Your homework for the week...
Jul. 8th, 2003 01:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaFelix is on a mission. Not, as you might expect, to take over the world, but to compile a list of the top 200 songs guaranteed to get people on a dance floor.
So, for the past couple of hours I've been suggesting songs, and he's been dissing them mightily and telling me nobody but me and my two friends have heard of them. (Oh, apparently only one friend).
I still haven't stopped arguing for Another Girl, Another Planet by the Only Ones. Or disagreeing that nobody in their right minds would get up to dance to Boys and Girls by Blur.
So. I want a list of the songs you think everybody would get up to dance to. This is everybody, even that girl over there who clearly has dreadful taste.
It worries me that this list will consist largely of 80s bilge and Abba, and therefore you're also welcome to tell me the songs that would make you get up and dance.
So, for the past couple of hours I've been suggesting songs, and he's been dissing them mightily and telling me nobody but me and my two friends have heard of them. (Oh, apparently only one friend).
I still haven't stopped arguing for Another Girl, Another Planet by the Only Ones. Or disagreeing that nobody in their right minds would get up to dance to Boys and Girls by Blur.
So. I want a list of the songs you think everybody would get up to dance to. This is everybody, even that girl over there who clearly has dreadful taste.
It worries me that this list will consist largely of 80s bilge and Abba, and therefore you're also welcome to tell me the songs that would make you get up and dance.
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Date: 2003-07-07 11:51 pm (UTC)Having DJed at the RPGSoc Christmas party on occasion, I can say (with authority) that there is some accuracy in that description. Abba, particularly Waterloo and Dancing Queen, always works.
Other hugely successful stuff :
Aerosmith - eg. Love in an Elevator, Dude Looks Like a Lady, Pink
Blondie/Debbie Harry - eg. I Want That Man, Sunday Girl
Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (or the live version of Burning Down the House)
Garbage - eg. Supervixen, Paranoid
Bryan Adams - eg. Summer of 69, Run from You
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody is probably the most universally popular one I've found
Things that cleared the floor :
Talking Head - Psycho Killer
Abba - Anything that wasn't a top ten hit
Essentially people will dance to things they recognise, even if they regard them as bad taste.
Venta : and therefore you're also welcome to tell me the songs that would make you get up and dance.
I don't enjoy dancing. I prefer playing requests. ;-)
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Date: 2003-07-08 07:40 am (UTC)My experience of those was that people who don't normally dance would always join in with anything which had a silly dance to go with it: the Macarena, Locomotion, Twist etc. Another good one was Staying Alive by the Bee Gees.