SONGS THAT MAKE YOU DANCE BY SHOULDN'T

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Sometimes, there is a song that should not be danceable, or that because of it's artsy baggage, shouldn't be danced to.

My example: I start to really boogie whenever I hear CAN's "The Fall of Another Year" off of UNLIMITED EDITION.

I feel I shouldn't be, but I really spazz out everytime I put it on. I start making really funny hand gestures, too...like making lobster claws and snapping them over my head.

What other songs do you end up dancing to, even though it's not thought of as such?

― Gage-o, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"He'd Send in the Army" - gang of four. Everytime I hear it (and it has virtually no tempo) I convulse & flail about. But for me, anything with a predictable, straight tempo (like most dance music) is not good for dancing. I prefer some (read: lots of) synchopation & dynamics. Dance music puts me to sleep.

― Dave225, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm too staid and crotchedy to dance. But a long time ago I discovered that two of my friends Chris and Mike would instinctively dance like spastic roaches to hellish blandishments of my Pogues mixtape. Especially potent was "Sick Bed of Cu Chulainn" and "Bottle of Smoke". It was like chimps on angel dust, I tell ya.

― Lord Custos, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Great fucking topic -- I'm responding to the 'artsy baggage' part. There are the most evil of songs, because they inspire revelry when they should be provoking mayhem and mass resistance. The obvious answer would be Midnight Oil's "Beds Are Burning," but that's not at all subtle so I'm going to think of another.

the Clash - any number of songs, "London Calling," "Spanish Bombs," "Magnificent Seven, "White Man in Hammersmith Palais"

Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Peek-a-Boo" ... when I finally learned the lyrics, I shuddered. Doesn't keep me from dancing, though

David Bowie - "China Girl"

and in the former, 'clinically undanceable' category: Bauhaus - "Bela Lugosi's Dead"

― Dare, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Captain Beefheart's version of "Moonlight on Vermont"

― Gage-o, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lots of Stump. But not "Buffalo".

― OleM, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Stumbling around and jerking like a spazz to Pere Ubu's "Heart of Darkness" is an activity in which I cannot help but engage myself.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

herbie hancock's sextent record always makes me dance. also i broke a lamp in my room stomping around to rudimentary peni today.

― chiznaki, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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