# 90s dance party
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 4, 2015, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883 "2015-09-04T04:17:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/41 "2015-09-05T03:23:38Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> You can tell which ones of us were either at weddings or the high school gym in the 90s, and who was in the club. Or in the UK. hahaha
Most of the clubs I went to were hip-hop and top 40. Occasionally we’d go to the \*club \*clubs, where everyone’s got drinking water and twirling glow sticks, but I rarely knew the names of the songs I was dancing to.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2015, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/42 "2015-09-05T04:21:40Z")
Baby got an [Atom Bomb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yy0RGTaWYM).
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/43 "2015-09-05T21:26:19Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> Or in the UK. hahaha
That’s a fair point actually. My local back home in the late eighties was rough as fuck and yet this was a guaranteed floor filler:
[Man 2 Man Meet Man Parrish - Male Stripper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgNJ72-J9Qo)
So were lots of HiNRG tunes by Hazel Dean, Divine etc Might start an 80s dance party thread. (loads of early acid house)
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### Author:  [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2015, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/44 "2015-09-05T22:34:28Z")
No one’s mentioned [“Informer” by Snow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo) yet but it was a mandatory dance song in Canada.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/45 "2015-09-05T23:27:39Z")
I know it’s not _technically_ a 90’s song but **Was (not Was)**'s [Walk the Dinosaur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKupOsaJmk) is just too awesome to pass up.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/46 "2015-09-06T00:02:23Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> I know it’s not _technically_ a 90’s song but **Was (not Was)**'s [Walk the Dinosaur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYKupOsaJmk) is just too awesome to pass up.
Not awesome enough to be available in the UK ☹
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/47 "2015-09-06T01:28:55Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> Baby got an [Atom Bomb](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yy0RGTaWYM).
Good job, **Ike**! I almost listed this but I forgot it while I was watching videos.
Here’s some more:
[Apollo 440 - Ain’t Talkin’ 'Bout Dub](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkFKbd0LraY)
[Adam X - Birth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iKlMbflPxw)
[L.B.P. - Frontside](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7RPOlDSjik)
[Pitchshifter - Genius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcEueKANuyc)
[Goldie - Temper, Temper](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-suOjvskew)
[The Orb - Toxygene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj0oziPZDTk)
[Atari Teenage Riot - Sick To Death](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOotJwCs1Y)
[Ministry - Just One Fix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXciBKcfQ8)
[Future Sound Of London - We Have Explosive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFw6djJtiPA)
Dang, the one I was gonna close the post with I can’t find online… I’ll be back after I make a video for it…
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/48 "2015-09-06T02:55:39Z")
Phew! Here’s [DJ Hurricane - 70’s In The Cut](https://youtu.be/i1JXgffaQ_I).
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### Author:  [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/49 "2015-09-06T04:30:34Z")
As someone who was an every-weekend clubber and regular partygoer for half the nineties, I am astonished. I have never heard \>95% of these songs. I have never even heard _of_ \>95% of these songs, nor the artists that performed them.
Is everyone trying to seem ultra cool, or were these really the songs that got you and your friends dancing?
I came here expecting acts like Will Smith, Right Said Fred, Sister Hazel, Live, Offspring, Spice Girls and Los Del Rio. In my experience, these were the sort of acts that actually got virtually everyone in the average club or party up and dancing in the 90s. The songs that everyone could dance to regardless of ability, gender, orientation, musical taste or degree/mode of intoxication.
To me, the songs listed so far seem like they were either made by someone not actively going to parties in the 90s, or else trying really hard to seem like they were way too cool to be aware of the commercial acts.
I can not believe that anybody, anywhere ever experienced a time when the opening bars of “Trigger Hippy” were heard, and everyone in the club leapt onto the dance floor and every seat and spot at the bar was empty.
Ever.
I can not even imagine the sort of party where all the girls hear the start of “Frontside” and I get dragged onto the dance floor by virtue of being the nearest sexually compatible guy.
It seems inconceivable.
I could at at least pass a a cool dude in the 90s. We listened to a lot of “alternative” music. We got variously shitfaced to a lot of alternative music. We went to a lot of different types of clubs, raves, house parties (remember those?). But the idea that every one of my friends or everybody at a club or party would know and feel compelled to dance to something as obscure as Baby got an Atom Bomb is just bizarre.
How obscure are these songs? Well, they don’t even have Wikipedia articles. That’s how obscure they are.
Maybe I just had a very diverse circle of friends, but there was no way that \*everybody \*at any party or club I attended would have known these songs, much less felt compelled to dance to them.
I’m willing to accept that some of these songs will have been bigger in other geographic areas. But the idea that somewhere a circle of friends existed where everybody at a \*wedding \*knows these songs is way out of my experience.
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### Author:  [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/50 "2015-09-06T04:34:13Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> Most of the clubs I went to were hip-hop and top 40. Occasionally we’d go to the \*club \*clubs, where everyone’s got drinking water and twirling glow sticks, but I rarely knew the names of the songs I was dancing to.
Ditto.
And only a small number of the real serious drug-using party animals knew every song even in the Chuppa Chup clubs.
I can’t imagine a wedding or regular party where those people comprise all the attendees.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/51 "2015-09-06T05:14:28Z")
**Blake** , your post was too long to quote, but yeah, I’ve heard every song I’ve listed at some sort of club or rave. When I say “club”, I’m talking about places like Miami’s Fire & Ice, (UK) Hacienda, Detroit’s Music Institute, Chicago’s Music Box, London’s Shoom, etc.
