Word: disco
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From 1948 to 1978, from bebop to the twist to disco, Seeburg was the jukebox king, selling more boxes to more bars, restaurants and soda shops than any other firm. But in 1979 Seeburg filed for reorganization under the bankruptcy laws. Like its competitors, the company had been hurt by its dependence on 45- r.p.m. records, which today account for only 5% of the record and tape market...
...adults in the privacy of a concert hall. Gordon, 35, and Zorn, 33, are both members of Manhattan's explosive avant-garde art-rock scene, reveling in hot-wired Farfisas, electric guitars, saxophones and synthesizers. But, as David Byrne says, this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent, a collection of ten tracks, has the electrified, hypnotic, postminimalist drive familiar to mainstream audiences from the Talking Heads, but with a rougher, anarchic bite. Indeed, the album is a Who's Who of the downtown crowd: one song...
...Landis' career, which took off after his epochal 1978 film Animal House. In that picture, we were told, "It was the Deltas against the rules. And the rules lost." Since then, Landis has continued to break rules, whether by making an R&B picture during the height of disco (1980's The Blues Brothers) or by running roughshod over MTV's 3-minute video format with a 20-minute musical short subject (Michael Jackson's Thriller...
...real draw for Disney is a potentially huge market for the 8,000-odd different consumer products that the entertainment conglomerate sells. Among them: the Mickey Mouse Disco album, Gummi Bears toys and Pinocchio ceramic miniatures...
...made Heads songs like this so insinuating -- so persistent, so haunting -- was not just their edginess but their off-kilter humor. A verse full of imminent violence could almost scar you with surprise, scare you from laughing. Then a chorus ("This ain't no party, this ain't no disco,/ This ain't no fooling around"/ This ain't the Mudd Club, or CBGB/ I ain't got time for that now") comes bouncing in to turn everything inside out and dare...