post-disco

In the early '80s, supremely funky post-disco megajams flowed like tap water.

Clicky shuffle: Random songs for Wednesday morning Chris Richards 2010

With reggae's premium rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare and Island's Chris Blackwell co-producing, 1980's Warm Leatherette did OK, but it was Nightclubbing that perfected her post-disco, new wave sound and propelled seductive hits such as Pull Up to the Bumper into the charts around the world.

Grace Jones pulls up to the bumper 2011

We must have seemed like the kind of kids who needed room to work on their post-disco skate moves.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Dancing Under the Country Club Sprinklers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

We must have seemed like the kind of kids who needed room to work on their post-disco skate moves.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Dancing Under the Country Club Sprinklers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

With reggae's premium rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare and Island's Chris Blackwell co-producing, 1980's Warm Leatherette did OK, but it was Nightclubbing that perfected her post-disco, new wave sound and propelled seductive hits such as Pull Up to the Bumper into the charts around the world.

Grace Jones pulls up to the bumper 2011

We must have seemed like the kind of kids who needed room to work on their post-disco skate moves.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: Dancing Under the Country Club Sprinklers Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

Perhaps befitting her growing mainstream stature, a few tracks feature the kind of post-disco electro-beats and studio-tweaked vocals that seem better suited to artists such as Robyn, Ke$ha or even Katy Perry.

M.I.A. Returns, With A Darker, Harder 'Maya' 2010

His career swings wildly about throughout post-disco sex jams ("Fastlove"), joyful pop ("I'm Your Man") and soaring ballads ("Father Figure").

You Gotta Have Faith Glenn Dunks 2010

Perhaps befitting her growing mainstream stature, a few tracks feature the kind of post-disco electro-beats and studio-tweaked vocals that seem better suited to artists such as Robyn, Ke$ha or even Katy Perry.

M.I.A. Returns, With A Darker, Harder 'Maya' 2010

And it was the eighties, blech - the post-disco, big shoulder era.

Kira Craft: You Are Style: HuffPost Reader Susan Galka (SLIDESHOW) 2009