I went to FSU and Tallahassee had a place called Club Park Ave, commonly known as CPA, that played all manner of dance music, a lot of it white label stuff. Back then techno was like metal in that if you wanted to expand your horizons, you really had to search for stuff and trade tapes and records with people. I remember having to go to certain record stores because that was where certain kinds of music were sold, and if you were there more than a week after a record hit the stores, you were prolly shit outta luck finding whatever it was you were looking for. If Psychic TV isn’t on your radar as a leader in house, acid house and techno, for instance, it’s unlikely you’ll know who Frankie Knuckles, the Hot Mix 5 or Derrick May are.
If you really want to know more about the subculture, I can recommend two fictional films: the docudrama [24 Hour Party People](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274309/) which is about Tony Wilson, his Factory Records and Hacienda Club in Manchester and [Groove](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212974/), which is about a rave in NYC. I can also highly recommend the documentary [Better Living Through Circuitry](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207998/) as a good place to start learning about EDM subculture.
And yeah, _Atom Bomb_ was a huge hit, just like [Lords Of Acid - Pussy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVJnd3GgNQk) (I once saw this song fill a dance floor at a C&W bar; it was hilarious) and [Hallucinogen - Twisted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIsVzSMRw8E) were huge hits.
For many, dance music isn’t something that existed only at a club, it was and is a way of life and thus it’s own little subculture; some of us live inside those subcultures, some of us only know it from the fringes.
Dance music is it’s own incredibly diverse and entwined world, after all, and not all of us are ever dancing to the same tune.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/52 "2015-09-06T05:26:11Z")
FML for some reason I missed a couple of editing problems with my last post:
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> When I say “club”, I’m talking about places like Miami’s Fire & Ice, (UK) Hacienda, Detroit’s Music Institute, Chicago’s Music Box, London’s Shoom, etc.
That should say “Manchester’s (UK) Hacienda”.
And the Hallucinogen song is LSD, not Twisted; Twisted is the name of the album.
Sorry for any confusion; mea culpa.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/53 "2015-09-06T12:38:27Z")
> [@Blake](#):
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> As someone who was an every-weekend clubber and regular partygoer for half the nineties, I am astonished. I have never heard \>95% of these songs. I have never even heard _of_ \>95% of these songs, nor the artists that performed them.
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> Is everyone trying to seem ultra cool, or were these really the songs that got you and your friends dancing?
Almost all the ones I posted were top 40 UK hits.
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/54 "2015-09-06T13:02:41Z")
> [@Blake](#):
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> **I could at at least pass a a cool dude in the 90s.** We listened to a lot of “alternative” music. We got variously shitfaced to a lot of alternative music. We went to a lot of different types of clubs, raves, house parties (remember those?). But the idea that every one of my friends or everybody at a club or party would know and feel compelled to dance to something as obscure as Baby got an Atom Bomb is just bizarre.
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> How obscure are these songs? Well, they don’t even have Wikipedia articles. That’s how obscure they are.
(bolding mine)
[Here’s the wiki article on Atom Bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Bomb_(song)). #20 on the UK charts, used in 2 successful video games, 2 hit movies and another movie’s trailer… hardly obscure, despite the fact that you hadn’t heard of it.
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/55 "2015-09-06T14:13:12Z")
808 State, EMF, Underworld, KLF, Happy Mondays, Sneaker Pimps, Stone Roses, The Charlatans, The Shamen, The Chemical Brothers and on and on…
That pretty much _was_ the soundtrack of the 90s in the UK for me and everyone I know, and that’s what the OP asked for:
> [@](#):
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> What gets **you and your friends** out on the dance floor?.. let’s make this about **you**
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/56 "2015-09-06T18:30:52Z")
From my early 90s frat party dance mix:
[Snap - The Power](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33tH-JdPDg)
[K7 - Come Baby Come](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbd2PBO3k6w)
[Naughty by Nature - OPP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFTBG1sae0M)
[Kris Kross - Jump](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=010KyIQjkTk)
[KLF - 3 am (KLF is Gonna Rock You)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvwsKHRStyc)
[DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Boom! Shake the Room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHtiCVA5d8)
[LA Style - James Brown is Dead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN8e9b2ON8s)
[2 Unlimited - Get Ready for This!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvTm_BhZdOE)
So much [Running Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYpRasK4c9k)in those days.
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### Author:  [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/57 "2015-09-06T18:48:48Z")
> [@Blake](#):
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> As someone who was an every-weekend clubber and regular partygoer for half the nineties, I am astonished. I have never heard \>95% of these songs. I have never even heard _of_ \>95% of these songs, nor the artists that performed them.
With the exception of Snowboarder Bo and a few other posters, I recognize most of the songs people have listed (in the US). Even the ones I don’t recognize sound like they might be the sort of song one might hear at a rave/techno club or as a deeper track of an old Paul Oakenfold or Ministry of Sound mix cd.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/58 "2015-09-06T21:46:44Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#):
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> Almost all the ones I posted were top 40 UK hits.
As were all mine - hell, a few were number 1s . And all but _The Only Rhyme That Bites_ have their own Wiki pages.
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### Author:  [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/59 "2015-09-06T22:22:34Z")
> [@MrDibble](#):
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> As were all mine - hell, a few were number 1s . And all but _The Only Rhyme That Bites_ have their own Wiki pages.
MC Tunes has his own wiki page though 😃
But yes, I thought mine were pretty mainstream, stuff that you’d likely find on a pub jukebox, Radio 1 playlisted etc.
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2015, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90s-dance-party/729883/60 "2015-09-06T22:33:31Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#):
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> A slow burner, but still a banger:
> [Bedrock Feat. KYO - For What You Dream Of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzHmXaUSL6o)
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> And in the furthest back room, the one beyond the usual back room, amongst the casualties on the cushions:
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> [The Orb- A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre of the Ultraworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qexS5hBB1C0)
Another great Orb track: Little Fluffy Clouds:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTxg-15TfHg)
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