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00:57 / 21.04.02

What always gets you up and dancing?

00:59 / 21.04.02

intoxication is about the only thing that does get me dancing. but i've got no flow/rhythm/mojo, so i've gotta be reeeally drunk.

02:30 / 21.04.02

I almost never listen to music, unless I'm dancing to it. The only thing I can't dance to is techno/drum and bass/electronica type stuff, which marks me as incredibly square. And the only thing I can dance well to is 60's soul music.

Matthew Fluxington

03:24 / 21.04.02

Moriarty, I do believe that I might be the DJ for you.

08:58 / 21.04.02

Well, I discovered last week that as long as you play it loud enough, Otis Redding's Hard to Handle has my shaking my not-so-scrawny white boy ass on the dance floor pretty much instantaneously.

And for some reason (namely a running joke between me and friends), the Bomfunk MCs Freestyler will also have me acting like an arse in a flash.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

09:42 / 21.04.02

There is not a power on earth that will make me 'dance'.

But 'Bentley's Gonna Sort You out' or Orbital's 'Chime' will probably get me waggling my head in a bizarre manner...

12:18 / 21.04.02

Well, it depends on the type of dancing.

If it's dancing, y'know, Really dancing, then funky techno is the most likely to get me up (and the hardest to name one particular tune).

However, I have many, mant different types of dance I have been known to inflict on the unwary.

Some of the worst and most embarassing are;

the Disco Sashay; can be seen to such records as Chic's Good Times or the wonderful Love is You by Carol Williams. Slightly camp and increasingly exaggerated the more I get into it, the disco sashay is probably just as entertaining for those watching as it is for me taking part.

the Hip-Hop strut: can be seen to tunes such The 45 King's The 900 Number or Big Daddy Kane's Aint No Half Stepping. These records and others like them somehow make me roll around the club like I've got a bottle of Kristal in one hand and a blunt in the other, when I've really just got half a warm pint of Guinness.

The Shuffling Mancunian: All purpose 'baggy' dance to be brought out to early 90's records from the North West; can be seen to Step On by the Happy Mondays and most Stone Roses tunes* among others. Currently enjoying a revival to 'There Goes The Fear' by Doves.
*: there is the embarrasing, but apparently unstoppable, 'look at me, mummy, I'm Jesus' crucifixion pose to 'I Am The Ressurection' sub-genre to this.

The Bottle-Kicker: a cross between moshing on the spot and generally looking like a twat, this can be witnessed to Killing In The Name Of by RATM or Jump Around (oddly enough) by the otherwise dire House of Pain.

There are many other types of dance with their own conjuring records, but I fear if I were to list them all we'd be here all day. Generally, it doesn't take much to get me dancing when I'm out seems to be the basic response.

12:23 / 21.04.02

Wow. I guess I'm talking plain ol' uninhibitedly enthusiastic 'I just have to' dancing...

14:15 / 21.04.02

"Love in an Elevator." A local DJ played it at the end of the night cos he thought it would be ironic. My love (and my pelvis motions) were not ironic.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:52 / 21.04.02

Future sound of london - papua new guinea.
hmm, schneider tm's 'the light 2000'(title? the smiths' cover)
girls on top-I wanna dance with numbers (whitney/karftwerk bootleg)

electro in general, shiny house music right now.

uncle retrospective

16:44 / 21.04.02

God, Plums is right about papua new guinea, I've been forced to drag friends onto the floor for that one.

But Rez/Cowgirl by Underworld is the one song that will have reaching for the lasers everytime. It's just the best.
But I don't know you people by Orbital will have a similar effect.

Oh, Ohh! Baby I got your money by old dirty bastard. That's shakin' it.

16:47 / 21.04.02

And One's "Panzer Mensch." How can you NOT find that song catchy?!

18:45 / 21.04.02

Yeah, Cowgirl will do it every time

Anything by the Prodigy too... But then I'm often the first on the dance floor 'cos I just don't care! It's fun!

08:36 / 22.04.02

The Boredoms at All Tomorrow's Parties had me dancing like a maniac, despite the fact that I was absolutely exhausted, just because there is no other reaction to such fantastic music.

