Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Some Scritti.
Thanks for the memory jog, delightful. Here's my fave, from around a year earlier.
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One of my favs from Scuba about 18 months ago. Proper deep.
Wil Maddams from about a year ago
...and if you got the Garage nostalgia. Hackney Parrot from earlier this year.
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nzlemming, in reply to
My dance phobia wasn’t helped by two years at drama school where I endured classes in tap, jazz, ballroom, renaissance, free movement (creative writhing) and super-aerobics with Michael Parmenter every morning for a year. The horror.
I sooo sympathise, Simon.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
My dance phobia wasn’t helped by two years at drama school where I endured classes in tap, jazz, ballroom, renaissance, free movement (creative writhing) and super-aerobics with Michael Parmenter every morning for a year. The horror.
Hah... so it's not just me. I was a hideously unco child, so I ended up doing tap and jazz classes, and even if I say so myself I wasn't half bad but can't even think about dancing socially without fixating on what my hands are doing. Now, I can't dance unless I'm in my bathrobe, alone in the house and desperately trying to avoid productive activity by busting out my pole dancer playlist. It really does reveal I'm an uncool homosexual of a certain age...
Some automotive sexual innuendo with Miss Grace Jones...
Getting in touch with your interior Beyonce...
Scritti Politti, 'The Word Girl' (Yeah, there's a specific memory attached to this.)
And I have been known to jiggle awkwardly to Pat Wilson's 'Bop Girl'. (Yes, that is Nicole Kidman.)
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This Elvis remix always gets me movin'
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Of course when I started dancing, it was to this.
Just found the whole Dance Craze movie on YouTube. Sweet, albeit low-ish quality.
And these guys.
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and to start up any Saturday morning - a pinch of Bootzilla
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I do like to dance, but it's all a bit wild and moves all over the place. My inspiration, little sis:
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Back when they were Philly soul in the mid-70s, before the disco explosion, Sister Sledge did tunes like this:
Circle Of LoveAlso, I once worked as a dancing polar bear at a nightclub in Austria ...
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Matthew Littlewood, in reply to
I love dancing. If the choice is, "We could go home and have sex, or stay here and keep dancing,"... I'm going to trying really hard not to answer that question.
Assuming the person in question has some form of music-playing device at their abode, then surely the answer to that question is "we can go home, keep dancing and then have sex." Everyone wins!
Anyway, I know the tack below is painfully obvious, especially considering some of the cooler tracks on display on this thread, but Underworld's "Born Slippy", especially when they played it live, is one of those tracks that really captures the sense of a hedonistic, hazy and wracked state of mind released and exaggerated dancing. I love how Hyde's vocals sound almost terrified at being caught up in at all. And of course, it signed off one of the great films of the 1990s.
"Let you feelings slip, but never your mask, boy..."
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How about some Mantronix? The problem is, which mix? I went for quality.
And some Herbie live. Spin on your head. Or something.
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Thanks for posting the California Soul remix - I'd not heard that track before. The 1969 original by Marlena Shaw is pretty snappy in its own right too:
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How the hang do you embed clips in a post? I'm new, and I really hope this works, because the Pet Shop Boys have started pumping out honest-to-god bangers
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/qNR8gQAoYCs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Barnaby,
Just copy
and paste the YouTube or Vimeo url
Like this (but with no gap after the http:
- introduced to fool the machine!)
http: //www.youtube.com/embed/qNR8gQAoYCsresults in:
http://www.youtube.com/embed/qNR8gQAoYCshmmm, links but doesn’t drop in
- that must have come from an embedded clip somewhere maybe?
if you copy from You Tube direct – look for the watch or embed in the url:
here it is with a gap again
http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNR8gQAoYCs
voila:hope it sort of helps
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Audi oh! culture?
I finally had a look at that Audi / Land of Plenty ad appropriation...
I note the Audi ad also copies many of the key shots in the Pauly Fuemana clip - it would appear (implicit by their own admission) that the brief from the outset, was to emulate, reference and trigger resonant connections to 'Land of Plenty' - a cynical and parsimonious compliment at best...
Cultural plundering at worst!
it just reinforces my feeling that Audi truly is a four ring circus, one I won't be attending (not that I could afford one anyway)... -
Danielle, in reply to
I don’t think a danceable thread is complete without some Prince.
My favourite Prince song to dance to is "Alphabet St". But only the long version, because it is key to yell out "shake your body like a horny pony would!" at the appropriate moment.
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Barnaby Nicholls, in reply to
Glorious, thank you. Seems to be just like posting on Facebook, which I doubted was the case.
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Sacha, in reply to
Not a copy claims Audi, with backing of Graeme Downes. Cheeky pricks.
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Lilith __, in reply to
it is key to yell out “shake your body like a horny pony would!” at the appropriate moment.
<3
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Russell Brown, in reply to
because the Pet Shop Boys have started pumping out honest-to-god bangers
Yay! I'd totally dance to that!
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What I was kneading my pizza dough this afternoon, Dub Syndicate's 'Mafia' was playing. It seemed to offer the perfect rhythm for the job:
The pizza came out bloody wonderfully. Coincidence? I think not.
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Chorus Echo...
Not a copy claims Audi,
with backing of Graeme DownesWell, he would, wouldn't he....
Verlaine, Verlaine, Verlaine
Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorraine -
What a wonderful thread. I believe there is a famous quote somewhere like this "Talking / writing about music is like dancing about architecture" sometimes credited to Elvis Costello but you get the idea.
Thanks for all the great music clips in here. One of my fave ever dance scenes on film is from Hal Hartley's "Simple Men" movie and features a Sonic Youth song.
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So late to this, but felt the need to respond after all the 'yes, that!' moments I had about the clips people posted.
I'm pretty self conscious about dancing but last week a friend persuaded me to try a local No Lights No Lycra night - an hour of dancing in the near-dark in comfy clothes with a bunch of strangers. It was great, I reckon I'll be back. If I get around to making playlist suggestions, there are a few on here that would be perfect!
This was my top Scritti Politti song - a friend recorded the video off RTR and we used to play it repeatedly till her mum recorded over it by accident (Cupid & Psyche 85 was one of my first records):
And my fave Young MC song - love the end of the story:
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I’m pretty self conscious about dancing but last week a friend persuaded me to try a local No Lights No Lycra night – an hour of dancing in the near-dark in comfy clothes with a bunch of strangers. It was great, I reckon I’ll be back. If I get around to making playlist suggestions, there are a few on here that would be perfect!
Fascinating! What's the music like? Is there somewhere nice to sit down and take a break? (I see they're a bit stern about talking on the dancefloor.)
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