A long time ago I remember someone saying that the worst song for a stripper to dance to is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.
As I’ve often said, a lot of my favorite music sounds like somebody tipped over the china cabinet. So I’m happy to mention Captain Beefheart (my hat’s off to you if you can dance to anything off of Trout Mask Replica), Einstürzende Neubauten, or Pere Ubu outside of the Fontana years. There’s a lot of crossover between industrial music and dance music; even Throbbing Gristle have a number of tracks with a dancable groove.
Aww, I’m pretty sure I could do an interpretive dance to “The Dust Blows Forward and the Dust Blows Back”
There’s an old musicians’ joke:
A drummer is sitting at home on his night off, when he gets a frantic call from a local contractor: there’s a band from out of town booked tonight at the Union hall, but their drummer was in an accident! Could he come down and fill in?
Well, the drummer agrees, asking no further questions—hey, work’s work, right? But he is dismayed when he arrives at the hall and finds out that it’s Bulgarian music. He goes up to the bandleader and says, “Hey, they called me to fill in on drums tonight, but I gotta tell you, I don’t know the first thing about Bulgarian music.”
“Oh, it’s easy,” says the bandleader. “Just give us an afterbeat on 7 and 13 and you’ll be fine!”
A drummer joke I haven’t heard! Is that really an old joke or one of yours? I like it.
Nope, not original to me, although the wording of it is mine. I heard it a long time ago, in Baltimore, or maybe San Diego?
I was actually somewhat surprised to not find much attestation to it online, though maybe my search keywords were not correct. I did find this Quora thread, which has a joke with a substantially similar punchline, but a different setup.
In that version, the drummer is actually Bulgarian, but, inspired by his enthusiasm for Elvin Jones, decides to play a very jazz inflected solo. Afterwards, he is admonished by the bandleader:
Now that I think about it, that version would have been more appropriate to this thread, as it actually involves dancing!
Once you get past the intro of YYZ, it sounds like it has a pretty steady 4/4 beat, at least up to 3 minutes then all bets are off. Would be easy to dance the hustle to most of it.