Demolition Night from Asphalt Assault by Annimax

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The 1979 disco backlash produced many anti-disco songs, but now available is the first song to commemorate its pinnacle event! On July 12th, 1979, a promotion was held during a Chicago White Sox double-header dubbed "Disco Demolition Night". If you brought a disco record with you, admission was 98 cents because the radio station hosting the promotion was WLUP FM 98. Between games, WLUP disc jockey Steve Dahl, the command in chief of the anti-disco army "dedicated to the eradication of disco-dystrophy everywhere", exploded the box of disco records in center field. What happened next was not planned... thousands of fans poured onto the field, and the mayhem that ensued was epic! While many deemed the promotion a "fiasco" at the time because it didn't go as planned, that legendary event is the only reason people still talk about that night all of these decades later.

This "heavy metal folk song" is a historical look back at that extraordinary event!

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Tracklist

5.	Demolition Night	3:07

Lyrics

DEMOLITION NIGHT
Do you remember the blast in Comiskey Park?
Fireball filled the air,
The vinyl, like shrapnel,
Flying everywhere
For two pennies short of a dollar
And a record of disco songs,
You'd join the anti-disco army,
One hundred thousand strong!

Do you remember the mob that stormed the field?
Tore the backstop down,
Lit bonfires in center field,
Tearing up the grounds.
Climbing up the foul poles,
Throwing projectile discs,
Banners held high read, "Disco Sucks!"
An event not to be missed

They blew 'em up real good 'cause they were pissed
It's best not to mess with Insane Coho Lips

CH: Demolition Night
It was no fiasco
Demolition Night
The night that disco died
Demolition Night
Raging disco inferno
Demolition Night
Superficial genrecide

Another drop in a sea of baseball games
Forgotten over time...
Steve Dahl made sure that we'd remember
July 12th, nineteen-seventy-nine!

"When the fans wanted rock, the baseball stopped"
That's what the Tribune said
Front-page obituary,
Disco's requiem

Sending a message across the nation
Don't mess with Teenage Radiation

CH

It was noooo....
...fiascoooooo.....
C'mon everybody, say so long to disco
Oh yeah, goodbye!

Credits

from Asphalt Assault, released July 7, 2023
music & lyrics by Joel Wiseheart

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