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->''When [[Music/TheBeeGees three brothers]] strutted down a Miami street in 1977, they started the whole world dancing, and most of Australia with it. They were expatriate Australians, but this was not a source of pride to the local rock fraternity.''
-->-- '''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll'''
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->"A chilly April morning, 1980. Disco was on the way out and it had just begun to dawn on everybody they looked absolutely ridiculous in every photo taken of them in..."
-->-- '''Lawrence''', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb,'' [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheLakeNoseMonster "Lake Nose Monster"]]
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-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield Gets a Life]]''

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-->-- ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield Gets a Life]]''
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''; "Garfield Gets a Life"

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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''; "Garfield ''[[WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials Garfield Gets a Life"
Life]]''
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<cue electric guitar and GenreShift to HardRock> '''''[[SuddenlyShouting ROCK & ROLL!!!]]'''''\\

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<cue electric guitar and GenreShift to HardRock> '''''[[SuddenlyShouting ROCK & &]] [[MetalScream ROLL!!!]]'''''\\
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<cue electric guitar and GenreShift to HardRock>\\
''Rock & roll! I'll tell you something, I have never been happier now that I'm into this rock & roll thing! I sold my white three-piece suit at a garage sale last weekend, made $25, got rid of my 280Z, picked myself up a beat-up old [[CoolCar '69 Dart]], melted down all my gold jewelry into a Music/LedZeppelin belt buckle... I mean, things are happening! Why, it's so easy to be led astray by all those pictures of [[UsefulNotes/PierreTrudeau Margaret Trudeau]] in ''People'' magazine, making you think you're supposed to get into disco! I was a teenage disco duck! [[HeelFaithTurn Oh, I've been saved! Hallelujah!]] Oh, long live rock & roll!''

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<cue electric guitar and GenreShift to HardRock>\\
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HardRock> '''''[[SuddenlyShouting ROCK & roll! I'll ROLL!!!]]'''''\\
''I'll
tell you something, I have never been happier now that I'm into this rock & roll thing! I sold my white three-piece suit at a garage sale last weekend, made $25, got rid of my 280Z, picked myself up a beat-up old [[CoolCar '69 Dart]], melted down all my gold jewelry into a Music/LedZeppelin belt buckle... I mean, things are happening! Why, it's so easy to be led astray by all those pictures of [[UsefulNotes/PierreTrudeau Margaret Trudeau]] in ''People'' magazine, making you think you're supposed to get into disco! I was a teenage disco duck! [[HeelFaithTurn Oh, I've been saved! Hallelujah!]] Oh, long live rock & roll!''
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->''"...there was a viaduct in a poor neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, on which someone had spray-painted 'Russia Iran Disco Suck.' Driving underneath it on my way to and from a debate tournament one day, I gloried in the succinct eloquence of this bit of proletarian wisdom. The logic was flawless. As sucked disco, so sucked communism. So sucked Iran. Even more inspiring was the unspoken corollary: as rocked Music/VanHalen, so rocked UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan."''
-->-- '''Thomas Frank''', ''What's the Matter with Kansas?''
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->''Do you think I'm disco? Am I superficial? Lookin' hip's my only goal!''\\
''Do you think I'm disco? Maybe it's not too late to get into RockAndRoll?''\\
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''Rock & roll! I'll tell you something, I have never been happier now that I'm into this rock & roll thing! I sold my white three-piece suit at a garage sale last weekend, made $25, got rid of my 280Z, picked myself up a beat-up old [[CoolCar '69 Dart]], melted down all my gold jewelry into a Music/LedZeppelin belt buckle... I mean, things are happening! Why, it's so easy to be led astray by all those pictures of [[UsefulNotes/PierreTrudeau Margaret Trudeau]] in ''People'' magazine, making you think you're supposed to get into disco! I was a teenage disco duck! [[HeelFaithTurn Oh, I've been saved! Hallelujah!]] Oh, long live rock & roll!''
-->-- '''Steve Dahl,''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAApU-QHfI "Do You Think I'm Disco?"]]
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->"Gonna let you in on something, Mac. Disco's dead, Rock and Roll soothes the soul."
-->-- '''Doc Louis''' in ''[[VideoGame/PunchOut Punch-Out Wii]]''

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->"Gonna let you in on something, Mac. Disco's dead, Rock rock and Roll roll soothes the soul."
-->-- '''Doc Louis''' in ''[[VideoGame/PunchOut Punch-Out Wii]]''
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'''Jon''': What!? When? Boy you learn a dance and then zango 14 years later they change it.\\

