Your favourite dance tune?

[tuvor]

I've mp3'ed a CD's worth of pretty much everything that ever existed :) About 150 songs for a Hallowe'en party.

I'm curious to know what your all-time favourite dance song is. If I like it you'll get my gratitude and maybe a credit on our li'l ol' dance floor this Saturday. Keep in mind I know a LOT of songs, but I'm pushing 40, so I'm pretty useless after about 1994 :)

Forgive me if I don't reply right away. Must go and pay some attention to my s.o. whom I've hardly seen all day.

Cheers!

[RebelYell]

1. Brick House n/t

[tuvor]

7. Hmm, by Rob Zombie or the Commodores?

I do believe there's a difference in style.

[RebelYell]

13. Commodores

I never heard of the other guy, I'm old. :)

[Bok_Tukalo]

2. Funkytown or I Want to be Sedated

Depending on what you are talking about when you mean dance music.

[Paul Lazzaro]

3. 1999

It was oh so futuristic in the 80s!

[Poiuyt]

4. Pump Up the Jam

by Technotronics

[rwenos]

5. Oye Como Va

By either Carlos Santana or Tito Puente, but Tito's is more danceable. It's salsa, but you can samba or (my favorite) cha cha to it. Cha cha is a flashy dance if the woman is flexible and can follow.

This is SEXY music.

[tuvor]

6. Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!

A couple of these I already have and the rest bear further investigation.

Happy Hallabe'en!

[bettyellen]

8. rock box (run dmc) and also......

set it off (strafe)
let's dance to the drummer's beat (larry?)
rockin the casbah (clash)
oh my god (pink)
smells like teen booty (freelance hellraiser)
galaxy (war)
buffalo stance (neneh cherry)
family stand (ghetto heaven)
oh sweet pea (tommy roe)
sex o matic jesus frak
(macy gray)
se vida e (pet shop boys)
we don't give a damn about our friends (girls on top)
end with
certamente or vesuvious (madre blu, / ? soprano's soundrack)
last dance ( donna summmer)
new stuff to mix in:
afrikaa baambaatta (of planet rock fame)
the donnas new one is fun of people want to dance to rock

i'm sorry, was that more than one?

[kodi]

9. "reaching out" (extended version) steel pulse

you'll dance so much your feet'll bleed.

[chaska]

10. 'Never Gonna Get It' En Vogue.

[donheld]

11. One of the following

"Escapade" or "Miss You Much" - Janet Jackson
"Strike It Up" - Black Box
"Personal Jesus" - Depeche Mode

[UdoKier]

12. It's "gay" as all get out but..."Love at First Sight" by Kylie Minogue

nt

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Metal Machine Music

Lou Reed

[tuvor]

18. When we want people to go home that's what we'll use.

Either that or Fabio's album.

I TOLD you I'm pushing 40, I know about these things!

Hell, I even know about that awful Pat Metheny release from about 1994. Just can't remember the name.

:)

[Tom_Foolery]

15. The Hokey Pokey. n/t

[Willy Lee]

16. Cumberland Blues

"Make good money, five dollars a daaaaaaaaayyyyy!!"

[tuvor]

19. Weird. I live right next to a village called Cumberland. n/t

[RPM]

17. Humpty Dance

... is your chance to do the hump (oh, do me baybeeeee)

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. "Halcyon On And On", by Orbital.

[Kenneth ken]

21. Mystery Achievement - Pretenders n/t

[Huckebein the Raven]

22. Ok here's my list

After All - Delerium (feat. Jael of Lunik svenson and gielen remix) (I love Vocal Trance even though it's not really dance)

Return of the Mack
Higher - Sonique
Now is the Time - Crystal Method
Keep Hope Alive - Crystal Method
Get Busy Child - Crystal Method
Pump up the Jam - Technotronic
Drop Dead Gorgeous - Republica (I'm admitting to this)
Rock the Casbah - Clash
The dance song from Final Fantasy X-2 (I can't think of its name)

[JSJ]

23. 'the twist' and 2nd place goes to 'the hully gully' and 3rd place goes...

... to 'the monster mash'.

[Insider]

24. frankie says

frankie goes to hollywood - relax

when ya wanna...

[lady raven]

25. Dead or Alive

I don't usually listen to dance music. But I used to go clubbing. And I always went nuts for Dead or Alive. Anything by Dead or Alive. And what a crush I had on the singer... He was SOOO yummy.

[Whoa_Nelly]

26. Under The Boardwalk

and Start Me up (Stones)

[Dukakis88]

27. "We Built This City" by Starship

I never had anyone to go to the dances with me in high school but for some idiotic reason I went anyway and tortured myself by standing around hoping someone would dance with me, when everyone was either already taken or surrounded by venomous girlfriends who would laugh at me.

Anyhow, my horrible experience everytime was relieved exactly once, when an older dude I didn't know took pity on me and asked his gorgeous girlfriend to dance with me for one song. That's when the utterly ridiculous but upbeat song "We Built This City" by Starship came on, and we danced joyfully (her hiding whatever pity or disdain she might have actually felt for dancing with a fat loser). It was over very quickly but I will always feel a bittersweet dread when I hear that song and pause to reflect on my loveless, horrible life.