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Today's Song: Everybody Disco by the Red Elvises

I am backdating this entry to Friday. Technically, I was going to backdate yesterday's entry, but then I started writing about what was happening right then at the Tai-Pan barbeque, and it would be silly of me to backdate that post to a day before the things I was talking about happened.

What this means is, I was going to do the Amos Garrett/blues/roots music post (which dovetailed neatly with my posts for Thursday and Wednesday) and then do a week of disco songs. But instead I'm doing a disco song for Friday, then a blues song for Saturday, then back to more disco songs. Yes, I know few people care but it still kind of bugs me so I had to say something. ^_^

I was in a sudden disco mood last week. I wound up downloading some of my favorite disco tunes (ones that I didn't have already anyway) from iTunes. Yes, I do have some disco songs I like. Admittedly the disco genre as a whole was geared towards the most basic of dance beats with the most basic of lyrics ("Fly, robin, fly, up up to the sky" was not only ALL the lyrics for said song, but actually ranks as lyrically more interestng than many disco songs about dancing and shaking your booty). But as with any genre, I find songs that I like, that seem to rise above the rest.

Not that my favorite disco songs are likely to be yours, if you have any. But anyway. I included in my mix disco songs that didn't come from the disco era or were performed partly tongue in cheek, as with this particular tune.

The Red Elvises are a zany bunch of Russian rock 'n' rollers who are tailor-made for Las Vegas. They play a mix of surf rock, old time rock 'n' roll, and... disco. Actually on their web page they claim "Strong musical influences include Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla, Chuck Berry, Spice Girls and speeches by Comrade Fidel Castro."

A distinctive feature of the band is Oleg Bernov's oversized red triangular bass balalaika. No other rock band I know of sports an instrument that looks anything like it. They've composed the music for two soundtracks... Six String Samurai and Mail Order Bride.

Everybody Disco is an inane disco party song. The chorus is "Everybody disco - Like boys in San Francisco!" and it includes these lines: "I have polyester in my heart, I have polyester in my gut, I have polyester in my heart, I have polyester in my butt."

Now how can you not like those lyrics? Heh.

Red Elvises - Everybody Disco (Indifeed, downloadable podcast) That's a direct link to the song itself, here's the indiefeed page where it's linked from.

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Red Elvises - I Wanna See You Bellydance (video)
Red Elvises - Closet Disco Dancer (video)