Album Comparisons: Saturday Night Fever

Saturday Night Fever is the essential disco film, the quintessential showcase on celluloid of late 70s fashion, style, choreography, and music, and the feature that made John Travolta a household name. Of course, one could point out his character's abundance of undesirable qualities - bigotry, racism, megalomania, narcissism, and misogyny - but in Hollywood's reality only the "coolness" matters, and the character of Tony Manero has come to be seen as the epitome of masculine cool for the late 70s disco era. It's true that the film's style and theme are dated today, but the soundtrack remains absolutely killer. I finally "discovered" this album in the late 90s toward the end of my college days, and the disc took a good deal of wear and tear from countless bumps and jolts in the portable CD player during the 80 mile round trip to and from Arlington three to five days a week. There have been - as of this writing - three major compact disc releases of this classic album, and for an album of this stature only the best is good enough. Which one will that be?

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