MUISC SOUNDS BETTER WITH YOU verus LADY (HEAR ME TONIGHT)

I prefer Lady. It's all about that sexy bassline.

prefer Stardust but also prefer 'Soup For One' to 'Fate'

I think "Music Sounds Better With You" is one of the most overrated dance songs of all time. "Lady" is still terrific. Better to dance to, better melody, better to DRIVE TO as well.

stardust obviously

music sounds better than you

Can I vote for the Commodores song?

Didn't like either of them when they first came out, but I've warmed towards the modjo track.

Modjo

time has forgotten 'The Ladyboy Is Mine'

i went with 'lady' because i had more success with it when dancing in clubs in paree

Lady HEAR ME TONIGHT

stardust

Stardust

if there were a third option in this poll, what would it be?

If it was French, Sing It back.

Naw, it would be Groovejet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2A5K42EA2E

I'm pretty sure this, or at least a TS with one of these tracks and another similar one, has been done before and I said something stupid like I liked the one that wasn't French more or something.

both of those videos have a nice sense of nostalgia, but man, that modjo video is like a longtime dream of mine. to buy a beater for like 600$ and just drive it as far as it takes me.

can anyone remind me what this song is: sorta french filtery. sorta ibiza-lite, but has big hipster appreciation. i think it's more recent. the video is following behind the sexiest girl walking in a bikini and going swimming.

discopolis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DdqFxi4bKU

'salright, that

discopolis = one of the best songs of the last couple yrs i think

-- deej, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:53 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

Can't decide - these are two of the greatest dance tracks ever.

3rd option: Bob Sinclar's 'I Feel For You', Supermen Lovers 'Starlight' or Christian Falk 'Make It Right' (<< argh why is not on youtube)

This is no contest.

yep, stardust all the f'n way.

if there were a third option in this poll, what would it be?

Armand Van Helden. Or Phats'n'Small. Or "One More Time" by Daft Punk.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

stardust, no contest

If only "Flowerz" had been one of the options.

"Lady" is cheeseball shit for meatheads. "Music Sounds Better With You" is a perfectly executed neo-disco anthem that just happened to be enjoyed by meatheads.

discopolis

-- deej, Friday, 11 January 2008 20:47

*****

I spent a month in Europe when these were both out and they're all I heard on the radio in 6 countries and I couldn't have been happier. It seems that on this thread "Lady" is underappreciated. The track missing from this poll is Spiller - "Groovejet". These three form a kind of triumvirate of pre-9/11 fin de siecle extravagant house.

Never write anything like that last sentence ever again, please.

Oh sorry, I meant to write, "yeah dude, those tracks were awesome back-in-the-day".

pls write more sentences like that spencer

"fin-de-siecle" is one of my all-time fave phrases

Both of these came out around the time of The war in Kosovo, so it wasn't all roses.

Thanks max, I really feel like this kind of millenium house became problematic after 9/11 and these were sort of the great anthems just before, when we thought history was over and we were all going to live in a future Studio 54 all the time (along with "One More Time" too).

xxxpost, Never really liked "Discopolis" much besides the name. I mean the bassline is great, but it really lacks the hooks, vocal or instrumental, that Stardust and Modjo both have.

anyone who can dismiss Lady as 'cheeseball shit' is not to be trusted when it comes to disco, neo or otherwise.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Thanks max, I really feel like this kind of millenium house became problematic after 9/11 and these were sort of the great anthems just before, when we thought history was over and we were all going to live in a future Studio 54 all the time (along with "One More Time" too).

this is fucking stupid bullshit. a) if you thought that it was the end of history you were an idiot b) if you think 9/11 had such universal significance it would *stop people dancing* you are also an idiot c) if you thought the end of history would be like studio 54 must be kind of depressing for you i guess.

please try to stop acting like a dick.

i really liked "chillin", loads better than "lady". but for the purposes of the thread stardust comfortably wins and that was a decent vote there.

a) there was quite a bit of discussion at the time about "the end of history" in a broad sense - not that it would no longer be written, but that dramatic things like the cold war were basically over - obviously not the case, but there was a kind of fantasy about it.
b) I think that 9/11 certainly caused people to think differently about pop culture, especially music like this that celebrated frivolity and extravagance. I'm not the only person that thinks it had an effect on dance music - I certainly did not say that it stopped people from actually dancing, although I imagine in an acute sense that clubs in the weeks following were less than packed.
c) I of course meant it in a metaphorical way, in that Studio 54 stands for the complete abandon that the best disco and house music promises.

sorry that was an xpost to "That one guy"

"Chillin'" was great too, but Modjo will always be "Lady" to me.

yeah jeez enrique

"Lady" is cheeseball shit for meatheads. "Music Sounds Better With You" is a perfectly executed neo-disco anthem that just happened to be enjoyed by meatheads.

