Double Disco Friday: DISCO BOOGIE [2010] and PINK POUNDERS [2010]

It is the first weekend of a new month so we doubled the doseage in your weekly shot of Disco Friday - welcome once again to Double Disco Friday!  Frist up is Disco Boogie which series curator Mr. Pinks describes as a sort of disco post-mortem explaining the music never really died, it just underwent a name change at the dawn of the Eighties.  Here in the States, disco was apparent in the funk and soul of the time and over in Europe, they simply called what was once known as disco, boogie.  Though I never think of "disco" when I hear them, two of my favorite songs of all-time appear on the second disc of Disco Boogie:

Disco Boogie is one of the most sought after volumes in the Disco Discharge series commanding double and triple its original price for both new and opened copies.  Maybe some evidence as to why it earns that premium will surface when I conduct my pricing of the original records used to compile Disco Boogie.  Stick around after the cover art and playlist below for my chart breakdown.

The playlist above is my personal recreation of the Disco Boogie tracklist within Spotify's vast but still somehow incomplete catalog.  As has happened occasionally in this series, there is an official Disco Boogie playlist on Spotify but it features alternate songs.  Give it a peep at link above if you're curious.

year	title	artist		Billboard Disco Chart
1980	Let's Go 'Round Again	Average White Band	6:28	24
1982	I'd Like To	Feel	6:37	53
1981	Funky Bee Bop	Vin Zee	6:53	17
1983	Rescue Me	Sybil Thomas	6:38	-
1983	Inner Feelings	Cashmere	5:58	-
1982	Hard Times	Al McCall	5:00	-
1983	Love How You Feel	Sharon Redd	7:01	16
1978	Do You Like It Like That	Carte Blanche	5:45	-
1979	Switch	Benelux and Nancy Dee	6:25	-
1978	Do As I Do	Donna McGhee	10:22	-
1978	Georgy Porgie	Toto	5:08	80
1983	You Make It Heaven	Terri Wells	5:26	-
1982	Autumn Leaves	Illusion Orchestra	4:27	-
1980	Night Cruiser	Deodato	6:16	23
1981	Call Me	Skyy	6:21	3
1982	You Can't Run From Love	Maxine Singelton	6:42	-
1981	Give It To Me (If You Don't Mind)	Conquest	6:54	15
1982	Keep On	D Train	9:28	2
1982	Straight Ahead	Nick Straker Band	6:43	12
1985	Baby Talk	Alisha	6:47	1

Nothing too rare according to pricing and availibility of original vinyl sources with none of the records coming in over $10 and the whole shebang would only set you back $70 plus shipping, handling and carbon offset fees.  Chart wise, not a lot of big hits though my buddy Martin will be chuffed to see the inclusion of the sweet Shep Pettibone remix of Alisha's "Baby Talk", one of his favorites that just so happened to top the Hot Dance/Disco chart thirty years ago. Though mostly made up of Eighties tracks, the four songs from the late Seventies give Disco Boogie an average track year of 1981 and an average track length of 6:33.

The second album featured today is Pink Pounders, a return visit to the gay disco and HiNRG sounds previously heard on the fourth album in the series, Gay Disco and HiNRG.  Mr. Pinks laments the fact that there is an absolutely huge history of disco music made exclusively for the gay dancefloor that has yet to be exploited.  But here's the thing, you don't have to live the lifestyle to be able to enjoy the music whether it be gay disco, punk rock, goth, country or heavy metal.  We like what we like regardless of cultural expectations and unfair stereotypes.  Unfortunately for those of you who do not own Pink Pounders, the majority of the music has yet to be licensed on Spotify, so you will not be able to hear more than seven of the album's twenty-one songs in the playlist below.

Like Disco Boogie up above, Pink Pounders fetches top dollar for a five year old CD even if it is an import for those of us in the States and a double disc to boot.  Using Amazon as our price guide this time around, here are both the crazy new and gently used prices of the first eight volumes in the Disco Discharge series:

	Disco Discharge prices on Amazon as of October 28, 2015:
	year	title	new	used
	2009	Classic Disco	$42.99	$26.80
	2009	Disco Ladies	$49.45	$26.12
	2009	Euro Disco	$32.84	$27.98
	2009	Gay Disco & HiNRG	$103.00	$52.20
	2010	Diggin' Deeper	$41.98	$37.80
	2010	European Connection	$26.54	$21.98
	2010	Disco Boogie	$59.99	$57.00
	2010	Pink Pounders	$45.53	$43.33
		averages	$50.29	$36.65

Like my good friend Mark always says when it comes to CDs "buy it if you want it because its only going to get more expensive probably and especially if it goes out of print."  Or something like that.  It turns out Pink Pounders is only number 4 on the list of most expensive volumes of Disco Discharge when bought new.  If you bought all eight albums new as of this pricing, it would cost you just over $500 all in.  Here's a suggested title for the series: Di$co In$anity.  And now, a look at the how the songs on Pink Pounders charted or if they charted at all.

year	title	artist		Billboard Disco Chart
1981	Lift Off	Patrick Cowley	8:18	-
1980	Hot Leather	Passengers	10:34	27
1980	Yes With My Body	Les Models	6:19	-
1983	Danger	The Flirts	6:13	-
1979	Boys Will Be Boys	The Duncan Sisters	7:13	8
1983	Party	Julius Brown	6:15	10
1983	I've Got The Music In Me	Yvonne Kay	7:32	-
1985	He's Number One	Fantasy	6:42	37
1986	I Need A Lover Tonight	Caren Cole	5:08	-
1984	When The Rain Begins To Fall	Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora	6:08	22
1980	Leave That Boy Alone	Poussez	5:33	34
1981	The Ultimate Warlord	The Immortals	6:18	-
1983	Shake It Up	Divine	5:51	-
1983	My Forbidden Lover	Tapps	7:32	-
1987	If You Love Somebody	Barbara Doust	6:45	-
1984	I Don't Wanna Lose You	Lime	5:59	-
1985	Girls It Ain't Easy	Peggi Blu	6:47	-
1986	Back To You	Crystal In The Pink	5:44	-
1988	Black Jack	Tom Cat	5:25	-
1989	Only You	Virgin	5:55	-
1976	From New York To LA	Patsy Gallant	4:52	-

Only six of the twenty-one records charted which casts a tiny bit of shade on Billboard's dance club polling practices though by the mid-Eighties, it was mostly about the twelve inch singles sales.  Or maybe these were just bigger in the UK clubs our Mr. Pinks was frequenting.  The average release year of the songs on Pink Pounders is 1983 with five coming out after 1985.  The average length of each song is 6:31.  To recreate the album from all the original vinyl sources would cost you a little less than $150 as there are a few rarities over $10.

Below is the final chapter of the eight part Disco Discharge interview documentary.  We are officially halfway through the series with eight down and eight more to go.