Dance Tunes from the First Great Crossover Period S/D

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Inspired by the "Ya'll ready for this" thread, lets list all the classic tunes from around '88 to '92.

Technotronic, Crystal Waters, Snap!, etc...

i am too young to remember it, but in hindsight, it seems that house had a little momentum going before grunge happened, at least in america (obv uk has no "second" crossover period as dance never "retracted" in the same way there, right?).

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

So were the disco years the zeroth great crossover period? And Motown and Stax the negative first? (I'm teasing ya, Aaron, but still.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

no no but i was thinking electronically.. i mean, i think that it really wasnt until after disco that this great divide between "dance" music and pop music really seemed to exist. yes there was the anti-disco sentiment, the anti-rock/r&b sentiment, but i think that those exist in seperate spheres.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, so: "Finally," CeCe Peniston!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 31 October 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

But even if we're talking electronic dance crossovers post-disco, why wouldn't say, the Latin-freestyle-heavy post-Madonna era (which also included, like, "Pump Up the Volume" and "French Kiss") (if not the electro-funk-heavy post-Prince era a couple years earlier) (which also included, like, "Axel F" and "Rockit") count as the first one???

― chuck, Friday, 31 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Dear Everyone,
you are right. i made a mistake. I mistitled this thread. list songs! Thanks, and much love!

sincerely,
your friend,
aaron.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 31 October 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

please delete this thread.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No! Songs!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, Aaron said the first "great" crossover period. Fuck that Stax/Herbie Hancock bullshit!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

and if she should tell you
"come closer"
and if she tempts you
with her charms

tell her no
no no no no
no-no-no-no
no no no no
no-no-no-no
no no no no
no

i am drunk.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

hooray!

*applauds*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

what time is it?

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

i am now a rockist and so this thread is superfluos for me. i know i didnt spell a word in the last sentence correctly.

Snap "I've Got the Power"

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Any 2 Unlimited song.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Revive!

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I gather you're looking for "pure" dance tracks that crossed over to the charts, rather than genre crossovers, right? OK then...

Search:
Black Box - Ride on Time (obviously!)
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart (ditto)
Betty Boo - Doin' the Do
Kym Sims - Too Blind to See it (Hurley's House Mix)
Adamski - NRG

Destroy:
C+C Music Factory - Things that Make You Go Hmmm

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Saturday, 1 November 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, sorry, I actually meant Adamski's "Killer" (the one that launched the career of Seal, but don't hold that against it).

Also, Alison Limerick's "Where Love Lives"--can't remember whether that did anything much in the charts, but download it anyway if you don't have it, it's astonishing.

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Saturday, 1 November 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

cathy dennis & d mob - c'mon & get my love
adventures of stevie v - dirty cash (money talks)
dimples d - sucka dj (the euro mix with 'i dream of genie' backing, not the marley marl one)
doug lazy - let it roll
madonna - vogue
madonna - deeper & deeper
madonna - express yourself (not the album version, the house version.... it's a shep pettibone remix i think?)
kylie minogue - what do i have to do?
kylie minogue - better the devil you know
kylie minogue - step back in time
kylie minogue - shocked
precious - definition of a track
technotronic - spin that wheel
technotronic - pump up the jam
technotronic - get up!
technotronic - this beat is technotronic
black box - strike it up
black box - everybody everybody
nkotb - step by step (c&c vocal club mix)
bg the prince of rap - this beat is hot
jungle brothers - i'll house you (gee street reconstruction mix)
level 2 - i feel you baby
d mob - put your hands together

track id please: "dum/ da da da dum/ da dum/ da da da dum/....daa daa daa daa... daaa daaa daa daa.... daaa daa daa daa..." (this is sung.... and there are piano chords. haha let's see if anyone gets it) btw this is NOT melodie mc.

― minna (minna), Saturday, 1 November 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

dannii minogue - jump to the beat maybe just scrapes in if only because i luvved it and had a dannii poster in my room when i was 10, but also because it has fake cheering in it

― minna (minna), Saturday, 1 November 2003 11:21 (twenty-two years ago)

S Express 'Theme From S Express'
Beatmasters ft Cookie Crew 'Rok Da House'
Coldcut ft Lisa Stansfield 'People Hold On'
Adamski 'NRG'
Soul II Soul 'Back To Life'
Bomb The Bass 'Beat Dis'
Joey Negro 'Do What You Feel'
Norman Cook 'Blame It On The Bassline'
Beats International 'Dub Be Good To Me'
Chad Jackson 'Hear The Drummer Get Wicked'
Gat Decor 'Passion'
Blue Pearl 'Naked In The Rain'
A Guy Called Gerald 'Voodoo Ray'
808 State 'Pacific'
The Source ft Candi Staton 'U Got The Love'
Nomad ft MC Mikee Freedom 'I Wanna Give U Devotion'
Inner City 'Do You Love What You Feel'
Todd Terry 'Weekend'
Kariya 'Let Me Love You For Tonight'
Brutal Deluxe 'Let's Get Brutal'
Raze 'Break 4 Love'
Bizz Nizz 'Don't Miss The Partyline'
C&C Music Factory 'Gonna Make You Sweat'
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam 'Let The Beat Hit 'Em (part 2)'
Crystal Waters 'Gypsy Woman'
DSK 'What Would We Do'
49ers 'Touch Me'
Starlight 'Numero Uno'
Wood Allen 'Airport '89'
Mixmaster 'Grand Piano'
Capella 'Heylom Halib', 'Deep In My Heart'
Snap! 'The Power'
Technotronic 'Megamix'
JT & The Big Family 'Moments In Soul'

― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 1 November 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

shit shit shit. minna, i know exactly what song you're thinking of! gah. this is going to to drive me bonkers all day until i figure out what it is.
oh, and dan selzer to thread.