DEATH TO FALSE POP CROSSOVER DISCO HOUSE!!!

i thought quitney would agree with spencer seeing as he hasn't even heard any dance music after 'lady'

i really liked "chillin", loads better than "lady"

yeah me too, and also the Aloud mix of 'What I Mean'

Oh, Quittenpaws.

if you thought the end of history would be like studio 54 must be kind of depressing for you i guess.

this has made my day

Maybe time for us to do a CDR "Now that's what I call the end of history" mix with all this nostalgic filter pop.

The correct answer to the original question being obviously Spiller - "Groovejet"

Shakedown - At Night really came out two years too late.

love At Night but it's a touch more angsty than either of these maybe?

zis

^^^could have sworn i made a post about this song in the thread but apparently not. either way, winston totally otm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfZnZitVXs

Probs my fave filter-disco record of the bunch. Interesting factiod: This track had a Vitalic remix before he was big.

Kinda nsfw video, btw.

MSBWY > Groovejet >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lady

Groovejet kinda came off as a Armand Van Helden rip to me. Similar sound to his "Professional Widow" remix 'cept less garagey. Good tune, though.

I agree with whoever it was saying that both these tunes are ridiculously fetishized & overrated in general. I prefer Modjo fwiw & have never found MSBWY anything special, in fact it more often sounds simply annoying & inhuman to me.

'At Night' prob. better than both of these really... & I have to confess to a crush on that girl (Moony?) aka D.B.Boulevard whilst here.

IS BOB SINCLAR A PEDO

have never found MSBWY anything special, in fact it more often sounds simply annoying & inhuman to me.

Big part of the track's charm is the fact that the vocal sounds a little bit out of context, as if it has been sampled. BUT that distance gives it a real melancholy feel, making it all the more "human". Outside of time or whatever...

Modjo was just some bandwagon jumping horseshit for the blue WKD crowd, a year later as well. Phats and Small fall into this category too.

groovejet sounds nothing like professional widow - other than being based around a guitar loop

Slap bass loop, touch of latin percussion...not a direct rip, but you can hear the connection. There's some "You Don't Even Know Me" in there as well.

House records in cross-pollinating and influencing one another shocker.

I'm sorry I missed this! Modjo, of course.

Yeah, of course, I said I liked Groovejet. Van Helden had a couple of huge hits while still making cool, credible records, was reportedly charging half a mil for a remix, course people are gonna be influenced by him. And I'm sure he was in turn influenced by DJ Sneak, DJ Gusto, Todd Edwards, all that stuff. I like to think about it.

xpost

Modjo still sux, tho.

did Modjo steal your girlfriend or something?

"Not feeling it."

I just heard Lady again for the first time in years. It's brilliant!

i was @ the club last night and they played it and i danced w a hot chi kand it was :D

i thought quitney would agree with spencer seeing as he hasn't even heard any dance music after 'lady'

-- blueski, Friday, February 1, 2008 9:09 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

^^^ this is true.

a) there was quite a bit of discussion at the time about "the end of history" in a broad sense - not that it would no longer be written, but that dramatic things like the cold war were basically over - obviously not the case, but there was a kind of fantasy about it.

for fucking rubes and hubristic neo-cons at the time, yeah.

b) I think that 9/11 certainly caused people to think differently about pop culture, especially music like this that celebrated frivolity and extravagance. I'm not the only person that thinks it had an effect on dance music - I certainly did not say that it stopped people from actually dancing, although I imagine in an acute sense that clubs in the weeks following were less than packed.

i don't think house is all about extravagance rly, or even "frivolity" -- like, compared to what? i can vaguely remember the "new seriousness" of september-october 2001, but the idea that 9/11 banished extravagance and frivolity from our pop culture is o_O to the max. this Changed Everything rhetoric is pretty US-centric anyway.

c) I of course meant it in a metaphorical way, in that Studio 54 stands for the complete abandon that the best disco and house music promises.

ech -- more of a jet-set wankerthon surely? cokey sleb hang-out -- the place to see andy warhol in, uh, 1977... and not that much to do with the best disco music. is that a good metaphor for what the 90s ought to have been? i suppose it depends.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/A-Shattered-Nation.jpg

discopolis = one of the best songs of the last couple yrs i think

-- deej, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:53 AM (4 months ago) Bookmark Link

-- gr8080, Friday, 11 January 2008 21:34 (2 months ago) Link

my head hurts from screaming treble

Modjo = still gash

great thread.

we in music grandlife a+++++ best ever

music sounds better than you

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