Friday, July 10, 2009

Feel Good Friday--Disco Sucks Edition

This Sunday will mark the 40-year anniversary of the "Disco Demolition Night" in Chicago, where a publicity stunt inviting punk and metal fans to come to a White Sox doubleheader at Comiskey Park in order to blow up disco records in between the games resulted in a full-on riot.  It was the culmination of a growing backlash against disco music, a once vibrant African-American and Latin music form that had been increasingly co-opted, commercialized, homogenized, and over-saturated by rich whites in the club scene (isn't that the way these things always happen?).  


Here's a song that is widely considered to exemplify the discontent with disco in 1979 prior to the riot.  You can now hear it played at every Titans game after a field goal kick or extra point, because it occurred to someone that "Rob Bironas" rhymes vaguely with "My Sharona."




1 comments:

ForeverWog said...

Great song! Plus, it launched Weird Al's career.