"Saturday Night Fever" Soundtrack [1977]

Removing all the blackness from funk and everything gay from the original disco movement, "Saturday Night Fever" presented a completely sterile, homogenized version of the late 70's dance scene, setting off a nuclear cultural meltdown that contaminated Americans thousands of miles past the radius of Three Mile Island. As such, "Saturday Night Fever" was a very fitting soundtrack. Dominated by the Bee Gees, who were the best at trivializing the styles of the genre, "Saturday Night Fever" emanated far beyond the hapless, idiotic mooks who populate the film, and the Bee Gees themselves helped influence future baby-voiced pop vermin like Kenny Loggins and especially George Michael. If there's anything worse than that, it's the reduction and dissection of what disco could have become into commercialized, bite-sized doses of saccharine shuck. "Jive Talkin'," indeed.