All your favorites

this cd has all your favorite village people songs from the hits such as ymca and in the navy to other great songs like cant stop the music. These songs really showed what 70s music was about. if u are a fan of disco or pop music this is a must. i would also recommend The best of the village people

Good collection - But Missing "Go West"

If the Casablanca record label was the Monarchy of the Disco Nation, The Village People were their finest ambassadors. More than any of the prefabricated disco machines that the decade produced, it is the VP's cavity provoking bubble-gum dance records that made strobe lights and disco balls accessible and acceptable to party people of all stripes. Add in the undeniable fact that the innuendo laden singles and their stereotyped get-ups made gay subculture visible and you can actually add the term "culturally significant" to the Village People's list of accomplishments.

But all that pales when placed next to the vibrancy of this brief but solid collection of 10 singles. Like all of the best radio confectionary creampuffs, the songs here convey a kooky innocence (the Navy had to let in on the joke before they backed off their decision to use "In The Navy" as a recruitment jingle) that remains timeless. And in the post-AIDS decades, the more obvious 70's call to the disenfranchised like "San Francisco" and "In Hollywood" are even poignant.

Deny it if you dare, but secretly you know this stuff is great. Just see if your limbs don't start contorting into the alphabet next time "YMCA" gets played on some football arena PA or at your next company party. I double dog dare ya.

PS: You may want to get the version of this from the Casablaca/Mercury release dated 1998. That CD contains "Go West" and drops the 12 mix of "YMCA."

the worst band ever?

There were good things about the 70's, sure. Those were Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, and Black Sabbath. Then there were many BAD things about the 70's. Those would be Cher, every Zeppelin wannabe, and nearly all disco. Punk rock and metal proved to be the darwinian victors, passing on their genes in the process of musical evolution. The losers would not survive the power of punk rock and metal. The ultimate loser band of the 70's is that unholy combination of disco and overt homosexuality, The Village People. This band stinks so bad I can't really even do it justice. I'm willing to bet that even plenty of those people who have "alternative lifestyles" hate this band. It just sucks so bad. What kind of loser would go to a concert by this group?! Who would conceivably pay actual money for this?! After Kurt Cobain and NIRVANA this stuff just sucked even more than it had already sucked. God this is AWFUL. Please, if you have to listen to disco, do the right thing and listen to the BeeGee's or something. Meanwhile, I'll be listening to Led Zep 4.



It's hard to say when disco died. It was killed by superior music along with competition from its much superior musical mutation/variant, techno. So that, even though punk had tried for years to kill disco, it was TECHNO that truly put the last nail in the coffin.