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R&B
Release Date: 08/12/2008
The players responsible for this 1977 release have connections to
Magma and sessions for
Elton John, to name only two, and its orchestrator --
Gabriel Yared -- would later score films directed by
Jean-Luc Godard (
Every Man for Himself) and
Anthony Minghella (
The English Patient,
The Talented Mr. Ripley). And, of course, there is
Pink Floyd, the band honored throughout the release, a set of Eurodisco reinterpretations involving a studio band fleshed out with a Polymoog, an ARP, and some string arrangements, as well as a vocalist -- a
Miss X, presumably not the naked woman on the cover, who sometimes resembles a less blues-rooted
Maggie Bell.
Discoballs is well-executed but cut-rate by 1977 disco standards, led by a jutting and strutting
"Have a Cigar" that managed to peak at number four on Billboard's U.S. club chart in 1979. The real standout is a rather unfaithful
"Interstellar Overdrive" that thrives on twitching and wiggling guitar action. It wouldn't sound out of place in a DJ set next after
Talking Heads'
"Born Under Punches." ~Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
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