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-two years ago) link
"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-two years ago) link
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-two years ago) link
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-two years ago) link