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Track Listings
| 1. Merry Making At My Place |
| 2. Colours |
| 3. This Is Industry |
| 4. The Girls |
| 5. Acceptable In the 80's |
| 6. Neon Rocks |
| 7. Traffic Cops |
| 8. Vegas |
| 9. I Created Disco |
| 10. Disco Heat |
| 11. Vault Character |
| 12. Certified |
| 13. Love Souvenir |
| 14. Electro Man |
Product Description
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It takes a special sort of guts to call your debut album I Created Disco, but that’s Calvin Harris all over. Hailing from Dumfries, Scotland, Harris comes on not unlike a day-glo cross between Les Rythmes Digitales, Prince and Mike ‘The Streets’ Skinner, dropping witty rhymes and sweet falsetto melodies atop chunky, ‘80s influenced electro-pop. "Merrymaking at My Place" is an all-back-to-mine anthem built from digital squeaks and a palpitating disco bassline that sees Harris leading the party in swaggering geezer manner. "Vegas" is as close as you’ll get to a bassbin-shaking ghetto anthem when you hail from north of Hadrian’s Wall. And "Colours" is a cheeky plea to any potential girlfriend that they dress to impress: "Get some colours on!" Rumour has it Harris has been recording with Kylie, and it’s easy to believe. Much like his lyrics, you see, these tracks are simple, but undeniably effective. Excellent breakthrough single "Acceptable In The ‘80s" bumps along with exactly the right mix of retro cheese and modern production gleam, while the title track pits stonking basslines and electronic whooshes against an amusing monologue about how Harris did, in fact, create disco. You won’t believe him, exactly, but he’s certainly got the patter. -- Louis Pattison
Review
On I Created Disco Calvin Harris has exquisitely tailored a calm, considered rumination on life's great upheavals inspired by the works of great literary talents like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Chehkov. In a subtle, poignant and trenchant work he toys with themes that!blah, blah, blah.
Scottish irony loon and post-modern blockrocker Calvin Harris doesn't do anything as effete and pointless as depth, but then, why should he? Depth and dance music, post-James Brown, are almost always mutually exclusive.
Dance music should make you want to dance, possibly sing, and jump around with your friends and loved ones. That is why it exists. Great dance music can be more then a whopping great mass of spine-cracking beats with a few hooks and a colossal bassline but those are its only essential components.
Every tune-crazy raver was sucked by the kitsch thrills of ''Acceptable In The 80s'', a whopping floorfiller with three layers of catchy synth riffs, and a bassline so mighty it'd turn Leonard Cohen into a junglist.
That legendary, retro-as-legwarmers hit appears here and it has plenty of booming compadres. There's the dirty booty electro of ''Vegas'', the growling LCD Soundsystem low-end of ''Merrymaking In My Place'' and ''Colours'', which steals from Visage's 'Fade To Grey' on its chorus motif. Elsewhere the fingerprints of Daft Punk's Discovery album and Giorgio Moroder's sweaty palms are all over this debut offering.
It helps that Calvin has a sense of humour. After all it's unlikely he actually created disco, considering it was conceived a good few years before he was. And those lyrics: 'I'll do things for you/if you were born in the '80s.' Nice one, Calv'. Wanna come round and mow the lawn?
This LP really only has one glitterball of an idea, but it's an idea put to great use. If you're getting ready for a big night out or just on one (if you see what I mean), you'll whoop with joy when the Scot comes through the speakers.
So what if the chav-disco here is as camp as Kylie? Calv's helping produce her next record. Lucky, lucky, lucky for some. --Lou Thomas
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There's no doubting the popularity of this guy. He's everywhere!
And good luck to him, he's had a couple of excellent singles and now he has his all-important album.
This could have been a 5 star album but there are a couple of tracks which are a let down.
But i'm not one to dwell on negatives, i talk about positives, and there are plenty of these on here.
We all know Acceptable In The 80's and The Girls, but the tracks that really stand out include Colours, I Created Disco (my personal fav!) Disco Heat + Certified (a Mylo esque track).
Also worth a mention is Vegas, which is a cheeky edit of Acceptable In The 80's. Very similar track, but it's still v. good!
Recommended definitly for the music, but also just for the fact that he is dance music's biggest star at present, and you might want to know what all the fuss it about.
And good luck to him, he's had a couple of excellent singles and now he has his all-important album.
This could have been a 5 star album but there are a couple of tracks which are a let down.
