Is it possible to dance to eighties music?

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They run regular retro nights at our campus student nightclub and I have decided the only dance that works at all is the girly-twist-your hips-and-soulfully-wiggle-your-elbows-one (which works with any music, or in fact no music) (And which Sara was doing her finest to teach me last night, and failed (This may have more to do with trying to do it to Billy Ocean)).

Can anybody help?

― Graham, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Left-1-2 Right-3-4 hands-in-the-air and shake-that-ass)

― Graham, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most of my dance moves can be applied to any musical genre.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most of your dance moves can too Graham, if Friday was any indication.

― Tom, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am not pogoing to Spandau Ballet.

― Graham, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jonnie, take Graham under your wing and teach him........

the polar bear

― chris, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And what do you mean most? I only have 2 (Pogoing on both feet, Pogoing between feet)

― Graham, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK then, all.

(Right my lunch break is over so I am a pariah again until teatime.)

― Tom, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Side to side stepping like Robert Palmer's laydeez works well, but preferably in high heels.

― Madchen, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you cannot dance to Soft Cell, Pet Shop Boys or A-Ha and you are not paralysed from your head to your toes, ..are you sure you are not in a wheel-table like Hannibal Lecter's one?

― Laetitia, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has anyone ever tried the dead ant in public? What about school social dancing, step to one side, then step back ad nauseum. The particularly sexy and daring among us would add some hand movements, or even hand claps.

I wonder what the dance moves were like in the video clips of these songs? you could try for authenticity...

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you can bustop to new kids.

― Geoff, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Watch Mel & Kim videos.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought most '80s music was dance music. What '80s music are you listening to? You can't dance to You Spin Me Round?

― Ally, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I'd say me and my mate Neil made a pretty good attempt at dancing to Sigue Sigue Sputnik last Friday. We managed to spill copious amounts of beer in the process though.

― Trevor, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It all depends on the song and artist. Picking Tiffany is wrong. You look like a mutant teenage freak. Then there's New Order, how hip is that? Very!

― Helen Fordsdale, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rock Me Amadeus!...That's the only song I would ever dance too.

― james, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally, one can dance to everything.

― Helen Fordsdale, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Considering how much of an influences the 80s still have on modern dance music, electronic or what have you... I think the answer is a blatant "Uh-duh... YES!"

One of the best clubbing moments I've ever had was at an L.A. 80s/new wave dance club.. called Beat It. I think it's still successful... (the flyers have Boy George and Pete Burns on either side) The Djs sucked as far as segues went, but whatever.

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tiffany's cover of "I think we're alone now" was good

― mnaryann, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this thread was made for Ambrose 'give me all your electro compilations now' White but he appears not to be interested

― Ed, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

they make me dance to ani difranco in voice class. if i can put up with that without retching my lungs on to the floor, you can damn well dance to anything, i say.

― Maria, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urgent and key: They don't play 80s dance records, they just play general 80s hits (But then it is a rubbish DJ who has to announce the names of every song between them (obviously dreaming of his own breakfast show on local commercial radio, he does have the voice).

― Graham, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is it with that voice? The guy who used to be on after JohnnyB's and my radio show at university spoke perfectly normally, but as soon as he turned the mike on he adopted that voice. Always used to crack me up.

― RickyT, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the vast majority of 80's musci that i have heard is possibly some of the best music to dance to. but at the moment i can only think of paula abdul 'opposites tracks' which is from 1990. but that is fucking brilliant.

the trouble with 80's nights is that they always associate themselves with 'cheese' and play the same old tunes, evene though theres an infinite number of good tunes they could play. i mean, how much good stuff was produced between 1980 and 1989? shit loads, and those years clearly produced a millions types of music.

of is 'eighties' music different to music that was simply produced in that decade? i suspect so....

― ambrose, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i managed to dance to "livin on a prayer" at powder not long ago.

― di, Friday, 19 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

four years pass...

awww, simpler times....

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Friday, 25 November 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

a man on my bus was listening to 'smooth criminal' this morning.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 25 November 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

god i appear to have been even worse at typing then than now! "opposites tracks"??? wtf that sounds like a freelance hellraiser bootleg or something.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 25 November 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm so doing a track called that now!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 25 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

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