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3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Disco Primer for Novices, December 9, 2002
This review is from: Disco Box (Audio CD)
"Disco Box" is an excellent starting point for folks wanting a thorough retrospective of the top disco hits of the 70's and early 80's. With this set and the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack (or a good Bee Gees retrospective), the casual fan will have all they need for an entertaining listen. Naturally, presenting these songs in their extended or 12" forms is beyond the scope or intent of this set, but, as usual, Rhino taints one of their "Various Artists" collections by including needlessly shortened versions of tracks, which makes it hard for collectors looking to get their hands on songs that could, in some respect, be construed as "full-length". For example, the very first song, "Love's Theme" is nearly 35 seconds shorter than the Love Unlimited Orchestra album version. It doesn't seem like it should have been too difficult to include this album-length version. Numerous other tracks suffer the same edit job. As a result of this pointless economizing, "Disco Box" get 3 stars.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Cool Selection Of Great Dance Songs, April 1, 2001
This review is from: Disco Box (Audio CD)
Rhino's Disco Box set is a great collection of 80 songs spread over four discs with a nice booklet devoted not only to the artists but to the DJs and their place in disco's (and music's) history. However, if you're interested in more disco music than what's here (and don't mind spending a little more cash) I would recommend Rhino's seven volume The Disco Years series which has 122 songs and a more diverse selection of styles. Either way you go, if you have the Saturday Night Fever CD (of which from that collection only "Disco Inferno" appears on both the box set and the seven volume series) and Michael Jackson's Off The Wall CD you're primed up for some serious booty shaking!!
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
From the music programmer's side, February 27, 2002
This review is from: Disco Box (Audio CD)
This is a nice sanitized set of top 40 songs and disco songs that made the top 40 and disco songs that never really did much. I rate this CD according to my tastes, I'm sure it will please many. People wonder why songs aren't on this set. That has a few reasons, some are: 1 - Not available to license for compiliations (some artists NEVER appear on comps for many reasons) 2 - The artists with the big big hits may want to much for the licensing of their track (either royalty or advance) 3 - The programmer's of the disc know only what they've been told and didn't live the era. What I'm a fan of is the hardcore lost stuff. I played it then in the clubs and it lit up floors. Many people may remember them if they hit the clubs back then but the songs only were in the mixes or on DISCO stations, not the played out top 40 stuff Examples: John Davis, Liquid Gold, Le Pamplemousse, France Joli, CJ & Company and others. This is nice but not deep.
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