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Cut Some Rug
When I use to be a Dj between 1998 and 2005 I had some pretty amazing nights. Thousands of people dancing their dance to the tunes that I spun.
Most nights though I would be playing to anything from 20 to a couple of hundred people and sometimes they wouldn't all be dancing their dance to the tunes that I spun. It was at times like this when I went to the record bag to the section marked "guaranteed floor fillers" and let them work their magic.
This mythical section of my bulging sack (arf) included:
Daft Punk - Around The World
Bucketheads - The Bomb
Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Blur - Song 2
Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection
Shy FX - Shake Ur Body
Foundations - (Build Me Up) Buttercup
Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
There were more and the tune would obviously match the sort of night I was playing.
Deee-Lite and Stone Roses would get me everytime along with Supertition By Stevie and some house tunes of old.
What tune would still get you to down drink and stumble madly to the middle of a dancefloor?
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That Lady..
the Isleys.
'Nuff said.
Good but ...
Try 'My Love Is Your Love (Forever)'. Now there is a dancing tune. The Isley Brothers were sent from heaven.
For anyone who's not heard it. Tune.
I may be getting old
but I have to admit youngsters today produce some marvellous dance tunes (most of the ones mentioned so far are pretty ancient).
How about Crazy In Love - Beyonce,
Hey Ya- Outkast,
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley?
All released in the last decade, I believe. And they never fail to get my feet tapping.
House of Pain - Jump Around
Always had me shaking a tailfeather at the Venue, in Manchester - or rather jumping up and down. It was usually followed by the 'FU' song by Rage against the Machine.
Primal Scream's Loaded, Charlatans' Sproston Green, Smiths, Happy Mondays and Violent Femmes would also be popular.
These funky tunes...
Doing it to death - James Brown
Serpentine fire - Earth, Wind & Fire
Your imagination - Hall & Oates
Stuff like that - Quincy Jones
Lola's theme - Shapeshifters
The funky judge - Bull & the Matadors
Brother sport - Animal Collective ( especially after 3:01 ! Cue crazy hippie dancing ! )
...and many many moore...god I miss dancing! Well, I still dance at home, turn up my dance playlist and jump around for a couple of hours. But in a club, with other people ? Can't remember when I last did that. I used to go dancing two, three times a week in my youth.
Locust...
new Word reader friendly club opening soon in Stockholm:
http://www.bryggarsalen.se/Scen.aspx
"Stockholm's new music scene, Bryggarsalen, opens 10th and 11th of September and on stage is The Soundtrack of Our Lives.
Bryggarsalen is located in the historic brewing house in Norrtullsgatan and will become a gathering place for music, meetings and parties."
See how I managed to shoehorn Soundtrack in there...come on it's been at least a week since I mentioned them last!
I move to:
"WFL" Happy Mondays
"I Feel Love" Donna Summer
"Take Me To The River" Talking Heads version
"Good Times" Chic
"Baby Turns Blue" Virgin Prunes
"Hip Teens" Frank Popp Ensemble
"Funky Kingston" Toots & The Maytals
"Where Are You Baby" Betty Boo (don't laugh...)
"Rasputin" Boney M (genius!)
"Let's Make Love...Death From Above" CSS
"Ahead" Wire
"Blister In The Sun" Violent Femmes
"Heartbeat" Psychedelic Furs
I've read about it
in the local paper, it's very close to where I live.
A five minute walk ( ten if you're drunk! )
But the problem still is that though I gladly go to concerts myself, I'd never go dancing on my own. And I don't have any friends these days who likes to go dancing. That's why I haven't been for a while.
Good point...
I can't remember the last time when I actually said "hey, I'm just going out dancing...!"
Betty Boo Doin' The Doo
She Sells Sanctury, anything by Roxy Music or Sweet and perhaps Hung Up by Madonna will get me on the dancefloor
And once I'm on, I stay on unless it's Sister Sledge, Love Shack, Chic or Michael Jackson. Then it's time to take a break.
No Wacko
at all? I couldn't interest you in a "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"?
Absolutely
not
Mamasaymamasamamabussun
Wanna Be Startin' Something?
Blame it on the Boogie....
nuff said
Ah
the tune that has my wife hiding at weddings as I take centre stage and the rest of the dancefloor decides to join... my wife.
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
Dancing Queen, obviously.
By that stage I am too pissed to rememeber if I am the blonde one or not.
And then We Are Family.
None of the above
I've never really understood dancing or tapping feet along to music. On Buzzcocks when they play the real intro after their garbled attempts, I see the teams moving and swaying to tunes I have on my ipod and think that looks a bit odd, I would never think of doing that. So, never did discos or nightclubs and was far too old for clubbing. I'm one of those you'd be trying to get onto the dance floor and failing.
On the other hand, there's nothing to beat Stripping the Willow.
Cutting a rug
Back in my indie kid days it would have been......
Jesus Jones - Info Freako
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Anything by the Wonderstuff
Neds Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
EMF
Mudhoney - Touch Me Im Sick
Those were the days!
Up arrow sir
For The Stuffies and Ned's. My early teenage obsessions.
Never fails
Jackie Wilson Reet Petite & (Your love) Keeps lifting me higher
Do a liitle dance
Make a little love
Get Down Tonite
Burn Rubber on Me
The Gap Band
Luther Vandross
"Never Too Much"
Nutbush City Limits
Dad Dancing music at its very finest.
And Car Wash'll do it as well.
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
That's it. Nothing else. Unluckily for me, DJs tend to play it rather a lot. What can I do? The power of Jacko compels me. It's Pavlovian.