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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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3. Disco?

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 07:28 PM

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A-Ha was not disco.
It's run as a hit was at least 4 years after the death of disco.
They were 80s synth pop.
I always get a kick out of this kid! I watch a lot of his videos.

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Mollyboy finds Disco: THIS IS CRAZY! FIRST TIME HEARING 'A-ha - Take On Me' GENUINE REACTION [View all] LiberalArkie Thursday OP

this is not disco lol. nt msongs Thursday #1

Well no, but was played in a lot of the dance halls and kind of forced people to dance.. I guess post-disco maybe LiberalArkie Thursday #2

Disco? ProfessorGAC Thursday #3

I generally thought of the music of that era that kind of forced people to almost dance as kind of disco. LiberalArkie Thursday #5

Sigh. Well, MollyBoy thought Free and Bad Company were Southern rock... highplainsdem Thursday #4