Disco Horror

I am puzzled: what is a “Spaghetti Circus”? Is it a “gay thing”? Is it the name of an “underrated” late-70s Italian disco DJ? Is it “drug slang”? Is it a super-exclusive party that James Murphy throws on alternate Wednesdays in Bushwick? Is it just “nonsense”? Guys: how can I listen to this song if I have no clue what it means? For example, what if I put it on a mixtape for one of my best bros and it turns out to mean that I want to do him, in the butt (there is a dude singing on this song, so it is probably about gay “sex”).

The fact is, a lot of nu-disco acts have names that are really difficult to understand. It used to be that DFA would put out a song, and you’d know exactly what it meant: “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” is a “fanfic” song about James Murphy illing with Daft Punk, in his garage. “Losing My Edge” is about the time James Murphy lost his edge. But then the label went into its “Revolver” period, and now nothing makes sense—what is “The Sounds of Silver”? James Murphy: silver doesn’t have a sound. Now they have a band called “Shit Robot,” which is a curse, and this band, “Shit Robot,” have a song called, “Simple Things (Work It Out),” which is just a bunch of words, like, in a row. More like “Complicated Song Titles (Work Them Out),” am I right??

For this reason, I recommend you never download this song or listen to it. Even if you “get” the title. Sure, it is a dance song with pianos, which is basically the best kind of dance song, and probably babes will ask to dance with you if you play it. But what if they’re only asking you to dance because they think you’ll serve them spaghetti in some kind of, like, circus setting? Socializing is hard.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm and is filed under nu-disco. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.