Is it just me or hasn't it gotten a little old to always put on Abba's "Dancing Queen" at a party and to drunkly stride around to it?

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Ha ha ha. Let's put on "Dancing Queen." Abba. Ha ha ha. Dancing Queen. Ha ha ha. Hilarious.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 15 December 2002 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Drunkly--look who's talking! I wasn't really.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 15 December 2002 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

stride?

― gareth (gareth), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

drunkly stride!!

dancing queen is klassik

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I haven't tried that. I must.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 15 December 2002 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yep. It's much better to put on the theme from Welcome Back Kotter, link arms with everyone within reach, and sing along at the top of your lungs while doing poorly co-ordinated leg kicks.

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 15 December 2002 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth, maybe I really meant strut.

I'm not anti-Abba, but it has become such a cliche to get out an Abba greatest hits CD at any party, put on "Dancing Queen" and camp it up. It doesn't look like that much fun; then again, I've never tried it.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 15 December 2002 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I think 'Bohemian Rhapsody' singalongs are worse, though admittedly not by much. There's really no commonly-played 'party record' I can think of that doesn't more or less give me the urge to start pistol-whipping people. Perhaps 'License To Ill'?

― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

'come on eileen' and house of pain's 'jump around' are also no longer required

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 15 December 2002 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Dexy's Midnight Runners sounded FANTASTIC in the pub the other evening when 'Come On Eileen' (or was it 'Geno'??) came on the jukebox during a close/tense ILX bar billiards match between Dr. C and Chris (IIRC).

If you're going to have bloody ABBA recs at bloody office parties, 'Dancing Queen' is abt the best you can get, I find.

I see there is an 'Office Party' alb being advertised on UK telly: does it have 'Dancing Queen' on it, or is it like one of those 'Greatest Punk Alb In The World Ever' comps that can't get/afford anything by the Clash, say?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Sunday, 15 December 2002 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, yr point being?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 15 December 2002 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I would be ecstatic if I never heard the following songs at a party ever again:

Dancing Queen - Abba
Rio - Duran Duran
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
A Little Respect - Erasure
YMCA - The Village People
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order

Conversely, I'd love to hear the following at every party I go to:Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) - Abba
Union Of The Snake - Duran Duran
Don't Leave Me This Way - Gloria Gaynor
Chorus - Erasure
In The Navy - The Village People
Moondance - Van Morrison
True Faith - New Order

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 15 December 2002 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I never, ever want to hear Paradise By The Dashboard Light again at parties.

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 15 December 2002 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a thousand times more upset by people putting on "Oh What a Night" but whomever it was that recorded it. It's not ironic. It's not good. It never was. Get over it.

I do, however, like the idea of "drunkly striding around" to Abba. That isn't really the first activity that springs to mind when I hear Abba. I think one genereally leaves drunk striding to stuff like the Iron Maiden or the Misfits, not crystaline Swedish pop.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 December 2002 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i've still got plenty of time for 'bizarre love triangle' at parties - i've never heard it at one

there's actually an armand van helden mix of it that could go down better

also i dont think i'll ever tire of 'Geno' like i have with 'Come On Eileen' (as classic as it is)

i'm getting a bit fed up with 'Build Me Up Buttercup' mind

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 15 December 2002 23:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't Leave Me This Way - Gloria Gaynor

Thelma Houston is the singer on this (unless Gaynor did a cover I wasn't aware of).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 December 2002 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Drunken Strider is my new solo album

― Tom Millar (Millar), Monday, 16 December 2002 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't Leave Me This Way - Gloria Gaynor
Thelma Houston is the singer on this

Is the best place to get this (excepting just downloading, of course) that "Looking for Mister Goodbar" soundtrack?

― V, Monday, 16 December 2002 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

'Dancing Queen' is good because it is the saddest song. Hearing sad songs too many times is quite sad too, in a tired of life sense. And parties, specifically christmas/office parties are very sad, frustrated occasions. The whole thing amounts to melancholy overload. It is wonderful.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 16 December 2002 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't Leave Me This Way - Gloria Gaynor
Thelma Houston is the singer on this

Everyone should check out the original, too, by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes. It's even better.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The "American Psycho" soundtrack is the best party album that never became one. And it DOES have "True Faith" by New Order.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 16 December 2002 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry for the Gloria/Thelma confusion. Did Gloria Gaynor do "Never Can Say Goodbye", then? Because I could have sworn that The Communards covered one of her songs.

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE OF THE COMMUNARDS!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Gloria Gaynor do "Never Can Say Goodbye",
She did it - but was it the original? It doesn't sound like her...

.. BTW, it will always be right to play "Brick House" at a party.
(ducks)

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

No need to duck for that, Dave. "Brick House" is a stone classic that should be played at all times.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dancing Queen", no matter how wrong, is ALWAYS more appropriate than, say, "Desert Search for Techno Allah".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick, you are SO WRONG.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 16 December 2002 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Do you think "Dancing Queen" is meant to be a sad song? I haven't heard it in a long time and don't know most of the lyrics, but there's a sense of restraint in the chorus that prevents the release that this kind of a dancefloor smash usually provides. It's the chord changes, the production, the extreme precision of the harmony vocals; yes, it's a sad song. I think I may need an ABBA best-of (I hate you ILM).

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the ultimate worst is the Grease soundtrack. I hate it when bland folks with clearly no excitement in their lives get drunk at a crappy Toronto pub and insist that the equally crappy dj throw on "Summer Nights" or, even more intolerable, some kind of (horror of horrors) medley....

― cybele, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ouch. I played 4 out of the 7 songs from Dan Perry's first list at a Christmas party I DJ'd on Saturday. Am I hopeless or what?

― s woods, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

One of them was YMCA wasn't it? I can just feel it. You should be ashamed.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

it is sadder to come home alone, turn off the lights and sadly whisper/sing "dancing queen" until you fall asleep on your wet pillow.

― gygax!, Wednesday, 12 February 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

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