07. Disco sucks!

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Cast your memory back to 1979. Tensions across the US are high, on multiple levels. Disco dominates the music scene, and, oh boy, rock fans are mad about it. Things come to a head at Comiskey Park, where White Sox owner Bill Veeck and a young anti-disco DJ named Steve Dahl decide ...  Show more

Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by… The explosion of Disco provides an extraordinary window into the tumultuous world of the 1970s, with its themes of sex, drugs, race and sexuality. By the start of the 1970s, America was a nation of dystopian gloom. ...  Show more

In the late 1970s, disco died in America and a new wave of Italian producers took advantage of the advances in electronic instruments to craft their own dancefloor fillers.The result was Italo disco – a genre of music recognisable for its synthesiser beats, heavily accented Engli ...  Show more

Led by your elegant host Markiplier, we travel back in time to meet our Master of Balls in Holes, Tyler Scheid, in 1979 Chicago. Disco takes center stage as we attend a doubleheader between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers... What could possibly go wrong with a night that is ...  Show more