Awesome dance songs by non-dance bands

I know they dabbled in the form quite a bit, but The Fall - The Crying Marshall is an absolutely banging bit of techno-rock. It's also one of my top 3 Fall songs (of those I've heard). It's just so kickass! Anyway. List others. Maybe by bands who did even less electronic stuff than The Fall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B11msns6wPU

stone roses - begging you

^^^^YES YES A MILLION TIMES YES

I was talking about the Roses with a friend last week, and came to the firm conclusion that Begging You was the best thing they did by about 3000 light-years.

Followed by Breaking Into Heaven, obv

its all about the death of the party too. like when the hacienda started to get violent. theres a ian brown interview where hes like someones trying to sell him a gun and he knows the game is up right there.

My Bloody Valentine - "Soon"
NWA - "Something 2 Dance 2"

but yes, "Begging You" is one of my favorite fucking dance tracks of all time. I've never heard anything else like it (any suggestions?)

fucking broody malevolent motherfucker of a tune

The Clash - "This Is Radio Clash"/"Radio Clash"

the word is 'blistering'. it's almost ridiculously kinetic xp

oh wait 'nove on the sly'!

GOT TEN OUT OF TEN IN CHOCKY SLUT

im really finding this hard without straying into like lo -fis- lcd territory i mean theres surely something else but me minds drawing a blank

Girls & Boys, esp. the Pet Shop Boys remix

Oh oh oh oh The Beta Band - Smiling :D

remixes totally don't count.

there was Seefeel who were a rock band but were pretty much dance at the end of the day. where do they fit in?

xpost: well, I would consider G&B to be a dance song in its original incarnation, anyway. It's just that the PSD mix is my preferred version.

not on this thread! unless you want to nominate their entire discography xp

and yeah, og G&B is legit

beta band were always on the hip hop side of things. was listening to the 3 ep's last week. still fantastic.

at what point were Seefeel a rock band??

Beta Band are all-time but Smiling is really their only all-out dance track, for all their hip-hop production touches.

ok they played with a rock set up (with a few samplers)

theres always HOTL

The Stones' "Miss You" rooles this thread.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"
Sonic [technically Ciccone] Youth - "Macbeth"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Lucky 13"

Seefeel were always like dreamy ambient music weren't they?

ohhh 'macbeth' yes

tori amos - raspberry swirl http://www.last.fm/music/Tori+Amos/_/Raspberry+Swirl

alfred 'miss you' is classic and all but i think lj is talking about rock bands engaging with techno/house

I wouldn't classify it as "awesome," but some here might: "Free Huey" - Boo Radleys

Pulp - "Party Hard"

Wouldn't describe Party Hard as remotely dance or techno enough. It's a rock song!

Is "Bittersweet Symphony" a dance song?

ministry? nine inch nails? god im scrapin the bottom of the barrel here

i honestly remember waiting if someone could combine the best of the both until HTOL came out of nowhere tbh

xpost: nah - both were primarily dance bands before they were rock bands. Industrial often combines elements of both, anyway.

Ministry and NIN do not count. I've said before that BS is structured like a dance-song, and uses dance-type builds rather than any sort of verse-chorus structure, so it might count. It's definitely quite awesome! :)

Rock the Casbah!

So glad Idioteque hasn't been mentioned yet. Oh, shit

OK, and here's an absolute fucking winner (for those that know it): Six By Seven - You Know I Feel Alright Now

Can we talk about rock acts going for the disco dollar here? Maybe there's another thread for that somewhere around. Anyway, if we can, "I Was Made For Loving You" by Kiss is both awesome and terrible at the same time.

that's actually the first thing that came to mind when I opened the thread.

Slowdive - Crazy For You

yeah totally Matt!

Romeo Void - Never Say Never

Mercury Rev - "Close Encounters of the 3rd Grade"

Shed Seven - Disco Down

SFA - Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)
SFA - Slow Life

Does XTC - Living Through Another Cuba count?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S9Or_bEGQI
Robert Palmer - "Looking For Clues"

Obviously:
The Vaselines - You Think You're a Man

Robert's face at 1:44 of that is o_O

Blue Monday, remixed ad infinitum.

Delays deserve a mention

I dunno about SFA. Their origins were in techno & there is that strain running through much of their material. Plus they are almost as genre-resistent as someone like Ween, so they aren't really a "dance" or a "non-dance" band IMO.

But, if SFA does count, then so does Ween: "Friends"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx_JQe6THkM >>>>>>>> "Something 2 Dance 2"

Julian Cope - Poet Is Priest

The Doors - "The Soft Parade" (the "Peppermint miniskirts..." bit)
Chicago - "Street Player"

Dead Milkmen - You Will Dance To Anything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaY6ONOoHwQ

"Street Player" otm

Begging You is one of two songs on The Second Coming that Mani and Reni do not get a writing credit. Programming on Begging You by Brian Pugsley, http://www.discogs.com/artist/Brian+Pugsley

Bits of "Taxloss" by Mansun :D

Of Montreal quite often go dancy but I wouldn't say they're a dance band...I guess "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal" is *the* one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou4f8us7_GU

The Doors - Peace Frog is the conventional wisdom answer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIlHt_syoSE

GBVG 'i want more'

Joy Division: "Isolation." crutis called it disco earlier this afternoon but I think that's going a bit too far.

