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"Thriller" is not disco.
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Michaels Lover
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never heard anyone call it disco
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Thriller the album is not disco and I've never heard anyone calling it disco.
PYT and Thriller are (or close to) disco songs though
PYT and Thriller are (or close to) disco songs though
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Wikipedia calls Thriller a disco song (although Wikipedia articles can be editted by anybody so I doubt their credibility). I definately call the song Pop - almost Dance-Pop.
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The Thriller-album is definitely Postdisco with electrofunk influences, like many other albums from that time, before digital equipment and Synth-Pop started dominating the charts. It's fun to compare Thriller with Victory and spot the clear differences.
Thriller, the song is sort of a hybrid, however. Temperton/Michael/Quincy attempting to boil up something new after Off The Wall, and they added the horror flair to it. Horror Disco perhaps..?
Thriller, the song is sort of a hybrid, however. Temperton/Michael/Quincy attempting to boil up something new after Off The Wall, and they added the horror flair to it. Horror Disco perhaps..?
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What's the point of this thread?
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It's post-disco, or electrofunk/synthfunk.
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Well this is certainly an argument that was made from nothing
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I've never heard the Thriller album called disco. But 1982 has nothing to do with it. Disco was just renamed "dance music" & "house music" in the 1980s. There was even a chart in Billboard called "Club Singles" (originally called the "Disco" chart) for remix maxi singles and songs that were popular in dance clubs. Remixes and 12" singles originated during the disco era in the 1970s. Some of the songs Jamiroquai was doing had disco elements and that was in the 1990s. But they were called "acid jazz" though. A lot of what was called disco in the 1970s was really R&B/funk in the first place. I have a disco compilation and it has Black Betty by Ram Jam on it. I don't see how that is disco at all, it's more like southern rock.