A musical question

[veg-o-matic]

Just curious. What songs are just so irresistable that they make you want to get up off your butt and start dancing?

I don't dance, but if I were drunk enough, my list would include:

Hungry Heart
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Walking on Sunshine
I Only Want To Be With You
Hip to be Square

I'm sure there are more, but it's Monday morning...

veg

 

[gadgetgary]

Great Thread

'Use it up...wear it out'

and an all time fav:

BODY ROCK

 

[hoover1060]

I'm white and I'm Lutheran, AND

I can't "get down"

My list would include:
Dancing Queen
Mama Mia
Its raining men
I will survive

and my fave Huey Lewis songs: Heart & Soul and Stuck with you.

 

[mattywashboy]

Mambo No.5
Love Generation
Cotton Eye Joe
Macarena

 

[jasonl]

Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry
Brick House by The Commodores
A Little Less Conversion by Elvis and JXL
Atomic Dog by George Clinton

 

[Versatronic]

So many but...

Yummy Yummy Yummy by the Ohio Express.
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight by Boyce & Hart.

You know Jeff, those are some seriously gay selections. People are going to start wondering about you.

 

[frigilux]

I'm not a dancer, either; I was always in the band. But given enough Bombay Sapphire, these are among the ones that do it for me:

Bang A Gong (Get It On).....T.Rex
Helicopter.....XTC
Do You Want To....Franz Ferdinand
Go-Go Dancer.....The Wedding Present

 

[frigilux]

And Mike, you scored SO many bonus points with your choice of the bubblegum classic 'Yummy, Yummy, Yummy'. One of the catchiest songs on the planet.

 

[Versatronic]

Nice selections Mr. Figilux

Chewy Chewy is right up there as well Mr. Frigilux

 

[hoover1060]

well...

I am what I am, and I make no apologies...

I also left one out because I ddin't know the exact title:
Dragostea Din Tei - Haiducci

If that don't cinch it that I'm gay....

 

[mixfinder]

Jitterbug

I am convinced, I'll rise from the coffin, to dance a Jitterbug, if they play In The Mood. I love that song. My daughter surprised me at her wedding. When we got up for the father daughter dance, the music started slow and genteel and then all at once swung into, In the Mood, as we swung into a swing and away we went. My whole life passed before my eyes as the train of her wedding dress came at me. I had to jump over it every time we twirled.

Kelly

 

[rinso]

Nothing makes me want to get up and actually move like the Carole King song "One Fine Day." Must be that invigorating piano lick at the first.

 

[may63]

"I'm So Excited" by The Pointer Sisters

"Can't Stop Dancin" by The Captain & Tennille

"Rock Lobster" by the B-52's

"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" by Michael Jackson (before he was Wacko Jacko)

"China Grove" by the The Doobie Brothers

"Footloose" by Kenny Loggins (who couldn't stay seated for that?!)

 

[frontaloadotmy]

"Rock Steady" Aretha Franklin
"Nut Bush City Limits" Ike & Tina Turner
and on and on and on.

 

[hoovermatic]

Heatwave - Martha and the Vandellas

 

[toggleswitch]

As wonderful and diverse as Western/American/English-language music is, I can't help but associate the Eastern/Greek/Turkish/Middle-Eastern/Israeli music with the love of my grandparents, happy times[weddings and christenings, parties], etc.

They IMHO the rhythms are more archaic, primal, tribal, natural (i.e. like a heartbeat). and "haunting"

Think Despina Vandisinging GIA, which made it to mainstream radio here in NYC. There was a flurry of phone-calls when it aired syaign did you here that Greek music in Macy's? That had NEVER happened before. It is jsut oto expotic for the western ear.

On the flip side, In western music certain types shriek, whereas in eastern music certain types drone, as if they have appendicitis. It's all relative. LOL

http://www.askmen.com/women/singer_200/222_despina_vandi.html

 

[foraloysius]

I never really knew the title and the group of a song I used to dance on in the eighties. It was often played in the gay disco where I often went. The significant thing is that the Big Ben in London is used in that song. Anyone knows what I'm talking about? Would bring back fond memories. Oh, and some heartache too...

 

[toggleswitch]

Despina Vandi
Be careful, has music

see *Discography*
see "GEIA*

(no comments Jason. LOL)

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www.despinavandi.gr

 

[jasonl]

HUBBA HUBBA

Actually I'm speechless. When my blood pressure returns I'll probably say something LOL.

I could't get that Geia song to play but the one that plays in the discography is pretty kewl. Lots of drums.