Anyone else know what I'm talking about? There's a few really, REALLY good comps that sum up this sound pretty fucking good, and pay respect to originators at the same time...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00009QEON.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

ROUGH TRADE - POST PUNK (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009QEON/qid=1075485461/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/202-4946647-0176648)

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NEW YORK NOISE (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009OYSE/qid=1075485545/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_2_1/202-4946647-0176648)

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YES NEW YORK (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00009ATJY/qid%3D1075485726/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-0517561-6790568)

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[JustJon]

I've been listening to Le Tigre for a couple years now, I dig them. Radio 4 are currently featured in a car commercial.

And XTC or Adam Ant?

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[Borne Too Loose]

i gotta say that with the exception of XTC and PiL, most of that music makes me wanna put a gun in my mouth. I just don't get it i think.

Not to piss on anyone's fancies, i just dont get it. :confuse:

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[Heavy]

B2L putting things in perspective once again.

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[Borne Too Loose]

Hey, i'll talk till im blue in the face about almost any genre until you bring up Disco Punk (oxymoron?)
you say "disco punk" and ill give you the same face the dog gives you when you tell him to change the channel.

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[Arienette]

i feel an rf.net disco punk dance party coming on. a really, really small one.

Radio 4, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hot Hot Heat, The Rapture, Le Tigre, The Walkmen, Longwave, The Dismemberment Plan (RIP) and DC's own Q and Not You.
i'm digging them all...

the new walkmen album comes out on tuesday! and they'll be in d.c. on feb 26, and in new york on april 1.

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[fluffernutter]

Q and Not U was amazing on their first for Dischord and unbelievable live. The one basement show they did with Hot Water Music a few years back is still one of my Top 10 shows. I had a hard time digesting their latest album as they lost a member. Good but it is not the first.

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[TheMojoPin]

Wadd thinks a middleaged metal-head is the coolest fucking thing in the world.

And on Earth-12, he is right.

Now, DANCE TO THE UNDERGROUND, MOFO'S!!!

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[fluffernutter]

I still go back to my metal-head days (don't go grouping me with man chowder) but I still adknowledge the fact that there is NEW music out there to be heard. Why stick in the same rut for ever and ever and ever and ever?

You grow up. You mature.

For instance, I loved LOVED Exodus back in the day. I still listen and listen to the albums from Bonded to Habit. The 6 show reunion tour was great too. Thats all it was, a little "hey how are ya and we are going to be heavy" West Coast tour.

Then the original singer Paul Baloff died.

I got quite moist the other day when reading about their NEW album coming out. Hearing the songs and reading the lyrics insulted my intelligence. I would really like to think I am above the constant toilet verbage and just stupid lines in the songs. Back in high-school I would have and DID love it. I still listen to those same old albums and giggle at them cause thats what I grew up on. To come out with that now ater 15 years is outdated and shows a lack of thought I would think.

Am I getting old now?

Why does music make me have such a thought process about it anymore?

I guess I expect more in what NEW stuff I listen to.

I AM getting old.

Damnit.

Sorry to get off topic, carry on.

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