Is the Death of Disco an Analogy to Trump
Derangement Syndrome?
PJ Media,
by
Greg Byrnes
Original Article
Posted By: 4250Luis,
7/13/2024 6:57:51 AM
July 12, 1979, is a date that lives in baseball infamy. It is also a turning point in modern music history. That the two converged on the ball field on the Southwest side of Chicago is strange indeed. When you think of landmarks in pop music, the now-demolished Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox, doesn't come quickly to mind. But could the "happening" on that day give us a window into one of the strangest cultural oddities of our day, Trump Derangement Syndrome?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
petrichor 7/13/2024 7:29:49 AM (No. 1755304)
Stories of that night often ignore the waft of reefer smoke that permeated the stands. I was one of the crowd that went to see a Tiger-Sox twi-nighter. When they let people enter the part with those records (potential frisbees) I knew it would all go downhill.
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chumley 7/13/2024 7:33:18 AM (No. 1755307)
Someone has really run out of things to write about.
Back then I hated disco. I was a classic rock guy and disco was something like the death screams of livestock. Nowadays I love it. There were some amazing voices singing, the lyrics were generally warm and innocent, and the girl's hair, makeup and outfits stunning. Far better than the tattooed, pierced and vulgar trash we get now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/13/2024 8:26:08 AM (No. 1755349)
No.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/13/2024 9:09:35 AM (No. 1755374)
Silly article about the death of no-talent, assembly line music that died a well-deserved death. However, if Disco was a fever, the following infestation of the plague known as Rap far exceeded it in general nausea. I was a denizen of Georgetown at the time when the popular clubs abruptly switched from black lights, tank tops and great Janis Joplin/Jim Morrison music to disco clothes, dress codes and cover charges at the door. Not a pleasant time.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/13/2024 10:12:58 AM (No. 1755417)
We can only hope TDF will alos suffer the death of disco. Unfortunately, the left is too stupid to realize their policies suck. I knew people that loved disco, I hated it, I like classic rock. Chicago was a lawless town even back in 1979. It was a D'Rat stronghold many years before this Cominski Park foolisness.
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NamVet70 7/13/2024 10:15:01 AM (No. 1755419)
I know some people who still suffer from TDS and it is really sad to see. Pray for them.
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Dahl was asked, afterwards, about the home team having to forfeit the second game because of his stunt. His response: "The Sox would have lost anyway." As for disco, it absolutely destroyed my college years. What should have been 4 years of sexual hedonism - weren't, as I stuck to my rock-and-roll principles and refused to play the game. Never once dressed up like a peacock and acted stupid on a disco floor. And I respectfully disagree with #4 (a fellow rocker) in that what followed wasn't rap (that garbage didn't fully take root until much later), but the punk invasion ("invasion" - the Brits somehow got the credit even though the Ramones created it) which was the over-the-edge antidote needed to drive disco from the scene. Mission accomplished, punk then morphed into new wave and one of the true golden eras of pop culture. The girls may have been stunning during the disco years, but they were perfect during the Reagan years. Back to the article, disco was an illness that was destroying American society. No, Greg, today's Donald Trump would have recognized it for what it was and led the crowds onto the field at Comiskey. The Johnny Rotten of our time..
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RubiconDan 7/13/2024 10:23:59 AM (No. 1755428)
I could not stand disco then. I kind of like it now. Funny how things change. Of course I still like classic rock and blues and bluegrass and some folk.
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JHHolliday 7/13/2024 10:46:39 AM (No. 1755442)
I never had any hate for disco. A few of the songs were good and good listening. Now, rap and heavy metal are something else...gangsta krep with lyrics that are disgusting and encourage the lowlifes into violence and the metal stuff is just discordant with sounds that make no musical sense.
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Skinnydip 7/13/2024 11:00:10 AM (No. 1755447)
One of the biggest disappointments in my life was not buying the "Disco Sucks" t-shirt saw in a shop on Bourbon Street. But I sure am grateful that I grew up with blues and rock and roll, the greatest music ever.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/13/2024 12:04:30 PM (No. 1755493)
Had never heard this story, but I loved disco. Still love the BeeGees and others.
Chicago is a stupid place. Rap is probably still in there...
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