ROCK 'A' RAMA
BOHANNON—Dance Your Ass Off (Dakar) :: Funky with chic! Not only do I agree with Christgau that calling disco shit may be code for “nigger music,” but (incest all the way, I say) Simon Frith is right when he says that disco is the real avant-garde.
ROCK 'N' RAMA
BOHANNON—Dance Your Ass Off (Dakar) :: Funky with chic! Not only do I agree with Christgau that calling disco shit may be code for “nigger music,” but (incest all the way, I say) Simon Frith is right when he says that disco is the real avant-garde. This record bites like a barracuda, and if you think all the Ramones’ songs sound the same, and you like it that way (1 do), you gotta hear Bohannon or you ain’t, heard the most monomaniacaljy driving shit around. This record will turn you into an animal. But don’t just sit smoking dope and bother listening to it (as I saw a bunch of arty types do when 1 put on the J.B.’s at a party one time), and forget about all your flashing-dancefloor disco doldrums—just dance (it never killed anybody). Or pretend you’re listening to Eno playing machete.
