Best of Disco 80 - Assorted

The four pillars on which my musical journey began in the early 80s were 'Man Machine', 'Chilly', two tapes that I lost, 'ABBA' and 'Best of Disco 80'. The last mentioned cassette had an iconic cover, the back of a bald man's head with stereo phones on. 

The biggest hits in this album were 'Stay the Night' by Billy Ocean, 'Funky Town' by Lipps Inc and Mandolay by LA Flavour. 'You're ok' by Ottawan, 'Tom Cat' by Gilla, 'Body to Body' by Gepy and Gepy, 'You know me, I know you' by Dan Perlman were the others.

Hours were spent listening to this cassette, especially Funky Town and much later I realised the kind of a monotonous beat and unimaginative lyrics which consisted of 'Won't you take me to Funky Town' repeated all over again wasn't the best. But it was huge then and we cannot forget the many hours of pleasure it gave us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s36eQwgPNSE (Funky Town - Lipps Inc)

The sheer unimaginativeness of the names of the songs is crazy. But that's how life was in 1982. 

And how Disco slowly came into our life. It was pure rhythm, no attempt at sophistication and all about the feeling. Youngsters loved it. I felt free - western music somehow allowed me to escape from the pain of being me.