I Love a Bunch of Genres

Disco Nights (Rock Freak)
GQ
Disco Nights

I love songs that have musical genres in the title, and this song has two. Yay!

This is the original 1979 GQ version of this song - about as old as any disco song, but it’s new to me, as I’ve only ever heard a cover of it by some other band. It’s pure, simple, generic disco, straight out of the appropriate era, and yet there’s something about this song that seems weirdly modern to me, as if it’s a conscious effort to imitate the style of an old type of music. That’s obviously not the case, but there’s something I find almost comforting in the thought. It truly is just a standard, ordinary genre-piece, though, and that has its merit, too.