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besides "Where the Party At" what are they?

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 15 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See. Tricky. Nitzer Ebb.

― bnw, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Claudine Clark, "Party Lights"
Lesley Gore, "It's My Party"
Tanya Winley, "Vicious Rap"

― M Matos, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jumpin Jumpin"

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mick - the lyrics to "It's My Party" are downbeat but the MUSIC is about as agressively cheery as you can get! It's a very strange song that way.

bnw - I believe you about Nitzer Ebb and Tricky - it seems very likely that they'd have songs in this vein - but what are they?

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Swinging Party" by the Replacements. Prince "1999", of course.

― Mark, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wynonie Harris, "Good Morning Judge"--about the morning after, when the cops come calling
Louis Jordan, "Saturday Night Fish Fry"--ends with Louis vowing never to attend another SNFF

― M. Matos, Monday, 17 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since Ned did not yet mention it: The Cure's own "Funeral Party", which is as sepulchral as it gets.
Or "For All Tomorrow's Parties", for that matter...
Did I take "Dark Party Songs" too literally?
(My favourite pulpish "Party Hard", even, anyway.)

― Simon, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dark Party Songs have the word "party" in them? I need a clarification, Mistah Hand.

― bnw, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Matos seems to listing a certain subset of the dark party song, the cheery song with bitter lyrics. I am apparently pinched in the opposite direction - dark, foreboding music with relatively innocuous party words that go with it. But feel free to come up with whatever combination you wish! I was about to put "I Love Rock n Roll". There's a jukebox, there is chat, she loves rock n roll, but there is a venomous black streak that runs through the, ah, heart of it all.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe this is dumb, but I think it's called either "I Feel Speed" or "Motorcycle" by Love & Rockets, followed by that Jesus and Mary Chain tune that goes, "I feel so good in my leather boots..." I don't really know what I'm talking about, but the songs I'm thinking of sound sinister and sexy, snaking through the speakers.

― Nude Spock, Tuesday, 18 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that why some trip hop comes to mind like Tricky's Call Me off Juxtapose. As far as the Ebbheads, maybe Lightning Man. Other good dirty singles are Foetus's Bedrock and the Chrome Cranks' Lost Time Blues.

― bnw, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sorry, "There's a jukebox, there is chat, she loves rock n roll, but there is a venomous black streak" = "There's a jukebox, there is chat, she loves rock n roll, AND there is a venomous black streak"

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael Jackson-Don't Stop Til You Get Enought. Especially when he sings "heartbreak enemy despise". And Inner City's "Big Fun". And "Hosanna" from Jesus Christ Superstar. And "Mama Told Me Not to Come" by Three Dog Night.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

45 Grave's "Partytime" gets my nod.

― dan, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

arthur, just out of curosity, why do you think of "big fun" as dark? i never really thought of it as such.

― jess, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Jess-I don't know, she just sounds really lonely and desperate to me. She doesn't sound like she's having big fun at all. Of course, it's probably the--ho-hum, I'm retiring this word from my vocabulary after this, I swear--rockist in me that thinks that. I hear the minimal synth stuff and imagine that she's all alone, clinging to her party vibe by a thread.

Of course, I *love* the

― Arthur, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SONG I LOVE THE SONG I LOVE THE SONG! AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

― Arth, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven years pass...

Bunji Garlin - Differentology!!!!

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 08:04 (twelve years ago)

You could make the argument that it's yearning or wistful rather than dark and I'd agree with that but I think it's teetering on the brink of darkness all the same, even if it hasn't quite fallen in

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:30 (twelve years ago)

I mean, it's funny, 12 years on you could probably include a good quarter of the Top 40 in this category

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:31 (twelve years ago)

Like "We Can't Stop"?

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:33 (twelve years ago)

gucci mane's Wasted fits this, i think.

― Treeship, Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:36 (twelve years ago)

Yeah exactly! xpost

Maybe there were just as many, 12 years ago? I dunno

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:36 (twelve years ago)

to MarkoP i.e. this article http://www.businessinsider.com/why-miley-cyrus-we-cant-stop-is-actually-the-saddest-song-of-the-summer-2013-8

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:50 (twelve years ago)

Which isn't you know, the most mind-blowing article around but I like it, and I like that it's in... Business Insider?

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 21:52 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

business insider is a weird publication

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 16:29 (eleven years ago)

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