Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
2. Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5
3. Rock the Boat - The Hues Corporation
4. Honeybee - Gloria Gaynor
5. Doctor's Orders - Carol Douglas
6. Get Dancin' - Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes/Sir Monti Rock III
7. Shame, Shame, Shame - Shirley & Company
8. Never Can Say Goodbye - Gloria Gaynor
9. Get Down Tonight - KC & The Sunshine Band
10. Hustle, The - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony
11. It Only Takes a Minute - Tavares
12. Fly, Robin, Fly - Silver Convention
13. I'm on Fire - 5,000 Volts
14. Love Machine (Pt. 1) - The Miracles
15. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
16. Boogie Fever - The Sylvers
17. That's the Way (I Like It) - KC & The Sunshine Band
18. More, More, More (Part I) - Andrea True Connection
19. Young Hearts Run Free - Candi Staton
20. Turn the Beat Around - Vicki Sue Robinson
DISC 2:
1. Shake Your Booty, (Shake, Shake, Shake) - KC & The Sunshine Band
2. Get up and Boogie - Silver Convention
3. Fifth of Beethoven, A - Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band
4. Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
5. Car Wash - Rose Royce
6. Don't Leave Me This Way - Thelma Houston
7. Best Disco in Town, The - The Ritchie Family
8. Disco Inferno - The Trammps
9. Boogie Nights - Heatwave
10. I Feel Love - Donna Summer
11. Keep It Comin' Love - KC & The Sunshine Band
12. Dance With Me - Peter Brown/Betty Wright
13. Everybody Dance - Chic
14. Shame - Evelyn "Champagne" King
15. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste Of Honey
16. Get Off - Foxy
17. I Love the Nightlife (Disco 'Round) - Alicia Bridges
18. In the Bush - Musique
19. Hot Shot - Karen Young
20. Got to Be Real - Cheryl Lynn
DISC 3:
1. Shake Your Groove Thing - Peaches & Herb
2. Y.M.C.A. - Village People
3. Le Freak - Chic
4. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
5. Livin' It up (Friday Night) - Bell & James
6. Instant Replay - Dan Hartman
7. You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) - Sylvester
8. I Want Your Love - Chic
9. Knock on Wood - Amii Stewart
10. Disco Nights (Rock Freak) - G.Q.
11. Love and Desire (Part 1) - Arpeggio
12. He's the Greatest Dancer - Sister Sledge
13. Ain't No Stoppin Us Now - McFadden & Whitehead
14. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
15. Bad Girls - Donna Summer
16. Born to Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez
17. Good Times - Chic
18. Don't You Want My Love - Debbie Jacobs
19. H.A.P.P.Y. Radio - Edwin Starr
20. I Shoulda Loved Ya - Narada Michael Walden
21. We Are Family - Sister Sledge
DISC 4:
1. Heart of Glass - Blondie
2. Lost in Music - Sister Sledge
3. I'm Caught up (In a One Night Love Affair) - Inner Life
4. Got to Love Somebody - Sister Sledge
5. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
6. Celebration - Kool & The Gang
7. Lover's Holiday, A - Change
8. I Like What You're Doing to Me - Young & Company
9. Glow of Love, The - Change
10. Cruisin' the Streets - The Boystown Gang
11. On the Beat - The B.B. & Q. Band
12. Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
13. Get Down on It - Kool & The Gang
14. It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
15. Last Night a DJ Saved My Life - In Deep
16. I.O.U. - Freeez
17. Give It Up - KC
18. Change of Heart - Change
19. Fresh - Kool & The Gang
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
THE DISCO BOX includes a 60-page book featuring an essay by Brian Chin, liner notes by Vince Aletti, essential album discography by Michael Freedberg, and contributing remarks by various disco era DJs.
Compilation producers: David McLees, Brian Chin.
Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot, Ken Perry, Stewart Whitmore, Geoff Sykes.
The golden age of '70s disco was the last period of strictly AM radio-driven pop hits. (The MTV '80s hit parade led by Michael Jackson, Madonna and ZZ Top is another story altogether.) Disco records, therefore, had to sound fabulous on the air and they did, with production techniques that remain influential to this hip-hop driven day. On the outside of Rhino's super-deluxe 4-CD THE DISCO BOX, master remasterer Bill Inglot actually receives the simple and rather grand credit "Sound," as if to emphasize the special aural quality of these tracks.
Rhino, Inglot and co. have done a characteristically superb job in assembling this definitive disco compilation. Every major hit is included, from the ridiculous (Disco-Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes' "Get Dancin'") to the sublime (Sister Sledge's "Lost In Music".) Though four discs may seem like too much of a good thing--an item for collectors only perhaps-- a mere glance at the track list reminds us just how many great songs came out of this allegedly tacky era.
Editorial Reviews
...You...couldn't find a more convincing defense of the form, in case anyone still needs one. The mere fact that the box collects 80 tracks without running into one bum patche makes the ultimate case for a style that once stood as the most maligned cultural expression since mime... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly
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