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A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Star Wars Party – 2005 (Buy It) I guess Meco’s just going to limp to a conclusion here. The proceedings are just so dulled down, so barely alive. Meco was 66 when Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – The Complete Star Wars Collection – 2000 (not available) Well, after nearly 20 years, it took another Star Wars movie to get Meco onto another album. And it’s all his own production Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Ewok Celebration – 1983 (not available) Oh, the glory days are over. Just finished. This album is terrible. I mean, you expect that Meco is going to do an album based on Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Pop Goes the Movies – 1981 (not available) Oh, that’s too bad. I enjoyed Impressions of An American Werewolf in London so much that it just deepens my disappointment in Pop Goes Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Impressions of an American Werewolf in London – 1981 (not available) Well, Meco’s left disco behind completely, and after Music from Star Trek/Music from The Black Hole, I couldn’t be happier. Meco Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Music from Star Trek/Music from The Black Hole – 1980 (not available) And we’re back to disco versions of film themes. Coming after the exquisite album The Empire Strikes Back, this one Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Christmas in the Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album – 1980 (re-released in 1996, but now discontinued and no longer commercially available) Well, here it is. The legend of this album grew Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – The Empire Strikes Back – 1980 (not available) It was as inevitable that Meco would return to Star Wars as it was that George Lucas would. But this time, Meco changed tactics. Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Moondancer – 1979 (not available) After four albums of disco versions of movie music, Meco finally decided to record an album of straight disco music. The sound is pretty different, partially because Continue Reading

A guest Listening Post by SamuraiFrog, revolving around Meco Monardo, the guy who disco-ized movie scores. Meco – Superman and Other Galactic Heroes – 1979 (not available) Meco returns to the same format as his first record, Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk, by taking a John Williams score and Continue Reading