― lauren (laurenp), Saturday, 1 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

someone help lauren and me!

― minna (minna), Sunday, 2 November 2003 10:28 (twenty-two years ago)

is it australian by any chance?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 2 November 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The only dance stuff from this period that doesn't deserve complete burial is non-crossover stuff such as Orb and Orbital.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It might be easier if there were some melody, minna. Post a wav of you dumming it.. or something.. someone who mentions Dirty Cash AND Get Up deserves to be helped...

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 2 November 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

This is the greatest ILX thread ever. Every song listed here is a goddamn classic. Except for "Ride on Time", which is just okay.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 2 November 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

dance Geir, dance

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 2 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"Destroy:
C+C Music Factory - Things that Make You Go Hmmm"

:-(

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 November 2003 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think it's australian no. nor am i willing to sing it! but here is how it goes if we pretend it's in C:

"dum/ da da da dum/ da dum/ da da da dum/""....daa daa daa daa... daaa daaa daa daa.... daaa daa daa daa..."

" C / G G GC / G C/ G G GC /""...G F Eflat D... G F E flat D... G F Eflat D....."

― minna (minna), Monday, 3 November 2003 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

btw tim you still stick up for 'hmm' post-mcdonalds co-opt? :)

― minna (minna), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, it was my absolute favourite song when I was 10 and so it's still quite dear to me. In fact all the singles from that C+C Music Factory album are sacrosanct as far as I'm concerned.

Minna you're not talking about Opus III's "It's A Fine Day" are you?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i was wondering whether it was the opus III

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

But that's not how "It's A Fine Day" goes at all! That one goes (starting from C):

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
C C C C C Ab G F G C C C C C G F G F

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

opus III, is that the one that is sung into the answering machine in that machine gun felatio song? if so - not the one.

yeah tim the others are pretty great, c&c were great producers as evidenced by the nkotb remix.... i should probably listen to it with fresh ears. i just listened to the dannii song again and i am nearly convinced that it's actually good... i bet it had that silhouette dancing in the video that we are so fond of tim!

― minna (minna), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, all of my formatting has gone to shit.


1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
      C C C C C Ab      G   F G       C C C C C G       F   G F

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"i bet it had that silhouette dancing in the video that we are so fond of tim!"

Have we discussed this before or did you just intuit that I love that shit to death?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Opus III's "It's A Fine Day" goes "It's gonna be a fine day today etc. etc. "la da di da di dee da di da". Later sampled by Orbital in "Halcyon". Evidently it's not that though.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna plunk those notes into a composer and see if it sounds familiar.

"Things That Make You Go Hmmm" would be fun to karaoke.

I think the MGF answering machine song was "Reach Up" by Perfecto Allstars - that one with the cheap video with the animated skeleton and the rotating trumpets, possibly with the former riding the latter.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

If it was a top 40 hit between 1990 and 1992, minna, you could always look here and look for a familiar name:

http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/arch/1990.htm

(Warning: may bring back exceedingly good AND bad memories)

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

there was some damn good shit in the charts in 1990

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit yeah. Going through it now and am thanking various deities that quite a lot of it is actually on soulseek. I used to set my alarm clock to watch the Top 60 (as it was then) on Rage of a Saturday morning, and I'd write down the charts.. honestly loving about 3/4 of the chart.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

me too!!?!?!?! (i was bigger nerd at 15 than i am now, if that's possible)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah! At least I have the excuse that I was only 10 and was right to be brainwashed by magnificent pop. You should have been hating pop and listening to indie, young man!

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i was listening to both fairly equally around that time

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I just used to see the music played during the non-chart period around 4am and thought "God, this music sucks, put the chart on already! I want to see where Paula Abdul is this week!". Actually, that's when I first heard Iggy Pop and the Pixies, so it wasn't ALL bad.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

rage accounted for approximately 100% of my musical discoveries up to the age of 17

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 05:55 (twenty-two years ago)

love is contagious.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)

But C&C can creep back into the search list with "Pride" even if "things" has been destroyed, no?

Also: FPI Project - "Back to my roots" is a stone classic

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 3 November 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy: Everything that was on the singles charts
Seek: The entire first two Orb albums and Orbital's debut

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

dans Geir, dans

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Dancing is braindead anyway. The best "dance" is music that works find with headphones. Music that works as a listening experience, not just a dancing one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

come on Geir, sha-sha-sha-shake your moneymakin' tailfeather

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir, you might change your mind if you actually could dance. (Obviously I'm making an assumption herer but the only people I've ever heard put down dancing are people who just can't do it.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

there should be an ILM Dancing contest - international (using realtime video link-up)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

can it be a tap contest¿

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 3 November 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

But then Mya would win.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 November 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yes but we must draw the line at capoiera

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 3 November 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Have we discussed this before or did you just intuit that I love that shit to death?

i won't lie, we talked about it... but i reckon i could have had a fair stab at guessing!

― minna (minna), Monday, 3 November 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

for what it's worth, the It's a Fine Day vocals originate from an old Cherry Red record called...It's a Fine Day by Jane and Barton

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 3 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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