# All-time Skating Rink Songs List (Warning: Bad Pop Music within) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865 "2006-03-10T19:04:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/41 "2006-03-11T18:40:23Z")
Maybe I’m dating myself, but I remember a LOT of Hall and Oates – Sarah Smile, Rich Girl, etc. Anybody? ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/42 "2006-03-11T19:07:20Z")
> [@FlyingRamenMonster](#): > > “Somebody told me” by the Killers is on at the rink every freaking time I go these days. It warms my heart to know that kids are STILL rollerskating in the 21st century!!! Now if we can just get drive-ins to be popular again… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/43 "2006-03-11T23:40:46Z")
I did all my roller-skating in the 70s, so I remember Donny Osmond _Crazy Horses_ playing while my father taught me to skate. Late when I went on my own, it was Peter Frampton _I Want You (to show me the way)_, Eddie Money _Baby Hold On To Me_, and lots of disco. The roller rink was the one place you were guaranteed to hear _Disco Duck_. ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/44 "2006-03-12T00:44:29Z")
I remember **Der Komissar** by Falco and earlier, pretty much anything from Michael Jackson’s **Off the Wall** , including **Don’t Stop 'til You Get Enough** and **Rock with You**. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/45 "2006-03-12T04:30:55Z")
I just have to say that I know damn near every song in this thread, and I love most of them. I have just blown any music snob cred I may have gotten some day, I realize. 😃 ( **HelloKitty** , I would _love_ to go to a drive-in movie with my husband. Maybe we could even, you know, christen the new car. _winkwink, nudgenudge_) ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/46 "2006-03-12T04:34:06Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > [_The Locomotion_ by ?? That would be Grand Funk Railroad or Little Eva. No one has mentioned to ultimate roller skating song only because it was about skating, **Brand New Key by Melanie** Geeyod I hate that song. ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/47 "2006-03-12T05:33:37Z")
**Hot Child in the City** ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/48 "2006-03-12T15:49:45Z")
Oh man, “Pac Man Fever”!! I heard that one a lot. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/49 "2006-03-12T17:03:54Z")
> [@HelloKitty](#): > > It warms my heart to know that kids are STILL rollerskating in the 21st century!!! > > Now if we can just get drive-ins to be popular again… 😛 … and try to keep the rink from shutting down… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/50 "2006-03-12T19:06:01Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Oh Dude! I remember around '83 they had these skates I saw in a catalog that were stealth skates. They were tennis shoes that had rollers that retracted into the sole. You flipped a little switch and wham! the skates popped out and you were ready to roll! > > I wanted those things so bad. I think I saved money for them but decided to buy some magic tricks and props, instead. > > Ahhh, thanks for the memories. [http://www.bewild.com/hererodgr.html](http://www.bewild.com/hererodgr.html) Those are still popular. We always had a backwards disco ball skate to the Ghostbusters theme. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/51 "2006-03-12T20:51:54Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > Maybe I’m dating myself… Don’t feel bad. That’s how I get all of my dates. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/52 "2006-03-12T21:24:08Z")
> [@racer72](#): > > > [@Motorgirl](#): > > > > [The Locomotion by ?? > > That would be Grand Funk Railroad or Little Eva. Or maybe OMD (Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark)? That would have been early 80’s, more of a synth-pop version. Mention of ELO reminds me of _Don’t Bring Me Down._ I also remember a lot of Hall and Oates - _Maneater, I Can’t Go for That_; Toto - _Rosanna, Africa;_ Asia - \* Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell\*; Power Station - _Bang a Gong_; and of course, Duran Duran - _Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, Girls on Film._ And there’s the riff of another tune floating around in my head now that I only ever heard at the rink, but I can’t remember title or artist at all. Guess that riff will be my earworm for the rest of the day. ---
**Author:** ![Jacob\_Silj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Jacob\_Silj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jacob_Silj)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/53 "2006-03-17T17:13:08Z")
“Bounce, Rock, Skate” Vaughn Mason & Crew ---
**Author:** ![Psycho\_Pirate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Psycho\_Pirate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psycho_Pirate)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/54 "2006-03-17T18:09:33Z")
Definitely _Another One Bites the Dust_ by **Queen** and _Abracadabra_ by **The Steve Miller Band**. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/55 "2006-03-17T18:22:40Z")
My aunt ran a roller rink in Fairmont, WV. She always played “Country Roads.” I always liked the song, even though the features John Denver associates with West Virginia (Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River) are in Virginia. It has a good beat for skating with long, slow strides. And, of course, she also played “Brand New Key.” I wanted to shoot her for that. Ironically, it’s nearly impossible to skate to; you just have to try and ignore it till it’s over. ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865/56 "2006-03-23T22:07:59Z")
Fast skate was Crazy Train by Ozzy Ozbourne. Slow songs were Hard to Say I’m Sorry by Chicago and Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper. Other songs were Too Much Time on My Hands, Mr. Telephone Man, Der Komissar (as my lovely sister pointed out), and lots of Duran Duran. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-skating-rink-songs-list-warning-bad-pop-music-within/347865.md?page=2)