# Songs that always make you wanna dance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455 "2007-07-12T02:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/21 "2007-07-12T14:56:11Z")
ABBA’S Dancing Queen. I mean, come on! ---
**Author:** ![Fearless\_Leader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Fearless\_Leader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fearless_Leader)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/22 "2007-07-12T14:59:22Z")
“I Don’t Feel Like Dancing” by the Scissor Sisters ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/23 "2007-07-12T15:43:46Z")
“Light Of Day” - Bruce Springsteen. The wife’s been told that if I’m ever in a total funk and refuse to get out of bed to play this loud. I’ll be up and moving in no time. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/24 "2007-07-12T16:05:34Z")
[QUOTE=Fearless Leader] “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing” by the Scissor Sisters [/QUOTE] Yep. I find it almost impossible not to dance if I play that song. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/25 "2007-07-12T17:22:10Z")
Almost forgot- _I Wanna Be Sedated_. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/26 "2007-07-12T17:42:32Z")
Anything by the Bee Gees, especially “Jive Talkin’.” Also “Blue Monday” by New Order. ---
**Author:** ![EhhMon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@EhhMon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EhhMon)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/27 "2007-07-12T17:46:07Z")
I’m with Annie-Xmas…“Dancing Queen” does it for me. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/28 "2007-07-12T17:49:29Z")
“Bra” by Cymande. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/29 "2007-07-12T17:52:36Z")
[QUOTE=HelloNinja] “Canned Heat” by **Jamiroquai** … it’s a song about dancing and I can’t listen to it without groovin’ out. [/QUOTE] I’ll see your “Canned Heat” and raise you a “Supersonic”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/30 "2007-07-12T18:33:17Z")
“In the Mood” by Glenn Miller…I used to do a lot of swing dancing and that always makes me want to dance. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/31 "2007-07-12T18:37:46Z")
“I’m walking on sunshine, whoa oh, I’m walking on sunshine.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/32 "2007-07-12T18:56:49Z")
Little Feat, _Fat Man In The Bathtub_ Paul Simon, _Late In The Evening_, the version on the S&G concert in the park David Byrne, _The Cowboy Mambo_, and everything else on _Uh-Oh_ ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/33 "2007-07-12T19:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=if6was9] I… For the Love of Money (forget who did that), that … [/QUOTE] The O’Jays. We have a lot of music in common. On the OP “[Shake your Pants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXU8XaGN3E)” and nearly anything else by Cameo. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/34 "2007-07-12T19:28:12Z")
Few songs written by Prince in his heyday of the '80s fail to get your feet moving and your arms pumping. Back then, just one of his songs played at a club would energize the dance floor for the next hour. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/35 "2007-07-12T19:29:13Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] Back then, just one of his songs played at a club would energize the dance floor for the next hour. [/QUOTE] Thus inducing them to party as if it were Y2K-1? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/36 "2007-07-12T19:46:27Z")
Outkast’s “Hey Ya” is infectious, even when it’s just playing over and over in my head. “Take a Chance on Me” gets me moving, espcially the version by Erasure. I agree about Prince – even the slow ones make me feel like dancing. “Let’s Go Crazy” is especially effective. Oh, and “Jungle Love” by Morris Day and Time. I can do their choreography and everything, but only when very drunk. There’s a great photo of me doing this last New Year’s Eve, at a party I mostly can’t recall. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/37 "2007-07-12T19:52:25Z")
[QUOTE=fessie] We also used to get up and dance when _The Jefferson’s_ came on. “Well we’re movin on up, to the East Side!” [/QUOTE] The same could be said of another Sherman Hemsley show, _Amen_. Very inspirational theme song. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/38 "2007-07-12T19:54:10Z")
[QUOTE=Fearless Leader] “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing” by the Scissor Sisters [/QUOTE] Yeah, me too. There’s a few Scissor Sisters songs have that insanely catchy disco-ey pop thing going on, and more power to them. Another vote for _Groove is in the Heart_, and a vote for Armand van Helden’s remix of Tori Amos’ _Professional Widow_ - that one has filled more than a few dancefloors featuring me. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/39 "2007-07-12T20:31:43Z")
_Tear the Roof off the Sucker_ by George Clinton _You Sexy Thing_ by Hot Chocolate ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/40 "2007-07-12T20:46:45Z")
_They Don’t Want Music_ by the Black Eyed Peas (with an assist from James Brown) _Wild Night_ as done by Martha Reeves _Am I The Same Girl_ as done by Swing Out Sister _I’m Free_ by Kenny Loggins (_Footloose_ soundtrack) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455.md?page=3)