Disco, who else likes it?

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Unfortunatly growing up I feel I mostly heard negative things about it, but during covid for a bit I was like very into disco it was weird because I'm a metalhead like I mostly listen to metal and harder rock or at least I used to. But during covid lockdowns I heard a couple songs I liked and they were disco style songs so that drew me into just listening to the genre.That said I like a lot of electronic music to, and disco sounds kind of like it may have influenced it LIke a lot of disco music has the same sort of satisfying beats as electronic music.

I guess if anything I am disappointed there are not like newer disco bands, like there has even been a slight revival of the sort of 60's sounding psychdelic rock with bands like The Growlers and Tame Impala but why no revival of Disco?

EDM or "Techno" is a direct descendant of disco. Same beat, but made with synths instead of strings and brass.

Actually rap was originally also a subspecies of disco (listen to the Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", or Blondie's "Rapture"- two of the earliest rap songs to hit the charts- it was light party music with a person talking to a disco beat) before it took on more funk influences and got a harder sound and evolved into its own thing.

I was in college during the disco era. Folks my age were all polarized into the two tribes:disco fans and rock fans. Both groups hated the other. I was in the rock tribe. But..secretely kinda liked some examples of disco..even then. A girl even taught me to do the hustle and a party ...it was fun.

So...there is no shame in liking disco in my opinion .

In the 90s I was a party dj, and relied on disco hits. And the current hits I played (house music, dance music) were and still are disco influenced. The only real objection anyone would have to disco is its mechanical sounding beat. But since circa 1980 even rock is done with synths and drum machines and has the same mechanical sound. So thats not even a distinction about it anymore.

Some disco music was alright, except it all got a lot of OVER-play on every pop-music station.  MTV was also saturated with it (back when MTV played music videos).

Then, along came "Disco Duck" and ruined everything.

There's two types of people, those who enjoy Stayin' Alive and those who lie about not enjoying Stayin' Alive.

It is what makes me dance!

I was under ten when disco was big. My parents listened to it a fair amount on Saturday nights when dancing on the shag rug with friends or relatives. I liked being whirled around by my dad. I thought it was pretty fun but it's because of those memories more than the music itself. I loved The Bee Gees and Boney M best of all but there were a few others.

The rest of the week we listened to their soft-rock AM radio station throughout the house. If they didn't have Saturday disco parties they listened to a radio station that played 50's rock and roll classics like Chuck Berry.

My brother and I were into hard rock / classic rock in our own choice of music, but my parents' music is still really nostalgic for me. I never saw the Saturday Night Fever movie but we had the soundtrack on 8 Track.

Somehow I never heard of MTV until a few years ago.
I don't remember knowing about it at all.

I loved Disco Duck actually, but that's because of a memory with my cousins.

What ASPOM said. The disco era was the length of Seventies. MTV didnt exist until the start of the Eighties...right after the end of the disco era. MTV was never into oldies. So it never trafficked in disco AFAIK. Though MTV did showcase then current dance music in shows like "Club MTV" and "The Grind".

In DC there was only one station that featured disco as a radio format("WKYS, Kiss radio. Which changed to Urban Contemporary after 1979). And I just listened to the local Prog rock station back then so I never heard it.

I liked the music produced by the BeeGees and by Donna Summer.  It was catchy, well-composed, and just plain nice to hear.

But, like I said, Disco Duck and overplay ruined it for me.