where do YOU draw the line between what you say you like and what you'd actually buy or dance to?

I will dance to anything I know and like if I'm drunk enough. If I'm feeling shy I won't even dance to my favourites. If I'm in a dancing mood I'll dance to stuff I don't like. Dancing and liking aren't in lockstep for me.

There is plenty of stuff I theoretically like, like Sonic Youth for instance, but I can never be bothered to buy. I used to have a hangup about buying chartpop albums cos I bought the myth that they're all rubbish apart from the singles, but I'm over that now.

And yeah, I'm mystified at the idea of being so selective with dancing: if I like the sort of thing that's being played, and I feel like dancing, I'll dance on and off as the mood strikes me. It takes a really dire selection to get me off of a dancefloor, though any song I'm excited about is likely to lure me back.

But then I have this sense that music-for-dancing in the everyday UK non-club sense is a bit more of a mix of different things? (This is the sense I get from school- and indie-disco discussions.)

i dont have to be drunk to dance to stuff i really like...no drugs of any sort needed essentially tho obv. alky helps

i just cant imagine dancing to something i dont like in any way...well i can but it just dont make sense

so my question was more about dancing to rather than buying music cos obviously we all love more music than we can own it would seem

i think my pickyness and analness about it comes from being eternally frustrated regarding my enthusiasm for partying/clubbing and the disappointing results of trying to engage in this regularly throughout the years, but thats another not very interesting story - just way too much time spent thinking and not enough dancing basically

Anyway, the music I like and buy is the music I fall asleep to.

It is many years if ever since I resisted dancing to something I liked because it's not cool. I can't remember any cases, but I wouldn't put it past me many years ago. I'm a 43 year old funny shaped white guy: imagining that anything to do with me dancing could ever be cool would be mentalism run rampant.

so now i sound like a complete snob and hypocrite right? well i probably am but i think its hearing 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' or Destiny's CHild in the context the Avalanches or Soulwax would place it in (mixed mercilessly with other more 'credible' records) that would make me wanna dance to it...its the same appeal as is commonly found in bootlegs of course - that they do MORE than just play the record increases the appeal as well, its sampled, stretched, filtered and fucked with through mixers, sequencers and laptops to create an all-powerful dancefloor detonator

this in turn has inspired me to create my own mixes which purposely feature pop tracks i always had a liking for but never considered dancing to as they were...the mixing of them with something harder or more obscure but still compatible i still find stimulating to listen and dance to

anyway i'm glad you revived this thread (except i look at my previous posts and wince inside) as it would be nice to hear more views from other people. i'm surprised jel doesn't dance for example, what with him seeming like such a nice fun-lovin' chap, and i'd been hanging around thinking Dan Perry was a classic wallflower given his shy, retiring nature...

Where was this thread this time last week eh?

i like lots of music i'd probably never buy but that's got an extramusical expl. as well, i only buy stuff that is available on inexpensive 2nd hand vinyl ....occasionally a cheap 2nd hand CD but there isn't much pt. in that 'cause i don't have a CD player