Artist
Loose Joints
Loose Joints appears 3 times in our Disco, The Waxonia Desk — In the Room, and The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept lists, placing as high as No. 7. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 3
- Appears on
- Disco, The Waxonia Desk — In the Room, and The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept
- Year
- 1980
- Highest placing
- No. 7 in Disco
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
Appears on
Is It All Over My Face
1980 · West End
Ranked No. 7 in Disco
Arthur Russell's downtown art project, rescued by a Larry Levan mix that turns a shambles into a groove. The record where disco stops being glossy and starts being strange, which is exactly where house picks it up.
Also on The Waxonia Desk — In the Room, The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept
Is It All Over My Face
1980 · West End
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — In the Room
Larry Levan's mix, and the disco record that sounds most like what came after it. Chicago inherited more from New York than the city's own mythology tends to admit.
Is It All Over My Face
1980 · West End
Picked by The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept
Disco at its strangest and least commercial, rescued by a mix. The rare groove tradition was never about obscurity for its own sake; it was about records that were better than their sales.
Also on Disco, The Waxonia Desk — In the Room