But i'm not one to dwell on negatives, i talk about positives, and there are plenty of these on here.
We all know Acceptable In The 80's and The Girls, but the tracks that really stand out include Colours, I Created Disco (my personal fav!) Disco Heat + Certified (a Mylo esque track).
Also worth a mention is Vegas, which is a cheeky edit of Acceptable In The 80's. Very similar track, but it's still v. good!
Recommended definitly for the music, but also just for the fact that he is dance music's biggest star at present, and you might want to know what all the fuss it about.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Calvin Harris arguably produced one of the best dance tunes of 2007 with 'Acceptable In The 80s'. With its very retro synth lines, catchy vocal hook and commercial appeal, the track caught the imagination of the nation. The debut album, therefore, was expected to continue that trend.
What we get, however, is dull electro trash that is as pointless as it is boring, with tracks that lack little imagination and substance. The album starts well with the catchy, funky 'Merrymaking At My Place', but it all goes slowly downhill from there. 'Colours' starts well but ends up going round in a boring loop, and the same can be said for 'The Industry', 'Traffic Cops' and the abysmal 'Electro Man'.
There are flashes of brilliance - the well thought out and produced title track 'I Created Disco' and the funky 'Disco Heat' with it's disco inspired guitar hooks spring to mind. But even these can't detract from the feel of the album being full of fillers, tracks that start well but end up going nowhere. And ironically it's a track that sounds like an edgier version of Acceptable In The 80s 'Vegas' that is the highlight of the album.
'Acceptable In The 80s' set such a high benchmark - it's disappointing that 'I Created Disco' falls way short.
What we get, however, is dull electro trash that is as pointless as it is boring, with tracks that lack little imagination and substance. The album starts well with the catchy, funky 'Merrymaking At My Place', but it all goes slowly downhill from there. 'Colours' starts well but ends up going round in a boring loop, and the same can be said for 'The Industry', 'Traffic Cops' and the abysmal 'Electro Man'.
There are flashes of brilliance - the well thought out and produced title track 'I Created Disco' and the funky 'Disco Heat' with it's disco inspired guitar hooks spring to mind. But even these can't detract from the feel of the album being full of fillers, tracks that start well but end up going nowhere. And ironically it's a track that sounds like an edgier version of Acceptable In The 80s 'Vegas' that is the highlight of the album.
'Acceptable In The 80s' set such a high benchmark - it's disappointing that 'I Created Disco' falls way short.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
good album.does what it says on the tin.if you like, or ever liked dance music, you will like this.best thing rolf harris has come up with! good stuff
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booooooring!
weeeeeel, should i go into the details, i think i need a prep to even open my eyelids from the flys in poverty of the slowness and boring ideas in this brain - drain rubbish album... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Masters Student, Mssrs.
He Created Disco that is Not Worth Banging On About
Calvin Harris is probably best described as one of those musicians who have found better exposure in collaborating with other performers over the years, creating entertaining... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Andy Norton
Cardboard cover
I already had the normal version of the album, but Glow in the Dark seemed cool to me so I bought it. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Daan Vink
One dimensional and largely uninspiring.
I Created Disco is the rather pretentious (albeit knowingly) title for Mr Harris' album, which includes the hits Acceptable in the 80's (which is admittedly brilliant)and the so-so... Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2009 by T. West
Better late than never ?
I knew I liked most of the album before I bought it, and it basically was just what I expected. Unfortunately, the couple of tracks I didn't know felt like just fillers, and some... Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2009 by Barry Allport
calvin harris cd
amazing album
i would reccomend to any music lover. Essential to any collection.
i would reccomend to any music lover. Essential to any collection.
Published on 19 Nov 2009 by Ms. H. Byrne
The Nathan Barley of Dumfries
There's no doubt Calvin Harris knows his way around a beat, although this is actually the sort of album that gets less persausive with repeated listening. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2009 by J. Jenkins
Some good songs.
After seeing calvin harris at last years Big Weekend i knew i had to buy the album eventually. Finally got around to it last week and i wish id bought it earlier!
Published on 17 May 2009 by Steve
Great album!
Reading some of the reviews I was a bit thoughtful,but,as I just adore "Acceptible in the 80's",had to buy the album anyway. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2008 by Ruta Studente
CALVIN HARRIS - I CREATED DISCO
Love all the singles, found the album really lazy on the ear. I really wanted to like Calvin but found it really hard. Read more
Published on 7 Sep 2007 by Mr. D. J. Langley
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