There was always room for everyone in rock.

Look at the top disco performers and most of them both had a beginning in rock and a return to it after the fad. Look at the top rock performers of the era and most of them delved into disco. It doesn't seem like the genres were easily differentiated. I found it utterly confusing as a single digit aged kid. The only difference seemed to me that disco people sang into long white mircophones and the lyrics were never drowned out by the music.

Isn't disco just soft rock? If we were looking at the music family tree, wouldn't disco be branched from rock, if it had an independent branch from it at all.

Here is a point the DD critics seem to be forgetting, all of those otherwise disenfranchised groups they are retroactively trying to defend were entirely franchised into rock and certainly so by 1980.

I was a big Steve and Garry fan back in the day, too. But let's not pretend they weren't trafficking in racial stereotypes. Everybody was, black and white. It was a different time. To look at it through the prism of 2019 doesn't make sense.

You know where grew up. You know exactly what i mean. My neighborhood friends weren't whiling away the hours reading Samuel Becket and Joseph Heller.

I'm still not really clear what you're getting at here. That Dahl's audience of teenage boys was crude? I agree.

I'm also not arguing that the show didn't indulge in gay stereotypes. Didn't he have a Quentin Crisp character? It also seemed that Meier played the Cliff character as gay.

I'm just saying that Disco Sucks never struck me as being overtly anti-gay or anti-black/Latino.

I am saying that I just read it as a comedic radio show. Other people read it a different way.

You have to remember where we are. You're talking to people who get shit like this.

5-year-old Terry's Peeps is on the table as a mult, btw.