Recording
Is It All Over My Face
Loose Joints
Independently chosen for3 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.
- Released
- 1980
- Label
- West End
- On
- Disco, The Waxonia Desk — In the Room, and The Waxonia Desk — What the DJs Kept
- Updated
- 2026-08-29
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.
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.
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.