The man next to me, who was standing completely stationary, legs apart, stroking his fucking goatee beard didn't seem very impressed, but fuck him.

Oddly, I think that must have flicked some switch in my head, as now I feel the urge to move in some way to absolutely all music. Which may be embarrassing the next time Hefner play in leicester..

11:09 / 22.04.02

anything. i have no fucking shame. i LOVE to dance.

Future sound of london - papua new guinea
they played that twice in my local last night, and made me very happy. wasn't dancing though, was s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out on the battered leather sofa incapable of even moving to reach my drink.

Goodness Gracious Meme

14:27 / 22.04.02

and most of whatever Mira Calix played at the club I went to last night, will track down names... it was the kind of stuff that had me and various other people who hadn't slept for a couple of days dragging themselves on to the dancefloor. was dancing with a stitch for a about 20minss....

The Natural Way

14:35 / 22.04.02

Cool: was it good last night?

Did the nice ladies make a nice noise?

15:51 / 22.04.02

Rizla: How?! How did you dance to Boredoms? Seriously, can you describe it? Cos it's things like that (Melt Banana etc) that most make me want to move but the only way I could properly satisfy the urge would be to run up a mountain and explode, or drill down to the earth's core or summat.

wembley can change in 28 days

21:43 / 22.04.02

Go kooky!

I'm of the same ilk. If it has two bars to rub together, I've got booty to shake. I listen to Neubauten's NNNAAAMMM on headphones and cannot stop myself from dancing a wee bit in 9/4 time as I'm walking down the street. I will dance to techno, if everybody else around me is dancing. There are exceptions: I don't generally like hip-hop or country, and as of yet I cannot tango. There are a few guarantees to get me on the dance floor:
Twenty-Five Miles - Edwin Starr
Love Potion #9 - by the Coasters (amazing version!)
Superbad - James Brown
Lady Marmelade - Thunderpuss Remix
Basically, I'm out every Saturday night and sometimes Fridays as well, on the dance floor for three hours and sitting out maybe three songs the whole night. I'm addicted to it. I'm dancing right now.

00:50 / 23.04.02

What gets me on the dancefloor...

dirty sleazy housemusic. and classy yummy housemusic, with just a dash of techno. Derrick Carter. Dj Sneak. Terry Lee Brown Jr. Naked Music.

A

01:39 / 23.04.02

hmmm, i find most "dance music" to be the least danceable stuff imaginable. However, the wonderful Smugglers get me shaking my skinny white arse each and every time I hear them.

The Natural Way

08:37 / 23.04.02

I just can't understand how music w/ a 4/4 beat is 'the least danceable music, etc...' Just find it a bit bizzare.

09:13 / 23.04.02

don't believe the hype by public enemy and paid in full by eric b and rakim

09:15 / 23.04.02

Oddly, I think that must have flicked some switch in my head, as now I feel the urge to move in some way to absolutely all music

ALL RIIIIIIGHT! i told you one day you'd see the light [wink]

13:57 / 23.04.02

I didn't say I was any good at it. Or that any movement I'm capable of making could conventionally be described as 'dancing'.

Rizla: How?! How did you dance to Boredoms? Seriously, can you describe it? Cos it's things like that (Melt Banana etc) that most make me want to move but the only way I could properly satisfy the urge would be to run up a mountain and explode, or drill down to the earth's core or summat.

Imagine, if you will, music with a similar mad energy to Melt Banana but consisting of three drummers sitting in a circle pounding away relentlessly and a man with shoulder-length dreadlocks in the middle of them leaping four feet in the air, yelling and pounding synths & other electronic noise-making gadgets like he's trying to break them in two with his fists..

I reckon I'd like to dance to Melt Banana. In fact, I think it would be cool to have a club that played Japanese noise and freaky glitch-tronica and terrifying mashed up drum n' bass and Prolapse and Kid 606 and Alec Empire and The Fall and Motorhead and Lydia Lunch and Big Black for the purposes of mad, violent, anti-social flailing around .. maybe an idea for the 'post-rock lounge' to take up..

and most of whatever Mira Calix played at the club I went to last night, will track down names...

