Word: disco
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...graceful vocal harmony and some fine guitar leads with the album's usual set of jazz instruments to weave a fluent, atriking cut. "Peg" is that cute tune to which all the top-fortyettes will bump. Peg," despite its true quality, approaches the barrier between easy-listening-jazz and disco. The "Disco Dan" concept puts a damper on the album, raising doubts as to whether or not this band will in fact "die behind the wheel...
...Allegro Spurioso'--that's the punkdisco-reggae hit that can't seem to leave everybody's lips as they exeunt omnes from Paine Hall each Tuesday and Thursday. Yes, it's 'Disco Music 1,' and, with Disco still riding the crest of popularity that made "A Fifth of Beethoven" a fave-rave among Music concentrators a few years back, this little oeuvre of a gem of a course may very well make it into the Confi Guide next year. That thumping bass, those strings-from-outa-nowhere--Garshk-only-knows ol' Schubert--if he had it to do all over...
...Signs up to take Music 1--"A Survey of Western Music"--Pass/Fail, no less, and now he claims to be an expert on the whole sweep of Western Music and stuff. On top of that, he's convinced that all they're playing in there is the "extended-play," disco versions of the classics. Not even six weeks in there, and already he's Murray the K, up on his high moped. This friend of mine, he couldn't tell an E-Flat Sonata from E. Frank Sinatra from a can of V-Flat Soda, just between...
OPULAR MUSIC serves as the timepiece of our decade, measuring attitudinal changes just as a watch compartmentalizes the day. A gaudy but serviceable Timex wristband adequately registers the influence of dull disco and pathological punk. But shoved into a corner as a well-burnished antique, a grandfather clock represents the dignified sobriety of the protest song. With the re-emergence of topical songwriter Tom Paxton, protest music avoids becoming totally anachronistic. On his latest album, New Songs From the Briarpatch, Paxton proves that the '70s cannot excape untouched by barbed balladry...
...also has not overcome the problem of integrating into a whole the varied subjects and formats of the adopted pieces. Blackouts are used too frequently for transition between numbers instead of more refined staging and lighting. At times the structure disappears, turning Nightclub Cantata into Up With People gone disco...