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An OMGJ Brand “Enjoy Music Adventure” Featuring: Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes

There are many ways to hear about music that is new to you.  You can be the sort of person who actively seeks it, or you can let it come to you.  You can explore and master specific genres, or you can just listen to whatever floats on by.  You can be introduced to music by a friend, or you can just happen upon it by happy accident.  Listen, I am mostly saying that you can take Musical Destiny by the horns with your own two hands, or you can stand on a hill, smelling a flower and looking up at the clouds and be taken by surprise as Musical Destiny charges you from behind and gores you in the kidney region of the back.  I usually am the sort of person who is gored, every time.

I had sort of a blend of these things happen to me in the case of Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes.  Jeremy mentioned that he saw a band name that was great on the back of an album, so this group came to me that way.  I am no great fan of Disco (although I am a little familiar with it because of television, film, being alive, and talking to Staff Writer Chris on a routine basis), so I was  not on a journey to understand the music of the 1970s.  But after having heard the name, I DID seek out what they might actually sound like.  I wasn’t disappointed.  I was actually very enthusiastic with the results!

Disco as a musical genre is not my thing.  I was going to have Chris write a single paragraph for you to describe what is so great about it, but of course that did not ever happen.  I mean, I certainly asked him to help me out here, but why would he want to help ME?  I said that it could make the article more informative for you, the readers, but why would he want to help YOU?  Finally, I tried to appeal to his sense of wanting to enjoy himself by blathering on and on about a topic he enjoys, but why would he want to write in whole sentences when he could just sign out of the chat and not be seen again until after this has already been published?  It’s not like I ever expected him to do anything I ask but from now on I will never expect him to do anything I ask again.  Boo hoo hoo.

This band, however, will NEVER let me down!  It did so much the opposite, in fact this is what happened:  I got a copy of their one album from 1975 and it was really great at the start, and then, as the tracks passed by, it never really got any less great!  And by the end?  Still great.  It seems to have a lot of live recording sound to it, but I do not think it is a live album.  I believe it is just studio magic used to excellent effect.  As it turns out, including the sounds of an excited crowd in music makes the music sound more exciting!  I don’t really need to put myself out here trying to describe the exquisite sounds of this band, though.  Not in these modern times when I can just embed youtubes throughout my article for you to click on and listen to instantly right here RIGHT NOW.

Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes are a lot like the catchiest musical interludes featured on Sesame Street.  They sound like a Muppet Band.  These are my highest praises for music, fyi.  And this album is my new favorite.  It is on my heavy rotation list.  It will be burned to disc, listened to while traveling, hummed to self in otherwise silent times.

I love it.