disco sucks

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon
was one of the best albums
to have sex with.
That and Led Zeppelin IV
among other rock albums
that were voted best albums
to have sex with.
I suck at dancing in all forms.
Like music that has testosterone
takes you places and have fun.
Dancing is stupid.
Rock and roll had sex appeal.
Hip hop and rap is dead.
House music you dance
like a reject on drugs
just like disco
three decades before.



The comments I read here
are just ridiculous
and clearly based on ignorance.
If you did not live in Chicago
and were in your late teens
at this time then
you have no basis for commenting.
I was at this event
and it is one of the greatest things
that has ever happenned at Comiskey Park.
It was not targeting Gay Culture...
there WAS no visible Gay Culture
in Chicago at that time.
It was NOT targetting black musicians...
the BeeGees and John Travolta
were the faces of Disco
at that time.



We were simply Heavy-Metal
fans who felt
that it was our responsibility
to hasten the death
of a musical genre
whose time had past.
Disco Demolition did
indeed mark the end
of Disco music
until it was later revived
(in a minor way)
by popular Gay Culture.
It is also a fact
that the White Sox were 22 games
out of first at the All Star break.
Having an event between double-header games
and making the entrance fee $0.98
was the only way to fill
this ballpark in those days.



"Ben Eastman observed while we watched a second round game in San Juan that we won't fully understand the euphoria of the fans dressing in national team emblems -- game jerseys or t-shrits, with flags or team names blazoned, hats with country flags or replica flags -- until we can connect their particular intensity with the events on the field and their relations to those events. Without reviewing the history of crowds (for a strong and probing discussion see Stanley Tambiah's Leveling Crowds), sports crowds have, I think, a longing for rapture. Fans hope for the moment of unity, collected will, that dissolves mundane concerns and limits. The crowd heightens the experience of the fan, especially in the roar when a key event changes their team's fortunes, or caps them with significant victory. The commodious inner world of the ballpark has somehow gained a particular poignancy for a national imaginary hungry to affiliate with victory."

John D. Kelly The American Game:
Capitalism, Decolonialization, World Domination, and Baseball
p139