Deader Than Disco/Quotes

That's it. We're deader than tank tops!

—The Cat, Red Dwarf

"The Twilight thing ... how long do you think it's gonna be? Like ... fifteen years, ten ... when we look back on the Twilight saga and go 'Jesus Christ, what the fuck are we doing'?' Like, I was trying to think of cultural fads that were similar to that, like, uh, disco.

And I was like, nah, you kind of make fun of disco, but disco had some merit. No, no no no no no, I was like ... Vanilla Ice, or New Kids on the Block. You know, these things that are even today like punchlines of things that we really thought were just cool as hell ... cool as ice .. that we just look back and we shake our heads and we go 'Oh my God! We had posters of that guy! Like, we bought books! We bought tickets to that!'"

—Noah Antwiler, towards the end of his V-Log discussion of the Twilight: Eclipse movie.

"In 1979, one Chicago DJ’s personal crusade/PR campaign came to a head with a ridiculous stunt at Comiskey Park, the destruction of thousands of disco records at halftime. Predictably, the event turned into a debacle—people overcrowded the park, rushed the field, the police were called, the baseball game was cancelled.

It’s surreal now to imagine over 50,000 people gathering in violent protest because of a music genre, and it may be one of the only instances of such a thing being sparked purely by music itself outside of the classical concert riots of the past."

—Sean Doyle, Village People - Crusin' - The Worst Albums Ever

Elbow to elbow, a brick in the wall;
We had too much pride, now we’re paying for all:
For those who were with us, who waited for us
And those who will not ever forgive us, that:

Rock-n-roll's dead, but we are not yet…

—Rock-n-roll is dead by Akvarium