red devil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How good were Chic last night. I thought I'd be > channel hopping between them and the Arctics, but > there was no contest. > I was a teenage Punk/New Wave, and malumbu you're > right, Disco was supposed to be the enemy, so > imagine my surprise when I rooted out my old C60 > recordings of the Top 30, quite an eclectic > bunch...Pistols, Clash, Damned, Sham 69 etc > alongside Chic, Frantique, Edwin Starr. I > obviously had better taste than you ;-)...fook > knows how Gary Moore's Parisien Walkways got in > there though... some of us saw the light back in 1979 and switched from punk to soulboy overnight.....well it took a while to grow the wedge! We also went down a bit more of a Jazz Funk route so as not to offend our sensibilities by being called 'disco boys' ..ironically it was far more working class that punks and New Romantics were, but from mod to garage there,s always been a white working class thing to get down to black music whilst the middle classes pontificate over 'rock'