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'''Jon''': What!? When? Boy Boy, you learn a dance and then zango then, zango! 14 years later later, they change it.\\
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->''"Whatever the real dangers and deficiencies of disco as a genre and a mentality, some disco records do more than just succeed on their own terms, as dance music--some of them are wonderful rock and roll. ''The Best of the Trammps'' is rough, driving soul in the great tradition of Wilson Pickett; Music/TheBeeGees' side of ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' is inspired silliness in the great tradition of [[Music/TheHollies "Carrie-Anne"]] and [[Music/TheSmallFaces "Itchychoo Park."]] But the disco-sucks crowd can't hear that any more than they can hear a Music/CharlieParker solo or a Music/JoniMitchell song. These assholes are such fanatics that they seize upon the first hint of synthesized percussion or rhythmic strings or chukka-chukka guitar--hell, the first lilt--as proof that anybody from [[Music/DavidBowie Bowie]] to Poco has "gone disco," though most often the discos could care less even when it's true."''

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->''"Whatever the real dangers and deficiencies of disco as a genre and a mentality, some disco records do more than just succeed on their own terms, as dance music--some of them are wonderful rock and roll. ''The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trammps The Best of the Trammps'' Trammps]]'' is rough, driving soul in the great tradition of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Pickett Wilson Pickett; Pickett]]; Music/TheBeeGees' side of ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' is inspired silliness in the great tradition of [[Music/TheHollies "Carrie-Anne"]] and [[Music/TheSmallFaces "Itchychoo Park."]] But the disco-sucks crowd can't hear that any more than they can hear a Music/CharlieParker solo or a Music/JoniMitchell song. These assholes are such fanatics that they seize upon the first hint of synthesized percussion or rhythmic strings or chukka-chukka guitar--hell, the first lilt--as proof that anybody from [[Music/DavidBowie Bowie]] to Poco [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poco Poco]] has "gone disco," though most often the discos could care less even when it's true."''
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->''"Whatever the real dangers and deficiencies of disco as a genre and a mentality, some disco records do more than just succeed on their own terms, as dance music--some of them are wonderful rock and roll. ''The Best of the Trammps'' is rough, driving soul in the great tradition of Wilson Pickett; Music/TheBeeGees' side of ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'' is inspired silliness in the great tradition of [[Music/TheHollies "Carrie-Anne"]] and [[Music/TheSmallFaces "Itchychoo Park."]] But the disco-sucks crowd can't hear that any more than they can hear a Music/CharlieParker solo or a Music/JoniMitchell song. These assholes are such fanatics that they seize upon the first hint of synthesized percussion or rhythmic strings or chukka-chukka guitar--hell, the first lilt--as proof that anybody from [[Music/DavidBowie Bowie]] to Poco has "gone disco," though most often the discos could care less even when it's true."''
-->-- '''Robert Christgau''', ''Village Voice'' Jan. 22, 1979, "[[http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj78.php New Wave Hegemony and the Bebop Question]]"
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-> "At one stage I did set fire to a pile of disco records and declare that disco was dead. I think within weeks [[TemptingFate there were three disco records in the top ten]], so it wasn't a great gesture."
-->-- '''Peter Garrett''' of Music/MidnightOil, ''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll'' (he later admits "I kind of like disco now")
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->''Sorry guys, I didn't realize''\\
''That I needed you so much''\\
''I thought I'd get a new audience''\\
''I forgot that Disco sucks''
-->-- '''Music/{{Weezer}}''', "Back to the Shack"
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->''I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco!''
-->-- '''Music/{{Everclear}}''', "AM Radio"

->''Burn down the disco''\\
''Hang the blessed DJ''\\
''Because the music they constantly play''\\
''It says nothing to me about my life''
-->-- '''Music/TheSmiths''', "Panic"

->''Disco sucks, It won't last too long''\\
''It's big right now but it's gonna fade away''
-->-- '''Chuck Wagon & The Wheels''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4o_ICJCfAI Disco Sucks (Pt. 1)]]"

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->"Gonna let you in on something, Mac. Disco's dead, Rock and Roll soothes the soul."
-->-- '''Doc Louis''' in ''[[VideoGame/PunchOut Punch-Out Wii]]''

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->'''Offscreen Guy''': Hey, jerk! Disco is DEAD!\\
'''Jon''': What!? When? Boy you learn a dance and then zango 14 years later they change it.\\
'''Garfield''': Go figure....
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''; "Garfield Gets a Life"

->'''Tommy''': Disco is DEAD! (blows up Party Zoe with a rocket launcher)
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''; "Party Re-Pete"

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