I like listening to some disco music once in a while. I find that it always tends to carry a killer backbeat to any song. And it acts as some sort of grounding to what made certain records renowned for today. Look at drummer Dave Ghrol who copied some of the drumbeats used on disco records to help establish Nirvana’s 1991 “Nevermind” album. Sweet, but also don’t forget about how the symphonic orchestra perfectly integrates itself into music. But I’m not gonna get into the entire musical genre, no. But what I can tell you is how the “Saturday Night Fever” soundtrack, released back in 1977 is one of my favourite soundtracks. I don’t listen to this religiously, but I admire it. I found out about this movie from my dad, on how he was telling me that, what you see in the movie was practically the style at the time. Montreal in the 1970’s was a disco town. There were many clubs scattered across the city, and not to mention Crescent street, being one of the hottest spots in town. But when the 2020 pandemic hit, everybody was quarantined. So my friends, and I decided that every night, we’d put on a movie, and watch it all together while one of us was screen sharing using Discord. And I remember suggesting “Saturday Night Fever,” since only one of our friends watched it. It was a good movie, but let me tell you that the music was fire. The Bee Gees were the ones who wrote most of the music on the record, which doesn’t surprise me at all how nearly every song had a great beat to it. But it’s not only them, there are other musicians that contributed to this soundtrack such as Tavares, Kool & The Gang, Yvonne Elliman, and so much more. Sure that the lyrics can be corny at times, but hey, if you got a symphonic orchestra that’s being backed by a killer backbeat, it just wins in my book!

The record kicks off with the ultimate classic, “Stayin’ Alive.” It’s impossible to find someone who doesn’t know this song, I don’t even know how many times I’ve heard it, but it sure has a great beat, with a kickass bass line, HANDS DOWN! I still remember watching the scene where John Travolta was walking down the street, and grabbing that slice of pizza. At that point my friend says to us, “See that guy, that’s me in the future.” And at that point, we just started dying of laughter. “Night Fever,” is another killer track, with a good scene too. You see everybody on the dancefloor thinking of one thing only, and it’s to have fun. But “Disco Inferno,” wins’ em all, because it’s what captures the essence of the movie, on how it was all centered all around disco music, and part of what the 1970’s were about.