Something that would get you dancing or, in my case, doing some sort of hyper-aggressive karaoke-ish singing involving lots of violent arm-swinging and air guitar.
You can only pick one song, the song that perfectly grabs you right this moment. What is it?
Mine? “I’m Eighteen” by Alice Cooper. I’m so glad there wasn’t a camera pointed at me a couple of minutes ago.
Rock The Nation by Montrose
*Won’t Get Fooled Again *by The Who
Bad Romance by Lady Gaga.
Well, there are many, but since I just heard this on the radio, I’ll tell you my story about Superstition.
You see, I grew up in a wonder bread factory, acres of track houses on streets named with nautical themes, like Mainmast for instance, full of little loaves of white bread. In my entire junior high, I mean all 3 years, we had one black student, and she was half Indian. I sang in the church choir, and our pastor had us do Carpenter’s tunes becase he was all edgy and shit. ‘On the day that you were born, the angels got together, and decided to create a dream come true.’ I’m not making this up, I could only put my foot down on the one and the three I tell ya, I just didn’t know any better.
Ok, some there I am, I had an AM radio not much bigger than a pack of cigarettes with a speaker the size of a silver dollar and one day B’da bamp bamp bam comes rolling put. Well, pretty soon I’m puttin’ my foot down on the two and the four and it occurs to me that the world is bigger place than I’ve been led to believe and there was no going back. From that day to this when that song plays, I clip the speakers.
Thanks Stevie
Yep. For me it hit about 8 years ago, when I heard Superstition for the first time really LOUD and on decent speakers. I was thunderstruck. It was like hearing my first live symphony, hearing each instrument come in clean and solid and BAM.
That man rocks worlds.
**Livin’ La Vida Loca **by Ricky Martin. The first time I heard that song, I almost fell out of my chair at work. It’s a good thing I didn’t shake my groove thang because I would have been escorted out of the building and involuntarily committed at a nuthouse indefinitely.
Clarinet Marmalade, recorded in 1931 by the Casa Loma Orchestra, a very early, bumptious and somewhat Machine Age example of swing music.
The one song right this very right now:
Birds of Tokyo “Silhouettic”
I liked their song “broken bones” but not this much.
I don’t ever actually get out of my chair or do any singing, but there are plenty of songs that make me wanna jam out in some fashion or another.
You have to ask?
Free Bird
Miriam Makeba’s Pata Pata. The first time I heard it was on Radio 3, one of the channels of Spanish Public Radio; that’s the one where the jazz and the electronic and the country and the world music and the… get merrily mixed up, trends be damned. They played it twice, to share a discovery they’d made by mistake: the first time, at 33rpm; the second time, at 45. At 33 it was “shake your booty in a sort of stately fashion”, at 45 it sounded like the Smurfs on extra shrooms, but it still sounded good - not something you can say about any song!
The Dana Fuch’s version of Helter Skelter makes me want to break out into wild, crazy dancing.
I would get up and dance at my funeral if I heard “At The Copa, Copacabana”
Live versions of “Rise” and “Walk in the Clouds” by The Cult. Omnipresent on my car stereo during my drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway 2 months ago.
After reading the OP, I can’t think of any other song than I’m Seventeen by Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers.
Saltarello, the Dead Can Dance version.
Summer Song by Joe Satriani
Showtunes. ‘One (Singular Sensation)’ from A Chorus Line. ‘All That Jazz’ from Chicago. ‘Cabaret’ and ‘Money Makes The World Go Round’ from Cabaret. Many selections from West Side Story. LOVES me some show tunes.
Though ‘Bad Romance’ possessed our this summer like a bad cold that wouldn’t go away. But in a good way.
‘Oye Como Va’, ‘Rock the Casbah’, ‘Good Rockin’ till Midnight’.
It’s a tie right now between “Spirit of Radio” by Rush and “Back In The USSR” by the Beatles.