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Death Disco: Songs From Under The Dance Floor 1978-1984
 
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Death Disco: Songs From Under The Dance Floor 1978-1984 [CD]

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (23 Feb 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: EMI Records
  • ASIN: B0000C4LX3
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 29,845 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Taking it's title from the P.I.L track, this collection is an eclectic mix of "songs from under the dance floor" (Shame they didn't include Magazine's "Song From Under The Floorboards").
Any album that features P.I.L, Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire is bound to be great and I'm delighted to have The Normal's "Warm Leatherette" and Electric Dread's "Haile Unlikely" on CD as my vinyl copies are well played. I was a bit surprised by the inclusion of The Lounge Lizards and Arto Lindsay, as they seem a bit out of place but it is still an excellent compilation.
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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By Jason Parkes #1 HALL OF FAME
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Death Disco, subtitled 'Songs from Under the Dancefloor 1978-1984', is a wonderfully-priced compilation of the post-punk era. Very timely when you consider the hip-things of the last few years- Colder, Radio 4, The Rapture, Franz Ferdinand- have all been distintly post-punk. This could have been a Nuggets for that era, from just after punk (hence the post-tag- though of course Paul Morley more accurately coined 'post-Abba', as there probably was 'post Chic')- but licensing and the compilation being limited to one disc restrict that. However, this & the Rough Trade: Post-Punk 1 compilation would probably be ideal.

This was an era where the DIY-ethos of punk crashed into a revolutionary idea of music- within a few years the Chuck Berry/Eddie Cochran-isms of early Clash & Sex Pistols were traded for a far more adventerous music, of which much is here. January's PIL-covered Mojo contained a good piece on this & the ideal compilation by Jon Savage (someone release this!)- so finally we reach a point in retro-dom where the music has a sense of eclectism & futurism!

Hard to fault the selection here really!- it opens on PIL's Death Disco, one of the greatest tracks from their masterpiece Metal Box (aka Second Edition)- the classic Lydon/Levene/Wobble combine with Can&dub influences to record one of the most emotional songs (alongside Theme) that Lydon has written. The compilation then veers between expected names (Cabaret Voltaire, XTC, The Human League, Heaven 17) with the slightly more obscure (Throbbing Gristle, Rip Rig & Panic, a track from Eno/Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts & even a track from The Higsons!). It's always great to have Daniel Miller's Ballard-influenced electronic classic Warm Leatherette (later covered by Grace Jones)- easily as significant as Autobahn or I Feel Love. Even better is the inclusion of Simple Minds' 1981-instrumental Theme for Great Cities- one of their greatest tracks from their career peak 1980-1982 (& one that rather predicts Radiohead's 2003 offering Where I End & You Begin!). Another personal favourite is Gang of Four's I Love a Man in Uniform (from 1982's Songs of the Free)- a perfect song which balanced funk & pop and has a very now militarist-lyric ("I got into camoflage...the girls they love to see you shoot!): what referenced the Falklands could very well stand for Iraq. This was the point where funk & pop began to overwhelm post-punk and one that lead to directions such as ABC's Beautystab and bands like Shriekback (as well as the Entryist-New Pop).

Odd that with the subtitle of this record nodding to Magazine's Song from Under the Floorboards & yet no Magazine is here- tracks like The Light Pours Out of Me, Rhythm of Cruelty, TV Baby & their cover of Thank You all should have found a place here (especially when The Buzzcocks are also here!). & there are many other missing possibilities: Japan (Life in Tokyo), Wire (Map Ref), The Pop Group (She is Beyond Good & Evil), New Order (Everything's Gone Green), OMD (Electricity), Soft Cell (Memorabilia), The Slits (Typical Girls), Josef-K (Sorry for Laughing), Orange Juice (Bridge), Associates (The Associate), The Men's I Don't Depend On You...& further more: no ACR, Durutti Column, Sandinista!-Clash, The Au Pairs...there's a lot missing here- despite that a great compilation that serves as a great reminder of the most inventive period in British music...

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other times,other (odd?) sounds...some call it music but u can call it want you want, I call it: psychodelicousfunkpunk.

grtz from Belgium
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