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I remember that. Most of the dance-type clubs played it regularly circa . . . 1979? I always liked it but remember the version played being much harder than the one in the clip; perhaps it was a special dance mix.

Thanks for the memory (although I must admit some reluctance in considering 1979 waaaaaay back!).
 
Gosh it seems like another lifetime.. I remember sitting around with some friends one very late Friday night, watching "Goodnight L.A." (a local music video show on KABC-TV in Los Angeles), and out of the blue this comes on...

According to newspapers the next day, KABC got thousands of phone calls from outraged viewers. The video (especially the last few minutes) was intense stuff for broadcast TV in 1984, and it got "Goodnight L.A." pulled permanently off the air.

 
Never 'til this moment, actually.

I was one of the 'disco sucks!' crowd, too busy listening to The Sex Pistols, The Damned, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex, Black Flag, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Minutemen, The Dead Kennedys, Wire, The Boomtown Rats, The Saints, Deaf School, Captain Beefheart, Generation X, Mars, The Skids, Stiff Little Fingers, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Undertones, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Bauhaus, X, The Jam, Roxy Music, Gang Of Four, The Vibrators, Simple Minds, The Cramps, The New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, The Adverts, T.Rex, The Cure, Devo, Squeeze, The Specials, Magazine, The Dead Boys, The Pretenders, Public Image Ltd., XTC, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Wayne/Jayne County, The Suicide Commandos, Pere Ubu, The Replacements, The Stranglers, Joy Division, Slade, The Germs, Suicide, Mission of Burma, The B-52s, The Fall, Gary Numan, The Psychedelic Furs, The Go-Betweens, Rich Kids, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Television, Husker Du and Wire to notice, I guess.
 
Hey Frig

I was not part of the disco sucks crowd but also listened to the music you mentioned. Another one of the groups of that time was the Specials. Do you remember this one?

 
Laundress

Great song! Like others, I have it saved as a favorite on YouTube and listen to it often. Here's another one from that time period.

 
1346143561356775671345647143561346 years ago...

Jeeeeze, when did I become this old :(

"Although I must admit some reluctance in considering 1979 waaaaaay back!"

THANK YOU!!!
 
Good One!

aaaaah The Saint, the Limelight, the Spike, Pieces, Uncle Charlie's, the Ninth Circle, Breadstix, the Silver Lining, the Roxy........

Tea dance at the Boatslip........
Georgie's Alibi, the Copa.....

*SIGH*

 
Protect your box, honey!

OMG here is one that takes me back to Tea at The Boatslip in Provincetown, MA

Cool breeze. No A/C, the smell of the water,
Booze, sweat, cologne, cigarettes, leather
"Aromatic video-head cleaner and room deodorizer."

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
omg i only knew 2 songs from the links you guys put but they were all good and damn did it take me back! the first one about dirty sheets i didnt like at all listening to the lyrics and reading them it just NO LOL but i luv the rest! and so i will contribute to this with a a vdi/song that takes me back when i was a kid this was the jam back when i lived in the gun hill rd section of the bronx by the 5 train ahh the memories my radio on our whirlpool belt drive washer and its dark brown vinyl cover LOL!

 
Also by Stewart. The Letter. Better than the original, IMO.

Look out for "Jealousy", also by Stewart.

She was very young and beautiful at the time these were made, and a good dancer too!

 
Someone wrote that Disco is the closest thing we have to "gay music". I have to agree.

Here is another flawless classic. Disco is right up there with vacuum cleaners and Joan Crawford as one of my favorite things!

 
The first time I heard There But For the Grace of God,I was at The Pink Hippopotamis(The Hippo)at Charles and Eager Streets on top of one of the tall speakers topless with my "Daisy Dukes" on,a turquoise bandanna wrapped around my head and a long(2") red flickering light ear ring whirling,hopping and twirling uncontrolably until the music stopped.I still Have that 12" on CD along with hundreds of songs from that era."Menergy",Rocket to Your Heart","Harmony","High Energy","Right on Target"and "P.A.S.S.I.O.N." are all fabulous songs that would litteraly pull me right on to the dance floor like a brand new 1958 Electrolux on full blast.I could be conversing with the most gorgious guy in the club.But,if one of those songs started blasting,I'd be the first to run not walk onto the floor to whirl and twirl!Sometimes,Chuck Parsons(the D.J.at the Hippo for decades)would tease me while getting ready to switch tunes and I'd run out to find him playing a different song then the one he had previously tempted me to dance to.He'd always wait untill my arival to play my favorite tunes!I miss that era more than any other time of my life.I was well liked,popular and happy.
 
Anybody here remember "Red Light Lover","Sinderella","Do Ya Wanna Funk?",Den Harro,"Mother Africa","The Hills of Katmando","Jump Shout","Homosexuality"or "Love in the Shadows"?
I loved Den harrow's songs all about automation and dance.I used to have the double 12"album"The Hills of Katmandu"but lost it probably forever.It was one of my favorites because every song had its own rhythm and the words were real sooyhing to my soul.
 

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