(November 18, 2014 at 6:40 pm)abaris Wrote:

(November 18, 2014 at 6:38 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Oh and if anyone likes the Foo Fighters, they have admitted that they were influenced by the Bee Gees and ABBA.

Not sure if I can excuse the Bee Gees.

I am old enough to know their sexuality had NOTHING to do with their fame. All the chicks loved the Bee Gees and I wanted to be them back then. That suit and that dance floor. Saturday Night Fever was the chick magnet movie and the Bee Gees were chick magnet music.

(November 18, 2014 at 6:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am old enough to know their sexuality had NOTHING to do with their fame. All the chicks loved the Bee Gees and I wanted to be them back then. That suit and that dance floor. Saturday Night Fever was the chick magnet movie and the Bee Gees were chick magnet music.

I wasn't talking about their sexuality, I was talking about their music. At least what they did in the late 70ies. If we're talking the 60ies, they had one or two excusable songs.

(November 18, 2014 at 6:41 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: 'As I grow older and older / And totter towards the tomb / I find that I care less and less / Who goes to bed with whom.' - Dorothy Parker

I suspect that, one day, alpha male will be beaten to death by a heterosexual male ABBA fan.

Boru

To quote Colonel Jessup from "A Few Good Men" upon asking if he ordered the code red.

"YOU'RE GOD DAMNED RIGHT I DID"

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(November 18, 2014 at 6:50 pm)abaris Wrote:

(November 18, 2014 at 6:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I am old enough to know their sexuality had NOTHING to do with their fame. All the chicks loved the Bee Gees and I wanted to be them back then. That suit and that dance floor. Saturday Night Fever was the chick magnet movie and the Bee Gees were chick magnet music.

I wasn't talking about their sexuality, I was talking about their music. At least what they did in the late 70ies. If we're talking the 60ies, they had one or two excusable songs.

Not lumping you with others in this thread. I actually get it more just in terms of taste the rejection of the Bee Gees. I do think disco in general was a victim of it's own success, regardless of band name. ABBA alone was more of a range than they were known for. And even the Bee Gees got a bad wrap.

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(November 18, 2014 at 6:24 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:

(November 18, 2014 at 4:49 pm)alpha male Wrote: "Male ABBA fans are fags" - Unknown

Ah, yes - pre-teen schoolyard insults. How very grown-up of you.

What's next? A wedgie? Run his pants up the flagpole?

Thanks for coming to my defense, but I can handle idiots like this on my own. I am not in grade school either.

(November 18, 2014 at 6:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Not lumping you with others in this thread. I actually get it more just in terms of taste the rejection of the Bee Gees. I do think disco in general was a victim of it's own success, regardless of band name. ABBA alone was more of a range than they were known for. And even the Bee Gees got a bad wrap.

You know, when I was in my teens, I hated disco. But asked now, I don't find it that bad.

Maybe some kind of nostalgia, maybe it wasn't so bad after all and I didn't understand it back then. But that would require a different thread. I don't want to be the one to derail this one.

Btw. The Bee Gees in the 70ies still aren't my cup of tea.

And to add to my previous unfamous quote: Elton John rules too - me. Pretty sure, I can come up with many other rulers, given time.

(November 18, 2014 at 7:03 pm)abaris Wrote:

(November 18, 2014 at 6:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Not lumping you with others in this thread. I actually get it more just in terms of taste the rejection of the Bee Gees. I do think disco in general was a victim of it's own success, regardless of band name. ABBA alone was more of a range than they were known for. And even the Bee Gees got a bad wrap.

You know, when I was in my teens, I hated disco. But asked now, I don't find it that bad.

Maybe some kind of nostalgia, maybe it wasn't so bad after all and I didn't understand it back then. But that would require a different thread. I don't want to be the one to derail this one.

Btw. The Bee Gees in the 70ies still aren't my cup of tea.

It really has to do with anything in life. When we get used to a pattern, anything that does not fit with that pattern will come across as bad or wrong, when in reality most of the time it is merely a difference in our range of behavior as a species.

