Word: disco
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...hours I broiled in the California sun at the US Festival waiting to get a glimpse of Bowie. I was crushed to discover that Bowie's Ziggy Stardust has been traded for a commercial disco style. Longing to hear Hang On to Yourself and Starman, I heard Let's Dance and other unmemorable tunes. Bowie was such an innovative man whose fantasies shaped the music of others. He should not forget his past...
Last year's dance single "Temptation" was the best of New Order's early forays into disco and probably the best electronic dance music yet made. Its sobriety and minimalism could not hide an incredibly catchy hook and oblique lament that could bring a tear to the eye even while you danced...
...generation rock fandom and by doing that may have poisoned its career. After a Joy Division tinged first album. New Order sped up the beat and resumed its search for "the meaning of life" (as NME so pompously puts it) through the heretofore scorned-upon medium of--gosh, gasp--disco. But it was not disco to send Black music fanatics rushing to cry copycat, rather it was stripped-down, mechanized, hermetic music that was exhilarating despite its coldness...
...Lies--that it is occasionally boring, soupy, and offers little that is new--there is a tangible difference between New Order and your bargain basement synth outfit. New Order exudes an intelligence and depth that gives the sense that Bernard Albrecht and crew are in total control of their disco experiment. But where does that leave the listener...
...diverse but irresistible mix of sounds had brought the kids back not only to the record racks, but to the clubs and the concerts as well. New Music, a blend of soul, rock, reggae and disco set to a synthesized, whipcrack beat, has them buying and dancing again. The robotic rhythms are not a return to the polyester fever of disco, however. "Disco's out," says Arista Records President Clive Davis, "but dancing...