# The music of the '70s vs. the music of the '80s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115 "2010-07-18T12:04:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115/61 "2010-07-24T13:18:39Z")
Right. [Disco lyrics are always bland and the beat is repetitive](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I) [(and rock lyrics most certainly _never_ are)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOayjt2tGs). And rock instrumentals are always [a bad thing](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpS-cOBK6Q). Got it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115/62 "2010-07-24T13:41:06Z")
Really? That’s your argument? “I found one disco song with a lyric that isn’t about dancing (but which even so still has that boringly repetitive disco beat), and I found one rock song that has a repetitive chorus (even if the rest of the song features non-repetitive lyrics)”? That’s all you’ve got? ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115/63 "2010-07-24T14:03:07Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Really? That’s your argument? “I found one disco song with a lyric that isn’t about dancing (but which even so still has that boringly repetitive disco beat), and I found one rock song that has a repetitive chorus (even if the rest of the song features non-repetitive lyrics)”? > > That’s all you’ve got? Hardly. Good disco songs: [“Knock On Wood”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztZ7WFo3nw), [“Night Fever”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihs-vT9T3Q), [“Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo&feature=avmsc2), [“September”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S8ZrQG0y6g), and [“Don’t Leave Me This Way”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elIVoXUJ4V4) (among many others). Crap rock songs: [“In a Gadda Da Vida”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmkM4v9AaY), [“The Living Years”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k), [“Tones Of Home”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NISeJCeKUgs), [“Walk On the Ocean”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcHB060NKYo), [“The Loco-Motion”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyU4W8iyeI), ["Point Of Know Return’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-R8gHj_7v8). (Really, I could go on. And on. And on, even.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115/64 "2010-07-24T14:23:50Z")
Dude, I’ll concede the point if you’ll promise to stop dredging up horrible videos from the disco era. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![MTCicero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115/65 "2010-07-25T13:20:56Z")
And I’ll renew my assumption that thinly-veiled (or maybe not-so-thinly-veiled) homophobia and racism has an awful lot to do with knee-jerk, out-of-hand dismissal of disco (and dance music in general). _Dude_. 😃 Q.E.D. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115/66 "2010-07-25T13:51:02Z")
Hey, while you are assuming, why not assume you are a billionaire? If you are going to indulge fantasies, pick a good one! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115/67 "2010-07-25T19:00:33Z")
One could argue there is still good disco music being created today: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mPxDfGLbP4E/maxresdefault.jpg "Exodar Disco") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxDfGLbP4E) (Okay, you need to have played WoW to fully appreciate it, but the song is still awesome) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-music-of-the-70s-vs-the-music-of-the-80s/547115.md?page=3)