..why did Antony Hegarty and Andrew Butler, lead honcho of Hercules and Love Affair, join forces? A combined love of Alison Moyet and Yazoo, that's why... men with fine taste :P

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...icle884835.ece

 

(sorry to redirect you to The Scum - but it's an interesting interview).

 

For those who missed it, here's the corking Hercules and Love Affair single 'Blind', out this week - worth checking out, too, is the band's debut album - which is nothing short of eye-poppingly fabulous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb8S51M2GAc

 

here's another track from this amazing album...

 

and for some ass-shaking 80s disco, check this one:

 

Hercules and Love Affair deserve colossal recognition this year - and I've a feeling they just might get it....

 

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Edited March 8, 200817 yr by russt68

 

good stuff...just made a design of this single so it was a surprise finding your post here!

 

like it a lot

Edited March 7, 200817 yr by GOODVIBES

It's great. <3 I especially love the tracks with Antony. Time Will is probably my favorite off the album.

80s disco link does not work no more

80s disco link does not work no more

Erm its more like late 70s disco. Don't tarnish it with the brush of cheesy 80s Kylie-lite trollop disco.

 

The disco this album seems to emulate strikes me as quite underground. It's an excellent album though. Will get the critics foaming I'm sure.

Erm its more like late 70s disco. Don't tarnish it with the brush of cheesy 80s Kylie-lite trollop disco.

 

no way - it's way too bleepy for 70s disco - and Kylie? Disco? When? :blink:

no way - it's way too bleepy for 70s disco - and Kylie? Disco? When? :blink:

 

i suppose ever since S/A/W co-opted Hi-NRG/eurobeat/eurodisco for 8 year old Saturday Morning TV* fans...and since she became to old to be thought as a 'pop' artist :lol:

 

 

a Hi-NRG classic - Energy is Eurobeat

 

 

a pop group...The Monkees - Randy Scouse Git

 

 

*thats TV as in Television obv not as in TS :lol:

I own the 12" of Energy Is Eurobeat! :D

I own the 12" of Energy Is Eurobeat! :D

 

cool

 

do you know any good compilations of this type of stuff (and early 80s italiodisco/70s cosmic space disco as well) got pet shop boys back to mine and thats about it...

 

would like some more stuff of this

There's a few labels who released all this stuff in the late 70s / early 80s..... Trax Records in Soho have a website featuring the HI-NRG releases from now and then... have a gander... http://www.traxrecords.co.uk/

no way - it's way too bleepy for 70s disco - and Kylie? Disco? When? :blink:

Underground 70s it is imo... And yeah people these days ignorantly refer to Kylie as "disco" just because it was camp and upbeat, deliberate sarcasm...

Underground 70s it is imo... And yeah people these days ignorantly refer to Kylie as "disco" just because it was camp and upbeat, deliberate sarcasm...

 

but her style of music is obv disco as thats the style that she mostly does, but it is pop music also

 

but then so is McFly, Rihanna, the Monkees, Busted, Peter Andre, East 17 (aka the pop Shamen who went R&B), Destiny's Child etc etc - all differnt styles within that pop market but can be categorized together as they can be seen to have been aimed at a similar market.

 

and if you think of something pre-disco like the monkees they work well being played back to back with someone like the polyphoinic spree - its a vibe that goes together tho one will be thought as pop the other indie.

 

a band like the Polyphonic Spree make great pop music but obv its not pop music as 1) Tim De laughter is about 40 years old and was in Tripping Daisy 2) there are about 9 millions of them either dressed in waco style robes or peacefull military uniforms.

 

 

Polyphonic Spree, the Monkees, The Brady Bunch [Movie]

 

and anyway disco is more varied than just the camp stuff people associate eith the genre, you've got all the cosmic/space disco stuff, the salsoul stuff, the mutant disco stuff and the Sugarhill gang's iconic Rapper's Delight too!!! - but there are still some of those negative associations with that cheesy ultra-populist stuff [at the end of the 70s/early 80s] that emerged and became popular and mainsteam - when loads of random artists jumped on the bandwagon - but what probs can be still heard at pubs and [working men's] clubs around the land.

 

 

 

space - magic fly + cerrone - supernature

 

http://www.irocknroll.com/images/Bee_Gees_Program.jpg

 

and in the states also there was the disco sucks stuff in the states - with all the rednecks destroying disco records in their local stadiums - so disco probs became the genre whos name that people dont discuss - tho it went back underground and got re-branded as something else as mutantions developed due to new technology - before Bananarama decided that they wanted to sound like Pete Burns and Pete Burns wanted to sound like Divine and SAW watered down the HI-NRG Eurobeat Disco sound of people like Bobby Orlando, and applied Berry Gordy - Henry J Ford Motortown prinicle to the form - and populaized that style and that became the mainstream

 

 

Divine, Rofo's theme, bizz nizz

 

and considering something like Kylie's Wow - there's a lot of that late 90s/early 00s filtered french disco stuff in its dna - looking at the video maybe daft punk should have a word :lol:

 

 

kylie - wow

 

http://www.lemonsound.com/visuels/uploaded/daft-punk--daft_fond(1).jpg

 

"zut alors!! me thinks oui should take 'er to court!!!"

 

and Thomas Bangalter's dad wrote D.I.S.C.O and Cuba!!!

 

tho true most people equate disco with campness as disco was probably the only area of popular music where you could be openly gay (tho there were obv flirtations with bisexuality that appeared in glam rock but i guess there were loads of perfs who could be categorized as being a 'bisexual who never had a homosexual releationship') and camp seems to be only the part of homosexual culture that the mainstream can deal with / feel safe dealing with - even tho a lot of the culture has seeped into the mainstream without people realizing where it came from.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

also compare Hercules Blind to something like Soft Cell's Memorabilia (note: song about a sex dwarf - not actually about kylie) - tho Electro-cabaret, techno-burlesque, glam torch rock n roll might be a better way of categorizing most of marc almond's stuff than just Synth-pop

 

http://www.stereosociety.com/jpg/MarcATechBurl.jpg

http://www.offliners.dk/covers/Marc%20Almond%20-%20Fantastic%20Star.jpg

I have a feeling Hercules and Love Affair could do a Scissor Sisters - outrageously camp music, solid first album that will take ages to cross over (how long was the first SS album out before people actually bought it?), but when it does - bingo - a star is born. Of course, Hercules and Love Affair have more talent and panache in their little finger than Scissor Sisters have in their whole band..... but I think it'll be a similar course for them....

I have a feeling Hercules and Love Affair could do a Scissor Sisters - outrageously camp music

 

from what i've heard i wouldnt say outrageously camp - its a bit more sophisticated and throbing

from what i've heard i wouldnt say outrageously camp - its a bit more sophisticated and throbing

 

oo-err missus :P