G.Q., Disco Nights (Rock Freak) | Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶

In the 85^th edition of Throwback Vibez (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Disco Nights (Rock Freak)” by G.Q.. 

The vibes, the vibes, those Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶! Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 is a column that celebrates awesome songs from the past.  The records that grace this column are older, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re ancient – no fossils 🦴! All genres of music are welcome. In the 85^th edition of Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 (2024), we recollect and reflect on “Disco Nights (Rock Freak)” performed by G.Q..

“You said you want to reach the sky / So get up / The feeling’s right / And the music’s tight / One the disco nights.” R&B/funk/disco collective G.Q. scored a timeless late disco hit with “Disco Nights (Rock Freak)”. Written by Emanuel Rahiem LeBlanc, Herb Lane, Keith “Sabu” Crier, and Paul Service (all band members), “Disco Nights” is a surefire vibe.  Beau Ray Fleming and Jimmy Simpson produced this highlight from the 1979 album, also titled, Disco Nights. It reached no. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, the collective’s highest-charting song.

So, what makes “Disco Nights (Rock Freak)” the sugar honey iced tea? The instrumental is scintillating.  “Disco Nights” thrives thanks to an infectious drum groove, badass bass and guitar riffs, epic sound effects, and colorful keys.  The music is the cat’s meow, PERIOD! From the beginning, the danceability is through the roof.  There is no way you listen and don’t move your body! The lyrics are catchy, and the melodies are tuneful. Emanuel Rahiem LeBlanc kills it on lead vocals, imploring listeners to “Let the spirit flow all through your body” (verse one).  In the second verse, “The music’s full of joy and laughter / And it’s such a thrill / To free your mind from all the pressure / Head on up the hill.” Word! Disco died in 1979, but decades later, “Disco Nights (Rock Freak)” remains a top-notch, 1970s classic.

G.Q., // Disco Nights // RCA // 1979

G.Q., Disco Nights (Rock Freak): Throwback Vibez 🕶️🎶 No. 85 (2024) [📷: Brent Faulkner / The Musical Hype; RCA; OpenClipart-Vectors, Speedy McVroom via  Pixabay]