Disco Sucks and Disco Demolition
Episode 227 of Sunshine After Dark is a documentary feature examining the Disco Sucks phenomenon and the Disco Demolition promotional event, which took place at a White Sox baseball game at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois on July 12, 1979. I trace the emergence of anti-disco sentiment through comic parody songs: Homemade Theatre - Disco Tech (1976) Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots - Disco Duck (1976) polemic punk songs: Jimi Lalumia & Pyschotic Frogs - Death to Disco (Disco Sucks) (1977) D.O.A. - Disco Sucks (1978) and Steve Dahl's parody of Rod Stewart: Steve Dahl & Teenage Radiation - Do You Think I'm Disco? (1979) I close with the best musical rebuttal I can think of: Shirley and Company - Shame, Shame, Shame (1974) which includes the line: "Shame on you, if you can't dance too." ------------------------------------- The show features clips from news broadcasts and other YouTube videos, which I believe I am using unde