I heard Mira Calix in session on the radio once, playing a tune created entirely out of a sample of a shotgun firing and reloading. And it was actually dancable. That would get an airing at the above fictional club-night, for sure.

hmmm, i find most "dance music" to be the least danceable stuff imaginable

Me too. Yer standard house/techno just leaves me absolutely cold .. it may as well not be there. Dunno why really .. I seem to need some slightly more interesting/weird sounds, preferably song-based, to get my attension..

15:42 / 23.04.02

Rizla:

Three drummers? Three?! Fuh. King. Rock.

"I think it would be cool to have a club that played Japanese noise and freaky glitch-tronica and terrifying mashed up drum n' bass and Prolapse and Kid 606 and Alec Empire and The Fall and Motorhead and Lydia Lunch and Big Black for the purposes of mad, violent, anti-social flailing around .. maybe an idea for the 'post-rock lounge' to take up.."

I would sell my family into slavery and take up permanent residence there. The dance floor would have to be huge, to accomodate the random *cough* jazz-action that would ensue. Sure, some people would be keen to get all biffed and tangled up with each other, but there should be enough room that peeps could thrash about without injuring themselves or others. An enormous padded cell, with bouncy floor sections and the padded-cell equivalent of pirates on a bouncy castle would do the trick - I'd want to be able to thrash about on the floor and throw meself into walls and that, and I imagine others would want to as well.

16:15 / 23.04.02

Definitely! Yes! Fantastic! That would be more fun than fun has ever been before!

Regrettable Juvenilia

16:20 / 23.04.02

Missy - 'Get Ur Freak On'. MOP - 'Ante Up'. Redman - 'Smash Sumthin'.

Funny how the titles of these are all exhortations/commands.

Oh, and loads of other stuff. 'Superstition'. 'I Fought The Law'. 'Cannonball'. Yeah.

09:09 / 24.04.02

I didn't say I was any good at it

but, y'see, i've noticed that once people stop being self-conscious about dancing, they get better at dancing. "good" is all relative, anyway. who's to judge what's "good"? it's entirely subjective.

the only time i'm bothered by "bad" dancing is when the dancefloor is tiny and cramped and there's not enough room to avoid flailing limbs. but i still rather that than be surrounded by uptight people who are too busy posing to dance.

The Natural Way

13:22 / 24.04.02

Bendytrance dancing does my head in - y'know when people come over all 'Shiva'.....urrrgh.

Fucking love getting down all night.

14:37 / 24.04.02

Woah there's so many I could hardly choose.

Probably overwhelmingly would be "Can I get a.." by Jay-Z. I would also probably stop whatever I am doing to get up and dance to "Hey Ladies' by the Beastie Boys. Strangely "Judy In Disguise (with glasses) " by Gary Lewis & The Playboys but I think that's a "me" thing.

19:43 / 24.04.02

Not just a Cherry Bombism, Cherub, I love Judy in Disguise (with Glasses) but wasn't it John Fred and his Playboy Band? But you're far to young and vibrant to remember it! Full of pauses which are great on the dancefloor when you know they're coming and can choreograph.

Like Madonna's Don't Tell Me with its asynchronous rhythms or the bit that always confuses dj Ganesh when the Breeders stop to draw breath just before Cannonball actually finishes.

19:49 / 24.04.02

Oh, c'mon. That only happens now when I'm really pished...

20:36 / 24.04.02

You may be right about the actual band who did it, Zocher.

I am too young to have been around when it was popular but my Dad used to be a DJ and due to that paternal influence I have a vast knowledge of pop songs between 1955 - present.

That is the song where they say "Cross Your Heart/With Your Living Bra" and the "Come to me tonight" bit with the horns and the moans? Yes?

Then yes we're thinking of the same song.

Matthew Fluxington

21:01 / 24.04.02

I'm not going to mention any songs, cos I've been posting things in the Song Pimpin' Club for a while now that fit this description, and I've posted setlists to parties I've DJ'd, so I'm sure most of you have a good sense of what I like to dance to, even if I'm not dancing when I'm playing them...

I will say this: my ultimate DJ dream gig would be to have all of you in a room, and make you dance all night.

Especially Cherry and Runce...

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