I loved disco as a kid, I turned on it because of social norms that came about in the 80s, but even in that rejection, there was overlap between the eras that lead me to the music I took to.

Debbie Harry and Blondie could hardly be called disco but "Heart of Glass" and "Rapture" were obviously influenced by disco. And saxophone was heavy in disco carried over to rock, in bands like Quarter Flash and Foreigner and Billy Joel and the Eagles. That lead me to Styx and Reo Speadwagon, then to Metallica and even modern Jazz such as Sanborn and Candy Dulpher and Manhattan Transfer.

(November 18, 2014 at 7:16 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I loved disco as a kid, I turned on it because of social norms that came about in the 80s, but even in that rejection, there was overlap between the eras that lead me to the music I took to.

Debbie Harry and Blondie could hardly be called disco but "Heart of Glass" and "Rapture" were obviously influenced by disco. And saxophone was heavy in disco carried over to rock, in bands like Quarter Flash and Foreigner. That lead me to Styx and Reo Speadwagon, then to Metallica and even modern Jazz such as Sanborn and Candy Dulpher and Manhattan Transfer.

Well, you're mentioning a lot of blasts from the past.

I liked Blondie with heart of glass and Rapture. I guess, it also has to do with the three year age gap between us. And with the fact of me having a brother being 15 years my senior. I virtually learned to walk to the sound of bands from the 60ies.

The Bee Gees never captured me, even though I now look at Amii Stewarts rendition of Knock on Wood favorably. I guess it boils down to personal taste.

(November 18, 2014 at 7:23 pm)abaris Wrote:

(November 18, 2014 at 7:16 pm)Brian37 Wrote: I loved disco as a kid, I turned on it because of social norms that came about in the 80s, but even in that rejection, there was overlap between the eras that lead me to the music I took to.

Debbie Harry and Blondie could hardly be called disco but "Heart of Glass" and "Rapture" were obviously influenced by disco. And saxophone was heavy in disco carried over to rock, in bands like Quarter Flash and Foreigner. That lead me to Styx and Reo Speadwagon, then to Metallica and even modern Jazz such as Sanborn and Candy Dulpher and Manhattan Transfer.

Well, you're mentioning a lot of blasts from the past.

I liked Blondie with heart of glass and Rapture. I guess, it also has to do with the three year age gap between us. And with the fact of me having a brother being 15 years my senior. I virtually learned to walk to the sound of bands from the 60ies.

The Bee Gees never captured me, even though I now look at Amii Stewarts rendition of Knock on Wood favorably. I guess it boils down to personal taste.

You are talking to a guy that fell in love with any female back then with big hair. Ironically I was back then in love with Frida when everyone else was in love with Agnetha, the blond of ABBA, but as time went on I was in love with Farrah Fawcett from Carlie's angels, then to Louise English one of the "Benny Hill's Angels" to Stephanie Kramer from the cop show "Hunter" to Pat Benatar in Music.

(November 18, 2014 at 6:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote:

(November 18, 2014 at 6:24 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Ah, yes - pre-teen schoolyard insults. How very grown-up of you.

What's next? A wedgie? Run his pants up the flagpole?

Thanks for coming to my defense, but I can handle idiots like this on my own. I am not in grade school either.

Brian, I don't have time to defend you. I'm too busy insulting John.

(November 18, 2014 at 7:31 pm)Brian37 Wrote: You are talking to a guy that fell in love with any female back then with big hair. Ironically I was back then in love with Frida when everyone else was in love with Agnetha, the blond of ABBA, but as time went on I was in love with Farrah Fawcett from Carlie's angels, then to Louise English one of the "Benny Hill's Angels" to Stephanie Kramer from the cop show "Hunter" to Pat Benatar in Music.

I for one was smitten with Debby Harris. And Pat Benatar certainly is another blast from the past. Together with Suzy Quatro.

Suzi Quatro...

drooooool......