I was an avid reader of Mad Magazine starting around 1980 and in it I often read about 'disco sucks' in the US. I really didn't get it at all. Australia definitely still had discos all through the 1980s. Some were famous and the hottest place to 'rage' *. They were called nightspot or nightclub by the late 1980s as the term disco sounded passe. But yeah, we didn't really seem to have a 'disco sucks' movement here. When I was a teen in the 1980s, the tough cool kids all went to discos. There were the popular 'Blue Light discos' for under 18 year olds. Popular mainstream clubs in Melbourne included The Underground and Inflation in King Street, plus Razor, Lasers, Chasers, Manhattan Stage 1, 21st Century Dance Club. My brothers-in-law were pretty standard Aussie type men. They went to discos and got drunk. That was where the girls were, but they also bopped to their fave tunes and had a blast.

I started going to discos in 1987. They were great. All the different subcultures mixed together and had a blast. Tracks like Blue Monday -- Male Stripper -- Boom Boom -- So Macho were huge. When Blue Monday started, the crowd roared. It was unreal.

One of my fave 1980s disco track was Savin' Myself.

Years later I started playing '1970s disco mixes' that had been uploaded to youtube. Many of the tracks I recalled as still being played in discos in the late 1980s were actually old 70s disco, eg Groove Me. So even in the 80s actual 70s disco was still being played too.

Here is a list of some 1980s club tracks:

• Blue Monday

• Searchin' (I Gotta Find A Man) by Hazell Dean

• Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)

• Slice Me Nice

• Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)

• Male Stripper

• Savin' Myself

• So many men so little time

• So macho

* In 1987 ABC started a music video TV series named after our term for what you did at a disco - and in 2023 it is still running.