The Disco Box

Disc 1
1	Love's Theme / Love Unlimited Orchestra 3:35
2	Dancing Machine / The Jackson 5 2:41
3	Rock The Boat / Hues Corporation 3:08
4	Honeybee / Gloria Gaynor 3:44
5	Doctor's Orders / Carol Douglas 3:30
6	Get Dancin' / Disco Tex & His Sex-O-Lettes 3:54
7	Shame, Shame, Shame / Shirley & Company 3:54
8	Never Can Say Goodbye / Gloria Gaynor 3:00
9	Get Down Tonight / KC & the Sunshine Band 3:13
10	The Hustle / Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony 3:46
11	It Only Takes a Minute / Tavares 3:15
12	Fly, Robin, Fly / The Silver Convention 3:49
13	I'm on Fire / 5000 Volts 2:49
14	Love Machine, Pt. II / The Miracles 3:00
15	You Sexy Thing / Hot Chocolate 4:05
16	Boogie Fever / The Sylvers 3:29
17	That's the Way (I Like It) / KC & the Sunshine Band 3:05
18	More, More, More, Pt. 1 / Andrea True 3:02
19	Young Hearts Run Free / Candi Staton 4:08
20	Turn the Beat Around / Vicki Sue Robinson 3:26
Disc 2
1	(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty / KC & the Sunshine Band 3:07
2	Get Up And Boogie / The Silver Convention 2:47
3	A Fifth of Beethoven / Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band 3:04
4	Play That Funky Music / Wild Cherry 3:16
5	Car Wash / Rose Royce 3:33
6	Don't Leave Me This Way / Thelma Houston 3:40
7	The Best Disco in Town / The Ritchie Family 2:43
8	Disco Inferno / The Trammps 3:35
9	Boogie Nights / Heatwave 3:40
10	I Feel Love / Donna Summer 5:55
11	Keep It Comin' Love / KC & the Sunshine Band 3:54
12	Dance With Me / Peter Brown 3:50
13	Everybody Dance / Chic 3:33
14	Shame / Evelyn "Champagne" King 2:59
15	Boogie Oogie Oogie / A Taste of Honey 3:39
16	Get Off / Foxy 3:37
17	I Love The Nightlife (Disco 'Round) / Alicia Bridges 3:01
18	In the Bush / Musique 4:03
19	Hot Shot / Karen Young 3:32
20	Got to Be Real / Cheryl Lynn 3:43
Disc 3
1	Shake Your Groove Thing / Peaches & Herb 3:27
2	Y.M.C.A. / Village People 4:01
3	Le Freak / Chic 4:19
4	I Will Survive / Gloria Gaynor 3:18
5	Livin' It Up (Friday Night) / Bell & James 3:22
6	Instant Replay / Dan Hartman 3:26
7	You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) / Sylvester 3:47
8	I Want Your Love / Chic 3:31
9	Knock on Wood / Amii Stewart 3:52
10	Disco Nights (Rock Freak) / GQ 3:57
11	Love and Desire, Pt. 1 / Arpeggio 3:33
12	He's the Greatest Dancer / Sister Sledge 3:35
13	Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now / McFadden & Whitehead 3:42
14	Ring My Bell / Anita Ward 3:36
15	Bad Girls / Donna Summer 4:00
16	Born to Be Alive / Patrick Hernandez 3:25
17	Good Times / Chic 3:44
18	Don't You Want My Love / Debbie Jacobs 3:14
19	H.A.P.P.Y. Radio / Edwin Starr 3:28
20	I Shoulda Loved Ya / Narada Michael Walden 3:57
21	We Are Family / Sister Sledge 3:38
Disc 4
1	Heart of Glass / Blondie 3:24
2	Lost in Music / Sister Sledge 3:24
3	I'm Caught Up (In A One Night Love Affair) / Inner Life 4:24
4	Got to Love Somebody / Sister Sledge 3:38
5	Funkytown / Lipps, Inc. 4:06
6	Celebration / Kool & the Gang 3:43
7	A Lover's Holiday / Change 4:01
8	I Like What You're Doin' To Me / Young & Company 4:15
9	The Glow of Love / Change 3:40
10	Cruisin' The Streets / Boys Town Gang 3:47
11	On the Beat / The B.B. & Q. Band 3:43
12	Forget Me Nots / Patrice Rushen 4:08
13	Get Down on It / Kool & the Gang 3:36
14	It's Raining Men / The Weather Girls 3:33
15	Last Night a DJ Saved My Life / Indeep 4:44
16	I.O.U. / Freeez 3:51
17	Give It Up / KC & the Sunshine Band 4:06
18	Change of Heart / Change 4:18
19	Fresh / Kool & the Gang 4:06

Barnes & Noble

The shimmer of the cymbals. The slinky grooves. The orgasmic ooohs and aaahs. The salacious come-ons of the divas and queens that changed dance music -- not to mention aerobics -- forever. Disco was pure liberation. Blacks, whites, Latinos, gays, and straights with open minds and swiveling hips came together like a nation under a groove, thrilling to hits like Donna Summer's "I Feel Love," Chic's "Good Times," Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell," and Evelyn "Champagne" King's "Shame." Now 80 of those classics -- spanning a decade of decadence -- have been compiled on Rhino's essential four-CD set, The Disco Box. From its radiant disco-ball packaging to its 50-plus pages of liner notes, this set embodies the spirit of the age like no other release of its kind. Funk-fueled fun like Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" and Rose Royce's "Car Wash" bump up against crossover classics like Blondie's "Heart of Glass" and Sister Sledge's "We Are Family." Light on kitschy cheese (sorry, folks, no "Disco Duck") and chirping Australian pretty boys, The Disco Box moves from soul candy (the Jackson 5, Peaches and Herb) to proto rap (Indeep's "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life") and '80s electro (Freeze's "IOU"), chronicling a sound that laid the groundwork for the past 20 years of house, hip-hop, and electronica. Revolution never felt so good. Jon Dolan

All Music Guide

Rhino's four-CD Disco Box is the most impressive disco retrospective yet assembled, featuring 80 tracks and exhaustive liner notes which chronicle the music's history, artists, innovations, and subsequent influence. Like many of the best Rhino anthologies of this sort, The Disco Box is a mixture of acknowledged classics and neglected yet surprisingly high-quality lesser-knowns (although the emphasis here is more on the former). The result is an enormously infectious, entertaining package that makes the best case yet for the importance and creative viability of disco in its heyday. There are a couple of minor flaws -- most disco fans will be able to name a few absent favorites (none of the Bee Gees' historically crucial Saturday Night Fever tracks were available for licensing, for example), and others may bemoan the lack of extended 12" club versions, which simply wouldn't fit into a compilation of this scope. At any rate, The Disco Box is still as definitive and well-done an overview as we're ever likely to see, and even at four CDs, it's the perfect introduction. Steve Huey