If this was your favourite song in primary school then you were definitely popular and everyone wanted to sit next to you at lunchtime. Imagine doing the Cha-Cha Slide in the club, drunk at 2am. It’s like a perfectly choreographed flash mob. Put this banger on and everyone in the room will fall into formation.
Everyone was just living their best life. When this song came on it was time to show off your pre-rehearsed dance moves you’d been practicing in the bathroom mirror,as there’s no iconic dance attached to this video.Īt 10 years old, we’d never been out on a Saturday night before but in that moment, we pretended to know what it was like to be in a club. Still, it’s an iconic song and a school disco wouldn’t be complete without it. Inevitably, not everyone was faced the same way and sometimes you’d collide with the person next to you if they were turning in the other direction. No one knew the words to the Macarena, but as long as you knew the dance (which of course everyone did) then you were fine. I am of course speaking of the showstopper that is: the Macarena. You may be wondering why it’s not further up this list, and that’s because it gets very repetitive. It’s the Mr Brightside of the primary school disco. To start off this list, we begin with the song that’s usually played at the end of the night. Here is an indisputable list of the God tier primary school disco songs you wish the clubs would play every Friday night. If you were cool, you got a transferable tattoo and acted as if it was real.īut it is undeniably true that the best part of a primary school disco was the absolute bangers you and your mates danced to while the teachers couldn’t help but join in with the Cha-Cha slide. Picture it: you’re back in 2007, you raced home from school to change into your sequinned top and bright pink leggings with two pounds in your pocket to buy cans of Sprite and packets of crisps. Yes, we now have Doja Cat and Dua Lipa, but let’s not forget the classics from the likes of Busted and S Club 7. Now’s the time to bust out your disco ball, bellbottoms and dancing shoes and crank up the volume on Giorgio Moroder’s disco favorites below.While many of us flocked to the clubs the minute they opened to fulfil our youth, dancing to the latest hits and downing shots, nothing will ever beat the euphoria of a primary school disco. With all that in mind, there was only one person whose favorite disco tracks Billboard Dance wanted to hear. In 2014 he teamed up with Coldplay for a “Father of Disco” makeover on a remix of their song “Midnight,” and the year before that, he was featured on Daft Punk’s Grammy album of the year champ Random Access Memories on a nine-minute track titled “Giorgio by Moroder” (his involvement earned him his fourth Grammy). And yes, that also includes “Take My Breath Away,” the Oscar-winning Top Gun ballad that went viral on TikTok 36 years later alongside thirsty videos of Miles Teller acting in the film’s 2022 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick.įrom movies to radio to dance club speakers, Moroder’s music kickstarted a cultural shift marked by glittering synths that modern day musicians continue to want to take a bite of. Yes, that includes the Limahl-led song “Never Ending Story,” made pop culture famous for a second time in 2019 when two Stranger Things characters - Dustin and Suzie - performed it as a duet on the show.
Love it or hate it, disco music owes a gargantuan amount to him.Īnd that doesn’t even begin to cover the influence of his work in cinema In fact, many of his most shining hits originated on the soundtracks of films like Midnight Express, American Gigolo, Flashdance, Superman III, Scarface, The NeverEnding Story and Top Gun. There’s a reason they call Giorgio Moroder the “Father of Disco.” The Italian song-making machine has released 14 of his own studio albums in addition to producing hits for artists like Donna Summer, Blondie and Irene Cara.
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