Love, kjb

P.S. That was a lie. I was the one who called it disco. It is.

lol

No Hits - Black Mountain

blondie weren't a dance band per se were they, but damn they cut a few tracks that would make me wiggle about (eg. rapture)

Can - I'm so green
Can - Spoon
Can - Moonshake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5njWAq4Qq3k

given the recent news, it was only a matter of time before i dropped this on the thread :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUTIp6ga80s

they may have incorporated hip hop grooves elsewhere in the catalogue, but this was their only real out and out dance track (other than some remixes of course)

This made me think of the apex of 90s british band w/inexplicable dance track, fran in japan by space, not a welcome thought. Nothing to do with awesome but too incongruous not to qualify. I'd say its a shame shit britpop bands haven't got the hunger/confidence/naivety to do this anymore if I cared enough to know if it was true.

Most shit Britpop bands are actually shit indiedisco bands these days anyway; Friendly Fires, etc etc.

i believe the correct term is electrodribble

trying to think of good examples of dance guys doing non-dance that aren't seperate projects or whole albums. maybe My Name Is Tommi by Mu, lots of warp stuff I guess. are these generally better? maybe it should be another thread.

spiderbait 'arse huggin' pants'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv_uV7BDoHQ

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero"

This was actually my first thought when I clicked.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin's cover of "I've Never Been To Me" on the Ruby Trax compilation of several centuries ago. No kidding!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-koax7HEYnE

Can's Vitamin C is the dance hit.

Hate to say it but I saw Oneida play Up with People when Frank was away for a bit and they played as a two piece as People of the North I think and it was one of the most killer performances I'd ever seen.

Tomorrow Never Knows got rinsed by DJs quite a lot in the mid 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLs8R9Zk-yA

what good are you ppl who just post youtubes w/o saying what they are

wtf, i'm not gonna click all those

what they are is visible for me, but maybe that's not the case for everyone?

mine's supergrass, "moving"

mine's supposed to be La Casa Azul - "Como Un Fan". La Casa Azul are a Spanish twee pop band but that song goes totally ments happy hardcore for the last three minutes.

whiney: for me it says what all of them are in the top corner, does it not do the same for you?

i'm with reverend.
wasn't aware others weren't seeing the text in the top corner of youtube clips.
so for the record mine was : age of chance - don't get mad, get even.

and mine is N.W.A - "Panic Zone"

I love 'Begging You', but I heard it at a club once and it didn't work at all - too much distortion. I love 'Moving' too, but a dance song it is not.

I'd nominate 'Confusion' by New Order, or Primal Scream's 'Don't Fight It, Feel It' (though they both kind of were dance bands at those points)

tg "hot on the heels of love"

oh wait, you meant worthless british indie bands having a drum machine on one song, sorry

TG cd qualify as a worthless british indie band, chill the fuck out

oh shit, "time is money (bastard)" by swans

scritti politti "lions after slumber"

actually this is some of my favourite shit when this happens

Cher: 'Believe'

ballad of the green berets - barry sadler

Peter Gabriel: "Steam" and parts of "Growing Up"

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Intelligence

I don't understand this thread at all.

It is like if British people made Mexican food, and it somehow ended up being really nice

I love 'Moving' too, but a dance song it is not.

wrong. that (heart)string heavy bit that holds it all together is pure sailing into the sunset disco

This thread has turned into a hella fun Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/starsandheroes/playlist/1tNm55edL7aDBS2BM8PoKV

weird spacing...

omg thanks! :)

no worries!

Any more for any more?

japan "life in tokyo"

Listening to this Spotify mix now - it's like the funnest, most unexpectedly groovy five-hour party evah!

GOT TEN OUT OF TEN IN CHOCKY SLUT

― One idiot even called me "redcoat" because I'm (country matters), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 00:27

That'd be Jockey Slut. You young people, don't know history.. I always thought Begging You sounded like they were trying to sound like the Chemical Bros

Looking forward to hearing this playlist.

as a result of this playlist, listened to 'Friends' by Ween more times than is healthy, probably

NB I'm sure that "Chocky Slut" ref was a joek.

Oh. I was making a joke too. ha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lSZorW8TA

were the fall mentioned on this thread? they have quite a few dancey songs. i love the melancholic glide of the violin with the clapping sequencers in this. one of the more lovely Fall tracks.

Try reading the first post again ;-)

And in addition to TCM, my favourite Fall song 4 1/2 Inch has ELEMENTS of dance without being fully committed in that direction; other favourites also have similar elements. It generally worked, whenever MES decided an electronic groove was required.

Maybe not "rock" enough for this thread, but Belle & Sebastian were not a dance band either.

(cannot embed YouTube video with my phone of "Your Cover's Blown" but picture that here!)

Oh and fwiw to those discussing upthread- on my iPhone, at least, using Zing and/or on other websites, embedded videos are just YouTube icons, no title ever displays, it's always lovely when people label them..

Fabulosos Cadillacs - Matador

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58lN67LfJpw

I've been hearing this one in clubs in Mexico and France for more than 15 years now.

Ska bands are practically mediocre dance bands.

"Soon" still owns this entire thread/category of music

what does this even mean...all I can think of is music that predates "dance music" like tangerine dream or something where you hear it and it sounds like techno

Rock bands getting their funk on is kinda related:

Trampled Under Foot - Led Zeppelin
Strange Brew - Cream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IFdnMXeidQ

^ Soft Machine - Soft Space

Dunno if it was linked yet, but it's kind of their response to I Feel Love

it turns out that all music is dance (?)

prove it here, ilm

if you can dance to it, it’s dance music, any music can be danced to if you’re open/creative/nimble enough, ergo