# Dance Like a Pirate Party - Playlist Suggestions?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 22, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575 "2012-10-22T23:03:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/1 "2012-10-22T23:03:25Z")
Greetings Teeming Millions!
This will be our 2nd Annual Dance Like a Pirate party, and I thought I’d ask for suggestions on dance-able shanties or Pirate themed rump shakers from y’all.
I don’t have my playlist handy, but I’ll post it for you to see what we have so far, but off the top of my head I have:
[Adam Ant: Jolly Roger](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LnXOCXiHHc)
[You Are A Pirate](http://youtu.be/Jbq_1Wy70rE)
…and some Pirates of the Caribbean remixes.
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/2 "2012-10-23T00:35:30Z")
For when you want to slow it down…
[A Pirate Looks at 40](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQGTaS0IFOs) - Jimmy Buffet
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### Author:  [@Tara57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tara57)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/3 "2012-10-23T01:13:14Z")
Caribbean Queen
Octopus’s Garden
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/4 "2012-10-23T02:54:45Z")
[George Harrison sings](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ACyZIXkHq0)
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/5 "2012-10-23T03:52:52Z")
Abney Park - **[Airship Pirates](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WrPWFn7e2c)**
Abney Park - **[Throw Them Overboard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT0tLBTTD48)**
Abney Park - Victoria (maybe?)
Abney Park - Aether Shanty (maybe?)
Abney Park - \*\*[The Derelict](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14L7piSUGk) **(CERTAINLY! It uses “Fifteen Men On A Dead Man’s Chest/Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum”!)
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[Their site](http://www.abneypark.com/). **Edit: Admittedly I haven’t kept up with them too much since** [Nathaniel Johnstone left](http://www.thesteampunkempire.com/forum/topics/nathaniel-johnstone-moves-on-from-abney-park)** (the previous awesome violinist/guitarist) to form his own band. But what I have listed is good.
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### Author:  [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/6 "2012-10-23T04:02:18Z")
Forgot a link! **[Aether Shanty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05rR7nozsYg)**. You can get their music from their site store, by the way. (I see I didn’t mention that.)
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/7 "2012-10-23T04:03:27Z")
Sex Pistols’ _Friggin’ in the Riggin’_
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/8 "2012-10-23T04:13:43Z")
It’s not exactly danceable, but just about every [Alestorm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPDE1c5fDZU) song is about pirates.
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### Author:  [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/9 "2012-10-23T06:15:57Z")
Great suggestions so far (had Derelict on the list already)
A few others that are on my list:
[Scurvy](http://youtube.com/watch?v=oPrIS9aHqzs)
[Pirate Love](http://youtube.com/watch?v=1dtBSh5Nej4)
[Yo Ho (Jonas Bros)](http://youtube.com/watch?v=MRot5W-nxmU)
[Charlie Mopps](http://youtube.com/watch?v=qOXI6giLMGU)
[Bell Bottom Trousers](http://youtube.com/watch?v=cDGkG6fYOQ8)
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### Author:  [@NiceGuyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NiceGuyJack)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/10 "2012-10-23T06:57:32Z")
I’d say just about anything by the Pogues.
Sure, it’s more Irish folk punk, but I think you can get that pirate feel from it.
Especially the album; Rum, Sodomy & the Lash.
Try these tunes:
[Sally MacLennane](http://youtu.be/sh5gtGk9XZ8)
[Billy’s Bones](http://youtu.be/L9Si2_BM9rQ)
[The Gentleman Soldier](http://youtu.be/pXlBqgoJvpI)
And for something a bit slower;
[Dirty Old Town](http://youtu.be/llD8M9BfHPg) Great to sing-a-long to.
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### Author:  [@firstname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/firstname)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/11 "2012-10-23T07:37:25Z")
[Gay Pirates - Cosmo Jarvis](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHrJreMF1KU)
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/12 "2012-10-23T07:52:54Z")
The Men They Couldn’t Hang - [The Colours](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKLBwAcP04&feature=related)
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/13 "2012-10-23T12:22:57Z")
Seven Deadly Sins by Flogging Molly
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### Author:  [@Time\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Stranger)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/14 "2012-10-23T12:34:45Z")
Basically the entire album A Pirate Broadcast by the Hellblinki Sextext. Although I guess It Comes to This and A Dementish Waltz are the fan favorites.
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/15 "2012-10-23T14:51:37Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
>
> The Men They Couldn’t Hang - [The Colours](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNKLBwAcP04&feature=related)
Damn, beaten to the punch…
A South African classic (so unknown to anyone else, I assume): [The Buccaneer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73PPofzvOX0)
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/16 "2012-10-23T16:31:41Z")
Get yer hands on the 2006 double-album ‘_[Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%27s_Gallery:_Pirate_Ballads,_Sea_Songs,_and_Chanteys)_’, matey!
It features 43 songs from the genre (some traditional, some covers, some original) by artists such as Bono, Sting, but also a lot of good ones like **Roxy Music** ’s Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Loudon Wainwright III (who contributes a hilarious rendition of ‘_[Good Ship Venu](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHEX9EpIL7o)s_’, also known as ‘_Friggin’ in the Riggin’_’, the Sex Pistols’ version of which has already been mentioned upthread) (actually, the whole Wainwright family – his son, Rufus, and wife, Kate McGarrigle – are on there, too), John C. Reilly (the [actor](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000604/)), Jarvis Cocker (of **Pulp** -fame), Lou Reed, Antony Hegarty, Gavin Friday… It’s really pretty much tailor-made for your party (though you might have to skip over a not-too-danceable track or two).
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### Author:  [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/17 "2012-10-23T16:40:26Z")
Anything by the Monkees should be ok.
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### Author:  [@pope\_hentai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pope_hentai)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/18 "2012-10-23T17:23:21Z")
anything by captain dan and the scurvy crew.
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### Author:  [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/19 "2012-10-24T20:12:09Z")
I would say you absolutely need a couple of songs from the album “Let the Four Winds Blow” by Tenpole Tudor…
“Throwing My Baby Out With the Bathwater” ([full song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FospfgzdeAk)and a [truncated version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQoAD2qUJSM) with a fun video)
and
[the title cut.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coP8cmlkZaM)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dance-like-a-pirate-party-playlist-suggestions/638575/20 "2012-10-24T20:18:58Z")
[Tubular Bells Part 2: The Sailor’s Hornpipe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJGuT9U2NY) - Mike Oldfield
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