Deader Than Disco/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|And I was like, nah, you kind of make fun of disco, [[Insult to Rocks|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!'"|'''[[The Spoony Experiment|Noah Antwiler]]''', towards the end of his V-Log discussion of the ''[[Twilight]]: Eclipse'' movie.}}

{{quote|''"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 [[Older Than They Think|outside of the classical concert riots of the past.]]"''|'''Sean Doyle''', ''[http://theworstalbumsever.tumblr.com/post/103670682852/village-people-cruisin-released-september-25 Village People - Crusin'] - The Worst Albums Ever''}}