# Songs that always make you wanna dance

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/61 "2007-07-14T06:58:28Z")

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well there’s different styles and types of dancing, but all of these make me feel like dancing in different ways:

“Ray of Light” - Madonna

“Hips don’t lie” / “La Tortura” - Shakira

“I Understand It” - Idlewild

“Dairy Queen”, “Yield” - Indigo Girls

“New Slang” - The Shins

“Shout” - Isley Brothers

various standards - Village People

“You are the light” - Innocence Mission

“With a girl like you” - The Troggs

“Chocolate” - Snow Patrol

and the number one gets me up and going in a good mood dancing song:

“Brimful of Asha” - Fatboy Slim (Cornershop)

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/62 "2007-07-14T16:52:10Z")

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I too thought this thread would be about dance music. But I just might listen to dance music again if it’s changed radically in the past 2 years, as in 2001-2004 (when I stopped listening) trance music absolutely didn’t make me want to dance. It wasn’t bad as a background music, and I liked the production and samples, but they never changed on the 1, so it was undancable.

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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/63 "2007-07-14T16:58:08Z")

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“Do Your Thing” by Basement Jaxx, it’s playing in an ad for Rattatouile and I have to resist the urge to jump up for all of the 5 seconds it’s on the air.

"Neutron Dance " by The Pointer Sisters

and some of the others already mentioned here.

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**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/64 "2007-07-15T00:50:46Z")

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[QUOTE=Wile E]  
…and some of the others already mentioned here.  
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Yeh, Miller, the Isleys…  
One of my favorites is “Public Jitterbug Number One” by Betty Hutton. Two minutes of teenage ecstasy.

And if “it has a good beat and you can dance to it” is all that matters, then Lead Belly has several danceables like “Green Corn”, “Gallis Pole”, “Scottsboro Boys”…

I got my probation from the Federal Bureau of Syncopation.

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**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-always-make-you-wanna-dance/411455/65 "2007-07-22T23:59:44Z")

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“Late Summer Fields” - Solarstone & Alucard

Or Daft Punk live (who I saw last night…mind blowing!).

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