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Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
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Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
Wednesday Oct 24, 2018
What was in the water in ’82-’83? I wasn’t paying attention to year when I picked or assembled this lot, and I was quite surprised when I was doing the IDs how song after song was coming out of 1983. The idea here—no surprise given what we’re currently going through—was partisanship, tribalism, factions. Disco tended to promote one big happy familyism, but it was certainly segmented and celebrated its tribes. I steered away from ethnicity here and went instead for socio-economic-genderpolitick divides. And I came up with some lulus. The snake-handling disco of Leon Patillo (a Santana associate of all things) would be unmanageable except it’s just so damn choice, especially that Bacharach-inspired trumpet at the end. And it kind of pains me to make dear Agnetha our poster girl for white-privilege cluelessness, but you, if the clog fits…. I have had a tendency to dismiss Latimore, but Redneck is a genuine keeper. I’m surprised I’m this late getting to it. A sub-theme of this podcast is copycat songs (back to ’83). Working Girl is She Works Hard for the Money writ small, so they jam together nicely and I think amplify each other. (The mansplaining of “instead of talking, tell me what to do” grates, but we still had a way to woke back then.) Given that everybody and his brother ripped off Bobby O (the mastermind behind One Two Three), I almost wondered if the Human League ripped off Runaway. Turns out HL got there two years prior, but I can’t fault BO for this swipe because I think it’s a good one. And he was owed. And dear, dear Miss Piggy. How I wanted her to run in and karate chop f*cking Brett Kavagonads in his f*cking tight little beer-loving, privileged puss.
Chic Cheer—Chic ’78 / Peoples Party—Gonzalez ’79 There’s a Redneck in the Soul Band—Latimore ’75 / These Signs—Leon Patillo ’79 Gotta Get My Hands on Some—Fatback ’80 / I Am What I Am—Gloria Gaynor ’83 Working Girl—Cheri ’83 / She Works Hard for the Money—Donna Summer ’83 It’s So Nice to Be Rich—Agnetha Fältskog ’83 / Runaway—One Two Three ’83 Native Love—Divine ’82 / Brainy Children—High Fashion ’82 Livin’ in the Jungle—City Streets ’79 / Fashion Pack—Amanda Lear ’79 Freaky People—Crowd Pleasers ’79 / She’s Not a Disco Lady—D.D. Sound ’78 Exercise Your Rights—Miss Piggy ’82
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