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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 95 16:08:12 EDT
From: Winston Campbell
Subject: DEATH OF A DISCO DANCER by The Smiths
Death of a Disco Dancer
(Morrissey/Marr)
The intro bassline (and basically throughout the song) is:
B A G#m G B A G#m E
G --------------------------------------------------------------|
D -------------------------5-4----------------------------2-0---|
A -2----2-0----0---------------5--2----2-0----0---------------4-|
E ----2------0---4------3------------2------0---4--4p2p0--------|
Sometimes the bass changes a bit, but that is the basic bassline.
the lyrics are (and the same eight chord progression is constant throughout
the entire song):
B A G#m G
B A G#m E
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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can Wanna Be |
#1 by can sahin at Jun 2, 1971 at 9:12 AM EST |
| I think Bob's interpretation is pretty accurate. Of course most of the Smith's songs work on more than one level. | |
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slapslappopslap Badass |
#2 by slapslappopslap at Nov 14, 1977 at 3:07 AM EST |
| I think it's just being critical of the sort of "hippie" mentality in a lot of music in the sixties and seventies that like to pretend they were all about peace and love but when it came down to it everyone just looked after themselves. I think he is just criticising the sentimentality of some pop songs like "Imagine" for example. | |
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Laurence Average |
#3 by Laurence Alam at Jul 23, 1983 at 10:46 PM EST |
| i'm not so sure- i think its about being depressed. because the disco dancer is supposed to be happy, it can give an outward impression of smiles but it shows the torment inside "Love Peace and Harmony being very nice but in the next world" It also implies suicide as opposed to a disease- the implied next world being better, like asleep for example. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but its my opinion. but the beauty of smiths lyrics is that they can be validly interpreted in many ways. And SouthHibbing condoms are more likely to burst during anal than vaginal sex. Don't ask how i know that, maybe it has something to do with being awake dunring sex ed. lessons. | |
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Oliver Average |
#4 by Oliver Taylor at Dec 14, 1986 at 11:18 PM EST |
| i love this song. It has moments of quiet and then thunder. The music is great. Morrissey's voice bites. | |
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Curtis Rhythm Player |
#5 by Curtis Lee at Mar 20, 1987 at 5:15 AM EST |
| I agree with Aurora2 as well. | |
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PJVILL Professional Badass |
#6 by PJVILL at Mar 14, 1992 at 1:17 PM EST |
| One of my favourite Smiths songs. Morrissey plays piano on this track. It's one of The Smiths most intense songs thanks to the atmospheric music and Mike Joyce's outlandish drumming. Great lyrics as always from the genius that is Morrissey. | |
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Bloody Mess All Musical Thunder |
#7 by Bloody Mess All Over My Clothes at May 17, 1994 at 2:33 PM EST |
| I think this is saying that everyone seems to have an 'easier said than done' attitude. A lot of people would, theoretically, love to save the rainforest, or bring about world peace, or fight the system, or advocate equal rights, but they never do because it's just too much effort. The example used would appear to be gay rights, and how dangerous it was to be gay at the time, but it really could be applied to anything. Most people at heart would like to fix the world, and improve everything, but they don't, because they'd rather just live their own lives. And yet if everyone did pull together, it'd be so much easier and much less effort required. I think it mocks this sort of attitude. | |
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(DDD Bass Gu Rhythm Player |
#8 by (DDD Bass Guitar/Backup Vocals) Jeff Fritts at May 1, 1997 at 1:10 AM EST |
| i think this song could be a look inside the mind of someone who was at once part of a peacefull movent or cultural sect with new ideas and loosing all those ideals in order to "grow up." although i'm to young to know about disco's firsthand, it was supposedly something beutiful in a sense that there was no color discrimination, or sexism, if you could dance, you were excepted, and that the person who once believed this would now "rather not get involved." and when that happened, the disco dancer in them had died | |
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Gunther Wanna Be |
#9 by Gunther at Dec 15, 1997 at 5:05 AM EST |
| love, peace and harmony? oh very nice, very nice, very nice very nice but maybe in the next world. :) | |
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David Average |
#10 by David Tims at Apr 19, 1999 at 5:54 PM EST |
| Aurora2 put it really well. Its kind of like the pro-establishment anthem for the children of generation X. | |
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health risk Rhythm Player |
#11 by health risk at Oct 9, 2001 at 2:01 PM EST |
| I could be completely off, but my first reaction to the mention of disco dancers that was the song had something to do with the disco bombings and the IRA and such. Disco's go boom = dead disco dancers. Love, peace and harmony? = Nice, but way not happening. I'd rather not get involved = things are tense and voicing an opinion wouldn't be in one's best interest. I never talk to my neighbor = Trust no one. My interpretation of this song sorta' reminds me of The Talking Head's 'Life During Wartime'. | |
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jordan Wanna Be |
#12 by jordan at Apr 20, 2005 at 12:26 AM EST |
| i thought it was cause of gay bashing he said "i rather not get involved" they might fuck him up too and disco people(some not all)were gay therefore gay bashing other things point it out 2 | |
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