favourite song to dance to

My most indelible memories of absolutely needing to stop whatever it was I was doing and go dance involve:

1. "Love Like Blood" by Killing Joke, "Ball of Confusion" by Love & Rockets, "Like a Virgin" as sung by the Lords of the New Church, "How Soon is Now" by the Smiths and "Master & Servant" by Depeche Mode. These were all played virtually back to back one hot June night at the late great Danceteria in the Summer of 1985. My friend Rob and I (he was still in high school at the time, i'd just graduated) had sheepishly gone to Danceteria, expecting to be tossed out on our ass or flatly turned away and had been milling around on the upper floor, daring each other to go buy drinks, when from a floor below I heard Geordie's three-note call to arms. "I'm sorry, Rob, but they're playing Killing Joke! I MUST GO DANCE NOW!". Emboldened by favorite tunes, we hit the dance floor, made a bunch of friends, drank and danced the night away. They closed the place for good not long after, after a dead body was discovered at the bottom of the elevator shaft (or at least that's the sexier story, rather than they lost their liquor license in a post-Robert Chambers/Jennifer Levin NYC).

2. My friend Tim and I are on a "double-date" of sorts with a girl I'm tenuouslyl dating and some friends of hers (twins!) at the late, great Wetlands Preserve in TriBeCa in the Summer of f`92. Everyone's having a fine-ish time, but nothing's really gelling or going anywhere. After Tim has spent time harrassing the deejay, the keyboard intro to "So Whatchawant" by the Beastie Boys starts reverberating through the club. Tim and I instantly prioritize: "look, girls, you can join us if you want, but we have to go dance now!" Evidently, the turning of the tides (too much attention to "you can join us if you want to, or not...we don't care") was all that was necessary. We all danced, and the evening later became an unparalleled success, if ya smell what I'm cookin'. Thank you, Beastie Boys.

My wife and I went to a wedding a little over a year and a half ago. We're all standing around after dinner, and suddenly the tag-time deejays throw on "Needle in the Camel's Eye" by Eno, followed immediately and inexplicably by "Some Kinda Hate" by the Misifts (a truly odd choice....for a wedding, no less).

so, yeah.....I had to go dance.

gangstas don't dance, we boogie!

XINLISUPREME- online single song

DMSR BY PRINCE IS #1 BABY

ooh DMSR is a great call

A Guy Called Gerald 'Voodoo Ray (Fast Eddie's Rham On Acid mix)'

"Been Caught Stealing" Jane's Addiction -- the one song on free-beer Thursday nights at College that was guaranteed to get all the freaks on the dancefloor. Everyone'd be outside standing around, and as soon as you heard the dog barking, you RAN to the dancefloor.
"Superstition" Stevie Wonder -- my friend Em was KER-azy about this song, and it was her signature tune in her party mixes...no matter what you were doing, or where you were, you *had* to be out there carving it up to Stevie.
"Camel Walk" Southern Culture On The Skids -- my friends always, always played this at parties. You couldn't not dance, and the best part was, similar to playing Jane's Addiction, it's guaranteed to get the freaks on the floor.
"Late In The Evening" Paul Simon. The weekend before I left for the States to get married, a friend threw a surprise Hen's Night for me at my favorite restaurant. We did all the horrendous Hen's Night things , and got drunk, and we put on my 'going away' cd compilation my friend made for me. As the night was winding down, and the restaurant owner was getting ready to close for the night, the last song on the cd came on. It was "Late In the Evening". Everyone danced. Even the restaurant owner was dancing.. I have a great vision of people walking past the restaurant,looking in and seeing us all dancing. I still dance to it in the living room whenever I play it.

"Love Machine" by Girls Aloud, as proven last night by science

well, i actually heard the tiefschwarz remixes of "kinda new" and "trick me" last time i was out, and the rex the dog mix of heartbeats, and it was like woah.

others:

kylie - slow (chem bros mix)
young gunz - friday night
archigram - padre
jay-z - big pimpin
elephant man - fuck u sign
mfa - the difference it makes (spitcher rmx)
dizzee - stand up tall
vybz kartel - tek buddy gal pt 2
freeway - flipside

Anything by the Jackson 5/MJ (hi Alex!), Prince, Basement Jaxx, Plus-Tech Squeeze Box, the Chemical and Dust Bros and the Beastie Boys
JT - 'Like I Love You', 'Rock Your Body'
Cornelius - 'Ball In Kick Off' and his rock and d'n'b songs
Archigram - 'Carnaval'
The Go! Team - 'Ladyflash'
Daft Punk - 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger'
Janet Jackson - prety much any of the dancers, lately 'All Nite (Don't Stop)'
Chaka Khan - 'I Feel For You'
Jordan Knight - 'Give It To You', 'A Different Party'
BEP - 'Hey Mama' video version

More later.

jlo waiting for 2nite

like i love you is fotm..

anything with a great intro alwayws gets me

love machine another perfect otm
and the far to cheesey but ultimately iresistable outta space by prodigy