Old Enough to Forget

Part Three was the band's fourth album, and after dropping two albums just months apart in 1975 (although to be fair their third album The Sound of Sunshine was an instrumental album, so maybe it didn't count) the band was building up a pretty solid list of hits, and honestly I will admit some of them were pretty dang catchy. Although I was kind of embarrassed to admit to liking anything disco. KC and the Sunshine band (or K.C. & The Sunshine Band) were basically a funky pop band who managed to become synonymous with disco, and why not? It was music that made your feet happy, and for a couple of years these guys were almost as unassailable as the Bee Gees. Then they weren't, but for a time they were. When this came out they were, and they were at the top of their game. Over the last year I have found myself picking up albums by artists I never, ever ... EVER thought I'd listen to, let alone buy. Yes buying - as a dollar is still a dollar. When I broke down the firs...

1978 it was a fantastic year for music. I mean well and truly. Nugent, Styx, PRISM, and Toto, it's a long list ... Then there was disco, and it was the universe's way of saying you can't have everything. If you're wondering I never considered "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, or "Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears to be disco songs. It's times like these a really good quote is in order, and Dickens being Dickens wrote a dickens that's perfect for a piece like this: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, ...