#sean lawrence

The second of Sean Lawrence’s Discaire columns from the June 1979 issue of Christopher Street. The title of this second installment seems quite apropos even 40 years later, the theme of Kitchen Disco has basically been the name of the game since the beginning of this pandemic.

Though I’m not in agreement with all of his picks and pans (Parlet’s “Invasion of the Booty Snatchers” is still a jam, IMO), Lawrence’s observation about disco and its relationship to nostalgia is spot on.

Full transcription on the main blog.