MetaFilter posts tagged with disco and music

when hip hop arrived

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:31:40 -0800

It was 30 years ago today... October, 1979: Rapper's Delight by the Sugarhill Gang was released. A few days later, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five gave us the tighter and catchier (IMHO) Super rappin'. Hip Hop had arrived. Here's a charming interview with a New York City paramedic who, as a very young photographer on the South Bronx scene back in the day, was the unofficial photo-documentarian of the birth of hip hop.

talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it.

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:24:27 -0800

Everybody on the dance floor for two of the high masterpieces of disco from 1979: Lipps Inc.'s Funkytown and Anita Ward's Ring My Bell. Hey, Funkytown even has its own comprehensive website! No doubt about it, 1979 was a very BIG year for disco. Not everyone back in '79, though, was ready to shake their booty. Oh well. Doooooooooooooooooooooooo Wikipedia pages for Funkytown and Ring My Bell.

Nothing is new

cmicali — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 07:39:44 -0800

Jazz, Funk, Soul, Disco joints sampled in House, Hip-hop, and others [via memepool]

Everybody hustle.

miss lynnster — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:13:37 -0800

Learn Disco! They say it drives the chicks wild... maybe you'll finally get a date!
(The end of the video is the grooviest part. Courtesy NewToday.)

Le Freak C'Est Chic

y2karl — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:28:22 -0800

Since finding that Tongue In Chic was on CD at last, of late I've thought of the rhythm section nonpareil, Chic, with that welded groove between Nile Rodgers's guitar and Bernard Edwards's bass. As performers and producers--applying the patented Chic sound to an encyclopedia of superstars--what Chic played was a tight and transcendent penthouse funk. Now I find that Nile Rodgers has a homepage, too. The Links pages one and all are motherlodes of Chic-ism, let it be noted. Ah-h-h, Freak Out!

Sesame Seventies

pxe2000 — Tue, 24 Jun 2003 23:41:55 -0800

Sesame Seventies is an informational website about the three disco-related Muppets/Sesame Street records released in the 1970s. It makes for a good argument in favor of file-sharing, it reveals some of the stranger children's music of the past twenty or so years, and it's cute. (warning, some flash)

sylloge — Sat, 27 May 2000 01:32:52 -0800

Dance the night away. First Sissyfight and now this. Multi-user shockwave has some cool possibilities.