My experience with disco goes as far as seeing Saturday Night Fever a few times. "You Should Be Dancing" is still one of my favorite songs.

I was in a rock & roll band then, too, and I hit the discos a few times, but most of that time I was already dating someone, so I didn't need to go find a woman. I still hate a lot of the disco.

Disco Music is great music to get hot and sweaty and get inhibitions lowered. ?

Disco was awesome. Dancing. Big hair. Having a great time. It was never meant to be great music. Disco was dancing and fashioning and laughing and having a great time.

I wasn’t around for any of it but I gathered the opinion that disco sucked when I was delving into classic rock too. But then I fell in love with funk, and realized that disco and funk weren’t too far apart: it’s a little simpler rhythmically, not as much synchopation and focused more on the 4 on the floor rhythm. A few more string samples and strong female singers but that diva spirit was sort of the point. It’s simple glittery dance music meant for grooving and when I realized how important it was to the women’s and LGBTQ scene in New York I had a lot more respect for it. Its a form of the punk rock spirit really. Waving your freak flag n not giving a good goddamn or a rusty fuck what anyone has to say about it. And that spirit makes anything groovy, whether it be hip hop or outlaw country. Even the Grateful Dead wrote a funk/disco song.

I still love disco. My sister and I loved to dance; and we made sure the guys that danced with us got lots of loving. The ones that said Disco Sucks would sit pouting on the sidelines - and we noticed that when they played rock those guys wouldn't dance to it either. They wouldn't dance to anything but slow songs. I'm sure they turned into a bunch of grumpy hateful old men who still won't dance - their loss!